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I talked with Michael Penn about covering "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" and "Hallelujah! I'm a Bum" for a new Sweet Relief charity album. (And if you're curious, I did ask if there might ever be another Michael Penn album, after all these years... and he had an answer.) variety.com/2025/music/n...

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it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"

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I ration my uses of “Orwellian” but I’m only flesh and blood

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Recap of an unforgettable night at the Hollywood Bowl led by @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social ... Rhiannon Giddens’ All-Star Roots Revue at the Bowl Has Steve Martin, Our Native Daughters and Others Covering the Full Banjo Spectrum, From Black Consciousness to Comedy: Concert Review

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I dived into the new Haim record, out tonight... variety.com/2025/music/a...

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This is unfathomably shameful. How do we even have to debate this? Why would anyone ever again be so foolish as to trust or help the United States if this is how we treat people who risk their lives on our behalf?

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I spoke today with the singer Nezza about what went on before and after she sang "The Star Spangled Banner" in Spanish at Dodger Stadium, to considerable acclaim and derision... variety.com/2025/music/n...

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Recap of a memorable night at the Viper Room celebrating the Jennings family... Shooter Jennings Previews Trove of Unreleased Material by His Dad, Waylon, at L.A. Father’s Day Party With Charley Crockett, Ashley Monroe and Other Friends variety.com/2025/music/n... via @variety

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A few words to ponder the possibility that the No Kings movement is actually programming the president's music... Was Someone Trolling Trump by Playing Creedence’s Draft-Dodger-Slamming ‘Fortunate Son’ at His Military Parade? Or Is It Just the (Further) Death of Irony? variety.com/2025/music/c...

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What a delight to get Darian Sahanaja to write something for us about his experience as right-hand man to Brian Wilson for the last 25 years, and of course growing up on his music before that. variety.com/2025/music/n...

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You're so vain, I bet you this country's about you

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It feels kind of like Coachella... Coachella 2020

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A pleasure talking with Taff and Taylor for this joint interview... Russ Taff and Steve Taylor: Two Longtime Titans of Christian Music on How They Finally Joined Forces for Taff’s Raw, Emotionally Revelatory ‘Cover Story’ variety.com/2025/music/n... via @variety

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Here's an interview I did with Al Jardine today about the tremendous loss we just suffered...

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I dared myself to arrive at a ranking of Brian Wilson's 20 best songs (21 with an asterisk). Take a look if you feel like it and let me know how much you agree or beg to differ. variety.com/lists/brian-...

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Another strong lineup of Americana nominees. variety.com/2025/music/n...

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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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I'm more impressed with Halsey all the time, and was glad to get to talk not just with her but her set designer, choreographer and cinematographers for this tour making-of story.

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Both of these people were just doing their job and were not there to participate in the protest. These are journalists. Journalism is not a crime.

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I spoke with director Mike Mills about helming a great silent performance by Saoirse Ronan for a new "Psycho Killer" video, and his nearly lifelong Talking Heads love.

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I talked with writer-director Robert O'Hara ("Slave Play") about the adventurous adaptation of "Hamlet" that's having its official opening tonight at the Mark Taper. (Earlier I posted a separate interview with leading man Patrick Ball, if you feel like checking that out.) variety.com/2025/legit/n...

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Thanks to Variety for coming out to see #JillithFair at McCabe’s. What an incredible night and not for nothin but Jill would have flipped out to see everyone performing her songs and telling stories and oh my god Margaret Cho’s impression of her 😂

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I really enjoyed talking with Patrick Ball about the unusual adaptation of "Hamlet" that opens tonight at the Mark Taper... and, sure, about "The Pitt," which became relevant to the conversation for several reasons.

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This ChatGPT exposé by @guinz.bsky.social is ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING. (h/t @adambvary.bsky.social). amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

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Audra McDonald knows: June is bustin' out all over!

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Saw him at the "Nuggets" show at the Alex two years ago; sorry to see him go. I did not know a great deal about the Electric Prunes but I enjoyed getting an education in the course of writing this obit, as I often do.

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Had fun talking with Al Jardine about a studio EP out today, a tantalizing tour that will have him performing with Brian's longtime band, and the fact they'll be playing songs from a coming Beach Boys boxed set spotlighting "Love You," "15 Big Ones" and "Adult Child"... variety.com/2025/music/n...

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Had fun talking with Al Jardine about a studio EP out today, a tantalizing tour that will have him performing with Brian's longtime band, and the fact they'll be playing songs from a coming Beach Boys boxed set spotlighting "Love You," "15 Big Ones" and "Adult Child"... variety.com/2025/music/n...

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I wrote a little bit for Bob's birthday on why you should go see him on the road...

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Happy 84th birthday to Bob Dylan. In celebration, I'm bringing back up a roundup Variety published four years ago on this date -- a selection of 80 of the best covers of Dylan songs. ... The 80 Best Bob Dylan Covers variety.com/lists/bob-dy... via @variety.com

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My recap of a beautiful show from Allison Russell in L.A. ... Allison Russell Brings Heart, Soul, Healing and a Little Bit of ‘Hadestown’ to L.A. Tour Stop: Concert Review variety.com/2025/music/c...

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Just read this sentence. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

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Great to talk with Maren Morris about her new album, which lived up to my expectations of how strong and candid her themes would be. I also appreciate the pleasures of her going unabashedly pop with most of the music, then getting acoustic in the moments she needs to. variety.com/2025/music/n...

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Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

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Glad to talk with one of my favorite artists of all time, Aimee Mann, about this weekend's reunion... Aimee Mann on Being ‘Freaked Out’ at Reuniting Til Tuesday After 35 Years for a Single Gig at L.A.’s Cruel World Festival

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I wrote up an account of T Bone's great three-night, six-show stand at McCabe's... variety.com/2025/music/c...

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Congrats to the whole Variety team. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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But it’s OK because we’re being invaded, I think

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It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

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So glad to have gotten to talk again with Aoife O'Donovan, Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz as they rejoin forces as I'm With Her. Their second album as a collective, "Wild and Blue and Clear," is another keeper from three women who are equally great as individuals or the sum of their parts.

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I wrote up some thoughts about last night's ACMs, in which, weirdly, I found nothing to complain about...

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There are few voices that do something to my soul like Jess's and Holly's do... and what luck it is that they're wonderful writers to boot. It's always a good year when Lucius has new music out, and a pleasure to reconvene to talk about it. Check out their new self-titled album.

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Talked with noir-master Alan K. Rode about this weekend's Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs, which will include Guillermo Del Toro discussing a new B&W cut of "Nightmare Alley," plus some films that haven't been on a big screen anywhere in decades... variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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My recap of an afternoon spent in the company of some wonderful women... At Variety’s ‘Power of Women: Nashville,’ Kelsea Ballerini, Sheryl Crow, Mickey Guyton and Reba McEntire Talk Making a Difference, Mental Health and Mutual Standom variety.com/2025/music/n...

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