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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is well known for its powerful and terrifying villains, such as the legendary Dio himself. The anime managed to drive home the true power and danger of these villains in a unique and interesting way, and the way in which they did that also suggests that one Jojo hero is truly on their level.

For the most part, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure's villains wield the same kind of power that its heroes do: the spiritual ability known as a Stand, a manifestation of one's soul with special powers that can range from punching really fast to poisoning wide areas to outright stopping the passage of time. Stand abilities can vary greatly in their power levels, but the biggest villains, unsurprisingly, possess astonishingly powerful Stands which often have the capacity to alter the very fabric of time and space. It can be difficult to truly convey that level of power,...

Each week, Consequence rings in New Music Friday by highlighting new albums to stream. With just a short stretch of days before we’re fully back in autumn mode, today’s slate of great releases might very well be the soundtrack for the next season.

There are some bold statement pieces from artists on the rise, like Dora Jar and julie, as well as some new offerings from established favorites, like a new live album from The War on Drugs and The Jesus Lizard’s comeback LP Rack. Meanwhile, singer and songwriter Nilüfer Yanya returns today with another indelible record, My Method Actor.

Here are 10 new albums to stream today.

Dora Jar – No Way to Relax When You’re on Fire

The Los Angeles singer-songwriter has risen quickly through the ranks of the pop machine, but she’s done so with an unshakeable authenticity. Dora Jar can be weirdly charming...

Star Platinum's power lies in its incredible physical strength and time-stopping. The World is iconic for its design, strength, and time-freezing abilities. Killer Queen and King Crimson boast explosive skills and control over time.

Some of the most unique and distinctive aspects of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure are the strange humanoid abilities named Stands. This is how most of the series' main characters represent their incredible abilities, in the form of a Stand. The creature oten appears somewhat humanoid, but possesses unbelievable talents and powers beyond what ordinary humans are capable of.

These Stands are also usually brightly colored and elaborately accessorized in ways that hint at whatever specific power the Stand possesses. Some examples include Bucciarati's Sticky Fingers that is covered in zippers or Jolyne's Stone Free that includes strings in its impressive design. The franchise boasts an extensive variety of different types of Stands that perfectly fit with their respective Stand users.

Five years ago, Robert Fripp was still merely known as the legendary guitarist of prog-rock pioneers King Crimson. Fast-forward to the present, and he’s the guy who does kooky “Sunday Lunch” YouTube videos with his wife Toyah, so it wouldn’t exactly be a shock if he joined OnlyFans. Thankfully, though, a new video declaring as much is merely an April Fools’ joke.

The clip was posted on the 77-year-old Fripp’s Instagram page with the caption, “Robert has officially joined OnlyFans! Subscribe now for exclusive, jaw-dropping content you never knew you needed…” In the video, we see a naked Fripp seductively sitting on a staircase, with only his guitar strategically preventing things from getting X-rated.

An accompanying URL (onlyfans.com/robertfripp) leads to a dead link, ultimately letting us know that it’s an April Fools’ Day prank. Whew!

It’s not the only fun new clip from Fripp.

Myles Goodwyn, the founding frontman and guitarist for platinum Canadian rock band April Wine who wrote and sang such hits as “Sign of the Gypsy Queen,” “Roller” and “I Like to Rock,” died December 4. He was 75.

No further details on cause of death, location or funeral details will be disclosed, according to a spokesman.

Founded in Nova Scotia in 1969 and based in Montreal, April Wine has sold more than 10 million records worldwide. The group broke out with its 1972 sophomore album On Record, which featured “You Could Have Been a Lady,” a No. 2 hit in Canada that dented the U.S. Top 40. The band continued on nearly an album-a-year pace through the 1970s, with 1976’s The Whole World Is Going Crazy topping the Canadian chart.

April Wine returned to the U.S. charts with First Glance (1978), which featured the hard-rocking Top 40 U.S. single “Roller.” It was a prime example of...

The following contains spoilers for Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu novel, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, available in English from Seven Seas Entertainment.

Some people come back from the dead to seek revenge on those who have wronged them. And then there's Heaven Official's Blessing's Hua Cheng.

In Heaven Official's Blessing's lore, two of the three Ghost Kings became a Ghost King out of their powerful negative emotions. On the other hand, Hua Cheng's devotion to Xie Lian is the very definition of the saying "love conquers all," as this became the reason why he managed to survive and become the Ghost King known as Crimson Rain Sought Flower. Heaven Official's Blessing fan cherry Hua Cheng Month hilariously illustrates this point in a tweet describing a conversation Ghost Kings He Xuan and Hua Cheng might have had where He Xuan talks about his revenge. At the same time,...

In his career, James Gunn has written or directed eight superhero-based movies and TV shows. Early on, Gunn seemed eager to deconstruct the world of superheroes with their petty, human qualities (as in "The Specials") or the dark side of their devotion to violence (as in "Super"). As his career has continued, however, Gunn's work has become more earnest, and he has altered his focus toward quirky, violent characters who, now, possess a great deal of warmth and vulnerability. For example, his first "Guardians of the Galaxy" film from 2014 was presented as the "bad boy" off-shoot of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring characters that were stranger and less brazenly heroic than their Earthbound counterparts. But, despite their oddness, the PG-13-rated film had little interest in glorifying their outsider status, instead presenting them as an ersatz family, each one marked by trauma and abuse. Many of the film's fans responded to the Guardians' unabashed sentimentality,...

Further new releases to make the top five include ‘Air’ and ’The Pope’s Exorcist’.

Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Apr 7-9) Total gross to date Week 1. Super Mario Bros: The Movie (Universal) £8.7m £19.8m 1 2. Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (eOne) £1.6m £8.2m 2 3. John Wick: Chapter 4 (Lionsgate) £1.3m £13.4m 3 4. Air (Warner Bros) £807,693 £1.6m 1 5. The Pope’s Exorcist (Sony) £689,666 £921,015 1

Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.24

Super Mario Bros: The Movie blasted the competition at the UK-Ireland box office during the Easter bank holiday weekend, taking £8.7m from 720 locations for Universal –the biggest wide release for an animation in the territory.

This gives...

At a press event in London on Saturday, King Crimson manager David Singleton announced that the band’s entire studio-album catalog will soon launch on Spotify. Describing the move as part of an “outreach year” for the band, Singleton said the albums are set to begin streaming in time for the avant-rock legends’ upcoming 50th anniversary tour.

Streaming holdouts for years, King Crimson began launching select titles on Spotify in 2017. In June of that year, they posted two live releases by their current three-drummer incarnation: multi-disc set Radical Action to...

The Flying Luttenbachers are more of an idea than a band. Just as Robert Fripp has steered King Crimson through countless lineups and styles during the past 50 years, Luttenbachers drummer, composer and sole consistent member Weasel Walter rebooted his group constantly during its initial 1991–2007 run, typically reemerging each time with a whole new sound and set of collaborators.

Depending on when you were tuning in to the project — whose odd moniker came from Harold Luttenbacher, the birth name of original horn player Hal Russell— you might have heard No Wave–influenced punk-jazz,...

Happy 50th birthday, King Crimson. As noted on their official website, this past Sunday marked exactly five decades since the legendary avant-rock outfit first rehearsed. The year that followed was a whirlwind: By the end of 1969, the core lineup that had convened on January 13th at London’s Fulham Palace Road Cafe — vocalist-bassist Greg Lake, guitarist Robert Fripp, drummer Michael Giles and woodwind player Ian McDonald, along with lyricist and light-and-sound-man Peter Sinfield — had released a hit debut, In the Court of the Crimson King, and, following a Fillmore West gig on December 16th,...

King Crimson will celebrate their 50th anniversary with a year full of special releases and events, including a 50-date tour spanning three continents. The prog-rock band confirmed three U.S. shows for September: the 3rd in Los Angeles, California; the 10th in Chicago, Illinois; and the 21st in New York, New York.

The group will release Cosmic F*Kc, a new documentary and accompanying soundtrack, out late 2019. Director Toby Amies was granted “unique access” to the current “Double Quartet” line-up for the doc, which also includes archival footage and interviews with former members.

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It's a Black Flag Christmas as Captain Kirk trades in his starship for a sleigh.

Christmas is coming and, like the Grinch in the Dr. Seuss Classic, William Shatner is a transformed man. The former Denny Crain is putting out his first-ever Christmas album, called Shatner Claus - The Christmas Album on Oct. 26. And he's assembled enough of a varied lineup of guests they could star in the "Journey to Babel" episode of the original Star Trek. Jethro Tull flautist and singer Ian Anderson, protopunk Iggy Pop, folk songstress Judy Collins, prog pianist Rick Wakeman, utopian pop master Todd Rundgren, country star Brad Paisley mix up the styles for the actor who once sold Priceline.

The man who shouted "Mr. Tambourine Man" with the same gusto he screamed "Khan," put out the track list of the album on Thursday, and followed it up with a chestnut he...

William Shatner, master of the theatrical spoken-word rock cover, is tackling the Yuletide with his first-ever holiday LP, Shatner Claus – The Christmas Album, out October 26th via Clepoatra Records. Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, Brad Paisley, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson, Zz Top’s Billy Gibbons, Todd Rundgren, Judy Collins and former Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman all appear on the record, among other guests.

King Crimson woodwind specialist Mel Collins, former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle and the Cars guitarist Elliot Easton also appear on the album, which includes Shatner-ish spins...

Cage is all out for revenge on a sadistic biker gang in Panos Cosmatos’s oddball nerd-fantasy yarn, set in 1983

Have you ever drifted to sleep on a couch, an open copy of Métal Hurlant on your lap, as your friends play Dungeons & Dragons and a Slayer record spins? If not, don’t worry, Panos Cosmatos will recreate this moment for you.

As with his first film – 2010’s slightly more Rush, Omni Magazine and early Cronenberg-inspired Beyond the Black Rainbow – Mandy is set in that most futuristic date, the year 1983. But this story is a little more steeped in demonic myth than microchips. After a slow credit sequence of a timber yard, set to King Crimson’s gorgeous song Starless (you don’t hear a Robert Fripp guitar solo in films too often) we meet Red (Nicolas Cage) and Mandy (Andrea Riseborough). They are in a love haze in...

He's the man who "invented world music" and who created the first ever music video using Plasticine. Yes, we're talking about '70s rock legend Brian Pern - the frontman of Thotch.

Ok, Brian Pern might not be real, but Simon Day and Rhys Thomas's surreal music doc spoof is so on the money, it feels like Pern and Thotch are very much the bona fide article. Is the Day of the Triffids album not on iTunes yet?

With incredible guest appearances from the likes of Roger Moore, Martin Freeman and Kathy Burke, Brian Pern: A Life in Rock is the funniest TV show on right now.

We caught up with Day and Thomas to chat about its success.

First things first, I was a huge fan of your last comedy show Bellamy's People.

Simon Day: "Oh, don't get us started on that."

Honestly, I loved it. That didn't get a second series.

New York artist George Condo and his incredible paintings, director John McNaughton and his genre-busting filmmaking and the spirits of Aldous Huxley and the Beat Generation writers are the primary ingredients of "Condo Painting", USA Films' provocative and trippy documentary that opens today in New York.

Subverting high art with visual samples from pop culture in his works and on-screen musings, Condo is a self-assured "antipodal" painter, who collaborates with the late William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg in sequences filmed several years ago. Indeed, McNaughton ("Wild Things", HBO's "Lansky") originally set out to make a short film in 1996, but in this expanded project all involved achieve something quite remarkable.

A satisfactory portrait of the 42-year-old artist, "Painting" incorporates the fascinating creation of one of Condo's portraits of an antipodal being -- dubbed "Big Red" and eventually coming to resemble, almost subliminally, the cartoon character Yosemite Sam. Antipode is an old word meaning "exact opposite or contrary." In the context of Condo's work and philosophy, antipodes are invented creatures, whose existence is "in complete independence of our consciousness."

Not the easiest thing to get a handle on, for sure, but "Painting" lives up to its title and shows the artist painting a brightly colored being from his imagination, and then paining over his own work twice. While capturing the artist's unusual process of creation in terrific cinema verite sequences, shot on the fly with a High-8 video camera, McNaughton also uses seemingly every postproduction trick in the book to fracture and then reassemble the film along chronological and thematic fault lines.

Interspersed with Condo's progress on "Big Red" are interesting art-making sequences with Burroughs and Ginsberg. In a film of many startling images and lively ideas, none is more thought-provoking and playful than Condo painting a skeleton on Ginsberg -- footage that McNaughton then reversed from positive to negative and ran backward to make it look as if the poet's skeleton is being "unpainted."

Music and songs by Danny Elfman, Philip Glass, Beck, Tom Waits and others, including a cool revival of King Crimson, keep the mood shifting and eclectic, befitting a wily thinker like Condo, who believes -- among other unorthodox notions -- that TV show characters like Gomer Pyle are just as important in the scheme of things as Albert Einstein.

CONDO PAINTING

USA Films

October Films

Pod Squad Prods.

Director: John McNaughton

Screenwriters: George Condo,

John McNaughton

Producer: Dana Giacchetto

Director of photography: John McNaughton

Editors: Elena Maganini, Tom Keefe

Music: Danny Elfman

With: George Condo,

William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg

Color/stereo

Running time -- 85 minutes

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