There’s a first for everything, and when it comes to rock ’n’ roll, Little Richard was first and everything: the decades since, full of pop music ecstasies and controversies, can nearly all be traced back […]
Blackpink, the K-pop superstars who became the first Asian and all-female band to headline Coachella on Saturday night, are a testament to the increasingly porous language and cultural barriers in pop music. The group’s members […]
In the business world, there’s a concept called scope creep. Unlike a lot of corporate jargon, scope creep means more or less what it says: It’s what happens when the scope of a given project […]
There are few things better than a well-made horror movie that knows exactly how silly it should be, which is why The Pope’s Exorcist absolutely rules. Yes, the movie where Russell Crowe plays an Italian […]
Frank Ocean stood on the main stage at Coachella on Sunday night wearing an ice-blue parka, his hair under a black durag and fuzzy slides on his feet, and told the crowd of tens of […]
Frank Ocean’s long-awaited headlining Coachella set went down last night, and everyone has an opinion about it. All over Twitter, people are theorizing about what happened before, during, and after the controversial set. Why was […]
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. […]
“It’s been so long,” Frank Ocean addressed the Coachella 2023 crowd, “and I have missed you.” Frank’s fans have missed him as well. The last time put on a live set was in 2019, but […]
“Did you notice the wind stop?” Blackpink’s Rosé asked a crowd of thousands of screaming fans during their main stage headlining set. “I think it was all the Blinks,” she said. It was an example […]
Days after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that ravaged northern Japan, an anthropomorphic, human-size, chatty frog sits at the kitchen table of Mr. Katagiri (voiced by Marcelo Arroyo), a despondent employee at a lending […]
Metallica frontman James Hetfield has said their 11th studio album is rooted in the past, its title a reference to “the first 18 years of our lives, that form our true or false selves … […]
Gillian Lynne Theatre, London, hosting Sam Mendes’ The Lehman Trilogy. Image (C)Tim Sandle. The Lehman Trilogy is a thrilling historical drama playing out to packed audiences in London. The play three generations of the Lehman […]
72 Seasons is a masterpiece. This is not meant to sound like hyperbole; Metallica’s new album is the strongest, most powerful statement they’ve made as a band since …And Justice For All. There is no question […]
Few bands face higher expectations from their own fanbase than Metallica. One could argue it comes with the territory of being one of the most popular long-running musical acts in the world. Perhaps consumer entitlement […]
It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. De La Soul’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall show was conceived to celebrate their beloved albums finally reaching streaming services after years in limbo. But in February, weeks before […]
Dennis Quaid and Heather Graham. Photo Courtesy of Boris Martin, Prime Video “On a Wing and a Prayer,’ starring Dennis Quaid, Heather Graham, and Jesse Metcalfe, is a bold and intense film that was released […]
The rise of always-on streaming threatens to reduce ambient to a genre of convenience: palliative soundscapes to study and relax to. Tim Hecker has other ideas. Rather than distract or soothe, the veteran laptop composer’s […]
Arve Henriksen has made his name by being a trumpeter who doesn’t really sound like a trumpeter. On his albums for ECM and Rune Grammofon, on collaborations with the likes of David Sylvian and Iain […]
Two thrillers about the radical actions of eco-activist groups were released in 2013: Kelly Reichardt’s “Night Moves” and Zal Batmanglij’s “The East.” Exactly a decade later, the urgency that prompted their existence has only heightened. […]
One of the pleasures of the movies is the way they can complicate and undermine the idea of history as destiny, taking unbeatable sure things and reminding us that they were once untested, unknown quantities. […]