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Difficult Fun: September 2021’s Best Punk
Welcome to the latest edition of Difficult Fun! Each month, SPIN will spotlight the best punk on the planet and discuss it here, with the ambition of challenging preconceived notions of what the four-letter word actually means and, ideally, entertaining readers in the process. Purists, piss off! Everyone else, enjoy. This should be a space for Turnstile worship. Seriously. (Read that here, written by the ineffable Zoe Camp three years ago. SPIN was early to the melodic hardcore band’s greatness.) This month’s column should open with a commendatory review of their latest album, Glow On, and a thoughtful meditation on how some positive punks found funk and dance rhythms in their breakdowns and saved a genre in repose. Those arguments exist elsewhere. If anything, I’m mostly excited that Turn...
JAY-Z and Kid Cudi Tease New Collaboration in Netflix’s ‘The Harder They Fall’ Trailer
Netflix on Tuesday unveiled the official trailer for its upcoming wester film The Harder They Fall, and alongside an action-packed plotline, the visual features a snippet of a new track by JAY-Z and Kid Cudi. The collaborative track underscores the second half of the trailer, as a series of fight sequences featuring stars Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba, Regina King, Zazie Beetz, R.J. Cyler, Edi Gathegi and LaKeith Stanfield provide a first look at the film, produced by JAY-Z. “When outlaw Nat Love (Majors) discovers that his enemy Rufus Buck (Elba) is being released from prison, he rounds up his gang to track Rufus down and seek revenge,” the official synopsis reads. A vengeful Love assembles a group of allies consisting of his former love Stagecoach Mary (Beetz), quick-tempered Bill Pickett ...
50 Cent Talks Casting Eminem and Snoop Dogg for New Show ‘Black Mafia Family’
Media mogul 50 Cent has shown his successful transition from music to major television creative with his new Starz project, Black Mafia Family. BMF is based on a true story of the organized crime group Black Mafia Family and highlights founders Demetrius and Terry Flenory as the main protagonists of the plotline. By the 2000s, the BMF was considered one of the most influential crime families in the U.S. with a hip-hop music label that was often used for money laundering and a drug distribution network that spanned across the country. Ahead of the debut, 50 Cent spoke about the reason why he replaced himself with Snoop Dogg and how he got Eminem involved with the project. 50 Cent commented on Snoop Dogg’s role sharing, “I actually threw myself out of this one. I was originally cast to play ...
Netflix Teases Latest Korean Series ‘Hellbound’
Netflix has just premiered the trailer to another promising Korean series titled Hellbound. Based on Yeon Sang-ho‘s (Train to Busan) webtoon — he will also be directing this series — this series involves a world where angels and demons exist and humans are given the dates of their death then they are pulled to hell once their time is up. The story follows the main characters — played by Yoo Ah-in, Park Jung-min, Kim Hyun-joo, and Won Jin-ah — and their adventure as they survive in this chaotic world. Watch Hellbound exclusively on Netflix this coming November 19. In other entertainment news, Squid Game may become the platform’s most popular show ever says Netflix CEO. Read Full Article
The CW Has Ordered a Reboot of ‘Babylon 5’
According to reports, The CW has now ordered a reboot of late ’90s sci-fi series, Babylon 5. Widely considered one of the best sci-fi series ever made, Babylon 5 ran on TNT for five seasons with 110 episodes, seven TV movies and a pilot film. Currently in development, original creator J. Michael Straczynski has been tapped to executive produce the project under his Studio JMS imprint alongside Warner Bros. Television. The “from-the-ground-up reboot” is expected to chronicle the story of human military staff and alien diplomats on the space station, Babylon 5. Set between the years of 2257 and 2262 following several major inter-species wars, the quest for galactic diplomacy and trade reveals millennial cyclic conflict highlighting themes of change, loss, oppression, corruption and redemptio...
Pete Davidson Confirmed to Return for ‘Saturday Night Live’ Season 47
Ahead of its upcoming release in October, Saturday Night Live has now announced the list of personalities returning, joining, and leaving the show for its 47th season. Fresh off starring in James Gunn‘s Suicide Squad, Pete Davidson will be returning to the show for the new season after the actor and comedian previously remarked that he was uncertain of his future on Saturday Night Live. Alongside him will be Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, Aidy Bryant and Kenan Thompson as well as other key performers in the show, including Michael Che, Mikey Day, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Colin Jost, Alex Moffat, Kyle Mooney, Ego Nwodim, Chris Redd, Melissa Millaseñor and Bowen Yang. Joining this large ensemble as new featured players are Aristotle Athari, James Austin and Johnson an...
Twitter Thinks Will Smith Is In Relationship Hell After Jada Pinkett Smith Says She Wants To Learn How To Love
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Screenshot / Instagram Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have one of the most enduring celebrity marriages and have been together as husband and wife for almost 25 years, but there have been some explosive hiccups along the way. Jada’s name was trending on Twitter over the weekend when a clip from her popular talk show displayed her sharing that she wants to learn how to love, prompting some to say that the former Fresh Prince is in relationship hell. Jada Pinkett Smith hit the birthday milestone on September 18 and featured a number of her famous friends for a special episode of Red Table Talk with Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris in honor of her 50th birthday. Arsenio Hall chimed in with a pre-recorded video asking what was on her bucket ...
Controversial Broadway Production ‘Slave Play’ Didn’t Win Any Tony Awards
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Joseph Marzullo/WENN.com / WENN The 74th Tony Awards were held Sunday night (September 26) in New York and a Slave Play, which broke records with 12 nominations, seemed poised to notch at least one of the coveted trophies. However, as the evening concluded, the controversial Broadway production failed to win even one award despite all the hype and chatter around it. Slave Play, from playwright Jeremey O. Harris, is a three-act play following the lives of three interracial couples entering into “Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy” due to the Black partners no longer feeling physically attracted to their white partners. The original off-Broadway production launched in 2018 and then hit Broadway after its initial roaring success. The play has garner...
Twitter Once More Debates Idris Elba As James Bond After Haters Claim He’s Too Old For The Role
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Lia Toby/WENN.com / WENN Idris Elba is still one of the entertainment world’s most dashing leading men and a natural shoo-in to take up the mantle of the legendary James Bond character. With the current Bond Daniel Craig bidding farewell to the role, Elba’s name was once again tossed into the hat as some stated that he’s too old for the role despite being younger than Craig is currently. Much of this chatter could be pointed to the fact that Craig’s last appearance as 007 will take place in the film No Time To Die, which has its world premiere in London tonight (September 28). According to Variety, Facebook will livestream the red carpet entries which fans can view via the Occulus headset, along with an exclusive view of the opening sequence of the ...
Peep The Latest Trailer To ‘The Harder They Fall’ With New Jay-Z Music
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Netflix / Netflix A few months ago we got out first trailer to the new all-Black Western, The Harder They Fall, and needless to say it looked like it was going to be off the chain. Source: Netflix / Netflix Now that the Jeymes Samuel directed feature has garnered some buzz thanks to an all-star cast that includes the likes of Idris Elba, Regina King, and LaKeith Stanfield amongst many others, we get a new second trailer to showcase just how badass things will get in the Wild Wild West. Starring Jonathan Majors (Lovecraft Country) as Nat Love opposite Idris Elba’s Rufus Buck, The Harder They Fall finds Love looking for Buck to avenge a wrong he feels was done to him at his hands. Though Buck has a crew of badass gunslingers by his side, Nat doesn’t seem on...
Snoop Dogg Announces Upcoming Star-Studded Album and New Def Jam Kids’ Record
After joining Def Jam Recordings as an executive creative and strategic consultant in June, Snoop Dogg on Monday announced plans for his 19th studio album and the release of a Def Jam kids’ record during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Snoop confirmed that his upcoming album, titled Algorithm, will arrive in November and feature “a lot of big-name acts and some new ones.” The project comes after April’s From Tha Streets 2 Tha Suites and will mark the first time that the rapper has put out two studio albums in the same year. Snoop then delved into his executive role at Def Jam and announced that the label has “a kids’ album coming out this year, too.” “I was a fan of Def Jam Records as a kid,” he said. “And knowing the talent that they have over there and ...
Activision Blizzard and US Employment Watchdog Agree to $18M USD Lawsuit Settlement
Activision Blizzard and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have agreed to a lawsuit settlement worth $18 million USD. According to reports, the gaming company will start an $18 million USD fund to pay compensation for employees, put a stop to its discriminatory practices, contract a consultant to “ensure compliance,” improve training and the process of its performance review to avoid any future offenses and, finally, comply with future audits from the EEOC. “We will continue to be vigilant in our commitment to the elimination of harassment and discrimination in the workplace. We thank the EEOC for its constructive engagement as we work to fulfill our commitments to eradicate inappropriate conduct in the workplace,” Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said in a statement...
