Way back before poptimism became a thing that went beyond anti-rockism and into the territory of taking every sound ever very seriously — I am still not on board with the ’70s schmaltz-rock moments of Random Access Memories — Pulp was a huge amalgam of uncool things. Grunge still reigned here while over in England [...

Joanna Newsom has been cast in Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming film Inherent Vice, screen adaptation of reclusive novelist Thomas Pynchon’s foray into pulp fiction of the same name. The story is about a mediocre, pothead detective as he investigates the kidnapping of his ex-girlfriend. There is no word on who Newsom will be p...

By Erik Kirschbaum LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - Bruce Springsteen jumped off the stage and into a frenzied German crowd of 45,000 fans on Sunday in Leipzig to pluck a sign with a hand-written request scrawled on it - as he has been doing all summer on his popular tour across Europe. But when Springsteen whirled around and held up the name of the...

'Pulp and Sheffield' will tell story of band's 2012 gig at Motorpoint Arena    

Frontman says the band will be on hold "for a while"