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Only a few years ago, Neil Gaiman readers were feasting with not only an astounding first season of The Sandman but also the ongoing Good Omens and several other projects on the horizon. The situation has vastly changed following a Tortoise Media podcast and a New York Magazine investigative report regarding sexual assault allegations, and long story short, Good Omens will wrap with one long episode rather than a third season. Likewise, an Anansi Boys star believes that the completed series will not see the light of day.

Then there’s The Sandman, an already expensive series that Netflix recently decided to conclude with a forthcoming second season that will bring The Endless siblings together. Fortunately, we will receive more of the most comforting pairing (Tom Sturridge as Dream/Morpheus and Kirby Howell Baptiste as Death) before curtains come down, but it would be swell to know when that will happen.

When Will The Sandman Season 2 Come Out?

July 3, 2025 will bring Volume 1 with six episodes, and July 24, 2025 will conclude the series with five episodes.

Via a Netflix press release, showrunner Allan Heinberg takes center stage (Gaiman is still nowhere to be found) with this synopsis-like quote:

“The Endless are supposed to be just that: endless. They’re meant to go on in perpetuity. They’re not supposed to change. But change is, of course, inevitable and essential to all life. Which is something Dream refuses to accept – at first. And when one of the Endless changes, it has colossal ramifications for all of us.”

As mentioned above, The Endless siblings will soon come together in full. They include not only Dream and Death but also Desire (Mason Alexander Park), Despair (Donna Preston), Delirium (Esmé Creed-Miles), Destiny (Adrian Lester), and “The Prodigal”/Destruction (Barry Sloane). Also get ready for Puck (Jack Gleeson), Odin (Clive Russell), and Loki (Freddie Fox). Will Jenna Coleman return as Johanna Constantine? Yes, as will Patton Oswalt as Matthew the Raven.

And because scores still need to be settled (watch out, Dream), Gwendoline Christie will be around plenty as Lucifer.

Charli XCX‘s “Party 4 U” originally appeared on her 2020 album How I’m Feeling Now. It’s gotten a ton of attention recently, though, thanks to a TikTok trend using the song. So, today (May 15), Charli gave the people what they want by sharing a new video for the track. Appropriately, the video arrives on the album’s fifth anniversary.

The video starts with Charli wandering around the aftermath of a house party. Then she heads outside, taking her clothes off as she walks. By the time she’s down to her underwear, she encounters a billboard with her face on it, which she then sets on fire.

Charli is also marking the anniversary of How I’m Feeling Now by releasing a limited-edition pressing of the project on clear glitter vinyl. It’s available until May 18 and more information can be found here. Also, the album once again displays its original album art on streaming platforms, after Charli revamped all her albums with new Brat-style covers.

A few months ago, the song debuted on the US Spotify Viral 100 chart and Charli wrote, “it’s p crazy that this song is suddenly getting love in this kinda way. i know this song means so much to so many angels. she’s a cutie <3.”

Watch the video above.

This July, Post Animal are releasing Iron, their first album with Joe “Djo” Keery since he left the group to make it as an actor. That turned out pretty good!

Anyway, on Thursday (May 15), the psych-rock group shared an exuberant new song, “Pie In The Sky,” which they described as “a song about coming together and letting our collective freak flag fly. It’s a bunch of hooligans gathering in a barn yard singing camp fire songs.”

You can watch the video for “Pie In The Sky” (filmed at Chicago’s most famous bean) above, and check out Post Animal’s tour dates below.

Post Animal’s 2025 Tour Dates: The Iron Tour

11/01 — Detroit, MI @ El Club
11/02 — Toronto, ON @ The Garrison
11/04 — Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
11/05 — Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom
11/07 — Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
11/08 — Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
11/10 — Washington, DC @ DC9 Nightclub
11/11 — Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle Back Room
11/13 — Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
11/14 — Nashville, TN @ Third Man Records (Blue Room)
11/15 — Saint Louis, MO @ Off Broadway Nightclub
11/17 — Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
11/18 — Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
12/03 — Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
12/05 — Dallas, TX @ Dada
12/06 — Austin, TX @ The Parish
12/09 — Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
12/10 — San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
12/12 — Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
12/13 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos (Barboza)
12/15 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
12/17 — Denver, Co @ Bluebird Theater

Iron is out 7/24 via AWAL. Find more information here.

Lorde has said that her upcoming album Virgin is an extremely vulnerable and transparent work. That definitely seems to be true based on what she said in a new Rolling Stone interview.

The piece notes that on the album’s opening track, Lorde sings, “Some days I’m a woman / Some days I’m a man.” Of her identity, Lorde told the publication:

“[Chappell Roan] asked me this. She was like, ‘So, are you nonbinary now?’ And I was like, ‘I’m a woman except for the days when I’m a man.’ I know that’s not a very satisfying answer, but there’s a part of me that is really resistant to boxing it up.”

The piece notes that per Lorde, her pronouns are unchanged and she considers herself a cis woman while being “in the middle gender-­wise.”

She also said, “I don’t think that [my identity] is radical, to be honest. I see these incredibly brave young people, and it’s complicated. Making the expression privately is one thing, but I want to make very clear that I’m not trying to take any space from anyone who has more on the line than me. Because I’m, comparatively, in a very safe place as a wealthy, cis, white woman.”

Read the full feature here.

Virgin is out 6/27 via Republic Records. Find more information here.

Something Beautiful is not the only name of Miley Cyrus’ new album: It’s also the title of an accompanying film. The “End Of The World” singer released a trailer back in March, and now she’s shared another look at the movie, which is described as “a one-of-a-kind pop opera fueled by fantasy.”

The new trailer showcases some of the album’s 13 original songs, with Cyrus looking glamorous while stepping up to a microphone, making out in the rain, and riding a motorcycle.

Something Beautiful (which Cyrus wrote and directed with Jacob Bixenman and Brendan Walter) is in theaters for one night only: June 12 in the United States and Canada and June 27 everywhere else. Tickets go on sale on May 22. You can find more information here.

Cyrus called Something Beautiful her “best album” and “my gayest.” She also said the theme is “beauty, but not what beauty represents by a standard of someone else’s idea. It changed my life, with anxiety, when something we label as ‘bad’ happens to greet it with excitement, because it always means that something is on the other side that’s gonna come from it. There’s always a lesson.”

Check out the visually impressive new trailer for Something Beautiful here.

Laufey’s recent single “Silver Lining” was described in a press release as “the first taste of what marks a new Laufey era.” There wasn’t news of a new album at the time, but now there is: Today (May 15), Laufey has announced A Matter Of Time, a new project set for release on August 22.

She also shared the single “Tough Luck.” Laufey said in a press release of the track, “‘Tough Luck’ is a fiery song about love gone wrong. I wanted to reveal an angrier side of myself — a side that this unfortunate relationship brought out in me.”

Laufey also said of the album:

“Every new album for me is a blank book of stories to write. […] I’m constantly thinking about classical and jazz, how to properly preserve them and pay homage. For this album, I just wanted to let my heart wander. […]

People expect a pretty façade of girly clothes, fantastical stories, and romantic music. This time, I was interested in seeing how I could draw out the most flawed parts of myself and look at them directly in the mirror.”

Listen to “Tough Luck” above and find the A Matter Of Time art below.

Laufey’s A Matter Of Time Album Cover Artwork

A Matter Of Time is out 8/22 via Vingolf Recordings/AWAL. Find more information here.

This year’s Met Gala, per usual, was a spectacle. Celebrities showed up in their finest, sometimes-pantsless, sometimes-piano-having outfits. Of course, some looks received criticism, including that of Billie Eilish.

There’s an issue with that, though. The Met Gala was on May 5, and at that time, Eilish was in the middle of a run of concerts in the Netherlands. She actually had a show that night. So, she wasn’t even at the Met Gala, and the outfits some people online were reacting to were from fake, AI-generated images (here are a couple examples). Now, Eilish has seen the discourse and decided to chime in.

Sporting a confused expression as she eats the last few bites of an ice cream cone, Eilish says in a video:

“Seeing people talk about what I wore to this year’s Met Gala being trash… I wasn’t there [laughs]. That’s AI! I had a show in Europe that night [laughs]. Let me be! I wasn’t even there!”

Meanwhile, a few months ago, she spoke about her plans for this year, saying, “Yeah, definitely getting back into the studio and doing stuff. Next 12 months, I want to… I definitely have more tour, lots of tour to do, and probably more than I’m even scheduled for that’s gonna come, which I’m excited about. I feel like [touring], I’ve really made it into something really fun and enjoyable where it’s not always been that way. I’ve really suffered on tour and I feel like it’s gotten to be really, really enjoyable, so I’m excited for that.”

The weather’s getting warmer and there’s a feeling in the air: Hot Girl Summer is upon us once again. And, in the spirit of the season, the star who re-named the best three months of the year, Megan Thee Stallion, showed fans her latest Hot Girl Swim offerings in a colorful photoshoot bearing all the hallmarks of summer fun.

Decked out in a few of the styles that will be available (on May 19), Meg and a trio of models don matching fuschia wigs and pose with an ice cream truck, evoking the summer staple of lounging by the pool devouring a Popsicle (or other frozen sweet treat) with friends. You can check out the Hot Girl Swim photoshoot here.

Meg’s been one busy entrepreneur lately. In addition to launching her swim line this summer, she’ll also be opening her first-ever restaurant franchise with “THEE LITTEST Popeyes ever.” She’s also got the inaugural Pete & Thomas Foundation Gala to plan for, as well as new music on the way, as suggested by the release of her new single “Whatever.” Oh, and she’s partnered with Airbnb to host an “experience” directed at Hotties looking to join her on an anime otaku adventure. It’s a wonder she finds time for it all, but on the bright side, she’s earned that famous feeling.

Earlier this week, Red Bull released the latest episode of its Spiral Freestyle series featuring Ab-Soul, Big Sean, and Joey Badass. The episode has since gone viral for Joey’s competitive verse, which picked up the threads laid down by his spicy early 2025 singles, “The Ruler’s Back” and “Sorry Not Sorry.”

The combative energy did not go unrecognized or unchallenged. When “The Ruler’s Back” dropped, Top Dawg Entertainment rapper Ray Vaughn responded a fiery follow-up to his battle rap track, “Crashout Heritage.” Once again, Vaughn responded to Joey this week with “Hoe Era,” a witty, wordplay infused diss track playing on the name of Joey’s old band Pro Era.

Vaughn recently released his own debut project on the label, The Good The Bad The Dollar Menu, so the timing couldn’t be much better for his name to be going viral — hopefully, all the attention he gets from “Hoe Era” will translate into spins for his excellent debut, because he’s certainly worked to earn them.

“Standing next to Soul ain’t gonna save you,” Ray jabs in his verse, nodding to the fact that Ab-Soul also participated in some friendly back-and-forth with Joey during their Spiral freestyle. It looks like the Long Beach native wants to compete, and even his own teammates won’t stand in the way of the fade.

You can listen to “Hoe Era” above.

Last week, Sound Check host Jeremy Hecht took his first L during a livestream with YouTuber DDG. This week’s episode, however, takes him back to Dreamville Festival, where he previously took on the challenge with Ludacris, for another encounter with a 2000s Southern rap legend: Juvenile.

Naturally, Juvie’s choices include songs from his former group, Hot Boys, his longtime bandmate, Lil Wayne, and New Orleans musical pioneers, including The Neville Brothers and Louis Armstrong. Asked to choose between “I Need A Hot Girl” and “We On Fire”; “A Milli” and “Hustler Muzik”; and “Brother John/Iko Iko” and “What A Wonderful World,” Juvie came up with some answers that might surprise you. They certainly gave Jeremy a sense of Juvenile’s musical taste.

Here’s how it works: Jeremy plays two songs for the guest artist, who has to choose one and explain their choice, giving Jeremy a chance to learn their musical taste. Jeremy then has to guess the artist’s life anthem, the song they’d take to a desert island, which the guest wrote down earlier on a piece of paper. Our production team has also given him a decoy song, and Jeremy has to guess which is correct based on what he’s learned in the previous rounds.

Does he redeem himself this time around? Watch the episode above to find out.