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Last year, director Rob Reiner revealed that he was working on a sequel for his 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, known for pioneering the mockumentary genre. Yesterday, on Richard Herring’s RHLSTP podcast, he shared that Paul McCartney, Elton John, and Garth Brooks will make appearances.  » Read More

The Kelly Clarkson cover song is back like it never left. The Kelly Clarkson Show, now a daytime-TV institution, resumed production after the writers’ strike ended, and Clarkson resumed her custom of singing a different song at the beginning of every episode. In the past month, she’s done songs like Olivia Rodrigo’s “  » Read More

The thing you have to understand about PinkPantheress’s Heaven Knows is that it contains a (synth) harp-filled song about an unrequited crush metaphorically murdering her, called “Ophelia.” The album has lots of songs about dying for love, actually, with the musical palette to match. Dramatic quasi-Gregorian chants introduce the romantically fatalist “Capable Of Love”;  » Read More

Here’s a new one from Colombian screamo band Vientre. “Fiel de Fechos” is 90 seconds of sheer power and freak-out energy, with bomb-drop downbeats connected by slicing mathy guitars. Running the lyrics from Bandcamp through Google Translate gives me this:  » Read More

Over the past year, Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hütz has been raising money for Ukraine, where he was born. That’s involved a benefit show and a charity single, which included contributions from Jello Biafra, Tre Cool, Joe Lally, and more.  » Read More

Indie rock royalty Real Estate shared their last album in 2020 with The Main Thing. Today, they’re announcing its follow-up, Daniel, and releasing the lead single “Water Underground” with a music video that pays homage to a classic ’90s Nickelodeon show.  » Read More

Last year, beabadoobee released her sophomore album, Beatopia; she’s spent this year opening for Taylor Swift and dropping some stray singles. Over the weekend, two unrelated things happened in beabadoobee world. She shared a video of her covering Aimee Mann’s Magnolia track “Save Me”  » Read More

Pop star Sabrina Carpenter released her “Feather” video on Halloween. Within days, a Catholic priest who allowed part of the video to be shot inside his Brooklyn church had been relieved of his administrative duties, the New York Times reports.  » Read More

In his long career, broadcasting lifer Howard Stern has taken exactly one major motion picture acting role, in the 1997 film Private Parts. If memory serves, he was at least halfway believable in the role of “Howard Stern.” Today, Stern revealed that he turned down a second big role —  » Read More