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Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Last of Us Part II game.

The trailer for The Last of Us season 2 has been released, and it uses a song that is deeply tied to the Last of Us games. After a couple of teases and TV spots, HBO has released the first proper trailer for The Last of Us season 2. Based on the popular video game series of the same name, The Last of Us has been widely praised as a pitch-perfect adaptation that honored all important aspects of the source material while still finding room to tell new stories.

The level of accuracy and respect for the source material shown in The Last of Us season 1 is back in the second season, from the casting choices to some of the story decisions teased in the latest trailer. This includes the song choice, which not only references a very important scene in...

With help from the Pearl Jam song “Future Days,” HBO has revealed the first substantial look at “The Last of Us” Season 2.

The legendary grunge band’s closing track from the album “Lightning Bolt” factors prominently in the first Season 2 trailer for “The Last of Us,” which reveals the first look at new cast members Isabel Mercad (as Dina), Kaitlyn Dever (as Abby), and Young Mazino (as Jesse). The teaser also puts spotlights on Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara in an undisclosed guest role and Emmy winner Jeffrey Wright as Isaac (reprising his voice role from “The Last of Us Part II” video game).

“Say the thing you’re afraid to say. Say it out loud, no matter what it is, no matter how bad,” O’Hara’s character asks Joel (Emmy nominee Pedro Pascal) in the trailer, which starts with idyllic images of Joel and Ellie (Emmy nominee Bella Ramsey...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Percy Jackson episode 3 and The Lightning Thief book.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians introduces the Oracle of Delphi, who delivers a serious prophecy to Percy about his upcoming quest. The Oracle's prophecy reveals that Percy will be betrayed by a friend and "fail to save what matters most in the end." The Oracle's takes the form of Gabe Ugliano in the show, though the exact reason for this is unclear.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians introduces the Oracle of Delphi in episode 3, giving Percy insight into his upcoming quest before he embarks on it. Despite initially looking like "a Halloween decoration," the Oracle offers Percy a poignant warning — and does so in a fascinating form. Upon awaking, the Oracle shifts from an elderly woman to Gabe Ugliano, Percy's unlikable step-father. It's a hilarious take on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson books, and it draws inspiration from the...

The creator of Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan, is already teasing some massive action scenes featuring Ares in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. After the original Percy Jackson movies failed to be a proper adaptation of the books, Disney+ decided to greenlight an adaptation of Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief as a live-action TV show. With Riordan present on-set to help ensure that the adaptation is as book-accurate as possible, the production seems dedicated to portraying a world aligned with his vision and the overall narrative of the books.

In a recent post on Mastodon, Riordan teased the majesty of a fight in Percy Jackson and the Olympians that features the iconic god Ares. Check out his post below:

One central element that Riordan is teasing is the appearance of the gods. Percy Jason and the Olympians revolves around the ancient Greek gods, so it needs to make them...

Pearl Jam document an environmental apocalypse and excoriate Donald Trump on their new song, “Quick Escape.” The track will appear on the band’s upcoming album, Gigaton, which arrives this Friday, March 27th.

“Quick Escape” is a delirious hard-rocker complete with heavy drums, screeching guitars, and a pile-driver of a bass line. Eddie Vedder presides over the controlled chaos with a voice that crackles with distortion as he narrates a sci-fi story about a devastated planet — “The lengths we had to go to then/To find a place Trump hadn...

Later this week, Pearl Jam will finally release Gigaton, its first new album since 2013's Lightning Bolt. If you still can’t wait a few days, though, the band has come up with a revolutionary new way to give fans a preview of Gigaton: A telephone line! Alright, so it’s not quite revolutionary or new, but it is… retro…...

One of Eddie Vedder’s idols, Roger Daltrey of the Who, once said that the secret to keeping “My Generation” fresh onstage half a century after it was written isn’t nailing the song’s stutter, but believably channeling its anger. It’s a sentiment Vedder would definitely endorse; the Pearl Jam frontman’s rage has always burned bright (this is a guy who once sounded super pissed-off singing about how people should play more vinyl). But as he’s matured, the youthful fury that fueled Pj’s golden-age grunge has grown with him,...

Pearl Jam will offer fans an early listen of their new album, Gigaton, with special audio-visual experiences scheduled at over 200 Dolby Atmos-equipped theaters around the world. The one-night only event will take place March 25th, two days before the LP’s March 27th release date.

The “Gigaton Listening Experience” will include a full playback of the new album in Dolby Atmos, a high-quality surround sound technology. The music will be paired with visuals curated and created by Evolve, the filmmaker and artist who helmed the music video for Gigaton’s first single,...

Pearl Jam unveiled a new animated video for their latest single, “Superblood Wolfmoon,” from their upcoming album, Gigaton.

For the clip, the band teamed up with animator Keith Ross, who runs @TinyConcert, an Instagram account where he posts short music videos he’s crafted with only a ballpoint pen. The “Superblood Wolfmoon” clip marks the first full-length music video Ross has made, and his straightforward yet thrillingly dynamic style is a perfect fit for Pearl Jam’s no-frills rocker.

Pearl Jam released “Superblood Wolfmoon” Tuesday, although they’d previously previewed...

Pearl Jam have released their new single “Superblood Wolfmoon” after previewing the track via smartphones last week. The sonically upbeat rock song sees frontman Eddie Vedder reflecting on a relationship that went south.

“She was a stunner and I am stunned,” he sings. “And the first thought or second thought ‘Could be the one’/ I was a prisoner of keys and the cuffs/ Yeah, I was feeling fortunate to be locked up.” He adds, “I don’t know anything, I question everything/ This life I love is going way too fast.

Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard explained how the group’s upcoming album, Gigaton, captures “the spirit of the band” in a new interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1 radio.

The first single from Gigaton, “Dance of the Clairvoyants,” found the band exploring funkier and more experimental sonic territories, with Gossard saying the track exemplifies “the outer edge of something that we haven’t tried before, a new way of configuring our sort of collaborative talents.” But he went on to note that “Dance of the Clairvoyants” is just one of several flavors on the record.

Long ago, during a brief “ecstasy phase,” Eddie Vedder tried to write some techno music. “I was listening to all this stuff on ecstasy,” he told me in 2006, during an all-night chat in a Cleveland hotel room. “But I was wondering, ‘Are they writing it on ecstasy?’ I decided that the pure way to do it is to actually take ecstasy, and then write ecstasy music. That didn’t work out. But I enjoyed the ecstasy.” Around the same time, guitarist Stone Gossard revealed a desire to experiment with Pearl...

Pearl Jam have unveiled the first single from their upcoming Gigaton LP, the propulsive “Dance of the Clairvoyants.” Their 11th studio album, Gigaton is their first LP in seven years and the follow-up to 2013’s Lightning Bolt.

“Expecting perfection/leaves a lot to ignore,” Eddie Vedder sings. “When the past is the present and the future’s no more/And every tomorrow is the same as before.”

“‘Dance’ was a perfect storm of experimentation and real collaboration…,” bassist Jeff Ament wrote via the band’s Twitter. “We’ve opened some...

Pearl Jam revealed the tracklist for their upcoming 11th studio album, Gigaton. The long-awaited 12-track LP, which follows 2013’s Lightning Bolt, features upcoming single “Dance of the Clairvoyants.” Notably, it does not include their most recent song, 2018’s “Can’t Deny Me,” released as part of their Ten Club fan club.

The quintet announced the project in mid-January following an online scavenger hunt built around Paul Nicklen’s vivid cover photo, “Ice Waterfall,” which shows meltwater surging from the Nordaustlandet ice cap.

Gigaton marks the band’s first co-production with Josh Evans,...