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Two decades later, School of Rock is not just a great comedy, but a surprisingly prescient film. By Ted Scheinman October 4, 2023 Photograph: Everett Collection We all keep our favorite artists in a little cabinet, arrayed in loose categories. One of the most cherished shelves in mine contains artists I think of as elephant-ballerinas:

Joanna Sternberg has released a new track, ‘Neighbors’. It marks the singer-songwriter’s first new music since the release of their Fat Possum debut, I’ve Got Me, back in June. Listen to it below. “I wrote this song about my social anxiety and how it manifests in the context of the high rise building I live

La Force is the solo project of Canadian singer-songwriter Ariel Engle, who was born in Montreal and came up in the indie scene of the city’s Mile End neighborhoood, collaborating with everyone from Plants and Animals and the guitarist Sam Shalabi. With her husband, Broken Social Scene’s Andrew Whiteman, she would eventually form the duo

boygenius stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night (October 3) to perform ‘Cool About It’, a highlight from their debut LP the record. Watch it happen below. Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus will release the rest, a new four-track EP, on October 13. Last month, they unveiled an animated video

Rashid Johnson was a blue-chip artist whose work offered a radically fresh portrayal of Black cultural identity. Then he got sober, found God, and began to transform the art world from the inside. By Antwaun Sargent Photography by Samuel Trotter October 3, 2023 Johnson in his Brooklyn studio, lying across his 2010 work How Ya

Forest Swords has dropped ‘Munitions’, the latest offering from his forthcoming LP Bolted. It follows earlier cuts ‘Butterfly Effect’, ‘Tar’, ‘The Low’, and ‘Caged’. Listen to it below. “’Munitions’ was one of the first tracks I wrote for this album and sits at the beginning of the tracklisting,” Matthew Barnes explained in a press release.

body / negative – the solo project of multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Andy Schiaffino – has announced a new album, Everett. Following 2019’s Epoche and 2020’s Fragments, the LP is set to arrive on December 8 via Track Number Records. Listen to the lead single ‘persimmon’ below. Midwife’s Madeline Johnston co-produced several tracks on the new

What started as a tale of kids wanting to get away from their home, ultimately became a show about what home means. By Esther Zuckerman September 29, 2023 Devery Jacobs, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Lane Factor and Paulina Alexis in the emotional series finale of Reservation Dogs.Courtesy of Shane Brown for FX. Reservation Dogs, the landmark FX

The father-daughter duo of Ethan and Maya Hawke have shared a cover of Willie Nelson’s ‘We Don’t Run’. It will appear on a new compilation celebrating the archival label Light in the Attic, Light in the Attic & Friends, to be released exclusively for Record Store Day’s Black Friday event on November 24. The track

It isn’t always as simple as ABC to move to a new house. Suppose you are interested in a long distance moving to San Francisco, CA, what are you going to do? With the help of expert tactics and suggestions from the A2B Moving & Storage company, you will be able to speed up this

Slow Pulp is the Chicago-via-Madison quartet made up of vocalist Emily Massey, guitarist/producer Henry Stoehr, bassist Alexander Leeds, and drummer Theodore Mathew. The band’s roots date back to elementary school; Leeds, Mathews, and Stoehr had been playing in bands together since the sixth grade before Massey was invited to join their new project, contributing guitar

Tec talks being more vulnerable in his raps, working with Kodak Black and his lingering hoop dreams. By Jayson Buford September 29, 2023 Lil Tecca.Courtesy of Shot By Cones It’s been four years since Lil Tecca exploded on the scene with his smash hit “Ransom,” all gawky and unassuming, looking every bit the 16 year-old

For decades, casinos have held a unique allure. They conjure images of glamorous nights, high stakes, and a mesmerising blend of risk and reward.  Australia, with its booming entertainment sector, hasn’t been immune to this enchantment. With the digital age’s inception and the rise of Bitcoin, this once traditionally luxe world has gotten a modern

New York fashion label HELLESSY has joined forces with French Bloom, a Paris-based alcohol-free sparkling wine innovator. The goal is to launch an exclusive capsule collection in support of Cancer Cartel on the occasion of Octobre Rose. The partnership represents a powerful union of creativity and compassion, as both brands work together to raise awareness

The Hulu film is another reminder that some of the freshest horror films aren’t in theaters. By Keith Phipps September 29, 2023 Kaitlyn Dever’s new Hulu film No One Will Save You has the film community buzzing this past week.Courtesy of Hulu via Everett Collection The conversation around No One Will Save You began almost

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, now in its 30th year, announced its 2023 award winners, who will receive prizes worth £27,000. In the open call for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023, over 3,000 submissions from 1,450 applicants from 40 countries were received. 123 drawings by 111 practitioners were selected for inclusion in

Paring down a great batch of songs can be just as challenging as making them. For Animal Collective, it’s an opportunity to reshape what other bands would consider afterthoughts into a compelling and distinct project. In the summer of 2019, the band rented a cabin in rural Tennessee and made enough material for two albums,

Legendary photographer Anne Geddes has had a lasting effect on the photographic industry when it comes to capturing the innocence and splendor of babies. Geddes, an innovator in her field, has reinvented what it means to take beautiful pictures of newborns with her distinctive and cutting-edge approach. Anne Geddes, an Australian entrepreneur, fashion designer, and

Duane “Keefe D” Davis has been giving interviews about his connection to the shooting for years. By Grant Rindner September 29, 2023 Tupac Shakur poses for a portrait at Club Amazon on July 23, 1993 in New York, New York.Courtesy of Al Pereira via Getty Images According to the Associated Press, a man who witnessed

The International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid in honor of Cocteau Twins lead singer Elizabeth Fraser. The band’s label, 4AD, shared the news on social media that, “after 10 years of research, the International Astronomical Union have named the asteroid 2013 TF19, ‘Fraser,’ after Elizabeth Fraser.” The “Fraser” asteroid was first discovered on August

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on September 29, 2023: Animal Collective, Isn’t It Now? Animal Collective are back with a new album, Isn’t It Now?, out now on Domino. The follow-up to 2022’s Time Skiffs includes the previously released tracks ‘Defeat’, ‘Soul Capturer’,

Watch the trailer for the Barry Jenkins-produced, Issa Lopez-directed True Detective: Night Country which will be an arctic murder-mystery set in small-town Alaska. By Vince Mancini September 28, 2023 Jodie Foster and Kali Reiss star in True Detective season 4.Courtesy of Michele K. Short for HBO. It’s been nine years since the first season of

The Rolling Stones have released their new song ‘Sweet Sounds of Heaven’, which features Lady Gaga and Stevie Wonder. Gaga sings and Wonder plays keys and piano on the track, which will appear on their upcoming album Hackney Diamonds alongside the previously released ‘Angry’. Check it out below. In an interview with Zane Lowe on

Another Michael started out as the solo project of singer-songwriter Michael Doherty, who recorded 2016’s Sans EP on his own before bringing in multi-instrumentalists Nick Sebastiano and Alenni Davis. Rounded out by drummer Noah Dardaris and longtime engineer Scoops Dardaris, the band released its warm, enchanting debut LP, New Music and Big Pop, in early 2021. As

The kids on the endearing FX dramedy aren’t shoppers by nature, but the youngest of the group incidentally has a closet full of shirts people would pay three figures for. By Esther Zuckerman September 27, 2023 On Reservation Dogs, Cheese casually has a t-shirt collection to die for. Pictured: Paulina Alexis, Devery Jacobs, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai,

San Francisco punks Spiritual Cramp have dropped their latest single, ‘Herberts on Holiday’, which is lifted from their self-titled debut LP.  Frontman Michael Bingham wrote the track, which follows ‘Talkin’ on the Internet’, as an ode to his wife Barb. Check out a homemade video for it below. Speaking about the song in a press