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The 1975 Announce 2022 Tour, Share Video for New Song “Happiness”
Revisit Pitchfork’s interview, “The 1975’s Matty Healy on 9 Things That Inspired New Album Notes on a Conditional Form.” All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The 1975: “At Their Very Best” North America 2022 Tour The 1975: 11-03 Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Arena11-04 Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway11-07 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden11-09 Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion11-10 Washington, D.C. – The Anthem11-12 Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena11-13 Nashville, TN – Nashville Municipal Auditorium11-15 Grand Prairie, TX – Texas Trust CU Theatre11-16 Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall11-17 Austin, TX ...
Watch Rina Sawayama’s New “Hold the Girl” Video
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SoundCloud Announces Layoffs Impacting Nearly 20 Percent of Workforce
SoundCloud has announced that it will be laying off roughly 20 percent of its workforce due to recent changes in the economic and financial landscape, according to reports by Billboard and Variety. “During this difficult time, we are focused on providing the support and resources to those transitioning while reinforcing our commitment to executing our mission to lead what’s next in music,” the company wrote in a statement shared with Variety. CEO Michael Weissman sent an email to SoundCloud employees on Wednesday (August 3) announcing the layoffs, which will impact employees worldwide, as Billboard reports. “Today’s change positions SoundCloud for the long run and puts us on a path to sustained profitability,” Weissman says in the email. “We have already begun to make prudent financial dec...
‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Is First A24 Movie to Earn $100 Million USD Globally
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, which stars Michelle Yeoh, is officially the first A24 film to earn $100 million USD at the global box office. According to reports, the sleeper hit grossed $68.9 million USD in the United States and $31.1 million USD abroad; the top-earning territories are the United Kingdom with $6.2 million USD, Canada with $5.1 million USD, Australia with $4.5 million USD, Russia with $2.4 million USD, Taiwan with $2.3 million USD, Mexico with $2 million USD, Hong Kong with $1.7 million USD, Germany with $1.5 million USD and the Netherlands with $1.1 million USD. Its recent theatrical re-release, which included eight minutes of outtakes and a pre-recorded message from the Daniels, raked in $650,000 USD from 1,490 locations between Fr...
‘Joker’ Sequel With Joaquin Phoenix Sets 2024 Premiere Date
After axing Batgirl for HBO Max, Warner Bros. Discovery on Wednesday announced that Todd Phillips‘ Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, will premiere in theaters on October 4, 2024. The release date is exactly five years following the first film’s debut, according to Deadline. The movie, which sees the return of Joaquin Phoenix in the role of the Joker, will reportedly begin production in December of this year. Per Variety, the sequel will arrive as a musical, with Lady Gaga expected to take on the role of Harley Quinn. Aside from the movie’s interesting French title, which translates to a psychiatric syndrome that involves two or more people sharing the same delusional belief or hallucinations, details on the plot are scarce at this time. Warner Bros. Discovery has not yet reveale...
Idris Elba To Star in Netflix Spy Thriller ‘Bang!’
After extending its multi-year partnership with Netflix, Dark Horse Entertainment has announced a new David Leitch-directed spy thriller film, titled Bang!, starring Idris Elba. Leitch, whose previous work includes Bullet Train and Deadpool 2, will helm the pic based on the comic series by Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres. The feature film, written by Kindt and Zak Olkewicz, will follow a terrorist group that attempts to birth the apocalypse with a brainwashing series of novels. As they put their plans into practice, the world’s top spy is tapped to exterminate the evil author behind the scheme. Bang! is produced by Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg for Dark Horse, Leitch and Kelly McCormick for 87 North and Elba. The film has not yet received a release date at Netflix. ...
Rina Sawayama Drops Introspective “Hold The Girl” Visual
Rina Sawayama has returned with a time-warping music video for the title track of her forthcoming sophomore album, Hold The Girl. The visual, directed by Ali Kurr, sees the Japanese-British artist trapped in a 19th-century farmhouse until she is ultimately able to free herself from a time loop. ”Sometimes I just wanna run away / Leave behind that old me, start again,” she sings on the introspective cut. “Then I’ll remember who I’m really made of / And she’s been hide-and-seeking, waiting all alone.” On the track’s creation, Sawayama explained in a statement, “I had gone to therapy and had a revelation, so I decided to write this song…that was the start of it. I was crying before going into the studio.” The accompanying video serves to represent Sawayama’s personal journey of real...
Activision Blizzard Reportedly Cancels ‘World of Warcraft’ Mobile Game
Activision Blizzard has canceled its World of Warcraft mobile game, Bloomberg reported. The project had reportedly been in development for three years but was ultimately shelved due to a dispute regarding financing between Blizzard and its Chinese publishing partner, NetEase. “The two companies disagreed over terms and ultimately called a halt to the project, which had been kept under wraps,” a source close to the deal told Bloomberg. The game was reportedly codenamed “Neptune” and was intended to be a Warcraft spinoff, taking place during a different time period than the main title. NetEase has worked with Blizzard for over a decade, and also publishes the popular mobile title Diablo Immortal. While the relationship between Blizzard and NetEase moving forward is unclear, Warcraft fans can...
Kodak Black and French Montana Are Teaming Up for a Joint Album
Kodak Black and French Montana are no strangers to collaboration. Over the years, the two artists have worked together on several projects, beginning with DJ Khaled’s “Pick These H**s Apart.” In 2019, Black and Montana appeared on “Lockjaw” together and last year, Black was featured on Montana’s fourth studio album, They Got Amnesia, on the track “Mopstick.” This year, the frequent duo will be joining forces once again to create an entire album. “Me and French Montana gon’ f***ing around and drop an album soon,” Black said on Instagram Live. Montana then confirmed the news by reposting the clip of Black on Twitter, writing that the joint album is “coming soon.” KODAC X MONTANA ALBUM SHEEEESH ? coming soon pic.twitter.com/A8nkcr9tdL — French Montana (@FrencHMonTanA) August 3, 2022 In anothe...
Pokémon “Terastallize” Into Crystal Forms in New ‘Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’ Trailer
Since its announcement at the beginning of the year, Pokémon fans have eagerly awaited Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, the upcoming mainline entry into the internationally-adored RPG series. Stepping into the 9th generation of Pokémon games, the titles notably are referenced as the first open-world RPG in the series. Unlike previous games, the cover’s legendary Pokémon, Koraidon and Miraidon, serve as all-terrain vehicles with the user being able to ride them as they run, scale cliffs, traverse water and glide through the open landscape of the Paldea region. Emphasizing the freedom of choice, the story of the games is split into three parts that can be approached whenever. The first and most familiar portion is collecting the eight gym badges of the region. For the first time ever, the sequenc...
Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 Captures Unknown Horrors of the Three-Day Disaster: Review
The Pitch: The world of documentary film seems to believe in one thing: Why have just one documentary covering a disastrous music festival when you can have two? Unlike the paired Netflix and Hulu documentaries which investigated the wildness of Fyre Fest, though, Netflix’s new docuseries Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 at least has a good year or so of distance from HBO’s Woodstock ’99, while rehashing much of the same material. It’s Not a Three-Hour Movie: Trainwreck (previously known as Clusterfuck, and streaming today on Netflix), does have a distinct advantage over the HBO doc — rather than compressing the full breadth of the three-day disaster into one 110-minute film, the series consists of three episodes, structured to mirror the three days of the actual festival. While the episodic stru...
Law & Order Writer Says Alex Jones Trial Too “Dumb” for Fiction
Forget about Law & Order‘s dun-dun, this is just dumb-dumb. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is currently standing trial for a defamation lawsuit brought by the parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, but his own legal team have torpedoed the case. On Wednesday, August 3rd, it was revealed that Jones’ lawyers accidentally emailed the full contents of his phone to the attorneys representing the parents, in the process providing dozens of emails and texts that contradicted Jones’ sworn testimony and suggesting he committed perjury. The reveal was so bizarre that longtime Law & Order writer David Slack weighed in, writing that the twist was too outlandish for fiction, because “on Law & Order we wouldn’t have let a lawyer do something that dumb...
