Last month, the troubled movie star Sean Penn’s new movie Flag Day had its premiere at Cannes, where it reportedly didn’t get booed. Penn directed Flag Day, and he stars in the small-scale crime drama alongside his daughter Dylan. It looks like Penn called in some serious favors for the soundtrack, which features Cat Power, E...

Last year, Alanis Morissette had a big tour with Liz Phair and Garbage lined up to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her iconic album Jagged Little Pill. The pandemic messed those plans up, obviously, but last month, Morissette announced that the tour had been rescheduled for this August. Yesterday, though, Liz Phair announced that she was pulli...

Hey, two new Common Holly songs! Ahead of their appearance at Calgary Folk Music Festival this Sunday, the Montréal indie-pop band have shared a pair of tracks called “Preoccupy” and “The Moon.” They’re the first new tunes from Brigitte Naggar’s band since 2019’s When I say t...

The 50th annual Earth Day took place on Wednesday of last week, but the celebration of our planet is not over yet. Today, Pathway To Paris -- a charity founded by Patti Smith's daughter -- is hosting a livestream over on Instagram Live. It'll be happening from 4PM to 8PM EST over on Instagram Live,…

Last year, Cat Power returned with the lovely album Wanderer, her first LP in six years. And since she came back, Chan Marshall has been out in the world, doing things that, not that long ago, would've been hard to imagine a once-reticent performer even attempting. In the past few months, she's opened a damn…