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
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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
For an album composed and performed almost entirely by Robin Pecknold, Shore might be Fleet Foxes’ most extroverted release to date. The singer-songwriter’s voice doesn’t even feature on the opening track of the record, ‘Wading in Waist-High Water’, where he calls on a relatively unknown singer, the Oxford student Uwade Akhere, to take on vocal
Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon performed ’22 (OVER S∞∞N)’ as part of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert‘s #PlayAtHome series. Vernon offered a meditative new take on the opener to his 2016 album 22, A Million, while his face was covered with the message ‘Wisconsin/Register to Vote Online or By Mail/By/Wednesday/October 14/2020′. Check our his performance below.
That mindset comes through in lyrics like “Ache for the sight of friends,” as Pecknold cries on“Maestranza,” before offering a bit of sweeping assurance: “I’ve been safe in the thought/That the line we walk is the same one.” “We’ve had to find creative solutions to finding togetherness in the last six months,” he says, reflecting
Making an investment is the process of spending money that you predict will be returned or even increased in the future. You can choose to invest in big things such as houses or cars, and even smaller items like designer clothes and accessories that are sure to maintain their value. Investing in fashion can be
Game fans worldwide are hotly anticipating various video games that are due to be launched in 2021. Here is a look at five of the most eagerly awaited. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Due for release in early 2021, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is the sixth entry in the TT Games series,
Matt Maeson has shared a new version of his song ‘Hallucinogenics’, from his 2019 debut album Bank On The Funeral. It features vocals from Lana Del Rey. Check it out below. Last year, the two artists performed the track live together at a concert in Oklahoma City. “Pushin’ past the limit, trippin’ on hallucinogenics / My
This was a problem: Susannah was the co-lead singer of Prince’s protégé group, the Family, and her twin sister, Wendy Melvoin, was the guitarist in Prince’s band, the Revolution. Wendy and keyboardist Lisa Coleman had become deeply involved with the writing and arranging of the band’s music—a first for a performer who’d gotten his Warner
Nana Adjoa, an exciting Amsterdam-born singer-songwriter, has published her new album Big Dreaming Ants — just today. The album comes after several single releases including ‘I Want To Change,’ ‘No Room,’ and ‘Throw Stones,’ all of which are on the album. Talking about the first song of the album, ‘National Song,’ Adjoa stated: “Neo-nationalism is
The Shins are back with their first new music of 2020 with ‘The Great Divide’. Co-written and produced by The Shins’ James Mercer, Jon Sortland and Yuuki Matthews, the track arrives with an accompanying music video directed by Paul Trillo. Check it out below. In a statement, Mercer explained that the single is “an epic
Kelly Lee Owens has shared the video for the John Cale-featuring Inner Song track, ‘Corner of My Sky’. Directed by Kasper Häggström, the clip features actor Michael Sheen. Check it out below. “I’ve loved Kelly’s music for a while now and the opportunity to be part of a Kelly-John Cale-magic toaster holy Welsh trinity was
A few weeks ago I stopped by the GQ offices at One World Trade Center for the first time since the Work From Home era began. When I got there, a conundrum: During WFH I got used to working while standing up at a tall dresser, so I needed to find some way to quickly
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