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The Rolling Stones announced their 26th studio album Hackney Diamonds earlier this month, and shared the single “Angry” along with a music video featuring Sydney Sweeney. Now, they shared the penultimate track “Sweet Sounds Of Heaven,” which has Lady Gaga and Stevie Wonder.

The grandiose anthem is over seven minutes, building with each second. Lady Gaga’s vocals are attention-grabbing and intense. On Zane Lowe’s Apple Music podcast, Mick Jagger discussed the experience of working with the pop star. “She’s a really great singer and I’d never heard her sing quite that style before,” the frontman explained. “Not exactly. We did it live in the room and that was a great experience, her just coming in the room and her just opening up and seeing her bits and feeling her way and then getting more confident. And then we came back and then did some extra parts that we hadn’t done on the day and then we did some tidying up and we were just in the overdub room, really face-to-face, getting them really tight, the parts really tight, and then being slightly competitive and screaming.”

Listen to “Sweet Sounds Of Heaven” above.

Hackney Diamonds is out 10/20 via Geffen. Find more information here.

For the past 15 or so years, Bandcamp has been one of the most artist-friendly streaming platforms, offering a place for independent and underground acts to share and sell their music while getting the lion’s share of the profits. It differs from other DSPs in that artists get more control, while the company only takes a 10-15% commission on sales made from their website. Bandcamp is also notable for its charity efforts, including “Bandcamp Fridays,” during which it waived its commissions to aid artists affected by COVID-19 and the resulting lockdowns.

Today, it was reported that previous owner Epic Games (the developer/publisher of Fortnite and the Unreal Engine) has sold Bandcamp, 18 months after it had acquired it.

Who Owns Bandcamp?

The buyer, Songtradr, is a music licensing platform and marketplace founded in 2014 that facilitates brands, content creators, and digital platforms in their use of music for licensing purposes. Its products help agencies, artists, and labels find, license, and manage music for purposing like music “syncing” in commercials, films, television shows, video games, and other areas. The company also recently acquired AI metadata and music search platform MusicCube, as well as music credits database Jaxsta.

Songtradr told Billboard the purchase will “enable it to expand its capabilities to support the artist community.” However, as noted by Pitchfork, Songtradr did not comment on whether Bandcamp’s artist-friendly revenue policy will continue, or whether the acquisition will affect Bandcamp’s frankly impressive editorial mandate and user experience on-site.

We aren’t sure what this could mean for your favorite Bandcamp artists. This will likely make it easier for Bandcamp artists to get their music licensed, increasing their income and Bandcamp’s via commissions. But these services could come at increased cost in the form of smaller shares of the revenue split (call me cynical, but don’t be surprised if Bandcamp announces that it’ll charge 50% for use of its licensing services instead). Meanwhile, Epic will continue to work with Bandcamp on Fortnite Radio and look into allowing Bandcamp artists to opt into licensing music for Epic games.

Michael Gambon has passed away at the age of 82 this week. The prolific actor had starred in numerous films, including Paddington, The King’s Speech, and perhaps most famously, he portrayed Albus Dumbledore in six of the Harry Potter films.

Because Gambon starred as Dumbledore for so long, he obviously grew close with his fellow cast and crew, and many of them have begun to share their anecdotes and stories about the actor, including Daniel Radcliffe, who released a statement via Variety:

With the loss of Michael Gambon the world just became considerably less fun. Michael Gambon was one of the most brilliant, effortless actors I’ve ever had the privilege of working with, but despite his immense talent, the thing I will remember most about him is how much fun he had doing his job. He was silly, irreverent and hilarious. He loved his job, but never seemed defined by it. He was an incredible story and joke teller and his habit of blurring the lines of fact and fiction when talking to journalists meant that he was also one of the most entertaining people with whom you could ever wish to do a press junket.

The sixth film was where I got to spend the most time working with Michael and he made the hours spent in front of a green screen together more memorable and joyous than they had any right to be. I’m so sad to hear he has passed, but I am so grateful for the fact that I am one of the lucky people who got to work with him.

Co-star Rupert Grint, who portrayed Ron Weasley in the Potter films, also shared his thoughts on Instagram, ” So sad to hear about Michael. He brought so much warmth and mischief to every day on set. He captivated me as a kid and became a personal role model of mine for finding the fun and eccentricities in life. Sending all my love to his family.”

James Phelps, who portrayed Fred Weasley, recalled a memory from the Half-Blood Prince set:

Jason Isaacs, aka Lucius Malfoy:

Bonny Wright, who played Ginny Weasley, wrote on Instagram:

Gambon took a break from acting after falling ill in 2015, though he was always down to voice Paddingotn’s Uncle Pastuzo, and for that we will never forget him.

Fall has arrived in all its glory. Leaves are turning, the mornings are getting crisp, and pumpkins are everywhere. To celebrate fall’s arrival, we’re calling out our official fall 2023 cocktail — The Great Pumpkin!

While last year, I went with the iconic Rob Roy with its smoky Manhattan vibes. This year, I’m going even harder on the big fall energy. The Great Pumpkin is a modern classic that reaches back to the earliest days of mixing drinks. The drink is a fall-inspired “flip”. What’s a “flip” you ask? It’s a cocktail that dates all the way back to the 1600s at least (it’s been around for a very long time is the key point) — a mix of ale, egg, rum, and molasses. Over the centuries, the flip was revived and renewed with every generation, including our own.

Back in the early aughts, cocktail legend Jim Meehan devised The Great Pumpkin Flip at PDT in New York, and here we are. The drink mixes pumpkin ale, egg, and maple syrup with a good dose of apple brandy and rye whiskey (both bottled-in-bond proof) to make a boozy and ultra-silky concoction that’s perfect for fall sipping and mixing. The best part is that you’ll have a great pumpkin-spiced cocktail in your arsenal all season while also learning one of the oldest techniques in the history of cocktail culture.

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The Great Pumpkin

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. pumpkin ale
• 1 oz. bottled in bond apple brandy
• 1 oz. bottled in bond rye whiskey
• 0.5 oz. real maple syrup
• 1 medium egg
• Nutmeg
• Ice

The original recipe calls for Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy and Old Overholt Bonded Rye. Those are both perfectly fine. I’m using Starlight Distillery Bottled-in-Bond Apple Brandy and their Bottled-in-Bond Indiana Rye Whiskey instead. Mostly because it’s a working farm with award-winning apple brandy and bourbon and goes hard on the fall vibes.

Lastly, there’s the pumpkin ale. I’m going with a true classic from the craft beer game out in Seattle — Elysian Night Owl Pumpkin Ale. There are few better pumpkin ales out there.

What You’ll Need:

• Coupe or Nick and Nora glass (pre-chilled)
• Cocktail shaker
• Cocktail strainer
• Jigger

Method:

• Add the ale, apple brandy, rye, maple syrup, and whole egg to a cocktail shaker. Affix the lid without ice and shake vigorously for about 20 seconds, making sure to hold the lid (no ice means no vacuum and is libel to pop off).
• Remove the lid and add a handful of ice to the shaker. Re-affix the lid and shake vigorously for about 30 seconds to get extra frothy.
• Strain the cocktail in the prechilled glass and garnish with freshly grated nutmeg. Serve.

Bottom Line on The Great Pumpkin Cocktail:

This is a lush fall dream in a glass. The mouthfeel/texture of this is so creamy and silky that it draws you in instantly.

The lovingly spiced rye whiskey and apple brandy add a great depth of boozy fall spice to the savory pumpkin ale, creating a light pumpkin pie vibe in the glass. The egg creates a heft that makes this feel literally like a piece of pie in a glass (without trying to be clever in a dumb way with crushed crushed on the rim or something). The nutmeg brightens everything and truly elevates the overall experience to pro vibes.

This is one that I’m going to make a lot of this fall. You should too. It’s delicious, luxurious, and filling.

Reservation Dogs has always been a tough show to describe. I know this because I have tried, many times, once as recently as yesterday when I was explaining how excited and sad I was to be watching the season three finale this week, which also served as the show’s series finale. Someone said “Oh, what’s it about?” and I bumbled through an answer that went something like this…

“Okay, it’s this show about indigenous teenagers growing up on a reservation in Oklahoma. And it’s… it’s like a coming-of-age thing, but also they steal stuff a lot and cope with death and sometimes spirits show up to cuss at them. It’s weird. But, like… good weird. Sometimes it’s extremely funny in the stupidest way you can think of. Sometimes it’ll be so real and heartfelt that it’ll open you up and yank your heart out. Sometimes a school bus explodes or Ethan Hawke shows up. It’s so good. It’s… it’s just so good. You gotta watch it. It’s good. Trust me.”

Which, I mean, sure. All of that is true. It was all of those things, especially in the third and final season, which I will gladly put up against the final run of episodes of any other show made in the entire history of television. Everything I mentioned in that rambling description happened in there at some point. We had spirits showing up to talk to characters, some dressed as ancient warriors who cuss and talk like your average aging millennial, some named Deer Lady who have hooves for feet and murder people who — as we had just learned through a series of deeply upsetting flashbacks — were responsible for a lot of very real historical abuse the indigenous community faced over the years. A school bus did explode. Ethan Hawke did show up as a stoner house painter and deadbeat father. One guy did acid and saw aliens and it ended up tying the whole season together in a way I never saw coming. It was a wild run, man.

But even while that is true, it doesn’t capture what made the show so great. Even with the aliens and explosions and conversations with spirits, the show was also just extremely real. Very few entire shows can run you through the series of emotions Reservation Dogs ran you through in a single 27-minute episode. There was one this season where this happened…

… and then, maybe 10 minutes later, the same group of guys was sitting around a campfire crying about a close friend they had lost touch with. And I was crying, too. The episode ended and it took all I had not to send texts to all of my friends that just said, “Dude I love you” out of nowhere at like 11 p.m. Maybe I should have. Maybe I should do it now. Maybe you should, too.

I guess my point here is that Reservation Dogs was a really special show, both on the micro level — crying, emotions, etc. — and the macro level. It was a show that dropped a majority of viewers into a world they might not have been familiar with — life on a reservation, indigenous culture in general — and then went on to prove that there are things that everyone can relate to despite our different backgrounds. A big theme of the show was death. The main teenage characters lost a friend right from the jump and had to learn how to deal with it. The adults had to deal with getting older and saying goodbye. The elders had to deal with staring their own mortality in the face. And again, there were a slew of very silly jokes sprinkled throughout. Please remember this was a comedy first, even if things did get pretty real at times.

The show’s creator, Sterlin Harjo, explained this all very well in a postmortem with Rolling Stone’s Alan Sepinwall that dropped after the finale.

Season One, the kids lost their friend, and they are mourning that death and trying to get better. And then, by the time we get to Season Three, it’s like they get to take their lessons that they learned in Season One and Two, and they get to apply them in a real way to their community. And also reach out, and help their elders with what they’ve learned. There’s no way in my culture to represent that than how people come together [when someone dies].

This is true. Death is one of those things that is both universal and deeply personal. I will be thinking about this line for a long, long time, from a scene in the final season where the adults give one last sendoff to a friend they lost years ago. It represents everything I could ever want anyone to say about me when it’s my time to go.

See what I mean? It’s not easy to deal with this kind of heavy stuff while also staying committed to being extremely silly whenever possible. I can’t stress this last part strongly enough. One of the characters spent half an episode scrubbing a wall to clean off a graffiti drawing — that she made — of an ejaculating penis that had both a face and large breasts. This show contained multitudes.

I feel like I’m not doing it justice here. I feel like I’m not hitting the nail on the head squarely. I think I’m doing better than I did in the explanation I tried giving my friend yesterday, but still. It’s hard. It’s hard to put into words what this show did on an episode-to-episode basis, the way it made the world smaller and larger at the same time, the way it showed how “coming-of-age” doesn’t stop when you turn 18, how adults don’t always have the answers, how it’s important to keep looking for them, and how sometimes you need to learn to be okay with — to paraphrase another special show that blended the silliest possible jokes with profound stories about death and loss — letting the mystery be.

I’m going to miss it a lot. But I’m also glad it ended the way it did. It was about as close to a perfect three-season run of television as I’ve ever seen. Part of me hopes I forget enough of it over time that I can dive back in from the beginning and revisit it with relatively fresh eyes. Part of me hopes that some of the show stays with me forever. Most of me hopes that what I’ve written here did justice to just how great this show really was, both for people who watched it and felt the same and for people who were on the fence about checking it out and needed a little shove.

I’ll give the final word here to the show itself, via another set of screencaps.

Reservation Dogs was just a really, really special television show.

Tyler Herro is still a member of the Miami Heat. After being the hypothetical player around whom the team would build its offer to the Portland Trail Blazers in a Damian Lillard trade, Herro will go into this season with the team that drafted him after Portland opted to trade Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks.

It’s a bit of a weird spot for Herro, who was very publicly put in trade rumors for months by the team for which he’s going to play this year. And on Thursday, he decided to have some fun with the whole thing, saying that he’s basically prepared to find himself in the same spot next year.

After cracking this joke, Herro decided to be a little more serious while discussing the Lillard trade. Herro is originally from Milwaukee County, and he couldn’t help but express that he’s excited to get his hands on a Bucks uniform with their newest player on the back.

In a bit of good news for Herro (and anyone else who would like to get their hands on one of these), the Bucks apparently already have Lillard jerseys in stock at their team store, according to Marc J. Spears of ESPN.

Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. This week is a weird one. Not bad weird but sneaker releases tend to reflect the season we are in and these… don’t. In summer we get all sorts of vibrant colors, in fall things get more muted, the holidays get tacky and garish, and here we are in the first full week of fall and we’ve got all sorts of bright and funky color combinations — as if its spring or something!

The silhouettes are also feeling bit random to me, sure you’ve got your standard stuff like Air Maxes, Dunks, and Jordans, but we’re also seeing an Air Pegasus, and a strange multi-pump equipped Reebok MSCHF collaboration. It’s a real grab bag of styles and colorways. So if you’re looking for something a little out of the norm, this is your week!

Let’s dive in to the best sneakers of the week.

Nike Air Max 1 x Familia Pinksicle and Stadium Green

Price: $140

Released in the heart of Hispanic Heritage Month, this link up between Nike and the skatewear brand Familia delivers vibrant colors and a slightly altered design. Rather than the typical leather build, this Air Max sports layers of textiles, giving this sneaker a lot more depth and three-dimensionality.

The colorway features red, pink, beige, green and yellow tones throughout with a multicolored outsole.

The Nike Air Max 1 x Familiar Pinksicle is out now for a retail price of $140. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 40 x Familia Pinksicle and Stadium Green

Price: $130

It’s not quite as dope as the Air Max 1 version but we have to shout out Nike’s other collaboration with Familia for utilizing a much less hyped silhouette. This is one for the real Nike heads!

The Zoom Pegasus features the same layered textile design as the Air Max 1 but goes much heavier on the pink. Over the pink base are some splashes of color on the Swoosh, piping, and eyelets. It’s a lot less busy than the Air Max, but still bright and vibrant.

The Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 40 x Familiar Pinksicle and Stadium Green is out now for a retail price of $130. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

New Balance 2002R Protection Pack Dark Moss/ Ripstop Eclipse

Price: $160 (Dark Moss/ Ripstop Eclipse)

The New Balance 2002R Protection Pack is here! Of all the releases this week, this is the only one that reflects this seasons color palette with two muted color variations, the Dark Moss and Ripstop Eclipse.

Both sneakers feature a Nylon ripstop upper with sloppy suede overlays over the toe, side panels and heel with a perforated suede heel counter, leather overlays on the tongue all riding atop a NERGY foam midsole.

The sneakers look like you just walked straight out of a spooky forest or a swampy horror movie — you know, in a good way.

The New Balance 2002R Protection Pack in Dark Moss and Ripstop Eclipse is set to drop on September 28th for a retail price of $160. Pick up a pair at Social Status, A Ma Maniere or aftermarket sites like GOAT or Flight Club.

Born X Raised x Nike SB Dunk Low

Price: $130

This Born X Raised Nike SB Dunk has been highly anticipated for a minute, but the untimely death of Born X Raised founder Chris “Spanto” Printup earlier this summer put the sneakers on hiatus. So as psyched as we are that this sneaker is finally coming out, we can’t help but feel bittersweet about it.

The sneaker features special embroidered details, a thee-dimensional slightly holographic swoosh’s and custom perforated details on the toe box, and a mix of suede and leather. “In Loving Memory” is printed across the laces and the insoles feature an image of the Venice Pavilion, a shoutout to the neighborhood Spanto grew up in.

The Born X Raised x Nike SB Dunk Low is set to drop on September 28th for a retail price of $130. Pick up a pair at Born X Raised or aftermarket sites like GOAT and Flight Club.

Nike Air Jordan 8 Playoffs

Price: $210

Jordan fans are getting a refresh of the legendary Jordan 8 Playoffs. The stealthy black design features a premium unbuckle upper with embroidered details, and a contrasting red and white mudguard that recalls the artwork of Piet Mondrian.

The Jordan 8 frankly doesn’t get enough love so we’re happy to see this legendary pair get a retro refresh.

The Nike Air Jordan 8 Playoffs are set to drop on September 30th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $210. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like GOAT and Flight Club.

MSCHF Reebok Omni Zone IX OG/Sunbleached

Price: $250

We’re going to go ahead and call it here — MSCHF is the best sneaker brand of the year. The art collective has a history of producing interesting sneakers, but this year in particular they’ve been on a roll, launching the Big Red and Yellow Boot, the Super Normal 2 and the BWD, just to name a few, and now this week they’ve linked up with Reebok for the pump-crazy Omni Zone IX.

Equipped with what MSCHF is calling “state-of-the-art BoingBoing” technology, this sneaker is equipped with nine functional pumps for a ‘tailored fit’ and drops in two colorways, a white and sky blue iteration and a washed out sunbleached version. The pumps are a gimmick sure, but the sneaker still manages to look pretty dope and we’re sure it’ll make an appearance at this year’s ComplexCon on the feet of whoever was lucky enough to score a pair.

The MSCHF Reebok Omni Zone IX OG/Sunbleached is set to drop on September 27th for a retail price of $250. Join the raffle to pick up a pair via MSCHF right now.

Killers of the Flower Moon is Leonardo DiCaprio‘s sixth movie with Martin Scorsese. It’s a frequent enough occurrence that the collaboration has its own Wikipedia page (sample fact: “Scorsese heard about DiCaprio from Robert De Niro, who worked with then 18-year-old DiCaprio in This Boy’s Life“).

At the New York premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon on Wednesday, Scorsese praised DiCaprio for his growth as an actor. “He has range, and he keeps growing. He also has a lot of courage, and I know he’ll go to places that other people might pull back from,” the Oscar-winning director told ET Online. “Working with him over the years, he’s been growing as a person — he’s maturing from a young kid to a young man. As he changes in life, he’s changing on film.” Leo has even “settled down” (with a 25-year-old model).

DiCaprio is getting lots of “best performance yet” raves for Killers of the Moon. He didn’t win an Oscar the last time he worked with Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street — my pick for his best, and funniest, performance). Maybe this time?

Killers of the Flower Moon, which also stars Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser, and De Niro, comes out on October 20th.

(Via ET Online)

Fall flavors have arrived! Pumpkin spice lattes are back, jugs of freshly pressed apple cider are weighing down shelves nationwide, and fall-inspired desserts are the order of the day. Clean Cookin’ is back too, with a brand-new episode – powered by Ecolab Science Certified, that leans into those fall flavors with a delicious apple cherry crisp recipe — alongside some important steps that help keep restaurants cleaner and safer, giving you peace of mind thanks to the Ecolab Science Certified program Nashville country artist Mickey Guyton and celebrity Chef Jamika Pessoa are back in the kitchen and breaking down two things — Guyton’s mom’s apple crisp recipe and how to maintain cleanliness in the kitchen from start to finish.

Chef Pessoa holds true to the number one rule in cooking and baking — start with a clean kitchen, clean hands, and clean produce for a Scientific CleanTM you can count on. Chef Pessoa coaches Guyton through the process of rolling with the punches while fixing mistakes with calm and ease and of course the golden rule of the kitchen — “clean as you go!”

While having a clean cooking area is of the utmost importance, so is making tasty food. Chef Pessoa adds some cherries to the classic apple crisp and has Guyton make some vanilla-laced whipped cream for the topping and it looks incredible! Most importantly, the two chefs ended with a kitchen that was cleaner than when they started. Check out the whole episode above and snag that great apple cherry crisp recipe to make at home this fall!

All good things must come to an end, and this includes middle school, even if your middle school experience isn’t classified as “good.” The seventh and almost-final season of Netflix’s raunchy animated series Big Mouth will debut next month, and we finally get to see those horny teens head to a better place: high school!

The trailer for the upcoming season shows that these 8th graders are still doing what they do best: masturbating and causing drama, all while still making time to attend second-period gym class. As announced earlier this year, Big Mouth will end with its upcoming eighth season sometime in 2024.

Season seven brings back regular players Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein, Jason Mantzoukas, and Ayo Edibiri as the misfit group of kids who are just trying to survive adolescence while being tormented by various hormone monsters (voiced by Maya Rudolph). Some new additions this year include Megan Thee Stallion as her own hormone monster, Lupita Nyong’o, Stephanie Beatriz, Zazie Beetz, Zach Galifianakis, Randall Park, Chloe Fineman, Beck Bennett, Zach Woods, and Mark Duplass. It’s like one big high school reunion of funny people. As per the official description:

Season seven of Big Mouth follows the now teenage students of Bridgeton middle school as they make their way to high school. Change is the only constant as each character is faced with a new school, new friends, new adversaries, and new Hormone Monsters.

The penultimate season of Big Mouth premieres on October 20th. Check out the trailer above.