Pitching its tent somewhere in the grey area between gonzo soul and stoner blues, “It Runs Together” — a raw, rambling account of a doomed romance, its arrangement worthy of a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack — helps reintroduce Hard Working Americans’ gritty, greasy rock & roll. 

The band’s newest album, Rest in…

In December, a webseries called :DRYVRS debuted with an episode that posited that Macaulay Culkin’s Home Alone character grew up to become a murderous cab driver. :DRYVRS’ second episode arrived Friday with a trio of guests: Tom Petty, Rosanna Arquette and a cameo by Dhani Harrison.

In the latest, Bob Dylan-inspired episode,…

Ever since Krysten Ritter kicked ass as the lead superhero in Marvel’s Jessica Jones, anticipation has been building for the next in the Netflix Marvel anthology series, Luke Cage. Lucikly, the show’s executive producer and showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker, who also wrote the first two episodes of Luke Cage, shared…

Michael Stipe recently took part in a pair of David Bowie tribute concerts – held March 31st and April 1st at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall, respectively – where he performed a haunting version of the late musician’s “Ashes to Ashes.” In a heartfelt note issued Friday on R.E.M.’s website, Stipe…

Merle Haggard, who died last week at 79, considered Willie Nelson one of his closest friends. “I love Willie and I think Willie loves me,” Haggard told Rolling Stone in 2014, detailing how the two bonded on the Nevada casino circuit in the Seventies. “We’d play a couple of long shows a day, then…