As Geddy Lee put it in a recent Rolling Stone interview, Rush‘s Hemispheres signified “the end of a thing.” That thing was the band’s high-prog period, marked by grandiose, album-side–filling tracks. This phase lasted just three short years but produced some of the greatest-ever examples of the style. If 1976’s …
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For those who wanted more of the artful meditation on societal misogyny that David Fincher brought to his 2011 film version of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling Swedish crime drama The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, you have my condolences. The Girl in the Spider’s Web, directed with gun-to-the-head urgency by Fede …
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Advocates of full and unrestricted voting rights in Georgia won a significant victory in federal court on Friday that will give relief to more than 3,000 naturalized citizens who will now be able to cast a regular ballot in Tuesday’s midterm elections. The ruling represents a defeat for both Brian …
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A kaiju-sized Scorpion is chasing Drake. Wait — why is that yellow Lamborghini flying? Is Aubrey Graham is now performing on top of a great white shark, like OVO got a contract to design a new SeaWorld? These are some of the questions you might have watching Gibson Hazard‘s latest …
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There’s aren’t many people who have advocated for Texas as artfully as Richard Linklater. From Dazed and Confused to Boyhood to Everybody Wants Some!!, his films have portrayed life in the state with the delicate touch of someone who truly understands it. Despite his success, he favors Austin over Hollywood, …
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The first thing Jon Batiste does when he wakes up each morning is write. It’s a exercise called Morning Pages, and Batiste has been doing it every day for several months now: three pages of handwritten free-writing to clear his mind and help open himself up to creativity before he …
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Will Ferrell has enlisted Jerry Seinfeld, a multitude of late-night hosts– Jimmy Kimmel, Samantha Bee and Conan O’Brien– and an all-star band led by Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith to take part in “Will Ferrell’s Best Night of Your Life,” an October 6th charity supershow at Los Angeles’ Greek …
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Nicolas Cage discusses his acclaimed new horror film Mandy, the genius of Ethan Hawke and how he once enraged Sir Ian Holm in this exclusive video interview. Cage first talked about meeting Panos Cosmatos, the director of the indie horror classic Beyond the Black Rainbow, and how the director originally …
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Ethan Hawke donned a pair of blonde braidsto embody Willie Nelson on Tuesday’sTonight Show, performing a parody of his signature track“On The Road Again.” Host Jimmy Fallon, aping Johnny Cash, joined Hawke and hisBlaze co-stars Charlie Sexton (as Kris Kristofferson) and Ben Dickey (Waylon Jennings). The track, originally featured on …
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Shooter Jennings wants to tour with robots. Which, if you’ve been following the songwriter’s eclectic career, makes complete and perfect sense. While he may be the son of leather-and-lace country couple Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, the 39-year-old is less inspired by the outlaw Seventies than he is the outsized …
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