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In an interview with Consequence leading up to her second turn serving as both host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live, Lady Gaga told us what makes the late-night sketch show so unique. “I’ve always loved lots of different kinds of art. So being able to be a host, but also be the actor in the skits, and then be the musical guest and bring my artistry as Gaga — it’s really cool to be able to do it all in one place. SNL is such a rare show where they really do celebrate that.”

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Gaga’s wide-array of talents were indeed on display during last night’s episodes of SNL, as she delivered two knockout performances in support of her new album, Mayhem, with “Abracadabra” and “Killah.” She also took the lead in sketches that included an a woman who lied about...

Lady Gaga returned as Saturday Night Live musical guest with lively performances of two tracks from her brand new album.

Gaga, who also hosted the show, opened with the dance-pop “Abracadabra,” the second song off of Mayhem, which Rolling Stone‘s Brittany Spanos reviewed as “the year’s strongest pop release yet.” She followed that up with the funk-inspired “Killah,” which she sang partly backstage at Studio 8H.

Gaga recently told Rolling Stone that her latest work–her first solo studio album in five years–amounts to a return to...

Speaking of “Abracadabra,” Lady Gaga may have pulled off the ultimate “Saturday Night Live” magic trick during her two musical numbers in this week’s episode: dancing furiously and singing live.

That combination is not for every “SNL” musical guest, let alone one who is also expending energy as a host who’s appearing in nearly every sketch in the show. But Gaga pulled it off with “Killah” aplomb … if that’s not a phrase that would offend the catchy-superlative-averse characters in the closing “No More Slay” skit.

Gaga appeared in every segment of the 90-minute show but two, the only exceptions being the Trump-themed cold open and Weekend Update. But whatever effort she’d put into practicing lines for the sketches clearly hadn’t taken any time away from whatever hours were spent rehearsing the choreography for two musical numbers that made “hyperkinetic” feel like a woeful understatement.

Her first number,...

A day after her latest album, Mayhem, was released, Lady Gaga reminded Saturday Night Live that she can sing.

“I know you might be thinking I’m here to promote my album, Mayhem, but I’m actually here to remind you I’m an amazing actor,” she said during her monologue.

But, it turned out, Gaga was in full voice during the sketches.

After riding across New York on an electric suitcase in the opening sketch alongside Marcello Hernandez, Gaga teamed with Bowen Yang for a parody duet. Dressed in a red dress, the pair mocked up their own version of Eric Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight.”

“It’s later that evening and we’re wasted in Times Square,” sings Yang. “So, I eat a full Big Mac and I shave off my body hair,” sings Gaga. “And then she bites me on both my nipples left and right, and I...

Little Monsters, rejoice: Lady Gaga made her triumphant return to Studio 8H to serve as both host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live for the first time since 2013. The Oscar and Grammy winner previously pulled double-duty on the show's 39th season, and has appeared as musical guest for hosts Ryan Reynolds (2009), Justin Timberlake (2011), and Tom Hanks (2016). The multihyphenate Gaga, who won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for A Star Is Born, has been promoting her latest album, Mayhem, which just dropped on March 7. Here are the best moments from Gaga's second hosting gig, from the opening monologue to the best sketches.

Cold Open

There's been no shortage of politics to satirize with Donald Trump's second term, and Saturday Night Live once again opened by lampooning the news of the week. This time, President Trump (James Austin Johnson) tried to broker a truce between Secretary of State...

Lady Gaga kicked off her Saturday Night Live episode with some jokes about her movie Joker: Folie à Deux.

“Anyway, I’m an actor now,” the Oscar and Grammy winner says during her opening monologue before quipping, “I select films that would showcase my craft as a serious actor, films such as Joker 2. Apparently, people thought it was awesome. Joaquin [Phoenix] and I even got nominated for a Razzie, which is an award for the worst films of the year. So we won worst onscreen duo.”

She continues, “But jokes on them. I love winning things. My Razzie brings me one step closer to an Egort. It’s like an Egot, but it’s hurtful.”

Joker: Folie à Deux, the sequel to 2019’s Oscar-winning Joker, was nominated for seven Razzies after bombing at the box office last year. The movie ultimately won the Razzies for worst screen combo of Phoenix and Gaga and worst sequel.

Lady Gaga's new album, Mayhem, just dropped on Friday, but a number of critics are already singing its praises. The album scored 85 on Metacritic based on the first 11 reviews counted. By the time you read this that number will likely have changed. But if it holds steady, Mayhem will be the highest-scoring record of her career.

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"Bow down, little monsters!" says Helen Brown (The Independent UK). "For her sixth studio album, Mayhem hails the return of your Mama Monster to all her shock-horror-bop glory." She adds, "At a moment when America’s leaders seek to shove its marginalized citizens back into the shadows, she invites them back into the centre of the floor, celebrating their defiant differences in the bright strobe lighting."

Alexis Petridis (The Guardian) writes, "It’s consistently well-written, teeming with hooks and liberally sprinkled with intriguing musical left-turns.

In the lead-up to Lady Gaga’s latest album, Mayhem, there’s been a lot of talk about Gaga returning to her roots. It’s been five years since her last pop release, the Nineties-house-inspired, cyberpunk concept album Chromatica. Chalk it up to timing (it was released at the dawn of the pandemic), but the album didn’t inspire the type of fervor it deserved upon its release. Since then, she’s been back to focusing on movies and jazz, even combining those other two modes for Harlequin, a companion...

Lady Gaga has finally dropped her new album.

Mayhem is her long-awaited solo follow-up to 2020's Chromatica — not counting 2024's Harlequin, a Joker: Folie à Deux companion album. She has been busy since the start of the decade, recording her second collaborative album with Tony Bennett (Love for Sale) in 2021 and contributing music to 2022's Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack. "The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved," she told Pitchfork in January. Will her return to her roots bring her back to the Grammys?

Gaga has been a Recording Academy favorite from the very beginning, so much that it actually cost her a Best New Artist nomination. She had already contended for Best Dance Recording for her debut single "Just Dance" in 2009, so she was ineligible for the breakthrough award the following year when her debut album, The Fame, was eligible for consideration.

An array of new albums hit the shelves and streaming services this New Music Friday.

It’s an especially great week for pop music, as both Lady Gaga (Mayhem) and Blackpink’s Jennie (Rubie) unveil highly-anticipated albums. Industry veterans Benmont Tench, Bob Mould, and Neil Young have all dropped new LPs as well.

Scroll on to check out our picks for the most exciting new albums to stream today.

Editor’s Note: Enjoy these albums and more on Amazon Music Unlimited, which is currently offering a free 30 day trial. Learn more here.

Benmont Tench — The Melancholy Season

The last time Benmont Tench released a solo album, he was still recording and performing live with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Since the group disbanded in 2017 due to the frontman’s passing, he is now settling into his role as the face of the operation as he returns to publishing music under his own name.

Lady Gaga has released her new album, Mayhem.

First announced this past January, Mayhem arrives as Gaga’s sixth solo studio album — and one of the most anticipated albums of the year. In the months leading up to its release, it was preceded by the hit singles “Abracadabra,” “Disease,” and the Bruno Mars duet “Die with a Smile,” the latter of which has already racked up over 2 billion streams on Spotify alone.

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Now, the full 14-track album — co-executive produced by Gaga, along with Andrew Watt and her fiancé, Michael Polansky — is available in its entirety. Stream it below.

Speaking about the album in Gaga’s recent interview with Consequence, the pop icon cited everything from ‘90s grunge to 2000s pop to funk as influences. “I’m embracing all of these things about myself, all of these contradictions, all of these genres that may not seemingly make any sense together,...

Lady Gaga has returned to pop/dance music with her latest album Mayhem!

The 38-year-old entertainer debuted her seventh album at midnight on Friday (March 7) after much anticipation.

This new body of work marks a return to the Gaga aesthetic that fans have come to know and love from the star, and features previously released singles “Disease,” “Abracadabra” and the duet “Die With a Smile” with Bruno Mars.

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“Artpop was a vibe. Joanne was a sound. Chromatica had a sound. All different. The Fame Monster was more chaotic. The Fame was theatrical pop. Born This Way, to me, had more of a metal electro New York vibe to it,” she told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe of the sound of her past albums.

“I actually made the effort making Mayhem to not do that and not try to give my music an outfit. You know what I mean,...

Lady Gaga’s seventh album, Mayhem, is out now. The LP follows 2020’s Chromatica and her Joker 2 companion, Harlequin, from 2023.

Executive produced by Gaga, her fiancé, Michael Polansky, and Andrew Watt, Gaga began rolling out new music last fall. Her Bruno Mars duet, “Die With a Smile,” preceded the album’s other lead singles “Disease” and “Abracadabra,” a pair of heavy, electro-pop tracks. Alongside Mars, the album’s other main feature is Gesaffelstein, a French DJ and producer who has worked extensively with the Weeknd. Cirkut also produced much...

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The wait is over: Lady Gaga has finally dropped her seventh studio album, Mayhem, this week, five years after releasing her last LP, Chromatica. Out now, Mayhem features 14 different tracks, which includes the hit singles “Abracadabra,” “Disease,” as well as “Garden of Eden,” which serves as the new F1 anthem for the 2025 season.

“I wanted to traverse old ground while breaking new ground, which I think is hard to do,...

When Lady Gaga started making her new album, Mayhem, she felt the dark, ominous energy of her first two albums — The Fame Monster and Born This Way — luring her back in.

“It was really powerful,” she says on a recent call with Rolling Stone. “Maybe the last four or so albums I’ve made, I moved away from that and tried some different things, but this was a return to those Gothic dreams.”

Across Mayhem, Gaga taps into the haunting aesthetic and sounds that fans fell in love with when...

Lady Gaga is about to make her fifth appearance as “Saturday Night Live” musical guest — and second as host — this weekend. So to prepare, she stopped by the 30 Rock offices to share her creative process with the cast.

In a new promo out Wednesday, the “Abracadabra” singer sings what she sees (à la Randy Newman in “Family Guy”) as comedians Andrew Dismukes, Devon Walker, Ashley Padilla and Heidi Gardner attempt to get some work done.

Naturally, no one is safe from Gaga’s impromptu piano ballads, including Dismukes’ 2 p.m. breakfast sandwich, Walker’s big swing of a hat and Gardner’s obvious signs that she sleeps at the office. Check out the NBC teaser, below:

it's @ladygaga week! pic.twitter.com/FBHIl8enZz

— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) March 5, 2025

“It’s Lady Gaga week!” the late night sketch show simply captioned the video on X.

This Saturday will indeed...

With new rule changes on the track, six drivers making their full season debuts, and seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton making his Ferrari debut, the Formula 1 season is coming in hot. In honor of the high-speed frenzy scheduled to kick off with the Australian Grand Prix on March 14, Epsn has named Lady Gaga’s “Garden of Eden” the official anthem for the 2025 F1 season.

“Go get your friends and meet me on the floor/You’re out of candy? I can get you more/DJ, hit the lights,” Gaga sings in the ESPN promotional teaser.

Andrew Watt is opening up about working with Lady Gaga!

The 34-year-old Grammy award-winning producer and songwriter has recently worked with Gaga on “Die With a Smile,” “Disease” and her most recent “Abracadabra,” among many others.

During a two-hour conversation on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, Andrew dished on what it was like in the studio with her for “Abcradabra.”

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“She just has a vision in her head the whole time. As she’s making the song, sometimes you’re speaking to her and she’s not there because she sees like the whole picture, she sees everything,” he shared. “This song kind of ended up becoming about like a night out and someone casting a spell on you, and she decided that she wanted that part of the song to be the spell that was being cast.”

“It shows you a great,...

Producer/songwriter Andrew Watt went from the pop world to finding himself in the studio with his rock heroes, from the Rolling Stones to Pearl Jam — and now he’s back at the center of pop as executive producer of Lady Gaga’s upcoming album Mayhem. His career is reaching new heights at the moment, with a Grammy win for the Stones’ Hackney Diamonds, an Oscar nomination for a track with Elton John and Brandi Carlile (who have a Watt-produced dual album on the way), and a long run...

Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra” saw the singer return to the dark themes and pristine choreography of her early eras — and she’s show fans how she made it come to life. On Thursday, the pop star released a full video of herself and her over 40 dancers rehearsing the “Abracadabra” choreography.

Backed by the studio track, Gaga tackles the dance moves by Parris Goebel with ease, opening the performance dressed in a black latex bodysuit and wearing a white cape as she dances through her crew of dancers, before being joined...

Fifteen years ago, Lady Gaga released EP The Fame Monster, a reissue of her 2008 debut album The Fame. In a stark contrast to its predecessor, the pop star’s EP tracks chronicled the sordid and grotty bits of celebrity. Among the four new songs on the reissue was “Telephone,” a single Gaga had reportedly intended for Britney Spears, but eventually found its way back to her and was recorded as a duet with Beyoncé.

The track and its cinematic, nine-and-a-half minute music video have become the stuff of art house/music lore,...

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The second full week of February is in the books, and music is still a driving force in the U.S. Top 50. There’s room for a lot of different artists in the ranking, no matter if they perform nursery rhymes in a studio or play live in front of millions of TV viewers at the Super Bowl.

The #1 channel in the U.S. Top 50, however, is less musically inclined. MrBeast earned 521.3 million weekly views on his primary YouTube hub to keep his string of chart-topping finishes alive. But can he sing, though?

Musicians in the U.S. Top...

Saturday Night Live's50th Anniversary celebration recently culminated in a special event, bringing back hosts and stars from the show's past. It was a significant ratings success for the network, bringing in close to 15 million viewers for the spectacle. However, as the adage says, the show must go on, and a new batch of hosts has been announced for the next two episodes of the series. Not only does the newly announced lineup include a pop music superstar, but it also features a former host who was fired a few years ago.

According to Variety, the recently announced lineup includes formerly fired cast member Shane Gillis and singer/actress Lady Gaga. The decision to include Gillis comes less than a year after he made his return to the sketch comedy series as a host. He was previously fired prior to his 2019 debut after a slew of controversial comments and past jokes resurfaced.

Lady Gaga revealed the complete tracklist for her new album Mayhem!

The 38-year-old “Abracadabra” pop star will unleash her long-awaited new album – her first complete solo project since 2020′s Chromatica - on March 7.

On Tuesday (February 18), she took to social media to reveal the names of all of the songs that made the final tracklist. The list includes two collaborations.

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The standard edition of Mayhem contains 14 tracks, including the album’s singles “Disease,” “Abracadabra” and “Die With a Smile,” a duet with Bruno Mars that earned her a sixth chart-topper on the Billboard Hot 100!

Gaga will also collaborate with Gesaffelstein on the song “Killah.” Other titles include “Garden of Eden,” “Perfect Celebrity” and “The Beast.”

There is one bonus track that will appear on a signed version of the album. It’s title has not yet been revealed.

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“SNL” has tapped Lady Gaga and Shane Gillis to host the NBC sketch show in March.

The “Abracadabra” singer will pull double duty as both host and musical guest on March 8, marking the second time she has served as both host and musical guest on the same night.

The week prior, Gillis will host “SNL” for the second time on March 1. The “Tires” star and co-creator will host alongside musical guest Tate McRae, who takes the “SNL” stage for the second time.

Lady Gaga’s “SNL” episode will come just one day after she releases her upcoming album, “Mayhem,” on Friday, March 7. On Tuesday, Gaga released the track list for “Mayhem,” which includes already-released songs, “Disease,” “Abracadabra” and “Die With a Smile” featuring Bruno Mars, as well as new songs, “Garden of Eden,” “Perfect Celebrity,” “Vanish Into You,” “Killah ft. Gesaffelstein,” “Zombieboy,” “LoveDrug,” “How Bad Do U Want Me,” “Don’t Call Tonight,...

Following a slew of teasers, including a website countdown and cross country billboards, Lady Gaga has announced her highly anticipated seventh studio album.

The new album, Mayhem, will mark Gaga’s “return” to her “pop roots,” according to a release. The 14-track album, which will feature the previously release singles “Disease” and “Die with a Smile,” comes on the heels of the 38-year-old singer’s 2024 album, Harlequin, based on her Joker: Folie à Deux character, Harley Quinn.

Gaga revealed the full track list for the LP on Tuesday.

Get ready for Mayhem

1. Disease

2. Abracadabra

3. Garden of Eden

4. Perfect Celebrity

5. Vanish Into You

6. Killah ft. Gesaffelstein

7. Zombieboy

8. LoveDrug

9. How Bad Do U Want Me

10. Don’t Call Tonight

11. Shadow Of A Man

12. The Beast

13. Blade of Grass

14. Die With A Smile… pic.twitter.com/jQi5FaOoDw

— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) February 18, 2025

In addition to “Disease” and “Die With a Smile,” Gaga has released “Abracadabra” as a single,...

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Saturday Night Live‘s 50th anniversary special SNL50: The Anniversary Special drew 14.8 million viewers across NBC and Peacock on Sunday, making it the network’s most-watched entertainment telecast since 18.33 million people tuned into the 2020 Golden Globes. The three-and-a-half-hour extravaganza now ranks second for the second-biggest audience for a non-sports primetime broadcast in the 2024-25 season behind the Grammys, which earned 15.4 million viewers. A regular SNL episode pulls about 4.9 million viewers on a same-day season average. SNL50‘s preceding red carpet special drew 6.5 million viewers on NBC, Peacock, and E!

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Apple TV+ dropped the trailer for Dope Thief, its new eight-episode drama starring Brian Tyree Henry and executive-produced by Ridley Scott. Based on Dennis Tafoya’s book of the same name and created by Peter Craig, Dope Thief follows longtime Philly friends and...

Lady Gaga has appeared to give fans an inside glimpse of of her upcoming album, Mayhem.

On the 38-year-old singer’s official website, black letters float around a screen, and present what seem to be song lyrics once clicked.

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“Choke on the fame and hope it gets your high,” one sentence reads. “I’ll burn a hole right through your eyes,” another says. “Tap on my vein suck on my blood diamond,” reads a third.

Lady Gaga released the single “Disease” in October 2024, and “Abracadabra” earlier this month, which will both appear on Mayhem.

The Grammy-winner also opened up about her creative thought process behind the new album.

“The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved. [The project is] reassembling a shattered mirror: even if you can’t put the pieces back together perfectly, you can create...

There are tiny black letters floating against an intense orange backdrop on Lady Gaga’s official website — and fans think they’re a hidden strings of lyric for them to find ahead of Mayhem, her forthcoming studio album scheduled for release on March 7.

The lyrics show up if you hold down a cursor on the screen and move it through the cluster of randomized letters. They appear one at a time, but quickly disappear back into the website. “Choke on the fame and hope it gets your high,” one reads,...

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October 28’s puzzle can be difficult, but with our New York Times Connections hints today, you’ll be able to solve it in no time at all. In this guide, we’ll give you some hints, some even more hints, and the straight up answers to the daily puzzle.

The New York Times has previously made puzzle games such as Wordle and, although it looks simpler in comparison, Connections can get quite confusing, especially with its peculiar use of unconventional word meanings.

Understanding Connections is simple: you are given 16 words and 4 chances to mess up. Your objective is to ‘connect‘ these 16 words by grouping them into groups of 4 based on similar word meanings and/or themes. What...

Emanating from their studio in Cincinnati, Ohio, The History of Bad Ideas sees hosts Jason, Jeff and Blake talk about all things geeky on their podcast. Whether it’s rumours of the latest comic book movies, debating who really is the worst villain of all time, discussing the latest comic issues or just wondering about life in general, you are sure to have a fun time with them! In theory.

If you haven’t listened to the show before – why not? – you can check out previous episodes of The History of Bad Ideas podcast on iTunes and look out for new episodes here on Nerdly each and every week…

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The Hobi gang is back in the studio this week and it must be a miracle as Jason is actually finished two television series in a week! The guys debate which Deadpool and Wolverine secondary character deserves a spin-off,...

Practical Magic is a film revolving around the magically gifted sisters, Sally and Gillian Owens, played by Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. The fantasy romance drama was based on the namesake book by Alice Hoffman and saw the sisters use magic to destroy the evil spirit of Gillain’s abusive boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, played by Goran Visnjic.

A still from Practical Magic (1998) | Warner Bros.

Just before filming Practical Magic, Nicole Kidman spent over a year working on Stanely Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut opposite her ex-husband, Tom Cruise. Since the erotic-psychological drama was quite an intense film, the actors required dozens of takes to finalize a single scene, a trait she carried over to Practical Magic.

Nicole Kidman’s Numerous Takes on Practical Magic

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Even though Eyes Wide Shut (1999) was released one year after Practical Magic (1998), principal photography for the former...

Filmmaker Pablo Berger had never made an animated film before. He’d never even considered it until he read Sara Varon’s graphic novel “Robot Dreams.” Having recently lost his best friend and mother, the story of friendship and loss spoke to him on such an emotional level that he decided to adapt it — and learn how to make an animated film.

He spent two-and-years on animation education, but wanted to bring something from his previous directing experience: working with some of the best Spanish actors. Said Berger while on the Toolkit podcast, “In most animated film, [the characters] tend to overact.”

Berger began by working with a small animation team led by art director José Luis Ágreda and character supervisor Daniel Fernández Casas before “an army” of animators brought his vision to life.

“I started saying [to the animators], ‘I’m going to treat you as actors, you are my actors,’” said Berger. “They...

Steve Miller praised Eminem in a statement Friday after his band’s “Abracadabra” was interpolated in the rapper’s latest single “Houdini.”

Taking to social media after The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace) single was released, the Rock Hall-inducted artist said he was “honored” that Eminem chose his 1982 hit for the similarly magic-themed single.

“There is a long chain of stories, poetry, lyrics, and musical roots that have crossed cultures and generations inspiring the whole world for hundreds of years and in all those lines of thought, music,...

American rapper Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) is once again scoring headlines with his latest track that is, apparently, aimed at making his “career disappear.” This comes after he announced earlier this year that he would soon be jumping back onstage after over four years, with his new album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace). And so he has, with his glorious swag.

Marshall Mathers. | Credit: @eminem/Ig.

This exclusive single of his has been titled Houdini, and the Goat has really brought about something much different than before as he aims to kill off his alter ego who earned tremendous popularity with his album from 1999, The Slim Shady LP. But what’s really iconic is how the rapper is dressed as he takes down his alter ego, ironically, as Batman’s sidekick, Robin.

Eminem is Back as Robin in His Exclusive Single Houdini

Four years after the...

During a recent episode of Password, Jimmy Fallon stops the show to remind Keke Palmer she is getting out of control. While she is surprised by a tricky category and password, things heat up on the stage causing Jimmy to shut it down.

Jimmy Fallon And Joe Manganiello Face Off

Returning for Password Season 2, the stakes get higher for the competition. Emmy-winning host Keke Palmer tells The Tonight Show host, Jimmy Fallon, and Deal or No Deal Island host, Joe Manganiello about a new challenge. She explains that as part of Season 2, the passwords are going to be tougher but they will give a clue for the overall category theme to help them out. Both Jimmy and Joe take deep breaths to prepare for “Round Two” where they are attempting to get their partners to guess the password. For instance, the two received the category clue, “Witch, please. Passwords that are magic,...

Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams,” which gets a theatrical release from Neon at an as-yet-unannounced time this year, was one of the animated delights of 2023. The Spanish/French hand-drawn dramedy (adapted from Sarah Varon’s wordless graphic novel) concerns the bittersweet friendship between lonely Dog and Robot, which he buys for company, in a version of ’80s Manhattan populated with animals. It’s garnered awards buzz in a longshot quest for an Oscar nomination this season.

After premiering at Cannes, “Robot Dreams” earned the Annecy Contrecham Award along with The Animation Is Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize. It was also selected as the runner-up for Best Animated Film by both the Los Angeles and Boston Film Critics groups.

Although the Spanish director was enamored with the graphic novel when he read it in 2010, he didn’t consider turning it into an animated feature until after making two live-action films,...

Journey and Def Leppard are teaming up for a massive U.S. summer stadium tour, and they’re bringing Cheap Trick, Steve Miller Band, and Heart with them at various spots along the way. Expect a night of mega Eighties hits like “Don’t Stop Believin,” “Pour Some Sugar on Me,” “Faithfully,” “Photograph” and (depending on where you live) “The Flame,” “Abracadabra,” and “These Dreams.”

“Having just completed a sensational 18 month run promoting our Diamond Star Halos album,” Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott said in a statement, “we shall hit...

Call it blood on the Deep Tracks.

This week, SiriusXM announced a series of changes to its lineup of music channels. The additions include channels devoted exclusively to the oeuvres of Kelly Clarkson and John Mayer, one made up of old-school Latin music, and one each focusing on R&b and hip-hop hits from the 2000s and 2010s. To make room, some pre-existing channels were moved to new slots up and down the dial.

Although these types of tweaks happen every so often at SiriusXM, tell that to the devoted followers of Deep Tracks,...

Max users now have a new way to find their favorite Halloween-themed titles, from hardcore horror to holiday-themed baking shows.

Halloween is officially more than a month away, but to its most devoted followers the holiday doesn’t have a season. For these people, Halloween is not just a holiday, it’s a state of mind. Max has a brand new content hub for Halloween lovers to devour, and more casual observers of the holiday will love it every bit as much.

Max is calling its new hub the “House of Halloween.” It’s one of the featured, rotating content tiles in the carousel at the top of the Max homepage, and it offers specially curated collections of shows and movies from the Warner Bros. Discovery vault that subscribers can start streaming immediately.

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Barcelona-born director Carla Simón, whose sophomore film “Alcarràs” clinched the 72nd Berlinale Golden Bear last year, received the 2023 National Cinematography Award, one of the highest honors bestowed by Spain’s Ministry of Culture.

On hand to present the award in a ceremony held at the San Sebastian Film Festival was Miguel Iceta, Spain’s Minister of Culture and Sports, who first addressed Simón in Catalan before switching to Spanish: “With only two feature films, you have left your mark on the recent history of cinema in our country: a short but undisputed trajectory in terms of its strength and personality, recognized both nationally and internationally. A career that is nothing but the promise of a much longer and fruitful one.”

“This award, if you’ll allow me the audacity, is also for all the women who accompany you, for all your professional colleagues and peers, for all those women who,...

Nas has unveiled his new album Magic 2. Stream it here.

Magic 2 serves as the sequel to 2021’s Magic. It also marks the Queensbridge rapper’s fifth album in the last four years. Along with Magic 1 and 2, he put out the King’s Disease trilogy between 2020 and 2022.

As was the case with Nas’ other recent albums, Magic 2 was produced by Hit-Boy. Guest contributors include 50 Cent and 21 Savage.

Beginning in September, Nas will join forces with Wu-Tang Clan and De La Soul for the “NY State of Mind Tour.” Tickets are available here.

Editor’s Note: See our list of Nas’ 10 defining songs.

Magic 2 Tracklist:

01. Intro

02. Abracadabra

03. Office Hours (feat. 50 Cent)

04. Black Magic

05. Motion

06. Bokeem Woodbine

07. Earvin Magic Johnson

08. What This All Really Means

09. Slow It Down

10. Pistols on Your Album Cover

11. One Mic, One Gun (feat. 21 Savage) [Bonus Track]

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From Slick Rick and 2Pac to Shyne and Bobby Shmurda, prison time impacts musical careers, mostly for the worst. Young Stoner Life (Ysl) top dog Young Thug has been incarcerated for more than a year on charges of conspiracy to violate the Rico Act. Yet, in spite of that tragedy and turmoil, he’s here to set the record straight with his first album since 2021’s Punk, assisted by executive producer Metro Boomin and a supporting cast of his A-list rap peers.

Business Is Business kicks off with the melodramatic mafioso opener “Parade on Cleveland,...

“Business is business,” Young Thug says at the tail end of “Parade on Cleveland,” the opening track to his third studio album. Over a particularly hard-hitting 808, the Atlanta rapper proceeds to parrot the phrase 19 more times in under 20 seconds, turning a potentially prosaic statement into a thrilling declaration of intent.

Despite Young Thug’s continuing legal issues, when it comes to spitting wackadoodle lyrics set to quirky trap beats, it’s still business as usual for the Mc. While Business Is Business’s foreboding black-and-white cover art acknowledges Young Thug’s current incarceration upfront, and “Parade on Cleveland” features a voice message from the rapper calling in from a Cobb County detention facility, nearly all of the material on the album was recorded before his 2022 imprisonment. This is made exceedingly clear on the jangly “Cars Bring Me Out,” which includes a dated reference to pandemic side hustles.

So perhaps it...

Even though he’s been in jail for over a year, nothing is going to stop Young Thug from doing his business — on Friday (June 23rd), the 31-year-old rapper released Business is Business, his third full-length album. Stream it below.

News of the album first arrived via a mysterious Qr code posted to Young Thug’s Instagram last week, which brought fans to a website featuring the artwork for the album (a photo of him in a courtroom alongside several other defendants). After a countdown completed, details of the 15-track album were revealed. On Thursday evening, the record’s executive producer, Metro Boomin, tweeted a version of the artwork along with the caption “I got you for life and after that brodie,” presumably sending a message of hope to Young Thug.

Business is Business builds upon the musical canon Young Thug began with his 2019 full-length debut, So Much Fun. Like that album,...

Pablo Berger’s buzzy animation is a selling machine following its Cannes premiere in Special Screenings.

Spanish filmmaker Pablo Berger’s Robot Dreams is a selling machine following its Cannes premiere in the Special Screenings section with Elle Driver inking deals worldwide for the buzzy animated feature.

Robot Dreams sold to Neon for North America at the start of the market, the first major deal for the territory of Cannes 2023.

Elle Driver has since inked deals for the film in the UK and Ireland (Curzon), Australia (Madman), Benelux (Cineart), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Switzerland (Praesens), Germany (Plaion), Scandinavia (Selmer Media...

One of the surprise animated films premiering at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival this year is called Robot Dreams, a Spanish production made by Catalan filmmaker named Pablo Berger. The delightful animated movie is an entirely dialogue-free story set in the 1980s in New York City, following a dog character known simply as "Dog" as he builds a relationship with his new robot friend. This is Pablo Berger's first animated film, after making the features Blancanieves and Abracadabra previously. It's a super sweet, uplifting story about friendship and even though there's not a single spoken word in the entire 90 minute film, it's still captivating throughout anyway. It's one of these off-beat discoveries from a film festival that I'm glad I took the time to watch. And more good news - Neon has already acquired the film for a US release later in 2023. // Continue Reading ›...

Neon announced today that they have taken the North American rights to Spanish filmmaker Pablo Berger’s first animated feature film “Robot Dreams,” based on the award-winning graphic novel of the same name by Sara Varon. The movie will be screened for the first time in Cannes this coming Saturday, May 20 in the Special Screenings section of the festival. The acquisition marks the first sale made at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

According to the official synopsis, “Robot Dreams” “follows Dog, who lives in Manhattan and one day, tired of being alone, decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, Dog, with great sadness, is forced to abandon Robot at the beach. Will they ever meet again?” Well that certainly sounds traumatic (but potentially heartwarming).

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Jaff 14 ‘Revival’ is officially started on November 19th, 2019 at Empire Xxi Yogyakarta. “Abracadabra” (2019), a feature film directed by Faozan Rizal, became the official opening film. The event started at 6 Pm, accompanied by 18 groups of Bergada (The Yogyakarta Palace’s army) who lead the guests from Horison Hotel to Empire Xxi Yogyakarta.

Around 1.454 audience came to the opening festival ceremony. The opening began with a speech from Yogyakarta’s Department of Culture (Disbud) delegation, Aris Eko Nugroho, S.P., M.Si. He presented that Yogyakarta’s Disbud has been collaborating with Jaff since 2014. “Through the development of film and the birth of film schools in Yogyakarta, we hope that there will be more collaborations in developing art, especially films,” he said.

Having the same vision with Yogyakarta’s Disbud, the Directorate General of Information and Public Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DJ Idp Ministry of Foreign Affairs) also presented its support...

Steve Miller will place his biggest hits alongside a slew of previously unreleased tracks on a new box set, Welcome to the Vault, out October 11th via Sailor/Capitol/UMe.

The three-disc, one DVD collection will span Miller’s six-decade career and boast 38 previously unreleased recordings including demos, rehearsals, outtakes and live performances. The set will also feature five recently rediscovered Steve Miller Band tracks recorded in the Sixties and Seventies. To accompany the box set announcement, Miller shared an alternate version of his 1976 Number One single “Rock ‘N Me.