Jeremy Allen White, who leads the popular FX and Hulu series The Bear, returned to social media on Thursday for the first time in four months to drop two bombshells: a Season Three teaser trailer showing his character Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto back in the kitchen, and the long-awaited release date …
Read More »Stormy Daniels Defends Herself — and Clarifies 'Orange Turd' Post — in Tense Cross-Examination
Donald Trump’s hush money trial once again veered into uncharted waters on Thursday, this time in the form of a debate over who’s an “orange turd.” The answer, according to Stormy Daniels is Trump, which may partially explain why at the end of the day Trump’s team requested Judge Juan …
Read More »'Gasoline Rainbow' Is a Postcard From Teenage Wasteland, USA
Think back to your teenage years, and a few incidents, days, dates, etc., spring immediately to mind. Most of what comes flooding back probably are the sensations that colored that time of your life — the feelings you had while pissing away whole afternoons with friends, not knowing what late …
Read More »Washed Out Made an AI Music Video. The Backlash Was Swift
When Washed Out frontman Ernest Greene agreed to collaborate with filmmaker Paul Trillo on the world’s first music video to be made entirely using OpenAI‘s video-generation tool Sora, he didn’t quite know what he was getting himself into. “To me, this is just a brand-new tool to explore,” Greene tells …
Read More »Kings of Leon Ease Into a New Beginning on 'Can We Please Have Fun'
A few songs into Kings of Leon’s new album, frontman Caleb Followill asks something uncomfortable: “Are we still having fun?” The answer: yes, but maybe in a way you wouldn’t expect. Over two decades after the Tennessee rockers released their excellent debut Youth & Young Manhood, Kings of Leons’ ninth …
Read More »Lainey Wilson Readies New Album 'Whirlwind'
It’s a full-court press for Lainey Wilson this week: She shared the news of her branded Nashville bar, dropped the trailer for an upcoming Hulu documentary, and appeared on the cover of Billboard. For the capper, Wilson announced the title and release date for her new album — Whirlwind, the …
Read More »Meet the Voice Behind Randy Travis's New Song
James Dupré was just as surprised as everyone when he heard Randy Travis’s AI-assisted vocal on “Where That Came From” for the first time a few weeks ago, but not just because it was the country legend’s first new song since suffering a 2013 stroke that robbed him of his …
Read More »'Hades II' Is One of the Year's Best Games — and It's Not Even Finished
THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for ‘Hades’ and ‘Hades II.’ Over the last few weeks, the gaming community has been in a frenzy about Hades II. As the game trends across social media, setting Tumblr and Reddit alight with fan art and endless theorization, the conversation has become, “Should you play …
Read More »Animal Collective Prep New Live Album for 'Sung Tongs' 20th Anniversary Reissue
Animal Collective will release a new live album as part of a special 20th anniversary reissue of their 2004 LP, Sung Tongs, out Oct. 4 via Domino. Sung Tongs Live at the Theatre at Ace Hotel captures a 2018 concert in Los Angeles, during which Animal Collective’s Avey Tare and …
Read More »The Unstoppable Noise That Was Steve Albini
If all Steve Albini ever did with music was complain about it, he still would have reigned as one of its most brilliant provocateurs. But Albini came to make noise — as a punk guitarist, as a producer, as a writer —with rock’s most notoriously savage sense of humor. “I …
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