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A Dutch Interior song can be many different things. That’s because the Los Angeles band approaches music-making as an egalitarian affair, not as an abstract ideal but as tangible praxis. Five of its six members — Conner Reeves, Jack Nugent, Davis Stewart, Noah Kurtz, and brothers Shane and Hayden Barton — sing lead vocals or have lyrical credits on Moneyball, their first album for the revered indie label Fat Possum.

As a result, each of its 10 tracks inhabits its own world, whether that’s conveyed through the warm pedal steel on “Wood Knot,” the gnarly feedback toward the end of “Sandcastle Molds,” or the foreboding horror-flick strings bumbling beneath “Science Fiction.” It never feels disjointed. Instead, it comes across as the product of a band that refuses to stay in one place for long.

Ahead of the album’s release this month, the group sat down with Uproxx to talk about David Guetta, the Vegas Sphere, ProTools, and more in our latest Q&A.

What are four words you would use to describe your music?

Conner: Imperfect, lazy, derivative, thoughtful.

It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?

Noah: With controversy.

Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?

Davis: The Velvet Underground, for their good records with interesting production.

Where did you eat the best meal of your life and what was it?

Shane: Crab gnocchi from The Elysian Bar in New Orleans. It is no longer on the menu.

Tell us about the best concert you’ve ever attended.

Jack: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds at the Forum. I was with Davis and my mom. Nick Cave came down in the crowd and held my hand during “Magneto.” It was peak.

What song never fails to make you emotional?

Hayden: “I Want A Mom That Will Last Forever” by Cindy Lauper.

What’s the last thing you Googled?

Conner: “What’s the shortcut for bouncing stems in Pro Tools?”

Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?

Noah: On a floor next to Shane.

What’s your favorite city in the world to perform and what’s the city you hope to perform in for the first time?

Davis: Favorite city to perform in is Los Angeles; hope to perform in Tokyo someday.

What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?

Shane: Be less precious with sharing your music.

What’s one of your hidden talents?

Hayden: I’m really good at balancing stuff on my feet.

If you had a million dollars to donate to charity, what cause would you support and why?

Jack: I would send it to organizations supporting Palestinian independence/resistance.

What are your thoughts about AI and the future of music?

Conner: I think the deep subconscious connections that are made when creating music is something that can never be created by AI.

You are throwing a music festival. Give us the dream lineup of 5 artists that will perform with you and the location it would be held.

Noah: Oasis, Kings Of Leon, Radiohead, The Eagles, and The Velvet Underground at the Sphere in Las Vegas.

Who’s your favorite person to follow on social media?

Davis: David Guetta.

What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?

Shane: I have no tattoos; my body is a temple.

What is your pre-show ritual?

Hayden: Two beers and a group hug.

Who was your first celebrity crush?

Jack: Hayley Williams from Paramore.

You have a month off and the resources to take a dream vacation. Where are you going and who is coming with you?

Conner: Big Sur with my girlfriend.

What is your biggest fear?

Noah: Vermin.

Moneyball is out 3/21 via Fat Possum Records. Find more information here.

“When I was nine years old, I wrote a story about an evil golliwog,” wrote New York underground rapper Billy Woods in a press release about his upcoming new album. “My mother read it and told me it was overly derivative and needed some work. Here we are.”

This is the story of how Woods’ eighth solo studio album (and first solo album since 2019) got its title, Golliwog. Named after a type of racist caricature of Black people in the form of a doll, Golliwog is due on May 9 through the independent rapper’s own Backwoodz Studioz.

Woods has tapped a who’s-who of alt-indie rap producers for the project, including the Alchemist, Ant of Atmosphere, Conductor Williams, and El-P, while the features encompass frequent collaborators like his Armand Hammer partner-in-rhyme Elucid, New York underground fixture Despot, Detroit’s Bruiser Wolf, and singer Yolanda Watson, among others.

The first single is called “Misery,” and is emblematic of Woods’ style as a whole; tongue-twistingly assonant rhymes tumbling and back-flipping over each other atop a jazzy-inflected, crunchy instrumental provided by Kenny Segal. You can check it out above and see the full tracklist and features below.

01. “Jumpscare”
02. “STAR87”
03. “Misery”
04. “Blk Xmas” Feat. Bruiser Wolf
05. “Waterproof Mascara”
06. “Counterclockwise”
07. “Corinthians” Feat. Despot
08. “Pitchforks & Halos”
09. “All These Worlds Are Yours” Feat. Elucid
10. “Maquiladoras” Feat. Al.divino
11. “A Doll Fulla Pins” Feat. Yolanda Watson
12. “Golgotha”
13. “Cold Sweat”
14. “Blk Zmby”
15. “Make No Mistake”
16. “Born Alone”
17. “Lead Paint Test” Feat. Elucid & Cavalier
18. “Dislocated” Feat. Elucid

GOLLIWOG is out 5/9 on Backwoodz Studioz.

The reviews are in: Adolescence is one of the best shows of 2025 so far. The New York Times‘ Margaret Lyons called an episode “one of the more fascinating hours of TV I’ve seen in a long time,” while Rolling Stone‘s Alan Sepinwall raved, “But in what Adolescence has to say, and in how eloquently and audaciously it says it, it’s also among the very best things — and an early contender for the best thing — you will see on the small screen this year.”

But what is the Netflix show about?

Here’s everything to know about Adolescence, including plot details, the cast, and the premiere date.

Plot

Adolescence is a rewarding watch, but not an easy one.

Created by Jack Thorne and Peaky Blinders favorite Stephen Graham, the limited series is about a 13-year-old boy who is arrested for the murder of a teenage girl who goes to his school. “We could have made a drama about gangs and knife crime, or about a kid whose mother is an alcoholic or whose father is a violent abuser,” Graham told Tudum. “Instead, we wanted you to look at this family and think, ‘My God. This could be happening to us!’ And what’s happening here is an ordinary family’s worst nightmare.”

Every episode is told in one continuous shot, so there’s little relief from the tragic subject material. “Without sounding pretentious, it’s the marriage of both mediums,” Graham explained to The Hollywood Reporter about the “oner” approach. “Technically, it’s a play, and we’re playing to the camera. We spent a whole week [for each episode] rehearsing as actors with [director Philip Barantini], and we went through every beat, through every moment, piece by piece by piece by piece. We dissected the script, which is beautifully written by Jack Thorne. And you just immerse yourself in that character.”

Here’s what Barantini had to say about filming the episodes:

“Basically, that means we press record on the camera and we don’t press stop until the very end of the hour. But it’s much more complicated… It takes months of preparation and weeks of rehearsals and an incredible team of people to pull it off at every stage, from the script to the locations to the production design to where exactly the camera is going to be able to shoot and from what angle.”

Adolescence is more than its gimmick, though. It’s an “astonishing” show.

Cast

The cast for Adolescence includes Owen Cooper as accused murderer Jamie Miller; Stephen Graham as Jamie’s father, Eddie; Ashley Walters as Detective Inspector Luke Bascombe; Erin Doherty as clinical psychologist Briony Ariston; Faye Marsay; Christine Tremarco; Mark Stanley; Jo Hartley; and Amélie Pease.

Release Date

All four episodes of Adolescence premiere on Netflix on March 13.

Trailer

Check out the trailer for Adolescence below.

The most recent new episode(s) of Stranger Things premiered on July 1, 2022. That’s less than three years ago, but for whatever reason (probably something to do with our brains processing a dangerous amount of information every day, idk), it feels much longer. Thankfully, that Dustin-less streak is nearly over: the fifth and final season of the Netflix series is set to debut later this year.

So, what has the cast been doing over the past three years?

Well, Millie Bobby Brown married to Bon Jovi’s son, and David Harbour tied the knot with (then reportedly got separated from) Lily Allen. But the cast’s connections to the music world has more direct links.

Below, you’ll find four Stranger Things cast members who have released music since the season 4 finale, beyond just Winona Ryder lip-syncing to “MacArthur Park” in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Although that’s good, too.

Finn Wolfhard

Finn Wolfhard has starred in a pair of PUP videos, so you know he’s got kick-ass music taste. And if you don’t know, check out his public Spotify playlists. There’s “music” (featuring Modern Baseball, Jeff Rosenstock, and SWMRS), “Summer” (Delroy Wilson, ABBA, Jonathan Richman), and “best Wilco” (shout out to “Misunderstood”), among many others. This June, the punk- and rock-loving actor, who previously put out music with the bands Calpurnia and The Aubreys, is releasing his debut solo album, Happy Birthday.

“Music for me has always been something that I can control,” Wolfhard said in a statement. “And while I’m really grateful for acting and for a long time, it really provided me that peace, it’s just a different thing now that I’m an adult and that it’s a career. I still enjoy it a lot, but when I am by myself and get to play guitar and write a song, it’s a different kind of feeling I’m after.”

The nostalgic first single “Choose The Latter” sounds like a lost gem from the Elephant 6 collective. It’s “music” playlist-worthy.

Djo

To be honest, the first time I saw the name “Djo,” I assumed it was a Las Vegas pool party DJ. I’m proud to admit that I was very wrong. Djo is the musical moniker of Joe Keery (formerly of Post Animal), one-half of the best character pairing on Stranger Things (we’ll get to the other half later). The first Djo album came out in 2019, and while it received favorable psych-rock comparison to Tame Impala, it was 2022’s Decide that proved Djo was more than a vanity project. The album’s breakthrough hit, lush synth-pop single “End Of Beginning,” has over 1 billion streams on Spotify and peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

For his next album, Djo is going in a promising new direction: The Crux is inspired by late 60’s and 70’s pop (appropriately, I also hear shades of The 1975), as you can hear on early singles “Basic Being Basic” and “Delete Ya.”

The Crux is out April 4, followed by a spring and summer tour.

Jamie Campbell Bower

Jamie Campbell Bower — he of the Bob Dylan butt tattoo — was the lead singer of the English punk band Counterfeit. But when they broke up in 2020, the actor went solo with stark songs like “Run On Me” and “Devil In Me,” both of which could have worked as the theme for FX’s Justified.

“I wanted to capture the energy of the room, you can’t replicate that digitally so what you hear is what we got on the day playing together for the first time,” he told Schön about his process. “The video too was very organic. There’s a sort of DIY-ness to art that I really enjoy and makes the process so much more seamless. Rather than asking permission to do or make something. We just do it. That, in my opinion, is how it should be done.

Campbell Bower hasn’t released a full-length album, but he’s continued to share new music, including last year’s haunting “The Witch of Bodmin Moor” and a passionate cover of Sleep Token’s “Euclid.”

Maya Hawke

Finally, we get to Maya Hawke (Steve and Robin platonic friends for life!). She’s released three LPs with label Mom + Pop Music, the home of Magdalena Bay, Courtney Barnett, and Tiny Habits, as well as the pleasant Clipped Wings EP.

“I’ve never held anything back when I’ve made my records. I never tried to be less me. And I wasn’t ever being shy. But as I got older and got to know myself as a human and as a writer, I got better at describing my feelings, having self-awareness, knowing where I am and how to talk about it,” she told Variety.

With every release, Hawke has further developed her indie folk-pop sound; she wouldn’t be out of place touring with Phoebe Bridgers or Big Thief.

It looks like Lil Nas X, who has become fairly well known for doing things differently than his rap peers, is once again showing off his propensity for throwing fans left-handed curveballs. With his new album, Dreamboy, apparently dropping in the very near future, Nas has shared a new single from the album every day this week. On Monday, he released the title track, on Tuesday, he followed up with “Big Dummy,” and today, he keeps the ball rolling with “Swish.”

True to the song’s title, the “Swish” visualizer finds LNX performing the track in a pair of pink hoop shorts while clutching a pink basketball. His similarly clad friends hang out in the background, pounding away on a matching heavy bag and bench pressing. Naturally, both the bench and the plates are on-theme; Nas’ playful reframing of supposedly “masculine” tropes with an ostensibly “feminine” color scheme is just one more example of how he uses his chaotic powers of trolling for good.

While Nas has yet to announce a release date for Dreamboy, he did reveal another single, “Hotbox,” is due this Friday, March 14. With so much of the album already out (theoretically, we still haven’t seen a tracklist yet), you have to imagine the complete project can’t be too far behind.

Watch the visualizer for “Swish” above.

The next Reacher episode pulls off a necessary feat for the future of this franchise: if any audience members question whether Neagley can support her own spin off, those doubts are about to disappear. Maria Sten and Alan Ritchson’s characters are, of course, both lone wolves in their own ways (he being a wanderer, and she not being a fan of touch). Their complete and utter respect of each other is a highlight of this series, but of course, it’s also fun when Reacher is punching bad dudes. This week, both of them go to town, apart but somehow also together.

Plenty more punchin’ will also continue to go down until this season finishes, so let’s get to the point of today’s discussion.

When Does Reacher Season 3 Episode 7 Come Out?

Thursday, March 13 at 12:00am PST and 3:00am EST.

This week’s episode, “Smoke On The Water,” sees Reacher struggle to keep his word (not to Neagley) with this description: “At the Bizarre Bazar, Reacher finally comes face-to-face with Xavier Quinn, but he’s torn between the desire to kill him and the promise he made to Duffy. In Chicago, Neagley gets unexpected visitors.”

Once this season concludes, the wait will begin not only for more Reacher but also the all-important detail of which book that the Prime Video/Amazon series will adapt next. We’re as ready to hear that information as you are.

Here’s some good news for any Swifties who are still mourning the end of The Eras Tour.

The 2025 edition of the iHeartRadio Music Awards will feature an “exclusive performance” from the first night of Taylor Swift‘s record-breaking tour, according to USA Today. Swift performed 44 songs during that show, held on March 17, 2023, at Arizona’s State Farm Stadium, including surprise selections “Mirrorball” and “Tim McGraw.” It’s unknown which song(s) will play during the ceremony, or if Swift will be in attendance.

“They had to work really hard to get the tickets,” Swift told Time in 2023 about her mindset heading into The Eras Tour. “I wanted to play a show that was longer than they ever thought it would be, because that makes me feel good leaving the stadium.” She also discussed the physical demands of playing three-hour shows. “I know I’m going on that stage whether I’m sick, injured, heartbroken, uncomfortable, or stressed,” she said. “That’s part of my identity as a human being now. If someone buys a ticket to my show, I’m going to play it unless we have some sort of force majeure.”

The 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards air on Fox on March 17 (the two-year anniversary of the beginning of The Eras Tour) at 8 p.m. ET.

A few hours ago, NME published a report that claims to reveal what Oasis’ full lineup will be for the upcoming reunion tour, citing “sources close to the band and reunion tour.” Liam Gallagher is not happy about it.

Following the report, Gallagher tweeted, “NME tell me who your source pots are that keep giving you info about OASIS and I’ll give you an exclusive interview about up n coming OASIS tour you can have it all but how much do you want it LG x.” Another user wondered why Gallagher is open to an interview and he responded, “I want to know who the bands close sources are there saying we have a mole in the crew.”

Another user wrote, “Info has been leaking for a while what does it matter now? The tour is around the corner anyways.” Gallagher replied, “That’s what broke OASIS up bfore.”

Gallagher later added, “It’s not the lineup reveal I’m bothered about I’ll reveal that to you in a minute I’m more bothered about the line where it says a source close to the band and tour that really causes me a great deal of concern LG x.”

Then came the lineup, per Gallagher himself: Tony McCarroll, Alan White, Zak Starkey, and Chris Sharrock. However, he’s almost certainly kidding: All of those people are former Oasis drummers, and a lot of the responses to the post are from people acknowledging the joke.

In December 2024, Kendrick Lamar and SZA announced they will be embarking on the Grand National Tour together. The shows kick off soon, in April, and when SZA was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night (March 11), the host couldn’t help but work a Drake question into the mix, given that the tour includes a stop in Toronto.

Kimmel brought up the Toronto date and asked, “Are you worried about that at all?” SZA responded, “Are you worried?” Kimmel replied, “I’m not worried about it.” SZA then said, “I wouldn’t be either. I think it’s going to be so fun.”

Kimmel then got more directly at what he was driving at, continuing, “What if you-know-who shows up to the show in Toronto?” SZA, keeping her cool, responded, “Who-knows-who?” That got a laugh out of Kimmel and the studio audience, and the conversation moved on.

Elsewhere during the chat, Kimmel and SZA discussed her and Keke Palmer’s hit movie One Of Them Days. Kimmel asked, “I would imagine you guys are working on a sequel to this film, yes? I mean, you must be.” SZA joked, “Keke’s tired of me, she’s gotta be.” She continued, “She’s chock-full of energy. I would be so honored to be involved in anything that they did again.”

Ian heard the criticism surrounding his sudden rise in rap, and now he’s firing back. One of the biggest critics of the Lil Yachty protégé’s artistic approach is none other than Tyler The Creator.

So, during his “Lunch Break Freestyle” for Lyrical Lemonade, Ian addressed the pushback. “Back then, I really loved Odd Future / I ain’t never sat down tryna mock Future / I ain’t wanna show no disrespect, so I kept my mouth shut and that’s not human/ Damn, would’ve been a dumbass thing to do,” he rapped.

The stanza is a direct response to remarks Tyler The Creator made, in which he accused Ian of “mocking Future, Gucci Mane, [and] rap music.”

Tyler The Creator followed up his remarks in August 2024 on Mavericks with Mav Carter saying: “People are like, ‘This sh*t hard.’ It’s not even like satire. I hold rap music so close to my heart because this sh*t changed my life […] This is like weird, and I’m looking at it like something about it don’t sit well with me […] In comparison to someone like a Mac Miller or an Eminem, who it didn’t seem like they were mocking it.”

Listen to Ian’s “Lunch Break Freestyle” on Lyrical Lemonade above.