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Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in October. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Friday, October 6

• A. Savage — Several Songs About Fire (Rough Trade Records)
• Adeline Hotel — Hot Fruit (Ruination)
• Aho Ssan — Rhizomes (Other People)
• Axis: Sova — Blinded By Oblivion (God)
• BCMC — Foreign Smokes (Drag City)
• Bewilder — From the Eyrie (Tiny Engines)
• Born Days — My Little Dark (AudioSport Records)
• BoyWithUke — Lucid Dreams (Mercury Records/Republic Records)
• Breeze — Sour Grapes (Hand Drawn Dracula)
• Butcher Brown — Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
• Citizen — Calling the Dogs (Run For Cover)
• Claire Rosinkranz — Just Because (slowplay/Republic Records)
• Colbie Caillat — Along the Way (Blue Jean Baby Records)
• Corey Gulkin — Half Moon (Anything Bagel Records)
• corner club — in the rearview mirror EP (Hyena Records)
• Darius Rucker — Carolyn’s Boy (Capitol Nashville)
• Del Paxton — Auto Locator (Topshelf Records)
• Dogstar — Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees (Dillon Street Records)
• Dorian Electra — Fanfare (Universal)
• Drake — For All the Dogs (OVO Sound/Republic Records)
• DUSK — Wheels of Twilight (Argonauta Records)
• Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist — Voir Dire (Gala Music)
• ElCamino — They Spit on Jesus (BSF Records)
• Elijah Johnston — Hometown Vampire (Strolling Bones Records)
• Ethan P. Flynn — Abandon All Hope (Young)
• Games We Play — Life’s Going Great (Fueled By Ramen)
• Georgia Gets By — Fish Bird Baby Boy EP (Luminelle)
• Glasser — crux (One Little Independent)
• Hank May — Tails (Dangerbird Records)
• Hania Rani — Ghosts (Gondwana Records)
• Hannah Diamond — Perfect Picture (PC Music)
• Heatmiser — The Music of Heatmiser (Third Man Records)
• heka — swan songs EP (Practise Music)
• Hello June — Artifacts (31 Tigers Records)
• Hunny — Hunny’s New Planet Heaven (Epitaph Records)
• Ilsey — From the Valley (Elektra Records)
• Incubus — Morning View XXIII (Virgin Music)
• Jason Hawk Harris — Thin Places (Bloodshot Records)
• Joe Bonamassa — Blues Deluxe, Vol. 2 (J&R Adventures)
• John Carpenter — Anthology II (Movie Themes 1976-1988) (Sacred Bones)
• John R. Miller — Heat Comes Down (Rounder Records)
• Jolie Holland — Haunted Mountain (MNRK Music Group)
• The Keening — Little Bird (Relapse)
• La Chinga — Primal Forces (Ripple Music)
• Lufthaus — Visions Volume 1 (Armada Music)
• Mary Lattimore — Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (Ghostly International)
• Max Cooper — Motif EP (Mesh)
• Meernaa — So Far So Good (Keeled Scales)
• Michael Abdow — Séance In Black (Couch Cat Records)
• Miki Ratsula — i’ll be fine if i want to (Nettwerk)
• Mitch Rowland — Come June (Erskine/Giant)
• Mutabaruka — Black Attack (Ariwa)
• Mutual Benefit — Growing at the Edges (Transgressive)
• Neil Frances — It’s All A Bit Fuzzy (Nettwerk)
• Old Dominion — Memory Lane (Columbia Nashville)
• Omar Apollo — Live For Me EP (Warner Records)
• Open City — Hands in the Honey Jar (Get Better Records)
• Prong — State of Emergency (Steamhammer/SPV)
• Restless Spirit — Afterimage (Magnetic Eye Records)
• Roger Waters — The Dark Side of the Moon Redux (Cooking Vinyl)
• The Rural Alberta Advantage — The Rise & The Fall (Saddle Creek)
• Sam Gendel and Marcella Cytrynowicz — AUDIOBOOK (Psychic Hotline)
• The Seshen — Nowhere (Rhino)
• The Steel Woods — On Your Time (Thirty Tigers)
• Steve Cole — Without a Doubt (Artistry Music/Mack Avenue)
• Sufjan Stevens — Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)
• Svalbard — The Weight of the Mask (Nuclear Blast Records)
• Tele Novella — Poet’s Tooth (Kill Rock Stars)
• Tré Burt — Traffic Fiction (Oh Boy Records)
• Truth Club — Running From the Chase (Double Double Whammy)
• Unschooling — New World Artifacts (Bad Vibrations Records)
• Van Halen — The Collection II (Rhino)
• World’s First Cinema — Palm Reader EP (Fearless Records)
• Yes — Yessingles (Rhino)
• Yung Bae — Groove Continental: Side B (self-released)

Friday, October 13

• A Beacon School — yoyo (Grind Select)
• Abby Hamilton — #1 Zookeeper (of the San Diego Zoo) (Blue Gown Records)
• Adam Melchor — Fruitland EP (Warner)
• Aditya Prakash — Isolashun (New Amsterdam Records)
• Allah-Las — Zuma 85 (Calico Discos)
• Anna Hillburg — Tired Girls (Speakeasy Studios SF)
• Beartooth — The Surface (Red Bull Records)
• Black Mekon — NEAT! (PNKSLM Recordings)
• Blue Ocean — Fertile State (Slumberland Records)
• The Bones of J.R. Jones — Slow Lighting (Tone Tree Music)
• boygenius — the rest EP (Interscope)
• Cafuné — Love Songs for the End EP (Elektra Entertainment)
• Celia — Complete In Box (AWAL Records)
• Chelsea Cutler — Stellaria (Republic Records)
• CMAT — Crazymad (AWAL Records)
• ††† (Crosses) — Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. (Warner Records)
• The Dollyrots — Night Owls (Wicked Cool Records/The Orchard)
• The Drums — Jonny (Anti- Records)
• Eric Sardinas — Midnight Junction (earMUSIC)
• Faith Healer — The Hand That Fits the Glove (Mint Records)
• Feelies — Some Kinda Love (Bar/None Records)
• Free Throw — Lessons That We Swear to Keep (Wax Bodega)
• FRENSHIP — Base Camp EP (ONErpm)
• Gavin DeGraw — A Classic Christmas (RCA)
• Geese — 4D Country EP (Partisan/PIAS)
• Gotts Street Park — On the Inside (Blue Flowers Music)
• Gucci Mane — Breath of Fresh Air (1017/Atlantic Records)
• Hannah Wicklund — The Prize (Label 51/Flatiron Recordings)
• Helena Deland — Goodnight Summerland (Chivi Chivi)
• Holly Humberstone — Paint My Bedroom Black (Darkroom/Geffen/Polydor Records)
• Hooveriii — Pointe (The Reverberation Appreciation Society)
• Husbands — Cuatro (Thirty Tigers)
• IVE — I’VE MINE EP (Starship Entertainment)
• Jake Shears — Last Man Dancing Remixes EP (Mute)
• Jamila Woods — Water Made Us (Jagjaguwar)
• Jenn Champion — The Last Night of Sadness (Gay Forever)
• John Scofield — Uncle John’s Band (ECM)
• Johnny Jewel — Holly (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Italians Do It Better)
• Johnny Mathis — Christmas Time is Here (Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings)
• Kacey Johansing — Year Away (Night Bloom Records)
• Krieg — Ruiner (Profound Lore Records)
• L’Rain — I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
• Land of Talk — Performances (Saddle Creek)
• Laura Misch — Sample the Sky (One Little Independent Records)
• Lilts — Waiting Around EP (Better Company Records)
• Mali Velasquez — I’m Green (Acrophase Records)
• Maple Glider — I Get Into Trouble (Partisan Records)
• Margo Price — Strays II (Loma Vista)
• Melanie De Biasio — Il Viaggio ([PIAS])
• The Menzingers — Some Of It Was True (Epitaph Records)
• Metric — Formentera II (Thirty Tigers Records)
• Mike Donovan — Mike Donovan Meets the Mighty Flashlight (Drag City)
• Milliseconds — So This Is How It Happens (Spartan Records)
• Muzi — uMUZI (Fool’s Gold Records)
• Nitin Sawhney — Identity (Warner Music)
• Offset — Set It Off (Motown Records)
• OT The Real & AraabMUZIK — Zombie (BSF Records)
• Paul Wall and Termanology — Start, Finish, Repeat (Perfect Time Music Group)
• Pinkshift — Suraksha EP (Hopeless Records)
• Rebel Yell — Desolation (Dinosaur City)
• Ringo Starr — Rewind Forward EP (UMe)
• Roger Eno — the skies, they shift like chords (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Ronnie Atkins — Trinity (Frontiers Music Srl)
• Sarah Morrison — Attachment Figure (Ramp Local)
• Spencer Krug — I Just Drew This Knife (Pronounced Kroog)
• Squirrel Flower — Tomorrow’s Fire (Polyvinyl)
• Terra Lightfoot — Healing Power (Sonic Unyon Records)
• Tex Crick — Sweet Dreamin’ (Mac’s Record Label)
• TOMORROW X TOGETHER — The Name Chapter: FREEFALL (BIGHIT MUSIC/Republic Records/IMPERIAL)
• Troye Sivan — Something to Give Each Other (EMI/Capitol)
• Upchuck — Bite the Hand That Feeds (Famous Class)
• Will Joseph Cook — Novella EP (Bad Hotel/The Vertex)

Friday, October 20

• Barry Can’t Swim — When Will We Land? (Ninja Tune)
• Beharie — Are You There, Boy? (V2 Records)
• Bella Boo — DreamySpaceyBlue (Studio Barnhus)
• Bernie Worrell, Cindy Blackman Santana, and John King — Spherical (Infrequent Seams)
• Bex Burch — There is only love and fear (International Anthem)
• Billy Raffoul — For All These Years (Nettwerk)
• Blink-182 — One More Time… (Columbia Records)
• Blues Traveler — Traveler’s Soul (Round Hill Records/Black Hill Records)
• Bombay Bicycle Club — My Big Day (Arts & Crafts)
• Boys Like Girls — Sunday at Foxwoods (Fearless Records)
• Brooke Ligertwood — Eight (Capitol CMG)
• Chris Shiflett — Lost at Sea (Blue Élan Records)
• Crime & the City Solution — the killer (Mute Records)
• Dirt Buyer — Dirt Buyer II (Bayonet Records)
• Duff McKagan — Lighthouse (The World is Flat)
• Dusk — Glass Pastures (Don Giovanni Records)
• Dylan LeBlanc — Coyote (ATO)
• Elmiene — Marking My Time EP (Polydor/Def Jam Recordings)
• Emma Anderson — Pearlies (Sonic Cathedral)
• Emily Wolfe — The Blowback (Crows Feet Records)
• Evian Christ — Revanchist (Warp Records)
• Florentino — Kilometro Quinze EP (XL Recordings)
• Forest Swords — Bolted (Ninja Tune)
• Glen Hansard — All That Was East is West of Me Now (ANTI-)
• Goo Goo Dolls — Live At the Academy (Warner Records)
• Hannah Marks — Outsider, Outlier (Out Of Your Head Records)
• Hauschka — Philanthropy (City Slang)
• Il Sogno del Marinaio — A Tribute to Miles Cooper Seaton (Red Parakeet)
• Israel Nash — Ozarker (Loose)
• Jake Scott — Lavender (Elektra Records)
• Jane Remover — Census Designated (DeadAir)
• Katie von Schleicher — A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night (Ba Da Bing Records)
• Knuckle Puck — Losing What We Love (Pure Noise)
• LALU — The Fish Who Wanted to Be King (Frontiers)
• Lee Gamble — Models (Hyperdub)
• Lost Girls — Selvutsletter (Smalltown Supersound)
• Luke Grimes — Pain Pills or Pews EP (Mercury Nashville/Range Music)
• Maria BC — Spike Field (Sacred Bones)
• Markus Floats — Fourth Album (Constellation)
• Mason Ramsey — Fall Into Places EP (Atlantic Records)
• Marthe — Further In Evil (Southern Lord)
• Me Rex — Giant Elk (Big Scary Monsters)
• Mike Adams At His Honest Weight — Guess For Thrills (Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Night Ranger — 40 Years and a Night with Contemporary Youth Orchestra (Frontiers)
• Oxymorrons — Melanin Punk (Mascot Records)
• Parcels — Live Vol. 2 (Because Music)
• Pip Blom — Bobbie (Heavenly Recordings)
• Poolside — Blame It All On Love (Counter Records)
• RealestK — Real World (Columbia Records)
• Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter — SAVED! (Perpetual Flame Ministries)
• Rival Sons — Lightbringer (Atlantic)
• The Rolling Stones — Hackney Diamonds (Polydor)
• Sampha — Lahai (Young)
• Santa Chiara — IMPORTED (Kill Rock Stars)
• Sarah Klang — Mercedes (Nettwerk)
• Selcouth Quartet — Selcouth Quartet (Flóki Studios Records)
• Skinny Lister — Shanty Punk (Xtra Mile Recordings)
• Sleaford Mods — MORE UK GRIM EP (Rough Trade)
• Slothrust — I Promise EP (Dangerbird Records)
• Sofiane Pamart — Noche (DEMAIN/[PIAS])
• Sparkle Division — Foxy (Temporary Residence)
• Sun June — Bad Dream Jaguar (Run For Cover Records)
• The Streets — The Darker the Shadow, the Brighter the Light (679 Recordings/Warner Music UK)
• Teenage Halloween — Till You Return (Don Giovanni)
• Temperance — Hermitage — Daruma’s Eyes Pt. 2 (Napalm Records)

Friday, October 27

• Angie McMahon — Light, Dark, Light Again (AWAL)
• Ben Sloan — muted colors live EP (New Amsterdam Records)
• Black Pumas — Chronicles of a Diamond (ATO Records)
• Cindy Bullens — Little Pieces (Kill Rock Stars)
• Circus Devils — Squeeze the Needle (GBV Inc)
• Crime in Stereo — House & Trance (Pure Noise Records)
• DJ Shadow — Action Adventure (Mass Appeal)
• Duran Duran — Danse Macabre (BMG/Tape Modern)
• Egyptian Blue — A Living Commodity (YALA! Records)
• Elkka — DJ Friendly EP (Ninja Tune)
• The Gaslight Anthem — History Books (Rich Mahogany Records)
• Golden Apples — Bananasugarfire (Lame-O Records)
• Gregg Kowalsky — Eso Es (Mexican Summer)
• In This Moment — Godmode (BMG)
• James Blunt — Who We Used To Be (Atlantic)
• Jessi Colter — Edge of Forever (Appalachia Record Co)
• The Kills — God Games (Domino)
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard — The Silver Cord (KGLW)
• Kojaque — Phantom of the Afters (Soft Boy Records)
• Lia Lia — Angst EP (DSps)
• Lowertown — Skin of My Teeth EP (Dangerbird Records)
• Lydia Luce — Florida Girl (Nettwerk)
• Machinedrum — 4#TRACK EP (Ninja Tune)
• Magnolia Park — Halloween Mixtape II (Epitaph Records)
• Mayer Hawthorne — For All Time (P&L Records)
• Mike Reed — The Separatist Party (We Jazz Records)
• Mötley Crüe — Year of the Devil (BMG)
• The Mountain Goats — Jenny From Thebes (Merge Records)
• NYOS — Waterfall Cave Fantasy, Forever (Pelagic Records)
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — Bauhaus Staircase (White Noise Records)
• Pattern-Seeking Animals — Spooky Action at a Distance (InsideOutMusic)
• Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs — Live In New York (Missing Piece Records)
• Pony Girl — Laff It Off (Paper Bag Records)
• Poppy — Zig (Sumerian Records)
• Ragana — Desolation’s Flower (The Flenser)
• Red Axes — One More City (fabric Originals)
• Rett Madison — One for Jackie (Warner Bros)
• Robert Finley — Black Bayou (Easy Eye Sound)
• The Serfs — Half Eaten By Dogs (Trouble in Mind)
• Shabazz Palaces — Robbed in Rareness (Sub Pop)
• SIPHO. — Prayers & Paranoia (Dirty Hit)
• Sofia Kourtesis — Madres (Exploding in Sound)
• The Streets — The Darker The Shadow, The Brighter The Light (679 Recordings/Warner Music UK)
• Sundara Karma — Better Luck Next Time (Is Right Records)
• SWMRS — Sonic Tonic (Epic Records)
• Taking Back Sunday — 152 (Fantasy Records)
• Tar Of — Confidence Freaks Me Out (Sound As Language)
• The Third Mind — The Third Mind 2 (Yep Roc Records)
• Tonguetied — Bloom EP (Underplay)
• Viji — So Vanilla (Speedy Wunderground)
• Wild Nothing — Hold (Captured Tracks)
• Year of the Knife — No Love Lost (Pure Noise Records)

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Lauryn Hill is currently overseas for the 25th anniversary tour for her groundbreaking solo debut The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. The tour kicked off last month with a pair of festival appearances in the US, while this week brings a handful of festivals in Australia and New Zealand before she returns to the States in late October. When she does, fans will have a whole bunch more opportunities to see her (and co-headliners the Fugees), as she recently announced a slew of new dates for the North American leg of the tour. Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Detroit, Miami, Nashville, San Francisco, St. Louis, Tampa, and Vancouver have all been added due to overwhelming demand, while shows in Brooklyn, Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle, and Washington, DC have completely sold out.

You can see the full dates below. Tickets go on sale Friday, October 6 at 10:00 am local time. We also have Ms. Hill’s setlist (so far) here.

10/03 — Melbourne , AUS @ Rod Laver Arena (with Sampa The Great)
10/05 — Sydney, AUS @ Kudos Banks Arena (with Show Dem Camp)
10/07 — Auckland, NZ @ Eden Festival
10/13 — Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena (solo)
10/17 — Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center (with Fugees)
10/19 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays (with Fugees) SOLD OUT
10/21 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena (with Fugees) SOLD OUT
10/23 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Arena (with Fugees)
10/26 — Toronto, ON – Scotia (with Fugees) SOLD OUT
10/28 — Chicago, IL @ United Center (with Fugees) SOLD OUT
10/30 — Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena (with Fugees)
11/02 — Denver, CO – Ball Arena (with Fugees)
11/04 — Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Arena (with Fugees)
11/05 — Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Forum (with Fugees) SOLD OUT
11/07 — Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena (with Fugees) SOLD OUT
11/09 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena (with Fugees) SOLD OUT
11/12 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena NEWLY ADDED
11/17 — San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center NEWLY ADDED
11/21 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena NEWLY ADDED
11/25 — St. Louis, MO @ Enterprise Center NEWLY ADDED
11/27 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena NEWLY ADDED
11/29 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena NEWLY ADDED
12/01 — Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Arena NEWLY ADDED
12/08 — Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena NEWLY ADDED
12/10 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center NEWLY ADDED
12/13 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden NEWLY ADDED

(Spoilers for Amazon’s Gen V will be found below.)

The Boys spinoff Gen V is a true chip off the old block, and the flagship series has always been there to “Bless Your Little Cotton Socks” off the college-aged crew that’s holding their own in the raunch department. The new crowd will make the older one proud, for there’s already been ball stomping and orifice infiltration, and there’s plenty more to come on that note.

Also, cameos galore from The Boys shall materialize, and the show tossed in a few during the first three episodes. In particular, we didn’t quite get to see Homelander, but we did see someone who used to be very close to him — before he killed her with those laser eyes. That would be Madelyn Stillwell, former wrangler of The Seven and adoptive maternal figure (and more) to the Baddest Supe. Stillwell is seen in some promotional material for Godolkin University, and The Boys were so happy, they had to address the subject on Twitter. Naturally, one has to read this in Billy Butcher’s voice: “Would never want to milk a cameo, but it was great seeing her again.”

Gen V responded with an innocent question: “[W]hat is it with you guys and milk??”

The chyron also tells the tale: “[Growing] up without a father figure… he’l be the first to tell you I filled a void for him.” So Homelander is definitely alive and well in spirit as well as statue form on this show, and naturally, responses embraced the milk guzzling in spades.

New episodes of Amazon’s ‘Gen V’ stream on Fridays.

Remember Dune? Now there’s a movie.

You’ve got Timothée Chalamet dreaming of Zendaya (who amongst us); naked Oscar Isaac slumped over in a chair; throat singing; Stellan Skarsgård caked in black goo; Rebecca Ferguson being the best; heroic Jason Momoa; Dave Bautista as Glossu Rabban, which is fun to say out loud; and sandworms. Dune is not lacking in sandworms, but sadly, this month is lacking in Dune.

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two was originally scheduled to come out on October 20, 2023, before it was pushed back to November 17, then moved forward to November 3rd. Now, due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, the Dune sequel will be released on March 15, 2024. Don’t blame the actors and actresses on the picket lines; blame the executives. It’s because of their greed that we won’t return to Arrakis until next year. Thankfully, there’s a lot of other good movies coming out this month to ease the pain.

Strange Way of Life (October 6)

The best thing about Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, besides the fact that it’s a queer Western starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal directed by Pedro Almodóvar? It’s a short film with a run time of only 30 minutes.

The Royal Hotel (October 6)

Kitty Green’s follow-up to the brilliant The Assistant finds Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick stuck in the Outback surrounded by something even worse than the deadly snakes Australia is known for: misogynistic men.

Dicks: The Musical (October 6)

A24’s first movie-musical stars Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp as “f*cking identical twins,” which is also the name of the off-Broadway show the film is based on. Dicks: The Musical also stars Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Bowen Yang, Megan Thee Stallion, and Tom Kenny, and is directed by Larry Charles, the comedy legend who wrote many of your favorite episodes of Seinfeld.

Totally Killer (October 6)

This is one of only two streaming movies on the list, but I’ll make an exception for a Happy Death Day-like horror-comedy with Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, and Randall Park.

Fair Play (October 6)

This is the other, although the excellently trashy erotic thriller, starring Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich, is playing in select theaters now.

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (October 13)

Didn’t get tickets to see the Eras Tour in person? Now you can sing along in a crowded room with your fellow Swifties to “All Too Well.” Ten-minute version, obviously.

Anatomy of a Fall (October 13)

Anatomy of a Fall took home the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Previous winners include Pulp Fiction, Parasite, and The Tree of Life.

Killers of the Flower Moon (October 20)

It will break Marty’s heart if you don’t see his new masterpiece.

Butcher’s Crossing (October 20)

It’s hard to believe it took this long for Nicolas Cage to play a bald buffalo hunter who slowly goes mad.

The Holdovers (October 27)

The Holdovers is Paul Giamatti’s first time working with director Alexander Payne since a little movie called Sideways.

Five Nights at Freddy’s (October 27)

October is surprisingly light on horror movies. The most high-profile releases are the demonic The Exorcist: Believer (October 6th) and the creepy animatronics in Five Nights at Freddy’s, which is finally coming out after a hellish development cycle.

It’s been said that nostalgia moves in 20-year cycles. The kids of the ’90s were obsessed with the ’70s. In the ’00s, it was all about the ’80s, just as the ’10s reflected on the ’90s. Which means that we’re due for a generation that brings back the aughts. If this is true, then Slow Pulp has arrived just in time.

Formed back in 2015 in Madison, Wisconsin by childhood friends Henry Stoehr, Alex Leeds, and Teddy Matthews, who added singer/guitarist Emily Massey two years later, Slow Pulp seemed to have the opposite of good timing when they dropped their affecting debut LP Moveys at the height of the pandemic in 2020. But while they weren’t able to tour behind the record, the downtime allowed Moveys to become a slow-burn favorite online, insists Massey, who eventually relocated to Chicago with the rest of the band. Fans were drawn to Slow Pulp’s amalgam of downer lyrics and poppy guitar jams, which bear an obvious influence from a range of early ’00s mainstream rock — everything from Coldplay to Sum 41, whom they have covered — the band members consumed in their youth.

Massey also credits a cinematic touchstone from the era as an inspiration: Richard Linklater’s School Of Rock.

“That movie is why half of us learned to play an instrument when we were kids,” she said last month in advance of Slow Pulp’s just-released second record, Yard. “Especially for me, seeing another person who wasn’t a boy play bass or play guitar was a huge deal.”

In fact, every member of Slow Pulp participated in a School Of Rock-like music program as teenagers — Stoehr, Leeds, and Matthews took the class on one side of town, and Massey on the other — where the ultimate goal was to learn how to play a rock classic. (Hers was “Beverly Hills” by Weezer, theirs was “Sweet Child O’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses.) As grown-ups, they have applied those lessons very well on Yard, which elaborates upon the sticky melodies of Moveys with a broad set of stylistic turns that span from buzzy pop-punk to dark-hued country. It’s the kind of big-tent indie rock record that was more common in the — you guessed it — aughts. And I think it has the potential to position Slow Pulp as one of 2023’s breakout bands.

When I caught with Massey, we spent the first 10 minutes talking about the Green Bay Packers. (I am also from Wisconsin.) It was before the season started, so our conversation about Aaron Rodgers vs. Brett Favre — whom Slow Pulp has saluted in song — as well as the prospects for new Packers quarterback Jordan Love now seems out-of-date. (Thankfully for both of us, Love has fared better than Rodgers so far this season.) However, we did manage to also talk about Wisconsin more broadly as well as the making of Yard, early aughts rock, and how the video for “Scar Tissue” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers pulled Slow Pulp out of a creative impasse.

Do you feel that being from Wisconsin informs who the band is?

Oh yeah. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what it is about Wisconsin that feels true to our identity, but something about it just does. Maybe because we’re just around each other all the time and we have this shared cultural understanding of our upbringing. But I feel like we have a lot of pride for Wisconsin. It’s just a beautiful place. I feel lucky to have grown up there. Wisconsin also has a lot of political turmoil. There’s some issues that I’m not so proud of, in terms of the Supreme Court and whatnot. But I think there’s a lot of really lovely people there. Especially in rural Wisconsin, it has this energy for me that feels really like home, and I feel like I’m able to be really vulnerable there.

There’s different facets of Wisconsin music. One of our biggest influences is Garbage. Shirley Manson is from Scotland, but most of them are from Wisconsin. There’s also the Bon Iver route, and we love Bon Iver. I think those encapsulate certain energies that relate to Wisconsin to me. Bon Iver has got this more natural folk sense, and Garbage has a thing that’s a little bit more youthful or energetic to it. And that is what relates to our music. I know that they started in playing basements in Madison, and that’s what we did, too. And you just want kids to rage, so I feel like you make really distorted music.

You also did some work on Yard at a cabin in northern Wisconsin, which is very on-brand for a band from the region.

It’s funny to talk about working at the cabin because there’s the Bon Iver image of doing that. I feel like it’s a wood-burning stove and a little log cabin tucked in the woods, and my version is much more ping-pong table, scooters, lake, boogie boards.

It’s the summer cabin vibe vs. the winter cabin vibe.

Exactly. I think that’s maybe the way I should describe it, summer vs. winter. We have a weird way that we talk about music, especially how we want production to sound on a song. We’ll talk about like, “Oh, we want this song to sound like rolling hills and cows.” And that, to me, is very quintessential Wisconsin. Or wakeboarding on the lake.

The thing that jumped out to me about Yard is how eclectic it is. It’s hard to pin Slow Pulp down to a specific sound.

There’s an element of that on the first record, but this one goes in different directions more. And, I think that is due to the process of how we wrote this album. Most of the songs started out in a lot more of a sparse space, just guitar chords. And then I’d take the chords and change up the structure and write a melody and lyrics over it. And then there are a couple songs that we wrote as a group, and we were being loud from the get-go. “Cramps,” for example, has that type of energy. But then “Broadview” started really sparse. So I feel like that’s how we get both ends of the spectrum of loud and quiet, for lack of a better term. But I think also Henry [Stoehr], who is our producer, he’s the guitar player in the band. I think he’s really good at hearing the base of the song, and understanding what world it needs to live in, and letting the song dictate that rather than trying to control what type of song it’s going to be.

“Broadview” is one of my favorite songs on Yard, and it’s a real curveball. It’s this beautiful alt-country song.

“Broadview” started as a guitar part. Just chords and a riff that Henry had made. We send things to each other through Google Drive. We work on a lot of things alone before we come together as a group. So I had those guitar chords and one day I was in my apartment and singing over it, just walking around my house and singing over it before I recorded anything, and I was doing this thing with my voice that I don’t normally do, and it was able to open up in this way I didn’t know I could. And, I was like, “I got to record this right now! This is crazy!” And once the vocals started to take shape, I was like, “This needs to be almost like a country ballad.”

When I wrote that song and “Fishes,” I was listening to a lot of Lucinda Williams, and I think it was just some sort of unconscious thing that came out in me from that.

Your first album Moveys came out during the pandemic, which seems like a hard time to launch a career. How do you feel like that affected Slow Pulp’s trajectory?

I think we got really lucky. Turned out people needed a sad album. We didn’t know that that was going to work out that way, but I think we learned some lessons about how to work together. There was a lot of things that needed to happen out of necessity during that time that felt really good, like writing alone and having that isolation. We thought, “Maybe this isn’t the worst way to work on stuff.” Like a “don’t fix what’s not broken”-type of situation. Another thing that came out of the pandemic that I think is really cool is I got to work with my dad. My dad is a musician and has a little home studio, and so I recorded all my vocals for the album with him during Covid. I wasn’t sure how that was going to go, but it went really well. I feel like he’s really good at bringing out a certain emotional quality in the delivery of the vocals, or he’ll have really great suggestions of things to try. So when we made this record, I was pretty adamant about wanting to try to do that again with him.

So you don’t feel like the pandemic hurt you?

I think having time with an album, or having an album represent a year for somebody — a lot of people have told me that that’s something that Moveys did for them, that it was a companion to loneliness. The type of music that we make just resonated, and the emotional quality that’s being touched on in those songs are so directly related to that time period, and just trying to get through it. Trying to do the best you can, and being vulnerable about mental health, and being sad, and going through hard times. I think that’s something that everyone can relate to.

I wanted to ask about “Gone 2.” You have said that you were influenced by the video — not necessarily the song, but the visuals — for “Scar Tissue” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Please explain.

A week before the record was due, when we were like, “We really have to turn the record,” we were re-listening to that song and felt like it wasn’t quite right. What we did was we took the song back to its acoustic roots. And somebody was like, “It reminds me of the desert.” And somebody else was like, “Oh, what’s that Red Hot Chili Peppers song with the music video where they’re all in the car?” We were also fairly delirious at this point. We had been working on the record every day, all day, just to get it done, so we were hopped up on Red Bull. That music video, we just kept it on silent while we tried to build out the new production of the song. And I feel like it evokes that desolate energy.

There is a palatable “early 2000s mainstream rock” element to Slow Pulp’s music. I know you have covered Sum 41 and mentioned Coldplay’s Parachutes as an influence. Do you feel like that era looms large for the band?

Absolutely. Growing up in the early 2000s, we all had this. That was all the music we loved. You hear Green Day for the first time when you’re 10, and you’re like, “Whoa, what is this?” It was an introduction to music that we all kind of experienced, that when we came together and made Slow Pulp, that was an evident thing that we all shared. I mean, we were still buying CDs, and going to big box stores. We weren’t necessarily going into record stores when we were little kids. It wasn’t until we were teenagers that we got into that stuff. So that’s what’s available to you — the radio and popular music that’s happening.

Shopping at Best Buy for American Idiot.

Or going to Target and seeing posters for No Doubt. It just ended up in our psyche. That’s what got us into music. And I think it’s just so deeply ingrained.

Power Trip Festival is kicking off for 2023 this weekend, as fans flock to Indio, California’s Empire Polo Club for a rocking three-day lineup. While there’s only six acts, they are some serious heavy-hitters in rock music — so it is sure to be an experience.

On Friday, October 6, Iron Maiden starts playing at 6:45 p.m. and will be followed by Guns N’ Roses at 9:25. It’s unclear when the sets actually finish or how late the festival will go, but they are likely sharing the same stage.

Saturday (October 7) follows a similar format, as Judas Priest will open at 6:45, and AC/DC close the night out at 9:25.

Finally, Sunday (October 8) changes things up for the last festival day. Tool will go on at 6:55 p.m.. With the set times pushed back by ten minutes, Metallica will be the closing act at 9:35 p.m..

The venue itself will open the doors at 4 p.m. each day, giving attendees a chance to get as close as possible by arriving early. 3-day General Admission passes are still available for purchase, running $599 + fees. There are also options for reserved floor and grandstand seats, a 3-day “The Pit” option, and VIP packages, with more information on all available through Power Trip Festival’s website.

View a flyer with the set times below.

A year ago, Jimmy Butler came to the realization that he could get a year’s worth of laughs if he showed up to media day with a wild new hairstyle, because the photos taken on media day are what TV networks and other outlets will use for his headshot all season long.

Last year, that meant getting extensions and the result was, indeed, a very funny headshot for the entire season. This year, Butler is back at it but the vibes are a bit different in Miami. They missed out on a Damian Lillard trade, as the Blazers chose to deal him to the Bucks instead and now the Heat enter this season with a roster that, on paper, looks worse than it did a year ago after the departures of Max Strus and Gabe Vincent without a high-end replacement. Butler wants the league to investigate the Bucks for tampering and missing out on Dame appears to have influenced this year’s media day hair choice, as Jimmy pulled up rocking an emo look after getting his hair straightened.

He even got the little eyebrow piercing and everything and looks ready to go to a My Chemical Romance show. I do appreciate Jimmy’s commitment to the bit, and adding a bit of levity to today’s media day in Miami is probably a good thing given there will be so much discussion of what could’ve been with Dame and what they have to do now going forward.

With the first three episodes of Gen V now available for streaming on Amazon (and racking up rave reviews in the process), the big question on fans’ minds is how many episodes can they expect from this raunchy, college-based romp through the world of The Boys? We got you covered.

Season 1 of Gen V will run for eight episodes. That leaves five more installments of WTF moments and razor sharp commentary that has made The Boys franchise a fan-favorite as it delightfully skewers the superhero industrial complex. You can check out the Gen V release schedule via Dexerto below:

Episodes 1-3: September 29
Episode 4: October 6
Episode 5: October 13
Episode 6: October 20
Episode 7: October 27
Episode 8: November 3

With Gen V running into November, that gives the show plenty of time to try and top that wild sex scene in the season premiere, if that’s even possible. We still can’t believe that happened.

Here’s the official Gen V synopsis:

Set in the diabolical world of The Boys, Gen V expands the universe to Godolkin University, the prestigious superhero-only college where students train to be the next generation of heroes—preferably with lucrative endorsements. You know what happens when supes go bad, but not all superheroes start out corrupt. Beyond the typical college chaos of finding oneself and partying, these kids are facing explosive situations … literally. As the students vie for popularity and good grades, it’s clear that the stakes are much higher when super powers are involved. When the group of young supes discover that something bigger and sinister is going on at school, they’re put to the test: Will they be the heroes or the villains of their stories?

Gen V streams new episodes Friday on Amazon Prime Video.

(Via Dexerto)

There are just two more months left of 2023, the weather is getting colder, and pumpkin spice has infiltrated coffee shop menus and store shelves, so you know what that means. In the words of the Queen of Christmas herself, Mariah Carey, “The actual defrosting has begun!”

In the coming weeks, you are sure to hear her holiday anthem “All I Want For Christmas Is You” about 437 times, right up until the day… and for lucky fans in the cities listed below, you can hear her sing it live on her Merry Christmas One And All Tour.

The tour will begin the week before Thanksgiving and will run right up until the week before Christmas, hitting major cities across North America including LA, Toronto, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and Philly, before concluding in Christmas central, New York City.

Tickets will go on sale on October 6, 2023. You can see the full dates below.

11/15– Highland, CA @ Yaamava Casino
11/17– Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
11/21– Denver, CO @ Ball Arena
11/24– Kansas City, MO @ T-Mobile Arena
11/27– Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
11/29– Montreal, QC @ Centre Bell
12/01– Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
12/03– Chicago, IL @ United Center
12/05– Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
12/11– Boston, MA @ TD Garden
12/13– Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
12/15– Baltimore, MD @ CFG Bank Arena
12/17– New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden

There are just two more months left of 2023, the weather is getting colder, and pumpkin spice has infiltrated coffee shop menus and store shelves, so you know what that means. In the words of the Queen of Christmas herself, Mariah Carey, “The actual defrosting has begun!”

In the coming weeks, you are sure to hear her holiday anthem “All I Want For Christmas Is You” about 437 times, right up until the day… and for lucky fans in the cities listed below, you can hear her sing it live on her Merry Christmas One And All Tour.

The tour will begin the week before Thanksgiving and will run right up until the week before Christmas, hitting major cities across North America including LA, Toronto, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and Philly, before concluding in Christmas central, New York City.

Tickets will go on sale on October 6, 2023. You can see the full dates below.

11/15– Highland, CA @ Yaamava Casino
11/17– Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
11/21– Denver, CO @ Ball Arena
11/24– Kansas City, MO @ T-Mobile Arena
11/27– Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
11/29– Montreal, QC @ Centre Bell
12/01– Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
12/03– Chicago, IL @ United Center
12/05– Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
12/11– Boston, MA @ TD Garden
12/13– Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
12/15– Baltimore, MD @ CFG Bank Arena
12/17– New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden