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Kyle Gass has been one half of the comedy rock duo Tenacious D with Jack Black for decades, but the band's future seemed to be in doubt in 2024 when Gass cracked a joke about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. The post Kyle Gass Details Fallout With Jack Black Over Trump Assassination Joke, But Tenacious D Is Not Done appeared first on Stereogum.

In the late 1940s, a young woman named Connie Converse moved to New York City with aspirations to become a professional singer-songwriter. When that didn’t work out as she’d hoped, she moved to Ann Arbor, MI and took up a job as managing editor of an academic journal. Burned out and deeply unfulfilled, Converse disappeared… The post Connie Converse’s How Sad, How Lovely Getting Third Man Reissue: Hear Previously Unreleased “House” appeared first on Stereogum.

In 2019, Vampire Weekend bassist and occasional solo artist Chris Baio got together with Mike Greene, the dance producer better known as Fort Romeau. They formed a duo called C.Y.M. and released a self-titled EP. Last year, C.Y.M. released their debut album, which is also self-titled. Now, Biao and Greene have made a collaborative EP… The post C.Y.M. & Abby Sage Announce New EP My Whole World: Hear The Title Track appeared first on Stereogum.

You never have to question which country Men At Work are from because they put it right in the chorus of their biggest hit: "I come from a land down under." That song, the chart-topping early '80s smash "Down Under," has apparently been played at recent events organized by March For Australia, an anti-immigrant movement whose website bears the motto "Our National Identity Will Not Be Erased." Colin Hay's not happy about it. The post Men At Work Denounce Use Of “Down Under” At March For Australia Events appeared first on Stereogum.