For the second time in less than a year, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan played the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night, bringing together two legends of American song on one stage. The concert — actually Nelson’s third recent visit to the Bowl after his 90th-birthday bash in 2023 — was part of the annual traveling … Read more
By way of introduction, “Pavements,” director Alex Ross Perry’s experimental hybrid documentary about the ’90s indie-rock paragons Pavement, refers to the group as “The World’s Most Important and Influential Band,” a label that seems intended to embarrass them and their self-effacing lead singer, Stephen Malkmus. Pavement was never U2 or Nirvana. Nothing about them suggests … Read more
During a seemingly normal school day, Basem (Saleh Bakri), a dedicated West Bank educator with hypnotizing eyes, encourages his student Yacoub (Mahmoud Bakri) to get back on track with his studies and to “regain control of his life.” But whatever autonomy the young man can re-assert seems futile in the face of the Israeli occupation … Read more
At some point in the mid-1960s, artist Don Bachardy began to make a regular practice of having the sitter for a portrait-drawing sign and date the sheet of paper, just as the artist did, at the end of a rigorous, multihour session. The dual signature routine continued for more than six decades as his career … Read more
Post Malone closed out the first weekend of this year’s Coachella festival on Sunday night with a 90-minute performance in which he remade some of his smash pop-rap hits as down-home country jams. Sauntering onstage holding a red plastic cup and a cigarette, the 29-year-old singer — who went Nashville in 2024 with the chart-topping … Read more
Chris Lake isn’t one to plan. Minutes before he’s set to perform at Coachella’s campgrounds, the British DJ sat in the front seat of a Jeep Wagoneer, uploading music to several USBs. He spent the day mulling over which direction he wanted to take this first-of-its-kind Coachella set. Before the festival gates officially open on … Read more
Kevin Bacon certainly knows a thing or two about catching hell. In “Footloose,” the 1984 movie that catapulted him to stardom, Bacon played a rebellious Chicago youth named Ren who moves to a small town and clashes with a strict religious leader who has banned dancing and rock music. In “The Bondsman,” now streaming on … Read more
Jon Stewart slashed his hand on Monday during a bit after smashing a prop mug in frustration with government inefficiencies. The veteran “Daily Show” host, who began leading the program again on Mondays early last year, set up a makeshift Department of Government Efficiency office on his iconic news desk this week to try to … Read more
For 070 Shake, everything comes back to $50. Nearly a decade ago, the then-teenage musician spent all her time writing music in her New Jersey home. She eventually hit a point where she was ready to record in a studio, but couldn’t afford the $50 rental fee. So, just as any other adolescent, she turned … Read more
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — French far-right leader Jordan Bardella on Friday canceled his planned remarks here at the Conservative Political Action Conference after Steve Bannon, the former adviser to President Donald Trump who is now a popular conservative podcast host, made a hand gesture that some said appeared to be a Nazi salute. “Yesterday, while … Read more
