Diplo, Herve Pagez and Charli XCX teamed up for a new track, “Spicy,” which reworks Spice Girls‘ 1996 classic “Wannabe.” The trio also dropped a futuristic music video for the song, directed by Reed + Rader, which features magical flying dolphins. The buoyant pop song replaces the signature chorus with …

13th Floor Elevators frontman Roky Erickson, a psychedelic rock icon whose career was cut short due to debilitating mental illness and years spent in a Texas mental hospital, has died of unknown causes at age 71. “Roky Erickson, an heroic icon of modern rock & roll and one of the …

Alt-rock and country music may seem like strange bedfellows, but in the hands of Mike and the Moonpies they go together like chili and cornbread. In honor of the 45th anniversary of the Hole in the Wall, the Austin bar in which they got their start, the Texas-based road warriors …

“It’s about saying things al chile!” says Lila Downs backstage at the Center for the Arts in Escondido, where she’s about to perform cuts from her latest studio album, Al Chile. Just like the Mexican expression conveys — roughly meaning “straight up” — the folk singer has been keeping it …

Shane McAnally likes to talk about the point in a writing session when songwriters hear a phrase or melody that makes them completely unable to think about anything else until the song is done. He calls it “the bubble.” “[It’s] where you can no longer have a conversation about anything …

Both Facebook and Twitter have been hammered this week because both platforms have refused to take down doctored videos of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that were distorted to make her appear either unwell or under the influence of a substance that would cause slurred speech. On Friday, CNN’s …

Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced media mogul who has been accused by nearly 80 women of sexual misconduct, has reached a tentative $44 million deal to settle lawsuits with his accusers and other parties, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the terms of the deal, about $30 million would go …

Keith Richards has always been the picture of effortless cool, and now a new photo exhibition will attempt to capture his mystique. The Morrison Hotel Gallery‘s “Keith, Unfiltered” showcase features images of the Rolling Stones guitarist taken during the past 50-plus years with images by a who’s who of rock …

Timothy Olyphant was never happy with his performance during the original three-season run ofDeadwood. “I recall barely having my head above water,” he told me in the fall, “and I recall regretting every single choice made and begging David [Milch] to let me walk him back and change it.” Actors …

Please, not another teen coming-of-age movie! That was your first thought, right? Hold your contempt. Booksmart changes the game and opens the genre up to greater possibilities. Directed by the actor Olivia Wilde in a smashing feature debut, this femcentric spin on Freaks and Geeks is high on girl power. …