In The Shins’ new video for their song “Half a Million,” James Mercer issues the clever line “I take the drugs but the drugs won’t take.” But you wouldn’t know that from the video, which features some pretty trippy visuals. Mercer enlisted the help of LAMAR+NIK, who created the video “with 5,56…

Tuesday night (Aug. 8) saw the return of the hilarious “Camp Winnipesaukee” sketch on “The Tonight Show,” led by host Jimmy Fallon and constant comedy collaborator Justin Timberlake. For those who haven’t seen the recurring skit, the premise involves a young Fallon and Timberlake as cabin mates at…

Fast-rising metalcore favorites I Prevail have announced a massive fall tour in support of their hugely successful debut album Lifelines. The Rage On The Stage tour launches on September 20 in Oklahoma City, OK and finishes up in Des Moines, IA on December 2. I Prevail will be bringing metalcore…

After 14 years, Michelle Branch is finally out on the road to support her new record Hopeless Romantic. Branch ran into roadblocks in her career having several albums shelved by her label and now free, she’s taken on a daring sound that is Branch all grown up. She’ll visit Marathon Music Works in…

Psych-rock band The Max Tribe are premiering their new single “Yellow Pages” featured on their forthcoming album, Retrofit, releasing on Aug. 11. The album release also happens to be the same time the band begins their US tour. The band came together in 2013 after band member Austin Max teamed up…

From Aug. 25 to 27 this season, Major League Baseball is hosting the first-ever Players Weekend, an attempt to connect younger fans with players in a more intimate way. According to an MLB announcement today, it is a player-focused event that will include colorful, non-traditional uniforms featuring…

<img src="https://i.axs.com/2017/08/40184-optimized_598bb8835e7b0.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt=" Jared Donaldson  ” align=”left” border=”0″ /> Two Americans delivered first round upsets at the 2017 Rogers Cup tennis tournament in Canada on Monday. Varvara Lepchenko of Allentown, Pennsylvania and Jared Donaldson of Providence, Rhode Island both advanced after beating their seeded opponent.  Lepchenko beat reigning French Open champion and…

<img src="https://i.axs.com/2017/08/40188-optimized_598bc2d45b4f0.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt=" Janet Gardner, the voice behind MTV-era all-female band Vixen, and her husband Justin James have teamed up for Gardner’s debut self-titled album that drops Aug. 18, and they discussed it with AXS on Tuesday. ” align=”left” border=”0″ /> As the voice of late 1980s and early ’90s all-female rockers Vixen, […]

Here’s a mainstream science reporter’s short appraisal of three important new books: Mark O’Connell’s biography of J. Allen Hynek The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs, Sarah Scoles’ Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and Jim Al-Khalili’s Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search […]

Do you like your history cast in stone–literally? Well, it’s time to become more flexible. Writing on the stone walls inside the Great Sphinx is leading researchers to believe it may be older than first anticipated. Meanwhile, archeologists on Scotland’s northeastern shore have discovered new information about the ancient Picts. Fort Built by Mysterious Ancient […]