On Monday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a controversial bill requiring that sex offenders in her state who are convicted of molesting a child — defined under Alabama law as anyone under the age of 13 — be chemically castrated as a condition of their release from prison. The bill …

Midland recently announced plans to release their second album Let It Roll, featuring the lead single “Mr. Lonely,” on August 23rd. The country trio will follow their new music with the headlining Let It Roll Tour, which gets underway in mid-September. Kicking off with a September 17th show in New …

Reggae stalwarts Toots and the Maytals stopped by Spotify’s studios in New York to record a session that included their clever interpretation of John Denver’s classic, “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” as well as their new song, “A Song Call Marley.” Toots and the Maytals slid into “Take Me Home” …

“So I heard the bad news/Nobody likes me and I’m gonna die alone/In my bedroom, looking at strangers on my telephone,” opens “Number One Fan,” the latest single by Muna. Although it may start off downcast, vocalist Katie Gavin gives the Numan-esque synth-rock cut a rewarding upswing: “Wouldn’t you like …

Leningrad, the early 1980s: the Soviet Union’s stranglehold on its citizens continues, glasnost is not even a glimmer in Gorbachev’s eye and it feels as if the Party will never end. The one thing that does seem to be thriving, however, is the city’s underground rock scene, albeit one with …

Michael Wolff might be the most unreliable historian America has ever encountered, but at least he admits it. This is from the author’s note to Siege, the less-explosive sequel to his smash-hit “inside” account of the Trump presidency, Fire and Fury: Dealing with sources in the Trump White House has …

The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde unveiled a striking interpretation of Charles Mingus’ “Meditation on a Pair Of Wire Cutters,” set to appear on her upcoming album, Valve Bone Woe, out September 6th via via BMG. The song finds Hynde and the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble condensing Mingus’ 23-minute original into a …

Barcelona, Spain’s famed Primavera Sound music festival will expand to Los Angeles in 2020, organizers announced Saturday. The California offshoot, co-produced by Live Nation and coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Barcelona fest, will take place September 19th and 20th at Los Angeles State Historic Park. “We have been …

Facial recognition technology is everywhere these days, and people aren’t having it. Cities like San Francisco have officially instituted bans preventing police officers from using it, and none other than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez issued an ominous warning that the rise of facial recognition technology is “tied to the political reality that …

When HBO abruptly canceled Deadwood in 2006, a few weeks after production had wrapped on the sereis’ third season, no one in the cast or crew got to say a proper goodbye to each other, or the experience. For W. Earl Brown, who played Al Swearengen’s top henchman Dan Dority, …