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Mgmt have released the new music video for “Bubblegum Dog,” the new single from their upcoming album, Loss of Life.

The Tom Scharpling and Julia Vickerman-directed visual pays tribute to alternative-rock videos from the Nineties. The humorous clip finds Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser hanging by a fake fire, donning cowboy hats, performing in an MTV Unplugged setting, and using soul patches, among other cheeky homages. Actor Mark Proksch (What We Do in the Shadows, The Office) makes a cameo.

“We all saw the video for ‘Bubblegum Dog’ as...

Mgmt fans rejoice: not only is “Bubblegum Dog” real, but is now available to stream in full.

A meme of sorts for Mgmt fans since they released their 2018 album, Little Dark Age, “Bubblegum Dog” first entered public consciousness through a 2016 Periscope livestream that revealed the titles of several songs the band was working on at the time. Fans then expected it to be included on Little Dark Age, but when it wasn’t, it earned legendary status in the Mgmt fan community.

In the years since, the band has joked about the song, tweeting that “Bubblegum Dog is real” and humorously referring to it as a 30-minute-long, multi-part project. Even earlier this year, the band’s Ben Goldwasser joked on Reddit that Loss of Life would “be nearly three hours long to account for ‘Bubblegum Dog’ being an hour.”

In actuality, “Bubblegum Dog” spans only about four-and-a-half minutes. It begins as an acoustic track,...

Exclusive: Production and management firm The Cartel is bolstering its kids business with the appointment of veteran children's agent Matthew Ellis as a Manager. This comes after the La-based company recently secured an animated Netflix commission with Twelve Forever, a fantasy cartoon from writer-producer Julia Vickerman in association with Chris Hardwick's Puny Entertainment. Ellis joins from The Metropolis Agency, where he has worked as a talent agent for 13 years…...

Netflix has a new superhero series. Variety reports the streaming service has picked up a new TV show called Twelve Forever.From Julia Vickerman, the animated comedy "centers on 12-year-old Reggie, whose desire to remain a child is so powerful it creates a fantasy world in which she never has to grow up. She’s joined by her friends Todd and Esther, who visit this amazing world to live out their superhero fantasies and escape the responsibilities of impending adulthood."Read More…...

Saturday night at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles saw the opening of a new group art show entitled "Muchos Kstew." The collection delivered exactly what the title promises: lots and lots of art featuring Kristen Stewart, with about 50 people contributing oil paintings, watercolors, needlepoints, mixed mediums and even sculpted sex toys for this visual art celebration of everyone's favorite "Twilight" actress.

As you might imagine, I was immediately intrigued and excited by the concept, and I would happily have lined up hours in advance to the be first one through the doors. Unfortunately, I live on the wrong coast and had to appease myself with speaking to the show's creator and curator, artist and animator Julia Vickerman.

Originally, we had agreed to speak over the phone early on Sunday, so I could get the scoop out to you Twi-hards first thing Monday. But the show was such a triumph that...

Do you live in or around Los Angeles? If so, do you have weekend plans? If you do, prepare to break them because Brandon Bird and co-curator Julia Vickerman are presenting The Jp Show (Just People) at Nucleus in Alhambra, CA. What's The Jp Show? It's simple: An art show celebrating the most memorable part of Steven Spielberg's seminal 1993 blockbuster. No, not the pesky dinosaurs; the people that were running from them. Below is just a sampling of the art that will be available for purchase at the event, but considering there are over two dozen artists participating, don't expect the final show to be so Jeff Goldblum heavy (though, to be fair, Ian Malcolm could power an art show all on his sweaty, lecherous own).  Oh, and if you don't leave anywhere...

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