Last summer, I saw 2hollis, a bleach-blond former theater kid turned rapper who is built like Bill Skarsgård’s Nosferatu, open for Ken Carson three nights in a row at Terminal 5 in New York.

A.S. “Rabbitbrush 2,” A.L. West A.L. West turns his pretty but rote acoustic yarn from 2023 into a thudding stomper of a sequel. “Rabbitbrush 2” pulls just a handful of lyrics from the ...

Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl is an affectionate parody of magical girl cartoons, centered on Aika, a magical girl who really doesn’t want this, thank you very much.

Kiana Khansmith’s (Big City Greens) Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl isn’t a fledged show just yet, but her new pilot introducing Aika (Anairis Quiñones), Zira ...

Michael Stipe, dressed like a raver on safari, was the final member of R.E.M. to come up onstage, and he and Michael Shannon sang R.E.M.’s Reckoning banger “Pretty Persuasion” together ...

Near the end of the gig in R.E.M.’s hometown, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, and Bill Berry joined Shannon and Narducy for a performance of the Reckoning track “Pretty Persuasion.” Mike Mills ...

The disbanded group has only performed in public one time since their last gig in 2008. By Gil Kaufman R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe has made it clear over the years that the beloved indie rock ...

In the first week of February, Bladee un-retired from X.com. We’d talked a bit about the site when I visited him in Stockholm in early January; he said he used to like it for its low-stakes ...