Michelle Wolf teased her new Netflix show The Break with a hilarious trailer for a fake film, Featuring a Strong Female Lead: The Movie, which skewers Hollywood tropes and the streaming service’s algorithm-based recommendations. In the clip, Wolf plays Cassandra Flex, the stereotypical fast-talking, no-nonsense business woman who never balks …

Voice coachAlicia Keyssurprised James Bay onstage to perform a revamped version of his hopeful new single, “Us,” during the Season 14 finale on Tuesday. The British singer-songwriter played electric guitar with Keys accompanying on piano. The singers traded lead vocals during the verses and harmonized on the choruses, their voices …

Former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have signed a multi-year deal with Netflix to produce TV shows and films. The couple created their own Higher Ground Productions to produce content for the streaming service, The New York Times reports. Netflix announced the deal on Monday, detailing that …

The title is a giveaway. Low Cut Connie‘s fifth album draws on the same sessions – at Ardent Studios in Memphis – that propelled this Philadelphia band’s 2017 blast of Fifties-infused glam-punk hallelujah, Dirty Pictures (Part 1). But these ten tracks, mostly written by singer-pianist Adam Weiner, are hardly leftovers. …

Lakeith Stanfield goes from his uncle’s garage to the gaudy and strange upper echelons of telemarketing in the new red-band trailer for Boots Riley‘s Sorry to Bother You. The film opens in select theaters July 6th, with a wider release scheduled for July 13th. Sorry to Bother You is set …

For their fifth anniversary class, the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame has tapped a trio of artists who represent a staggering array of musical genres and influence. At a ceremony set for October 25th, 2018, the ACL Hall of Fame will welcome into its ranks the late Ray Charles, …

Spike Lee highlights the fascinating true story of Ron Stallworth, an African-American detective who resolves to take down the Ku Klux Klan, in the magnetic first trailer for his upcoming film BlacKkKlansman. The clip opens with Stallworth (John David Washington) applying for – and receiving – a job at the …

Lenny Kravitz unveiled a powerful new video for “It’s Enough,” the first song off the rocker’s upcoming new album,Raise Vibration. The video, which Kravitz live-streamed over Facebook and YouTube, juxtaposes news footage that covers both ends of the emotional spectrum – from peaceful protests in support of same-sex marriage, Colin …

Beach House make some of the most mysterious music in modern pop. At first listen, it may seem like albums like 2015’s Depression Cherry and their seventh and latest LP, 7 (out May 11th), leave space for listeners to project their own hazy affections onto the songs, in the spirit …

Stephen Malkmus offers a glimpse at his life and upcoming album, Sparkle Hard, in a new short documentary from director Brook Linder. The clip opens with Malkmus working on his tennis stroke and goes on to show the musician partaking in other slightly quotidian, slightly offbeat activities, such as riding …