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Invincible Season 3 saw an explosive finale when Conquest arrived on Earth to punish Mark and a battle ensued between them. Robert Kirkman’s series didn’t fail to impress us with this third season as well. There was one element that perfectly accompanied all the fantastic characters and jaw-dropping scenes.

Mark Grayson in Invincible Season 3 | Credits: Prime Video

As usual, the series nailed the music, using the right track for the right moment. This season featured less musical scores than the first two seasons. However, it managed to elevate the viewing experience just like the previous seasons. Here is a guide for you to find your favorite music from the show.

Invincible Season 3 soundtrack guide A still from the episode All I Can Say Is I’m Sorry from Invincible Season 3 | Credits: Prime Video

Invincible Season 3 began airing on Prime Video on February 6 and its final episode was released on March 13. John Paesano,...

Warning: this article discusses themes of suicide, sex, and sexual violence.

Hayden Silas Anhedönia, better known by her stage name Ethel Cain, has made quite an imprint on the music scene since her 2022 album Preacher's Daughter took critics by storm with its twisted, Southern Gothic-inspired story and sound. An intense exploration of family trauma and sexual violence, partially inspired by Anhedönia's own youth spent as the child of a deacon, Preacher's Daughter was a mishmash of genres that culminated in an incredibly unique sonic landscape, which critics ate up readily.

Cain's latest release is Perverts, which, sonically, seems to be reactionary to Preacher's Daughter. While only nine tracks long, Perverts has a runtime of nearly an hour and a half; notably absent are any of the four- and five-minute, relatively easily digestible or pop-adjacent songs from the previous album, like the single "American Teenager." With this release, Cain seems...

Netflix’s latest addictive murder mystery comes with one heck of a dynamic soundtrack. Emma Myers, best known for playing bubbly werewolf roommate Enid Sinclair in “Wednesday,” stars as teen sleuth Pip Fitz-Amobi in “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.” Based on Holly Jackson’s best-selling YA mystery novel of the same name, the streaming adaptation follows Pip as she risks it all to solve a five-year-old high school murder case.

The six-episode series is jam-packed with eclectic tracks, from familiar favorites like Billie Eilish, Lykke Li and Charli Xcx, to club jams and soul classics. Check out a complete episode-by-episode guide to all the songs in “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” below.

Episode 1: “The Feminine Urge” by The Last Dinner Party “Chances” by Kaytranada “A New Error” by Moderat “In the Big Mood” by BBC Big Band “Gunshot” by Lykke Li Episode 2: “Seize the Power” by...

Massive Attack have confirmed their first US live show in five years at this year’s iii Points Festival in Miami, Florida, which they’ll headline alongside acts like Justice, Jamie xx, Arca, Jungle, Parliament Funkadelic feat. George Clinton, Kaytranada, and PinkPantheress.

The two-day music festival goes down October 18-19th, 2024 at Mana Wynwood in Miami. Tickets, including Ga, Ga+, and VIP passes, go on sale beginning Friday, June 14th at 1:11 p.m. Et.

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iii Points’ 2024 lineup also boasts Rick Ross, Raekwon, ISOxo, Rezz, Vintage Culture, Mochakk, Jacques Greene, DJ Shadow, DJ Koze, Channel Tres, Bladee, Toro y Moi, Tinlicker, Snow Strippers, Blond:Ish, Sega Bodega, Isabella Lovestory, Yung Lean, Mall Grab, horsegiirL, Ben UFO, Bar Italia, Bad Gyal, and more. See iii Points’ 2024 lineup poster below.

Last week, Massive Attacked played their first proper show in five years at Gothenburg Film Studios in Gothenburg,...

DJ Shadow is heading back on the road for “Take 2” of his “Action Adventure” tour.

The tour follows the first leg of DJ Shadow’s winter/spring “Action Adventure” trek this year, which was the DJ and producer’s first extensive outing in seven years. The new segment of DJ Shadow’s “Action Adventure” tour first begins with an UK/EU leg in late June. Kicking off in Reykjavík, Iceland, DJ Shadow will headline shows in Madrid, Marseille, Dublin, Edinburgh, Liverpool, and more before heading back stateside for an October run.

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The North American leg commences with a show in Kansas City, Missouri on October 3rd. The tour continues with dates in Nashville, Pittsburgh, Ottowa, Atlanta, Austin, and Morrison, Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater. The “Action Adventure” tour will end with a date at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California on October 31st. See...

Marlena Shaw, the oft-sampled soul singer best known for her enduring 1969 hit “California Soul,” has died at the age of 81.

Shaw’s daughter Marla Bradshaw confirmed her mother’s death Friday on social media; no cause of death was provided.

“It’s with a very heavy heart for myself and my family I announce that our beloved mother, your beloved icon and artist Marlena Shaw has passed away today,” Bradshaw said. “She was peaceful. We were at peace… She went listening to some of her favorite songs.”

Shaw’s onetime...

Marlena Shaw, the legendary soul and jazz singer most known for her hit song “California Soul,” has died. She was 81.

Shaw’s daughter, Marla Bradshaw, shared the news of her death on Friday in a video posted on Facebook. Her cause of death was not immediately available.

“It’s with a very heavy heart that for myself and my family I announce that our beloved mother, your beloved icon and artist Marlena Shaw has passed away today at 12:03,” Bradshaw said. “She was peaceful. We were at peace. … She went listening to some of her favorite songs.”

She added, “I just want to thank you all for being on her page. Thank you for being a part of her life. Especially these last three years, which made her very happy.”

Born on Sept. 22, 1939, in New Rochelle, New York, Shaw began her music career in the 1960s and went on to influence several musical genres,...

Singer Marlena Shaw, best known for her much-sampled hit, California Soul, has died at 81, according to a video posted to Facebook by her daughter, Marla. No details were given.

“Hello everyone, it is with a very heavy heart that for myself and my family, I announce that our beloved mother, your beloved icon and artist, Marlena Shaw, has passed away today at 12:03,” Marla said on the video. “She was peaceful, we were at peace.”

Shaw’s California Soul was an track on her 1969 album, The Spice of Life, but later became a highly sought-after record for early hip-hop samplers. The song has been sampled by Gang Starr, DJ Shadow, Diplo and Nightmares on Wax.

The track was written by Ashford & Simpson and first recorded by The Messengers, and also became part of many television ads too. It currently has more than 100 million streams on Spotify.

Shaw was born in New Rochelle,...

DJ Shadow is taking his new album Action Adventure on tour in 2024.

Kicking off January 18th in San Diego, DJ Shadow’s (born Joshua Paul Davis) first extensive tour since 2017 runs across North America through February with shows in Los Angeles, Portland, Vancouver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New York, Washington, DC, and more. The trek picks back up March 6th with a European leg that features stops in cities like Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Manchester, London, and Dublin.

Pre-sale tickets to the 31-date tour go on sale Thursday, November 2nd at 10:00 a.m. local time (use code Backstage), while the general sale begins Friday, November 3rd at the same time. Grab tickets via Ticketmaster, or find deals via StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through Stubhub’s FanProtect program. Additionally, fans can find tickets to the artist’s international dates through Viagogo.

Before his 2024 tour kicks off in earnest, DJ...

DJ Shadow has revealed his eighth album Action Adventure will drop on October 27th along with the nearly all-instrumental collection’s first single, “Ozone Scraper.”

The 14-track project eschews the California producer’s more recent, guest-friendly offerings in an effort to “write music that flexed different energies.” He first prefaced the creative shift in an Instagram post on August 9th, sharing, “I needed to get personal and make music for myself again. I didn’t want to compromise or write music to give someone else a runway, I wanted to force myself to permeate every available sonic space and ‘own’ the total composition.”

“This is about my relationship to music,” he added in a statement tied to the official announcement. “My life as a collector and curator. All my records and tapes, and no one else’s.”

For his first sampling from the project, DJ Shadow has shared “Ozone Scraper,...

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at DJ Shadow's Six Days, directed by Wong Kar-Wai. Nobody films yearning like Wong Kar-wai. The director of In the Mood for Love, Chung-king Express, Happy Together and 2046 is a romantic at heart, even if his characters dally around each other and might miss their chance. It is the longing and the idea of things lost and never found that is the foundation of his movies. It's the panache and style with which he pulls those stories about lovelorn lovebirds off that make them memorable, though. Helped with the lensing of D.O.P. Christopher Doyle, often one of the Mvp's of his work, love...

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Everyone likes everything now. In the years since streaming began to dominate listening habits, this twisted mantra has taken over the music industry, driven more by the desire for some algorithmic utopia than reality. Because everyone has access to everything, the theory goes, they must automatically like it all. It’s a credo at the very core of the mindset of the new look, pop-leaning Reading & Leeds festival. And today, everyone-likes-everything-now (Elen) comes up against its ultimate test.

When Rage Against The Machine pulled out of headlining Sunday’s line-up for health reasons, according to the Elen Theory, all of the Rage fans must naturally welcome replacements The 1975 with open arms. “We heard you!” the announcement tweet read, as though the country’s politico punk metal fans had taken to the streets en masse to demand the immediate instigation of a millennial Go West in Rage’s place. Instead Ratm’s fans,...

Satheerth Kunneth, known by his stage name DJ Shadow Dubai, will soon have an autobiography to his name. Titled ‘LSD (Love. S**. Drugs) Confessions by DJ Shadow’, the project will launch in the second half of 2022 and will broadly cover the prolific artiste’s journey thus far. With this, he will be the first DJ […]...

Future Islands have released a new one-off single, “Peach,” marking their first music of 2021.

The song carries the Baltimore quartet’s trademark synth-pop sound, but on a mellower level than usual. Lead vocalist Samuel T. Herring describes a timely aura of doom (“Death is in the season/And it’s pushing me around”) before resolving to hold onto hope: “But I’m not giving up/Not today.”

“Peach” follows the band’s sixth studio album, As Long As You Are, released last year following their 2017 LP The Far Field. Future...

DJ Shadow paid tribute to Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab following news of the rapper’s death at the age of 50. “He was, quite simply, the most preternaturally gifted Mc I’ve ever worked with,” the producer wrote of the rapper, born Timothy Parker, on Instagram.

“Our brother Tim, having walked this earth as a student of life for over 50 years, has graduated to the next plane of existence,” DJ Shadow wrote. “He begins his renewed travels accompanied by the many spiritual attributes developed during his time among us mortals: his wry sense of humor,...

Gift of Gab, the nimble rapper in Bay Area duo Blackalicious known for his clever wordplay and tricky rhyming acrobatics, has died at the age of 50.

“It is with heavy hearts and great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear brother, Timothy J. Parker a.k.a. “The Gift of Gab,” the hip-hop collective Quannum announced Friday. “Tim peacefully departed this earth to be with our ancestors on Friday, June 18, 2021. He is survived by two brothers, one sister, many nieces and nephews, countless friends, and fans across the globe.

In honor of the 10th anniversary of 2010’s InnerSpeaker Memories, Tame Impala has released a short film documenting the making of the seminal album. The footage was captured during the recording of the album at Australia’s Wave House Studio by Matt Sav.

In the 15-minute film, the footage showcases band frontman Kevin Parker creating and producing the album, as well as listening to DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing in the car. It’s an interesting glimpse back at the making of Tame Impala’s formative album, which helped propel the group into the spotlight.

Dev Hynes (Blood Orange), Jewel, Colin Stetson, DJ Shadow, Pos (De La Soul), Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman are a few of the artists set to make virtual appearances at the 6th Annual ‘State of Music in Media’ Conference, taking place on Feb. 19 and 20.

The virtual event is free to all members of the Guild of Music Supervisors. The conference grants participants the opportunity to network with some of the industry’s top leaders, plus attend a variety of informative panels on subjects covering music in film, television, advertising, games, trailers and more.

Gms President Joel C. High and Vice President Madonna Wade Reed will open the conference, which announced its lineup today. Beyond the panels, Lainey Wilson and Ashley Nicole Greene will be performing.

Program highlights include:

Navigating Unions in Music Supervision

Panelists: Janee Lynch (Business representative for Music at SAG-AFTRA), Casey Bocobo (Business representative for Music at SAG-AFTRA...

Ten years after their first entry in NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series, Future Islands returned to perform a Covid-19-safe remote set from an empty Carroll Baldwin Memorial Hall in their home base of Baltimore.

“We lost the desk,” lead singer Sam Herring joked, but the band had an advantage: With only drummer Michael Lowry onstage, the rest of Future Islands — including bassist William Cashion and synth keyboardist Gerrit Welmers — took to the auditorium floor to dance and jump around as they performed tracks from their most recent album,...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Afrofuturism

Curated by Ashley Clark, The Criterion Channel is putting the spotlight on Afrofuturism in a new series exploring, as Ytasha Womack writes, films that “combine elements of science fiction, historical fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism with non-Western beliefs.” Along with a handful of shorts, the features include Space Is the Place (1974), Born in Flames (1983), The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Ornette: Made in America (1985), Yeelen (1987), Welcome II the Terrordome (1995), The Last Angel of History (1996), An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2012), White Out, Black In (2014), Crumbs (2015), Once There Was Brasilia (2017), and Supa Modo (2018).

Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel

City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)

In the opening shot of Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery,...

The Cure’s Robert Smith delivered an atmospheric remix of the Deftones’ “Teenager” in the latest preview from the band’s upcoming Black Stallion, an all-new remix album dedicated to 2000’s White Pony.

“It’s amazing to hear Robert rework one of our songs and sneak his voice in there,” Deftones’ Chino Moreno told NME of the remix. “If you’d have told me that when I was 15 years old, I would have lost my fucking mind and not believed a word you were saying. It was a dream.”

In June,...

Pixar’s Soul will be celebrated for many things, but chief among them should be the platform it gives, in American animation, to the great art form of jazz. We have come a long way from Jerry Seinfeld in Bee Movie, voicing a bee named Barry B. Benson, trying to woo a human character by inquiring, “Ya like jazz?”

Soul likes jazz very much. That’s a rare certainty in this ambitious film, which attempts to contemplate nothing less than the root of all human experience on this planet. It’s directed by Pete Docter, making his fourth feature for the famed animation house, who holds perhaps the best batting average of all the Pixar regulars. Monsters Inc. and Up in the 00s, and Inside Out in the last decade are benchmarks not just of the medium of animation, but also of imaginative storytelling in art meant for mass consumption.

Future Islands have announced their sixth studio album, As Long As You Are, out October 9th via 4Ad.

As a teaser for the LP, the Baltimore band have released the single “Thrill,” with a stark, one-take video shot in quarantine. The clip features lead singer and songwriter Samuel T. Herring singing to the camera, growing more passionate as the song goes on. It follows the group’s other recent single, “For Sure.”

For As Long As You Are, Future Islands added a fourth member, drummer Mike Lowry, to their three-piece lineup featuring Herring,...

Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy can’t be a cheap show to make. This superhero story is based on an ambitious, colorful comic book series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá and as such it features big action setpieces, depictions of superpowers, and even a talking chimp or two.

Still it’s hard to imagine any portion of The Umbrella Academy’s budget is larger than the music clearance department. The series features a moody score from Jeff Russo but also a truly stunning amount of pop hits. The Umbrella Academy made its musical intentions clear in its first episode with the now-beloved dance scene set to Tiffany’s “I Think We’re Alone Now.” And the show’s investment in soundtrack and music has only grown from there.

“Music is such an important thing to me and I really take time to pick the songs,” showrunner Steve Blackman says.

“We...

This Saturday, June 20th, marks the 20th anniversary of Deftones’ third album White Pony, which Rolling Stone named as one of the 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time. Earlier in the week, Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno, drummer Abe Cunningham and keyboardist Frank Delgado hosted a virtual press conference on Zoom to share updates from quarantine — as well as revelations on the album that forever changed a genre.

The band confirmed that White Pony will be getting a reissue later in the year, as well as a remix LP titled Black Stallion.

Kesha, Finneas, DJ Shadow, Noah Cyrus and more will partake in the newly expanded, two-day digital Fader Fort event, which will raise money for musicians and entertainment professionals impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The event, boasting performances and content from over 100 artists, will air in nine-hour broadcasts set for Tuesday, March 31st and Wednesday, April 1st from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Et.

Other participating artists Phantogram, Brian Fallon, Hinds, Jessie Reyez, Girlpool, Half Waif, Rod Wave, Aminé, Earthgang, G Herbo, JoJo x Lido and Rmr. Several special surprise guests will also be peppered throughout.

DJ Shadow unveiled a different kind of pop-up video in the new lyric video for “Our Pathetic Age,” the title-track from his most recent album.

The song is a mid-tempo disco ballad that features a characteristically dramatic vocal performance from Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring. In the video, directed and animated by Adam Dunn, Herring’s words appear in a ceaseless barrage of pop-up ads that flood the screen of an old computer. There’s some respite from the chaos and clutter during the instrumental breaks, including a cameo from...

DJ Shadow and De La Soul delivered an electrifying performance of their collaboration “Rocket Fuel” on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday.

The appearance marked De La Soul and DJ Shadow’s first live performance together, and they were joined on stage by a lively five-piece horn section and top turntablists DJ Babu of Dilated Peoples and DJ Melo D of Beat Junkies. De La Soul cheerfully traded bars as they ripped through “Rocket Fuel,” getting an assist from the crowd on the song’s very hype hook — halfway through, Shadow led...

For the new animated film Spies in Disguise — created by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by Disney — the filmmakers tapped Mark Ronson to executive produce the soundtrack. On Monday, Ronson shared the tracklist of Mark Ronson Presents the Music of Spies in Disguise, featuring six songs from the film.

In addition to Ronson’s contributions, the soundtrack includes Anderson .Paak on the song “Then There Were Two” — also released on Monday — as well as Lil Jon on “They Gotta Go” and the new single from DJ Shadow and De La Soul,...

DJ Shadow and De La Soul take on some moon landing conspiracies — for laughs — in their new video for “Rocket Fuel.”

A sequel of sorts to DJ Shadow’s 2016 video “Nobody Speak” with Run the Jewels, this is a video you kind of have to see to believe. It takes a spin on the moon landing “hoax” by asking, “What if the moon landing was fake…and the plan went horribly wrong?” It’s absolute chaos combined with slapstick comedy, mixing archival footage from the actual moon landing with scenes of pure fantasy.

DJ Shadow recruits a trio of rappers to issue a warning about social media surveillance and digital paranoia on the producer’s new track “Urgent, Important, Please Read,” the latest single off his upcoming double album Our Pathetic Age.

On the track, St. Louis rappers Rockwell Knuckles and Tef Poe along with Daemon plead with the listener to combat against a world that is becoming more and more dictated by technology and algorithms.

“Everyone wants to feel in control. In the same breath, they want to be told what they...

DJ Shadow unveiled a dense and multi-faceted new song, “Rosie,” set to appear on his forthcoming album, Our Pathetic Age, out November 15th via Mass Appeal.

“Rosie” boasts two distinct parts, starting with a propulsive beat based around smashing drums, a chopped up vocal sample and the occasional flash of some strange synth. Halfway through, however, the song deftly slips into a hypnotic groove, where the drums still snap, but the synths swirl into a headier space.

“Rosie” will appear on the first half of Our Pathetic Age, which is...

DJ Shadow has tapped De La Soul for a boisterous new track, “Rocket Fuel,” which marks the DJ/producer’s first new music since 2017.

“Rocket Fuel” boasts a quintessential DJ Shadow beat, with a surge of hard-hitting drums anchoring layers of vocal loops, horn samples and Shadow’s dizzying scratching. De La Soul’s Posdnuos, Trugoy and Maseo flow easily over this groove, alley-ooping punchlines like, “When it’s time to get it lit, we got it hot like fever/Sick with the talk in the paths of your receiver...

American rapper Pitbull is thankful to popular singer Guru Randhawa and DJ Shadow for putting in their creative vision to create 'Slowly slowly'. 'Slowly slowly'?infuses elements from the homegrown and global industry. The upbeat peppy number was shot in Miami in just a day. They went with a multilingual approach and incorporated English, Hindi and Spanish in the song. "I've shot a worldwide music video with DJ Shadow and Guru. So we're taking it from India to Dubai to Miami and all around the world. 'Dhanyavad' (thank you) to DJ Shadow and Guru for making this happen," Pitbull said in a statement.

To this, Shadow added: "During my time in the Us, my exploration of the trends in the western world of music reinstated my vision of infusing musical styles from two different parts of the world. I was in touch with Pitbull's team for over six months before this project actually took shape.

Back around the ‘90s, “music inspired by the film” albums got a bad name, as buyers tired of collections full of random recordings that clearly were inspired by nothing but the desire to use movie branding to launch a hit song. But Alfonso Cuarón, the director of “Roma,” is determined to find some artistic validity in the idea of a companion album that was created independently from a film’s soundtrack… and to actually have there be some truth in advertising in that “inspired by” tag.

Not one of the 15 songs on the newly released album “Music Inspired by the Film ‘Roma’” appears in or was intended for the Oscar-nominated movie. The closest any of the choices come is a fresh recording by English singer Laura Marling of Mary Hopkins’ 1968 hit “Those Were the Days,” a version of which does pop up in “Roma” — albeit not Hopkins’ version, but an easy-listening cover by Ray Conniff.

Not to be outdone by Ariana Grande’s impending record news, filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón has announced the track list and release date for his new album, which, coincidentally, is also due Feb. 8. He’s the curator of “Music Inspired by the Film Roma,” which was already teased by a Billie Eilish track, and is now revealed to include songs from an eclectic lineup of rock, pop and Edm acts including Beck, Patti Smith, El-p, DJ Shadow, Laura Marling and T Bone Burnett.

This new album is not to be confused with “Roma (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack),” which came out in December and contains the songs — mostly but not entirely Spanish-language — heard in the movie. The “Inspired By” album consists of all new recordings, mostly but not entirely in English, and credits as co-producers Lynn Fainchtein, who served as music supervisor on the film, along with Randall Poster, another celebrated music supervisor.

Beck recorded an ornate cover of Colourbox’s “Tarantula,” a song later made famous by This Mortal Coil, for his contribution to a compilation of songs inspired by Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-nominated film Roma. The song is a slow build, as orchestral strings and piano provide a moody bed for Beck’s reverb-saturated vocals; eventually, percussion joins in for a big outro. Leslie Feist and Alex Lilly contributed backing vocals to the recording.

It’s starkly different from the synth-driven version Colourbox first released as the B side to their...

Pedro Winter managed Daft Punk as they became international dancefloor stars in the late Nineties and early 2000s. But when he started his own label, Ed Banger Records, in 2003, it was as if his resume had been erased. “If I called someone on behalf of Daft Punk, then people were opening doors right away,” he remembers. “But when I was calling for Ed Banger, no one would even return my call.”

In the years since, Ed Banger built a reputation of its own, often with brash hip-hop leaning hits — Uffie’s “Pop the Glock,...

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Now that the Heathers TV series is finally making its way to air, it's releasing not one but two soundtracks to celebrate.

It's been a long and winding road for the Heathers TV show to make it to air.

The dark high school series based on the 1988 film of the same name was initially set to premiere on TV Land in 2017. Then Heathers made its way over to the newly launched Paramount Network instead. Paramount decided to table Heathers for the foreseeable future following a rash of school shooting in the U.S. Finally, Paramount gave Heathers a trim from 10 episodes to 9 and is set to release the series on October 25.

To celebrate finally getting to see the light of day, Heathers is getting not one but two original soundtracks on Lakeshore Records.

The first soundtrack, Heathers-Original Television Series Soundtrack (Various Artists), is set to be released...

Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...

Los Angeles-based virtual reality startup Survious is getting ready to launch Electronauts, a new virtual reality (Vr) app that allows users to playfully mix and remix songs in real-time. Electronauts will launch on Htc Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation Vr headsets on August 7, and come with remixable tracks from musicians including The Chainsmokers, Odesza, Steve Aoki, Tiesto and DJ Shadow.

Survios first announced Electronauts late last year, and then demonstrated it at CES in Las Vegas this past January. The app sits somewhere between a game and a music production tool: It allows players jam with the individual elements of a track, and arrange them on the fly. Users can also team up with their online friends to jam together, and the music is accompanied by trippy 3D visuals.

Here’s the complete list of tracks available to remix with Electronauts at launch:

The Chainsmokers – Roses (ft. Rozes)

Odesza – Say My Name (ft.

Mass Appeal, the urban culture-focused media and entertainment company, and Universal Music Group today announced the companies have entered into a multi-year global agreement.

According to the announcement, the deal encompasses the exclusive distribution of physical and digital formats for recorded music and short-form video content — including Nas’ forthcoming Kanye West-produced album, which is out Friday — and provides Mass Appeal with the ability to strategically leverage Umg’s marketing and promotion teams across more than 60 territories for select artists and projects.

Umg will also distribute Mass Appeal’s extensive catalog of releases from artists who include DJ Shadow, J Dilla and Run the Jewels, as well as forthcoming projects including the 11th solo record from Nas (pictured above), which will be a collaboration between Mass Appeal and Nas’ longtime label, Umg’s Def Jam.

In announcing the partnership, Nas said, “I’ve been blessed to work with two of the best brands in music.

Seriously, who wouldn’t want to get their hands on a copy of this amazing and ridiculously awesome film soundtrack! It is truly one of the strangest mixes of artists from all genres, but would you expect anything less from Deadpool! We think not!

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Here’s the soundtracks’ track list:

1. Ashes – Celine Dion

2. Welcome To The Party – Diplo feat. French Montana, Lil Pump, and Zhavia Ward

3. You Can’t Stop This Motherfucker (Choir...

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20th Century Fox, IMAX and DeviantArt have teamed up in an exclusive partnership to find the perfect deviant artist for the Deadpool 2 Official IMAX Poster! Deviants were able to see five beloved ‘celebrity’ artists put their own spin on a fan-favorite superhero in DeviantArt’s first ever invite-only competition.

Fans are encouraged to take a selfie with the official IMAX poster when they spot it in select IMAX theaters (U.S. and Canada.)

Prepare for the second coming whe Deadpool 2 opens on May 18, 2018.

Meet the artists and check out the winning posters below.

1St Place Winner – Andy Fairhurst – Will be printed and displayed in select IMAX theatre lobby cases in the Us and Canada.

You can check out more of his work here: https://andyfairhurst.deviantart.com/

2Nd Place Winner – John Gallagher – On opening night (5/17), fans who experience Deadpool 2 in select...

Don't worry, Deadpool's taste in music has only gotten better. The supremely sarcastic superhero known for his maximum effort and love of Juice Newton and Salt-n-Pepa is back with another grab bag of classic hits and new bangers on Deadpool 2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. The 12-track album, due out on May 18, kicks off with the new superballad from Celine Dion, "Ashes," as well as "Welcome to the Party," a fresh track from French Montana, Diplo and Lil Pump featuring Zhavia Ward.

In addition it features previously released songs from DJ Shadow and Run the Jewels, Peter Gabriel, a-ha,...

Only a couple of weeks before the release of Deadpool 2, the movie's soundtrack has been announced alongside the release of a full music video featuring C&#233line Dion singing her original song "Ashes" written for the movie. Of course, the music video wouldn't be complete without the inclusion of the Merc with the Mouth himself.

Rather than the song being funny and humorous, Celine Dion's Deadpool 2 music video shows the more emotional and tragic side of the movie. The song speaks of loss and heartbreak, which may reveal some of the darker tones in Deadpool 2. Despite being one of Marvel's funniest characters, Deadpool actually has a tragic backstory. Ryan Reynolds even spoke this week about how for every Deadpool movie, in order for the story to work, you need to take something away from him. What exactly we will see Deadpool lose in this movie remains to be seen,...

Ellie Goulding has signed with Tap Management, a rep for the singer confirms to Variety, joining a roster that includes Lana Del Rey and Dua Lipa, along with DJ Shadow, Cassius and others. Goulding joins the firm after a decade with Sarah Stennett’s First Access (previously known as Turn First) earlier this year; the news was first reported in Hits.

The fast-growing U.K.-based Tap, helmed by Ed Millett and Ben Mawson, also manages songwriters and producers, including Smiths/ Blur/ Cranberries veteran Stephen Street, and includes a label and a publishing division. Hannah Neaves, who previously worked on Goulding’s releases at Polydor in the U.K., joined the company from Atlantic Records as director of marketing and artist development late last year, according to Music Week.

While Goulding has enjoyed chart-topping success in her native England and certain European countries, her progress in the U.S. has been a bit slower,...

Filmmaker Spike Jonze adapted his new theatrical dance piece, Changers: A Dance Story, into a short film live on The Tonight Show Wednesday. The piece stars Mia Wasikowska (Alice Through the Looking Glass) and Lakeith Stanfield (Atlanta) and features choreography from Ryan Heffington.

Changers explores the evolution of a relationship through dance, and Jonze's Tonight Show short offered a snippet that blends lovestruck energy and uncertainty. The performance begins with a clever visual gag as Wasikowska and Stanfield wake up in bed to a bright spotlight and twinkling piano, exchange...

Music’s biggest names have gathered at the Forum in Inglewood, California on Sunday for this year’s installment of MTV’s Video Music Awards. From the eight-times nominated Kendrick Lamar to Katy Perry’s turn as host to new categories including Artist of the Year and Best Fight Against the System, the 2017 edition of the event will likely be a memorable one. See the list of nominees below, which will be updated throughout the night.

Video Of The Year

Winner: Kendrick Lamar – “Humble.”

Bruno Mars — “24K Magic”

Alessia Cara – “Scars To Your Beautiful”

DJ Khaled ft. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller...

The 2017 MTV Video Music Awards took place on August 27, and a robust roster of A-list musicians and emerging talent battled for top honors. The ceremony, which took place at The Forum in Inglewood, California, faced an uphill battle getting eyeballs (it was on at the same time as the “Game of Thrones” finale, after all), but honored some of the best collaborations between musicians and visual artists. Kendrick Lamar had the most nominations of the evening, with eight nods, and took home the evening’s top honor, Best Video for “Humble.” The full list of winners is below.

Song of Summer

Lil Uzi Vert — “Xo Tour Llif3”

Ed Sheeran — “Shape of You”

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee (featuring Justin Bieber) — “Despacito (Remix)”

Shawn Mendes — “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back”

Fifth Harmony (featuring Gucci Mane) — “Down”

Camila Cabello (featuring Quavo) — “Omg”

DJ Khaled (featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller) — “Wild Thoughts...