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Blood Orange has announced his first new album in six years, Essex Honey, out on August 29th via RCA. He’s also revealed two new songs, “Mind Loaded” and “Somewhere in Between.”

Essex Honey is Dev Hynes first album as Blood Orange since 2019’s Angel’s Pulse, and his first new music offering since 2022’s Four Songs EP — which also served as his RCA Records debut. Essex Honey finds Hynes diving into his childhood growing up outside of the Essex region in England, with a press release describing the project as a “soundtrack created from a dreamscape of his journey working through grief.”

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As is usual for Blood Orange, Essex Honey was born out of a highly collaborative process: Hynes recruited a bevy of artists to contribute, including recent collaborators Lorde, Liam Benzvi, and Turnstile’s Brendan Yates, as well as Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar,...

Last month, Dev Hynes returned as Blood Orange for the first time in three years with “The Field,” a Caroline Polachek-assisted single about grief and escapism. As it turns out, the musician has been thinking a lot about these themes in the six years since his most recent studio album. The grief that comes with living, but also growing up, leaving home, and turning to music to make sense of it all works as the foundation of Essex Honey, the new album from Blood Orange, out August 29.

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Blood Orange will be bringing his coastal grooves across the world this fall. The musician, who also works as a record producer under his birth name Dev Hynes, has announced a run of headlining tour dates across Europe, Canada, and the U.S.

Blood Orange will kick things off with a set at Portola Music Festival in September before embarking on supporting dates for both Turnstile and Lorde’s respective tours. His solo trek begins in October at Berlin’s Columbiahalle and will continue through the end of November, before...

Lorde celebrated the release of Virgin by performing the entire album live for the first time at a surprise, early-morning set at Glastonbury.

The musician confirmed the set Thursday night and took the stage at 11:30 a.m. Friday, with a very full crowd there to meet her, despite such little notice and the non-traditional time slot. (Per the BBC, so many people showed up that Glastonbury had to close access to the Woodsies field due to overcrowding concerns.)

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Lorde’s long-awaited fourth album is here. Virgin is available to stream on all platforms now.

The Grammy winner’s Virgin is the singer-songwriter’s first album in four years, following up the indie-folk LP Solar Power. She wrote and produced every song with Jim-e Stack, and the album features additional production and writing from Dev Hynes, Daniel Nigro, and Fabiana Palladino. She first teased the project in April with the single “What Was That,” a huge arena-pop break-up anthem. Lorde followed the lead single with two more: “Man of the Year” and “Hammer.

Turnstile’s dual singles “Seein’ Stars” and “Birds” provide the soundtrack to a new Taco Bell commercial promoting Tony Hawk’s Build Your Own Luxe Cravings Box and starring the legendary skateboarder.

The two songs, which were released together in late April, appear on Turnstile’s new album, Never Enough, which arrived earlier this month. In the clip, a group of young skateboarders are hanging out at the top of a ramp and eating Taco Bell when they look up and suddenly see Hawk about to make his way down, with one of them asking, “Is that Tony Hawk?”

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The Build Your Own Luxe Cravings box allows patrons to customize their own $5, $7, or $9 meal, or choose Tony Hawk’s personal combo that includes a cheese quesadilla, crunchy taco, and more.

Turnstile recently announced a headlining US tour in support of Never Enough that kicks off October 19th in Orlando,...

Baltimore hardcore favorites Turnstile will hit the road this fall in support of their new album, Never Enough.

The lengthy trek kicks off Sept. 15 at the Pinnacle in Nashville and wraps Oct. 19 at the Orlando Amphitheater in Orlando. Speed and Jane Remover will open for Turnstile at all their headlining shows, while Blood Orange, Mannequin Pussy, and Amyl and the Sniffers will join on select dates.

Tickets for all shows will go on sale June 13 at 10 a.m. local time. Pre-sale tickets will be available starting tomorrow, June 11, at 10 a.

Anyone who frequented the live music scene in New York over the last decade has a favorite story about Baby’s All Right, the 280-seat club in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. There was the night Billie Eilish, then 15, played songs from her first EP and a cover of Drake’s “Hotline Bling.” The time Mac DeMarco, with the help of some wine, wrote a “theme song” for the club. Or the night Zoë Kravitz’s band Lolawolf played a set to an audience that included her dad Lenny and Anne Hathaway.

Lorde is preparing for her North American Ultrasound Tour this fall, in support of her upcoming album, Virgin, slated for release in June.

Announcing the news on Instagram in May, Lorde wrote, “Very proud and excited to be bringing my most talented friends in support.”

Followed by a series of ominous symbols, Lorde mysteriously added, “Come see what’s under the skin.”

The tour will kick off in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 17, and will continue across the country with shows in cities including Boston, Las Vegas, and Nashville, before wrapping up the North American leg in Seattle on Oct. 22. From there, Lorde will continue to the European leg, starting in Luxembourg. She will continue to make stops in Paris, London, Amsterdam, and more, before concluding the tour in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 9.

The tour poster announced that Virgin co-producers Dev Hynes and Jim-e Stack, from Blood Orange, will be joining...

Turnstile’s much-anticipated follow-up to 2021’s massive Glow On is like a mysterious gallery. It’s not so much a collection of tracks, but impressions, aural vignettes that are more about a feeling than a message — a vibe that listeners can pursue at their leisure, like wandering through an echoing portrait hall. It makes sense that frontman Brendan Yates has dubbed himself an “art director” this time around, as the band takes another step toward challenging the already-blurry edges of genre, and creating something new with Never Enough.

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Lorde continues teasing her fourth album, Virgin, with second single “Man of the Year.” The track follows her April release “What Was That.”

Like the entirety of Virgin, Lorde worked on the song with producer Jim-e Stack. The track also features Dev Hynes on cello. On the mid-tempo single, Lorde reflects on her “recent ego-death,” singing about how we’re meeting her at a very strange time in her life. The accompanying music video features the singer-songwriter alone in a room in a white tee and jeans. As the song progresses,...

Lorde just released her first original solo single in four years last month, but “What Was That” wasn’t the only one of her songs to debut on the Billboard Hot 100 after its release. Her Pure Heroine track “Ribs,” which has become a fan favorite over the years, debuted at Number 99, nearly 12 years after it came out.

“It’s crazy that it works on people still,” Lorde told Rolling Stone, during her interview sessions for the magazine’s May cover story. “It’s a mystery to me.”

Even before the...

On an unusually freezing April day in New York, the wind rustles through the cracks of a window AC unit in an apartment high above the streets of the West Village. It’s an unpretentious two-bedroom, and with its taupes and earthy browns, it feels homey and lived-in. There’s a pack of opened Marlboro Golds and loose cash by the door, Post-its stuck to the refrigerator, melted candle wax and magazines on the coffee table, tall branches in a vase, the smell of freshly burned palo santo in the air.

Lorde has announced “Ultrasound,” an extensive North American and European headlining tour taking place in fall 2025.

The tour kicks off on September 17th in Austin, Texas, and continues on with stops at the United Center in Chicago; Td Garden in Boston; Madison Square Garden in New York City; Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Co; Kia Forum in Inglewood, CA; and The Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA; among other prominent venues. Afterward, she’ll travel to the UK and Europe for dates running through November and December.

Tickets for Lorde’s “Ultrasound” tour will go on sale beginning Friday, May 16th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. An artist ticket pre-sale will take place on Wednesday, May 14th (fans can sign up here).

Lorde will be joined on the road by a rotating cast of openers including Blood Orange, The Japanese House, Nilüfer Yana, Chanel Beads, Empress Of, Jim-e Stack,...

Lorde’s custom Thom Browne ensemble at the Met Ball may contain hints about her forthcoming LP, Virgin. Speaking to Emma Chamberlain on the red carpet for Vogue, the singer said the gray two-piece dress is an “Easter egg” for the new music.

“This is my creation,” Lorde said. “It’s something of an Easter egg. All will be revealed. I just love the open back. To me it represents where I’m at gender-wise. I feel like a man and a woman, you know?”

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Brat was Rolling Stone’s album of the year for 2024, and judging from what Lorde has been saying about Charli Xcx’s record, it was probably hers, too. “I’d been trying to express [myself] in this naked way, and then Brat came out, and she was kind of doing that from the other side of the coin almost,” Lorde told BBC Radio 1 on Wednesday.

The whole album became something like a revelation to the artist. “Brat coming out really gave me a kick in a lot of ways,” Lorde said.

After a three and a half year hiatus, Lorde is ready to release her upcoming new album, Virgin, confirming that the album will come out June 27th.

The two-time Grammy Award winner announced the title of her fourth studio album Wednesday alongside an image of the record’s cover art, which features a blue x-ray image showing a zipper going down a pelvis, a belt buckle and an Iud.

Lorde released the image to her Instagram and personal website, where she also promised that the album was “100% written in blood.”

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Virgin Was produced by the New Zealand artist and Jim-e Stack, whom she notably collaborated with for the album’s first single “What Was That.” The record includes additional writing credits lended to Fabiana Palladino, Andrew Aged, Buddy Ross, Devonté Hynes and Dan Nigro, who recently won the Grammy...

When Charli Xcx dubbed it a “Turnstile Summer” at Coachella, it seems she meant it’s going to be a lush, ominous, head-cracking kind of season. That is, if the hardcore band’s new video for “Seein’ Stars” and “Birds” is any indication.

A perfect demonstration of Turnstile’s dichotomy — blistering hardcore mixed with endlessly inventive melodies — the double video starts off dreamy, with a gaggle of dancers undulating to soaring vocals and Bill and Ted-esque electric guitars. Dev Hynes, a.k.a. Blood Orange, and Hayley Williams also lend vocals to “Seein’ Stars,...

Turnstile have released two new songs, “Seein’ Stars” and “Birds,” from their upcoming album, Never Enough, along with a seamless music video for both tracks.

The double single showcases the two sides of the band’s sound. “Seein’ Stars” is the softer pop song, with guest vocals from some well-known singers — Devonté Hynes (Blood Orange) and Hayley Williams (Paramore) — and a disco-esque guitar riff that conjures up David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance.”

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Meanwhile, “Birds” is a two-minute sprint that sees Turnstile in full mosh mode — a reminder they can still dish out some potent hardcore.

The accompanying music video, directed by singer Brendan Yates and guitarist Pat McCrory, artfully bridges the disparate tracks like a short film. The clip for “Seein’ Stars” is appropriately more lilting and chill, whereas the “Birds” portion is an energetic performance video, albeit with some stylized cinematography — particularly during the...

Lorde is ready to release her new album!

The 28-year-old “What Was That” singer announced her new album Virgin, set to be released on June 27.

It’s the singer’s first full-length body of work in four years and “promises a bold evolution in her sound and storytelling,” per the official release.

The news comes just after the release of lead single “What Was That,” co-produced by Lorde, Jim-e Stack and Dan Nigro.

The song hit No. 1 on Spotify in the United States, her first time doing so since “Royals.”

“An album by me. Produced by me and Jim-e Stack. With Fabiana Palladino, Andrew Aged, Buddy Ross, Dan Nigro and Devonte Hynes. Mixed by Spike Stent and Tom Elmhirst. Mastered by Chris Gehringer. 100% written in blood,” she announced in her newsletter.

It’s currently available on her web store with signed vinyl copies! See all of the variants.

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After another four-year wait, Lorde is back with a new album. She announced Virgin, out June 27, on social media.

In a text blast to her fans, Lorde shared the credits for the album. It was produced by her and Jim-e Stack with contributions from Dev Hynes, Daniel Nigro, Fabiana Palladino, Andrew Aged, and Buddy Ross. “100% written in blood,” she added. The album cover looks to be an x-ray of a pelvis, with a visible belt buckle and Iud in the blue tint.

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Words don’t feel like enough when trying to capture the profundity of the heartrending documentary Daughters — but music does. The film’s enchanting score, composed by vocalist and musician Kelsey Lu, brings the same level of thoughtfulness as the musician does to their own projects and collaborations with artists like Solange and Blood Orange. Lu first tried their hand at scoring with 2023’s Earth Mama, a compelling feature about a young single mother navigating the foster care systemdirected by Savanah Leaf. The artist’s deep classical training has given them the intellect and ear to expand sound through textured instrumentation in a way that accentuates filmic subjects. “It came really naturally for me because I make music that feels very cinematic,” Lu says. “It has a lot of layers.”

Directed by filmmaker Natalie Rae and activist and activator Angela Patton, Daughters follows a group of girls taking part in Patton’s Washington,...

In case you need a reason to look forward to 2025, Blondie have continued to tease their upcoming album.

Over on Bluesky, Blondie co-founder and guitarist Chris Stein shared the latest update on the new album. “With John Congleton. New Blondie record next year,” he wrote in the caption of a black-and-white photo of lead singer Debbie Harry and the Grammy-winning producer in the studio.

Congleton was the primary producer on Blondie’s most recent album, Pollinator, which was released in 2017.

This past October, Stein hinted at the project’s impending release when he posted an Instagram photo of Harry in the studio. “New Blondie album next year,” he wrote.

Several months before, Stein confirmed in a BBC Radio 6 appearance that they were mixing a new record.

No further details have been revealed at this time, but Pollinator featured appearances from Joan Jett, Laurie Anderson, and John Roberts. Co-writers included Johnny Marr,...

Tyler, the Creator is staging Camp Flog Gnaw 2024 in Los Angeles this weekend on Saturday, November 16th, and Sunday, November 17th. If you can’t make it in person, Amazon Music is hosting a livestream with select performances from the stacked lineup.

The schedule hasn’t been posted yet, but performers slated for the 10th anniversary event include Tyler himself and fellow Odd Future members Earl Sweatshirt, Syd, Mike G, and Domo Genesis, as well as André 3000, Erykah Badu, DJ Mustard, Vince Staples, Playboi Carti, Denzel Curry, Schoolboy Q, and Doechii.

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Other notable acts include ScHoolboy Q, Faye Webster, Daniel Caesar, Raye, Sampha, The Marías, Kaytranada, Blood Orange, Omar Apollo, Jean Dawson, Sexxy Red, The Alchemist, Yves Tumor, Ma$e, Action Bronson, Kenny Mason, Mike, and Wisp, plus a tribute to Mf Doom.

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The 10th iteration of Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw is almost here. Happening Nov. 16 and 17 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, the music festival-slash-carnival is stacked with big names including André 3000, Kaytranada, Playboi Carti, Sexyy Red, Vince Staples, Omar Apollo, Faye Webster, Doechii, and Raye, in addition to Tyler.

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Tyler, the Creator is back again with “Noid,” a new song off his upcoming album Chromakopia.

“Noid” arrives just days after Tyler, the Creator teased the new project with “St. Chroma,” a short-but-intriguing offering that we named as one of our Songs of the Week. Chromakopia serves as Tyler, the Creator’s seventh album and the follow-up to his acclaimed 2021 LP Call Me If You Get Lost.

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While “St. Chroma,” with its 85 second runtime, was a bit of a feint as a lead single, “Noid” is a more meaty offering from the hip-hop auteur. With a crawling, snare-driven beat, Sabbath-esque guitars, and bubbling synths and piano, “Noid” builds more momentum with each musical phrase. Tyler raps about experiencing some major paranoia: “I can’t even buy a home in private,” he says, before muttering in a panic, “Notice every car that’s driving by...

Tyler, the Creator has revealed the complete lineup for Camp Flog Gnaw 2024, the 10th iteration of his annual music festival hosted on the Dodger Stadium grounds in Los Angeles. The rapper will take the stage at the two-day event with additional performances from André 3000, Kaytranada, Playboi Carti, Sexyy Red, Vince Staples, Omar Apollo, Faye Webster, Doechii, Raye, and more.

Camp Flog Gnaw will return on Nov. 16 and 17. Tickets for the festival were put on sale in June with no prior announcement of who would be performing. Passes sold out...

Tyler, the Creator has revealed the lineup for Camp Flog Gnaw 2024 via a crossword puzzle on the festival’s website.

Alongside Tyler himself, the 2024 Camp Flog Gnaw lineup includes former Odd Future running mates Earl Sweatshirt, Syd, Mike G, and Domo Genesis, André 3000, Erykah Badu, DJ Mustard, Vince Staples, Playboi Carti, Faye Webster, Denzel Curry, Daniel Caesar, Raye, Sampha, The Marías, Kaytranada, ScHoolboy Q, Blood Orange, Omar Apollo, Jean Dawson, Sexxy Red, The Alchemist, Yves Tumor, Doechii, Ma$e, Action Bronson, Kenny Mason, Mike, and Wisp, plus a tribute to Mf Doom.

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This year marks the 10th anniversary of Tyler’s hip-hop festival, which will go down November 16th and 17th at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California.

Tickets to Camp Flog Gnaw are sold out, however, fans can join a ticket waitlist via the festival’s website. Alternatively, fans can look for tickets via StubHub,...

Nathy Peluso and Álvaro Díaz and are tired of each other’s antics — but won’t let their imperfections stop things from getting heated. On Tuesday, the Argentinian vocalist/rapper and the Puerto Rican rap star released their collaboration “Xq Eres Así,” alongside a video filmed in Mexico City.

In it, the musicians play a pair of imperfect lovers in a Nineties-set home in Mexico, and they question their dynamic in the lyrics. The visual jumps between the musicians fighting, and then making up, in different parts of their home.

One evening this past spring, a varied collection of individuals assembled on a dead-end street in Queens, dressed to the nines. Among them were high-fashion models, up-and-coming artists, established rockers, and a number of plus-ones who had no clue what they were getting into. Each member of the flock had received an enigmatic, washed-out flier, its pink backdrop resembling a star-studded branch of some far-away galaxy. A banner of text near the bottom gave an address and a time, with the words “Invite Only.” Whispered asides and flurries of tense laughter bounced around the alleyway,...

Clairo took the stage at The Tonight Show to perform her recent album cut “Juna” alongside her live band and a horn section. The musician, Claire Cottrill, offered an intimate, sweet performance of the song, which appears on her new LP, Charm, much to the delight of host Jimmy Fallon.

Cottrill dropped Charm, which follows 2021’s Sling and 2019’s Immunity, earlier this month. Produced Leon Michels, Charm was cut at Allaire Studios just outside of Woodstock, New York (where she also recorded Sling) and Diamond Mine Recording in Queens. She...

A month after casually dropping “Sexy to Someone,” the summery banger for homebodies everywhere, Clairo has released more music. Her new single, “Nomad,” features a bending, almost psychedelic opening, as Cottrill’s calming, delicate voice enters: “I’d run the risk of losing everything/ So all my things become nomadic.” Later, she admits, “I’m cynical, a mess/ I’m touch-starved and shameless.”

“Nomad” is the opening track to Cottrill’s upcoming album Charm, out July 12. The date is consistent with her previous two records (2021’s Sling and 2019’s Immunity...

Devonté Hynes — A.K.A. Blood Orange — will be making his Broadway debut later this year as a member of the creative team for Job, a new play being mounted at the Hayes Theater in New York.

Hynes will compose new music for the play, which was written by Max Wolf Friedlich and originally premiered Off-Broadway last year at SoHo Repertory. Original cast members Peter Friedman and Syndey Lemmon are confirmed to star in the Broadway production. Job begins with preview performances on July 15th and opens formally on July 30th, with a tentative close date on September 29th.

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The show’s logline reads, “Jane (Lemmon), an employee at a big tech company (you know the one), has been placed on leave after becoming the subject of a viral video. She arrives in the office of a crisis therapist – Loyd (Friedman) – determined to be reinstated to...

Hunter Schafer consistently captivates me with her striking appearances on the red carpet. She exudes fearlessness in her fashion choices.

Her latest outing at the Berlinale International Film Festival for her horror film Cuckoo left jaws dropping, mine included. Recently, on Thursday, April 11, she once again captivated everyone with her standout look at the Second Annual GQ Global Creativity Awards.

Hunter Schafer’s dress featured a classic silhouette with a deep V neckline and slits at the front and back, crafted from silk duchess material adorned with muted yellow, blue, and charcoal brushstrokes (Credit: M10s / TheNews2 / Cover Images)

This occasion aimed to honor visionary creatives and trailblazers whose contributions shape the cultural landscape.

The ceremony at Wsa in New York City drew many prominent figures, including Michaela Coel, Emily Bode, Dev Hynes, and Mickalene Thomas.

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Hunter Schafer arrived at the event adorned in...

Lorely Rodriguez appears onscreen for our Zoom call from Los Angeles. She beams in from her home, which she claims is a mess. The singer, songwriter, and producer, who releases music as Empress Of, attended the Billboard Women in Music Awards the night before and hasn’t had a chance to tidy. “It looks like a hurricane came through here. I had hair and makeup and ring lights,” she explains. Rodriguez is bemused that showing up camera-ready on red carpets is part of her job now, but if performing the...

Nick Robinson is starring in the new Netflix movie Damsel and fans might be curious to know more about his personal life.

The 28-year-old actor is best known for starring in the gay coming-of-age movie Love, Simon and he has also appeared in movies like Jurassic World, Shadow in the Cloud, and TV shows like A Teacher and Maid.

So, is Nick single or taken? He’s actually been in a relationship for five years!

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Nick‘s girlfriend is singer Samantha Urbani. She previously was part of the band Friends and also collaborated with Dev Hynes for several years before going solo.

Nick and Samantha, 37, have been dating since Valentine’s Day 2019, when they fell in love while playing a game of spin the bottle with friends, which led into their first date at Saturday Night Live.

On Valentine’s Day this year,...

It looks like Tessa Thompson might have a new man in her life!

The 40-year-old actress, best known for her work in Thor and Westworld, was spotted on a date with Brandon Green this week.

Tessa and Brandon sat in courtside seats while attending a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday (March 6) at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

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You can see photos of the date on DailyMail.com.

For those who don’t know, Brandon was most recently linked to actress Emma Watson. He is the son of British fashion tycoon and billionaire Sir Philip Green.

It’s unclear if Tessa and Brandon are a couple or just friends.

Tessa previously was linked to Dev Hynes and we have some photos of them together back in 2019.

Emma Roberts and Cody John couple up while stepping out for the Lacoste Womenswear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 fashion show held on Tuesday (March 5) in Paris.

The 33-year-old American Horror Story actress and her actor beau joined several other celebs at the Paris Fashion Week runway presentation, which was the brand’s creative director Pelagia Kolotouros‘ Paris debut.

Also in attendance at the fashion show were Adrien Brody, Gia Coppola and beau Honor Titus, Hari Nef, Grace Jones, Jack Dylan Grazer, Mel C, Fai Khadra, Wisdom Kaye, Dev Hynes, Clara Berry and Emma Brooks.

The new collection “re-energizes the brand in the spirit of the young René Lacoste — aka ‘the crocodile’ — who was the world’s number one ranked tennis player when Paris was the world capital of creativity across the arts. Lines twist, angles disappear and curves surprise as she carves out a new path informed by the elegant modernism of the 1920s and 1930s.

Searching for and listening to movie soundtrack music for the year is an active quest of curiosity, discovery, and collage. For those fatigued and pushing through the chilliest season, I hope this mix can provide both energy and warmth, as it did to me in making it.Trends in film music over the last decade are continuing strong in 2023, particularly in the ambition of independent auteurs using complex and unusual scoring. The foundation for this mix is Angela Schanelec's beautiful and aptly titled Music, which provides both diegetic and non-diegetic moments to guide us. Samples range from The Old Oak, in which classical choral choir meets Syrian guitar and words of hope that now hit harder than ever, to a mix of sentimental strings courtesy of the legendary Joe Hisaishi. Abstract experimental sounds by two completely different kinds of artists—Harmony Korine and Thomas Newman—are mixed with sliced...

2023 had its fair share of memorable scores and music. Any year with new work from Joe Hisaishi and Mica Levi is going to be one for the books, but the last 12 months also gave us Robbie Robertson’s swan song and a Dev Hynes/Paul Schrader collaboration. In terms of performance, Bradley Cooper conducting the London Philharmonic was irresistible, but no more so than Talia Ryder’s opening number in The Sweet East or the hero of Fallen Leaves experiencing his moment of clarity while listening to a Swedish synth group. Maybe the best musical performance I saw in a movie this year comes at the beginning of Nicolas Philibert’s On the Adamant, a documentary about a psychiatric care center that sits on the river Seine and provides a port for inner storms. The singer’s name is François, an angular, middle-aged man who growls a raw rendition of...

As Martin Scorsese once said, “Music and cinema fit together naturally. Because there’s a kind of intrinsic musicality to the way moving images work when they’re put together. It’s been said that cinema and music are very close as art forms, and I think that’s true.” Indeed, the right piece of music––whether it’s an original score or a carefully selected song––can do wonders for a sequence, and today we’re looking at the 20 films that best expressed that notion in 2023.

From seasoned composers to accomplished musicians, as well as a smattering of soundtracks, each perfectly transported us. Check out our rundown of the top 20, which includes streams to each soundtrack in full where available.

20. Infinity Pool (Tim Hecker)

19. Knock at the Cabin (Herdís Stefánsdóttir)

18. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Lorne Balfe)

17. Passages (Various Artists)

16. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Daniel Pemberton)

15. Master Gardener...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Birth/Rebirth (Laura Moss)

Likely a film that some will find underwhelming due to its lowkey, mostly affectless style, it’s a rather impressive feat of narrative economy that manages to separate itself from the seemingly endless indie horror crop. Directed by Laura Moss, there’s the sense they either don’t have much of a feel for the genre or rather harbors a general disdain for the shorthands it’s fallen into (hopefully they don’t get absorbed into bad studio product soon), the film’s tendencies refreshingly feel free of the trappings of calling-card cinema. – Ethan V. (full review)

Where to Stream: Shudder, AMC+

The Curse (Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie)

Following up the discomfitingly brilliant The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder...

‘We believe all life is sacred, no matter faith or ethnicity’

Riz Ahmed, Cate Blanchett, Kristen Stewart, Cherien Dabis and Rooney Mara are among Hollywood and entertainment celebrities urging US president Joe Biden to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and Israel.

Andrew Garfield, Jessica Chastain, James Schamus, Joaquin Phoenix, Mahershala Ali, Jon Stewart, and Dua Lipa have also added their names to an open letter on Friday urging Biden and all world leaders to call for “an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Gaza and Israel before another life is lost”.

It is estimated that more than 5,000 Palestinians and Israelis...

Ukrainian-born, Miami-based producer, songwriter, composer, and filmmaker Rostislav Vaynshtok (Terrifier 2), better known as Slavvy, has officially signed on to score All My Friends Are Dead, the upcoming slasher film from Saw IV-3D writer and The Collector director Marcus Dunstan.

All My Friends Are Dead follows a group of close college friends who get a steal on a killer Airbnb for the biggest music festival of the year. A weekend of partying quickly takes a turn for the worst as members of the group are murdered one by one. They soon discover that each one of their deaths directly corresponds to one of the seven deadly sins.

The film, which stars stars Jojo Siwa and Jade Pettyjohn, is currently in post-production.

“I’ve always been a huge fan of the Saw franchise since I was a teenager. Having seen both The Collector and The Collection, and seeing the caliber...

Plot: The film follows Narvel Roth, the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When Mrs. Haverhill demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great-niece Maya) as a new apprentice, chaos enters Narvel’s spartan existence, unlocking dark secrets from a buried violent past that threaten them all.

Review: Paul Schrader’s career has always been one of extreme highs and lows. While his writing and directing efforts are typically tagged with his credits on Raging Bull and Taxi Driver, Schrader’s output in the 2000s has been wildly inconsistent. But, since his 2017 masterpiece First Reformed, the filmmaker has delivered a solid follow-up in 2021’s The Card Counter and looks to complete a loose thematic trilogy with Master Gardener. With an exceptional lead performance by...

After a slight lapse with 2021’s subpar The Card Counter, writer/director Paul Schrader returns to solid, provocative form in this captivating character study of an emotionally detached horticulturalist with a dark past who is forced to reconnect with traits he once embraced, and now hates, to save someone he loves. On paper, Master Gardener’s plot can easily be streamlined into a sentence long synopsis but Schrader’s film, like it’s protagonist, is enriched with depth and complexity.

An electrifying Joel Edgerton plays Narvel Roth, the master gardener of the title who works for wealthy dowager/land owner Norma Haverhill (Sigourney Weaver). In the run up to her annual charity auction, Norma asks Narvel if he could take on her great niece, Maya (Quintessa Swindell), as an apprentice to help with the extra work. Narvel reluctantly agrees but soon finds himself bonding with Mia, who also has a...

Before his passing in late March, the late Japanese composer and electronic music pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto had been putting together a playlist of music to be played at his own funeral. Now, Sakamoto’s management has shared that “last playlist,” simply titled “funeral.”

“We would like to share the playlist that Ryuichi had been privately compiling to be played at his own funeral to accompany his own passing,” Sakamoto’s team wrote in an accompanying message. “He truly was with music until the very end.”

Opening with an 11-minute track by Sakamoto’s frequent collaborator Alva Noto, the 33-song playlist features classical music from Johann Sebastian Bach, Claude Debussy, and Maurice Ravel. It also includes the work of renowned film composers Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota, jazz music from Bill Evans Trio, and David Sylvian’s “Orpheus” — the latter of which features Sakamoto himself on piano and synths. Closing out...

Exclusive: Motion Picture Agent Olive Uniacke has exited the agency.

She was hired in September 2018 having previously been a producer at 42Mp and then a studio executive at Lionsgate.

At the agency, she signed such writer/director clients as Andrew Patterson, whose movie The Vast of Night world premiered at Slamdance 2019 and was later acquired out of TIFF by Amazon. She also signed May el-Toukhy, whose movie Queen of Hearts made its world premiere at 2019 Sundance.

When the pandemic hit, Uniacke shifted gears, focusing on musicians, actors and entrepreneurs whose businesses she could build while the world was shut down.

Uniacke was an integral part of the WME teams involved in building the production labels of such clients as Tessa Thompson (Viva Maude), Oscar Isaac (Mad Gene), and Riz Ahmed (Left Handed Films), as well as filmmakers like Bassam Tariq (Mogul Mowgli), Sam Hunter, as well as Patrick Sommerville and David Eisenberg’s Tractor Beam.

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92Ny), one of New York’s leading cultural venues, in collaboration with Liquid Music, presents Adam Tendler: Inheritances, on March 11, 2023 at 7:30pm Et at the Kaufmann Concert Hall. The concert will also be available for viewing online for 72 hours from time of broadcast. Tickets for both the in-person and livestream options start at $25 and are available at 92ny.org/event/adam-tendler.

After his father’s unexpected death, acclaimed New York-based pianist Adam Tendler used his inheritance – a wad of cash received in a parking lot – to begin a commissioning project, inviting some of today’s most influential composers and sound artists to create new piano works exploring the idea of inheritance itself. Woven into an intimate program, these pieces tell a universal story of lineage, loss, and place, and result in a meditation on confronting our past while moving toward the future.

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Harry Styles returned to the Grammy Awards this Sunday to perform hit song “As It Was” from his third album Harry’s House. He is nominated for six awards this year, including Album, Record and Song of the Year.

Styles’ close collaborator Kid Harpoon introduced his performance, tracing through his journey from a small bakery in Cheshire, England to the Grammy Awards stage. “Spending hours with him working in studios all around the world, I have not only witnessed firsthand the drive, dedication and passion,” the producer began. “I’ve...