Josh Tillman (aka Father John Misty) and James Murphy (of LCD Soundsystem) have a lot in common: both are smart, opinionated, self-aware, sometimes acerbic, frequently very funny guys, who did time in marquee indie rock bands of the 2000s, and who have new records out in 2017. So it’s probably not surprising, then, that the
Katy Perry shares star-studded Swish Swish video: Watch
Next month, Katy Perry will embark on herWitnessTour, joined by the likes of Carly Rae Jepsen, Purity Ring, and Noah Cyrus. Ahead of the jaunt, the pop singer has shared a wacky new music video for the album latest single,Swish Swish.
Helmed by veteran director Dave Meyers (Outkast, Missy Elliott), the star-studded, meme-tastic clip sees Perry shooting hoops in an oddball basketball game that looks like a hybrid of the Harlem Globetrotters and Space Jam. Molly Shannon and Terry Crews make cameos, as does Gaten Matarazzo from Stranger Things and The Mountain from Game of Thrones. Also appearing are popular vlogger Christine Sydelko,Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Towns and New England Patriots’ Rob Gronkowski. The song’s collaborator, Nicki Minaj, drops in for a hot halftime performance. Watch it up above.
Perry’s latest album, Witness, is out now. Below find the full listing of special guests:
Starring Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Molly Shannon, Terry Crews, Hafr Jlus Thor Bjrnsson, Bill Walton, Rich Eisen, Gatan Matarazzo, Jenna Ushkowitz, Christine Sydelko, Dexter Mayfield, Doug The Pug, Russel Backpack Kid Horning, Iris Kyle, Rob Gronkowski, Karl-Anthony Towns, Joey Chestnut, the ladies of GLOW (Sydelle Noel, Britney Young, Kia Stevens, Jackie Tohn), Carter Wilkerson, West Hollywood Cheerleaders, Amanda LaCount, and Nugget as herself.
Linkin Park Say They Will Hold a Special Public Event for Chester Bennington
In a thank you note to their fans,Linkin Park have announced they’re planning a “special public event” in Los Angeles to honor Chester Bennington, who diedon July 20. The post didn’t offer many specifics, insteadsaying the group “look forward to sharing more details with you soon.”
Linkin Park announced shortly after Bennington’s death
The return of the KLF: pop’s greatest provocateurs take on a post-truth world
It is 23 years since the KLF burned 1m and turned their back on the music industry. They have now returned with 2023, a piece of dystopian metafiction could it be just what our consumer culture needs? We take a first look
So why exactly did the KLF set 1m on fire? It’s been a burning question for 23 years, as pop’s greatest provocateurs chose to let rumour, conjecture and myth around the publicity stunt held on the Scottish island of Jura and ending their career on 23 August 1994 swirl about unanswered for two decades. Until now.
Related: GoogleByte v Beyon-Say: an exclusive extract from the KLF’s chilling novel about the world in 2023
R Kelly faces fresh allegation of underage sex and physical abuse
Allegedly breaking a non-disclosure agreement, Jerhonda Pace claims the R&B singer ‘slapped and choked and spat on’ her and that he had sex with her below the age of consent
Following a recent spate of allegations that he was brainwashing women in a cult-like setup, another woman has accused R&B singer R Kelly of physical abuse and underage sex.
Speaking to Jim DeRogatis of Buzzfeed, who has reported on allegations against Kelly for many years, Jerhonda Pace says that she lost her virginity to Kelly aged 16, one year below the age of consent in the US state of Illinois where the incident took place. She broke off contact with Kelly after an incident claiming: I was slapped and I was choked and I was spit on by him.
Muse review band unleash thunderstorm in a matchbox
Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
There’s no downsizing in this pulverising set of audience-chosen tracks performed in an intimate space as they would be at Wembley Stadium
For a band whose live shows have previously featured military-level lasers, pyrotechnic infernos and dancing acrobats suspended beneath hovering spaceships, tonight marks quite a change of gears. Muse have many undoubted virtues, but playing low-key, intimate, small theatre gigs tends not to be among them.
Normally packing out stadiums, the veteran power-rock trio are playing this one-off charity show to raise money for The Passage, a London-based homelessness charity. In a further unorthodox quirk, the audience, which skews heavily towards diehard fan club members, has been allowed to choose the set list via a pre-gig online vote.
Rose McGowan Stars in Luna’s New Video for Cure Cover: Watch
‘Fire in Cairo’ is the soundtrack to a cinma vrit film about the actress, explains director Keven McAlester
Iconic items from Prince’s purple reign head to London’s O2
From his ruffled shirt to bejwelled cane, items from singer’s collection to leave his archives for first time since his death
The ruffled shirt and shiny purple coat will hardly need a label on the display case: some of the most instantly recognisable and dashing stage outfits, created for Prince on legendary tours including Purple Rain in 1984 and LoveSexy in 1988, are leaving his vast archives at Paisley Park for the first time since his death, and coming to the O2 in London.
The exhibition, including several of his customised guitars, jewellery and stage costumes, will be in the same venue where Prince played a sold-out run of 21 concerts as part of the Earth tour in 2007, a still unbroken record.
Belle And Sebastian left their drummer behind in a supermarket
We’ve all been there; heading along somewhere before we look down, only to realise we’ve left our phone or keys behind. But we can certainly take solace in the fact we’ve probably never messed up as badly as Belle And Sebastian, who managed to leave their drummer in a local supermarket.
AsThe Current reports, the Scottish indie-pop band were on their way to a show in St. Paul, Minnesota, when they realised they had left their drummer behind in a North Dakota Walmart.
Frontman Stuart Murdoch had taken to Twitter earlier to help appeal to the public in order to help get drummer Richard Colbourn over to Minnesota, stating that their upcoming gig hangs in the balance.
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Adam Sandler leads a family singalong in the first trailer for Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected): Watch
One of the most buzzed-about movies about this year’s Cannes Film Festival was The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), the latest from Noah Baumbach. This comes as little surprise, what with Baumbach’s oeuvre-The Squid and the Whale, While We’re Young, Frances Ha, the underrated Greenberg-being nearly untouchable. What was a surprise, however, was that the film stars Adam Sandler alongside the likes of Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, and Emma Thompson.
It’s no secret that there’s a brilliant actor hidden beneath Sandler’s whackadoo schtick; we’ve seen it in films like Punch Drunk Love and Funny People, where he leverages his manic, unbridled energy into a recognizable kind of self-sabotage. And early reviews out of Cannes are very favorable towards the actor, implying thatThe Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)will find Sandler again tapping into whatever pathos floats among the farts.
The trailer itself is a tiny delight, a minute-long peek that finds Sandler, Hoffman, and the rest of their clan singing a song about someone named Byron against scenes of what looks like the kind of seriocomic family drama in which Baumbach’s always been most comfortable. Watch the full thing above.
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)premieres on Netflix on October 13th.
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