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Death Cab for Cutie Detail ‘Powerful’ File-Swap Sessions That Kick-Started Next LP
Early in the pandemic, Death Cab for Cutie‘s Ben Gibbard seemed to be ahead of the curve. In March, he launched a solo performance stream, Live From Home, helping blueprint a detour for musicians swept off the road. But with the camera switched off, he was just as confused as anyone else — and it took him a while to find his artistic footing. “The first couple months, especially when I was doing the livestreams — well, we all were there. There was this feeling of, ‘This is gonna last a month, and then we’ll get back to real life,’” Gibbard tells SPIN. “Then there was the panic of every day: ‘You can’t touch this; don’t do that; you’ll die if you do that.’ With the amount of anxiety, and also the thought that this would be a short-term thing, I did hardly any writing.” There were a lo...
JAY-Z Is Finally on Instagram
JAY-Z is officially on Instagram. The Brooklyn-born hip-hop superstar launched his profile with a single post promoting Jeymes Samuel’s Netflix movie The Harder They Fall, along with an Instagram Story boasting a countdown for the film’s premiere. JAY-Z’s Instagram debut is a timely tactic for self-promotion, as the rapper co-produced the aforementioned western pic and appears in several tracks on the movie’s official soundtrack. JAY-Z simply captioned his post with the title of the film, which premiered on Netflix on Wednesday. The post has since gained more than 600,000 likes in just 13 hours. At the time of writing, the billionaire Hall of Famer’s profile has already accumulated more than 1.9 million followers. Notably, JAY-Z has become the only person that his wife Beyoncé follows...
Courtney Love on ‘Rape Me’ in Succession: ‘I’ve Never Been So Proud’
(Spoiler alert!) Calling all Succession and Nirvana fans: if you saw this week’s episode of HBO’s hit series based on Rupert Murdoch’s media dynasty, you saw the scene where Kendall Roy interrupted his sister’s town hall speech with “Rape Me” blaring over loudspeakers. Courtney Love wrote an approving message on her Instagram story: “I was in the room watching (agog) as this song was written in about an hour, and I’ve never been so proud of approving one of Kurt’s songs, this cue in @succession is as if they truly understood kc 🔥 what he was screaming his heart out … without specifics … about. I’m sure wherever he is he’s proud of this.” [embedded content][embedded content] You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a datin...
French Montana’s Cognac-Inspired Fragrance Collaboration is for the Culture
Hailing from the Bronx, French Montana initially made his name behind the camera, enlisting neighborhood stars to feature on his self-made Cocaine City hip-hop DVDs under the name Young French. Following a string of mixtapes under his current moniker, he soon teamed up with the now-incarcerated Harlem legend Max B to release several cult classic mixtape series, including Coke Wave and Mac Wit Da Cheese during the latter half of the noughties. From popularizing the “wave” to harmonizing on classic New York beats, French has since become a mainstay within the culture. Having lived in the West for the entirety of his adult life, he says being able to visit his birthplace of Morocco and providing a new life for his family has been his greatest achievement. “We had slipped through the cracks,” ...
Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon Joins Cast of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ Film
Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon are set to star in Christopher Nolan‘s upcoming Universal film, Oppenheimer. The film falls under the World War II epic war movies and is follows the drama surrounding the development of the atomic bomb. Currently, Cillian Murphy has been confirmed to play the titular role of J. Robert Oppenheimer while Emily Blunt is cast to play his wife Katherine. Not much detail has been revealed regarding the plot however the story follows Oppenheimer, who is a physicist integral to the Manhattan Project. He is also better known as the father of the atomic bomb. It has not yet been revealed who Downey Jr. and Damon will play in the film. Universal Pictures has described the film as an “epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmati...
Seth Rogen Reportedly Starring in Standalone ‘Donkey Kong’ Film
Just a month after Nintendo announced its Super Mario Bros. animated film with Illumination and Universal Pictures, reports have now surfaced suggesting that a standalone Donkey Kong film is also on its way, with Seth Rogen tied to the project. According to a report from Giant Freakin Robot, inside sources have confirmed that the live-action Lion King veteran will reprise his role of the titular protagonist in the upcoming film, a character he will first portray in Super Mario Bros. alongside Chris Pratt as Mario, Charlie Day as Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Jack Black as Bowser and Keegan-Michael Key as Toad. While other details remain scarce at this point, the outlet suggests that Cranky Kong actor Fred Armisen will also participate in the project, which is due...
KILIAN PARIS Enlists French Montana For A New Collaboration
To drive good nightlife, music and perfume go hand-in-hand. This relationship between the two worlds has allowed luxury scent-maker KILIAN PARIS to team up with French Montana to reimagine the brand’s staple line, Angels’ Share. Given his eight-generation lineage to the legendary cognac brand, Angels’ Share is founder Kilian Hennessy’s most intimate fragrance yet. He explains, “It took me 14 years to create a cognac-inspired scent. It is the perfect bridge between my family Hennessy heritage and the KILIAN PARIS heritage I am hoping to build.” Crafted from a blend based on the essence of the cognac-making process, the scent boasts notes of hazelnut, cinnamon, oak absolute and tonka bean lending the fragrance a unique smell as well as its naturally derived caramel color. The name itself ref...
House of Ashes Composer Jason Graves Continues His Frightful Work on The Dark Pictures Anthology
As players of Supermassive Games’ previous titles — like Until Dawn, Man of Medan, and Little Hope — know, there’s nothing quite like the horror movie-esque video games in The Dark Pictures Anthology. They’re equal parts narrative-driven video game and campy scary movie, and they’re generally perfect for their annual fall release dates. This year’s addition of House of Ashes is no different, bringing in an actor or two that TV and film fans would recognize (primarily Ashley Tisdale this time around) and immediately putting the group of playable characters into a possibly deadly situation full of frights. As per usual, they also brought back veteran composer and horror expert Jason Graves (Dead Space, Tomb Raider, Moss) to complete his fifth terrifying soundtrack in the last six years for t...
Dexter: New Blood Can’t Quite Bring Its Madcap Antihero Back to Life: Review
The Pitch: Over a decade after the original series’… let’s say controversial finale, Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) has been living off the grid. Last we saw him, he was a lumberjack in the Pacific Northwest; now he’s packed up and moved to the sleepy, snowy upstate New York village of Iron Lake. He’s set himself up as Jim Lindsey, the unassuming town sweetheart, who mans the local hunting shop and brings cinnamon rolls to his customers. He’s even dating the town sheriff, Angela Bishop (Julia Jones), and has successfully tamped down the so-called Dark Passenger that drives him to kill. (Instead of his adoptive father Harry, it’s taken the shape of now-deceased sister Debra (Jennifer Carpenter), the devil in his ear who acts as his grim anti-conscience.) But naturally, Dexter: Ne...
Tool’s Adam Jones Unveils Gibson 1979V2 Les Paul Custom Signature Model Guitar
Tool’s Adam Jones has teamed with Gibson for the 1979V2 Les Paul Custom signature model guitar. The axe is a new take on Jones’ prized original Silverburst 1979 Gibson Les Paul. We previously reported on the guitarist’s previous collab with Gibson — also a replica of his original 1979 Les Paul — a number of which were stolen during initial shipping. The 1979V2 Les Paul Custom is an updated version, featuring Gibson Custom Shop Murphy Lab lightly-aged antiqued Silverburst finish along with custom artwork designed by artist Korin Faught on the rear of the headstock. Included in the guitar package is a removable headstock mirror like the one Jones uses in Tool. Advertisement Related Video The V2 features a reverse-mounted Custombucker neck pickup and a custom-wound Seymour...
Ought Break Up, Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy Form New Band Cola
Ought, the Montreal post-punk quartet that formed nine years ago, have announced their breakup. They leave behind a nine-year legacy that includes three Eps and three studio albums, the most recent of which was 2018’s Room Inside the World. The band — Tim Darcy, Matt May, Ben Stidworthy, and Tim Keen — issued a joint statement confirming the split: “We are no longer active as a band. When we started Ought in 2012 we had no greater aspirations than to play and write music together, and the fact that we were able to tour the world to such an extent and share so many rooms with so many of you has meant the world to us. We send lots of gratitude and love to all those we met and worked with along the way.” Fans ought not be totally devastated, however, as two of the band’s members have simultan...
RÜFÜS DU SOL on New Album Surrender and the Magic of Recording in the Desert: “It Gave Us This Sense of Place and Self”
There are few electronic acts with as much momentum as RÜFÜS DU SOL. Fresh off the release of their fourth studio album Surrender, the Australian trio have reached a massive turning point in their career. They’re selling out stadiums, winning over new fans, and ascending to the very top lines of music festivals all over the globe. Though it’s undoubtedly an exciting time for the group, they’re doing all they can to make sure they stay grounded. “We didn’t really have any sense of self-care,” says James Hunt about beginning the process of making a new record. “We got to reconnect and figure out a new way of writing music with some routine.” Hunt and fellow synth-scientist Jon George name morning meditations, workouts, and trips to the sauna as major aspects in creating a sustainable an...
