After arriving on the scene with a blend of influences their 2020 debut album Whatever, Man, Blackstarkids instantly became ones to watch. Less than a year later, the Kansas City trio are already gearing up for their sophomore LP, Puppies Forever. Following the upbeat track “Juno” and the playful song “Flight Club,” Blackstarkids are back to address injustice in their fiery new single “All Cops Are Bastards.”
In true Blackstarkids fashion, “All Cops Are Bastards” kicks off with fuzzy guitars and a catchy hook. As a crashing beat arrives, the trio fire off verses making it clear that they’re no friend of the police. The Babe Gabe’s honeyed voice melts over a hazy swirl of instruments at the song’s chorus, singing about how “times are changing” for the better.
Ahead of the single’s release, the band sat down for an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. Discussing their reason for penning the political-leaning track, bandmember Ty said it was written in response to the injustices witnesses in Kansas City during the George Floyd protests last summer:
“We live in Kansas City, so after the George Floyd situation specifically, there was a lot of protests and we went to a couple of days protesting and just saw the way that people were being treated. The interactions between the Kansas City police department specifically, and the citizens of Kansas City who were just peacefully asking for justice and change. In that moment, I just remember, we all kind of came back to the studio where we make our stuff at and we were sitting down and the feeling was just there. We knew we had to say something about it.”
Ty continued that the song isn’t mean to act as a “voice of the people,” it’s just giving their personal perspective. “It’s not like we’re making the grandest statement or anything like that,” he said. “We’re not here trying to be the voice of the people or put ourselves on a pedestal. It’s simply just giving our perspective and our experience on the situation that affected everybody in the country.”
Echoing Ty’s statement, Deoindre continued that Blackstarkids aimed to make the song “bright” and “bold.” “We just knew this topic that we want to make a song about,” he added. “We just wanted it to be bright and also just loud and bold too. And just carry that same tone that we’re carrying throughout the song with what we’re talking about and just being at the forefront.”
Listen to Blackstarkids’ “ACAB” above and watch their interview with Lowe on Apple Music here.
Puppies Forever is out 10/15 via Dirty Hit. Pre-order it here.
As the highly anticipated Venom: Let There Be Carnage gets ready to barrel into theaters next week, Woody Harrelson has opened up about giving Carnage his live-action debut and going toe-to-toe with Tom Hardy’s Venom. According to Harrelson, while he was all aboard for portraying serial killer Cletus Kasady, a convicted serial killer who becomes infected with an alien symbiote, which turns him into the classic Marvel comics villain, he was less on board with actually voicing Carnage the same way that Hardy pulls double-duty as Venom and Eddie Brock.
In a new interview with Comic Book, Harrelson revealed how he was so reluctant to do the voice work that he tried to get director Andy Serkis to jump in, which was a reasonable ask given Serkis’ critically-acclaimed motion capture performances in The Lord of the Rings and the recent Planet of the Apes trilogy. However, Serkis wanted to stay behind the camera, so he eventually convinced Harrelson to embrace the voice work, which the actor now agrees was the right call. Via Comic Book:
“It’s wild, because in a way, you’re playing two characters in one. So there was a lot of discussion about the voice and also discussions with Tom, but obviously with Andy [Serkis], who directed it. And I just kept messing with the voice, and I was thinking to myself, ‘Who’s going to know the difference, if Andy Serkis did the voice, who’s a master of voices? Why don’t you do it, Andy?’ And no, he was insistent that I do it, but I really… I like how it turned. Obviously, effects are put on the voice, but I really like how it all turned out.”
While fans of the first 2018 Venom film have been patiently waiting for the sequel to arrive as the pandemic continued to push it further and further away, they received some surprising news earlier in the month when Sony announced that it’s actually moving up Venom: Let There Be Carnage‘s release date after seeing Shang-Chi‘s huge opening numbers. The Venom sequel was on the verge of being punted into January when Sony made the surprising call to release it earlier.
It’s an interesting gamble as the Delta variant continues to surge across the country, but as Shang-Chi showed, theatergoers are willing to show up when Marvel characters are on the big screen.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage opens in theaters on October 1.
Peril, the new book from veteran journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, sure has yielded a lot of entertaining tidbits about the Trump administration. From details on the ex-president reportedly being “enthralled” at the sound of his own failed MAGA coup to word that Joe Biden had a “f*cking” priceless reaction to all of Trump’s White House “toys,” the book keeps on giving. The newest tidbit to slide out involves Mitch McConnell, who did more than his fair GOP-share of presidential butt kissing for four years.
Behind the scenes, though, after Trump’s failed election and all of the Jan. 6 fallout? McConnell, who is also featured in the book for his reported glee with ex-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson calling Trump a “moron,” reportedly has no hesitation with his desire to wipe the GOP clear of Trump taint. That’s likely not possible in the near future since plenty of Republicans are still ride-or-die for Trump, but nonetheless, McConnell is quoted in Peril as describing Donald Trump as “a fading brand. Retired. OTTB as they say in Kentucky — off-the-track Thoroughbred.” Further, here’s what else McConnell said, via the Lexington Herald-Leader:
“There is a clear trend moving,” McConnell said, toward a place where the GOP is not dominated by Trump. McConnell added, “Sucking up to Donald Trump is not a strategy that works.”
Granted, the “as they say in Kentucky” is a telling touch, but Mitch needs to get his perspective straight, too. His back-and-forth on supporting Trump as a 2024 candidate is a bit exhausting to watch, yet he sees the writing on the wall regarding Trump 2024, and it ain’t good.
Yesterday, Netflix shared the trailer for its upcoming Britney Spears documentary, Britney Vs. Spears, which is naturally focused on her conservatorship and the legal battle it has spawned. It turns out that Spears’ fiancé Sam Asghari has some thoughts on it.
Commenting on Netflix’s Instagram post of the trailer, he wrote, I hope the profit from these docs go towards fighting [against] injustice #freebritney.”
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Meanwhile, Lady Gaga’s manager, Bobby Campbell, also offered a comment, which Asghari endorsed with a 100 emoji. Campbell wrote, “How much money is being made by third parties from this documentary leveraging Britney’s personal story and its value in the media? There needs to be transparency about how or whether the filmmakers are profiting from this doc, or if they are donating their fees to Britney’s legal defense, or to legal defense funds to aide those who do not have the financial resources to fight against undue conservatorships. Even if it is in support of freeing Britney, this appears that it could be exploitative.”
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Spears herself has yet to speak on the new documentary, but she did previously address Framing Britney Spears, writing on Instagram, “My life has always been very speculated … watched … and judged really my whole life !!! […] It takes a lot of strength to TRUST the universe with your real vulnerability cause I’ve always been so judged… insulted… and embarrassed by the media… and I still am till this day !!!! […] I didn’t watch the documentary but from what I did see of it I was embarrassed by the light they put me in … I cried for two weeks and well …. I still cry sometimes !!!!”
Check out Netflix’s Instagram post of the trailer below.
Las Vegas Raiders kicker Daniel Carlson had a huge game this past week in the team’s 26-17 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Carlson went 4-for-4 on field goals and banged in both of his PATs, which led to him getting named the AFC’s Special Teams Player of the Week, the third time in his career that he’s received this honor.
There’s only one drawback to this performance: Carlson’s big game means he lost in his fantasy football matchup this week. As he explained to the assembled media, Carlson went up against a team that had himself on it in his league with friends, which didn’t bode particularly well for him.
This is awesome: @Raiders kicker Daniel Carlson made 4 field goals in Week 2 and won AFC Special Teams Player of the Week.
The bad news? He was playing against himself in fantasy and contributed to his own loss pic.twitter.com/IcSBFc9k79
“I actually played against myself in fantasy this week in my own friend group fantasy,” Carlson said. “And so that was tough, because I took a loss, and I definitely contributed to that.”
Carlson went on to say that he is a big fan of playing fantasy football and that he likes how it “gets people more involved in specific players and football in general.” It’s a good outlook for anyone to take, let alone someone who just lost in fantasy, which is a thing that usually leads to people hating the sport of football for a few days before they have to set their lineups for the coming week.
“One of the special things about our friendship is, nine times out of ten we are on the same wavelength,” Solange told the New Yorker when asked about working with music video director, Melina Matsoukas. “Her being a black woman being able to tell those stories in such a bold, unique way is really rare.” Black women, like Matsoukas, are outnumbered, often overlooked, and frequently pigeonholed in the music industry. This is particularly true for the world of music video direction and storytelling, where roles available to Black women often reinforce stereotypes and typecast them as video vixens or background characters in stories that don’t reflect their experience.
However, when the person behind the direction, story, or camera of a music video is in fact a Black woman, the ability to tell more nuanced and multifaceted stories, or reach the same “wavelength” of Black artists that Solange described, is more readily available. From Beyoncé’s “Formation” to Drake’s “God’s Plan,” the following five women have proven the necessity of Black direction in Black storytelling. Through their creative direction, skill, and unique perspective, they have not only told the authentic and artistic stories of artists through the music video format but made space for the Black female directors and creatives to come up behind them.
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Director and artist child. grew up surrounded by music in Shreveport, Louisiana, thanks to her churchgoing family and mother who child. shares “used to color and listen to gospel music while I was in her womb.” That foundation of art and spirituality never left her, pushing her into a career as a photographer and creative director. Leaning into her upbringing, and bringing dreamlike imagery to her work in videos she’s directed for Big Sean, Janelle Monáe, Nas, and H.E.R., child. draws inspiration from the Black experience, biblical stories, and even artists like Jean Michel Basquiat. Though her work pays homage to her past, child. has her eyes set on the future, sharing, “I plan to impact the art world like nothing they’ve ever seen before. I see myself going beyond the stars.”
Lacey Duke
Growing up in Toronto, Lacey Duke knew she wanted to be a music video director. She conquered her dream step by step, attending film school, then interning at a production company in London, and eventually moving to New York where she worked with smaller artists. But then, hard work crossed paths with opportunity when she met Janelle Monáe after a show. Eventually, Monáe asked her to direct her music video for her track “I Like That,” launching Duke into a career where she’s brought authentic portrayals of Black womanhood onto the small screen. Since then she’s directed award-winning videos for SZA, Bryson Tiller, and H.E.R. Speaking to Complex about her work with Black women, she shared, “I have a responsibility in a sense, and I don’t feel pigeonholed by it at all. I think there’s something beautiful about my subjects just being black women, that’s not some little shit.”
Karena Evans
Known for her cinematic, authentic, and narrative-heavy visuals, music video director Karena Evans got her start at a Toronto-based film school but eventually dropped out after getting frustrated by the curriculum’s slow pace. So, she took matters into her own hands, shooting a cold text to Canadian filmmaker Director X and landing an internship at his production company. That longshot paid off, and now she’s known for directing several of Drake’s music videos, including the altruistic “God’s Plan,” the fun-centric “I’m Upset,” and the star-studded “Nice for What.” Evans also understands what her work means to up-and-coming Black female directors and the importance of making space for those creators. She told Teen Vogue, “I think the first thing to realize is that there are in fact a lot of female directors. There are a lot of women of color who are here and present. The unfortunate part is that we were not always given a place. It took the Melina Matsoukas, the Ava DuVernays, and others who have paved the way for me, and the next generation of young Black female filmmakers, to help us understand that we do have a place, and to also break down those barriers so we can be heard.”
Melina Matsoukas
Melina Matsoukas’ resume speaks for itself, she’s responsible for creating some of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning music videos of the past decade. She’s brought her blueprint to Rihanna’s MTV Best Music Award-winning video for “We Found Love,” (she was the first female director to receive this honor) Solange’s “Losing You,” and even nabbed a Grammy for her direction of Beyoncé’s “Formation.” She’s also known for highlighting the Black experience through her film work, including her debut Queen & Slim. Matsoukas is credited for executive producing and directing Issa Rae’s successful HBO series Insecure, which notably gives an authentic, positive, and culturally resonate portrayal of Black women. In speaking on her career thus far, Matsoukas told Rolling Stone, “I am who I am because of Black women,” adding, “We’re beginning to redefine our community — and hopefully our version of Hollywood.”
Laurieann Gibson
Laurieann Gibson may be known for her choreographing dance numbers for legends like Michael Jackson and Beyoncé, but her focus on creative direction has also allowed her to become a successful music video director. Her direction credits include Lady Gaga’s “Judas” and “You and I,” and Keri Hilson’s “The Way You Love Me.” Gibson, who has appeared on multiple reality shows providing straight-forward dance direction, is cognizant of how her experience has differed from her white counterparts. She spoke to The Grio, about how her intensity as a Black woman is often seen as intimidating, sharing, “I absolutely have endured the lack of fairness as a young Black woman and as a professional woman. There is a difference. When we react or we are dramatic or intense then we’re intimidating.” She added, ”It is really difficult and I have had to find a way to evolve the conversation. Yes I’m intense because I’m passionate.“
Young Nudy may have already put out his second project of 2021, Rich Shooter, but he apparently remains just as dedicated to promoting the first, Dr. Ev4l. When the album first dropped, the song “Child’s Play,” which features Nudy’s cousin 21 Savage, was tabbed as an early standout. Today, the terrifying twosome releases the video for their collaboration, teaming up to share a taunting visual component to the spooky single.
As always, when these two link up, they bring the best of each other lyrically, as they compare themselves to the doll villain from the film series “Child’s Play” is named after. Throughout a series of eerie, fog-filled night shots, the duo cruises through an abandoned junkyard, the rusting husks of the automobiles looming like tombstones over the moonlight scene.
While Nudy has geared the majority of his videos this year toward the Dr. Ev4l album, including “2Face” and the title track, he hasn’t neglected Rich Shooter. In August, he shared the surreal video for “Green Bean” shortly after the album’s release as he toured both albums at the same time, playing up the competition with a “Dr. Ev4l Vs. Rich Shooter” theme.
Watch Young Nudy’s “Child’s Play” video featuring 21 Savage above.
Sorry to all the other streaming platforms this month but HBO Max is winning the binge-watching game right now.
Their October lineup just dropped, and it’s stacked. Like, a Sopranos prequel plus a sci-fi blockbuster premiere plus a new season of TV’s most-talked-about drama kind of stacked. The Many Saints of Newark debuts first, giving us a look at a young Tony Soprano’s road to his eventual crime-boss reign before Denis Villeneuve’s Dune arrives to take us on an intergalactic adventure with some Shakespearean undertones. Speaking of, season three of Succession is just around the corner as the Roy family slowly implodes on itself while fighting for Waystar Royco’s number one spot. And Insecure’s final season rounds out the month, giving fans some much-needed closure to the Issa-Molly-Lawrence triangle.
Here’s everything else coming to (and leaving) HBO and HBO Max this October.
The Many Saints of Newark, 2021 (Warner Bros. Film Premiere streaming 10/1)
Michael Gandolfini inherits the role his father made famous on HBO’s fan-favorite crime series, The Sopranos, in this prequel that follows a young Tony Soprano coming of age during a tumultuous time in his city. Gandolfini plays the soon-to-be-mob-boss, just learning the ropes from his Uncle Dickie Moltisanti as the family becomes embroiled in a gang war with far-reaching consequences.
Succession: Season 3 Premiere (HBO series streaming 10/17)
The Roy family is back and more divided than ever in the show’s highly-anticipated third season. Kendall (Jeremy Strong) has declared war on his father and Waystar Royco honcho Logan (Brian Cox), forcing family members like Shiv (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Tom (Matthew Macfayden), and Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) to choose sides. A couple of billionaire newcomers (played by Adrien Brody and Alexander Skarsgard) pop in to stir the pot, so expect the drama to reach Shakespearean level heights when it returns.
Dune, 2021 (Warner Bros. Film Premiere streaming 10/22)
Director Denis Villeneuve adapts this sci-fi epic, splitting it into two parts — the first of which drops this month. Timothee Chalamet plays the story’s prodigal hero, Paul Atreides, a young man gifted with supernatural abilities and burdened with the terrible responsibility of one day leading his all-powerful house. Oscar Isaac plays his father, Leto, while Rebecca Ferguson plays his mother, Jessica — a member of a powerful faction of women who also possess superhuman abilities. When a rival house declares war on the Atreides, Paul and his family must go to extreme lengths to protect the desert planet they’ve inherited and its coveted spice.
Insecure: Season 5 Premiere (HBO series streaming 10/24)
The show’s fifth and final season drops this month as Issa and Molly continue to work on mending their broken friendship as new romances emerge. Issa needs to make a decision about her future with Lawrence — and his baby mama — while Molly ponders her next moves, in her personal and professional life.
Here’s what’s coming to HBO and HBO Max this October:
Avail. 10/1 Admission, 2013 (HBO) A Royal Affair, 2012 (HBO) After the Thin Man, 1936 All The President’s Men, 1976 (HBO) American Gigolo, 1980 (HBO) American Graffiti, 1973 (HBO) Argo, 2012 (Alternate Version) (HBO) Bad Boys II, 2003 Bad Boys, 1995 Bad Words, 2013 (HBO) Ballet 422, 2014 (HBO) Being Flynn, 2012 (HBO) Best Man Down, 2013 (HBO) Beverly Hills Cop, 1984 (HBO) Beverly Hills Cop II, 1987 (HBO) Beverly Hills Cop III, 1994 (HBO) Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure, 1989 (HBO) Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey, 1991 (HBO) Billy Elliot, 2000 (HBO) Black Christmas, 2019 (HBO) Black Hawk Down, 2001 (HBO) Blades Of Glory, 2007 (HBO) Blazing Saddles, 1974 Blood Father, 2016 (HBO) Bloodsport, 1988 (HBO) Blue Crush, 2002 (HBO) Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, 2004 (HBO) Bridget Jones’s Diary, 2001 Broken City, 2013 (HBO) Caddyshack II, 1988 Cake, 2005 (HBO) Cats, 2019 (HBO) Child 44, 2015 (HBO) City of God, 2002 (HBO) Clash of Titans, 1981 Client 9: The Rise And Fall Of Eliot Spitzer, 2010 (HBO) Culpa, 2021 (HBO) Danny Collins, 2015 (HBO) David Lynch: The Art Life, 2016 Desperately Seeking Susan, 1985 (HBO) Dinner For Schmucks, 2010 (HBO) Doubt, 2008 (HBO) Down A Dark Hall, 2018 (HBO) Downhill, 2020 (HBO) Drop Zone, 1994 (HBO) Dying Young, 1991 (HBO) El Cantante, 2007 (HBO) El Profugo, 2020 (HBO) Emma., 2020 (HBO) Endless Love, 2014 (HBO) Entre Nos: The Winners 2, 2021 (HBO) Entre Nos: What She Said, 2021 (HBO) Family Matters Fifty Shades Of Black, 2016 (HBO) For A Good Time, Call…, 2012 (Alternate Version) (HBO) Full House Gangs Of New York, 2002 (HBO) Gangster Squad, 2013 (HBO) Goodbye, Mr. Chips, 1969 Hacksaw Ridge, 2016 (HBO) Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, 2008 He Said She Said, 1991 (HBO) Hearts In Atlantis, 2001 (HBO) Hitch, 2005 Hitman, 2007 (Alternate Version) (HBO) Hooper, 1978 Hostage, 2005 (HBO) House of Wax, 2005 House, 2008 (HBO) Imagine That, 2009 (HBO) Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, 2015 J. Edgar, 2011 (HBO) Johnny English Strikes Again, 2018 (HBO) Journey to the Center of the Earth, 2008 Just Mercy, 2019 (HBO) Kill Bill: Vol. 1, 2003 (HBO) Kill Bill: Vol. 2, 2004 (HBO) Kin, 2018 (HBO) Leap Year, 2010 (HBO) LEGO DC Shazam: Magic and Monsters!, 2020 Less than Zero, 1987 (HBO) Like Water for Chocolate, 1992 (HBO) Little Man, 2006 (HBO) Lincoln, 2012 (HBO) Lottery Ticket, 2010 (HBO) M*A*S*H, 1970 (HBO) Mama, 2013 (HBO) Marathon Man, 1976 (HBO) Misery, 1990 (HBO) Monster’s Ball, 2001 (Alternate Version) (HBO) Moonrise Kingdom, 2012 (HBO) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, 1989 National Lampoon’s Vacation, 1983 Natural Born Killers, 1994 Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always, 2020 (HBO) Night Catches Us, 2010 (HBO) Orphan, 2009 Parental Guidance, 2012 (HBO) Pariah, 2011 (HBO) Police Academy, 1984 Poltergeist II: The Other Side, 1986 (HBO) Poltergeist III, 1988 (HBO) Private Parts, 1997 (HBO) Proof Of Life, 2000 (HBO) Racing Stripes, 2005 (HBO) Reservation Road, 2007 (HBO) Say Anything…, 1989 (HBO) Sergeant York, 1941 Shaft, 1971 Shall We Dance?, 2004 (HBO) She’s All That, 1999 (HBO) Sherlock Holmes And The Great Escape, 2019 (HBO) Sherlock Holmes, 2009 Shrek The Third, 2007 (HBO) Six Degrees Of Separation, 1993 (HBO) Sliver, 1993 (Alternate Version) (HBO) Snitch, 2013 (HBO) Speedway, 1968 Step by Step Stigmata, 1999 (HBO) Strange But True, 2019 (HBO) Superstar, 1999 (HBO) Super 8, 2011 (HBO) Talk To Me, 2007 (HBO) Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans, 2019 The Banger Sisters, 2002 (HBO) The Blind Side, 2009 (HBO) The Bonfire of the Vanities, 1990 The Book Of Eli, 2010 (HBO) The Campaign, 2012 (Alternate Version) (HBO) The Cider House Rules, 1999 (HBO) The Cincinnati Kid, 1965 The East, 2013 (HBO) The Eichmann Show, 2015 (HBO) The Internship, 2013 (HBO) The Invisible Man, 2020 (HBO) The Harvey Girls, 1946 The High Note, 2020 (HBO) The Hours, 2002 (HBO) The Legend Of Hercules, 2014 (HBO) The Many Saints of Newark, Warner Bros. Film Premiere, 2021 The Outsiders, 1983 The Perfect Storm, 2000 The Poseidon Adventure, 1972 (HBO) The Quarry, 2020 (HBO) The Rite, 2011 (HBO) The Running Man, 1987 (HBO) The Way Way Back, 2013 (HBO) The 15:17 To Paris, 2018 (HBO) Things We Lost In The Fire, 2007 (HBO) Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, 2005 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 2011 (HBO) Trance, 2013 (HBO) Tully, 2018 (HBO) Twelve Monkeys, 1995 (HBO) Underwater, 2020 (HBO) Up In The Air, 2009 (HBO) Wall Street, 1987 (HBO) Warm Bodies, 2013 (HBO) Wendy, 2020 (HBO) XXX, 2002
Avail. 10/3 Simmer, 2020
Avail. 10/4 Laetitia, Limited Drama Series Finale (HBO) Niña Furia Sublet, 2020
Avail. 10/5 American Masters: Mike Nichols, 2016 American Masters: Nichols and May: Take Two El Verano Que Vivimos, 2020 Level Playing Field, Documentary Series Finale (HBO)
Avail. 10/6 Muy Gay Too Mexicano (Short), 2020 The Republic of Sarah, Season 1 Rosa (short), 2020
Avail. 10/7 15 Minutes of Shame, Max Original Series Premiere Craftopia, Max Original Season 2A Premiere The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo: Amber Ruffin / Bebe Rexha
Avail. 10/8 Voyagers, 2021 (HBO)
Avail. 10/9 Birdgirl, Season 16 To Your Eternity, Season 1 (Subtitled) (Crunchyroll Collection)
Avail. 10/10 It: Chapter 2, 2019 Nuclear Family, Documentary Series Finale (HBO) Scenes From A Marriage, Limited Series Finale (HBO)
Avail 10/11 We’re Here, Season 2 Premiere (HBO)
Avail. 10/14 Aquaman: King of Atlantis, Chapter One: Dead Sea, Max Original Series Premiere Little Ellen, Max Original Season 1B Premiere Love Spells (aka Amarres), Max Original Series Premiere Teen Titans Go!, Seasons 1-6 The Missing, (aka Os Ausentes), Max Original Series Premiere The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo: Jenna Bush Hager / Sophie Fatu Phoebe Robinson: Sorry, Harriet Tubman, Max Original Special Premiere Welcome to Utmark (aka Utmark), Max Original Series Premiere What Happened, Brittany Murphy?, Max Original Series Premiere
Avail. 10/15 In the Line of Fire, 1993 Point Break, 1991 (HBO) Tu Me Manques, 2019 (HBO)
Avail. 10/17 Succession, Season 3 Premiere (HBO)
Avail. 10/18 El Huésped Americano (aka The American Guest), Limited Drama Series Finale (HBO) Women is Losers, 2021
Avail. 10/19 Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)
Avail. 10/20 Entre Hombres (aka Amongst Men), Limited Series Finale (HBO)
Avail. 10/21 Aquaman: King of Atlantis, Chapter Two: Primordius Reign of Superwomen, Max Original Documentary Premiere The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, 2021 The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo: Ames McNamara / Leslie Odom Jr. Tuff Money (aka Bani Negri), Max Original Series Premiere
Avail. 10/22 Dune, Warner Bros. Film Premiere, 2021
Avail. 10/24 Insecure, Season 5 Premiere (HBO)
Avail. 10/26 Maricon Perdido, Max Original Series Premiere The Mopes, Max Original Series Premiere The Truth of Dolores Vazquez (aka The Caso Wanninkhof), Max Original Series Premiere
Avail. 10/28 Aquaman: King of Atlantis, Chapter Three: Tidal Shift In The Heights, 2021 (HBO) Love Life, Max Original Season 2 Premiere A Thousand Fangs (aka Mil Colmillos), Max Original Series Premiere The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo: Dani & Dannah Lane / AJR
Avail. 10/29 Victor and Valentino, Season 2
Avail. 10/31 The Bachelorette, Season 16
What’s leaving HBO and HBO Max in October:
Leaving 10/10 Malignant, 2021
Leaving 10/11 Meatballs, 1979
Leaving 10/17 Cry Macho, 2021
Leaving 10/18 The ABCs of Back to School: A CNN/Sesame Street Town Hall for Families, 2020 Sabrina: Magic of the Red Rose, 2015
Leaving 10/20 HBO First Look: The Eyes of Tammy Faye, 2021 (HBO)
Leaving 10/25 The Artist, 2011
Leaving 10/27 The Hangover Part III, 2013
Leaving 10/28 Tracey Ullman’s Show, (HBO)
Leaving 10/31 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, 2012 (HBO) A Little Princess, 1995 (HBO) All Is Lost, 2013 (HBO) All-Star Superman, 2011 Alpha And Omega: Journey To Bear Kingdom, 2017 (HBO) Alpha And Omega: The Big Fureeze, 2016 (HBO) Antwone Fisher, 2002 (HBO) A Star Is Born, 1976 A Time To Kill, 1996 Backdraft, 1991 (HBO) Bad Education, 2004 Bandits, 2001 (HBO) Barefoot, 2014 (HBO) *Batteries Not Included, 1987 (HBO) Battleship, 2012 (HBO) Black Dynamite, 2009 Blood And Wine, 1997 (HBO) Broken Embraces, 2009 Cats & Dogs, 2001 Cesar Chavez, 2014 (HBO) Chasing Amy, 1997 (HBO) Christmas In Compton, 2012 Clerks, 1994 (HBO) Conspiracy Theory, 1997 Cool Hand Luke, 1967 Critters 4, 1992 Darkest Hour, 2017 (HBO) Dirt, 2017 Dirty Harry, 1971 Dreamcatcher, 2003 El Pacto (aka The Pact), 2018 (HBO) Empire Of The Sun, 1987 Eulogy, 2004 (HBO) Final Destination, 2000 Final Destination 2, 2003 Final Destination 3, 2006 Final Destination 5, 2011 Firewall, 2006 Flight Of The Intruder, 1991 (HBO) Flying Leathernecks, 1951 Frantic, 1988 Freaks, 1932 Ghoulies, 1985 (HBO) Ghoulies II, 1987 (HBO) Gone Baby Gone, 2007 Good Morning, Vietnam, 1987 (HBO) Gothika, 2003 Gun Crazy, 1950 High Fidelity, 2000 (HBO) House Of Wax, 2005 How To Be A Latin Lover, 2017 How To Be Single, 2016 (HBO) How To Make An American Quilt, 1995 (HBO) I’m So Excited!, 2013 Ice Age: Continental Drift, 2012 (HBO) Immigration Tango, 2011 (HBO) Irresistible, 2020 (HBO) It, 2017 (HBO) Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, 2001 (HBO) Just Before I Go, 2015 (HBO) King Kong, 1976 (HBO) Lars And The Real Girl, 2007 (HBO) Lego Dc Batman: Family Matters, 2019 Lego Dc Shazam: Magic And Monsters!, 2020 Long Gone By, 2019 (HBO) Magnum Force, 1973 Man Up, 2015 (HBO) Mccabe And Mrs. Miller, 1971 Message Erased, 2019 (HBO) Monkey Shines, 1988 (HBO) Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D, 2012 (HBO) Norbit, 2007 (HBO) One More Time, 2016 (HBO) Pajaros De Verano (aka Birds Of Passage)2019 (HBO) Pale Rider, 1985 Pepi, Luci, Bom Y Otras Chicas Del Monton, 1980 Professor Marston & The Wonder Women, 2017 Red Dawn, 1984 (HBO) Risky Business, 1983 (HBO) Santa Buddies, 2009 (HBO) Save The Last Dance, 2001 (HBO) Save The Last Dance 2, 2006 (HBO) School Dance, 2014 (HBO) Serpico, 1974 (HBO) Snow Buddies, 2008 (HBO) Something To Talk About, 1995 Space Buddies, 2009 (HBO) Spawn, 1997 Stand Up Guys, 2013 (HBO) Sudden Impact, 1983 Summer Rental, 1985 (HBO) The Bucket List, 2007 The Color Purple, 1985 The Conjuring 2, 2016 The Dead Pool, 1988 The Debt, 2011 (HBO) The Family Man, 2000 (HBO) The Final Destination, 2009 The Five-Year Engagement, 2012 (Alternate Version) (HBO) The Fugitive, 1993 The Great Caruso, 1951 The Human Voice, 2020 The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, 2009 The Kingdom, 2007 (HBO) The Last Mimzy, 2007 The Lego Batman Movie, 2017 The Sand Pebbles, 1966 (HBO) The Shack, 2017 (HBO) The Shadow, 1994 (HBO) The Skin I Live In, 2011 The Switch, 2010 The Tuxedo, 2002 (HBO) The Voices, 2015 (HBO) The Quiet Ones, 2014 (HBO) The Witches, 1990 Thirteen Ghosts, 2001 Troy, 2004 Trust Me, 2014 (HBO) Volver, 2006 Wait Until Dark, 1967 Westworld (Movie), 1973 When Harry Met Sally, 1989 Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, 1988 XXX: State Of The Union, 2005
The song immediately kicks off with a wall of sound. Washed out guitars and a driving beat accompany Strange as he sings of feeling distant from a past flame and regretting how their timing didn’t work out as he had hoped.
Speaking about the new single in a statement, Strange described his inspiration behind the track. “This is about the ones that got away,” he said. “Going back and forth in my head about relationships that could have happened, missing that it didn’t, and finally realizing I gotta let the weight of it all go.”
Listen to Strange’s “Weights” above and find the Live Forever (Deluxe) tracklist below.
1. “Jealousy”
2. “Mustang”
3. “Boomer”
4. “In A Cab”
5. “Free Kelly Rowland” Feat. Armand Hammer
6. “Stone Meadows”
7. “Flagey God”
8. “Mossblerd”
9. “Far”
10. “Fallen For You”
11. “Ghostly”
12. “Weights”
13. “Flagey God Redux”
Live Forever (Deluxe) is out 10/1 via Memory Music. Pre-order it here.
Earlier in September, Radiohead announced plans to release an LP of unreleased songs, titled Kid A Mnesia, out November 5 via XL. Along with “alternate versions and elements” of Kid A and Amnesiac album tracks and B-sides, Kid A Mnesia features two new songs: “If You Say The Word” and a previously unreleased studio recording of “Follow Me Around.” Today, the band has shared a cinematic new video for “If You Say The Word” directed by Kasper Häggström.
Though the video does not feature any band members, “If You Say The Word” does tell a thought-provoking story where suit-wearing people are rounded up in the forest, put in a giant truck, and toted over to the city, where they are handed suitcases and pointed in the direction of the nearest office building. Only the suit-wearing folk don’t seem to know what to do (one just stares at a revolving door, unsure how to proceed). Others hold their suitcases from the bottom and poke around at rolled-up newspapers. (I mean, I think we all feel this type of way about returning to the office in 2021. Amirite?)
Watch Radiohead’s “If You Say The Word” video above. Kid A Mnesia is out 11/5 via XL. Pre-order it here.
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