The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry, and two films explore that abiding Robert Burns proverb this week: Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s IMAX-sized three-hour biopic of the “father of the atomic bomb,” and Barbie, a Mattel-sanctioned deconstruction of the patriarchy from the fertile mind of Greta Gerwig. Only …

The Nineties are in full swing on the soundtrack to the recent second season of Yellowjackets. Yellowjackets Season 2 Official Soundtrack: Music from The Original Series, set for release Sept. 1, will include tracks from Alanis Morissette, Nirvana, Garbage, Elliott Smith, Veruca Salt, the Cranberries, and Pulp. It also features …

Chris Stapleton will return in November with Higher, the country star’s first album since his award-winning 2020 LP Starting Over. Ahead of Higher’s Nov. 10 release, Stapleton has shared the album’s rocking first single, “White Horse,” co-written by Stapleton and Dan Wilson (of Semisonic fame). The pair previously collaborated on …

Sad news hit this morning that Tony Bennett has died following a long battle with Alzheimer’s. The legendary crooner had one of the longest careers in the history of popular music. His debut LP, Because of You, landed in 1952, and he worked steadily in the studio and on the …

In the new season of the Seventies workplace comedy Minx, Joyce Prigger’s fortunes couldn’t be more on the rise. The titular magazine, which pairs feminist journalism with full frontal male photo spreads, is thriving, turning Joyce into a minor celebrity who hobnobs with Linda Ronstadt, Gloria Steinem, and other icons …

Chris Young released a new single, “Young Love & Saturday Nights,” incorporating the signature guitar lick from David Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel.” The track was co-produced by Young withCorey CrowderandChris DeStefanoand written by Ashley Gorley,Jesse Frasure,andJosh Thompson.Bowie has been credited as an unlikely writer on the song, as well. “When I …

Some of the U.K.’s most storied actors gathered in London today to show their support for the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. The rally, held by the British version of SAG-AFTRA, Equity UK, saw everyone from Brian Cox to Imelda Staunton to Simon Pegg holding protest signs and speaking out in solidarity. …

“A pimp, a ho, and a drug dealer walk into a bar,” says one character in They Cloned Tyrone, writer-director Juel Taylor’s conspiracy thriller/comedy/cautionary tale. It should be noted that the person making this statement is white, racist as hell, and works for a shady branch of the government that …

Ice Spice has added four new songs to a new deluxe edition of her debut EP, Like..?, out today, July 21. Among the four new tracks, “Deli” is maybe the most notable; Ice Spice teased the song earlier this month, and it’s already been making its way around TikTok in …

Tony Bennett, the affable pre-rock standards crooner who came to be newly appreciated and beloved by everyone from the grunge generation to Lady Gaga, died on Friday. He was 96. Bennett’s publicist, Sylvia Weiner, confirmed the singer’s death to Rolling Stone, adding that he died in his hometown of New …