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In the summer of 2019, New York-based singer-songwriter Cassandra Jenkins was set to join David Berman on his comeback tour as Purple Mountains, only to find herself mourning his loss mere days later. On ‘Ambiguous Norway’, a highlight from her magnificent new album An Overview on Phenomenal Nature, we see her landing in Oslo, unsure

What did you think of the finished movie? I’m hoping to see the story of nomads, but of course, it’s a story and the story takes precedence. The story is really about grief and healing and I think it’s a fantastic story for all who have suffered and been involved with grief and the healing

MUBI, the go-to film subscription service, has revealed their list of films for March. The list includes Notturno (2020), a superb documentary by the award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi. To accompany Notturno, MUBI will also stream Rosi’s Boatman (1993), Below Sea Level (2008), and El Sicario, Room 164 (2010). March for MUBI will also include Chloé Zhao’s debut film Songs My Brothers Taught Me. Whilst also

Charli XCX has joined ELIO on a new remix of her single ‘CHARGER’. Written by Brian McLaughlin, Andy Seltzer, and ELIO, the track originally appeared on the Canada-via-Swansea singer-songwriter’s recently released EP Can You Hear Me Now? Check out the new version below, alongside an accompanying music video. “CHARGER featuring the queen of music herself

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This story is part of GQ’s Modern Lovers issue.  Desperate Times He moved to Nashville to make it as a singer but wound up working as a barback, a job that in three years had gone from tolerable to marginal to almost unbearable. At 26, his dream of a career in music had already begun

Slowthai makes the focus of his sophomore album clear on its title, spelling out his first name in all caps. Born Tyron Frampton, the Northampton rapper’s 2019 debut, Nothing Great About Britain, made an impression partly because it was the rare full-length outing that was chock-full of personality without being derailed by ego, introducing slowthai

The Antlers have shared a new single from their upcoming album Green to Gold. ‘Just One Sec’ arrives with an accompanying video directed by Derrick Belcham and Emily Terndrup, with choreography by Bobbi-Jene Smith and Dea Schraiber. Check it out below. “This song is about the difficulty of escaping your reputation with someone you’ve closely

Leveling Then Vs Now WoW Classic is the kind of game you get into because of its imperfections, outdated design choices, and systems. Nobody goes there to chill or to get buckets of content thrown at them. And there’s nothing more quintessential in this game than its leveling system. This system alone is in and

Clive Chin probably should have expected a little bit of turbulence when he caught a flight from Kingston Jamaica to New York City with Peter Tosh as his traveling companion. The weather wasn’t a problem, but when the captain turned off the No Smoking sign and the reggae legend sparked up the ornate ganja pipe

Born to evangelical Christian parents and raised in small-town Texas, Katy Kirby grew up homeschooled and started singing in church at an early age. Like many people, she started questioning her faith around the time she moved to college in Nashville, where she graduated from Belmont University with an English degree and a few original

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COOL BOY, the genre-shifting moniker formed by Zach Zono, progressed well since his debut release back in 2018. Starting 2021, COOL BOY released two singles which followed up to his new EP Classic Charm, Pt.1 bringing out more euphonious synth-pop music to our ears. To talk about the EP, he joined us for an interview.

The opening scene of The Silence of the Lambs is a masterclass in restraint. For roughly two minutes, director Jonathan Demme turns his focus to a woman climbing a hill on a training course. When she reaches the summit, she gazes around; a small smirk crosses her face as she turns to see a bird

We’ve not heard from the English folk trio The Staves since 2017’s The Way is Read, a collaboration with the New York chamber music ensemble yMusic, but their absence, unfortunately, was not without reason. In 2018, the sisters’ mother – the person who had inspired them at an early age to pursue music – passed

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Yeah. And it is funny. That I don’t mind as much. I’m always curious to see how I’m going to be introduced because I will sometimes be introduced as Twitter’s Poet Laureate, which, what is that even? Or a tweet will be mentioned, or I’ll just be introduced as the author of “Rape Joke,” which

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

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Lil Yachty has shared a new video for ‘In My Stussy’ featuring Vince Staples. It’s the latest visual off the Atlanta rapper’s Lil Boat 3.5. Check it out below. Lil Boat 3.5, the deluxe edition of Yachty’s 2020 LP Lil Boat 3, includes eight new songs and features guest appearances from Future, Drake, Tyler, the Creator,

Good morning, modern lovers! It’s a very quarantine Valentine’s Day and we’ve got love on the brain like Rihanna. As you might have heard, the March ‘Modern Lovers’ issue of GQ is on newsstands now. So when the GQ social squad asked me to put together a new Spotify playlist to mark the swooniest season

A quick glance through the self-penned notes for Chuck Johnson‘s latest album, The Cinder Grove, is enough to tell you that this is an artist who not only takes his craft seriously, but who approaches it with thought and ambition. Take the fact that, for this record, Johnson dug through archival recordings to extract reverb

Over the past couple of decades, a dwindling number of mainstream rock bands have made dependability an essential part of their band. But even with Dave Grohl having fully assumed the role of rock’s chief ambassador, you’d be hard-pressed to argue that this strategy has ever been a survival tactic for the Foo Fighters –

Throughout that time the trio worked to get the track in front of Jay-Z. “We always thought that was going to be Nip and Jay-Z,” says Mike, “from the jump.” Dopson regularly tours with Jay-Z as part of his backup band 1500 or Nothin, and put the track in Jay’s hands via his longtime engineer

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BABii has shared a new single titled ‘SHADOW’. Released to coincide with Lunar New Year (February 12), the track arrives with an accompanying video directed by BABii and Johnny Goddard. Check it out below. BABii writes in the video’s description: A MYSTERiiOUS SPiiRiiT DOOMED THE RUSTiiNG SCRAPYARD WiiTH LiiFE AND A BABY WAS BORN FROM

With approximately 1.6 billion people worldwide participating, the online gambling industry has really blown up in the last few years. The proof of this is just how many new online casinos are being launched every month in order to cater to the needs and desires of all the players. There has always been the question

Along with archival photography, Jones also studied documentaries such as 1971’s The Murder of Fred Hampton and spoke to Hampton’s fiancée, Akua Njeri, and his son, Fred Hampton Jr. She and director Shaka King realized they had enough material to recreate Hampton’s looks as faithfully as possible. “He wears his crewneck sweatshirt a lot. He

Lady Dan, the project of Austin-based singer-songwriter Tyler Dozier, has announced her debut studio album. It’s called I Am The Prophet and it arrives April 23 via Earth Libraries. Along with the announcement, Dozier has also shared the album’s title track alongside an accompanying music video. Check it out below, and scroll down for the LP’s