John Mayer is close friends with Watch What Happens Live host and TV producer Andy Cohen, and that friendship has apparently led some people to speculate that there’s something goingn on between Cohen, who is gay, and Mayer, who is straight. That subject came up in a recent Hollywood Reporter cover story on Cohen, and the question alone was enough to get Mayer two write in to the magazine ..read more

The upcoming compilation Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration Of Tom Petty features a bunch of country stars covering Tom Petty songs. We’ve already posted Dolly Parton’s version of “Southern Accents” and Chris Stapleton’s take on “I Should Have Known It,” and the album also features people like Willie Nelson, Luke Combs, George Strait, and Margo Price. Today, the leathery country-rock great Steve Earle has offered up his cover of “Yer So Bad ..read more

Two days ago, Future tweeted the following lines: “Fuck yo album Shit ain’t slappin like my MIXTAPE,” “MAY TENTH,” “MIXTAPE PLUTO.” Naturally, that got people talking. Thus far this year, Future and Metro Boomin have already released two mammoth collaborative albums, We Don’t Trust You and We Still Don’t Trust You. The first one set up the Kendrick Lamar/Future beef that’s been the dominant rap story this year. So was Future getting ready to release another mixtape? Turns out: No. He’s just got a new song with Tee Grizzley ..read more

Austrian ambient guitarist Christian Fennesz is a fixture in the experimental music world, and he never stops working. Last year, Fennesz and the Italian electronic duo Ozmotic released the collaborative album S e n z a t e m p o, and Fennesz also contributed to an Allen Ginsberg tribute record. Now, Fennesz is gearing up for a new album of is own, and he’s just shared an all-enveloping piece of new music ..read more

Jane Schoenbrun has stated they wanted their new film I Saw The TV Glow, which gets a wide release May 17 through A24, to feel like the “memory of television.” Most literally, this refers to how a millennial might remember something like Buffy The Vampire Slayer 20 or 30 years later, but it’s tempting to see the statement in a more abstract way: if television was actually remembering things, if the life-force looming behind the screen in a film like Poltergeist or Videodrome developed a nostalgic streak and a sense of poetry ..read more

Dennis Thompson, drummer and final surviving member of Detroit proto-punk heroes MC5, has died. The Detroit Free Press reports that Thompson passed away yesterday morning at MediLodge in Taylor, Michigan; he’d been staying there while recovering from a heart attack in April. Thompson’s death comes just months after MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer passed away in February. John Sinclair, the band’s former manager, died in April. This October, Thompson will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as a member of the MC5. Thompson was 75 ..read more

Chief Keef released his first Almighty So mixtape back in 2013, when he was 18 years old. At the time, Keef was already considered a washed-up major-label rapper, and Almighty So helped solidify his cult status. In the years since then, the Chicago drill style that Keef popularized has become a global phenomenon, and Keef has become an unpredictable, elusive figure. He first announced plans to release his Almighty So 2 follow-up six years ago, and it got delayed so many times that people thought it might never come out. Today, the album is out, and it’s really, really good ..read more

Last month, Orville Peck announced a covers/duets EP entitled Stampede and released his collaboration with Willie Nelson for a rendition of Ned Sublette’s 1981 song “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other.” Today, the first volume of the EP is out, and it includes a cover of “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” with Elton John ..read more

Earlier this week, Camila Cabello announced her new album C,XOXO, out June 28. The rebranding pop star released the ubiquitous single “I LUV IT” featuring Playboi Carti in March. Now, she’s sharing “He Knows” with Lil Nas X ..read more

I Saw The TV Glow, the new movie from We’re All Going To The World’s Fair director Jane Schoenbrun, is an indie music extravaganza. The cast includes Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan (and Fred Durst). As with Schoenbrun’s last movie, the score is by Alex G. And the soundtrack, out now, is full of noteworthy names ..read more