One week before Thanksgiving, Melany Centeno, a professional dancer with a decade of experience, posted a call-to-arms on Instagram. Centeno enjoyed the rapper DaBaby‘s new “Bop” video, calling it “super fire.” But after messaging colleagues who danced in the clip, she accused DaBaby of underpaying some of them — as …
Read More »That Time Michael Bolton Wrote a Song With Bob Dylan
As Rolling Stone reported last month, Bob Dylan‘s heartfelt Time Out of Mind track “Make You Feel My Love” has oddly become one of his most-covered songs, with more than 400 interpretations to date. One of those is by Michael Bolton, who included a version with German singer Helene Fischer …
Read More »Musicians on Musicians: St. Vincent & Kirk Hammett
A lthough it may not be obvious from her intricate art-rock albums, Annie Clark, a.k.a. St. Vincent, is a huge Metallica fan. In fact, they inspired her to pick up a guitar in the first place. Clark was a 10-year-old violin player in Dallas when she first heard Metallica, and …
Read More »Kofi Baker on His Father Ginger's Last Days: 'It Was the Whole Body Saying, 'Enough”
By his own admission, Kofi Baker, the son of the late Ginger Baker, had a complicated relationship with his father. As he told Rolling Stonelast year, “It’s kind of like he’s already dead. He’s disowned me so many times in my life. It’s like he’s been dead to me for …
Read More »Remembering David Berman's Wild Kindness
David Berman once wrote that Paul Simon got it all wrong — there’s really only two ways to leave your lover. “You can up and leave, Steve. Or you can go to your grave, Dave.” Berman spent much of his existence leaving his lives behind, pulling up stakes and starting …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Mason Ramsey, 'Puddle of Love'
Yodeling meme baby Mason Ramsey has been on a wild ride ever since a video of him performing Hank Williams’ “Lovesick Blues” in a Walmart went viral last year. Now, at age 12, he has released his second EP Twang, and songs like “Puddle of Love” may finally be what …
Read More »Joan Baez: My 5 Favorite Protest Songs
Joan Baez played the final American concert of her five decade career at Port Chester, New York’s Capitol Theater on May 5th. She heads over to Europe next month for her final shows anywhere, wrapping up July 28th at Madrid’s Universal Music Festival. “I love Europe and my public over …
Read More »Flashback: Lindsay Weir Becomes a Deadhead on 'Freaks and Geeks'
Freaks and Geeks told a lot of stories across its 18-episode run, but the central plot line was always Lindsay Weir struggling to find a place to fit in. At the start of the show, Lindsay (played by Linda Cardellini) had left the geeks for the freaks, abandoning the mathletes …
Read More »Back to an Even Bigger Garden: Massive Woodstock Box Set Planned for August
Imagine hurtling yourself back in time to the original Woodstock festival in 1969, finding a good, relatively dry spot to chill, and settling in to hear more than three straight days of music. No, not possible, but the closest anyone may come to that experience will arrive this August. Pegged …
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