Month: June 2026

A class-action lawsuit against Spotify led by rapper RBX, which accused the streaming giant of turning a blind eye to pervasive bot-farming on its platform, has been dismissed as of yesterday. In her June 22 ruling, California federal judge Josephine Stanton found that RBX had “failed to plausibly allege that the harm he has suffered
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The Killers’ Brandon Flowers is hopping on the increasingly crowded country bandwagon with new album Thrasher, his first solo LP since 2015’s The Desired Effect. Not only was the project recorded in Nashville, it includes tassel-heavy cover art (see below), and features contributions from David Rawlings, pedal-steel virtuoso/longtime Garth Brooks collaborator Bruce Bouton, and harmonica
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Canada’s Angine de Poitrine were among the guests on last night’s (June 21) episode of Later… With Jools Holland. The masked math rock duo broke out all their signature trappings—uncanny choreography, microtonal riffs, and lots and lots of polka dots—for a performance of “Fabienk,” from their new album, Vol. II. Also, have you noticed that
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Brennan Wedl has arrived at Anti- for a new album out August 21. Co-produced by Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield and indie wizard Brad Cook, the self-titled record pairs Wedl with backing musicians including Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan, Colin Croom, and Matt McCaughan. Watch Wedl’s self-directed video for “Pretty Little Fantasy” below. Brennan Wedl is the Nashville-based
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Julia Holter isn’t finished with the themes of her 2024 LP Something in the Room She Moves just yet. The art-pop composer and singer-songwriter revealed she’s got a new album on the way (Materia, out August 21 via Domino) that functions as a companion record. Check out the single “Fantasy” and its Dicky Bahto-directed video
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James Wilson was the most democratic of all the Founding Fathers and fervently promoted the philosophy that all power rests with the people. He wrote the first draft of the Constitution and was one of only six men who signed both the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence; he coined the phrase ‘‘We the people”;
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Summer may be running short on content, but we still have some characters who have resonated with us. Whether they were navigating grief, confronting impossible choices, or relentlessly chasing the truth, these Characters of the Week drove some of the week’s strongest stories. From a long-overdue spotlight on Criminal Minds’ Luke Alvez to a supernatural
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Critic’s Rating: 3 / 5.0 3 If you’ve been eagerly anticipating the fact that House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 1 would chart the Battle of the Gullet, then you’ve been waiting a long time. Seriously. It’s been almost two years since House of the Dragon Season 2 ended in the most anticlimactic fashion,
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Critic’s Rating: 4.8 / 5.0 4.8 The one thing that stands out to me most in the early hours of The Vampire Lestat is how viscerally arresting it is. Your eyes are drawn to so many different things in every scene, and you’re terrified you won’t catch everything in time before the show sweeps you
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Saima Mir is a British crime author who offers readers something different and challenges perceptions. Get this – her trilogy featuring Jia Khan is antihero noir with a Muslim woman leading a crime syndicate. The idea of it immediately made me want to find out more, and so we invited Saima to join us here
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YouTuber Jesse Ridgway Says Wife’s Family Encouraged Her to Leave Him After Pregnancy Termination Jesse Ridgwaywill always be inAshley Ridgway’s corner. After the YouTuber, known online asMcJuggerNuggets, sharedthat he and his wifeterminated their pregnancydue to the fetus testing positive for Trisomy 21, or the chromosomal condition that causes Down syndrome, heallegedAshley’s family has been encouraging
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Celebrating America’s 250th isn’t just about the Founding Fathers, as Denise Kiernan reminds us in her impressive Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution. Engaging, informative and surprising, Obstinate Daughters goes beyond documenting the transformative events of the American Revolution to ask questions about America today—and who belongs in
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In her engaging Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution, Denise Kiernan (The Girls of Atomic City) takes readers on a remarkable journey to discover—and rediscover—some of the fascinating women who helped to shape the Revolutionary Era. Along the way, Kiernan challenges traditional ideas of who belongs in history
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John Early’s Maddie’s Secret from Magnolia Pictures is cooking at IFC Center in New York with a $58.2k weekend, the biggest opening in more than two years at the arthouse. Gregg Allman: The Music Of My Soul, the inaugural theatrical release of new distributor Subtex, is eyeing $375k on199 screensfor the five days through Sunday.
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Nicolas de Lenfent and Magnus are two people from Lestat’s past who had a profound impact on his future. While Nicki was his first love, their bond, formed by mutual desire and connection, would break down over time, leaving Lestat with a crippling sense of grief and failure that would continue to define the elder
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