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Bon Iver is one of the more accomplished indie artists of the past 20 years. John Wilson created HBO’s equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking How To With John Wilson. Together, they combined forces on the video for “Everything Is Peaceful Love,” the first single from Bon Iver’s new album, SABLE, fABLE.

Vernon said in a statement, “I knew what kind of record I wanted to make the day we made ‘Everything Is Peaceful Love.’ I always knew that would be the feeling I wanted to share first. I wanted the video to just be people smiling uncontainably. Luckily, Eric Timothy Carlson suggested getting in touch with John Wilson from How To with John Wilson.”

The Bon Iver frontman accurately called the HBO series “simply the most poignant and hilarious program in all of television,” continuing, “We were extremely fortunate that John liked the idea. He went out, shot a bunch of fun stuff, and edited it all to the song. It gives me what I want for this album, all in one video. The idea that happiness and joy are the highest form and the true buoyancy of survival, and even taking yourself less seriously could heal the world.”

You can watch the “Everything Is Peaceful Love” video.

SABLE, fABLE is out 4/11 via Jagjaguwar. Find more information here.

When Sydney Sweeney isn’t on a set, she’s frequently demolishing the Internet with her social media thirst traps. How she manages to find the time, who knows? Sweeney recently finished filming the Christy Martin biopic and will return for Euphoria‘s third season sometime this year. At the moment, the Immaculate actress is working on The Housemaid, which will take her back to thrillers while adapting Frieda McFadden’s household-name making beach read novel that sparked sequels.

This movie has the advantage of a built-in audience ready to flock into theaters, so let’s not waste any more build-up on what to expect.

Plot

The Housemaid has sold millions of copies (and counting), leading the audience to tap into McFadden’s 20+ other books, which she has somehow managed to amass despite her “day job” as a physician. Sweeney is also doing just fine in the multitasking department with TMZ reporting that she is being paid $7.5 million for this film. Sequels will be possible as well with The Housemaid’s Secret and The Housemaid Is Watching also ripe for adaptation.

The Lionsgate movie will work from a script from Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Boys) and will follow the book’s setup with Sweeney portraying Millie, whose secret past leads her to accept a live-in position for the troubled Winchester family. The wife, Nina (Seyfried) seems seriously off, and the husband, Andrew (Sklenar), appears on the verge of breaking in half, according to the synopsis:

In the film, Sweeney will play Millie, a struggling woman who is relieved to get a fresh start as a housemaid to Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew, an upscale, wealthy couple. She soon learns that the family’s secrets are far more dangerous than her own.

Obviously, McFadden’s readers will know the twists that are coming, but presumably, they will be invested in watching drama unfold onscreen, much like the millions of people who watch Instagram reel-memes and know what’s coming. Speaking of which, filming began earlier this year in New Jersey with Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar, and director Paul Feig (A Simple Favor, Bridesmaids) whipping out the meme power on social media. The caption reads, “Lights, camera, deception,” and they went in for the meme kill: “It’s the Delulu for me. They are living in this big a** house and they put her in the attic with a cotton itchy blanket, like, red flag.”

That’s The Housemaid in a nutshell, alright.

Cast

Sweeney is throwing herself into the role of Millie with Seyfried as Nina Winchester with Brandon Sklenar (1923) as her husband, Andrew. Michele Morrone, who recently made waves in Subservience on Netflix, has picked up the role of sexy Italian groundskeeper Enzo. Alexandra Seal (A Murder At The End Of The World, Escape At Dannemora) will portray Officer Connors.

Release Date

The Housemaid will deliver beach-read thrills into theaters on Christmas 2025. Talk about counterprogramming.

Trailer

Filming has only just begun, but we can only hope that similar vibes to Sweeney’s Euphoria “Cassie meltdown” will surface at some point. Behold:

Last month, Jason Isbell announced Foxes In The Snow, his first solo album since 2015’s Something More Than Free, as he’s been mostly making material with his band The 400 Unit in recent years. His approach is the exact opposite this time and much simpler, though: A press release notes Isbell recorded the album on the same “all-mahogany 1940 Martin 0-17 acoustic guitar” and over the course of just five days.

The project is set for March 7, but ahead of them, he has unveiled the album’s title track. It’s instrumentally sparse, of course, with just guitar and vocals. But, Isbell’s songwriting and voice make the song feel full.

He sings on the track’s opening verse, “I love my love / I love her mouth / I love the way she turns the lights off in her house / And I love my love / And her velvet bed / Where she’s heard me sing the words that can’t be said / And all the dreams that die unseen / All the Diphenhydramine / It took to put my soul to sleep / Now it’s easy.”

Meanwhile, Isbell previously announced tour dates and his US solo tour kicks off tomorrow, February 14.

Listen to “Foxes In The Snow” above.

Foxes In The Snow is out 3/7 via Southeastern Records. Find more information here.

Chappell Roan’s record-setting music festival performance is going international. The “Good Luck, Babe!” singer was announced as one of the headliners for Rock En Seine 2025, which takes place from August 20 to 24 at the Domaine National de Saint-Cloud, near Paris, France. The lineup also includes ASAP Rocky, London Grammer, Vampire Weekend, recent Grammy winner Doechii, Anyma, Justice, Jamie xx, Queens Of The Stone Age, Fontaines DC, Mk.gee, and Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory.

Pre-sale tickets for Rock En Seine 2025 will be available beginning Friday, February 14, at 2 p.m. CET with preferential prices exclusively for Revolut customers (there’s a €10 discount — roughly 10 bucks in American dollars — on tickets or packages when using Revolut Pay until Monday, February 17). Meanwhile, the general sale starts on Monday, February 17, at 10 a.m. CET. You can find more information here.

Check out the festival’s full lineup below.

Rock En Seine 2025 Lineup For Wednesday, August 20

Chappell Roan
London Grammar
Luvcat
Suki Waterhouse

Rock En Seine 2025 Lineup For Thursday, August 21

ASAP Rocky
Vampire Weekend
Doechii
Khruangbin
Barry Can’t Swim
Mk.gee
Montell Fish
Alemeda

Rock En Seine 2025 Lineup For Friday, August 22

Anyma
Aurora
Caribou
Empire Of The Sun
Marc Rebillet
Good Neighbours

Rock En Seine 2025 Lineup For Saturday, August 23

Justice
Jamie xx
Jorja Smith
Artemas
Dabeull
Luidji

Rock En Seine 2025 Lineup For Sunday, August 24

Queens Of The Stone Age
Fontaines DC
Last Train
Stereophonics
Wallows
Kneecap
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

After releasing two albums — – (Subtract) and Autumn Variations — in 2023, Ed Sheeran mostly laid low in 2024 (aside from, you know, a giant concert tour). But, in terms of new music, it looks like he may be more active this year. In fact, he has seemingly indicated what his next album will be titled.

A social media post shared by Memezar (as Pubity notes) noted that Sheeran recently changed his profile picture and asked, “What math is he gonna do next?” Sheeran himself commented on the post, “Irony is if you ask me anything maths related I would fail the question, I never finished high school. Play coming soon though,” apparently confirming the album will be called Play.

Sheeran previously hinted at the title being Play: In a social media post shared towards the end of 2023, he wrote, “See you sometime next year when we press Play again on pop, and have a good holiday season.”

Meanwhile, Sheeran was recently performing on the street in India, but police opted to shut him down. He later explained, “We had permission to busk btw, hence us playing in that exact spot, was planned out before, it wasn’t just us randomly turning up. All good though. See ya at the show tonight x.”

Steven and Ian begin this week by discussing their Valentine’s Day plans and plotting a potential Love Is Blind-cast. Then Steven formally congratulates Ian on the Philadelphia Eagles’ beatdown of the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl, and sort of makes amends for all of his Nick Sirianni slander. From there they break down the Super Bowl Halftime Show, and discuss the polarized reactions to Kendrick Lamar’s performance. In the Fantasy Albums Draft update, they discuss new albums from Bartees Strange and Horsegirl. Finally, they wrap with an overview of the 2025 slate of Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame nominees.

In Recommendation Corner, Ian shouts out the Australian Skeleten and Steven stumps for a benefit EP from Big Thief.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 226 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.

Offset continues to seemingly shade his ex Cardi B through his new music, following December’s boastful “Swing My Way” with a vindictive new single, “Ten.” This time around, Offset insists on his own memorability, predicting that “You gon’ have to f*ck ’bout ten more n****s to get over me.”

He also takes a “sorry, not sorry” stance toward all the rumors of his infidelity, sneering, “It’s a big difference / I was just f*cking the b*tches you was nitpicking / Watching me splurging on b*tches and it hit different / Calling me and asking me questions, mind your business.”

Yeesh.

It certainly sounds like Offset is doing his best to earn Cardi’s ire, which she last unleashed back in October, declaring in a since-deleted string of tweets, “Bro I wish the worst on this man…I never hated somebody so much and these b*tches be so thirsty to have him please take this man off my hands this garbage bag is too heavy!!” Although she deleted the posts, it doesn’t sound like he’s on her list of favorite people.

Meanwhile, Offset’s prediction doesn’t seem like it’ll be coming true anytime soon after Cardi asserted in November, “I’m telling you…the dating pool got piss in it .”

You can listen to Offset’s new single “Ten” above.

It’s no secret that Drake had a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year in 2024, which has so far seemingly carried over into 2025 as Kendrick Lamar continued to taunt him with his Super Bowl Halftime Show performance and Grammys sweep. However, Drake has words for those trying to throw dirt on his career’s casket, opting to defy the reports of his demise on “Gimme A Hug” from the new joint project with his OVO artist PartyNextDoor, Some Sexy Songs 4 U.

“You Neo in The Matrix, these n****s just Nemo in the ocean / Small fish, making kids feel emotion / Using you for promotion, true words that never been spoken,” he raps in the first verse, giving himself a bit of a pep talk and contrasting his control over the rap world with other rappers, who he considers lost. He also issues his new policy on feuding with his rap foes: “F*ck all rap beef, I’m trying to get the party lit.” I mean, that was the whole point everybody was trying to make, man, but you got it, I guess.

You can listen to Drake and PartyNextDoor’s “Gimme A Hug” above.

Some Sexy Songs 4 U is out now via OVO Sound. You can stream it here.

Halle Bailey is back with a new single about the ups and downs of love for Valentine’s Day. Her new song is called “Back And Forth,” and finds the recently single singer recounting how a romantic entanglement contradicts itself. Ultimately, she demands a “love that doesn’t hurt,” but can’t help but go “back and forth” with her paramour. Perhaps the song is a not-so-subtle dig at DDG, with whom she recently split despite sharing a son, Halo.

Since becoming a mother, Halle has progressed her solo music career in fits and starts, dropping the singles “In Your Hands” and “Because I Love You” five months apart. Given “Back And Forth” took another five months or so to release, it certainly looks like the singer is taking her time creating her solo debut album — which could only be a good thing.

Of course, there are those fans who’d prefer a reunion of sister act Chloe X Halle, with the Bailey sisters rediscovering their Ungodly Hour chemistry for more than the handful of tracks they’ve recorded together over the past five years. Chlöe has hinted that such a project could be in the works as well, so we’ll see which happens first.

For now, you can listen to “Back And Forth” above.

Earlier this month, Sabrina Carpenter announced her plans for Valentine’s Day included releasing a new deluxe edition of her fan-favorite album, Short N’ Sweet. As promised, the updated version of her breakout album has arrived, along with a revamped, country western version of standout track “Please Please Please” featuring none other than country legend, Dolly Parton. Carpenter previously joked that Parton wouldn’t like her to swear but she couldn’t help herself, sneaking a “holy sh*t” into the announcement tweet. However, true to form, the new “Please Please Please” does remove some dirty language.

Meanwhile, the music video for the song nods to another odd couple, the titular duo of Thelma And Louise. After some opening news clippings set the stage — the two are wanted fugitives suspected of murder — Sabrina and Dolly drive their pickup truck like they stole it to stay ahead of the law. A reveal toward the end shows they’ve also added kidnapping to their list of crimes, but unlike the duo from the film, our two country lasses manage to dodge the cherry tops in hot pursuit.

Speaking of arrests, it turned out that Carpenter’s tour tradition of “arresting” celebrities with fuzzy pink cuffs was actually requested by one of her first “victims”: Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown.

You can watch Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” video featuring Dolly Parton above.

Short N’ Sweet Deluxe is out now via Island Records. You can stream it here.