Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has shared his thoughts on the current state of songwriting and pop music, calling it “crap”, amid controversy over him wearing a Taylor Swift T-shirt. READ MORE: Metallica live in Amsterdam: still the greatest heavy metal band around The musician faced backlash from Swifties earlier this month, when he donned a satirical
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A24 has officially unveiled the first-ever still from Robert Eggers’ upcoming medieval horror film Werwulf, with Esquire premiering the haunting image featuring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the film’s mysterious titular creature. The image doesn’t give much away, but it immediately feels like pure Eggers. Dark, grimy, and soaked in the same atmospheric dread that made The
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Philadelphia psych-folk duo and frontrunners for most “un-Googleable band name” @ (pronounced like “at”) have signed to 4AD for their sophomore album. Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak will release Autosmile on October 16 via the storied British label. As a lead single, they’ve shared the LP’s title track alongside a stripped-down performance video. Watch it
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is launching a new competition for mobile satellite-control antennas, formally restarting a program it canceled after abandoning a $1.7 billion contract with AeroVironment and shifting toward a more commercial procurement strategy. The Space Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office earlier this month issued a pre-solicitation under the Satellite Communication Augmentation Resource
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Toy Story 5 charted the best Tuesday of 2026 with $23.7 million, sending the Disney/Pixar movie across the $200M domestic mark in its fifth day of release. Post Covid, that’s the same time it took Inside Out 2 to reach that point, as well as Disney Animation’s Moana 2 (which was juiced by its Thanksgiving
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Sam Smith has announced their fifth album ‘Hazel Eyes’ and shared its romantic new single ‘My Guy’ – check it out below. The singer-songwriter will release the new record and the follow-up to 2023’s ‘Gloria’ on August 21 via Capitol Records UK. It is available to pre-order now here. Fans have been given a taste of the record with ‘My Guy’, a warm
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Two Reading Rainbow icons show up for storytime at The Obama Presidential Center, authors choose the best queer books in America, this year’s Common Reads, and more. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. LeVar Burton, Mychal Threets, and Obama Walk Into
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A major hero resurrection was just confirmed by Marvel, changing the game in a way that no-one saw coming. While superhero stories are infamous for bringing back dead characters at the drop of a hat, this return is a true shock that just took fans by surprise. In Marvel’s mainstream comics, the majority of heroes
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