In order to love and understand each other, first we must love and understand ourselves. It’s in that spirit that Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Melbourne, Australia’s hard-touring indie-rock act, travel Sideways to New Italy, offering up a…

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Go Back to Move Forward on Sideways to New Italy

Zoom, for all its privacy and security issues, has rocketed to household-name status in the days of social distancing, becoming the go-to digital meeting hub for personal and professional purposes alike. This new normal presents a problem for those…

10 Iconic Movie Backgrounds for Your Next Zoom Meeting

These movies each transcend boredom and isolation in their own unique ways.
Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, those of us safely self-isolating at home have what The Wire’s Marlo Stanfield once called “one of them good problems”: How do we fill…

10 Free-Spirited Films to Help You Through Quarantine

Since their inception in 2014, New Paltz, New York rock duo Diet Cig have only ever been unapologetically themselves. Singer/guitarist Alex Luciano and drummer Noah Bowman make self-described “slop pop” that uses effervescent, singalong-inspiring…

Diet Cig Own Their Growing Pains on Do You Wonder About Me?

Between his decade of fronting New York City quintet The Walkmen and his subsequent releases, both solo (2014’s Black Hours) and collaborative (2016’s I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, with Rostam Batmanglij), Hamilton Leithauser has proven himself…

Hamilton Leithauser Loses Himself in New York City’s Stories on The Loves of Your Life

Melbourne, Australia’s Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are headed Sideways to New Italy, with Sub Pop set to release the “tough pop / soft punk” act’s second album on June 5. Arriving alongside its announcement is the video for second single “She’s…

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Announce Sideways to New Italy, Share Wistful New Single "She's There"

Time has lost all meaning in this era of self-quarantine, but it continues marching forward all the same, now approaching the 10th anniversary of The National’s acclaimed fifth album High Violet, released May 11, 2010. The band have announced that…

The National to Release High Violet 10th Anniversary Expanded Edition on Vinyl in June

After opening in select theaters on March 13, writer-director Eliza Hittman’s acclaimed Focus Features drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always had been scheduled to go wide next Friday, April 3. Instead, as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic,…

Eliza Hittman's Acclaimed Never Rarely Sometimes Always Comes to VOD Next Week

Now this is some good forking news: All 53 episodes of beloved metaphysical comedy series The Good Place will make their Blu-ray debut on May 19, courtesy of the good people at Shout! Factory. The nine-disc set will feature a cornucopia of bonus…

The Good Place: The Complete Series Comes to Blu-Ray in May

Demand for choice streaming content has skyrocketed while the world holes up amid the coronavirus pandemic, and Amazon Prime Video is supplying just that in April. The film and television highlights of next month include one title so perfect for…

New on Amazon Prime Video: All the Movies and TV Coming in April

Emmy-nominated Black-ish creator Kenya Barris has a new Netflix series on the way, and Thursday morning brought our proper introduction to #blackAF, a single-camera, half-hour family comedy in which Barris stars alongside Rashida Jones as a…

Kenya Barris and Rashida Jones Are #blackAF in Irreverent First Trailer for New Netflix Series

In these times of coronavirus, quality streaming entertainment is as precious as ever, so we’re pleased to inform you HBO is adding a quality collection of feature film and television titles to its library in April. The list is down below, but first,…

New on HBO Now: All the Movies and TV Coming in April

Update, March 22: After surprise-releasing, then quickly removing his new album ostensibly titled Donald Glover Presents, Childish Gambino has now released the album as 3.15.20, with a press release officially identifying it as “his first full-length…

Childish Gambino Has Officially Released His New Album, 3.15.20

Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning 1990 crime drama Goodfellas, inspired by the true story of Irish-Italian mobster-turned-state’s witness Henry Hill, is widely considered one of the best gangster movies ever made, right up there with the Godfather…

The 20 Best Quotes from Goodfellas

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The coronavirus outbreak is showing no signs of slowing down, at least not here in the U.S., and we need as many distractions as we can get. Enter Netflix, and its April slate of feature film and television additions, with which we can while away the…

New on Netflix: All the Movies and TV Coming in April

Hudson Valley-based singer, songwriter and producer Nandi Rose has shared a poignant new single as Half Waif, “In August.” It’s our latest preview of her ANTI- Records debut The Caretaker, due out on March 27. That’s the good news—the bad news is,…

Half Waif Shares Poignant New Single "In August," Postpones North American Tour

Stephen Colbert continued to take on the impossible task of making a late-night show funny in these times of coronavirus on Monday night, manning The Late Show’s desk by way of his bathtub. Leaning into the socially distant surreality of last week’s…

Watch a Social-Distancing Stephen Colbert Host The Late Show from His Bathtub

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to shut down theaters and other such health-risky public spaces worldwide, another major film studio is making one of its new releases available via on-demand months ahead of schedule. Following Universal’s…