It’s the Gilda Radner grin that really gets you — always radiant, sometimes childishly goofy, occasionally maniacal. You see it a lot in Love, Gilda, the documentary on the late Saturday Night Live star. There it is, in snapshots of her as chubby kid in Detroit and as a teenager …

Metallica will play as special acoustic concert this fallraising money for their charitable organization. The gig, dubbed the All Within My Hands Foundation Helping Hands Concert and Auction, will take place at the Masonic in San Francisco on November 3rd. Cage the Elephant will open the evening with an acoustic …

With cymbals crashing and string basses moaning, composer Angelo Badalamenti narrates a bawdy, bizarre and horrific story on “Woodcutters From Fiery Ships,” a track off his upcoming collaborative album with filmmaker David Lynch. The pair recorded the LP, Thought Gang, in spurts throughout the early Nineties, and though Lynch has …

Hillary Clinton recently took a break from fundraising to pen an afterword for the paperback release of her 2017 bestsellerWhat Happened. An adaptation of that afterword was published Sunday night by The Atlantic, and, as one might expect, it isn’t so kind to President Trump and the Republicans enabling him. …

The annual AmericanaFest, now underway in Nashville, celebrates the best in roots music through dozens of showcases, special events and the Americana Honors & Awards ceremony at the Ryman Auditorium. While the origins of the Americana movement can be traced back several decades, it would be impossible to overstate the …

John Prine‘s wistful yet wise “How Lucky,” first recorded for his 1979 LP Pink Cadillac and produced by Sam Phillips in Memphis, gets a Bluff City update from Grammy-winning Memphis-based producer Matt Ross-Spang for Amazon Music’s “Produced By” series. Listen to the song here. Rather than celebrating the nostalgia of …

Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), heading into the final weeks of his long-shot bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), took a break from criss-crossing Texas to appear on The Late Show with Stephen ColbertWednesday night. TheLate Showhost made it worth the trip, offering O’Rourke botha new campaign slogan (“Beto for …

Just three months after releasing his solo album Uniform Distortion – which we called“dirtbag classic rock” – James has announced a follow-up album. Uniform Clarity, out October 5th,features acoustic versions of the songs from Uniform Distortion. The new version of “You Get To Rome,” turns the riff-heavy stomper into a …

From the very first shot of Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma — a close-up of a floor in a hallway, the sound of soapy water splashing in the background before washing over the tiles — you can sense that something sui generis is about to happen. It’s not just the lack of …

Ben Folds documents a House Judiciary Committee showdown as a metaphor for bullying and human resolve on his new song “Mister Peepers.” The political satire, which the songwriter recorded in conjunction with The Washington Post Magazine, references the heated June Capitol Hill exchange between U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein …