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Things have been hectic in the NewJeans universe lately. There have been tensions between the group and their agency ADOR, which have so far culminated in NewJeans re-branding to NJZ and later announcing a hiatus.

Now, we have a new development: As Complex notes, the group has changed their Instagram handle from “njz_official” to “mhdhh_friends,” in reference to group members Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin, and Hyein. Furthermore, the profile photo was removed, presumably to comply with an injunction that forbids the group from operating independently as NJZ without ADOR’s approval.

A related account used for official statements was also switched to “mhdhh_pr.”

In March, the group’s Minji said of the situation, “We knew this wouldn’t be easy from the start. We will continue to voice our opinions while respecting the court’s decision and the process. We have no regrets.”

Hyein added, “Some people may think staying [with ADOR] would have been better for us, but this was about protecting ourselves. We believe we will come back stronger and do not regret our decision.”

Minji also said, “Please don’t see this as the end — we will return, and when we do, we want to meet you again with bright, smiling faces. We know this may be disappointing and upsetting for Bunnies [NewJeans’ fandom], but this is how we protect ourselves, and only by doing this can we return stronger.”

Against all odds, Masha is back in business. Or rather, against all odds, Nicole Kidman has managed to make at least a dozen TV seasons and/or movies in the past few years. How does she do it? That might not be as valuable of a question as how her Nine Perfect Strangers character has gathered a new group of wellness clientele for a second season retreat.

The series first freaked people out in 2021 and, as with other Kidman-starring “limited series” (see also Netflix’s A Perfect Couple and HBO’s Big Little Lies), a renewal arrived by streaming popular demand. Let’s follow the psychedelic trail on what to expect from Hulu‘s second season of wellness.

Plot

The first season arrived shortly after HBO’s The White Lotus debuted, so comparisons were inevitable since both shows riff on satire involving luxury journeys for miserable-privileged types. This David E. Kelley series, however, delivered more of an edge on the pursuit of enlightenment while adapting the Liane Moriarty book. And after Masha did her drugged-up, “therapeutic” thing at the Tranquilum resort with an ensemble portrayed by Bobby Cannavale, Melissa McCarthy, Michael Shannon, and Samara Weaving, the second season will go off-book, which should be a trip, considering that the series didn’t clarify whether each character’s finale fates actually happened or were dreamed up by McCarthy’s Frances in the book-inside-the-book.

For her part, Masha has somehow prevailed after her arrest and then surfaced in a car while apparently still dosing herself. And now, she will preside over another unsuspecting (?) group at her next wellness escape in Zauberwald, located within the Austrian Alps. Hulu has provided a synopsis:

Nine new strangers connected in ways they could never imagine are invited by mysterious guru Masha Dmitrichenko (Nicole Kidman) to join a transformational wellness retreat in the Austrian Alps. Over the course of a week, she takes them to the brink. Will they make it? Will she? Masha is willing to try anything in the interest of healing everyone involved, including herself.

Previously, Kidman teased to Deadline that this season adds up to being “Swiss Alps and crazy!” She added that “more” than hot chocolate will be involved, and in a new still, here’s Mark Strong getting “more” boozy.

It’s time to talk about who else might be coping with Psilocybin-laced beverages under the guise of therapy.

Cast

Kidman’s Masha will have her way with a new ensemble cast including Christine Baranski, Murray Bartlett, Mark Strong, Annie Murphy, Henry Golding, Lucas Englander, Dolly De Leon, Lena Olin, Aras Aydin, and Maisie Richardson-Sellers. Good luck to them.

Release Date

On May 21, 2025, Hulu will stream two new episodes with weekly additions to follow.

Trailer

Until a trailer surfaces (and it shouldn’t be long), this unsettling clip of Masha introducing herself will have to do.

Reacher has done his undercover time in Maine to adapt Lee Child’s Persuader novel, and a fourth season has already been renewed. This next vagabond adventure will surely take at least a year to arrive, but never fear, Prime Video/Amazon plans to have this show’s viewers covered. The Neagley spin off has been fast-tracked and has been filming for much of this year.

Naturally, the series will focus on Frances Neagley (Maria Sten), the best friend and former U.S. Army MP colleague of Reacher who is also a loner in her own way. Readers and more-than-casual viewers know that Neagley doesn’t play a huge role in Lee Child’s novels, but the character was expanded as expository glue and is a stabilizing force between Reacher seasons. And whaddya know, Neagley proved to be such a righteous onscreen badass that she’ll do her own thing with an ensemble cast. Alan Ritchson will also appear in the new series, and that makes the “when” even more important.

Does Reacher Spin Off ‘Neagley’ Have A Release Date?

Not yet. However, we know that Neagley is meant to satisfy a fix in between Reacher seasons, and Lee Child believes that the spin off will arrive sooner rather than later. How soon? As the author told Business Insider, late 2025 is possible “with a bit of luck.”

Don’t “details matter”? Of course they do, but for now, the Neagley synopsis will have to do:

Frances Neagley is a private investigator in Chicago. When she learns that a beloved friend from her past has been killed in a suspicious accident, she becomes hell-bent on justice. Using everything she’s learned from Jack Reacher and her time as a member of the 110 Special Investigators, Neagley puts herself on a dangerous path to uncover a menacing evil.

Reacher is currently streaming three full seasons on Amazon.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard release albums. That’s just what they do: Since 2012, they’ve dropped a whopping 26 of them, and that number will soon rise to 27, as they just announced another new one, Phantom Island. The release date is currently TBD, but more info is expected to arrive on April 15.

In their Instagram post announcing the project, the band notes the album took two years to make and it’s orchestral. They also wrote, “HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!!!! A lot of love and time and energy and patience and growth went into this one. Can’t wait to grow wings and fly with all of you.”

As one fan in the comments pointed out, the cover art features a crashed plane, which may be a reference to the band’s previous album, 2024’s Flight b741.

The group didn’t share a new song today, but they did drop album opener “Phantom Island” back in October and said of it at the time, “Hello world. So our last album was 10 songs. Except we recorded 20 in that session. Here’s a track from the other set of 10. It’s even more maxxed out than the last one. There’s a whole f*ckin’ orchestra on there. Hahahahahah! But for real, what a joy to be alive. A privilege to be making music for a living and to be here still after all these years. If you’ve been listening to Gizz for a long time, thank you. We love you so much. If you’re just tuning in, welcome to the cult.”

At the time, they also announced an orchestral tour that’s set to launch this July, so find those dates below, after the album cover art and tracklist.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Phantom Island Album Cover Artwork

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Phantom Island Tracklist

1. “Phantom Island”
2. “Deadstick”
3. “Lonely Cosmos”
4. “Eternal Return”
5. “Panpsych”
6. “Spacesick”
7. “Aerodynamic”
8. “Sea Of Doubt”
9. “Silent Spirit”
10. “Grow Wings And Fly”

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s 2025 Tour Dates

07/28 — Philadelphia PA @ TD Pavilion at the Mann (with The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia)
07/30 — New Haven, CT @ Westville Music Bowl (with Orchestra of St. Luke’s)
08/01 — Forest Hills, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium (with Orchestra of St. Luke’s)
08/02 — Forest Hills, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium %
08/04 — Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion (with National Symphony Orchestra)
08/06 — Highland Park, IL @ Ravinia Festival (with Chicago Philharmonic)
08/08 — Colorado Springs, CO @ Ford Amphitheater (with Colorado Symphony)
08/11 — San Diego, CA @ The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park (with San Diego Symphony Orchestra)
08/15-17 — Buena Vista, CO @ FIELD OF VISION at Meadow Creek %

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Frank Ocean is about as mysterious as they come in the music world. His latest album is 2016’s Blonde, and it’s not at all clear when/if his next album is on the way. This has put many fans in a position where they’ll gobble up any potential clues about the singer’s activity, and now we have some fresh ones.

As Rolling Stone notes, a billboard has popped up in the desert on the way to Coachella, reading, “KIKI BOY 2025” (here’s a photo).

Notably, this comes shortly after what fans believe to be a new secret Instagram account from Ocean was spotted. The account, @kikiboyyyyyyy, currently only has a handful of followers and users followed. One of the followers is Ocean’s public Instagram account, @Blonded, along with SZA and collaborator Michael Uzowuru. Accounts that follow @kikiboyyyyyyy include engineer and producer Sean Matsukawa and musician Girlsweetvoiced.

Coachella 2025 is coming right up, from April 11 to 13 and 18 to 20, so we’ll see soon if Ocean has anything planned.

Ocean, of course, had a tough go at the 2023 edition of Coachella. His set during the first weekend was a bit of a disaster, although an injury apparently played a role in that. Ocean then pulled out of performing during the second weekend, and his headlining slot instead hosted a star-making performance from Fred Again.., Skrillex, and Four Tet.

It was nearly a year ago now, in May 2024, that Roddy Ricch first teased his upcoming project The Navy Album. Well, we’re still waiting for it.

The project was later given a release date of December 6, 2024, but right before it was meant to drop, Ricch declared the project would actually drop in 2025. He never publicly offered an official release date, though DSPs listed February 21 as the project’s street date. Ultimately, though, that didn’t come to pass.

Now, we have another date to circle on the calendar: Apple Music currently lists the The Navy Album release date as July 18. However, Ricch himself hasn’t announced this, and an Apple Music release date has been wrong before, so we’re in a wait-and-see situation.

In June 2024, Ricch told Apple Music about The Navy Album, “I mean, I feel like I’m just getting back to my roots of taking my time, being real lethal with my injection, if I will. Just trying to really just give it everything I got and being vulnerable as I can to my fans, allowing them into my life. They going to get a real experience, almost like a soundtrack, a movie experience of what my life is like. I’m really excited, bro.”

So far, Lorde has released a new album every four years: Pure Heroine in 2013, Melodrama in 2017, and Solar Power in 2021. Guess what? It’s 2025, and it seems like she’s keeping up with the tradition.

On Wednesday (April 9), the “Stoned At The Nail Salon” singer changed her X account profile pic to a bellybutton-baring selfie, and did the same on Instagram but with a blurry water bottle. Lorde also shared a snippet of a new Melodrama era-sounding song on TikTok, which you can listen to here.

It beats only one second of new music.

While promoting Solar Power, Lorde talked about her relationship with social media. “I was like, I can’t do this for ever, this can’t be it,” she told The Guardian. “But I think it was altering my neural pathways and homogenising my trains of thought. I was losing touch with my ability to explore an idea at my own pace, which felt like losing my free will at times. I was very addicted. To be able to put that aside has put me into such a position of power and fertility and creativity and confidence.”

Since then, she’s collaborated with everyone from Charli XCX to Marlon Williams and, apparently, worked on a new album.

Aminé has had a productive 2020s so far. He kicked it off with the 2020 album Limbo, then followed with the 2021 mixtape TwoPointFive and a joint project with Kaytranada, Kaytraminé, in 2023. Now, he’s got his 2025 plans locked in, as last month, he announced a new album, 13 Months Of Sunshine.

Now he’s back another taste of the project, the single “Arc de Triomphe.” The track samples The Streets’ “Has It Come To This?,” from their 2002 debut album Original Pirate Material (that’s Mike Skinner’s voice you hear on the intro and chorus).

On a bouncy beat, Aminé complements the rhythm of the instrumental with lyrics like, “Jesus Christ had dreads, so yes, I’ma shake ’em / Walk up to party, baby, ‘As-salamu alaykum’ / I hate that flow, who’s doin ‘that creative / I’m an MC first, then a Portland native / Ay caramba, I take his b*tch then I beat the bumper / Started with the IG, then the number / Now she at my house cuttin’ up cucumbers / Yeah, and the moisturizer turn my face to a merchandiser.”

This is just the latest new song from Aminé over the past few months, as it follows “Familiar,” “Adam,” and “Passenger Princess.”

13 Months Of Sunshine is out 5/16 via 10K Projects. Find more information here.

Everything feels more expensive out there lately (because it is), but Apple TV+ is here to entice bingewatchers to select them with a pretty fine deal. If you so choose to accept it, then the platform’s impressive track record is there for the taking, from sci-fi hits like For All Mankind, Silo, and Severance to thrillers like Presumed Innocent and Servant. Comedy junkies will also enjoy what Ted Lasso and The Studio have to offer, and do not sleep on the ultimate dad TV spy show, Slow Horses.

Generally speaking, access to this library will run subscribers $9.99 per month (barring introductory deals after buying an eligible Apple device and/or streaming bundles). Yet at present, Apple TV+ is offering a standalone $2.99 per month deal, although signing up by a certain date is key.

How Long Does Apple TV+’s $2.99 Per Month Deal Last?

Until April 24, new subscribers to Apple TV+ can receive an initial three months at that $2.99 rate. The deal will absorb the usual seven-day trial deal, but hey, three months is still plenty of time to bingewatch several of the shows above and decide if you want more.

And conveniently, Murderbot is coming on May 16. The series stars a not-sexy Alexander Skarsgård, and the new trailer dropped today:

Celebrity’s f*cking love launching tequila brands. Just off the top of the dome, you’ve got George Clooney, Kendall Jenner, The Rock, Kevin Hart, Mark Wahlberg, Adam Levine, Rita Ora, and Nick Jonas’ brands, and most of them have done that photoshoot where they are in an agave field dressed like a farmer taking themselves way too seriously.

So yet another celebrity launching a tequila brand isn’t automatically newsworthy, but when that person is Danny McBride, aka Kenny Powers, aka Neal Gamby, aka Jesse Gemstone — we can’t help but be intrigued. At the very least, we can expect McBride to approach things tongue-in-cheek ala Matthew McConaughey’s Pantalones (pantalones meants pants). And McBride did not disappoint!

His brand, Don Gato, features a website that shows McBride, his friend Steve Little, and a masked luchador maniacally petting cats in an agave field. There are samurai swords, middle-aged men in roller skates, and a fever dream vibe that feels like you stepped straight into McBride’s weird, weird world. A celebrity tequila brand that comes across as refreshing? What a concept!

But just because this new brand is coming from a cool place conceptually, that doesn’t mean it’ tastes any good. So we set out to find out how Don Gato stacks up by taste-testing the brand’s unaged blanco expression. Here are our thoughts.

Don Gato Blanco

ABV: 40%
Average Price: $36.34

The Tequila:

Something that struck us about Don Gato’s marketing is how prominently this brand wants you to know that it is an additive-free tequila. Yes, “additive-free” is all the rage in the tequila scene right now, so this would be a smart move from any tequila brand trying to get a foothold into an oversaturated market, but it is pretty novel for celebrity brands.

Celebrity brands tend to go for easy-to-drink expressions, going heavy on vanilla notes and softened flavors, but Don Gato wants to put the herbal and earthy lowland agave it uses front and center, and we appreciate that. According to Don Gato’s site, the tequila consists of just three ingredients: agave, pure water, and “raw emotions.”

There isn’t too much information on the site that lets us know how this tequila is actually made, but Don Gato says that the agave is tahona crushed, and distilled in copper pots. We’d love more clarification on the agave-roasting process, but we couldn’t find it.

What we do know is that Don Gato is produced at NOM 1607, Grupo Solave, the same distillery that makes Kendal Jenner’s 818. Many tequilas out of this distillery utilize stone ovens, but the full distillery equipment also features an autoclave and boiling tank. But enough about the process — let’s get into what this stuff tastes like.

Tasting Notes:

Nose: What sticks out immediately to me is how buttery this tequila comes across. I’m getting a hint of popcorn butter, the tartness of granny smith apples, and a hint of chili spice. I have to hand it to Don Gato, this is pretty inviting stuff.

Palate: Once on the palate, this tequila begins with a mild chili and cinnamon spice, followed by a bit of almond, caramelized agave, and grilled citrus. A shifting bouquet of interesting flavors, but unfortunately I find that none of them stick around long enough for you to savor. I like what I taste here, but I want to taste more of it and it’s not always delivering.

Finish: Dry and zesty with a subtle woody element and a lingering sizzling spice.

The Bottom Line:

Don Gato is among the very best of celebrity tequilas. It has the high-quality production of brands like 818 and Casamigos, but a much more natural flavor profile, and won’t break the bank. Celebrity brands aside, in its price class it’s a pretty damn good additive-free tequila. We’d be very interested to see how it holds up against other additive-free brands in a blind taste test.

Our guess is it’ll do quite well.

Don Gato is currently available in Florida, George, South and North Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Illinois and Michigan as well as online. Find a bottle here.