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Metallica has enjoyed plenty of popularity over the past few decades and they’re riding a renewed wave of it now, thanks to “Master Of Puppets” playing a pivotal role in the new season of Stranger Things. Without spoiling too much, in the show, Eddie Munson (portrayed by Joseph Quinn) plays the 1986 single on guitar at a key moment.

Since then, the tune has found a new audience for itself and sparked a younger generation to get interested in the legendary rockers. All the while, the band has embraced being part of this cultural moment, doing so again over the weekend.

Yesterday, @strangerwriters, the official Twitter account of the Stranger Things writers’ room, shared a video of Quinn (not in character as Munson) playing the song along with Metallica’s studio version, doing a terrific job at keeping up with the song’s fast and intense riffs.

“practice makes perfect,” the post reads. Metallica seem to dig the video, as they gave it a retweet.

This comes shortly after they did a TikTok duet video of themselves playing along with the song’s appearance in the episode. They also recently shut down fans of the band trying to belittle Stranger Things viewers just now discovering the long-running group, writing, “FYI – EVERYONE is welcome in the Metallica Family. Whether you’ve been a fan for 40 hours or 40 years, we all share a bond through music. All of you started at ground zero at one point in time.”

How times have changed. Back in 1990, the above photo shows how excited people (including a Soviet cop) were when McDonald’s opened on Moscow’s Gorky Street (following the fall of the Berlin Wall), but those fast-food glory days are over. This is down, of course, to Vladimir Putin’s dismal Ukraine war, which led many global businesses (including that very American fast food chain) to pull out of Russia. This led Russia to rebrand/launch a knockoff — “Vkusno i tochka,” which translates as “Tasty and point” — that Russia claimed would be better. Well, it’s not better, as photos of moldy buns have proven, which for sure, people are not lovin’ (it).

In addition to serving up fungus, there’s more disaster coming from the chain. As Business Insider reports, the chain will somehow not have french fries on the menu for the foreseeable future. Vkusno i tochka is claiming that a dire potato shortage is in process, and to complicate matters, no one will sell them potatoes because Putin’s imperialistic ways are not going over well. Via Business Insider:

Vkusno & tochka told Russian news outlet TASS that a poor harvest last year is to blame. Vkusno & tochka also said it’s “impossible to import from markets that could become temporary suppliers of potatoes for enterprises in Russia.”

Russia’s ministry of agriculture, however, begs to differ. In a statement on Telegram titled “There are potatoes – and that’s it,” a clear nod to the fast food chain’s name, the agency said the country is “fully supplied with potatoes, including processed ones.”

Naturally, the Kremlin’s denying ^^ that this story is a story, but perhaps the missing fries are actually for the better. Although the knockoff claims that the fries will return in fall-ish, previous reports call them “a bit sadder, less salty and crispy.” And given that the Russian people are missing out on plenty of things they formerly took for granted (like Netflix availability), this surely won’t help morale inside of the country while Putin’s Botox-wax supply continues unabated.

(Via Business Insider)

Kanye West has made big moves in the fashion world over the last decade and it looks like he has an even bigger one planned for the future. According to TMZ, the rapper and his legal team reportedly filed a trademark for ‘YZSPLY’ to open retail stores as well as set up online ordering services and online retail store services. Kanye already has his Yeezy Supply website, which he uses to sell limited-release items like his Adidas Yeezy sneakers and slides. Now it seems like Kanye wants to bring more of these items to his fans and make it easier for them to purchase his products.

However, just like we’ve seen him do through ventures with Gap and more, it seems like Kanye is ready to sell much more than footwear. TMZ reports that the filing covers most clothing items like shirts, socks, hats, visors, and tennis wear as well as “accessories” for headwear and footwear.

Kanye’s trademark for YZSPLY comes after a few releases through Yeezy Gap. The most recent official drop came back in May through a collaboration with Balenciaga. Fans were able to purchase t-shirts, hoodies, joggers, caps, and other products. Prior to that, Kanye gave his fans the opportunity to buy the same red bubble jacket that he wore during the first listening session for this chart-topping Donda album.

Over a year ago now, SZA took to TikTok to tease a new song, which fans have collectively given the unofficial title of “Shirt.” The unreleased tune has since sometimes worked its way into SZA’s setlists, and she busted it out at London’s Wireless Festival over the weekend. Furthermore, she gave some more info about what the official release of the song will look like.

While introducing the track on stage, she asked her audience, “Do y’all want to know who’s on this song?” She continued, “The hint is that the we already have a song together, her name starts with a ‘D,’ and it rhymes with ‘Soja.’”

Those not-so-subtle clues clearly point to Doja Cat, who meets all of the qualifications, as she and SZA previously linked up on Doja’s 2021 single “Kiss Me More.”

Back when the song was first making the TikTok rounds, SZA told CBS This Morning, “‘Shirt’ is super easy to remember and now every time I work on it in the studio, I reference it as ‘Shirt.’ Some people call it ‘Blood Stain,’ which is very graphic. Now this song, which I wasn’t even 100-percent sure of the placement on my album, has centered itself on my album. Now we shot a video for it.”

Don’t tell Florence Pugh who to date — or what to wear.

The Oscar-nominated Little Women and Midsommar actress took to Instagram on Sunday to respond to the “vulgar” trolls who criticized the see-through Barbie-style pink gown she wore to Valentino’s haute couture fashion show in Rome, Italy, last week.

“What’s been interesting to watch and witness is just how easy it is for men to totally destroy a woman’s body, publicly, proudly, for everyone to see. You even do it with your job titles and work emails in your bio…?” she wrote in the post. “It isn’t the first time and certainly won’t be the last time a woman will hear what’s wrong with her body by a crowd of strangers, what’s worrying is just how vulgar some of you men can be.”

Pugh has come to terms with the “intricacies of my body that make me, me. I’m happy with all of the ‘flaws’ that I couldn’t bear to look at when I was 14. So many of you wanted to aggressively let me know how disappointed you were by my ‘tiny tits,’ or how I should be embarrassed by being so ‘flat chested.’ I’ve lived in my body for a long time. I’m fully aware of my breast size and am not scared of it.”

She continued:

I wore that dress because I know. If being loudly abusive towards women publicly in 2022 is so easy for you, then the answer is that it is you who doesn’t know. Grow up. Respect people. Respect bodies. Respect all women. Respect humans. Life will get a whole lot easier, I promise. And all because of two cute little nipples…

Pugh added a “#fuckingfreethefuckingnipple” for good measure.

You can read the entire post here.

(Via Florence Pugh/Instagram)

Multiple times per week, our TV and film experts will list the most important ten streaming selections for you to pop into your queues. We’re not strictly operating upon reviews or accrued streaming clicks (although yes, we’ve scoured the streaming site charts and ratings) but, instead, upon those selections that are really worth noticing amid the churning sea of content. There’s a lot out there, after all, and your time is valuable.

10. Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (Paramount+ movie)

If you need to take a load off, then there’s no better way than by revisiting these two buttmunches. Granted, there’s absolutely nothing of substance here, and that’s part of the charm of the original MTV series, too. Mike Judge knew that we needed these two couch slackers again, and there’s no disturbing the formula that made this show so ridiculously popular in the first place. Enjoy the brainless nostalgia and wonder, like Cornholio, where all the TP and “olio” might be. This one is good for your soul and will, at the very least, convince you to forget about the stressful reality of what’s happening in today’s too-serious world.

9. Ms. Marvel (HBO Max series)

If you aren’t watching this show, then you are sorely missing out because this slice of the youngest Marvel dynamite will get you primed ahead of The Marvels, arriving in 2023 only in theaters. That film will include Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Paris), but this show introduces Captain Marvel superfan Kamala Khan, who’s got some updated powers that fit with her place in the MCU and our own world. The show’s a joy to watch and a case study in why it’s alright to abandon canon if those changes ultimately make the story better.

8. For All Mankind (Apple TV+ series)

This show’s not losing its quiet quality, and that’s worth appreciating, even if it’s not a big social media hit that everyone’s buzzing about. People are still watching this alternate history as it moves toward the future. Joel Kinnaman and Shantel VanSanten are back while the Space Race’s new frontier happens to (and this should sound familiar, too) be Mars. There’s a third party interfering with the U.S. and Soviet Union royalty, and loyalties might fall by the wayside because national egos are very fragile. One must respect all of the attention to detail that goes into not hitting us over the head with messaging in the process of entertainment.

7. Black Bird (Apple TV+ series)

The show’s timing is poignant, given that the recently departed Ray Liotta is now taking his last turn on the small screen. He portrays Big Jim Keene, and he’s dad to Jimmy, played by Taron Eggerton in this adaptation of the In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption memoir. Given that Paul Walter Hauser also appears, expect him to be up to no good, and this is a suspenseful production produced by Dennis Lehane, all in service of a solid true-crime/psychological thriller adventure.

6. The Umbrella Academy (Netflix series)

The first 20 minutes of this season will instantly take you home in terms of remembering why the Hargreeves siblings are so irresistible. There are now Sparrow siblings, too, and Elliot Page’s Victor introduces himself to his family and to the audience (while also getting a doozy of a last line of the season), and it’s all to great effect. A whole lot of plates spin around here, and yes, there’s another apocalypse in the works, but don’t worry, there’s always dancing, and even a messed-up timeline and some intermittent tragedy can’t ruin the feel-good effect of this show as a whole.

5. The Old Man (FX/Hulu series)

Jeff Bridges is back for one last job (yay!) as a former CIA operative who gets dragged back into the field, and he’s got exactly chilled out about it. The story’s based upon Thomas Perry’s 2017 novel, and John Lithgow portrays an old friend who’s not exactly a friend. Think of this as a show that Liam Neeson would have loved to have done but with better writing and a lot more personality. This is apparently a limited series, but you never know whether the powers that be will see the viewing numbers and sign up for more.

4. Only Murders In The Building (Hulu series)

Selena Gomez is what makes this dream team (there are many reasons why she’s been underappreciated in Hollywood) really happen, although Steve Martin and Martin Short aren’t too shabby! This season picks up with “Bloody Mabel” attempting to ditch her newfound reputation, even if it happened because she did the alleged-perp walk while literally being both bloody and Mabel. Guest stars include Amy Schumer and Cara Delevingne, and basically, no one should trust anyone as the show’s mysteries continue to unfurl.

3. Stranger Things (Netflix series)

The drip-drip of this season’s fallout continues with Metallica and talk of gatekeepers, which might distract everyone from the enormously (almost ridiculously) long run times for the most recent episodes that dropped. Now, everyone must look ahead to Season 5 and wonder whether the Duffer Brothers will listen to Millie Bobbie Brown’s quest for many Game of Thrones-style deaths. Also, the Emmy nominations are coming soon, so keep your eyes on whether that will also be a point of contention between this show and Thrones because some records might soon fall.

2. The Boys (Amazon Prime series)

The season finale couldn’t quite top the “Herogasm” episode but delivered a satisfying set of flourishes to the Soldier Boy Problem. And the Homelander Problem? That will continue into the future, as will Vought Internationals PR issues, thanks to Starlight refusing to play nice anymore. This season delivered incredible backstories for both Black Noir and Mother’s Milk, the latter of whom is portrayed by Laz Alonso (who talked to us about why people love his character so very much. Before you watch, refresh yourself with this ranking of all The Boys and prepare yourself for Billy Butcher’s vengeance.

1. The Bear (FX series streaming on Hulu)

Hoo boy, this show’s a type of intense that will stress you out at times (Episode 7 is a pressure cooker of a long shot that’s perhaps the best work of the season). Shameless heavy lifter Jeremy Allen White finally gets the leading man turn that he deserves, and people really want a second season of this show, so we’ll see if FX ends up coming through, so we can have more of White with (stellar supporting players) Ayo Edebir and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. And everyone is a “Chef.” You are a Chef, too, and the sooner you realize that, the better.

Today is the 10th anniversary of Frank Ocean’s breakthrough album, Channel Orange. What better time than now for Ocean to return from his reclusive state with new episodes of his Blonded Radio on Apple Music 1.

Streaming now and on demand, Blonded Radio came back at 4:30pm PT on Sunday night July 10th. While this isn’t the announcement of a new Frank Ocean album that everyone has been hoping for, it certainly indicates that Ocean is back on a creative tip again. Blonded has been the grounds for Ocean to drop one-off new material and experiment while he pushes towards the long-anticipated follow-up to Blonde, which came out in 2016. The last episode of Blonded Radio came out on Christmas 2021.

A release from Apple was sparse, but was very clear in saying that “New episodes of Frank Ocean’s blonded RADIO arrive today at 4:30pm PT, only on Apple Music.” The fact that Apple Music is referring to “episodeS,” in the plural sense, indicate that there is more to come here after Sunday night’s comeback pair.

The first 35 minutes of the first episode, “blonded LSD,” was an “original score” by Ocean set to a conversation about micro-dosing and psychedelics with Dr. James Fadiman. The second episode, “blonded ENERGY” began shortly thereafter with a different score by Ocean, set to a conversation with Qigong teacher, Mingtong Gu.

People were thoroughly confused on social media when the first episode dropped. “Listening to new blonded radio and it’s just a speech about doing drugs over a dance beat. Im here for the Frank Ocean psychedelic arc,” one user said.

https://twitter.com/nfr_podcast/status/1546282793482739713?s=20&t=jdsPecPMCp88D_o5PN5HqA

Nobody said this was going to be a straightforward comeback, but are you surprised?

Listen to it now at Apple Music 1 here.

Today is the 10th anniversary of Frank Ocean’s breakthrough album, Channel Orange. What better time than now for Ocean to return from his reclusive state with a new episode of his Blonded Radio on Apple Music 1.

Streaming now and on demand, the first episode came back at 4:30pm PT on Sunday night July 10th.

Listen to it now at Apple Music 1 here.

This story is being updated.

This past weekend, Pearl Jam headlined the two-day extravaganza known as British Summer Time at London’s Hyde Park. Eddie Vedder and company closed out both Friday and Saturday night concerts and were supported by acts like The Pixies, Stereophonics, Cat Power, and Johnny Marr. Pearl Jam pulled out a lot of stops throughout the weekend, but none were as momentous as during their Saturday night closing set, when Marr joined them on stage for two classic covers.

Marr, who made a name for himself as the lead guitarist of The Smiths, was welcomed onto the stage by Vedder and they played Neil Young’s “Throw Your Hatred Down” together. Then as the 22-song set was coming to a close, Marr came back on stage to join Pearl Jam (and a lot of Londoners singing along) in an explosive rendition of The Who’s “Baba O’Riley.” It was all captured on a surreal video board setup.

At Pearl Jam’s performance the night before, famed tennis bad boy John McEnroe them on guitar. Given that Wimbledon was currently happening in London, this was a masterstroke in Pearl jam’s thematic guest bag of tricks. Simon Townshend (the brother of The Who’s Pete Townshend, who tours with the band) also came up on stage to duet his song “I Am The Answer” with Vedder.

Watch Johnny Marr join Pearl Jam to perform The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” above and check out them performing Neil Young’s “Throw Your Hatred Down” below.

Back to work? This product will make you feel like you *almost* never left your living room. Ok, it will at least let you bring some of your family and friends with you… without having to organize guest parking for the entire crew. Because what looks like a classic picture frame is actually so much more. Here’s how it works:

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This Skylight Frame is a digital picture frame! If you’re not sure what that means, think photo screensaver that’s constantly being updated. And it’s beyond easy to send pictures too, so there’s never a hassle of having to update it or plug it in to download new photos.

The frame is a touch screen so you can easily connect to WiFi just like you would with any other device. Then, you can create your own unique Skylight email address for the frame. After that you can forward your favorite pics and the frame will almost instantly add those photos into the queue. It can surprise you with its own slide show settings (think shuffle) or you can select an order (think newest to oldest) for your slideshow. This feature is really the best part about this digital frame, because it’s always showing something new.

And because you can give out the email address to your friends and family and they can also send you pictures on their own! That way the photo album will continue to update with all of the best adventures and you can be treated to a surprise while you’re at your desk… just as long as the surprises are all work appropriate.

That being said, this frame really is better when shared. It has tons of cool features, like a small heart that you can click to “like” a photo and let whoever sent it to you know that it made your day a little brighter. You can also pause the slide show at any time and hold on one picture for a few minutes or the whole day. This feature is especially handy if you’re going to a meeting or heading away from your desk.

There are other settings that allow you to control the flow and display of the slideshow. It’s complete customizable and there are tons of new features to explore. It’s almost like being on social media, but instead of being flooded with photos of people you went to high school with, you only get the best, silliest, happiest photos from people you love.

But, if you’re going for a more posh aesthetic or if you want the frame to showcase your vision board, that’s also totally doable. You can self-curate slide shows or limit the amount of photos displayed. Because of the simple features and easy to use touchscreen, this frame is an easy addition for your desk. And it just might soften the blow of being back in the office… even if it’s just a little bit.

Check it out now, and see what all the hype’s about.

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