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Paramore has been one of my favorite bands for the past 15+ years, and yet 2024 still managed to surprise me when it comes to one of their songs. I first saw the Tennessee outfit way back in 2006, before their big breakout a year later with Riot!, as part of the Give It A Name Introduces tour in the UK.

They weren’t even the most prominent names on the lineup, and I’d be lying if I said I knew they’d reach the level of stardom they have, but they were certainly enjoyable.

I’ve seen Paramore a bunch of times since then, both at their own headlining shows and festivals, but not since Reading Festival in 2014 - not a deliberate choice, but a case of tours and timings not lining up. That streak finally ended in 2024 when I got to see them supporting Taylor Swift on The Eras Tour at Wembley Stadium.

Thom Yorke began his solo tour of New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, and Japan on Wednesday night in Christchurch, New Zealand, and played a handful of rarities, Radiohead and The Smile cuts, and even a brand new song called “Back in the Game.”

As Yorke alluded to in his recent interview with Double J — where he claimed he didn’t “give a flying fuck” about fans clamoring for Radiohead’s return — he took the stage with a minimalist set-up featuring several large synth machines and a microphone (and no drummer).

He opened the show with an acoustic rendition of the In Rainbows favorite “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi,” and continued with Radiohead’s “I Might Be Wrong.” Yorke went on to play several more Radiohead tracks, including “Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box” (which he debuted solo for the first time ever live), “Bloom,” “How to Disappear Completely,” “Daydreaming,” “Everything in its Right Place,...

NxWorries, the duo of Anderson .Paak and producer Knxwledge, have announced their long-awaited sophomore album, Why Lawd?, out June 7th via Stones Throw Records. As a preview, they’ve shared the new single, “86Sentra.” Stream it below.

.Paak and Knxwledge haven’t shared the full tracklist for Why Lawd? yet, but a press release confirms the project will include the 2022 single “Where I Go” featuring H.E.R. and last year’s “Daydreaming.”

Coming in at well under two minutes, “86Sentra” is densely packed with metaphors and clever punchlines courtesy of a hungry-sounding .Paak. “Nickel nine gripper for all you Jack Rippers,” he raps in a buttery smooth delivery. “The driver inside got a license to hit ya/ Hop up out the pot and get your Top Ramen licked up.”

The single is accompanied by a visualizer created by Rhymezlikedimez that features the duo in technicolor cartoon form as they travel through Los Angeles.

When The Smile first premiered the single “Friend of a Friend,” it was to an eager audience in Croatia. During that show, back in 2022, the trio made up of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner revealed that the song had been written that same day. At the time, it was only a skeleton of the song it would come to be as the Radiohead side-project released “Friend of a Friend” as the latest single from their upcoming record Wall of Eyes.

“All the window balconies, they seem so flimsy...

Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer, the comic’s seventh stand-up special for Netflix, opens with a quote about the nature of success by Henry David Thoreau before capturing the comic in stark black-and-white, moving through the crowd in slow-mo (cigarette in hand, naturally) to Radiohead’s “Daydreaming,” like a championship boxer before a fight. We’re at the Lincoln Theatre in Chappelle’s hometown of Washington, D.C., the very place where he filmed his first stand-up special, Killin’ Them Softly, 24 years ago. Quite a lot’s changed since then,...

From Aftersun to How To Have Sex, British filmmakers of late have been returning to the sun-soaked Mediterranean locations of their youth to locate a particular type of heartbreak and nostalgia; putting our national obsession with finding meaning in holidaying under the microscope. But British behaviour abroad is not just of interest domestically, but perhaps a European-wide fascination. Analysing the British phenomena of Balconing – whereby Brits often fall to their doom by attempting to jump into a pool or from balcony to balcony – from a Spanish perspective, Christian Avilés creates a unique mythos in Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays (La herida luminosa), tenderly mixing documentary-style observation with playful magical realist elements. Easily making it into our Top 10 shorts of the festival when it premiered at the Berlinale early this year, and one of the nominees for best short film at this weekend’s coming European Film Awards, we...

Paul Thomas Anderson is reuniting with his Radiohead cohorts.

The Oscar-winning auteur helms Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s latest music video for band The Smile along with Tom Skinner. The Smile’s new track “Wall of Eyes” is from the eponymous album, set to be released January 26 by Xl Recordings.

Anderson directs the trippy black-and-white music video for “Wall of Eyes,” which centers on Yorke wandering through London. Yorke is shown alone in a pub, staring at a literal wall of eyeballs with a Lynchian twist, and later among dozens of versions of himself. The music video was filmed on location at The Mildmay Club and on the streets of London, England from October 24 to 26, 2023.

“Wall of Eyes” also features strings by The London Contemporary Orchestra, conducted by Hugh Brunt. The video is produced by Sara Murphy, Erica Frauman, and Shirley O’Connor, with Andy Jurgensen editing.

Anderson previously directed...

Radiohead side project the Smile — featuring the band’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood along with former Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner — have announced their second album, Wall of Eyes, the follow-up to their 2022 debut A Light for Attracting Attention.

Ahead of the LP’s January 26 release, the trio have shared the video for the album’s title track, a visual that reunites Yorke with director Paul Thomas Anderson, who previously helmed the singer’s Anima short film along with Radiohead’s “Daydreaming” video:

Wall of Eyes features the...

Harry Styles turned up the London heat with his toned physique.

Over the weekend, the “Daylight” singer, 29, showed off his abs, tattooed arms and chest in a pair of forest green swim trunks while going for a serene swim in London’s Hampstead Heath duck ponds.

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Harry Styles shows off his rippling abs as he goes for a swim in the Hampstead duck ponds during the UK heatwave. — Photo: Mega Agency

In additional photographs, Styles was seen diving into the water to cool down on Saturday — the U.K.’s hottest day of the year thus far, as per Reuters.

The Grammy winner was accompanied by the garden-like pond’s ducks. swimming nearby as he cooled down in the waterhole.

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The 25th Shanghai International Film Festival, June 9 to 18, has unveiled the titles in contention for awards in its four main feature-length sections: main competition, Asian New Talent, Animation film and documentary. These are eligible for the festival’s prestigious Golden Goblet Awards, winners of which will be announced at the Shanghai Grand Theater on the evening of June 17.

While Siff remains the only mainland China festival to be accredited as a so-called A-list event by the International Federation of Film Producers (Fiapf), its selections are largely separate and distinct from those at other major international festivals.

While the lineup includes nine mainland Chinese titles, two from Hong Kong and five from Iran, there are, for instance, no films that hail from the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand or South Korea.

Feature Film Competition

“All Ears” Dir. Liu Jiayin (China)

“Dust To Dust” Dir. Jonathan Li (China)

“Good Autumn, Mommy” Dir.

NxWorries, the R&b and alt hip-hop duo made of Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge, are back with a new single “Daydreaming.” It comes with an accompanying music video that takes place in the Grand Theft Auto universe, using .Paak’s actual character from GTA Online’s The Contract.

“Daydreaming” is a wistful, hypnotic love song putting .Paak in the character of a lovelorn Romeo over Knxwledge’s sensual beat. The video places .Paak and his love interest in a milder-than-usual GTA scenario, with an interesting twist at the end.

NxWorries are set to release an album later in the year, and they’re hitting the road for their inaugural run of dates in the UK and Europe with slots at Primavera Sound Barcelona, Madrid, and Portugal, Parklife in Manchester, and We Love Green in Paris, among others. Get tickets for NxWorries’ tour through Viagogo.

Check out NxWorries’ 2023 tour dates and the video for “Daydreaming” below.

Euro doom metallers Lucifer have returned with the new song “A Coffin Has No Silver Lining (The Sistine Version)” — their first new music since signing to Nuclear Blast Records last July.

The big label backing should give the band a much deserved boost in exposure, with the new song serving as a fine introduction for those encountering Lucifer’s revivalist doom for the first time.

Behind volleys of chugging riffage, singer Johanna Platow Andersson commands alluring melodies and an irresistible Aor-tinged chorus hook. There’s just enough grit to pull in the stoner-rock crowd, while the sheer catchiness of the riffs and chorus should appeal to any fan of old-school FM hard rock — the pinball machines and Super 8 footage in the Emil Klinta-directed music video emphasizing the latter observation.

The single arrives a week before Lucifer’s run of European tour dates supporting Ghost — another band with an affinity...

Each night on his never-ending Love on Tour, Harry Styles thanks the crew behind the scenes who arrive long before he steps on stage and leave long after both he and his fans have gone, leaving behind trails of discarded boa feathers. In the Aube Perrie-directed music video for his latest Harry’s House single, “Satellite,” the singer bows out of the spotlight to share a glimpse into the life of one of those hardworking crew members: a little robot named Stomper, named after the “Satellite Stomps” Styles famously breaks out when performing the song.