Author: Press Room

John Cornyn, like most of the Republican Party, has spent a lot of time and energy embarrassing himself at the feet of Donald Trump. He posted a picture of himself reading The Art of the Deal. He tried to get a highway in Texas renamed after the president. The list goes on. But then Trump endorsed Cornyn’s primary opponent, Ken Paxton, in the Republican primary for Senate in Texas earlier this summer, effectively ending Cornyn’s career in Congress. He’s been fumbling around for his spine ever since. Most recently, Cornyn made a show of opposing the confirmation of Todd Blanche,…

John Douglas, the guitarist and vocalist of the Trashcan Sinatras, has died, aged 63. The Irvine-born guitarist had been with the Scottish indie rock outfit since 1986, and played on all seven of their albums, including their latest, ‘Ever The Optimist’, which was released just days before his passing. Taking to social media today, the band wrote: “We are devastated to inform all of you that we have lost our dear friend and brother John after a brief illness. “He died peacefully in the early hours of Monday the 3rd August 2026, surrounded by loved ones, his beautiful voice and…

Here are the songs that have been ruling the clubs, according to the people turning up the parties The best DJs know how to read a room. It’s a delicate skill. One wrong drop, one song cut off before its best verse, or one bizarre tropical house remix of an R&B classic could kill the entire dance floor vibe. It could take five more songs before the audience’s trust is restored. In many cases, the Song of the Summer is often a break-in-case-of-emergency secret weapon.  The definitive pick may vary from set to set, from club to club, or from…

It turns out that the president being embarrassed by the shoddy refinishing job his contractors did on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and then pushing an absurd conspiracy theory about box-cutter-wielding criminals to save face isn’t enough to sustain a prosecution (yet).  Over the weekend, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. — headed by former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro — moved to dismiss its case against former Olympic athlete Davey Hearn. The Justice Department had charged Hearn with felony destruction of property, accusing him of having damaged the pool lining Trump handed a company a no-bid contract to install…

Kanye West is facing another lawsuit accusing him of mistreating a fellow musician.   A freelance producer, suing as a John Doe, claims in the new lawsuit that West, now known as Ye, hired him on “an emergency basis” to help finish the album Vultures 2, then failed to pay him for that work or for later contributions to tracks on Bully. The plaintiff says he responded to an “urgent request” for help from Ye and his Yeezy label, but “despite nearly two years of demands, defendants have refused to compensate plaintiff for plaintiff’s services, have failed to provide any…

Lindsay Clancy broke her silence and spoke out loud in court for the first time on Tuesday during the sixth day of the ongoing murder trial to determine if she is legally responsible for killing her three children after allegedly suffering postpartum psychosis. During the exchange, she confirmed to the judge that she agreed to a stipulation of facts. When Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William Sullivan asked whether Clancy would stipulate to the facts, she replied: “Yes, your honor.” The stipulation means that Clancy will not be able to contest certain facts in the case going forward. Kevin Reddington, Clancy’s attorney,…

It sounds like the punchline to a joke, but a Nashville pedal steel player is running for governor of Tennessee. “I care very much about the world, and about making things better for everyone,” Adam Kurtz says. Known as “Ditch” to friends, as well as on the ballot at this Thursday’s gubernatorial primary election in Tennessee, Kurtz has toured and recorded with country artists like Joshua Ray Walker, Silverada, and Sunny Sweeney, in addition to fronting his own Buck Owens tribute band, Buck N Stuff. Today, he’s in his living room on the outskirts of Nashville, explaining why he chose…

Fenix Flexin’s summer anthem “Rubberz” was plagued by artificial-intelligence allegations almost as soon as it dropped. On its way to the Billboard Hot 100, the song started a comment-box and social-media war over its own provenance, the ethics of AI, and whether anyone cares. (Turns out they do.) People thought the rapper’s distinctively nasal voice had developed an unlikely kinship with Morrissey. The track went viral on Instagram—mostly because, as Pitchfork’s Alphonse Pierre wrote in early June, “it’s ridiculous that an L.A. rapper known for twerk anthems and prescription drug punchlines now suddenly is pretending he grew up getting his…

Helen, the shoegaze trio of Grouper’s Liz Harris, bassist Scott Simmons, and drummer Jed Bindeman, have announced their first album in over a decade. Linda’s Head arrives October 2 via Kranky—11 years after the band’s lone studio LP, 2015’s The Original Faces. Below, hear two songs from the album—the title track and “Dead Shark II”—and check out the cover art.The last grouper album, Shade, came out in 2021. This September, Harris will play a mini-tour of six shows across the U.S. and Canada, with dates in Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Kingston, New York.Revisit the review…

John Douglas, the guitarist and vocalist in the Scottish indie rock outfit Trashcan Sinatras, has died, the band announced on social media. He was 63. “We are devastated to inform all of you that we have lost our dear friend and brother John after a brief illness,” Francis Reader, Paul Livingston, Stephen Douglas, and Davy Hughes said in a statement. “He died peacefully in the early hours of Monday the 3rd August 2026, surrounded by loved ones, his beautiful voice and songs filling the room.” The news comes four days after the release of the group’s new album Ever the…