“I don’t like my mind/I don’t like being left alone in a room,” Mitski sings on her seventh album, her voice honeyed and rich despite her distress. “Please don’t take … this job from me.” We could read this as your average American workaholic, consumed by the grind. But it’s …
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“Politics and Potatoes” would have been a better name for the cooking show at the center of the Apple TV+ limited series Lessons in Chemistry. Set in the early 1950s, the eight-episode series stars Brie Larson as Elizabeth Zott, a chemist who ends up cooking in front of the nation …
Read More »Wilco Kick Off a Busy Autumn by Unveiling 'Cousin' Title Track
Two weeks before Wilco drop their latest album, Cousin, the band has unveiled the title track from their upcoming studio LP. “I’m cousin to the world,” Jeff Tweedy said of the track in a statement. “I don’t feel like I’m a blood relation, but maybe I’m a cousin by marriage. …
Read More »How the Rolling Stones Finally Got It Together and Made a Great New Album
Last year, Mick Jagger started feeling restless. Seventeen years had passed since the Rolling Stones had released an album of original material, and though they’d toured regularly — and made the difficult choice to soldier on after the devastating 2021 death of drummer Charlie Watts — the on-and-off sessions they’d …
Read More »Watch Bad Bunny and Gael García Bernal Get Steamy in 'Cassandro'
One of the more wonderful surprises out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Cassandro, director Roger Ross Williams’ tender and poignant portrait of Saúl Armendáriz (Gael García Bernal), a gay lucha libre wrestler from El Paso (who spent much of his youth across the border in Juárez) who rose …
Read More »Neo-Nazis Gloat as Florida Becomes a Magnet for Hate
Neo-Nazis have been ecstatic in the wake of their headline-grabbing action outside Orlando earlier this month. White nationalists with handles like “Dietrich,” “Red Pill,” and “Scotty Big Balls” greeted each other with shouts of “Hail victory!” on a Sept. 10 Telegram livestream. Echoing the sentiments of many participants, “Combat Carl” …
Read More »DeSantis Lived Large on Undisclosed Private Flights and Lavish Trips: Report
Self-styled “blue-collar” Florida governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis spent late 2018 living large on gifts from his wealthiest donors — without disclosing them to ethics regulators. According to a report from The Washington Post, in the months between his election and inauguration as governor, DeSantis took at least six …
Read More »The Taylor Swift and 'Gone Girl'-Inspired Series About Female Revenge
It’s no accident that Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” plays over the opening credits of Prime Video’s new limited series Wilderness. The song, which appears in its rerecorded version, came at the suggestion of writer-producer Marnie Dickens, who felt that the vengeful lyrics mirrored the show’s storyline …
Read More »Sheryl Lee Ralph Evokes Rihanna in Impassioned Speech to Striking Actors
Sheryl Lee Ralph delivered an impassioned speech that evoked Rihanna during a rally for striking writers and actors Wednesday in Los Angeles. “You know why we’re here. You know what we deserve. And in the words of one of our SAG members, ‘Pay us what you owe us. Don’t act …
Read More »'NSync Reunite for 'Better Place' in 'Trolls Band Together' Animated Trailer
After a brief onstage reunion at the MTA VMAs earlier this week, ‘NSync have announced they will release a brand new song, “Better Place.” Fan can hear a snippet of the track, out Sept. 29, in the trailer for animated sequel Trolls Band Together. The film, in theaters Nov. 17, …
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