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George Clooney and Julia Roberts Reunite in Seaweed-Thin Romcom Ticket to Paradise: Review
The Pitch: David (George Clooney) and Georgia (Julia Roberts) are two hugely successful, extremely divorced people, with 19 years of bitter animus between them. In fact, the only times they even see each other are for the major milestones in the life of their daughter, Lily (Kaitlin Dever), and even then they can’t help but snipe at each other through forced smiles. But they’re forced back into each other’s orbits when Lily shacks up with a handsome seaweed farmer (model Maxime Bouttier) on her post-graduation trip to Bali, and invites them to her whirlwind wedding on the Indonesian island paradise. Recognizing that throwing her career away for idle island living and a guy she’s just met is a Bad Idea, the two plot to sabotage the wedding from the inside. Along the way, though, t...
Sleater-Kinney Unveil Star-Studded Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album: Stream
Sleater-Kinney’s seminal 1997 album Dig Me Out passed its 25th anniversary this year, and now, the band has celebrated the record by unveiling Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album. Listen to the project below. As Sleater-Kinney explained in a statement, “The artists who appear on Dig Me In have not so much covered the 13 original songs, but reinterpreted and reimagined them. Through added layers or the subtraction of guitars and drums, they provide a new way into the songs. Fresh rage, joy, pain, reclamation, slyness, and longing. Other interpretations slow down or stretch out the songs, trading urgency for contemplation, weariness or even a hint of ease.” Among the artists featured on Dig Me In are frequent Sleater-Kinney collaborator St. Vincent, clear Sleater-Kinney prote...
Paramore Announce UK Tour with Bloc Party
We’ve already given you five reasons to catch Paramore on tour, but here’s a sixth: next April, they’ll embark on a UK jaunt with Bloc Party. The six-date outing kicks off on April 13th in Dublin and also includes dates in Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, London, and Birmingham. Tickets go on sale Friday, October 28th via Ticketmaster, but fans who pre-order Paramore’s new album, This Is Why. Advertisement The pair-up isn’t especially surprising, as Hayley Williams has credited Bloc Party for inspiring the band’s own upcoming album. “From day one, Bloc Party was the number one reference because there was such an urgency to their sound that was different to the fast punk or the pop punk or the like, loud wall of sound emo bands that were happening in the early 2000s,” Williams explained during...
Kid’s Impressive Street Performance of “Master of Puppets” Earns Props from Metallica: Watch
Ever since Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” was highlighted in season four of Stranger Things, the 1986 thrash gem has been all the rage. Metallica even saluted Stranger Things character Eddie Munson at Lollapalooza this year with an epic “Master of Puppets” performance that featured clips from the Netflix series. Now, a young kid in the UK is making waves with an impressive guitar rendition of the iconic metal tune that even earned props from Metallica themselves. TikTok user “fixer17d” recently shared a video of a youngster shredding “Master of Puppets” on a street in Cardiff, Wales. The kid appears to be a pre-teen or young teenager, and performs the thrash classic like an absolute champ. “Out in Cardiff and saw a kid plug in his #paulgilbert signature and thought I’d stick around,”...
Angelina Jolie to Star in Biopic About Opera Singer Maria Callas
Angelina Jolie will tell the tragic final days of the great opera singer Maria Callas in the new biopic, Maria. Via Variety, the film comes from Pablo Larraín, who recently directed Kristen Stewart to her first Oscar nomination as Princess Diana in Spencer. From the 1940s through her death in 1977 at the age of 53, Callas was one of the most famous opera singers in the world. But her once-unparalleled voice grew shaky in the later half of the 1950s, perhaps brought on by precipitous weight loss. In 1957, she left her career and her husband for Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, though he would end their relationship a decade later to marry Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis. She spent her final years isolated in Paris, France. Maria “tells the tumultuous, beautiful, ...
Rap Song of the Week: Lil Uzi Vert Heads to the Club on “Just Wanna Rock”
Rap Song of the Week breaks down all the hip-hop tracks you need to hear every Friday. Check out the full playlist here. This week, Lil Uzi Vert hops on a Jersey club beat with “Just Wanna Rock.” Lil Uzi Vert takes pride in acknowledging their roots in North Philadephia’s Francisville neighborhood. With Jersey club recently breaking out from its origins in Newark — just an hour or two away from where the rapper, who uses they/them pronouns, was born and raised — it was inevitable that the always-experimental artist would dip a toe into the genre. The result is “Just Wanna Rock,” an uptempo dance track with gothic keys that Uzi Vert dropped after it went viral on TikTok. Co-produced by MCVertt, a frequent collaborator with Jersey drill pioneer Bandmanrill, and Synthetic, who is kn...
Song of the Week: Taylor Swift Is the “Anti-Hero” of the Story After All
Song of the Week breaks down and talks about the song we just can’t get out of our head each week. Find these songs and more on our Spotify Top Songs playlist. For our favorite new songs from emerging artists, check out our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, Taylor Swift doesn’t hold back with the hyperaware, self-loathing “Anti-Hero.” Ahead of the release of her new album, Midnights, Taylor Swift shared a video to Instagram providing some insight into the subject of “Anti-Hero.” “This song really is a real guided tour throughout all the things I tend to hate about myself,” she said plainly. Somehow, that feels like a bit of an understatement for how fully Swift digs into her own paranoia and need for control with this song. She leans all the way into the theatrica...
Beastie Boys’ Check Your Head Gets 30th Anniversary Reissue
Beastie Boys’ 1992 album Check Your Head is getting the well-deserved reissue treatment in honor of its 30th anniversary, thanks to the Vinyl Me Please Record of the Month series. This updated edition of the rap-rock legends’ third studio album is pressed on exclusive burgundy/dark red vinyl with AAA lacquers cut from the original master tapes by Ryan Smith, with liner notes from Mark Ronson as well as an exclusive show poster. “Released 30 years ago, Check Your Head proved that the Beastie Boys were capable of breaking new ground in hip-hop for the third time, and launched singles like ‘So What’cha Want,’ that entire bands could build their career on,” reads a statement from VMP. “As forward thinking in its construction today as it was 30 years ago, the opportunity to do a AAA r...
Win Rome and Duddy Tickets, Good Times CBD Products, and a T-Shirt
“I gotta find this place/ Gotta get away,” sing Rome and Duddy on their new collaborative single, “Cannabis Tree.” Now, to celebrate the track’s official release, Sublime with Rome’s Rome Ramirez and Dirty Heads’ Duddy B are helping you find your place and get away to their upcoming concerts with this exclusive giveaway. The guys are giving away five (5) pairs of tickets to any of their upcoming “Winter Moon Tour” shows — winners’ choice! The trek starts November 25th in Nashville and runs through December 17th in Tempe, with stops in Atlanta, Orlando, Denver, Wichita, San Diego, Tucson, and more along the way. You can find the complete itinerary ahead and grab tickets to the tour here, or enter below to win yourself two free passes and a dope “Cannabis Tree” prize pack! In ...
James Corden Claims He “Did Nothing Wrong” in “Silly” Restaurant Ruckus
James Corden said he “did nothing wrong” after a “silly” restaurant drama saw him briefly banned from a trendy New York Restaurant. He also offered some choice words to the New York Times journalist who asked the question during their scheduled interview: “I just think it’s beneath all of us,” he said. “It’s beneath you. It’s certainly beneath your publication.” The NYC restaurant Balthazar barred Corden from returning after owner Keith McNally lit him up on Instagram. McNally called Corden “the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago.” Corden subsequently apologized, and McNally announced “All is Forgiven.” Advertisement Related Video According to McNally, Corden lambasted the staff for mixups with his meals, becoming “extremel...
Kenzie Zeigler on New Album, Clothing Line, and Growing Up in the Public Eye
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Kenzie Ziegler joined Kyle Meredith to dish on her latest single, “100 Degrees,” her musical progression since her 2015 debut, and the album she’s currently working on. Advertisement Related Video The former Dance Moms star tells us about predominantly working with only women and how that’s changed her writing process, finding a new musical voice as an indie pop singer-songwriter, and recently collaborating with NOTD. Ziegler also discusses her new clothing line with Francesca’s Boutique and what it’s been like to grow as an artist while growing up in the public eye. Listen to Kenzie Ziegler&nb...
Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” Video: A Breakdown
Midnights has arrived, and thus so has a whole new treasure trove of Taylor Swift-isms to deliberately pick apart. Along with the arrival of her latest studio album today (and a bonus collection of B-sides), the pop star has shared the video for the track “Anti-Hero.” Swift, who wrote and directed the clip, described it on Twitter has a way to “watch my nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts play out in real time.” Relatable as ever, huh? But there’s a lot going on here — and we’re here to do our best to break it all down for you. [embedded content] A Graveyard Shift Party Related Video “When my depression works the graveyard shift, all of the people/ I’ve ghosted stand there in the room,” Swift sings in the first verse of “Anti-Hero” as she sits at her kitchen table, prodding her...
