Primal Scream will play their 2000 album Xtrmntr in full at a handful of UK dates in September. Bobby Gillespie & co. will kick things off with two hometown shows in Glasgow, before heading to Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham, Manchester, Bristol, and, finally, London. Check out the tour intinerary below. Primal Scream returned in 2024
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Inaugural James Patterson & Bookshop.org Prize I’m always excited to see what Bookshop.org does next, and I
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Truck Violence, the Montreal-based folk-punk and noisy post-hardcore band, have signed to the Flenser and announced a new album. Their sophomore LP, The Weathervane Is My Body, is out June 26. Check out the lead single “New Jesus” and its Kirill Sommer-directed music video below. Guitarist-banjoist Paul Lecours and singer-poet Karsyn Henderson formed Truck Violence
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Alice Leigh’s debut is pitched as a coming-of-age dark academia thriller, leaving her with big expectations to fulfil. While it contains all the essential ingredients of the subgenre, its style and themes align more closely with young adult fiction. The setting of High Hill Manor School for Girls provides a strong, gothic backdrop. A prestigious
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Roadside Attractions’ A Great Awakening nabbed the no. 6 spot at the domestic box office with a solid $2.1 million on 1,289 screens. The Sight & Sound production in honor of America’s 250th anniversary ths year explores the friendship between firebrand preacher George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin, and how Franklin’s resulting recognition of the role
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“You don’t really have any friends, do you, Dad?” Andrew McCarthy’s son asks him one day, and McCarthy pauses. Seemingly without much further planning, the actor and author sends a flurry of texts, proposing adventures and visits. Soon, he hits the road. This time, he’s not traversing Spain’s Camino de Santiago with his son (Walking
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15. They earned the right to dream big. Prince reached out to them.”He contacted Zooey and Hannah [Simone] directly,” Baer told E! News in 2014, “and asked to do the show.” Turning down a season two episode called “Virgins,” (“Obviously, in hindsight: The episode was too racy,” Meriwether told Vulture) he said he’d be interested
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I Saw the TV Glow writer-director Jane Schoenbrunwill publish their debut novel, Public Access Afterworld, on October 27 via Hogarth Books. Described as “a mesmerizing mashup of speculative fiction, horror, and conspiracy,” the 608-page novel is about a mysterious realm on the other side of our screens, a dark force that draws victims into its
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Selecting the best recent historical fiction books feels like a contradiction in terms. Historical fiction is a broad genre, encompassing thousands of years and spanning the entire globe. It can focus on the most well-known figures of all time or highlight everyday lives that don’t typically make it into textbooks. Ironically, historical fiction feels like
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Allison Janney (I, Tonya), Odessa A’zion (Hellraiser), Ewan Mitchell (“House of the Dragon”), Cherry Jones (“24”), and Benedict Wong (Weapons) have been cast in Fonda, Variety reports. They join the previously announced Mia Goth (Frankenstein), Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers), Frank Dillane (“Fear the Walking Dead”), and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Candyman). The psychological thriller is
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Last night, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy joined Hayley Williams’ band on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to perform Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s 2010 song,“Ffunny Ffrends.” Fittingly, Tweedy also gave a pre-show interview with his best friend, actor Nick Offerman. Watch the conversation and performance below. Tweedy’s friendship with Offerman began when the actor cast the
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