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Evan Rachel Wood has addressed Marilyn Manson’s lawsuit against her for the first time yesterday on The View, where she was promoting her upcoming HBO documentary series Rising Phoenix. “I can’t obviously speak about any of the specific allegations of the lawsuit, but I’m not scared,” she said. “I am sad, because this is how

Nyokabi Kariũki is a Kenyan sound artist, composer, and performer based between Maryland, New York, and Nairobi. A classically trained pianist, her interest in music grew from an early age – on the song ‘home piano’, Kariũki records herself improvising on the piano she’s had since she was 8. It appears on her recent EP

From king of Staten Island to king of the cosmos. By Grant Rindner March 14, 2022 Pete Davidson during Saturday Night Live’s “Chad on Mars” sketch on Saturday, May 8, 2021.Courtesy of Rosalind O’Connor/NBC via Getty Images. Pete Davidson must have really nailed his role as an astronaut in SNL’s “Chad on Mars” SNL skit

Let’s bet on the IPL in India – why is it so popular? India is a country in which any gambling activity is prohibited at the legislative level. The state banned casinos and bookmakers in the middle of the 19th century by the gambling law. Since that moment, the situation has not changed. However, it

Thom Yorke has released a new solo track titled ‘5.17’. On Apple Music, another Yorke single called ‘That’s How Horses Are’ has a release date of April 2. Both songs were written for the British TV show Peaky Blinders. Listen to ‘5.17’ below. Last month, it was reported that Yorke and Jonny Greenwood contributed new music for

Game Theory, the longtime sports host’s new HBO late night show, is the culmination of a career built on his own terms. By Tyler R. Tynes March 11, 2022 Bomani Jones, in his office. Courtesy of HBO Bomani Jones will admit that, in his previous job as a commentator across ESPN’s various platforms, he sometimes just

Nilüfer Yanya performed her PAINLESS single ‘midnight sun’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (March 11), wearing the pair of giant pink angel wings from the song’s video. Watch the performance below. PAINLESS, Yanya’s sophomore LP following 2019’s Miss Universe, arrived earlier this month. The London songwriter is currently on a European

Gaming is a fascinating world and one that you might want to explore in a little more depth. Perhaps you love playing games in your spare time or maybe you grew up with games when you were a kid? There are lots of millennials who passed from one games console to the next before eventually

The movie subscription service is slated to come back this summer. By Grant Rindner March 11, 2022 Illustration by GQ MoviePass, in its original form, was simply too pure for this world. But the oft-missed—my last roommate had his MoviePass card framed with votive candles—subscription service is attempting a relaunch, and CEO Stacy Spikes dove

Now, Now are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their breakout sophomore album Threads with a limited deluxe edition that features new B-sides and demos. Out now digitally via Chris Walla’s Trans- Records, with pre-orders for cassette and vinyl starting in May, the reissue includes the previously unreleased tracks ‘Comfortable’ and ‘Shifting’ as well as seven

Phoebe Bridgers has released an acoustic version of her Punisher highlight ‘Chinese Satellite’ as part of Secretly Canadian’s 25th anniversary singles series SC25. Bridgers recorded the new rendition in Los Angeles at Sound City Studios, and you can listen to it below. Secretly Canadian’s SC25 Singles series aims to raise $250,000 for the homeless charity

Chelsea Wolfe has shared a cover of Arthur Field’s ‘Oui Oui Marie’ as part of the soundtrack to the upcoming A24 horror film X. Wolfe and Tyler Bates composed the score for the film, which is directed by Ti West and stars Kid Cudi, Mia Goth, Jenny Ortega, and Brittany Snow. Check out Wolfe’s take on

The first trailer for the Star Wars limited series offers a lot of reasons to get excited. By William Goodman March 9, 2022 Ewan McGregor in Obi-Wan Kenobi.Courtesy of Disney. Long before Disney snapped up Lucasfilm, Star Wars fans obsessed over the potential of an Obi-Wan Kenobi series. The extensive time gap between the character’s

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on March 11, 2022:  Jenny Hval, Classic Objects Jenny Hval has released Classic Objects, her first album for 4AD. The follow-up to 2019’s The Practice of Love was preceded by the singles ‘Jupiter’, ‘Year of Love’, and ‘Freedom’. Elaborating on the process

Maia Friedman was already an experienced songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist before embarking on a solo career. Growing up in the Sierra National Forest region of central California with a film editor father and Jungian psychoanalyst mother, Friedman started playing music at an early age and went on to perform in groups like Bobby, Toebow, and

The Black Keys have announced they have a new album on the way. Dropout Boogie will be released on May 13 via Nonesuch, almost a year after Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney put out their last LP, Delta Kream. The new record features contributions from ZZ Top’s Billy F. Gibbons, Reigning Sound and Oblivians’ Greg

Styles’ film My Policeman drops later this year. By Jack King March 9, 2022 Harry Styles on the film set for My Policeman on May 14, 2021 in Brighton, England.Courtesy of Karwai Tang/WireImage/Getty Images. We’ve only seen Harry Styles in front of the camera twice so far: first, as part of the ensemble in Christopher

Everything Everything have shared ‘Teletype’, the latest single from their forthcoming album Raw Data Feel. Following lead track ‘Bad Friday’, ‘Teleype’ arrives with an accompanying visual created by frontman Jonathan Higgs. Watch and listen below. “This song began in a very experimental way, with Alex and Jon sampling voice and guitar then putting it through

More than once on her new album as the Weather Station, Tamara Lindeman lifts the creative curtain. Her songwriting has long been grounded in vulnerability, but the openness and intimacy of How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars almost has a way of demystifying the process that led to its predecessor, 2021’s

Companion – the duo of identical twin sisters Sophia and Jo Babb – have announced their debut LP. It’s titled Second Day of Spring, and it’s set for release on May 27. Along with the previously released ‘How Could I Have Known’, the album includes a new single called ’23rd Street’. Check it out below.

British R&B singer Rex Orange County has teamed up with Tyler, the Creator for a new song called ‘Open a Window’. It marks the first time the two artists have collaborated since Rex Orange County guested on Tyler, the Creator’s 2017 record Flower Boy. Listen to it below. ‘Open a Window’ is taken from Rex

Destroyer has released ‘June’, the latest advance single from his upcoming album LABYRINTHITIS. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by David Galloway and Destroyer’s Dan Bejar, which follows a burrito on its journey to Bejar’s doorstep. Watch and listen below. “Is it spring where you are? I think June is technically summer, but

For English actor Jonathan Bailey, becoming a leading man seemed like a long shot. Until he fell into the role of a lifetime as a charming womanizer on a little show called Bridgerton. By Douglas Greenwood March 9, 2022 Jacket, $3,450, and pants, $1,090, by Louis Vuitton Men’s. Sweater, $860, by Dsquared2. Belt, $1,000, by

Zoe Kravitz is the latest in a small but illustrious group of Black actresses who’ve played the iconic DC antihero. By Miles Marshall Lewis March 7, 2022 Photographs courtesy Everett Collection, Getty Images; Collage by Gabe Conte With its 83-year history, the mythos of Batman contains multitudes. The dark knight detective of director Matt Reeves’s

Caution – the two-piece comprised of Nora Button and Cash Langdon – have announced their debut album. Following their self-titled 2021 EP, Arcola will be released on April 29 via Born Yesterday Records. Check out its first single, ‘Fuck It Up’, below. Although Caution originally formed in Washington, D.C., Button and Langdon have since relocated

When you’re feeling lost, most music is pretty good at taking you someplace else; not much of it can shine a light on exactly where you’re at. Nilüfer Yanya’s sophomore album, PAINLESS, homes in on feelings of numbness and alienation that tend to take up a whole lot of mental space, growing and mutating as

The Prodigy have announced a tour of England, marking their first run of shows since Keith Flint’s death in March 2019. The tour kicks off in Sheffield on July 8 and wraps with three shows at London’s O2 Academy Brixton later in the month. Tickets go on general sale this Friday, March 11. Check out