Who could’ve predicted that a Chicago-based instrumental band that released two albums in 1998 and 2001 before dropping out of sight would release their third album in 2026? It’s been an insane 12 months, so nothing seems surprising these days. Pullman feature members of Tortoise, Come, Gastr Del Sol, and Eleventh Dream Day (among others)

“Excuse me,” says Captain Kirk in 1989’s Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, directed by and starring William Shatner, “Excuse me, I just want to ask a question.” He says this not as a seasoned captain of a spaceship, but as if he were no more than a curious student, “What does God need with

Mailin María Silvia Esteve Party Film 12 March 2026 | One World María Silvia Esteve’s documentary Mailin is less interested in recounting trauma than in showing how it settles into ordinary life. The film follows Mailin Gobbo, an Argentinian woman seeking justice years after being sexually abused by a priest who once occupied a trusted

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For Footballhead’s Weight of the Truth, a “post-grunge revival” is hard to claim. There have consistently been new bands popping up that play the style, while Nickelback and Three Days Grace have never stopped being discussed. Perhaps “post-grunge reassessment” is a better wording. What in the 2000s was viewed as a gravel-throated cyst on the

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Country Super Hits Volume 2 Jim Lauderdale Independent 5 December 2025 The last time I saw Jim Lauderdale, it was at a morning show at a bar in Nashville, where he was teaching the audience Tai Chi. He had a big smile on his face during his instructions, as he explained how Tai Chi helps

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Producer/collaborator Justin Raisen has unlocked another level of Kim Gordon’s eternal (no Sonic Youth pun intended) coolness on the three solo albums they have created together. The indie icon’s last album, The Collective, was a triumph, blending her inimitable voice and provocative, humorous commentary with trunk-rattling trap beats and blasts of abrasive noise. Play Me

Had Styles P not hurled a chair at Sean “Puffy” Combs, there’s no telling how the LOX would’ve settled their contractual dispute. However, this was the summer of 1999, and the Yonkers trio—composed of Jadakiss, Styles P, and Sheek Louch—had exhausted almost every resource at their disposal to get out of Bad Boy Entertainment, the

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We live in the age of frictionless capitalism, and finally, we have a pop star to match. In a world where political leadership often feels chaotic, clumsy, or distressingly analog, Dua Lipa offers an alternative. She does not just perform songs; she executes a glitch-free protocol of joy that mirrors the fantasies of modern technopopulism.

Like many latter-day Talk Talk fans, I embarked on my journey searching for the Spirit of Eden, but while rummaging through the record racks, my eyes were drawn to The Colour of Spring, and I was intrigued to make it my first port of call. The album has a cover design depicting an entomological cabinet