Category: Music

Jack Plunkett/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Fiona Apple has spent the better part of the last decade in her Venice Beach house, rattling the box that holds her dead dog’s bones. On Fetch the Bolt Cutters, her first album in eight years, it’s one of many household…

Daniel DeSlover/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Samantha Gongol doesn’t mind the mistake. It’s become the running joke of the tour: The lead singer of Marian Hill isn’t named Marian Hill. The band’s name is actually a mashup of two characters from the corny play The Music…

Doug Peters/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Dua Lipa declares her aspirations with her first line: “You want a timeless song, I wanna change the game.” On Future Nostalgia, Lipa’s sophomore album, she crafts a pop hit with all the qualities of a sci-fi flick from the 1960s (clean,…

DAPR/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.When it became clear that people 65 and older were at higher risk for severe illness from the coronavirus, I instinctively started worrying about my favorite 78-year-old, Bob Dylan. I checked the perpetually touring geezer’s website to make sure he’d canceled…