Month: June 2021

Bloom Books, an imprint of Sourcebooks. You are cordially invited to the wedding of the decade, when Christian Grey will make Anastasia Steele his wife. But is he really husband material? His dad is unsure, his brother wants to organize one helluva bachelor party, and his fiancée won’t vow to obey… Their passion for each
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Welcome to Blood/Ink/Staples, a recurring column which will shine a spotlight on creepy comic books new and old. Here, we’ll be taking a peek at forgotten graphic novels and hot-off-the-press floppies, buried indies and newly-released big labels. Some articles will be historical deep dives, others will feature interviews with creators, but all will attempt to steer
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The answer to a burning existential query. By Danielle Cohen June 10, 2021 Anastasia Karanikolaou, a.k.a. Stassie Baby, on March 12, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.OGUT/Star Max/GC Images Last night, a 24th birthday party in Hollywood so saturated with celebrities and influencers it practically birthed a third Knives Out movie left people wondering who exactly
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Lorde is back. The New Zealand pop star’s new song, ‘Solar Power’, was co-produced by Jack Antonoff and features backup vocals from Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo. Drummer Matt Chamberlain, who has recently performed on Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways, also contributes to the new single. Watch the song’s music video, directed by Joel Kefali
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Home invasion thrillers are inherently terrifying for corrupting the private space designated most for comfort and safety. The terror compounds when the home dweller can’t fight back easily; their vulnerability exacerbates the suspense tenfold—vulnerabilities like blindness. See for Me isn’t the first home invasion thriller to center around a blind character trying to evade the dangerous men
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Maxine Bédat swears she began with a fairly modest aim: to tell the life story of a pair of jeans, from a humble cotton plant nestled in the soil to the flares hanging in your closet—and even extending into their potential
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Well, that happened. Going into Younger Season 7 Episode 12, we weren’t sure what to expect but getting a series finale akin to How I Met Your Mother was not what we had in mind. We stuck with the show through seven seasons, the last of which wasn’t the greatest, and this is the thanks we get? 
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It’s been a strange a year in music so far. This feels especially good to say, because using the word “strange” to refer to anything that happened in the first half of 2020 felt like a gross understatement. With many artists either laying dormant or using the past year to write and refine new material,
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The Tribeca Festival is officially underway, its 20th-anniversary ceremony taking place June 9 to June 20 with a feature slate that includes 66 films from filmmakers across the globe and 54 world premieres. This year marks a hybrid event, with Tribeca easing back into in-person events as well as virtual screenings and presentations. That means that
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Matthew Dear has shared a new track from his lost 2008 album Preacher’s Sigh & Potion: Lost Album, which arrives June 25 via Ghostly. Following previous singles ‘Muscle Beach’, ‘Supper Times’, and ‘Hikers Y’, today’s offering is called ‘Gutters and Beyond’ and you can listen to it below. Dear explained in a statement about the new
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Kid Rock certainly didn’t apologize for using a homophobic slur during an appearance at a resort and bar in Middle Tennessee over the weekend. On Facebook on Wednesday (June 9), the rock-rapper (real name: Robert Ritchie) acknowledged the controversy around his use of the word “f—-t,” a derogatory term used to describe gay men, during a recent performance.
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Pittsburgh’s premiere horror museum since 2008, The Living Dead Museum is being reanimated as a brand new, expanded museum that’s hosting its grand opening this week! The press release explains, “Living Dead Museum will hold Grand Opening of the new Pittsburgh Horror & Movie Museum in all new Monroeville Mall location on June 12, 2021.”
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There is a sense of motion bound up in the unique indie-rock-jazz blend of Rostam’s sophomore album, Changephobia – and yet there is also a curious placidity. Frenetic drums and rousing guitar melodies provide a near-constant stream of energy, but any sharp edges are softened by silky saxophone arrangements and honeyed vocals. The project unravels
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