News and Notes
Apartment Hallway Transformed into Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan Museum
The drama of the 1994 figure skating scandal involving star U.S. figure skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan has been commemorated with a museum in an apartment hallway in Brooklyn.
Grounders announce debut full-length, release single
It’s been long enough now since promising dreamy synth-pop Toronto band Grounders released their Wreck of A Smile EP that I almost forgot about how much I enjoyed the four-song tease that came out in March 2013.
Listen to the first single off Built to Spill’s new album
Built to Spill’s first album since 2009 will be releasing in April, but the first single “Living Zoo” is available to stream now.
Damien Jurado poster in How To Get Away With Murder
A Damien Jurado poster from a show he played with Rocky Votolato and author Adam Voith at The Ramp in Berkeley, California, in June 2014 can be seen in an episode of How To Get Away With Murder.
Mac McCaughan releasing first solo album under his own name
Mac McCaughan has been releasing music on his own apart from his band for years, but with his forthcoming album Non-Believers will mark the first time the Superchunk frontman and Merge Records co-founder will use his own name.
Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ sequel releasing in July
Author Harper Lee will have a follow-up to one of the greatest American novels of all time, after all.
Wet Hot American Summer Netflix Series Teaser
Cult classic Wet Hot American Summer is coming to Netflix this summer as an eight-episode series set on the first day of camp in 1981 at Camp Firewood.
Stream The Twerps ‘Range Anxiety’
One of the albums I’ve been most looking forward to in the new year releases on Tuesday, January 27, but you can stream it now ahead of the release date.