The late John Prine has been named the first honorary poet laureate of the state of Illinois, Governor J.B. Pritzker announced Tuesday, nearly three months after the singer-songwriter’s death from complications related to COVID-19. “He leaves behind an unparalleled musical legacy and was beloved by family and millions of fans …

Lenny Kravitz will chronicle the first 25 years of his life in a new memoir, Let Love Rule, set to arrive October 6th via Henry Holt and Company. In the book, Kravitz will cover his childhood up through the release of his 1989 debut album, also titled Let Love Rule. …

Megan Thee Stallion took to the desert in aMad Max: Fury Road-themed performance. The rapper won Best Female Hip-Hop Artist earlier in the evening. The Houston rapper and her crew of female dancers opened her performance riding through the desert on ATVs. Once they stopped, she launched into her new …

The oil and gas industry was hit with yet another lawsuit when Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced this week that his office is suing two of the nation’s largest oil companies, and the oil industry’s trade group, for a “30 year campaign of deception” about the impacts of climate …

During his Tulsa rally last weekend, President Trump said the quiet part out loud, confessing that he sees coronavirus testing as a political threat and wants to diminish America’s caseload by doing a worse job of measuring it. “Testing is a double edged sword,” Trump told the sparse Oklahoma crowd. …

Apple TV+ has released the first official trailer for Little Voice, a new original series from J.J. Abrams and the team behind the Broadway musical Waitress, Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson. A half-hour coming-of-age drama series set in New York, Little Voice follows Bess King (Brittany O’Grady), a young musician struggling to pay …

The Old 97’s began recording their new album Twelfth in Nashville this spring, on the very day that tornadoes decimated sections of the city. That March night, from the floor-to-ceiling windows of their rented condo in the city’s Melrose neighborhood, the band watched transformers explode in the distance and debris …

Twenty One Pilots have launched a unique “never-ending” music video for their recent single, “Level of Concern.” The clip debuted just after midnight on Monday, June 22nd, and is still going, mixing footage of the band with clips and photos uploaded by fans to the Twenty One Pilots website. Every …

British actor Ian Holm, who portrayed a wide range of characters in theater, TV and film including Bilbo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, has died. A longtime Shakespearean actor, his versatility and passion for his craft was imbued in roles varying from King Lear to an android …

After the Mekons released their first album in eight years in 2019, the long-running cowpunk outfit make a quick return with their surprise new LP Exquisite, which the band wrote and recorded while in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The album — “recorded in splendid physical isolation on mobile phones, …