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The Crossed Wires Podcast Festival opened with a bang yesterday as thousands gathered in Sheffield for the second edition of the UK’s biggest podcast festival, kicking off three days of live shows, exclusive audio moments and first-time surprises.

For the first time in over a decade, Michael Palin performed Monty Python material on stage in his hometown to a packed audience for Nobody expects The Michael Palin Podcast! hosted by long-time fan Greg James.

Palin treated Sheffield to a world-exclusive reading of a deleted end scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian.Titled ‘The Martyrdom of St. Brian’, Palin struggled to get through the scene without laughing at Brian’s “fingers full of naughtiness”, which led to roars of laughter from the crowd.

With a spoof advert for protein powder setting the silliness for tales from Palin’s early dating days to Harry Nilsson’s Monty Python stage tumble,...

Leonard Nimoy’s name is almost instantly associated with Star Trek, and it’s hard to imagine the show without thinking of the venerable Vulcan fans know and love. While most fans know that Nimoy appeared on a variety of television shows before and after Star Trek, what they might not know is that he also enjoyed singing. During the 1970s, he attempted to establish himself as a singer and even released several albums. Let’s take a look at this odd phase of Nimoy’s career and how it happened.

Mr. Spock’s Music From Outer Space

Paramount approached Charles Grean, who worked for Paramount’s Dot record label, about making an album connected with Star Trek. Grean’s young daughter, a Star Trek fan, suggested that an album connected with the show should have Mr. Spock on it. When Grean approached Nimoy about participating, the actor was eager to do so,...

Celine Song’s sophomore directorial feature Materialists has everyone talking about love, marriage and more.

Starring Dakota Johnson as Lucy M, a New York City-based matchmaker at Adore, the film watches Lucy work her magic in setting up her clients with their life partners. One instance involves her ninth wedding with bride Charlotte (Louisa Jacobson) having doubts before, but ultimately overcoming them to get married with a pep talk from Lucy. At Charlotte’s wedding, Lucy meets Harry P (Pedro Pascal) who pursues her and lavishes her with luxury dinner dates, huge bouquets of red peonies and more

Also at the wedding, Lucy runs into her ex, John (Chris Evans), an aspiring actor and cater waiter, who she just can’t seem to shake fully. Japanese Breakfast, aka Michelle Zauner, wrote a new song for the film, which played in one of the trailers alongside Madonna’s “Material Girl.”

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Cue your midnight margaritas, belladonna, and flipped pancakes, because a Practical Magic sequel is officially underway. From Hocus Pocus to Beetlejuice, millennials’ favorite Halloween movies have all gotten the sequel treatment. But Practical Magic, the 1998 fantasy film starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock as cursed sister-witches, is the one we’ve all been waiting for, the one that’s always on our minds. It’s so beloved, in fact, that even its stars manifested a sequel while the original was still in production. “You heard our spell,” Kidman said. We most certainly did.

The combination of a 29-year-old Robin Williams, legendary filmmaker Robert Altman and a cartoon icon probably should have led to one of the greatest movies of all-time. Instead, we got 1980’s Popeye, a big budget family musical that turned out to be about as fun as a trip to the mortuary.

But at least the people making Popeye had a good time.

Per Page Six, billionaire and former Paramount Pictures CEO Barry Diller was recently interviewed by Anderson Cooper for an event at the 92nd Street Y, and he spent at least some of the talk describing just how coked out the set of Popeye was. “You couldn’t escape it,” Diller said of the rampant nose candy.

The cast and crew even came up with inventive schemes to import drugs to the filming location in Malta after producer Robert Evans was busted for possession at the airport. “Film cans...

One is the loneliest number in Mascha Schilinski’s superb second feature, a fractured reflection on childhood and family that eschews linear narrative for immersive atmosphere, telling the story of four young girls from different eras whose lives play out, in the words of Harry Nilsson, by making rhymes of yesterday. Cinema is too small a word for what this sprawling yet intimate epic achieves in its ethereal, unnerving brilliance; forget Cannes, forget the Competition, forget the whole year, even — Sound of Falling is an all-timer.

The one constant in a kaleidoscopic timeline that plays out across a hundred years is a farmhouse in northern Germany, established in the opening scenes — perhaps in the ’30s or ’40s — as home to Erika (Lea Drinda), who amuses herself by binding her left leg and walking on her Uncle Fritz’s crutches. Fritz, an amputee, is largely bedbound and suffers night terrors, a...

In mid-March, Jill Sobule arrived at her friend Michelle Lewis’ home in L.A. to write songs with Lewis and her co-writing partner, former Letters to Cleo frontperson Kay Hanley. Calling themselves Sugar Tits, the three had collaborated periodically over the years. As Lewis and Hanley learned right away, Sobule had one tune already in hand: a sly ditty filled with words that rhymed with “unt” (“runt,” “blunt,” “grunt,” “Emily Blunt,” and so on). One chorus ended, teasingly, with “J.D. Vance is a …” Only in the last chorus did Sobule...

Djo, the musical project from Stranger Things actor Joe Keery, stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform his song “Potion.” Appearing with a live band, Keery gave the acoustic number a sense of emotional heft as he sang, “I’ll try for all of my life/ just to find someone/ who leaves on the light for me.”

“Potion” comes off Djo’s new LP, The Crux. It was inspired by Lindsey Buckingham, who uses guitar technique called Travis-picking in many of his songs. “‘Potion’ is like your favorite pair of blue jeans,...

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On the heels of dropping his third LP, The Crux, Djo has embarked on his 2025 global Back on You Tour with support from his band Post Animal. Only a few dates into the trek, tickets to see Djo (a.k.a., Joe Keery, who also stars in Stranger Things and Fargo) on the road have already sold out.

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Multihyphenate Joe Keery has another hit on his hands. On Wednesday, April 2, the actor and singer — who performs under the moniker Djo — released a new single, “Potion,” from his upcoming album The Crux.

On “Potion,” Djo croons over a simple guitar and percussive track. Between music, film, and television, Djo leads a busy life. But at the end of the day, he craves a simple kind of love — something to look forward to when he comes home. “I'll try for all of my life / / Just to find someone who leavеs on the light for me / Leavеs on the light for me,” Djo sings in a romantic falsetto on the song’s chorus.

The song is one of Djo’s most personal tracks to date. Not only is he front-and-center with his vocals, but he is also at the helm of the song’s instrumentation. He displays his talents as he plays acoustic and electric guitar,...

Djo, a musical project by Stranger Things star Joe Keery, is giving fans one final peek into the world of The Crux. On Wednesday, Keery released his Lindsey Buckingham-inspired single “Potion,” which arrives ahead of his second album, out Friday.

“‘Potion’ is like your favorite pair of blue jeans,” said Keery in a statement. “I’d been working on Travis-picking when I wrote this song, so it’s kind of like if Harry Nilsson and Lindsey Buckingham had a baby.” (Travis-picking is a guitar technique, notable in many Buckingham songs.

Joey Molland, guitarist and last surviving core member of the rock group Badfinger, has died at the age of 77.

The band’s official Facebook page announced Molland’s death, noting that he died Saturday night surrounded by family. No cause of death was provided, but Molland had faced health issues including pneumonia in recent months.

“Thank you, Joey…for keeping the band’s music alive for so long and for being a friend to us all,” the band added.

Molland joined Badfinger — formerly the Iveys, and one of the first...

Here’s a toast to Marianne Faithfull, a true rock & roll legend. Nobody was ever better at being an old rock star, except maybe Leonard Cohen. Yet the difference is that Cohen didn’t release his debut album until he was 33 — he was never young in public. Faithfull was a Sixties dolly bird who was on Top of the Pops in her teens, singing “As Tears Go By,” just another disposable pop ingenue. She played Ophelia in the 1970 film version of Hamlet, a hauntingly tragic performance, at a time when...

The Chinese “Year of the (Wood) Snake” starts January 29, 2025, kicking off more than two weeks of parties, customs and copious feasts:

“…the holiday, also known as the ‘Spring Festival’, celebrates the arrival of spring and the start of a new year based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar…

“…in a year expected to be one of positive transformation with the shedding of the ego, letting go of the past, letting go of anger, letting go of love lost.

“The snake matches up with the years of people born in 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989 and 2001…

“…with famous snakes in pop culture including Robert Downey Jr., Bob Dylan, Buzz Aldrin, Jack Kirby…

“…Audrey Hepburn, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Tom Brady, J.K. Rowling, Linda McCartney, Tim Allen, Liv Tyler, Howard Hughes, Grace Kelly, Paul Simon, Dean Martin, Brooke Shields, Arthur C. Clarke, Elizabeth Olsen, Brie Larson…

“…Joan Crawford, Carole King, Elizabeth Hurley, Kim Basinger, Ernest Borgnine, Henry Fonda,...

Most people’s idea of a Hamptons homemaker is probably some version of a Nancy Meyers character — rich, accomplished and caught up in dizzying romantic confusion in her own piece of tastefully decorated, sun-kissed real estate porn. Linda, the Montauk psychologist played with edge-of-delirium tension by a phenomenal Rose Byrne, is not that woman. In writer-director Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Linda is basically a knot of unrelieved stress, immune to the “It’s not your fault” platitudes of a family therapist who warns against the “thinking trap” of shame and blame.

The root cause of Linda’s whirling-dervish anxiety spiral is the mysterious, seemingly untreatable illness of her young unnamed daughter (Delaney Quinn), heard but unseen almost throughout, aside from the bag attached to her intravenous feeding tube. Or her little feet dangling from the toilet as water floods the bathroom of the family home.

As we’ve witnessed with such visionaries as Phil Spector and Sam Phillips, pop record producers can have hugely impactful moments that define an era — but then, as styles and technology evolve around them, never quite regain their footing. Richard Perry, who died Dec. 24 at 82, wasn’t the household name that Spector or George Martin were, but the longevity of his career, especially from the Sixties into the Eighties, was its own type of legacy: Perry left behind a body of work that can now be seen as a roadmap...

Music producer Richard Perry, known for his iconic collaborations with numerous artists from Carly Simon to Barbra Streisand, has died at the age of 82.

Daphna Kastner, Perry’s friend, confirmed his death to news outlets. “He maximized his time here,” Kastner said in a statement to ABC News. “He was generous, fun, sweet and made the world a better place. The world is a little less sweeter without him here. But it’s a little bit sweeter in heaven.” Kastner said that Perry died at a Los Angeles hospital after suffering cardiac arrest.

Richard Perry, a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds whose many successes included Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” Rod Stewart’s “The Great American Songbook” series and a Ringo Starr album featuring all four Beatles, died Tuesday. He was 82.

Perry, a recipient of a Grammys Trustee Award in 2015, died at a Los Angeles hospital after suffering cardiac arrest, friend Daphna Kastner said.

“He maximized his time here,” said Kastner, who called him a “father friend” and said he was godfather to her son. “He was generous, fun, sweet and made the world a better place. The world is a little less sweeter without him here. But it’s a little bit sweeter in heaven.”

Perry was a onetime drummer, oboist and doo-wop singer who proved at home with a wide variety of musical styles, the rare producer to have No. 1 hits on the pop,...

In the mid-1980s, Whoopi Goldberg exploded onto the entertainment scene via her self-titled, one-woman Broadway show, which was considered so electric and essential that HBO filmed a performance and aired it within a year of its stage premiere. At this point, Goldberg was a force of nature, a comedic dynamo capable of zipping from one deep-tissue character study to another with the ease of Richard Pryor. Meanwhile, her big, brilliant brain seemed to run a mile a minute, like the one possessed by her friend and colleague Robin Williams. Whoopi, it seemed, could do anything. Movie stardom seemed a cinch.

It was. Kind of. After making her dramatic debut in Steven Spielberg's "The Color Purple," she scored a smallish hit with Penny Marshall's comedy thriller "Jumpin' Jack Flash." That led to two more star vehicles in the 1987 duo of "Burglar" and "Fatal Beauty," but they didn't take.

Decades before he was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009, music producer Phil Spector drew a gun and threatened beloved pop singer Cher, as revealed in the singer’s new book, Cher: The Memoir.

In writing, Cher details how her career began as a backup singer, and she was featured on several records that Spector produced. Cher and Spector went their different ways as Cher pursued a solo career, but in 1974 (after the completion of Cher’s album Dark Lady) Cher’s then-boyfriend connected the two for the possibility of a collaboration on a new album.

At this time, Spector asked Cher and Harry Nilsson to sing backup vocals on some songs for John Lennon’s Rock ’n’ Roll album. He also asked them to record a ‘guide vocal’ for the Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas’ song “A Love Like Yours.” Although Spector supposedly promised to pass the audio on to Lennon,...

Even if you haven’t seen Practical Magic — the 1998 fantasy film starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock as cursed sister-witches — you know the “midnight margaritas” scene. It happens shortly after Gillian and Sally Owens (Kidman and Bullock, respectively) accidentally murder Gillian’s abusive boyfriend Jimmy Angelov (Goran Višnjić). They revive an even worse version of Angelov from the dead, kill him again with a frying pan, and frantically cover up their crime. You know, normal witch stuff.

But then things start looking up — at least briefly. The Owens’ aunts, played...

Jack Jones, the Grammy-winning singer of popular music fare such as “Lollipops and Roses,” “The Impossible Dream,” “Wives and Lovers” and, perhaps most famously, the theme to TV’s The Love Boat, died Wednesday, October 23. He was 86.

A resident of Coachella Valley, California, Jones, who had been diagnosed with leukemia two years ago, died at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, California last night. His family announced the news today to Kesq News Channel 3 of Palm Springs.

Born into a show business family on January 14, 1938, John Allan Jones was the son of singer Allan Jones and actress Irene Hervey. He would become one of the most popular singers of the Adult Contemporary, or Easy Listening, style in the 1960s. He scored Grammy Awards in 1962 (for “Lollipops and Roses”) and 1964 (for the Burt Bacharach and Hal David composition “Wives And Lovers”), just several years after his 1959 album debut This Love Of Mine.

Sister Wives star Meri Brown might be out in the cold from the rest of the family, but she hasn’t lost her sense of humor after the demise of her polygamous marriage, featured on the TLC series. Today, some fans even suggest she is so good at making others laugh, that she missed her calling.

So, take one part, Meri Brown, then add one part Jenn Sullivan, and you have created a recipe for laughter (maybe a little disaster too). Their contribution to online comedy this week proved these two have talent.

Sister Wives: Meri Brown Branches Out

Sister Wives celeb Meri Brown, and her best friend Jenn Sullivan, had some time on their hands recently, enough to do a skit that left the fans in hysterics. Whenever these two get together, there’s laughter.

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But they recently went above and beyond in a new post...

Litmus Music has acquired Randy Newman’s music publishing and his stake in his recorded music catalog, the company announced Thursday. The deal includes both songs and film scores from throughout his entire career, which dates back to the 1960s.

Among the more famous songs in Newman’s catalog that are part of the acquisition are “I Love L.A.,” “Short People,” “You Can Leave Your Hat On,” “Feels Like Home,” “Mama Told Me Not to Come” and “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.” His film scores include the four “Toy Story” films, “The Natural,” “Awakenings,” “Monsters Inc.,” “Cars,” “Ragtime,” “A Bug’s Life” and “Marriage Story.”

The company said it was entering a “creative partnership” with the musician. No price tag was publicly set on the deal.

Litmus launched in the summer of 2022 and made its first major acquisition the following December, buying Keith Urban’s rights to his master recordings.

Don’t cross the line.

That’s what the trailer for Teacup, the forthcoming Peacock series from horror mastermind James Wan, wants you to know.

In the trailer (below) for the horror-thriller starring Yvonne Strahovski (Handmaid’s Tale) and Scott Speedman (Grey’s Anatomy), a boy (Caleb Dolden) goes on a walk and is seemingly changed forever by what he’s seen.

“He says we’re trapped,” he tells Strahovski’s character. Who? “The man in my head. We need to hide… because it’s coming. And it kills everything that gets in its way.”

The two minute-plus first look at Teacup is eerily set to Harry Nilsson’s “Think About Your Troubles.” The animals are scared. And an anonymous figure draws a line that, if crossed, leads to what sounds to be a gruesome death. Speedman’s character is warned by a stranger wearing a gas mask not to trust anyone,...

The Forrest Gump soundtrack features iconic songs from a wide variety of music artists, including Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. The movie chronicles the life of the title character, a warm-hearted man from Alabama who takes a tour of 20th-century American history. Throughout his travels, he fights in the Vietnam War, meets a handful of U.S. presidents, invests in Apple on the ground level, and exposes the Watergate scandal. Along the way, Forrest Gump uses needle drops on its soundtrack to reflect the changing times.

Some songs on the Forrest Gump soundtrack are used to establish the period setting, like Jimi Hendrix and Buffalo Springfield underscoring scenes of the Vietnam War, while others are more integral to the plot, such as when Elvis sings one of his biggest hits to show off the dance moves he learned from Forrest. The soundtrack of Forrest Gump was a...

Herbie Flowers, a veteran bass guitarist who worked with the likes of David Bowie, Elton John, Paul McCartney and more, has died at the age of 86, according to a family Facebook post.

He died Sept. 5, though a cause of death was not listed.

“While we knew and loved him as Uncle Herbie, his musical contributions have likely touched your lives as well,” Flowers’ niece’s husband wrote online. “He played bass on many of the songs from the golden age of rock.”

Throughout his decades-long career, the British musician most notably worked on tracks like Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” (the iconic bass line of which he originated and was later sampled by such artists as A Tribe Called Quest and Haim) and Bowie’s “Space Oddity.” He also contributed to Harry Nilsson’s 1971 Nilsson Schmilsson (providing the bass line to “Jump Into the Fire”).

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Herbie Flowers, the bassist who played on songs like Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” and David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” has died at the age of 86.

Flowers’ September 5 death was confirmed on social media by the bassist’s family members (via the Guardian); no cause of death was provided. “While we knew and loved him as Uncle Herbie, his musical contributions have likely touched your lives as well,” the husband of Flowers’ niece wrote. “He played bass on many of the songs from the golden age of rock.

The 1995 film "12 Monkeys" was one of the few times a Terry Gilliam film wasn't beset with chaos and production problems. Gilliam is notoriously unlucky — not to mention incredibly headstrong — so many of his features were only made after last-minute disasters, deaths, or other major catastrophes. One can see Gilliam's unluckiness in play in Keith Fulton's and Louis Pepe's 2002 documentary "Lost in La Mancha," which traced the director's first, stalled attempt to make "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote." Also, one doesn't need to be a deep-cut cineaste to know all about the issues Gilliam had with his 1983 sci-fi film "Brazil," a picture that was re-cut multiple times.

For "12 Monkeys," though, everything seemed to work out okay. Based on Chris Marker's 1962 short film "La Jetée," the film begins in 2035 after most of humanity has been killed by a lethal virus. Survivors were forced into underground prisons,...

Warning! This article contains Spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 4.

The Umbrella Academy season 4 wraps up the series with major plot twists and a unique soundtrack capturing key moments. Mixed audience reviews marked the final season, with a bittersweet finale wrapping up neatly in just six episodes. Music plays a crucial role throughout the series, enhancing key scenes and contributing to the show's memorable moments.

The Umbrella Academy season 4 marked the final season, with some major plot twists and a unique soundtrack that captured all the major moments. The Umbrella Academy season 4 has received mixed reviews, particularly from audiences. The Umbrella Academy season 4 marked the shows final season, and some viewers felt let down by the series finale in particular. The season only had six episodes compared to the shows usual 10, but The Umbrella Academy season 4s ending managed to wrap everything up neatly in a bittersweet series finale.

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It wouldn’t be “The Umbrella Academy” without a soundtrack full of excellent needle drops, and Season 4 is no exception. The final season of Netflix’s superhero comic adaptation has just six episodes to wrap up the wild world of the Hargreeves siblings and their many apocalypses, but the short episode count doesn’t hold it back from dropping catchy song after the next — including one of the world’s most earworm-y songs of all time, “Baby Shark.”

This season’s soundtrack is also a little different because the episodes take place during the holiday season, meaning there are a handful of Christmas classics in the mix as well, from “Santa Baby” to “Carol of the Bells.” They even got the always-coveted rights to a Cher song.

If you’re looking for a handy rundown of the complete “Umbrella Academy” Season 4 song list, here’s a guide to all the...

Working on her third album, Charm, Claire Cottrill had one goal. “This is my third album, and people know me a little bit better, but fuck, they still don’t know,” says Cottrill, 25, who performs as Clairo. “It takes so many records to really understand someone’s choices.“

Working with co-producer Leon Michels — known for his work with El Michels Affair and Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings — she expanded on the vintage instrumentation she explored on 2021’s Sling, while reviving the sugary synth-pop of her 2019 debut, Immunity. She wound up with...

In October 1973, John Lennon — the man who seven years earlier whipped the Bible Belt into the Beatle Belt by proclaiming the Fab Four were “more popular than Jesus”— came off uncharacteristically reserved when discussing his latest LP. “The album’s called Mind Games, and it’s, well, just an album,” he told Melody Maker. “It’s not a political album or an introspective album. Someone told me it was ‘like Imagine with balls,’ which I liked a lot. … There’s no deep message about it.”

Bizarrely, he was downplaying the record,...

Shelley Duvall, the actress who captivated moviegoers in Robert Altman classics and brought wide-eyed terror to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, has died at the age of 75.

Duvall’s life partner Dan Gilroy confirmed the actress’ death to the Hollywood Reporter, adding that she died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at their home in Blanco, Texas, where Duvall moved to after leaving Hollywood in the mid-Nineties.

“My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley,...

Typically, when a star has a new movie coming out, they promote it as much as possible. But Whoopi Goldberg once did the exact opposite, taking legal action to prevent one of her movies from ever reaching theaters. And somehow it wasn’t the movie where she solves crimes with the help of a talking dinosaur.

Back in 1988, Goldberg starred in The Telephone, an experimental dramedy about an out-of-work actress who spends most of her time holed up in a small apartment making phone calls. It’s kind of like an avant-garde theater piece (specifically Jean Cocteau’s The Human Voice) crossed with a Bob Newhart routine — but not as good as that makes it sound.

Weirdly enough, The Telephone was the only film ever directed by actor Rip Torn, of The Larry Sanders Show, Men in Black and drunkenly breaking into a bank that one time fame. And it...

The Continental's 70s soundtrack sets the tone of the series, enhancing the disco-infused NYC setting. Winston's origin story is accompanied by iconic songs from the era, adding depth to the narrative. Music in The Continental differs from John Wick films, reflecting Winston's character and the show's distinct style.

The Continental has a soundtrack filled with songs from the 70s and the eras before to sell its past setting; here is every song in the John Wick prequel and where it plays in each episode. The Continental is set in the 1970s and tells the origin story of Winston Scott alongside his brother Frankie. In the John Wick films, Winston was played by Ian McShane as the manager of the New York Continental, with Colin Woodell bringing a younger Winston to life.

Given that The Continental is set in the 1970s, it has a distinct visual style in comparison to the...

Independence Day is here, and Deep Tracks is focusing on the most essential fourth releases from American classic rock artists! We’re counting down your favorites, as voted by you.

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These are the possible album choices for this year’s “Fourths for the Fourth” countdown:

Allman Brothers Band – Brothers And Sisters

Aerosmith – Rocks

Al Kooper – New York City (You’re A Woman)

Alice Cooper – Killer

Beach Boys – Little Deuce Coupe

Big Star – In Space...

Thelma The Unicorn features original songs by Brittany Howard that capture the film's themes and propel the plot forward. The movie offers a mix of recognizable pop hits and inventive original songs to enhance the viewing experience. Each character in the film gets their own musical number, adding depth to the story and showcasing the talents of the cast.

Thelma The Unicorn features several original songs by Brittany Howard and other artists alongside a range of recognizable pop hits. The Netflix animated movie follows Thelma, a pony who wishes to be a successful singer but doesn't have the looks and glamor for it. When she gets a makeover by chance one day, she shoots up to fame, but then has to reckon with the cost of it. Thelma The Unicorn has an incredible soundtrack filled with inventive original songs that depict the film's key themes and advance the plot.

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Clairo has returned to announce her new album, Charm, and shared the record’s first single, “Sexy to Someone.” Stream it below.

Set for release on July 12th, Charm is Clairo’s third album, and will arrive via her new label, Clairo Records. The album was produced by Leon Michels of the Dap-Kings and El Michels Affair, and it sees Clairo advancing on the ornate, jazz-and-folk-inspired work found in Sling. Recorded live to tape with an extensive ensemble of musicians, Clairo was inspired by the ambitious arrangements, songwriting, and recording technqiues of Harry Nilsson and Blossom Dearie.

After hopping on remixes of tracks from Phoenix and Beabadoobee and releasing a pair of singles on Bandcamp benefitting Doctors Without Borders last year, “Sexy to Someone” is Clairo’s first piece of new music since 2021’s Sling. With a driving drum beat, poppier melodies, a flute and saxophone line, and plenty of piano,...

Eddie Murphy is back with a badge for the fourth franchise installment of his beloved series, with “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.”

The upcoming Netflix film, which teased a first look earlier this year, marks Murphy’s long-rumored reprisal the iconic character Detective Axel Foley. The ’80s-era franchise first began with Foley as a Detroit detective turned temporary L.A. police officer for an uncover mission. Now, after having worked in L.A. sporadically for decades, Foley teams up with his estranged daughter Jane (Taylour Paige) to take down yet another conspiracy.

Along the way, Foley lands a new partner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and police captain (Kevin Bacon), but his old confidantes, including Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton), are still in the mix. Also returning? Franchise co-stars Paul Reiser and Bronson Pinchot.

“Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” is directed by Mark Molloy from a script by Will Beall,...

Eddie Murphy's Axel Foley will have a new police partner when he returns to Beverly Hills in the upcoming Netflix sequel, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. A new image has just been released of Axel's new police partner, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Detective Bobby Abbott, who coincidentally is the ex-boyfriend of Axel's estranged daughter, Jane.

The image of Gordon-Levitt's Bobby Abbott was shared by Empire, who also sat down with the actor to discuss his involvement in the highly-anticipated, and long-awaited, sequel. "This character is a bit strait-laced I am an actual Beverly Hills cop, whereas Axel Foley is a cop from Detroit who finds himself in Beverly Hills but hes not a simple straight man," teased Gordon-Levitt. "I also get my licks in. I wouldnt be living up to this crazy opportunity if I wasnt going to have a few myself. We got to do some really fun stuff.

Three decades after he last graced our screen, Axel Foley is back, back, back. Eddie Murphy is returning to his most famous character in long-awaited fourquel Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F – and he’s got a whole new squad with him. While there are familiar faces returning (Judge Reinhold’s Lieutenant Billy Rosewood and Bronson Pinchot’s Serge among them), expect plenty of newcomers too: Taylour Paige as Foley’s estranged daughter Jane, Kevin Bacon as police Captain Grant. And, most importantly, there’s Foley’s brand new police partner: Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Detective Bobby Abbott.

While Foley’s unpredictability is his greatest asset, Abbott is a much more measured presence. “This character is a bit strait-laced – I am an actual Beverly Hills cop, whereas Axel Foley is a cop from Detroit who finds himself in Beverly Hills – but he’s not a simple straight man,” Gordon-Levitt tells Empire. He,...

Contrary to popular myth, Mama Cass Elliot did not die from choking on a ham sandwich, her daughter is keen for people to know.

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the death of the songstress with the Mamas and the Papas, Elliot’s daughter Owen Elliot-Kugell has told the BBC, “There was a ham sandwich, but she didn’t eat it and she didn’t choke on it. So enough with the jokes.”

Mama Cass died aged 32 in the London flat of fellow singer Harry Nilsson in 1974, after she had finished a two-week run of performances at the London Palladium. The autopsy confirmed her case of death as a heart attack.

At the time, and in many cultural references since, it was reported that she had choked to death on a ham sandwich, which was found by her bedside.

Her daughter, who has written a book My Mama,...

[Editor’s note: The following interview contains minor spoilers for “The Fall Guy.”]

David Leitch’s “The Fall Guy” has it all. Drama, action, romance, Taylor Swift. As the film’s Super Bowl trailer delighted in telling potential audience members, the upcoming Ryan Gosling- and Emily Blunt-starring feature is packed with a little something for everyone. And, yes, that includes Gosling crying to Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well” during one of the film’s funniest (and most emotional) sequences, one that’s on full display in that second trailer.

But it wasn’t always going to be Swift’s song that made Gosling’s character cry. During a recent interview with producer Kelly McCormick (who is also Leitch’s wife), she revealed to IndieWire there was another choice on the table.

“It wasn’t actually [always going to be a Swift song], but it wasn’t going to be the song that we were playing [during shooting], because it was not right for their romance,” McCormick told IndieWire.

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at several music videos by Luca Guadagnino. Luca Guadagnino's films are vibrant and lush, pulsating with life and a heartbeat, like music. He is often one to curate his soundtracks carefully, with the likes of The Rolling Stones, Harry Nilsson, Captain Beefheart, Sufjan Stevens, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Thom Yorke and John Adams showing up on his soundtracks. Sometimes he chooses pre-existing tracks, but more often he asks his favorite artists to provide the sonic backdrop for his films. It is fitting that a few of the music videos Guadagnino directed are for tracks tailor made for his own features, starting...

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While many could argue that Netflix's quality has decreased in recent years, there's no doubt that the streaming service has produced several shows that have become cultural staples in television. Netflix has been behind several of the best shows in the last decade, such as Stranger Things, The Umbrella Academy, and Sex Education.

All these shows have excellent character development, engaging plots, and fantastic music in common. A show with a good soundtrack will carefully select the music to take pivotal scenes to the next level, and Netflix is known for making some of the most iconic musical selections from recent years.

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Bridgerton

Based on the book series by Julia Quinn, Bridgerton is a period series that follows many families in England's nineteenth century as they navigate their way into high-class society. However, the show doesn't try to be historically accurate,...

On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.

First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.

Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.

The Pitch: A Smooth-Brained Boy and His Bright Blue Dog Escape Capitalism

I got my first gig as a professional journalist during the 2016 election. Since then, I’ve read and written countless variations on the same despairing lede. It’s a rambling list of the world’s gravest existential threats punctuated with a quip about something recent, specific, sensational, and typically terrible.

“Protesters may be flooding the pandemic-ridden streets while an insurrection takes place, the planet literally boils, and killer bees swarm Times Square…” some sad-sack news writer might begin. “But at...

Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie”(starring Margot Robbie as the titular doll) is, justifiably, capturing the cultural zeitgeist.

The movie itself is wonderful – a subversive, silly and surprisingly moving. Whatever you thought a “Barbie” movie would be, this isn’t it. There is no egregious product placements (despite almost every product imaginable in our world having a “Barbie” tie-ins) or feelings of gross consumerism. Instead, it’s a lovely tale about feminism and the differences between an idealized world created, in part, by the dreams of young women, and the cruel reality of the world we actually inhabit.

“Barbie” gives you such a buzz, in fact, that you’re probably looking for more things like it. We’ve compiled five movies that are, at the very least, “Barbie”-ish, and ones that we think you’ll probably enjoy.

Note: These are all movies that were not a part of Greta Gerwig...

Fans of popular cartoons such as Dexter’s Laboratory and Johnny Bravo have been crossing their fingers for a live-action adaptation for years, and such dreams might become a reality in the future, given the current high output by movie studios and streaming services. Thankfully, numerous other cartoons have made their way to the big screen.

For some movies, the main characters first appeared in toy lines, video games, and comic strips but only became globally famous after appearing in animated shows. The films – which mostly rely on the characterizations established in the cartoons – are thus recommendable for those seeking to see familiar faces in high-stakes adventures with bigger production values.

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Inspector Gadget (1999) Stream On Disney+

The Inspector Gadget ‘80s cartoon is nearly perfect hence replicating the same magic on the big screen was always going to be a challenge. Thankfully, director David Kellogg...

Stars: Haven Lee Harris, Augie Duke, Brionne Davis, Morgana Ignis, Maria Olsen, Téa Mckay, Timothy Lee DePriest, Angelica Ulloa, Phillip E. Walker, Emily Meister | Written and Directed by Ryan Stevens Harris

Anyone who grew up in a dysfunctional household knows just how traumatic childhood can be. In Moon Garden, writer/director Ryan Stevens Harris visualizes those traumas as the nightmarish denizens of the dark, industrial wasteland that a young girl finds herself trapped in.

Emma lives with her parents Sara and Alex. They love Emma, but they don’t love each other anymore. After getting a scare one night she runs to their room, only to encounter something even scarier, the two of them in the midst of a loud, intense argument. Running from it she trips and takes a fall down the stairs which leaves her in a coma. Her struggle to awake from it becomes a nightmarish trip...