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Spoilers for the second season of The Boys follow. The seventh episode of The Boys’ second season begins with a white man submerged in propaganda. Every screen he comes near has something to shout in his direction. He hears about a plot by sinister illegal immigrants to invade America and reveal themselves as homicidal superterrorists.

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Zooni are a Brighton-based art-rock outfit comprised of Peter Martin, George Godwin, Matt Glasbey, and Ben Clark. Emerging with a series of delicately gorgeous singles last year leading up to the release of their debut self-tited EP, the quartet have developed a close partnership with producer Charlie Andrew, best known for his Mercury-winning work with

Undergirding all this messaging by Trump and his acolytes is a small army of lawyers, state party officials, and elected leaders who are doing their darndest to make it harder for people to vote. Because many states and localities have sensibly expanded vote-by-mail options during the pandemic, the backlash to those measures by party operatives

On Chesil Beach is the 2017 adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 2007 novel of the same name. Saoirse Ronan – who also starred in the adaptation of McEwan’s Atonement – has the leading role of Florence Ponting, a budding violinist. She has just been married to Edward Mayhew (Billy Howle), who is from a family of considerably lower social

Former Vampire Weekend member Rostam Batmanglij, who records under the mononym Rostam, has shared a new song called ‘Unfold You’. The single is attached to a self-directed music video featuring actress Hari Nef. Check it out below. Rostam came up with the idea for ‘Unfold You’ after playing a show with Nick Hakim in Paris. “This

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“The only thing that is planned is the set list,” Gracie Abrams tells me about her first ever tour, which has virtually visited cities from Berlin to Sydney so far, and is set to travel back to Europe in May. Abrams is speaking to me over Zoom from her Los Angeles bedroom, and I can

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Squirrel Flower, the moniker of singer-songwriter Ella Williams, has released a cover of Liz Phair’s ‘Explain It To Me’, as well as a new version of her song ‘Chicago’. Listen to both tracks below. “‘Explain It To Me’ has been one of my favourite songs since I first heard it when I was 14,” Williams

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Seven months ago, if you told me I would be bumming a cigarette from Sean Penn in a parking lot repurposed from Dodger Stadium for emergency use during a viral pandemic, the two of us surrounded by hundreds of cars full of nervous people afraid their bodies harbored an invisible predator that had attacked over

If you are thinking about starting a photography business, then there are some things you’ve got to plan out before you can get stuck in. The best way to start a successful company is to make sure that you have got a solid basis to start before you try to put anything in motion. Without

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

Just a couple of months after its debut, Teenage Bounty Hunters became the latest Netflix original series to be cancelled after a single season. News of the show’s swift end might have been somewhat overshadowed by the announcement that fellow Jenji Kohan series GLOW would not proceed with Season 4 at Netflix, but it also

There was no way Wednesday’s Vice-Presidential Debate could outshine the top-flight disorder and sloppiness of the marquee match. Donald Trump and Joe Biden limped through twelve histrionic rounds replete with sound and fury signifying something, but their respective sidekicks, Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris, are made of different raw materials. They are

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Elton John has unveiled a previously unreleased song called ‘Regimental Sgt. Zippo’. It’s taken from his upcoming rarities collection Elton: Jewel Box, which also includes last month’s ‘Sing Me No Sad Songs’. Check it out below. Notably, ‘Regimental Sgt. Zippo’ was recorded at the same DJM Studios building that housed the Beatles’ Northern Songs publishing company. “Within

The Flaming Lips are planning a concert in their hometown of Oklahoma City where each audience member will be enclosed in a giant bubble, frontman Wayne Coyne has told Brooklyn Vegan and JamBase. “I mean, it seems absurd, but we at first were just doing it as not a joke, but just as a kind of funny

In the media it’s the same thing: I don’t think we are necessarily objectified or sexualized. It’s always quite the opposite. Ravi was an example of that. I booked the very thing I didn’t want: the asexual nerd, who at one point was testing condoms for the white lead and her straight, white boyfriend so

Raelle Sundown Raelle, a 21-year-old singer-songwriter out of London, just yesterday released her euphonious single ‘Sundown’, making it the third release by the exciting artist. In this ear-pleasing piece, Raelle displays her mellifluous with a playlist-ready production. If you’re looking for something refreshing, ‘Sundown’ is the one for you. The Manatees Know You Southampton-based The

East London born and bred, Rose Gray emulates a gloriously colourful amalgamation of musical influences. From the obvious Primal Scream and Happy Mondays references to the more eclectic sounds of Nitin Sawhney, Rose Gray’s distinctive musical stylings speak to her equally animated surroundings. Having grown up on 90’s indie, dance and alternative classics, it’s no

As the leader of Icelandic post-rock giants Sigur Rós, Jónsi Birgisson is known for crafting textured, subtly expansive arrangements that operate in the ethereal realm and reach something almost elemental. His collaborative projects with Alex Somers, from 2009’s All Animals to Lost and Found a decade later, veer closer towards a soothing but persistent kind

Amazon’s The Boys just concluded a wild second season of exploding heads, Neo-Nazism, Trump administration satire and political allegory. It’s been eight episodes of deceptively sharp social commentary couched in a B-movie, seedy superhero universe that imagines what our world would look like if heroes existed amongst us. The answer: they’d be products of corporate

A comparison of I Married a Monster from Outer Space and The Brain from Planet Arous.  Content warning: this essay discusses sensitive topics, including sexual assault. In 1958, two genre pictures were released with remarkably outlandish titles: Nathan H. Juran’s The Brain from Planet Arous and Gene Fowler jr’s I Married a Monster from Outer Space. From the brilliant image of a

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There are so many ways to work on your personal fashion and style. But if you are keen to try and appear cool and relaxed, there are many things you can consider to make this a little easier. As it happens, it is always possible to do this, and as long as you are happy

Trump and Stalin have so many similarities, particularly in matters of media manipulation, but what’s amazing about it is that if someone told Trump, “you’re like Stalin,” his response might be, “Who’s that?” “I get along well with Stalin, the leader of Russia. I have no problem with the leader of Russia. I hear he