Tom Breihan

In 1971, Chris Burden had himself shot in front of a live audience. Burden, an installation and performance artist, performed a piece that he called Shoot, and the entire performance was about Burden’s willingness to endure a gunshot wound and his audience’s willingness to let it happen in front of them.  » Read More

Later this year, Chrissie Hynde’s legendary rock ‘n’ roll institution the Pretenders will release the new album Relentless. We’ve already posted first single “Let The Sun Come In,” and now the band has shared the song’s grand closing track, which features some help from an unexpected collaborator.  » Read More

This year’s Bonnaroo festival kicked off last night, and apparently people were going off too hard to Zeds Dead or whatever. In previous years, this wouldn’t have been a problem. But Apple recently launched its crash detection feature in iPhones and Apple Watches. Last fall, Apple introduced the new feature, which is intended to alert authorities to car crashes automatically.  » Read More

Trent Reznor respects motherfucking craft when he hears it. The Nine Inch Nails leader recently sat down with Rick Rubin for a two-hour conversation on Rubin’s Tetragrammaton podcast. Reznor’s done a ton of film-score work over the past decade and a half, and he told Rubin about how he’s found something rewarding in working to serve someone else’s vision rather than his own.  » Read More

Last month, the extremely cool San Francisco punk band Spiritual Cramp signed with the new startup label Blue Grape Music and released the new banger “Phone Lines Down.” Now, Spiritual Cramp are gearing up for a tour with Teenage Wrist, and they’ve followed “Phone Lines Down” with a new song called “Nah,  » Read More

A public marriage proposal is a dicey proposition. You need to be really, really sure that your partner is going to say yes, unless you want to deal with humiliation on top of heartbreak. A public marriage proposal at your own concert sounds even more nerve-wracking. But maybe if you’re a master of your art with two Oscars to your name,  » Read More

It’s hot. That’s all anyone can talk about. The second that you step outside in Austin this week, you feel like a used dishrag. The heat suffuses your entire being; it’s like a miasmic blob has swallowed you. A hot day in Texas is not exactly a stop-the-presses event, but even the people who live in Austin seem unmoored by the constant sauna-blast sensation of the current climate.  » Read More

Saucy Santana and Flo Milli are two ascendant Southern rappers with playfully bitchy styles and A-list aspirations; it makes perfect sense to hear them team up together. Today, Saucy Santana follows up his recent single “1-800-Bad-Bxtch” by recruiting Flo Milli, who came out with her own track “  » Read More

The fabled Dolly Parton rock album looms ever-closer. Later this year, the country legend will release ROCKSTAR, the new LP that seems to exist as a response to Parton’s induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, an honor that Parton first planned to decline since she didn’t think she was rock ‘n’  » Read More