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Tomato Flower is the Baltimore-based experimental pop outfit composed of Austyn Wohlers, Jamison Murphy, Mike Alfieri, and Ruby Mars. Although they each share different musical interests, their collaboration prioritizes the sort of artistic synthesis that’s hard to resist, a blend of free-flowing experimentation and pop hookiness that often takes years to master. With just one
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Sam Ray has shared another single from his forthcoming Teen Suicide album, honeybee table at the butterfly feast. ‘death wish’ follows the previously unveiled songs ‘coyote (2015-2021)’ and ‘get high, breathe underwater (#3)’. Check it out below. “This new song ‘death wish’ was one of the first tracks recorded for the record, back in 2019,”
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The Invisible Man himself is now in yet another psychological thriller, AppleTV+’s Surface. By Tara Ariano August 1, 2022 Oliver Jackson-Cohen in Surface.Courtesy of Ed Araquel for AppleTV+. In his Netflix series The Haunting Of Hill House, writer-director Mike Flanagan tells the story of Olivia and Hugh Crain moving their five children into what turns
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The Place Beyond the Pines is a 2012 thriller movie with an intertwined set of narratives. Co-written by Ben Coccio and director Derek Cianfrance, the story begins with Luke (Ryan Gosling), a motorcycle stunt driver who learns that his ex-partner Romina (Eva Mendes) has given birth to their son. Romina is now seeing someone else,
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The recent premiere of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic marks another addition to the recent onslaught of films and series based on true stories, especially about musicians. Pistol, the FX miniseries about English punk rock band the Sex Pistols, is another new release in this genre, joining the likes of Netflix’s Selena, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and recent films Judy, Rocketman,
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Cult Hero is the new feature from prolific Canadian filmmaker Jesse Thomas Cook, the director of no less than seven low-budget horror pictures (most notably Monster Brawl, which premiered at Fantasia in 2011). Cook’s latest – an over-the-top horror-comedy that tells the tale of a washed-up celebrity ‘cult buster’ desperate to restore his reputation –
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Raymond Raposa, the singer-songwriter behind the Castanets, has died at the age of 41. Asthmatic Kitty, Raposa’s longtime label, confirmed the news on Twitter earlier today via a statement provided by the artist’s family. “It is with great sorrow that the family of Raymond Raposa announce his passing today,” it reads. “Raymond was a wonderful
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Florist’s music always seems to thrive in liminal spaces. In ways both mesmerizing and demystifying, their songs explore and swing between the mundane and the metaphysical, the profound interconnectedness of nature and the constant blurriness of home, love and death. It’s a project firmly rooted in vulnerability and collaboration, with friendship at its core; but
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Nolan’s opus on the physicist behind the atomic bomb is due next year. By Grant Rindner July 28, 2022 Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer.Courtesy of Universal The first teaser for Christopher Nolan’s next opus, Oppenheimer, is finally here, giving viewers their first glimpse of Cillian Murphy as the titular physicist who was instrumental in the creation
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