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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

Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, John Turturro and Britt Lower star in Severance—but it might be a while before we see them return in season 2. Defiant Jazz’, (Season 1, ep. 107, aired March 25, 2022). photo: Atsushi Nishijima /©Apple TV+ / Courtesy Everett CollectionCourtesy of Atsushi Nishijima for Apple TV via Everett Collection There’s still

Harrison Ford returns as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones in the Dial of Destiny, which just got the rare Steven Spielberg stamp of approval.Courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures via Everett Collection  “I thought I was the only one who knew how to make one of these.” By Grant Rindner April 28, 2023 As

Beach House have digitally released their new Record Store Day EP, Become, with a physical release to follow on May 19 via Sub Pop. The 5-track collection was produced by Beach House, with mixing by Alan Moulder, Trevor Spencer, and Caesar Edmunds. It was mastered by Greg Calbi and Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound. Stream

Photographs: Getty Images, Netflix; Collage: Gabe Conte Mazino was the Netflix series’s breakout star as Yeun’s endearing little brother. By Evan Ross Katz April 28, 2023 Moments after they’d wrapped their final scene together on the set of Netflix’s Beef, Ali Wong took Young Mazino’s hands and looked him dead in the eyes. “You can have

The Knife’s Olof Dreijer has announced a new collaborative album with Mt. Sims titled Souvenir, a collection of five steel drum tracks. It’s set for release on June 9 via Rabid, and its first single, ‘Hybrid Fruit’, is out today. Check it out and find the album’s cover artwork and tracklist below. Souvenir began after

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on April 28, 2023: The National, First Two Pages of Frankenstein The National have returned with their ninth studio album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, via 4AD. The follow-up to 2019’s I Am Easy to Find was previewed by

Is there something you like doing more than anything else? This pastime or hobby could be anything, such as reading, watching movies, doing crafts, sports, recording a podcast, geocaching… the list is endless. Everyone likes different things, and it’s highly likely that there will be at least one activity you would choose to do over

Illustration by Michael Houtz; photographs by Getty Images Henry Rollins created the archetype of the extremely jacked hardcore frontman, and new-school bands like Turnstile are pumping iron to follow suit. By Luke Ottenhof April 27, 2023 Brendan Yates and Daniel Fang of the hardcore band Turnstile had crossed paths at shows growing up in Maryland’s

Kassa Overall has shared a new single, ‘The Lava Is Calm’, which features trumpeter Theo Croker. It’s taken from Overall’s forthcoming album ANIMALS, which has so far been previewed with the tracks ‘Ready to Ball’ and ‘Make My Way Back Home’. Listen to ‘The Lava Is Calm’ below. “I was thinking about lava because it

Foyer Red have shared another single from their upcoming debut LP, Yarn the Hours Away. ‘Pocket’, which follows early cuts ‘Etc’, ‘Plumbers Unite!’, and ‘Gorgeous’, arrives with an accompanying video directed by Dewey Pileggi. Check it out below. “This song was by all means a wild card for the album,” singer Elana Riordan explained in

The Australian four-piece Girl and Girl have announced their signing to Sub Pop with a new single called ‘All I See’. The track comes paired with a music video co-directed by Tayla Lauren and Joel Tronoff. Check it out below. “Lyrics came last for ‘All I See,’ about 3 years after the track, and when

How did chef and former punk drummer Brooks Headley turn his all-vegetarian vision for a rock and roll diner into the season’s hottest new restaurant? By Brett Martin Photography by Jeremy Liebman April 26, 2023 GQ Hype: It’s the big story of right now. The mob has reached the vestibule. It’s 5 pm on a Thursday

Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Gia Margaret has announced a new album called Romantic Piano. The follow-up to her 2020 self-titled LP will arrive on May 26 via the musician’s new label home, Jagjaguwar. Lead single ‘Hinoki Wood’ is accompanied by a stop motion video that features clay animation by Gaia Alari. Check it out and find the

Deer Tick have announced a new album titled Emotional Contracts. The Dave Fridmann-produced LP is set for release on June 16 via the band’s new label home, ATO Records. Check out the new songs ‘Forgiving Ties’ and ‘The Real Thing’ below, and scroll down for the album’s cover art and tracklist. “Each track is like

JOHN – the duo of drummer/lead singer John Newton and guitarist/backing vocalist Johnny Healey – have shared a new single, ‘Trauma Mosaic’. The track was recorded by Tom Hill at The Bookhouse in South London. Check out a video for it below, along with the band’s upcoming tour dates. “We like to think the back

Photographs: Getty Images; Collage: Gabe Conte  Frontman Matt Berninger caught up with GQ about overcoming depression, collaborating with Taylor Swift, and his band’s new album. By Colin Groundwater April 25, 2023 For a year, Matt Berninger couldn’t write. A month became two months, two months became six, and the anxiety about not writing compounded so

Wye Oak – the duo of Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack – have announced Every Day Like the Last, a collection of new songs and previously unreleased tracks. It’s set for release on June 23 via Merge, and its title track is out today. Check it out below, along with the album cover and tracklist.

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When you’re running low on inspiration, the mind tends to walk around in circles. You go back to things you’ve loved and try to reconnect with them – see what new feelings and ideas they stir up, or just slip back into a familiar pattern. You might put on a favorite record or rewatch a

Succession season 4, episode 5. Featuring saunas, molly, and Lukas Matsson mailing his own blood. By Gabriella Paiella April 23, 2023 Spoilers for Succession ahead. Wherever you go, there you are.  And wherever the Roys go—whether it be Hungary or Scotland, the English countryside or the Tuscan countryside—there they very much are. The destination episodes have

The Clientele have announced their next album: I Am Not There Anymore arrives July 28 on Merge. The follow-up to 2017’s Music for the Age of Miracles is led by the new single ‘Blue Over Blue’. Check out its accompanying video, as well as the LP’s cover art and tracklist, below. “We’d always been interested

I saw Kazuya Konaka’s Single8 on a recent trip to Japan and, upon leaving the theatre, professed my hope that it’d be discovered by international audiences—namely those interested in movies about moviemaking. Following the dismal distribution of Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans some months ago, there might be a suspicion within me that films about young people with cameras face

Alyssa Sutherland in Evil Dead Rise.Courtesy of Warner Bros via Everett Collection Evil Dead Rise is the latest film in a series stretching back four decades. Here’s how all the different sequels, spin-offs and tv-shows connect—or don’t—to each other. By Keith Phipps April 21, 2023 When director Sam Raimi, star Bruce Campbell, and producer Robert

Mark Stewart, co-founder and vocalist of the influential UK post-punk band the Pop Group, has died. His longtime label, Mute Records, confirmed the news in a statement, writing, “In honour of this original, fearless, sensitive, artistic and funny man, think for yourself and question everything. The world was changed because of Mark Stewart, it will

Hurray for the Riff Raff has released a deluxe version of last year’s Life on Earth. It includes two new songs called ‘Resistance Rockers’ and ‘Let Her in the Sky’, which were made during the sessions for the album, and the former also comes with a music video created by Kelly Gallagher. Check it out

Jeremy Strong and Sarah Snook in Succession season 4, which may be taking place over a very short time period.Courtesy of Macall B Polay for HBO. So far, each episode of season four has been one sequential day. April 21, 2023 The stakes are higher than ever in this, the fourth and final season of Succession (see: