In spite of everything, 2020 brought us a ton of great new music – too much to fit into a single list. Which is why, as a supplement to our 50 Best Albums of 2020 feature, we’re continuing our 2020 Year in Review by highlighting 20 compelling albums that may (understandably) have slipped under your
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Maybe you are not such a reader type of person. However, there are certain books in life that even those who don’t fancy the topics must try and read them. You never know how a book can impact your life, maybe some of the life questions you have will be answered within the lecture. Bellow
Everyone’s home is different, so everyone’s favorite chocolate chip cookie is different, too. Chloe and I practically started with a cookie. We met while studying abroad in London. On our first day there, I’d walked to an outpost of Ben’s Cookies, a local chain of biscuit makers. I returned to the flat I shared with
Charly Bliss and PUP have joined forces on a new holiday single called ‘It’s Christmas and I Fucking Miss You’. Check it out below, alongside an accompanying music video edited by Dan Shure. “I was so excited when Charly Bliss asked me to write a Christmas song with them,” PUP frontman Stefan Babcock said in a statement.
2020 has been a tough year; a year of mostly being inside. Whatever you accomplished over lockdown, it is likely that you watched more movies than usual this year. Despite cinema closures all over the world, Netflix signed two million more paying subscribers between July and September 2020 – a huge rise in subscribers compared
Phoebe Bridgers was the musical guest last night on James Corden’s Late Late Show. She performed an orchestral version of her Punisher and Copycat Killer track ‘Kyoto’ from her bed, leading to a virtual projection of Carnegie Hall in New York City. Watch it below. Talking to Corden, Bridgers explained that “Carnegie Hall was the last place
Offset rose to fame as a member of hip-hop powerhouse Migos, but he has since established his own identity, releasing a Grammy-nominated solo album, Father of 4, in February 2019. He’s stepping into fashion design with a capsule collection within Chaz A. Jordan’s Laundered Works Corp. at this upcoming Paris Fashion Week. And he will
On her self-titled debut album, released last week via Golden Wheel Records, singer-songwriter and composer Coco Reilly attempts to wring truth from a perpetual cycle of uncertainty and confusion. “You can see the world any way you want/ Just be real say what you’re really thinking,” she sings on opener ‘The Truth Will Always Find
Arca has released 100 new versions of her KiCk i track ‘Riquiqui’. The collection of remixes, titled Riquiqui Bronze Instances, was created using the artificial-intelligence program Bronze. Check out the entire project below. Talking about the idea behind the project in a statement, Arca explained: Did you know that up until now I had never allowed
As Ultraman Z comes to its end, Christopher Stewardson looks back on the series. From June to December 2020, Ultraman Z has aired weekly via Tsuburaya Productions’ official Ultraman YouTube channel. Fans all over the world have tuned in for the latest adventures of Earth’s defence force (S.T.O.R.A.G.E.) and its members, Haruki (Kohshu Hirano), Yoko (Rima Matsuda), Yuka (Hikari Kuroki), and
When Michael Mann’s Heat arrived in the waning days of 1995, audiences came for a showdown between two acting titans and walked away having watched a reinvention of the heist genre. Bigger, more sprawling, and more ambitious than the competition, Heat layered multiple subplots and fringe characters into its tale of a master thief hunted
U.S. Girls‘ Meg Remy has announced her debut book, Begin by Telling. A press release describes it as a collection of “illustrated lyric essays depicting memories from early childhood to present day” that paints “a stark portrait of a spectacle-driven country.” Author and poet Michelle Tea comments, “Begin By Telling explores the horrors and absurdity of
Sam Mendes’s directorial debut won Best Picture at the 2000 Academy Awards, along with several other Oscars and numerous accolades. Despite its place in pop culture, critics and audiences alike still can’t seem to agree on the film’s genre. At its core, the film is about the mundanity of life in suburban America, where a
Another Sky have shared a new song called ‘Sun Seeker’. It serves as the second preview from the group’s upcoming EP Music For Winter Vol. 1, due out January 1 via Fiction Records. Take a listen below. “Lyrically, Sun Seeker is about being the only one who can say who you are,” vocalist and lyricist
Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin have unveiled the fourth instalment in their ongoing Hanukkah Sessions series. Following their cover of Drake’s ‘Hotline Bling’, the pair have offered their take on Peaches’ ‘Fuck the Pain Away’. Watch the performance, featuring an appearance from Peaches herself, below. “Drake’s not the only musical Jew from Canada,” a statement
It feels strange, given the state of the world, to try to recap the year in music by talking about the latest trends or tomorrow’s biggest stars. Instead of what happened in the world of music, the more pressing question seems to be what happened to the world of music – the coronavirus pandemic has
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 begins
Four Tet‘s Kieran Hebden has announced a collaborative album with Madlib titled Sound Ancestors. It’s set for release in January next year through the Madlib Invazion label, while the lead single, ‘Road Of The Lonely Ones’, will be premiered by Anne Hobbs on BBC Radio 6 Music today (December 14). “A few months ago I
Country musician Charley Pride, the first African-American to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, has passed away at the age of 86. According to a statement issued by his publicist, Pride died on Saturday, December 12 in Dallas, Texas from complications related to COVID-19. Pride gave his final public performance at the
Music has so many benefits to your life that you might not even realize just how much. We all need music at some point in our life, and it’s a part of everyday life whether you put it on in the morning when you turn on the radio or you decide to pick up a
dodie has previewed her upcoming debut album Build A Problem with a new single called ‘Rainbow’. Check it out below. The singer-songwriter wrote of the new song on Instagram: “this is the beginning of the six songs on this album that are tied together seamlessly by this beautiful 13-piece string section I composed for! Scoring!
Warning: This article contains descriptions of alleged assault. FKA twigs has filed a lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend, Shia LaBeouf, over allegations of sexual battery, assault, and infliction of emotional distress. According to The New York Times, the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, accuses the actor of “relentless” physical and emotional abuse, including one incident in
Following their take on Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’, Dave Grohl and producer Greg Kurstin have covered Drake’s ‘Hotline Bling’ as part of their Hannukah Sessions series. Grohl is once again on drums and vocals, while Kurstin plays keyboards and other instruments. Check it out below. “You might be surprised to learn that this superstar is… Canadian,”
But Harlow can also be reflective about his flaws (he’s been seeing a therapist recently). He recounts running into someone he used to sleep with at a party for over two-and-a-half minutes on “Funny Seeing You Here,” an X-ray of early-twenties awkwardness that culminates with Harlow’s admission that, as a romantic partner, he can fall
Fall is in full swing, and even though we may be enjoying fall differently this year, there are still plenty of ways to celebrate the changing of the seasons, whether that means a socially-distanced hike, an autumnal feast or my personal favorite: a festive arrangement of fall flowers. Go-to flowers for autumn are the ones
My Ugly Clementine, a four-piece rockband out of Vienna, released their latest single ‘I’m Boring — just today. The ear-pleasing single follows up on the band’s well-respected ten track album Vitamin C which received positive reviews and a large influx of streams. ‘I’m Boring’ carries on the band’s voicing of long-hidden truths, this time relationships,
2020 brought us no shortage of quarantine Radiohead covers. So when Irish singer-songwriter Rosie Carney wanted to cover ‘Fake Plastic Trees’ and realized how many artists had already done so this year alone, she decided to take on the entire album instead. Following her stunning debut full-length Bare in 2019, as well as April’s i dreamed
In my last conversation with him, I told him, “Do what you got to do, get your stuff together, you and your brother. Now y’all can finally have a bond type of relationship with one another.” My plan was for him and his brother to stop here in Florida and get me. I was going
Taylor Swift is releasing a new album called evermore tonight (December 10). It’s out at midnight Eastern, and it features contributions from Haim, Bon Iver, and the National. In a tweet, Swift described the album as a companion to July’s folklore, and indicated that, as with that album, Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff are both
Be warned, this review contains spoilers. Perhaps it’s not surprising that 1967’s It! is seldom discussed, given the abundance of films that share its title. Factor in its considerable obscurity, and it’s no wonder that so few seem to have watched it. That said, if you can track down a copy, It! is an entertaining and effective horror picture