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Spongebob Squarepants is many things to many people: a wildly popular cartoon character, an endlessly renewable source of memes, a sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea. To Ice Spice, he’s an icon of hard work and hustle. We’re sitting in a private room at a steakhouse in New York City’s Meatpacking District in mid-June, talking about the era that inspired her debut album, Y2K! (out tomorrow). “I think I learned a lot from that show,” Ice says. “He never wanted a day off,...

Cash Cobain and Bay Swag’s “Fisherrr” was already the hottest thing in the New York streets, and the guys getting an Ice Spice verse makes the remix an early song of the summer contender. The Bronx starlet got slizzy on the hypnotic track and filmed a Kza-directed video which was released today.

Ice follows the lead of the original song, answering Cash’s opening line by rhyming, “Got an attitude but I’m feeling lit, so I ain’t mad at you / And I’m tatted too and it’s fatter too,...

Ice Spice has finished recording her debut album Y2K, the rapper announced on social media Tuesday.

Ice Spice first confirmed the title of the upcoming project earlier this year, a week after dropping the single “Think U the Shit (Fart)” in January. Rolling Stone called the upcoming record one of the most-anticipated rap albums of 2024. It follows her debut EP Like..?, which featured several hits including “Deli,” and “Much.”

i finished recording y2k the album ^.^ pic.twitter.com/fm9imeHjUg

— ice spice ☆ (@icespicee_) March 5, 2024

“It’s almost finished. I’m really excited,...

This article contains spoilers for Fargo season 5 episode 3.

After a fourth season set in the 1950s, Fargo has returned to the present for season 5 … or at least as close to the present as Fargo can get.

Since every season of show is purported to be based on a true story (but not really), some narrative distance is necessary. Still, the 2019 of Fargo season 5 feels about as close to modern day as possible. How so? Well, everyone is angry, you see – even the normally calm and genteel Minnesotans and Montanans who give the franchise its Midwestern nice vibe. For one brief scene in episode 3, however, Fargo season 5 takes its plot a little further back in the past. Five hundred years back in the past to be precise.

Roughly 16 minutes in to “The Paradox of Intermediate Transactions,” Fargo catches up with injured assassin Ole Munch (Sam Spruell). After his close call with...

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On Nov. 2, a brand-new Beatles song called "Now and Then" hit streaming services. It features contributions from all four of the band's members, in spite of the fact that John Lennon and George Harrison died decades ago.

Almost as highly publicized as the song's existence itself is the fact that it was made possible thanks to AI, which was able to split John Lennon's original 1977 demo of the song into individual tracks that could then be mixed and mastered. That work, oddly enough, is one of the more straightforward contributions that AI has made to music so far.

Look around the internet for long enough, and you might stumble upon Lana Del Rey singing Phoebe Bridgers's "I Know the End," Kanye West covering Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me," or Drake rapping to Ice Spice's "Munch." You might also find a...

Ice Spice and Rema have released their first collaboration with “Pretty Girl” — a twinkling, poppy love song straddling the lanes of Ice’s “Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2” with PinkPantheress and Rema’s breakout single “Dumebi.”

It’s simple and full of delicate synths until breaking out into fluttering polyrhythmic percussion. “Haters super mad, we got them all livid/Thinking about my future, got you all in it/Shooting for the stars, the sky has no limit,” Ice Spice raps in one of her verses. Rema handles the hook: “Yeah,...

In the summer of 2021, as the vibes shifted around us, 20-year-old musician Wolfacejoeyy uploaded a 19-second clip from a song called “Miss Me” to his TikTok page. Joey, who started making beats at 14, says he was encouraged in an Instagram group chat with rappers Sofaygo and Dom Corleo to try his hand at vocals. “Miss Me” proves it was good advice. Joey raps with a breezy, melodic wit, and as a singer, he balances the tension and energy of New York drill with softly disarming charm. “Lemon pepper wings with...

It’s been a mere five months since Ice Spice went viral with “Munch (Feeling U),” a coldly efficient putdown of the opposite sex that earned her a million-dollar deal with the label 10K Projects. The Bronx rapper has generated headlines from gossip folks ever since. She was feted by Drake…or is that dissed by him on “BackOutsideBoyz”? She shook her goodies on TikTok in celebration of her 23rd birthday. She inspired a lame “Ice Spice” homage by Memphis rapper Nle Choppa, the cost of doing business in an...

The film is the directorial debut of Spanish filmaker Diego Llorente.

Germany-based Patra Spanou Film has acquired international rights to Notes On A Summer, the debut feature from Spanish director Diego Llorente that is screening in competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) later this month.

Presented as a work in progress at the Málaga Film Festival in 2022, Notes On A Summer (Notas Sobre Un Verano) follows young academic who leaves routines, obligations and her boyfriend back in Madrid for a carefree summer in her hometown on the Atlantic coast. She meets her first love and starts a passionate affair with him.

Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival announced Tuesday lineup for its 46th edition, with “Danish Girl” star Alicia Vikander and double Palme d’Or winning director Ruben Östlund among attendees.

The biggest festival in Scandinavia, Göteborg opens with the world premiere of Abbe Hassan’s “Exodus” on Jan. 27. Its closing film is “Camino” by Birgitte Stærmose.

The festival will screen 250 films during 10 days. “Exodus” will compete for the title of Best Nordic Film – and a prize sum of Sek 400 000 – alongside “Godland,” IFFR opener “Munch,” “Ellos eatnu – Let the River Flow,” “Unruly,” “Four Little Adults,” “Copenhagen Does Not Exist” and “Dogborn,” already shown in Venice.

In the Nordic Documentary Competition, the audience will get to see “Hypernoon,” “The King,” IDFA winner “Apolonia, Apolonia,” “Bong Thom” (“The Brother”), “Labor” and “Monica in the South Seas.”

“Nordic countries are opening up for discussion about their role in colonial history. It’s something that’s...

The Göteborg Film Festival has unveiled the competition titles selected for its 46th edition, which runs from January 27 – February 5. (Scroll down for the full list).

Göteborg is split into four competition strands. The main strand is the Nordic Competition, which features nine films from the Nordic region. The competition’s winner takes home the Dragon Award and a Sek 400 000 cash prize. The rest of the festival comprises the Nordic Documentary Competition, the Ingmar Bergman Competition for first-time filmmakers, and the International Competition.

Among the Nordic highlights is Swedish filmmaker Isabella Carbonell’s thriller Dogborn, starring Swedish rap star Silvana Imam. The pic debuted at Venice last year and follows two homeless twins and their struggle to survive. Hlynur Pálmason’s well-received period piece Godland also screens in competition. Set in the late 19th Century, the drama revolves around a young Danish priest who travels to a remote part of...