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Charli xcx shares B-side companion tracks for new album
Charli xcx has released a collection of B-sides to accompany her album ‘Music, Fashion, Film’, pairing an extra track with each song on the record. The release came shortly after the album’s launch, which drew considerable international attention, including a 9/10 review from Clash magazine praising its “unsettling brilliance”. The bonus material gives fans further…
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Netflix Officially Says Goodbye to a Legendary Sci-Fi Trilogy
Netflix has announced that the final day to watch all three of Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man movies will be on July 31.
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WNBPA says it did not ask WNBA to drop USA 250 All-Star patch after union officer publicly objected
The Women’s National Basketball Players Association has said it did not ask the WNBA to scrap a plan to place “USA 250” patches on All-Star Game uniforms, despite one of the union’s own elected officers publicly criticising the idea. The clarification came after reports suggested players were pushing back against the patches, which had been…
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PS5 emulators are making years’ worth of progress each day, as these Minecraft and Demon’s Souls clips show
PS5 emulation projects are reportedly advancing at an unusually rapid pace, with developers describing daily leaps forward as competing teams race to run PlayStation 5 games on PC. The push comes as Sony prepares to phase out discs entirely from January 2028, prompting emulator developers to work quickly so players can preserve and run their…
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3 Soft Rock Songs That Defined Summer for Millions of Americans in 1979
This piece from American Songwriter revisits three soft rock tracks that helped shape the sound of summer 1979 in the United States, part of an ongoing “list” series celebrating songs from decades past. It is a nostalgic retrospective rather than a hard news story, aimed at readers who grew up with 1970s radio hits and…
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First teaser for Apple TV’s Neuromancer debuts at SDCC
Apple TV+ has released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming adaptation of William Gibson’s seminal 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, unveiled during a San Diego Comic-Con panel. The series joins Apple’s growing roster of acclaimed science fiction titles, including Severance, Foundation and Silo, and marks a high-profile attempt to bring Gibson’s influential but notoriously complex…
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“Like going to war”: How Steely Dan’s lowest moment led to their defining 1973 record
Steely Dan’s 1973 album Countdown to Ecstasy emerged after the band’s difficult early experience touring to support its debut, Can’t Buy a Thrill. The article portrays the record as a response to that pressure: Walter Becker and Donald Fagen channelled exhaustion, distrust of the music business and the strains of life on the road into…
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Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls dev apologises for PC “gameplay and performance issues”
Arc System Works, developer of the fighting game Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, has apologised after PC players reported widespread performance and gameplay problems during the title’s open beta. The studio confirmed it is investigating the issues and working on a fix, though it has yet to provide a timeline, which is notable given the game…
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Prime Video’s 2-Part Superhero Series Is So Good, It Officially Went Beyond the Comics
Prime Video’s superhero drama Gen V has concluded its run, and critics argue it ultimately proved a stronger adaptation than its parent series, The Boys, by moving beyond Garth Ennis’s original comics. Where The Boys was increasingly hemmed in by its source material and real-world headlines, Gen V used its setting at Godolkin University School…
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Marvel finalised David Jonsson’s Black Panther casting months before announcement
Marvel Studios has confirmed that David Jonsson will play the new Black Panther in Black Panther 3, with studio boss Kevin Feige revealing the decision was actually locked in five or six months before it was made public. Speaking to Empire following Marvel’s Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, Feige explained that director…