Mad Max: Fury Road — good movie. Would it have been even better with Rihanna in it? We’ll never know. But we do know now that Rihanna in fact auditioned for the film, meeting with director George Miller and casting director Ronna Kress when they were trying to figure out who would portray the five Wives in the film. (The part...

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The Polar Music Prize is not the Polaris Music Prize. We should establish this up front. Polaris is the one the Canadians give out to their country’s best album of the year. Polar was founded by ABBA manager Stig Anderson in 1989 in partnership with the Royal Swedish Academy Of Music. Every year the Polar Music Prize is handed out to o...

The bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist, and orator Angus Fairbairn records under the perfectly ridiculous name Alabaster DePlume, pulling from folk, jazz, and classical traditions in his pursuit of unconventional and compelling sounds. He’s had a flurry of interesting releases in recent years including the Visit Croatia EP, wh...