It’s October. Surprise! The news that President Donald Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus broke late Thursday night, throwing yet another massive news story into an environment already absolutely saturated with them. And, as with any October surprise, it’s impossible to avoid considering the implications this will have for the Presidential election that is
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MUBI, the cinema loving streaming service of Efe Cakarel, has released their lineup of films for the month of October. Among some of the selection we a presented with The Deer Hunter, Stories We Tell, and Voices of the Moon by Federico Fellini. MUBI will also debut Two/One by Juan Cabral, which will be shown exclusively
Arlo Parks’ soulful brand of indie pop plumbs emotional depths with striking sensitivity and detail. Stringing together poetic lyricism, mellow vocals, and shuffling beats, the South London-based artist makes deeply empathetic music that bridges the confessional with the universal, speaking to an entire generation of youth with its intimate portrayals of mental illness and complex
After I got kicked out of Jesuit high school, I went to a public high school, where they had resources such that I learned developing and printing and use of an SLR [single-lens reflex camera]. I remember going on assignments in New York City and taking pictures and coming back thinking, ‘Geez, these are all
Dua Lipa has shared a new remix of the Future Nostalgia track ‘Levitating’ featuring DaBaby. It marks the second official remix of the hit song, following the Blessed Madonna-produced remix featuring Madonna and Missy Elliott. Check it out below, alongside an accompanying Warren Fu-directed music video. “Let’s go, left foot, right foot, levitating/ Pop stars, Dua Lipa
The new Deftones album opens with Chino Moreno vowing to “taste a lifestyle that never gets old.” The meaning behind Moreno’s lyrics has always been up to interpretation, but here they seem to clearly outline the premise of the alt-metal veterans’ ninth studio LP: following 2016’s experimental (and admittedly rushed) Gore, their latest sees the
Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon debuted a new song called ‘Your Honor’ during the first installment of his ‘Visit With Vernon’ campaign, which is part of his For Wisconsin voting initiative. The track is a tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away in September. Watch the performance below. “I wrote
It’s deliberate. It’s about reclaiming some symbols as a way to reconnect them back to Africa—like Nefertiti—but also a deliberate way of showing the hand and the affinity that I have towards the older generation and the artists that I know have opened the way for me to do what I’m doing now. I am
Gorillaz have dropped a new song from their Song Machine series, titled ‘The Pink Phantom’. This one features Elton John and 6LACK and is set to appear on the upcoming Song Machine: Season One – Strange Timez album. Check it out below, along with an accompanying Jamie Hewlett-directed video. “Damon reached out and asked me to do
There’s a cathartic moment on LUNA AURA’s new EP, THREE CHEERS FOR THE AMERICAN BEAUTY: about halfway into the project’s riotously fun array of campy, guitar-fuelled rock songs, the singer-songwriter pauses for a split second on ‘TALKING TO ME’, then lets out a piercing scream. It’s a very familiar type of scream, one that AURA seems
The area of online education has taken leaps and bounds in the last year, mainly thanks to COVID-19 rearing its head. The idea of online education has been around for over twenty years, although the earliest models of virtual classes were incredibly limited at the time. In recent years they’ve changed considerably, but it’s only
Lil Rel Howery and I are nervously laughing over the fact that no one in Atlanta seems to be taking COVID-19 seriously. “It’s almost shocking when you first get here,” he says during a recent phone call. “You’re like, ‘did I miss something?’ People look at you crazy when you got a mask on, like
Most fans of Japanese monster cinema will, at some point, find out about G-Fest; the annual Godzilla convention held in Chicago, Illinois. For many U.S. fans, it’s a regular pilgrimage and cherished event. For international fans, it’s sometimes felt just out of reach. With the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, G-Fest was cancelled for 2020, and fans
On the opening track of IDLES’ Ultra Mono, frontman Joe Talbot introduces the central conflict that runs throughout the Bristol punks’ already-divisive third studio album. “You’re unthinking, letting yourself go, it might sound silly and non-sensical, but it has the most purpose to me,” Talbot explained in an interview with Clash, referring to such lyrics as
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Yet if Glover has worked from the inside out – pursuing a disruptive agenda from within – Coel has been employing a different set of tactics: refusing to accept the industry’s prejudice as business as normal. If Glover’s agent of change was a Trojan horse, then Coel’s has been a grenade. To excel (and to
Following his holiday-themed EP Hark! last year, Andrew Bird has now announced a full-length Christmas LP, also titled Hark!. The 13-track album will include six songs from the EP, as well as seven additional tracks. Among these are covers of John Prine’ ‘Souvenirs’ and John Cale’s ‘Andalucia’, the latter of which you can hear below. Another
Jeff Rosenstock and his band were the musical guests on last night’s episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers. They performed ‘Scram!’ from Rosenstock’s most recent album, NO DREAM. All the musicians wore masks, with Rosenstock having written ‘Black Lives Matter’ on his with a Sharpie. Check out the performance below. “The least we deserve in
21 Savage and producer Metro Boomin are set to release the long-awaited follow-up to Savage Mode this Friday. The album announcement came in the form of a trailer narrated by Morgan Freeman and directed by Gibson Hazard. Check it out below. In the clip, Freeman reads the following script: “Savage is defined as fierce, beastly, and untamed.
If you love Black folks and Black culture, it’s impossible to scroll down the Black Magazine Covers Instagram feed without a chill going down your spine. There’s Ralph Ellison on the cover of The Atlantic. Malcolm X on the front page of the foundational Black general-interest and news weekly Jet. Aaliyah’s posthumous elegance on Vibe.
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beabadoobee has shared the latest preview from her upcoming album Fake it Flowers. Titled ‘How Was Your Day?’, the song was recorded on a four-track cassette recorder while the singer-songwriter’s studio was closed during the coronavirus lockdown. Check it out below, alongside an accompanying music video. “’How Was Your Day’ is a track that explores
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Search warrants aren’t mere formalities; they’re written into the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution as an independent check on the government’s limited authority to seize and search “persons, houses, papers, and effects” — all things that, to the Founders, represented “the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of life.” Some 135
Based on Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables books, Anne with an E is a much grittier Netflix series about the young orphan, Anne Shirley. In the late 1890s, thirteen-year-old Anne is adopted by an elderly brother and sister who wanted a boy but decided to keep Anne when they grow to love her wild imagination. Ridiculed at
Now more than ever, the clothes you wear are more often than not a form of self-expression and a display of one’s unique personality. This week, we’re exploring a few influential fashion brands who are always making a statement with their clothing. Collina Strada (@collinastrada) Created by Hillary Taymour, Collina Strada is a fashion brand
The title to Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming Borat sequel has reportedly been unveiled: Borat: Gift of Pornographic Monkey to Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence to Make Benefit Recently Diminished Nation of Kazakhstan. It’s an appropriately ridiculous and lengthy name for the follow-up to 2006’s Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. As
Six months into a pandemic that has grounded much of the world, I not only miss traveling, I miss the small rituals of flying. The plane movie, for instance. The ideal plane movie is something easy and low-stakes that you probably won’t ever think about again. You wouldn’t go see it in a theater for
Bonobo & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs ‘Heartbreak’ The latest collaboration includes the electronic-phenom Bonobo and the superb Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. In their throwback-filled track ‘Heartbreak’, the household names of electronic music decided to take it back and pay tribute to the disco scene in New York City over the ’70s and ’80s. In terms