Investigative journalist and author Ronan Farrow appeared on The Daily Show Tuesday night to discuss his new bookCatch and Kill, a behind-the-scenes look at the investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual misconduct. Farrow — along with New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey — helped break the …
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Robert Pollard almost threw up on New Year’s Eve when Guided by Voices kicked off 2020 with a 100-song set at Los Angeles’ The Teragram Ballroom. “It was difficult because I have a bum hip,” the intrepid high-kicker tells Rolling Stone. “It felt fine for about the first two hours …
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Tom Hanks shared some acting lessons and praised some of his generation’s finest thespians in a charming, occasionally emotional speech at the 2020 Golden Globes. The actor, accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award, arrived onstage after a poignant intro from Charlize Theron. Following a series of lighthearted jokes (“Can I …
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Released in 2000 and celebrated by international-horror nerds via videotapes passed around like viruses, Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-on helped usher in a wave of modern Japanese creepfests that slowly made their way west. The title translated as something like “The Curse”; it would eventually be better known as The Grudge. Along …
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At around 10 a.m. on Christmas Eve, Roy LaManna, who runs a music tech company named Vydia, got a call from Kanye West‘s management team. West had promised to release an album titled Jesus Is Born on Christmas Day; the project was almost complete, but now the rapper needed a …
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Vaughan Oliver, the graphic designer whose art adorned the cover of the Pixies’ albums and whose work became synonymous with the 4AD record label, has died at the age of 62. Graphic designer Adrian Shaughnessy, who co-edited the book Vaughan Oliver: Archive, first announced Oliver’s death on Twitter, noting he …
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With the release of Jesus Is King — Kanye West’s gospel-indebted ninth solo album — came a promise: on Christmas Day, West would release a second Christianity-themed album titled Jesus Is Born. Despite nagging difficulties with releasing albums on time — Jesus Is King saw numerous delays and its predecessor, …
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In the first shot of this groundbreaking World War I film, two young British soldiers — lance corporals Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) — are caught napping in a field. It’s the last time they, or we in the audience, will be able to catch a breath. For …
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No one ever knew what to call Mumford & Sons. The Guardian had already described them as “Coldplay reincarnated as hillbillies” by the time the group released their debut album in the U.S. in February 2010, a moment that garnered a slurry of descriptors: “foot-stomping British folk;” “skiffled Frames (nice …
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With Jarvis Cocker’s “Running the World” in the midst of a grassroots campaign to capture the vaunted Christmas Number One single spot in the Brexit-bound U.K., the Pulp singer has shared a new version of the 2006 song. Even before Boris Johnson was reaffirmed as the British prime minister, Cocker’s …
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