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Sigur Rós have announced a new album called Odin’s Raven Magic. The project, an orchestral work the band premiered at the Reykjavik Arts Festival in 2002, arrives December 4 via Krunk/Warner Classics. Below, listen to the first single ‘Dvergmál’, and scroll down for the LP’s tracklist. The album, which follows 2013’s Kveikur, finds the band

Tigers Jaw have announced a new album called I Won’t Care How You Remember Me. The Pennsylvania-based outfit’s sixth full-length LP is out March 5 via Hopeless Records. Tigers Jaw have also shared the first single, ‘Cat’s Cradle’, along with a music video directed by Drew Horen and Lauren H. Adams. Check it out below, and scroll down for

Welcome back to Fit Diaries, where GQ asks our favorite style lords to document a week through their outfits. Up next: LANY’s lead vocalist, Paul Klein. Paul Klein would be the first to tell you that he idolizes Ralph Lauren. He’s obsessed with the legendary American designer: his ability to transcend “cool,” to exist beyond

Phoebe Green has announced her debut EP: I Can’t Cry For You arrives December 3 via Chess Club Records. The 22-year-old Manchester artist has also shared a new single called ‘Golden Girl’ alongside an accompanying music video by Harvey Frost & Rory Chapman. Check it out below, and scroll down for the EP’s cover artwork

Starfish aliens, a planet hurtling towards Earth, and mankind divided on what to do; this is 1956’s Warning from Space. This poignant sci-fi spectacular delivers on striking images and engaging ideas. While its characters are thin, the film’s vast scope negates this as a problem.   Flying saucers have been spotted all over the world; and strange

Liturgy have announced their fifth studio album, Origin of the Alimonies. It’s described as a “cosmogonical opera-album” and it arrives November 20 via Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s label YLYLCYN. Liturgy have also shared the first preview from the 7-track LP called ‘Lonely OIOION’. Check it out below, along with an album trailer and announcement video. Origin of

The authenticity of American politicians can be measured by any number of fuzzy metrics. Perhaps you’ve heard the most famous one, “He seems like a guy I could grab a beer with.” There’s no particular way to measure the beerosity of a public figure, but you know it in your gut. The beer represents a

Aaron Taos, the musician behind the beloved song ‘Control, has joined together with Alice Gray, a rising name in the world of music, to release their new single ‘Summer’s Gone.’ The song is an ode to summer love and is driven by a catchy, ear-pleasing production that pulls you in with its warm, shiny vibe—accompanied

Julien Baker has announced a new album. It’s called Little Oblivions and it arrives February 26, 2021 via Matador. The singer-songwriter has also shared the first preview from the record, ‘Fait Healer’, which comes alongside a music video directed by Daniel Henry. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album’s cover artwork and

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But see now, you got to think about 13. 13 is a special age because that’s when you start riding your bike and you gain a little sense of independence for yourself, you dig what I’m saying? Now “24’s” came out in 2003. So what would be your relationship to that record? What do you

Singer-songwriter dodie has announced her debut full-length album. It’s called Build A Problem and it comes out March 5. She’s also shared the lead single, ‘Cool Girl’, alongside an accompanying lyric video. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album’s cover artwork and tracklist. “I think I was going through a crisis actually,”

Hachiku is the project of 26-year-old Melbourne-based artist Anika Ostendorf, who writes whimsical, dreamy bedroom pop with an experimental twist. Originally from Germany, she moved to Australia from London as a biology exchange student and found both a job and a musical home at Milk! Records, an independent label founded by Courtney Barnett and Jen

Caroline Polachek has released an extended mix of ‘The Gate’, the opening track of her debut solo album, Pang, via her Orchard imprint Perpetual Novice.  Clocking in at 10 minutes, the new version features additional “textural contributions” from producers Oneohtrix Point Never and PC Music’s Danny Harle. ‘The Gate (Extended Mix)’ comes with a music video directed by by

By now, this was no longer a novel occurrence, and CIA people had come to call it “getting hit.” One senior intelligence officer in EEMC, the Center Polymeropoulos used to run, had gotten hit twice while traveling under cover, first in Poland in the spring of 2019, then again in Tbilisi, Georgia, that fall. He,

After three seasons, Stranger Things has firmly cemented its place in the ’80s-inspired sci-fi zeitgeist. The show’s first season thrust its stars to instant fame and rocketed up Netflix’s rankings to claim the top spot. Set in a small town called Hawkins in Indiana, the story begins with the abduction of Will Byers. His friends

The fact that beabadoobee released her very first song, ‘Coffee’, all the way back in 2017 might come as a surprise to anyone who only became familiar with her music this year, when Canadian lo-fi artist Powfu sampled the track on his confusingly titled viral hit ‘death bed (coffee for your head)’. Her vocal presence

Miley Cyrus performed a set during the #SaveOurStages virtual festival on Saturday (October 17). The three-day virtual event, which saw artists including Foo Fighters and Phoebe Bridgers performing in empty venues around the US, was put on to benefit the National Independent Venue Association’s Emergency Relief Fund. Accompanied by a six-piece band, the pop singer

In the midst of a pandemic, writer Dan Riley caught up with actor Timothée Chalamet in Woodstock, New York for GQ’s November cover profile. Officially, Chalamet was there preparing for an upcoming role as a young Bob Dylan, who famously went upstate to convalesce after a motorcycle accident. Unofficially, Chalamet was taking the opportunity to

For fans of blaxploitation horror, 1974’s Abby is perhaps most notorious for its marketing as “The Black Exorcist” (nearly named ‘The Blaxorcist’) and having achieved the honor of being sued into (literal) oblivion by Warner Bros. for copyright infringement. It’s undeniably true that the script is, shall we say, lacking in original thought — part

Yesterday night (October 17), Run the Jewels performed their latest album RTJ4 in full on Adult Swim. The concert, titled ‘Holy Calamavote’, was sponsored by Ben & Jerrys and urged viewers to vote during the November 3 US election. Fans were also encouraged to donate to the ACLU throughout the stream. Watch the full set below. ‘Holy Calamavote’

SOFI TUKKER, aka Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern, have teamed up with Icona Pop for a new single called ‘Spa’. It marks the first collaboration between the two electronic duos. Check it out below. Of working with Icona Pop, SOFI TUKKER said in a statement: “There’s nothing like making a song with friends we love

It was only then that I discovered that there are people who blame The West Wing for a false expectation we have that Republicans will do the right thing, which blows my mind that The West Wing would be blamed for anything at all. I had no idea that an off-the-cuff answer that seems simple

MUBI, a beloved cinema streaming platform, has published their schedule for the month of November. The list includes some superb films such as Nimic by Yorgos Lanthimos, Queen of Hearts by May el-Toukhy, and The Kid With a Bike (2011) by The Dardenne Brothers. 1 November – I’m So Excited! | Magnificent Obsessions: The Films

Nick Cave has unveiled his performance of a new song called ‘Euthanasia’, taken from his upcoming live album, Idiot Prayer, out November 20. Watch it below. Idiot Prayer captures the livestream concert Cave performed with no audience at London’s Alexandra Palace back in June. Across his 22-song set, Cave performed solo piano renditions of both Bad Seeds

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**GQ: It’s pretty crazy that you’re going from Electric Lady to Paisley Park. That’s a couple of iconic places. There’ll be a live audience for that? Indoors? ** Omar Apollo: Yeah, so basically it’s a live audience, and it’s a 1500-person venue, but with 100 people, everyone with masks on and they’re gonna be super

TSHA ‘Change’ feat. Gabrielle Aplin Moving forward with an already impressive discography is TSHA, a rising star in the world of electronic music, having just released her latest single ‘Change’ featuring British singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin. In this nostalgia-filled production, TSHA explores rave-like synths mixed with a dancefloor-ready beat that will get you on your feet

Our Culture‘s Steven Sloss speaks to Bafflegab Productions’ Simon Barnard about his new audio drama adaptation of the cult ’70s TV serial Children of the Stones for BBC Sounds, and the challenges of producing audio content under lockdown. Thank you for talking to Our Culture, Simon. Children of the Stones is a very exciting project!

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