All week (including an appearance at Coachella), Addison Rae has been teasing her new album and song on her underwear. The album will have to wait until June 6, but “Headphones On” is here now. The breathy (and Madonna’s “Bedtime Stories”-sounding) track continues Rae’s hot streak, following “Diet Pepsi,” “Aquamarine,” and “High Fashion.”
The Mitch Ryan-directed “Headphones On” music video is set in Reykjavik, Iceland, and has Rae riding a real horse and suggestively riding one of those mechanical horses you see outside of grocery stores. She also takes in the natural beauty of the city while wearing iPod Nano-generation headphones.
Rae’s recent songs have won people over, but the reception wasn’t so kind of her debut single, 2021’s “Obsessed.” That being said, “I still think that song’s good,” Rae told Rolling Stone. “I think there’s room for constructive criticism. [But] it almost wasn’t even about the song. It was [about] me doing it.”
She continued, “I had to rethink everything. And I was like, how am I going to get to a place where on my own, I feel like I can do this and feel confident in it, and fully deliver what I feel like is the best version of this?” She’s doing it.
Last week saw Lana Del Rey release “Henry, Come On,” the first taste of her new country era. Today (April 18), she’s back with more as she has shared another new single, the delicate “Bluebird.”
To open the song, Del Rey sings, “Little bird, bluebird / Fly away for both of us / For you have wings and I’ve no means to fly / Little bird, bluebird / Find some strength inside my hand / Anything to let you sing goodbye / For your thoughts are small, they can’t keep you from leavin’ / As the wake of my past crashes in / I hear the door slam, but the window’s wide open / We both shouldn’t be dealing with him.”
As for Del Rey’s upcoming album, the status of it is somewhat clear. It was originally referred to as Lasso, but more recently, it has been called The Right Person Will Stay. However, in a message that Del Rey shared and deleted last week, she wrote, “You know it’s not going to come on time, right? Should I even tell you that the name changed again? Should I tell you that now, while you’re so happy that you even have a song? Yeah, maybe I’ll wait.”
Steven and Ian begin this week’s episode with a correction about Ian’s claim about a “last” Bon Iver concert, and a conversation about the current state of the Indiecast mailbag. There’s also a quick Sportscast on the NBA playoffs, and whether the NBA is the most indie-rock league. In the Fantasy Album Draft update, we look at recent reviews for Bon Iver and Tunde Adebimpe and check out the new single from Lana Del Rey. Then the guys discuss some of the week’s news, including Katy Perry’s (unexciting) journey to space and the recent sorta scandal about Charli XCX shading Green Day over Coachella headliner status.
In the mailbag, the guys discuss the influence of video games and School Of Rock programs on indie rock, and yay or nay The Mars Volta. Finally, in Recommendation Corner, Ian recommends the latest from Kitchen and Steven stumps for Bill Fox.
New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 235 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.
Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. This week we’re hit with an equal mix of dope brand collaborations and new colorways of some tried and true classics.
For the collab heads, we’ll be running through new link-ups between Adidas and Edison Chen, New Balance and Action Bronson, and the latest from Atlanta-based streetwear boutique A Ma Maníere. We’ll let you guess which brand A Ma Maníere collaborated with (hint: it’s the same one they always link up with).
On the non-collab side, you can expect some new Jordan colorways, the return of the Mint Candy AD-4 and more! Let’s dive into the best sneakers out this week.
Designer, actor, singer, rapper, and all-around dope and stylish dude, Edison Chen, has linked up with Adidas once again for a new take on the Gazelle. The sneaker infuses “Eastern Influence” into a sports classic, according to Adidas, and features a satin jacquard upper, a crepe rubber outsole, with an elegant cream white and metallic gold colorway.
It’s not the sort of release that is going to break the internet, but it’s sleek, stylish, and elevated, and that’s enough for us to love it.
The Adidas CLOT Gazelle by Edison Chen is out now for a retail price of $160. Pick up a pair via the Adidas CONFIRMED app.
Made to celebrate the legacy of Jackie Robinson, the JRD Cortez features a leather upper in Nike’s Photon Dust color, with a black Swoosh, metallic underlays, and a “42” branded heel that nods to Robinson’s number. Rounding out the design is some ball-stitching inspired thread work.
While we get what the brand was going for, that stitching is unfortunately our least favorite design aspect of this Cortez. It’s a small gripe, but we thought we’d mention it.
The Nike Cortez Jackie Robinson Day is out now for a retail price of $100. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like GOAT and Flight Club.
A Ma Maniére — along with Union LA — is one of Nike’s best third-party retail collaborators, so anytime this brand drops, well let’s face it, anything, we’re interested.
And that’s because A Ma Maniére doesn’t disappoint. Just look at this Jordan 3! The sneaker features a premium white leather, anthracite shaggy suede overlays, and a soft diffused blue accents. With just three colors, the brand has dropped one of the best Jordan releases of the year.
The Air Jordan 3 x A Ma Maniére is out now for a retail price of $225. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like GOAT and Flight Club.
Sneaker brands love dropping designs connected to the holidays. Instead of hitting us with something coveted like a Bugs Bunny Jordan 8, Nike for whatever reason decided to drop a sneaker inspired by Easter baskets. Weird concept aside, we have to admit, this sneaker looks pretty good.
The Sesame and White AF-1 features a synthetic leather upper with medial and toe panels that sport a woven basket design in a mix of spring-ready colors. It’s not a Bugs Bunny Jordan 8 but hey, it’s still a dope AF-1 colorway.
The Nike Air Force 1 Sesame and White is set to drop on April 17th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $130. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
We love when Jordan Brand takes obscure moments in the life of Michael Jordan and uses them as the basis for a new colorway. The Sail and Golden Harvest is inspired by the suit Jordan wore during his acceptance speech for “Rookie of the Year.” Talk about obscure!
The sneaker features a leather and nubuck upper with a mix of Sail, earthy Golden Harvest tones, and is rounded out by a black swoosh and outsole. We’d love to see other signature basketball sneakers utilize this sort of lore when deciding on colorways.
The Air Jordan 1 Low Sail and Golden Harvest is set to drop on April 18th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $140. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
First released in 2012, the Mint Candy KD 4 sports a lightweight mesh and synthetic upper with Air Zoom cushioning, and a simple two-tone colorway with white accents. We’re guessing the sneaker has finally returned because it looks like something you’d put in an Easter basket made for sneakerheads.
There is a futuristic quality to this sneaker that serves as an interesting juxtaposition to its pastel color palette. Definitely one of the better colorways for the KD 4.
The Nike Zoom KD 4 Mint Candy is set to drop on April 18th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $130. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
Action Bronson is on a roll! Leave it to lil Prosciutto for single-handedly saving the month of April. Hot on the heels of last week’s “untitled” NB collaboration, Action Bronson is back with another 990v6 colorway, this time with a name!
Dubbed “Amazõnia” this colorway features a mix of indigo, pink, gray, tan and mint, with a mixed leather and mesh upper and “baklava” branding at the tongue. Like last week’s “untitled,” this sneaker takes a bunch of clashing color tones, throws them together, and somehow makes it all work.
The Action Bronson New Balance 990v6 Amazõnia is set to drop on April 18th for a retail price of $220. Pick up a pair at specializinginlife.com or aftermarket sites like GOAT and Flight Club.
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Gavin Rossdale’s consistent relevance over the last 30 years is a testament to his fearlessness and strangely, his love for food (we’ll get to that soon). He famously put his own spin on a genre of music that didn’t exactly embrace outsiders (ahem, grunge), and is still active, dropping a new Bush single, “60 Ways To Forget People,” this week, with a tenth studio album to soon follow. When he’s not rocking, he’s eating, especially on his new show “Dinner with Gavin Rossdale“, which airs on Vizio.
Bush’s brand of rock might be considered “classic” at this point but at 59, Rossdale still commands the stage and crowd with the energy and physique of a bloke 25 years his junior. Gavin credits his brood of restless sons for keeping him spry, but credit must also be given to the rock star’s obsession with good food, especially Korean cooking. An avid home chef and aspiring culinary personality, Rossdale exudes endless enthusiasm for food, cooking and the simple pleasures of a good meal, which is clear if you watch even one minute of his new show.
Whether it’s staging with celebrity chefs while on tour and canoodling via DM with amazingly talented folks like Grant Achatz when he’s in Chicago or Sean Brock while in Nashville, it’s clear that Rossdale is downright food-obsessed. In our recent chat, Rossdale revealed his long-standing fixation with chocolate that dates back to childhood, the joy in over-ordering, as well as his current feelings about eating vegan after flirting with veganism in the past. He also shared why he’d love to own a Japanese 7-Eleven, why he generally boycotts fast food and why night time is the time when all of his cravings hit.
What snacks are on your rider?
My rider’s tins of Sapporo, not bottles, small tins of Sapporo where possible and Julio Setenta, which I got into when I was in Cabo. I have tequila spritzers to give me a little pep in my step. I don’t like to be drunk. I’ve done a few shots (before) and I don’t like that feeling. I don’t mind if I’d smoked a joint, it doesn’t bother me. The idea of being drunk on stage starts feeling like a bar band. I don’t like that feeling. So, it’s just a little buzz and keeps the hydration, it’s better than water. I can’t stand water on stage. You’ll never see it ever. I’ve never had a bottle of water on stage.
It’s my macho caveman sensibilities that does not want to see that. It’s not the right look. I’d rather drink red wine out of principle.
No food, or you’re not generally eating before you perform?
No. No one asks me. So, I look around and sometimes I steal the M&M’s they have. I always think snacks on riders are a nightmare because how many cheeses do you really want? But they have them every day. I’ve lived through the years of deli trays. The best was the deli trays they used to have. They’d always put a fucking onion on there. So, it’d be like you walk in your dressing room and it’d smell like the worst deli in town. You’d go “What?” Open raw onions on a deli tray? So gross. And shiny, processed meat. Sweaty, sweaty meat. Oh, just not good.
I always travel with tin bottles of tuna, whoever does those nice Spanish ones. I get tuna, rice wine vinegar, and then we chop up a cucumber or chop up a tomato, and throw it in with the rice wine vinegar and that’s just such a great boost of energy. I do like boiled eggs all the time. I put them in soy sauce and rice wine vinegar and have that Japanese 7-Eleven thing where I have a bowl of four or five eggs and that’s all you need, that pure protein. It’s everything that I need. I live really, really simply. I go to catering and get a steak. Yesterday, they had a tri-tip that wasn’t really that good, but as soon as I put a spicy peppers and the kind of pickles, the spicy pickly thing, meat when I do a show feels really, really good. It’s very basic.
Sapporo
How about when you’re in the studio? Are there any sort of drinks or snacks or foods that you like to have around when you’re being creative?
It’s funny because there’s two stages of creativity for me. One is when I’m alone in the studio and I’m a good enough engineer that I can build tracks and record myself. I’ve never recorded my own vocals. I have an engineer. Once I get to that point of a song, I get three or four things ready. Then, I’ll get an engineer to come in. Suddenly the engineering looks way more complicated than when I do four tracks and it’s easy.
I’m obsessed with Korean food, literally obsessed. So I have different go-to places that will give you those lovely Korean bento boxes. It’s about clean, simple eating – the bulgogi, the rice, and the vegetable, and then the banchan. I love the fish cakes. I like very simple different textures, different tastes, and sort of an elevated simplicity, just like me.
It’s so funny because I was looking on the E.A.T. With Gavin Rossdale Instagram and I saw you had a bunch of Korean dishes on there. I recently interviewed a K-pop group and you have some of the same dishes on there that they said that they missed from Korea. And I was like “How’s Gavin into all this Korean food?”
I make the soybean kimchi soybean soups, like when you have a gochujang, which is the fermented soybean paste, and the kimchi, you put the tofu in, you can either make a kimchi and they make fantastic kimchi to buy. I got a legit soup. I could make soups that people would be like “Hot dang. That is Korean,” It’s not rocket science, I love soup. Soup’s so hearty. You see from that page, I love to cook.
Do you have a go-to spot that you get takeout or Korean food from that you could tell us?
There’s Chosun Galbee which is my favorite place to go to. There’s Bulgogi Hut. We set up there, but I like Gyakaku, it’s a chain and it has the nice soup. What I like about it’s that I’m like a serial over orderer if I go a restaurant because I love food so much and I like the lubrication of over ordering and it makes fun dinners to have loads of plates in the middle. I don’t finish everything, but I like to taste everything.
I’m a budding home cook and so when I go to a restaurant I really appreciate what they do. Any restaurant wants you to try six things they do. They don’t want you to have one thing, so I’m good fun in a restaurant. I suppose Korean, what’s lovely about it, they have that whole quality with the banchan. I’m not about a massive portion of things. I like a few bites of this change of texture, change of temperature, change everything, flavors, and Korea does that the best. I really am obsessed. I could eat Korean food every day.
Are you taking home that food for leftovers?
The leftovers can be good, but have you noticed our life now? They’d been lying to us our whole lives about everything. Everything. We grew up loving French fries from McDonald’s because they were best french fries. Now, we find out they’re 16 ingredients and any more, we’re going to die. It’s all these things that you find out now are so sad.
Who knew that rice gets so dangerous to eat a day later? You may make fried rice from day old rice. By the time it’s a day old, you start to get some serious fungus in there and serious bacteria. So, I do have leftovers, but suddenly now the new school is everything gets dangerously full of bacteria, way quicker than you think and all it does, it makes you feel unwell. You don’t know why, but you’re eating all this bacteria. I do like leftovers, but you’ve got to be super careful what is good for that. All the kind of best stews in the world or the Bolognese, those things are best the next day.
I think everyone lied to us. Have you noticed that? Apparently everything is bad for us. Everything that we thought wasn’t bad for us is bad for us and everyone’s doing it to the name of their profit. We’re suckers. People are suckers.
When you’re traveling and you’re on the road and you get to a hotel, are there any foods that you like to have in your room? Are you hitting up the minibar or not because it’s all packaged food with GMOs in it? Or are you going to shop at the local Whole Foods?
On the road, it’s a combination. First off, like anyone else who’s human, I don’t think I’ve ever resisted a bag of Pringles. Those little box, those little fuckers. I don’t know if I’ve ever resisted it. It doesn’t take long for any of those. Post-pandemic, the standard of mini bars has plummeted.
People are not putting things in hotel rooms anymore. That was such always a fun thing – me and Cory, who’s the bass player, we’re the worst. We clean out our food. He cleans out the minibar as well, but it’s hard to avoid those M&M’s, hard to avoid the Pringles. Pretty standard, normal human behavior with the minibar. I go to Whole Foods for the tour, being on the tour bus now I get tuna, beans, eggs, simple things I can put together that don’t take time, and I feel really sated because you shouldn’t rely on tour catering for your stomach to be happy. It’s not the time – It’s hardcore.
When you’re on the road, obviously you’re going to a lot of different cities either in the U.S. or globally. Are there any cities that you’re really looking forward to get to because you love their food or you love the restaurants there?
Oh, fuck yeah. That’s the best thing, absolutely. Nashville, I’m out of my mind. I’m going to Sean Brock’s restaurant, to Audrey and I’m going to go in the day and see him and harass him about fire cooking because I’m obsessed about cooking in a fire and how to understand it. He’s the king of that.
I’ll be in Chicago. I’ve got Alinea with Grant Achatz. My chefs, I’m very friendly with. Grant is a very close friend of mine. Sean Brock, I’m trying to be good friends with and forcing my way in, sliding into his DMs. I’m going to get to see him in Nashville. I’ve already hooked that up.
“Can I come and see?” (Sean Brock) goes, “Yeah.” I love that. Eater saved my life. Everywhere I go it’s Eater, and I do for the city and that’s the funnest thing for me to experience that because we play everywhere. We’re in Iowa today, so I don’t know what Eater has in store today, but I have been here a few times staying at this hotel. I think in this area I know where to go for coffees.
Getting to go to Audrey is a real treat, I’ve been there before. I don’t even like barbecue that much. Barbecue is always a bit of an anti-climax for me. People say this barbecue’s great, then you line up and it’s not that great. Sometimes it can smell like gasoline and it’s okay, but the idea is better, like the salivation. Audrey is the place where barbecue is something else. It’s an out-of-world experience.
Audrey
What do you order there?
The cornbread. I’ve never had cornbread that good. Ordering everything as much as we can.
My sixteen-year-old boy Zuma loves barbecue. I’m taking him to what I think is one of the real barbecue spots, the best you can go to I’ve come across in America.
What is something that people may find gross or weird that you really like to eat?
Going back to my Korean obsession, I will really happily eat an entire bowl of garlic and jalapeño, taking a bite of meat and then crunch on the garlic. I grew up scared of garlic thinking people would never talk to you ever again and now I’m trying to get people to never talk to me ever again. I love that. Eating raw garlic, it’s a super Korean tradition. It’s great. It’s not as gross as you think.
You put a mouthful inside the leaf. You put meat and sauce, a bit of garlic, bit of jalapeños, and kimchi. When you bite into that it’s revelatory.
I suck heads of shrimps because that’s the European way. Suck head where all the flavor is, that’s pretty unusual if people aren’t used to that.
What’s something that the kids are eating or you’ve seen people eating nowadays that you are like, “That’s really weird. I wouldn’t even try that.”
What I do like and I’m impressed with is the Sour Patch stuff. I like it. Sour things are kind of fun if you like, but my kids obviously like all that bullshit. I totally relate to it all. I’ve got a crazy sweet tooth, but weirdly enough not in the day. I need the nighttime to eat my chocolate, eat my bullshit stuff. In the daytime, I’m all good. I don’t need any of it. I’m really keeping away from food the lot of the day, but come nighttime.
If all else failed, I do believe I could do eating competitions from chocolate. I always thought when I was a kid, when I had fillings in my teeth. Doctor dentist said to my mom, “He’s got an obsession with chocolate. Take him to the sweet shop, take him to the candy store, get him as much as he wants, then get him extra, sit him down.” This is what they did in I guess the ’70s, ’80s “Make him puke, give him so much chocolate, he will puke and he’ll never eat.” My mom sat me down and I just had all this chocolate in front of me. She made me eat it.
I think it must have been when I was six or seven. I ate it, and then ate some more. Finished it, drank a bit of milk, finished everything. She waited to be sick, sat there, I sort of burped a bit and said “Thank you. Can I go upstairs now and watch TV?” She’s like “Okay.” And that was it. Nothing happened there. I was champion. At that point, I knew they couldn’t break me. They tried to fucking break me and they couldn’t.
What are some of your favorite chocolate bars or chocolates or sweets in general?
I didn’t realize how great English candy was. I took it for granted. Looking back, I miss all the Cadburys, the dairy milk, Cadbury’s fruit and nut and dairy milk. I’ve all this tied up with great memories of my life being a skateboarder, going to a place called Skate City and you get the tube back from London Bridge. If you had 50 pence piece, you get a little vending machine and you get a little bar of chocolate, bit smaller than about the size of your iPhone, Cadbury’s dairy milk.
Having that felt like sort of pre Willy Wonka before he buys a ticket when he’s eating the chocolate bars. I was that kid. Those bars of chocolate pressing against roof of your mouth and it just dissipates. Has to be warm. None of that cold bullshit. Beer cold. Cold Sapporo, very cold.
Luke warm chocolate. There’s a sweet shop near me, a real sweet shop, confectioners. They used to have fudge. They had fudge that I used to get on the bus going to play tennis, and that was also 50 p. Get a bag of this fudge and it’s very hard to find. I found it in an Indian sweet shop recently back in Los Feliz because they make it all with the condensed milk. Not the fudge that’s sobbing, the one that crumbles when you push. It breaks in your mouth.
That was me going to play tennis, sucking on that and it would all break in my mouth. Great sensory experience. That’s why it’s so tied up with making yourself feel good and it’s soothing. Some people like a pacifier, I get the same feeling out of pushing a piece of chocolate in my mouth. The same effect of security.
I was obviously a really insecure kid and my connection to food and texture of food and the calming nature of it, it’s obviously not good. I’m lucky I’m not 400 pounds because I love to eat. It’s the best thing. It feels so good. It feels so great to eat.
Do you have a number one chocolate Cadbury bar or something that if you live in LA you get shipped out to you or anything like that, or it’s not really that much of a commitment?
I used to have my assistant from London, the only thing he was good at was sending big boxes of chocolate out. I think that’s 2017. I look at pictures of myself in 2017, it’s my year of porky. I did look heavier than I’d ever looked. There’s this fucking delivery of so much chocolate, but Galaxy bars. Galaxy Bars, KitKats, Snickers, Star Bars. I haven’t had chocolate since last night.
When I wake up, I do the wake up recall of shame.
Oh, the Double Decker’s great. I know it. I know the wrapper, I know the feeling. I know the give. The actual biscuit bit is the bit that you have to the bite a little bit harder to get through that and then that one bit through is tremendous. Star Bar does the same bite.
If you could be an ambassador for any food brand, do you have anyone in mind? I know you’ve said that you drink Illy coffee every morning. Would that be the one for you?
I would be great for Illy. I also think Vital Farms.
Vital Farms is a really interesting egg place, what I like about them the most is they’ve been spending millions into research to save lots of eggs from being sorted when you see the male chicks finding out they’re male or female. Vital Farms I would be very happy to represent.
How about if you were an owner of a franchise of, I don’t know, a restaurant, a fast-food place, or something, a convenience store. Is there any that you would want to own?
Well, I think the 7-Elevens, all the 7-Elevens in Japan are so amazing for the food. You can legit get really good food. I got to be honest, I don’t know if I’d go to 7-Eleven in Iowa for lunch, but I would go to 7-Eleven in Japan for lunch. A hundred percent. They have these huge vats for all those eggs I was talking about, in the soy sauce, the rice wine vinegar. They have great food and really, really good fried chicken. In another universe I’d be like, “Yeah. That’s a pretty good spot.” I like the idea of utilitarian where it’s elevated food, really, really good food. I think everyone deserves great food.
I cook a lot. You’ve got to almost work hard to make something taste like crap. You’ve got to be doing something to it. If you get out of the way of it, it is not rocket science. It’s very basic: temperature time, a little bit of awareness, and timing. It’s not coding. It’s just care and concern. It doesn’t take that much of imagination to make food good. It really doesn’t.
I know you’ve had your own cooking show. I’m just curious what other culinary aspirations you may have. It seems like with all your knowledge it wouldn’t be surprising for you to have your own cookbook or anything like that.
My plan is to go and do a stag at Alinea, do the three days cooking at Alinea. I’ve got a few chef friends, Dominique Crenn who has Atelier Crenn in San Francisco.
My dream would be to go do stags at those restaurants. I love cooking, I’ve cooked with Grant quite a bit. I cook with Dominique quite a bit, being a sous chef to those guys just being on hand. Chef Daniel Pizza, I helped recently I went to a party and he was cooking for 35 people alone. Nothing more fun for me than playing sous chef or “How can I help? What can I clean?” I like that. It’s really good fun.
On “Everything Zen,” you have the famous lyric, “Million dollars a steak.” It’s 2024. We’re almost 30 years later. Are we getting close to the million dollar steak?
Nazrat was the guy, the famous guy, and he’s got those terrible restaurants and he throws the salt off — the Salt Bae. Then, he was ruling the world with this. To me it’s really gross off a man’s forearm. Then he fucked it with trying to harass Messi at the World Cup and getting all his pictures of Messi and suddenly this restaurant seems to be in trouble.
Nearly had a million dollar steak. It was all gold leaf and he’s cutting it. It’s just bullshit cutting steak with gold leaf all over it. My kids see there’s a YouTuber who does million dollar meals, a hundred grand pizzas, all that stuff. Is it worth it? I would say no. Nothing’s worth that.
A few years ago you made a vegan bolognese and you said that that was the future of cooking and food. Obviously, you’re not a vegan. Are you still in the plant-based kind of mode? Or are you past that now?
It’s pretty tricky. The truth of that is around that time I was dating a vegan for six months. For her, I was cooking only vegan stuff. Sometimes when she would leave, I may have the odd bacon sandwich.
I am a hypocrite because I’m not a hunter. If I had to go shoot my dinner, I’d be like, “I’ll have salad tonight.” I’m a bit of a pussy like that. I don’t like it. I don’t like suffering. I hate the industrialization of the industrial age.
Like I was saying, how we’ve been by fucked things, we’ve been fucked by that. It wasn’t right to take all these animals and kill them every 12 seconds to kill in abattoirs, to desensitize ourselves to animals like that. I prefer small abattoirs, great organic life. It’s difficult because I can afford that. Costco is really wonderful for bringing meat prices down. I have to be careful not to be elitist. I think it’s really fucked up how fast food is subsidized. I think in urban areas where you don’t have any access to fresh food, all these huge geopolitical socio-economic town plannings, I think it’s incredibly cynical.
I thought lab-grown meat was the future. I guess that didn’t quite take off. They found out Beyond Meat, Impossible Burgers had more sodium and more problems than eating just the original meat. The terrible truth is I’m really basic and I worked best off of Korean medicine for a long time, based on a Korean way of life. Dr. Kwon. I was told to eat beef, pork, and sugar, no vegetables, no fish for my life. That’s basically what I eat. Not much lamb, not much chicken. I do better when I eat meat, I’m good to go. I’m primal.
I don’t eat fast food – it’s a small protest, I don’t want to be part of that. I don’t want to be part of the suffering. A dollar burger means somebody suffered. There’s that line I have in my solo record. “Happy Meals means something died,” which I always thought it was a great lyric and no one ever picked up on it. Happy Meals mean something died. I don’t like it when my kids eat fast food. It’s a lot of suffering in between those buns.
If vegan bolognese is not the future, what would you say is the future of food in your mind?
As organic as possible, as small, small farms as possible. Basically, if and when you eat meat that that meat has lived a good life and has been dispatched in a humane way, free of stress, free of fear. No meat that’s traveled 600 miles to be slaughtered. It’s an idealistic way of living. That to me is the future. It’s the opposite of the industrial age unfortunately. The industrial age was invented without any awareness or cognizance of the effect it would have on the animals themselves. It’s just heartbreaking.
I can’t sit and have any winning argument with a vegan. Any vegan can beat me in an argument and say I live and I don’t kill anything to eat. I could eat beans every day. I could do it, but I’m a terrible person, so I don’t. So, I’m susceptible to any vegan. There’s still arguments against vegans here, like the production of avocados, they kill all the wildlife around avocados. So, vegan farming has a lot to answer for as well, because they kill a lot of wildlife.
That’s the problem. That’s the thing. What do you do? I’m lucky enough to eat organic, but I can’t be stuck up and tell other people to be organic because some people just can’t straight up afford it so I can get fucked. It’s not fair. It’s very cynical. The whole lack of fresh food in the poorer downtown areas. We often stay in downtown areas and depressed areas. That’s where the venues are, often where the hotels will be, and there’s not a lot of Whole Foods.
I would have a Whole Foods and I would have a program where they were in inner cities because you should be able to afford a plate of vegetables, should be the same price as a burger. It shouldn’t be the vegetables (are) more expensive or you have to travel further to get them. It’s so cynical. Talk about systemic racism, that is systemic racism, that planning.
It’s no secret that the Marvel Cinematic Universe could use some pep in its cinematic step since shuttering the original lineup. 20 or so movies had compiled an extensive mythology that culminated in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, and the MCU produced what was possibly the last movie in history that could prompt this audience response or anything like it. The subsequent efforts have come nowhere close to being billion-dollar hits with the multiverse’s avalanche of new shows and movies feeling like homework, which led to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania struggling to break even and Captain America: Brave New World plodding along toward the same status.
Can the MCU be saved? Well, Thunderbolts* will arrive in theaters on May 2, followed by Fantastic Four: First Steps on July 25, and after that, Disney and Marvel Studios are hoping that the Russo Brothers will make magic happen again with a much larger ensemble.
Cast
Well, nobody could accuse Disney of not bringing the star power for this movie. It sounds… messy? Potentially. Probably. We will see.
Last summer at San Diego Comic-Con, MCU chief Kevin Feige made his wildest dreams come true by announcing that longtime Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. would somehow star as Doctor Doom. Then on March 26, Marvel Studios began a series of empty-chair announcements via social media, and, they’re potentially going to need a bigger battleground.
The official roster (of heroes past and present) includes the following:
– Chris Hemsworth (as Thor)
– Sebastian Stan (as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier)
– Anthony Mackie (as Sam Wilson/Captain America)
– Vanessa Kirby (Sue Storm/Invisible Woman)
– Letitia Wright (as Shuri)
– Paul Rudd (as Scott Lang/Ant-Man)
– Wyatt Russell (as John Walker/US Agent)
– Ebon Moss-Bachrach (as Ben Grimm/The Thing)
– Simu Liu (as Shang-Chi)
– Florence Pugh (as Yelena Belova/Black Widow)
– Lewis Pullman (as Bob/The Sentry)
– Danny Ramirez (as Joaquin Torres/Falcon)
– Joseph Quinn (as Johnny Storm)
– David Harbour (as Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian)
– Winston Duke (as M’Baku)
– Tenoch Huerta Mejia (as Namor)
– Kelsey Grammar (as Beast)
– Hannah John-Kamen (as Ava Starr/Ghost)
– Tom Hiddleston (as Loki)
– Patrick Stewart (as Professor X)
– Ian McKellen (as Magneto)
– Alan Cumming (as Nightcrawler)
– Rebecca Romijn (as Mystique)
That’s not all, Marvel Studios kept naming names over the course of several hours, ending with Channing Tatum (Gambit, for real), James Marsden (Cyclops), and Pedro Pascal (Dr. Reed Nathaniel Richards/Mr. Fantastic).
Chris Evans is not on the roster despite wish lists circulating around the Internet. Also, the MCU is gonna leave Scarlett Johansson alone.
Plot
You’d need more than an accidental Signal chat to persuade somebody to reveal official plot points, but currently, Avengers: Doomsday production is “about to roll cameras in London,” according to Deadline. And this summer, it is entirely possible that RDJ’s Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom will make his first appearance in a credits scene of The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
From there, hoo boy. The Russo Brothers need to solve The Kang Problem after Jonathan Major’s post-conviction dismissal from the MCU undoubtedly led to a substantial retooling. But also? That could be a net positive since, undoubtedly, many former MCU devotees gave up on keeping up with too much content and multiverse gibberish. So maybe Kang and incursions and all that ultra complicated comic lore will truly be a thing of the past. But for now, plot specifics and hints (more than speculation) will remain a mystery, at least until after the new Fantastic Four movie surfaces.
Oh, except for one thing. Anthony Mackie spoke with Collider and urged the audience not to get attached to the lengthy list of heroes: “You see these characters, and you see how they’re introduced and how they play in the universe moving forward, and no one is safe. Everyone is expendable.”
Meanwhile, the Russo Brothers haven’t held back on revealing to Collider that both Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars will both have runtimes in the vein of Infinity War and Endgame, maybe the first being “two and a half, and the second one’s three hours.” Security will also typically be strict as always for an MCU production, and Anthony Russo declared: “We’ve sort of strategized to hopefully be effective with that.” Joe added, “We don’t want people getting photographs, so we are being pretty stringent.”
Further updates will arrive when Kevin Feige deems them appropriate, but until then, the Internet will have to make do with speculative theories like RDJ really wearing a Doctor Doom mask and then revealing he is still Iron Man. Wait, is that theory out there yet? It must be.
Release Date
Avengers: Doomsday will arrive on May 1, 2026, and Avengers: Secret Wars is on the calendar for May 7, 2027.
Trailer
Behold, the hallowed Hall H reveal of Downey Doom.
In case you missed it, Drake is in the midst of suing Universal Music Group, his own record label, over claims that UMG intentionally defamed Drake by unfairly promoting Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.” Well, that situation isn’t going away any time soon.
As HipHopDX notes, the lawsuit was amended yesterday (April 16), to include events that took place since the last filing in January. Notably, the lawsuit now mentions Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, claiming the performance exposed “Not Like Us” to “millions of children” who had “never before heard the song or any of the songs that preceded it.” It continues, “It was the first, and will hopefully be the last, Super Bowl halftime show orchestrated to assassinate the character of another artist.”
Meanwhile, Serena Williams has spoken out against speculation that her surprise appearance at the performance was intended to throw shade at Drake. She said in a recent interview, “Absolutely not. I would never do that. And that was sad, that anyone would ever think that. I respect how they could. Obviously I can see how someone would think that. But absolutely not. I have never had negative feelings towards him. We’ve known him for so many years.”
Gracie Abrams’The Secret Of Us was one of 2024’s biggest albums and there’s more where that came from: Abrams has been back in the studio with the album’s co-producer, Aaron Dessner.
A new Billboard cover story reveals of a recent studio session with Dessner, “Abrams says they went in hoping to nail just one particular song, but emerged 12 hours later having worked on ‘a bunch’ of tracks for the next project, which comes together in her head more and more with each scattered studio session.” Abrams herself also said, “Aaron and I are catching each other in these little pockets between hectic times. Every day that I live with the music, things start to become a little clearer. There’s something we’re starting to crack that is making both of us feel energized.”
Benny Blanco also offered some laudatory words about Abrams: “What’s so cool about her music is that she really tells it how it is, whether it makes her look great or not so great. […] She makes these songs that are huge in stadiums now, yet they also still feel like she’s whispering them into your ear in your bedroom at three in the morning. […] She’s just a force to be reckoned with.”
Abrams also spoke about performing in stadiums while opening for Taylor Swift on The Eras Tour, saying, “I think having had the privilege of opening for Taylor in the stadiums that we played, to now have a visual reference and a real sense of what it feels like to be on a stage in that environment… It’s something that I miss and desperately hope to earn over time.”
The Taylor Sheridan Effect has unquestionably boosted Paramount Plus‘ popularity and caused envious side-eyes from other streaming services that want a slice of the Neo-Western pie. And speaking of Pie, that not only happens to be the name of Sons Of Anarchy showrunner Kurt Sutter’s podcast, but he had also hopped aboard the Western train with The Abandons, until that train abruptly came to a halt last fall.
To briefly recap, Sutter had not only written the epic series but appeared to be all-in while frequently sharing Instagram updates, yet last October, he abruptly pulled out of the show and hasn’t spoken of the issue since that time. NDAs are no doubt part of the picture (Sutter has had no issue speaking out in the past about his Mayans M.C. departure and even referred to himself as “an abrasive dick” in the aftermath of how he “ruffle[ed] a few mouse ears”), but here, he’s engaged in radio silence.
Since the cancellation, there hasn’t been much of an update on release plans since Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva had the October scoop on how “creative differences” led Sutter to depart with a week left of filming, which would finish with executive producers Rob Askins and Otto Bathurst at the helm. Hmm.
Will The Abandons Still Be Released By Netflix?
Nobody knows yet, and if they do, they aren’t talking. The series was rumored to have been planned for a Spring 2025 release, and that obviously isn’t going to happen. At the time of Sutter leaving the building, Deadline’s Andreeva even reported, “The swift action may also have been prompted by the tight production schedule as I hear The Abandons is targeted for an April launch, and all Netflix series need several months for dubbing before release.”
Six months later, and it’s mid-April with The Abandons nowhere to be seen on Netflix’s up-and-coming previews and release lists. The show will still surely come out because the cast is beyond impressive (Gillian Anderson, Lena Headey, Patton Oswalt, Nick Robinson, Ryan Hurst, Clayton Cardenas, and many more), but it’s also safe to say that there’s been some significant retooling at work, especially since Andreeva reported that episodes had been running up to two hours long, which yeah, is excessive for streaming.
From the show’s synopsis, which (apparently) hasn’t changed:
As a group of diverse, outlier families pursue their Manifest Destiny in 1850s Oregon, a corrupt force of wealth and power, coveting their land, tries to force them out. These abandoned souls, the kind of lost souls living on the fringe of society, unite their tribes to form a family and fight back. In this bloody process, “justice” is stretched beyond the boundaries of the law. The Abandons will explore that fine line between survival and law, the consequences of violence, and the corrosive power of secrets, as this family fights to keep their land.
If and when The Abandons finds a release date, we’ll be as interested as you to hear it.
Each week our staff of film and television experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish shows available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.
15. Deli Boys (Hulu)
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Hulu’s Deli Boys is a crime-comedy about a pair of pampered Pakistani-American brothers who lose everything following their father’s sudden death and are forced to reckon with his secret life of misdeeds as they try to take up his mantle. The cast includes Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh, and Poorna Jagannathan.
Colman Domingo, one of the finest actors of his generation, got a well-deserved Oscar nomination for his performance in Sing Sing. The heartbreaking but hopeful film follows Divine G (Domingo), who is imprisoned at Sing Sing Correctional Facility for a crime he didn’t commit. He finds purpose by acting in a theatre group with other incarcerated men, many of whom are played by formerly imprisoned actors.
The first thing you should know about The Studio is that there’s diarrhea zombies. The second thing to know about The Studio is that the diarrhea zombies are actually from a fake movie within the show, an industry satire starring Seth Rogen. His character, Matt, is tasked with saving Continental Studios in an ever-changing industry. The stacked cast also includes Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtz, Rebecca Hall, Olivia Wilde, Chase Sui Wonders, Catherine O’Hara, and Bryan Cranston. The Studio is one of the funniest shows of 2025.
Based on the acclaimed podcast, Dying for Sex follows Molly Kochan (played by the always-great Michelle Williams) who decides to leave her husband (Jay Duplass) after being diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer in order to explore her sexual desires for the first time. She’s joined on her journey of exploration by her best friend Nikki (Jenny Slate). The heart-tugging comedy-drama series was created by Kim Rosenstock and Elizabeth Meriwether, who also created New Girl.
The latest season (or “series,” if we’re being British about it) of Doctor Who has Ncuti Gatwa returning as the Doctor. This time around, he meets Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) and begins a quest to get her back to Earth. However, a mysterious force stops their return, and they face new dangers while learning why.
Can you believe it’s been 10 years since Mad Men ended? On a related note, I could go for a Coke right about now. Anyway, Jon Hamm’s new show, Your Friends and Neighbors, has him playing a different kind of character than Don Draper: a hedge fund manager who gets fired and begins stealing from his neighbors’ homes, “only to discover that the secrets and affairs hidden behind those wealthy facades might be more dangerous than he ever imagined.” The Your Friends and Neighbors cast also includes Olivia Munn and Amanda Peet.
Get a load of the cast for Black Mirror season 7: Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd, Tracee Ellis Ross, Siena Kelly, Rosy McEwen, Ben Bailey Smith, Issa Rae, Awkwafina, Emma Corrin, Harriet Walter, Peter Capaldi, Lewis Gribben, Michele Austin, Paul Giamatti (!!!), Patsy Ferran, Cristin Milioti, Jimmi Simpson, Billy Magnussen, Milanka Brooks, and Osy Ikhile, as well as Will Poulter and Asim Chaudhry returning from Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Not bad!
In the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale, June (played by Elisabeth Moss) is pulled back into the fight to take down Gilead. She’s joined by Luke (O-T Fagbenle) and Moira (Samira Wiley), while Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) attempts to reform society. It’s a story of hope, courage, and resilience in the pursuit of justice — timely! There’s also a sequel series on the horizon.
The last time we checked in with Hacks, Deborah (played by Jean Smart) succeeded in her life-long dream to become a late-night host — but not without betraying her friend and writing partner Ava (Hannah Einbinder), who holds a secret over Deborah. And she’s not afraid to use it. Season 4 finds tensions between the two rising while working on the show.
The Last of Us season 2 picks up five years after the season 1 finale, when Joel (Pedro Pacal) killed a bunch of Fireflies to save Ellie (Bella Ramsey), and then (to put it vaguely) lied to her. Now, they’re “drawn into conflict with each other and a world even more dangerous and unpredictable than the one they left behind.” Get ready for more Clickers, more heartbreak, and the introduction of Abby (Kaitlyn Dever), one of the more polarizing characters in video game history.
Law & Order: Organized Crime is now in its fifth season, which I suppose would sound more impressive if Law & Order wasn’t in season 24 and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in season 26 (!). But it’s still quite the achievement, especially since it keeps Christopher Meloni employed (the weights to keep his butt toned ain’t gonna pay for themselves). The new season will feature a cameo from Mariska Hargitay. Stabler and Benson, together again!
The less you know about the plot of Companion, the better. But here’s the spoiler-free pitch: it’s a thriller-comedy that stars Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén, and Rupert Friend. That’s it, that impressive cast is all you need to know. Sophie Thatcher is a star, folks.
What if Yellowstone meets Friday Night Lights… but Netflix. Starring Minka Kelly in her return to Texas and the rugged Josh Duhamel, Ransom Canyon is described as “a romance-fueled family drama and contemporary Western saga that charts the intersecting lives of three ranching families, all set against the rugged expanse of Texas Hill Country.” There will be horses.
Since wrapping up the Peabody-winning Ramy, comedian and actor Ramy Youssef has starred in Poor Things; gone on a sold-out standup tour (Taylor Swift is a fan); and advocated for Palestine. He also created #1 Happy Family USA, an animated series about a Muslim family living in America post-9/11. The satire finds humor in hardship — it’s as potent a premise as ever.
The most brilliantly deadpan show on TV is back! The Rehearsal stars Nathan Fielder as a man on a mission to reduce the uncertainties of everyday life. In season 2, the urgency of his project grows as he puts his resources toward an issue that affects us all: commercial aviation. It’s good to see that laptop harness again.
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