John Oliver devoted part of Sunday’s Last Week Tonight to the way corporations and public figures observed International Women’s Day, which ranged from awkward to full-on appalling. Several brands tried to honor the holiday last week with female-centric wordplay: McDonald’s turned its classic golden arches upside down (“I guess the …

The pairing of Ashley Monroe and producer Dave Cobb on the singer’s forthcoming LP Sparrow was bound to be a stellar combination, and her new song “Paying Attention” shows how it was also a gorgeously dramatic one. Recorded while Monroe was pregnant with her son, “Paying Attention” is a heartbreaking …

Michael B. Jordan has announced his company, Outlier Society Productions, will add an inclusion rider for all its future projects, Variety reports. The announcement comes on the heels of Frances McDormand’s powerful plea during her Oscars best actress acceptance speech last Sunday. “I have two words to leave you with …

Few artists can command an audience with just a guitar and harmonica quite like Kris Kristofferson. But for two intimate club shows in May, he’ll share the stage with one of country music’s most famous bands: the Strangers, along with Merle Haggard’s son Ben. Billed as “Kris Kristofferson and Ben …

Chuck Klosterman once wrote that “sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.” He was right: nothing makes reality sink in quite like when it’s disguised as some light-hearted humor, a tactic that Courtney Marie Andrews uses to her advantage on her new song, “I’ve Hurt …

John Prine offers another sneak peek into his first solo album of all-new material since 2005 with the release of the track “Knockin’ on Your Screen Door.” Co-written with Pat McLaughlin, whose credits include cuts by Alan Jackson, Trisha Yearwood, Gary Allan any many others, the tune is prime Prine, …

Chris Stapleton leads his peers in nominations for the 53rd annual Academy of Country Music Awards, which were revealed Thursday morning. Among his eight total nods, he picked up his first nomination for Entertainer of the Year as well as one for Male Vocalist of the Year, then scored double …

There wasn’t a lot of love for Devo in the early 1990s. The pioneering New Wave act probably felt they reached rock bottom when their 1988 effort Total Devo peaked at Number 189 on the charts, but then they faced the indignity of witnessing 1990s Smooth Noodle Maps– which contained …

Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas and Louisiana last August, causing $125 billion in damage, dumped more water out of the sky than any storm in U.S. history. By one calculation, roughly a million gallons fell for every person in Texas. The water rained down on a flat former bayou that …

Janelle Monáe unveiled two new songs “Make Me Feel” and “Django Jane,” set to appear on her upcoming album, Dirty Computer, out April 27th. Both tracks arrived with music videos. Alan Ferguson directed the “Make Me Feel” clip and Andrew Donoho, Chuck Lighting and Lacey Duke co-directed “Django Jane.” With …