GET OUT! SHUT UP! 1. Jennifer Hudson feat. Ludacris, “Pocketbook”
Despite the corny image of Hudson swatting away Ludacris for getting too fresh, this new track from her upcoming solo release does a good job of transforming Hudson from a Dreamgirl into a modern R&B star. [Mixtape Maestro]
2. Mercury Rev, “People Are So Unpredictable (There’s No Bliss Like Home)”
We were definitely surprised when Mercury Rev dropped a spacey instrumental album for free (Strange Attractor) to accompany their new full-length Snowflake Midnight.
Luke Bryan. There was a time when having too youthful an image could actually be something of a liability in country music, a genre that privileged adult tastes and settled concerns. The few adolescents who scored country breakthroughs either sounded older than they were or strained to project weighty worldviews. All that began to change when Taylor Swift proved tween and teen girls would flock to country-pop songs that spoke their language.
While you no doubt already know Luke Cage because you binge-watched Jessica Jones last weekend, here’s a refresher: Luke Cage the series is one of the live-action shows that Marvel and Netflix are making together, and Luke Cage the man is a superhero with super strength, rock-hard skin, and amazing pectorals (we added that last part). Ahead of its 2016 premiere, the show’s cast was on set in New York City Wednesday, so we got our first glimpse of what the show would look like.
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The Sixth Sense director still has a way with sinister shots, but is oddly invested in having the audience care about his cardboard characters. M. Night Shyamalan can make a shot of palm trees sinister, just by the way he moves a camera. Old opens with fronds dancing in front of a bright sky, and then transitions to the vacationing family on the road below, as though the humans are already an afterthought, fodder for the high concept horror awaiting them.
M.I.A.’s new album, /\/\/\Y/\, isn’t out until July 13, but in the run-up to the record’s release, the singer has already provided us with more bananas pull quotes than most pop stars produce in their entire careers. Besides naming her album the aforementioned chicken scratch, she has ragged on Bieber, ragged on Gaga, and gotten a ginger kid fake shot in the head. Now in anew interview with Nylon, she is spreading the word about the dangers of the Internet: “Google and Facebook were developed by the CIA, and when you’re on there, you have to know that.
Jared Harris as Lane. There comes a moment when you’re interviewing an actor who’s been killed off a show when you realize that your own grief over the character’s death is nothing compared to the actor’s grief over the loss of an amazing role. After last night’s self-offing of Lane Pryce on Mad Men, Jared Harris is in mourning — and you can’t blame him. From the day he joined Sterling Cooper in season three, Lane’s humility and restraint have been a delightful contrast to an office ruled by self-interest and booze.
Kiernan Shipka. So far, Sally Draper has been a pretty resilient kid. Don’s been negligent, Betty’s been cold, but Sally, as played by Kiernan Shipka, has remained a firecracker, unafraid to sneak out of her house, roll her eyes at damn near anybody, and call out her friends when they’re putting on airs. Now, disillusioned by her father’s cheating, she’s trying to escape for good. In last Sunday’s episode, Sally tested out a boarding school where she offered the cool kids money, drank, and maybe tried some pot.
Madison “Maddie” Marlow and Taylor “Tae” Dye Maddie — along with Kacey Musgraves, Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and others — are two of the women making country music more exciting than it’s been in years. The superlative songwriting on the young Texas-Oklahoma duo’s debut album, Start Here, is a classic survey of the joys and pitfalls of coming of age. There’s the bully-skewering “Sierra.” Or “Downside of Growing Up,” a tender ballad about growing pains.