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“I’ve always wanted to work with a girl band,” Charli XCX says. “Not a classically pop girl band, but a girl band who have a rock & roll-type energy.” Enter Nasty Cherry, a four-piece outfit with members from both London and Southern California that’s released a series of hooky, atmospheric singles this year. Not an actual member, Charli instead played the role of old-school impresario. “It was definitely a surprise,” says Nasty Cherry guitarist and Los Angeles native Chloe Chaidez. She first met Charli XCX when her other band Kitten opened for the pop star on tour.  “She had her birthday party in Palm Springs with about 50 people, then the next day we went out to a Mexican restaurant and she said, ‘I have this idea,’” Chaidez recalls. After a decade in the industry, the Kitten founder and vocalist had trouble believing the idea would actually pan out. “Everything falls through. The fact that this … [Read more...] about Meet Nasty Cherry, the ‘Girl Gang’ Helping Charli XCX Live Out Her Rock & Roll Dreams

Phoebe Bridgers has shared her rendition of Simon & Garfunkel’s “7 O’Clock News/Silent Night,” featuring Fiona Apple and The National frontman Matt Berninger. Like the original 1966 folk track, Bridgers combines the classic Christmas song “Silent Night” with a reading from a typical nightly newscast — only this time, the headlines are pulled straight from 2019, with mentions of the abortion debate, sexting and the Trump White House. Apple harmonizes with Bridgers on the “Silent Night” portions, while Berninger plays the role of “the newscaster.” “Happy Holidays to everyone whose family has been literally or figuratively torn apart by Donald Trump,” Bridgers said in a statement. “And to my racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, hypocritical family members, fuck you. Thanks Fiona, Matt, Simon and Garfunkel.” “7 O’Clock News/Silent Night” is Bridgers’ third annual holiday … [Read more...] about Phoebe Bridgers Covers ‘7 O’Clock News/Silent Night’ With Fiona Apple, Matt Berninger

The National’s Matt Berninger has released a video of his new song “Walking on a String,” featuring indie-rock phenom Phoebe Bridgers. The duo recorded the track for the new Zach Galifianakis film Between Two Ferns: The Movie, released last month on Netflix. “It’s a song about how our problems and anxieties can build up and feel like a tangled inescapable web,” Berninger tells Rolling Stone. “Sometimes all it takes is a friend with some perspective and patience to help us see our way out of our own messes. It’s also just a love song between a spider and a moth.” Shot in black and white, the clip features Berninger and Bridgers recording the track at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles. “The things you said are hanging in the middle of my mind tonight,” Berninger sings. “I can’t turn ’em off.” Guitarist Walter Martin and the Walkmen drummer Matt Barrick also appear in the video, as well as a … [Read more...] about Watch The National’s Matt Berninger Perform ‘Walking on a String’ With Phoebe Bridgers

A review of “Smell Ya Later,” this week’s Killing Eve, coming up just as soon as I look like someone stuck a mustache on some fudge… “Together again. Gee, it’s good to be together again. I just can’t imagine that you’ve ever been gone. It’s not starting over. It’s just going on.” No, this is not a passage from “Smell Ya Later,” nor from any other Killing Eve episode to date. Yet quoting song lyrics from The Muppets Take Manhattan seems the most logical way to begin a discussion of the best Season Two episode so far, and of the challenges the series will continue dealing with the longer it’s around. ’Cause, as Fozzie Bear says, no feeling feels like that feeling: together again! Our two leads have led largely separate lives throughout the season’s previous four installments. Villanelle was busy getting patched up from her stab wound, and then getting out from under the thumb of The 12. Eve … [Read more...] about ‘Killing Eve’ Recap: Babes in the Woods

A review of “Nice and Neat,” this week’s episode of Killing Eve, coming up just as soon as my moisturizer is made of pig’s placenta… “Nice and Neat” is an ironic title for an episode that’s anything but. Even more than the premiere, this installment demonstrates some of the strain that new showrunner Emerald Fennell(*) is under to make this series viable over the long term. Much of the hour is devoted to the ongoing aftermath of Villanelle‘s stab wound from the first-season finale, and the rest of it to Eve being absorbed into a new task force run by Carolyn, which turns out to have a new female assassin as its target. It’s the kind of grunt work even serialized dramas without behind-the-scenes turnover have to do when they return for a second season. And it’s rarely pretty, even in antihero classics like The Sopranos or Breaking Bad. (*) A third season was ordered only a day after Season Two premiered, and with it came … [Read more...] about ‘Killing Eve’ Recap: Keep ’Em Separated