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Now, Now are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their breakout sophomore album Threads with a limited deluxe edition that features new B-sides and demos. Out now digitally via Chris Walla’s Trans- Records, with pre-orders for cassette and vinyl starting in May, the reissue includes the previously unreleased tracks ‘Comfortable’ and ‘Shifting’ as well as seven

Phoebe Bridgers has released an acoustic version of her Punisher highlight ‘Chinese Satellite’ as part of Secretly Canadian’s 25th anniversary singles series SC25. Bridgers recorded the new rendition in Los Angeles at Sound City Studios, and you can listen to it below. Secretly Canadian’s SC25 Singles series aims to raise $250,000 for the homeless charity

Chelsea Wolfe has shared a cover of Arthur Field’s ‘Oui Oui Marie’ as part of the soundtrack to the upcoming A24 horror film X. Wolfe and Tyler Bates composed the score for the film, which is directed by Ti West and stars Kid Cudi, Mia Goth, Jenny Ortega, and Brittany Snow. Check out Wolfe’s take on

The first trailer for the Star Wars limited series offers a lot of reasons to get excited. By William Goodman March 9, 2022 Ewan McGregor in Obi-Wan Kenobi.Courtesy of Disney. Long before Disney snapped up Lucasfilm, Star Wars fans obsessed over the potential of an Obi-Wan Kenobi series. The extensive time gap between the character’s

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on March 11, 2022:  Jenny Hval, Classic Objects Jenny Hval has released Classic Objects, her first album for 4AD. The follow-up to 2019’s The Practice of Love was preceded by the singles ‘Jupiter’, ‘Year of Love’, and ‘Freedom’. Elaborating on the process

Maia Friedman was already an experienced songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist before embarking on a solo career. Growing up in the Sierra National Forest region of central California with a film editor father and Jungian psychoanalyst mother, Friedman started playing music at an early age and went on to perform in groups like Bobby, Toebow, and

The Black Keys have announced they have a new album on the way. Dropout Boogie will be released on May 13 via Nonesuch, almost a year after Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney put out their last LP, Delta Kream. The new record features contributions from ZZ Top’s Billy F. Gibbons, Reigning Sound and Oblivians’ Greg

Styles’ film My Policeman drops later this year. By Jack King March 9, 2022 Harry Styles on the film set for My Policeman on May 14, 2021 in Brighton, England.Courtesy of Karwai Tang/WireImage/Getty Images. We’ve only seen Harry Styles in front of the camera twice so far: first, as part of the ensemble in Christopher

Everything Everything have shared ‘Teletype’, the latest single from their forthcoming album Raw Data Feel. Following lead track ‘Bad Friday’, ‘Teleype’ arrives with an accompanying visual created by frontman Jonathan Higgs. Watch and listen below. “This song began in a very experimental way, with Alex and Jon sampling voice and guitar then putting it through

More than once on her new album as the Weather Station, Tamara Lindeman lifts the creative curtain. Her songwriting has long been grounded in vulnerability, but the openness and intimacy of How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars almost has a way of demystifying the process that led to its predecessor, 2021’s

Companion – the duo of identical twin sisters Sophia and Jo Babb – have announced their debut LP. It’s titled Second Day of Spring, and it’s set for release on May 27. Along with the previously released ‘How Could I Have Known’, the album includes a new single called ’23rd Street’. Check it out below.

British R&B singer Rex Orange County has teamed up with Tyler, the Creator for a new song called ‘Open a Window’. It marks the first time the two artists have collaborated since Rex Orange County guested on Tyler, the Creator’s 2017 record Flower Boy. Listen to it below. ‘Open a Window’ is taken from Rex

Destroyer has released ‘June’, the latest advance single from his upcoming album LABYRINTHITIS. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by David Galloway and Destroyer’s Dan Bejar, which follows a burrito on its journey to Bejar’s doorstep. Watch and listen below. “Is it spring where you are? I think June is technically summer, but

For English actor Jonathan Bailey, becoming a leading man seemed like a long shot. Until he fell into the role of a lifetime as a charming womanizer on a little show called Bridgerton. By Douglas Greenwood March 9, 2022 Jacket, $3,450, and pants, $1,090, by Louis Vuitton Men’s. Sweater, $860, by Dsquared2. Belt, $1,000, by

Zoe Kravitz is the latest in a small but illustrious group of Black actresses who’ve played the iconic DC antihero. By Miles Marshall Lewis March 7, 2022 Photographs courtesy Everett Collection, Getty Images; Collage by Gabe Conte With its 83-year history, the mythos of Batman contains multitudes. The dark knight detective of director Matt Reeves’s

Caution – the two-piece comprised of Nora Button and Cash Langdon – have announced their debut album. Following their self-titled 2021 EP, Arcola will be released on April 29 via Born Yesterday Records. Check out its first single, ‘Fuck It Up’, below. Although Caution originally formed in Washington, D.C., Button and Langdon have since relocated

When you’re feeling lost, most music is pretty good at taking you someplace else; not much of it can shine a light on exactly where you’re at. Nilüfer Yanya’s sophomore album, PAINLESS, homes in on feelings of numbness and alienation that tend to take up a whole lot of mental space, growing and mutating as

The Prodigy have announced a tour of England, marking their first run of shows since Keith Flint’s death in March 2019. The tour kicks off in Sheffield on July 8 and wraps with three shows at London’s O2 Academy Brixton later in the month. Tickets go on general sale this Friday, March 11. Check out

The visual for “Eazy,” Ye’s recent collaboration with Game, is quite dark. By Grant Rindner March 3, 2022 Ye and Jason Lee attend the jeen-yuhs special screening celebrating Netflix’s new documentary, at Mother Wolf on February 11, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.Courtesy of Johnny Nunez/Getty Images. When Kanye West released the single “Eazy” on January

Throughout the week, we update our Best New Songs playlist with the new releases that caught our attention the most, be it a single leading up to the release of an album or a newly unveiled deep cut. And each Monday, we round up the best new songs released over the past week (the eligibility period

Leonard Cohen’s estate has sold the entirety of his songwriting catalog to Hipgnosis Songs Fund for an undisclosed sum. According to Rolling Stone, the deal includes all 278 songs penned by Cohen, including popular songs such as ‘Hallelujah’, ‘Suzanne’, ‘So Long, Marianne’, and ‘First We Take Manhattan’. Hipgnosis Songs has obtained the “songwriter’s share” of

American director David Dodson talks about directing Zelensky in three films and watching him secretly campaign for president.  By Michael Idov March 4, 2022 Courtesy of Maya Maksimova A rare bright spot amid the nightmare Putin’s Russia unleashed on the world last week has been the steady, fearless, and subtly wry leadership of Ukraine’s president,

Magdalena Bay have shared the music video for ‘Dreamcatching’, a highlight from their 2021 debut LP Mercurial World. To create the fantastical clip, director Felix Geen used VQGAN+CLIP architecture, which combines neural networks working in unison to generate images based on input text and images. Check it out below, along with the duo’s upcoming US

Phoebe Bridgers has delivered a rendition of Billie Eilish’s ‘When the Party’s Over’. The cover premiered earlier this week during the first episode of Bridgers’ new SiriusXM radio show, Saddest Factory Radio, which takes its name from the record label she launched two years ago. Future episodes will air on the first Thursday of each

Here’s where the next Pattinson-Reeves Batfilms might go, based on the way the new film ends. By William Goodman March 4, 2022 Zoe Kravitz and Robert Pattinson in The Batman.Courtesy of Jonathan Olley for Warner Bros/Everett Collection Major spoiler warning for The Batman—you’ve been warned. Across its nearly three-hour runtime, Matt Reeves’ The Batman suffers

Soul Glo have shared a new single called ‘Driponomics’, featuring Philly rapper Mother Maryrose. It’s taken from the band’s forthcoming album Diaspora Problems, which includes the early single ‘Jump!! (Or Get Jumped!!!)((by the future))’. Check out ‘Dropnomics’ below. “’Driponomics’ is for everyone doing what they have to do to get by and to get fly,”

Daniel Bachman has surprised-released a new short story collection called Sycamore City & Other True Stories, which comes with a companion soundtrack composed of a single 45-minute track. The song, titled ‘Cemetery Music’, is centered around a field recording made between two cemeteries along Crater Road in Petersburg Virginia. You can buy a PDF of

Franco on how the Apple TV+ series made him fall in love with acting again, working with his wife and the disappearance of the R-rated comedy. By Erin Somers March 3, 2022 Dave Franco.Courtesy of Shane McCauley. Dave Franco has made a career of playing likable assholes. His latest, Xavier, is an obnoxious, mega-famous pop