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Already heralded as the band’s best in decades, Pearl Jam proudly present their anxiously awaited twelfth studio album, Dark Matter, available now via Monkeywrench Records/Republic Records. Listen here!

In the ever-changing landscape of rock music, Pearl Jam has remained a steadfast presence, their longevity a testament to both their musical prowess and their ability to evolve with the times. With their latest offering, “Dark Matter,” the Seattle rockers continue to carve their path through the cosmos of sound, delivering an album that is both familiar and refreshingly innovative.

From the opening chords of the album’s lead single, listeners are immediately drawn into Pearl Jam’s sonic universe. “Dark Matter” wastes no time in asserting its presence, with Eddie Vedder’s distinctive vocals soaring over a backdrop of thunderous guitars and driving rhythms. The band’s trademark intensity is palpable from the get-go, setting the stage for an exhilarating musical journey.

Pearl Jam have announced new album, Dark Matter, along with a 2024 world tour. The album’s title track, which doubles as its lead single, is out now.

Due on April 19th via Monkeywrench Records/Republic Records, Dark Matter marks Pearl Jam’s 12th studio album, following their 2020 release, Gigaton. Produced by Andrew Watt, it was recorded over a three-week period at Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, California, capturing “the band playing together with a burst of inspiration,” according to its press release. Pre-orders are ongoing, and you can check out the tracklist below.

As for the tour, Pearl Jam will launch a North American run of shows beginning in Vancouver on May 4th. They’ll play a string of shows along the west coast, including in Portland, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles, as well as headline the BottleRock Napa festival. A visit to the UK and Europe follows beginning in June,...

Hours after dropping their new single “Dark Matter,” Pearl Jam have rolled out details of their new LP along with dates for a 35-date world tour, which kicks off May 4 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and wraps November 21 in Sydney, Australia.

Dark Matter will hit shelves on April 19. It was produced by Andrew Watt and recorded over just three weeks at Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, California. The album was unveiled to the public on January 31 during a listening event at the Troubadour in Los Angeles that the band attended.

“I’m getting chills,...

There’s no doubting that the budgets and ambitions of music videos have dwindled since the glory days of MTV. We live in the age of TikTok-targeted ephemera. Yet miraculously, 2023 gave a much-needed shot of cinematic life to the form.

The best videos of the year emphasized meticulous technique over virality, offering intimate, impressionistic portraits of their respective artists’ interior lives and thoughts. Lana Del Rey and Lucy Dacus subverted Old Hollywood tropes, with a meta riff on studio system-era glamor and a lesbian tweaking of Wizard of Oz, respectively.

Others went bigger. Troye Sivan brought back the sheen and unabashed sexuality of Y2K pop princesses with a drag transformation that represents the performance of his career to date. Doja Cat took a maximalist approach to portraying the simultaneous highs and horrors of stardom, while Olivia Rodrigo constructed an elaborate, blood-splattered supernatural story to rival The Lost Boys.

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This post is part of a series, Girlblogging. Read the introduction here. In the music video for The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony,” (1997), lead singer Richard Ashcroft walks down a blue-gray London street, bumping into passersby, bowling over the girls and pissing off the guys. When you’re famous and beautiful on film, these are things you can get away with. Ashcroft represents a thoroughly contemporary creature—the 20th-century star, who, on a small screen today, looks more or less like the 21st; the detached, ambivalent, self-involved face of the modern urban world; the flâneur with somewhere to go, or something to […]

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This post is part of a series, Girlblogging. Read the introduction here. In the music video for The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony,” (1997), lead singer Richard Ashcroft walks down a blue-gray London street, bumping into passersby, bowling over the girls and pissing off the guys. When you’re famous and beautiful on film, these are things you can get away with. Ashcroft represents a thoroughly contemporary creature—the 20th-century star, who, on a small screen today, looks more or less like the 21st; the detached, ambivalent, self-involved face of the modern urban world; the flâneur with somewhere to go, or something to […]

The post Girlblogging: Cléo from 5 to 7 first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

After seemingly denouncing the pop-leaning Planet Her and Hot Pink, Doja Cat has joked about dropping a rock/spoken-word album and, alternately, vowed to lean more heavily into hip-hop and rap. She delivers on the latter promise with “Attention,” the first single from her forthcoming, as-yet-untitled fourth studio album.

Doja recently told Rolling Stone that the new album is influenced by ’90s hip-hop in particular. And, indeed, the hypnotic “Attention” opens with the sounds of a gentle harp and the distant, ominous howls of a wolf before a crisp breakbeat straight out of 1995 kicks in, as the rapper-singer waxes sensual about how “it” is “hungry” and seeks “affection.”

Throughout, Doja claps back at her critics over her appearance and social media presence. She drops an in-character reference to the comparisons she’s received to Nicki Minaj, but her flow here nods more to Lauryn Hill.

The influence of the ’90s...

Roger Daltrey has been unveiled as the final headliner for the Teenage Cancer Trust’s historic annual Royal Albert Hall concert series.

The Who frontman will close out the cancer charity’s weeklong fundraising series on Sunday 26 March.

Daltrey will be joined by Friends of Teenage Cancer Trust’s Richard Ashcroft, special guest Joan Armatrading and Far From Saints, who will be performing live for the first time.

Other previously announced headliners include Underworld (Monday 20 March), Wet Leg (Wednesday 22 Mach), Jake Bugg (Thursday 23 March), The Courteeners (Friday 24 March) and Kasabian (25 March).

On Tuesday 21 March, the series will hold an evening of comedy featuring Alan Carr, Harry Hill, Russell Kane, Seann Walsh, Rosie Jones, Slim, Neil Delamere and Fatiha El-Ghorri.

In 2000, The Who kickstarted the concert series, which has raised millions of pounds for young people with cancer.

Last year’s 20th edition featured a once-in-a-lifetime acoustic show from The Who,...

The Rolling Stones recruited Gary Clark Jr., Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats as openers for select dates of their upcoming North American summer tour.

The latest leg of their long-running “No Filter” trek — which kicks off June 21st with the first of two dates in Chicago, Illinois and wraps August 31st in Miami, Florida — will also feature St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Kaleo, Juanes, the Wombats, Whiskey Myers, the Glorious Sons, the Beaches, Ghost Hounds, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk (with special guest the Soul Rebels), the Revivalists,...

The Verve’s 1997 hit “Bitter Sweet Symphony” is one of the finest songs of the Britpop era, a classically Nineties expression of world-weary cool with just the right amount of English self-regard. It’s a song that only Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft could have written — except that he didn’t, according to a notorious copyright ruling. Ashcroft’s song famously sampled an orchestral cover of the Rolling Stones’ “The Last Time,” and a lawsuit from former Stones manager Allen Klein shortly after its release forced him to hand over 100 percent...

The Mistress of the Dark and Fright Rags collide for a limited time in a new Midnight Madness shirt! Also: Comet TV's May contest details, a new poster for Hostile, a look at Doyle's "Run For Your Life" music video, and info on the zombie short story anthology Gone With the Dead.

Fright Rags' Elvira Shirt: From Fright Rags: "Hello Darlings! Since the 80s, Elvira has been tempting us as the horror hostess of our dreams (or maybe nightmares?). Late night so-bad-it’s-good horror movies were never complete without her hilariously quirky intros, her long black dress and her big… um… hair. We’re celebrating the Mistress of the Dark with a Limited Edition release at Midnight Tomorrow (Est)! They will be available for $18/ea for 24Hrs! Don't miss Midnight Madness!

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Comet TV's May Contest Details: "May...

Will Ferrell has signed on to star in yet another sports comedy. This isn't just any sport, though. Ferrall, along with Legendary, Mosaic, and Gary Sanchez Productions are going where no major motion picture has gone before, into the world of eSports!

Will Ferrell has been a Nascar driver, semi-pro Basketball player, and even a figure skater. Now, he intends on conquering the fast-rising video game leagues of eSports. eSports isn't like your normal NFL, NBA, or Mlb. Instead, it embodies not just one game, but several including League of Legends, Counterstrike, Super Smash Bros., World of Warcraft, etc.

If you're unfamiliar with eSports and are scoffing at this idea, eSports is no joke. Where NFL players get $20 million contracts that get paid out over 4 years, eSports players can get close to that in one night, by winning championships and earning endorsements.

As for Ferrell's new film, it's way too...

Twenty years ago today, an already-buzzing English rock band named Oasis released their second studio album. Almost immediately, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, a more pop-friendly effort than its predecessor, completely changed the band’s trajectory: The album became the third-best-selling LP in England’s history, topped only by the Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Queen’s Greatest Hits, and made the band’s co-leaders and brothers Gallagher, singer Liam and guitarist-songwriter Noel, paparazzi-level famous. (That their bickering and in-fighting would grab most of the...

★★★☆☆ It's been mere weeks since the 2013 edition of the Glastonbury Festival ended - the cows are not yet back in the hallowed fields of Worthy Farm - but festival fans still shaking off withdrawal symptoms could do worse than Glastonbury: The Movie in Flashback (2012), an affectionate rockumentary of the festival as it was in 1993. A director's cut of the film first released back in 1996, it is an oddly passive account. Director Robin Mahoney presents the festival on its own terms and generally allows the action to play out organically. There's no commentary, few interviews, and the only ostensible structure is a day-by-day division.

We follow a few characters ('Vanessa the Pink Dress Girl", for example) but otherwise it's defiantly loose. This certainly sets a spirit-of-the-sixties tone - the use of split-screen is perhaps a rather conspicuous nod to Woodstock (1970), that other doc about that other legendary festival - but the...

I can't tell you how happy I am that so many of you were able to identify that obscure "10 Things I Hate About You" quote. It comforts me to know that so many other people know that movie down to those small, incredibly important details of Patrick's harassment of the lunch lady, Kat's alleged testicular assault on a fellow student, and the incredibly lovely and talented Miss Perky who deals with teenagers the way I probably would if I were forced to be around them all day everyday. Same little asswipe shit for brains everywhere indeed. Anyway, there appears to be some TV on tonight so I guess I'll go about describing that instead of talking about a 13 year old high school based adaptation of Shakespeare. Here's your Tuesday night TV:

8:00pm: "The Biggest Loser" on NBC

"NCIS" on CBS

"No Ordinary Family" on ABC

9:00pm: "Best in...

The Adjustment Bureau soundtrack. Given that the poster for George Nolfi’s waylaid The Adjustment Bureau made it look like a mockbuster of the all-conquering Inception, can we therefore expect the soundtrack to offer its own similarly reduced take on the blockbustingly brilliant Hans Zimmer score to that particular perception-bending thriller? Or is such low-aiming speculation a slight on the pedigree of the man charged with providing music to the tangled romance of Matt Damon and Emily Blunt? He being Thomas Newman, composer on The Player and American Beauty, amongst others, and known for the understated assurance of his work, in contrast to the bombast which characterised a good deal of Zimmer’s work on Inception.

Not that Newman is flying solo here. Two tracks come courtesy of ever-saturnine Britpop survivor Richard Ashcroft, a man who has appeared largely lost and bewildered since the Verve collapsed for a second time...

The Adjustment Bureau

Directed by: George Nolfi

Cast: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, John Slattery, Terence Stamp

Running Time: 1 hr 46 mins

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: March 4, 2011

Plot: David (Damon) is guided and groomed for a Senate position., but once he falls in love with Elise (Blunt), a secret group tries to stop the relationship.

Who’S It For? Guys who want a little action and sci-fi elements. Women who want a little romance. Yeah, that about covers everyone.

Expectations: Damon hasn’t been in great movies lately as the lead (Green Zone, etc) and Blunt messed up her last one with Wolfman, but I typically want to like both of these actors. I knew nothing of the movie, except Damon say something he wasn’t supposed to see.

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Matt Damon as David Norris: Damon as a potential politician is perfect. Just like the movie Dave with Kevin Kline,...

Universal Pictures has announced that Your Life Adjusted: The Adjustment Bureau Video Project launched today with a crowd-sourced, interactive video that evokes the theme of transformative moments as seen in the upcoming romantic thriller The Adjustment Bureau. The video was created by using hundreds of photos submitted by people around the world, including the film’s stars, Oscar® winner Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. The film arrives in theaters on March 4.

The project began in December 2010, when the film’s writer/director, George Nolfi, issued a call for “milestone moments” from audiences. Of the thousands of images submitted, Nolfi handpicked a selection that chronicles our lives, from birth to old age. He then added characters from the film to create this timeline and show how it has been adjusted by the agents of Fate itself, The Adjustment Bureau. Throughout the video, members of this mysterious group that exerts control over...