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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

Jon Hopkins has shared a piano rendition of Thom Yorke‘s ‘Dawn Chorus’. The song originally appeared on the Radiohead frontman’s most recent solo album Anima, which came out last year. Listen to Hopkins’ cover below. “I felt such bliss the first time I heard this piece — it seemed so mysterious and hypnotic, oblique but

Every situation, every episode is different. For the second unit people, I made a style bible where I made a huge document full of GIFs of stuff that I shot and told them: “This is how I like to compose things. This is the kind of humor I like. This is what I think is

Hayley Williams is the latest musician to perform on NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert series. Accompanied by a full band, featuring Julien Baker on guitar, singer-songwriter Becca Mancari on keyboards and backing vocals, collaborator Joey Howard on bass, and Aaron Steele on drums, the Paramore singer performed three songs from her debut solo record Petals

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Indie singer-songwriter Katy Kirby has unveiled a new single called ‘Cool Dry Place’. It serves as the title track to her upcoming debut LP, out February 19 via Keeled Scales. Check it out below. “I had a very fun habit of getting involved with someone and then getting cagey once they needed or just wanted me

Julia Jacklin has released a new holiday song called ‘baby jesus is nobody’s baby now’.  It arrives with a visual co-directed by Jacklin and Nick Mckk. Watch it below. “2019 was a pretty rough one for my family,” Jacklin wrote in a statement. “I was touring the whole year carrying a lot of guilt for

During a time of unprecedented isolation, we’ve all found ourselves turning to music for solace. It seems kind of a miracle we got to hear any new music at all in 2020, with artists facing more challenges than ever due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. With that in mind, we thought we’d kick

I’ve been writing a movie with Hunter, which I’m very excited about, so we talk pretty often. And I called her up to get her thoughts on this episode. Several hours later, we were talking and she said something that was based on a poem she had written when she was sixteen about the ocean