Relix Music Conference Concludes at Brooklyn Bowl Nashville – Day 2 (A Gallery)

Relix Music Conference Concludes at Brooklyn Bowl Nashville – Day 2 (A Gallery)

Photo Credit: Em Walis On Monday, April 17, the fourth iteration of the Relix Music Conference took place at Brooklyn Bowl Nashville in Nashville, Tenn. The first day of the event overflowed with conversations about […]

Game Awards at Hollywood Bowl will highlight music of ‘Hogwarts Legacy,’ ‘Last of Us’

Elden Ring

After more than a decade and a half absence, the sound of video games will make themselves heard on the Hollywood Bowl stage this summer. Scores from the “The Last of Us,” “Diablo,” “League of […]

Rachel McAdams turned down a string of huge movies – and we should all be thankful | Rachel McAdams

Rachel McAdams and Jason Bateman in Game Night.

Hollywood etiquette dictates that when a Hollywood star passes on a role, they don’t talk about it. To do so wouldn’t be fair on the actor who eventually took the role, since this would doom […]

‘We paved the way for the Rolling Stones’: Ottilie Patterson, the forgotten first lady of British blues | Blues

Ottilie Patterson (left) and Sister Rosetta Tharpe rehearsing at the Marquee Club, London in 1960.

The late British jazz singer George Melly used to ask his audiences: “Who is the greatest blues vocalist Britain has ever produced?” He’d tease them, asking, “Mick Jagger? No! Steve Winwood? No! Van Morrison? No!”, […]

‘We got bored waiting for Oasis to re-form’: AIsis, the band fronted by an AI Liam Gallagher | Oasis

Classic lineup … Oasis ahead of their famous performance at Knebworth in 1996.

Before you do anything else with your day, you need to listen to this. A new “lost” Oasis album has been released, from the period between their third album, 1997’s Be Here Now, and their […]

‘AI isn’t a threat’ – Boris Eldagsen, whose fake photo duped the Sony judges, hits back | Photography

‘I love photography, I love generating images’ … Eldagsen.

Since 52-year-old German artist Boris Eldagsen went public with the fact that he won a Sony world photography award with an AI-generated image, relations between him and the award body have soured. Sony have issued […]

Celebrity cemeteries and haunted libraries: how musician Lael Neale channels Hollywood’s dark side | Music

Lael Neale

In the video for Lael Neale’s recent single, In Verona, she takes us on a woozy walk through the streets of Hollywood. Alongside grainy footage of the Walk of Fame, we find her drifting through […]

Aldous Harding review – performative strangeness can’t hide great melodies | Aldous Harding

‘Not easy to define.’

Twenty minutes into Aldous Harding’s set, after a spellbinding version of Treasure, from her 2019 breakthrough album Designer, has provoked a particularly vociferous response from the crowd, she speaks her first words to the audience. […]

‘I’m glad people call it a lesbian anthem’: how Sophie B Hawkins made Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover | Culture

Eric Bazilian.

Sophie B Hawkins, singer, songwriter I was Bryan Ferry’s percussionist but got fired after two weeks. He very nicely said: “You can’t play the Cuban congas as well as so-and-so who’s coming in to replace […]

Ben Affleck Says Matt Damon Was a Terrible Roommate

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon at the premiere of

They’ve acted together, written movies together, and won Oscars together. But before they hit it big, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were roommates. The two childhood friends ended up living together as they tried to […]

‘Like an exploded iPhone’: why Sarah Sze is the perfect artist for the age of information overload | Art and design

Overwhelming … Measuring the Infinite by Sarah Sze, at the Guggenheim.

In 1972, John Berger’s revelatory TV series and subsequent book, Ways of Seeing, began by discussing the changing ways we experience art via the then recent innovation of colour televisions in homes. Berger argued that […]

Live Nation / Ticketmaster Retains Mark Pryor as D.C. Lobbying Spending Spree Continues

Live Nation Ticketmaster Mark Pryor

Photo Credit: Caleb Perez Live Nation retains Joe Biden-ally Mark Pryor as the company’s lobbying hiring spree to combat government scrutiny over Ticketmaster continues. Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation has retained former Senator Mark Pryor, […]