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Nigel Godrich & Dhani Harrison Announce Debut Album As Dragonflies: Hear “Slower”
British producer Nigel Godrich, known for his work with Radiohead and Thom Yorke, and musician Dhani Harrison, son of the late George Harrison, have announced a new joint project called Dragonflies and will release their self-titled debut album on 18 September via Dark Horse Records/BMG. The pairing is unexpected given their differing musical backgrounds, and…
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The real gang of 1950s Chicago high-schoolers that inspired the story of ‘Grease’
‘Grease’ was inspired by the real teenage gangs and school life encountered by co-creator Jim Jacobs at Chicago’s Taft High School in the late 1950s. The article highlights how the fictional T-Birds drew on the school’s “greaser” culture, showing that the hugely successful musical and film originated in a working-class Chicago setting rather than a…
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The 1979 Eagles song Don Henley called the end of an era: “We could feel it passing”
The article identifies ‘The Sad Cafe’, from the Eagles’ 1979 album *The Long Run*, as the song Don Henley viewed as a farewell to an earlier Los Angeles music scene. It matters because the track also reflected the group’s own declining unity and foreshadowed the end of the Eagles’ original run. Henley said the song…
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Save $600 Off the Skytech Shadow RTX 5060 Ti 16GB Gaming PC, Now Just $1,399 With Free Shipping
Walmart is currently offering a discount on the Skytech King 95 prebuilt gaming PC, bringing it down to $1,399 from $1,999 with free shipping. The deal is notable because the machine comes with the 16GB VRAM version of Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti graphics card, a configuration that IGN says delivers markedly better performance than the…
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Faker becomes an honorary Korean police officer to help discourage online gambling
League of Legends player Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok has been appointed an honorary police officer by South Korea’s National Police Agency and will promote efforts to prevent online gambling among young people. The role uses one of esports’ most prominent figures to encourage early reporting and treatment, highlighting official concern about cyber-gambling. Faker will appear in…
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Sydney Sweeney’s New Sci-Fi Remake Officially Scores a Major Update at Netflix
Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Gundam, the Japanese mecha franchise, has finished filming after a four-month shoot, marking a significant step towards release for one of the streamer’s most anticipated upcoming films. The project forms part of Netflix’s continued push into big-budget science fiction, a genre that has previously delivered hits such as The Adam Project…
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SoundCloud absorbs Nina Protocol’s catalogue and editorial archive after shutdown
SoundCloud has acquired the remaining assets of Nina Protocol, the independent, blockchain-based music platform that announced its closure nearly two months earlier. Under the deal, SoundCloud inherits Nina’s editorial archive and genre map, while former Nina artists can choose to migrate their catalogues onto SoundCloud’s “creator ecosystem”, gaining access to distribution, direct fan monetisation and…
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Watch Jesus Rappel Down a Cliff in the TV Crossover Event of the Summer: ‘The Chosen’ x Bear Grylls
Amazon Prime Video has released the trailer for “The Chosen in the Wild With Bear Grylls”, a six-episode crossover series pairing the cast of the hit biblical drama “The Chosen” with survivalist Bear Grylls. The stars, including Jonathan Roumie (who plays Jesus), take part in extreme wilderness challenges such as skydiving, cliff rappelling, scorpion-eating and…
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Hollywood’s Favorite Ugg Slippers (To Never Wear on a Christopher Nolan Set)
Christopher Nolan has revealed that he bans Ugg boots and slippers from his film sets, telling Gayle King in a television interview that the footwear acts as a “signifier of modernity” that can pull actors out of character. The comment came amid the press cycle for his blockbuster “The Odyssey”, raising the image of Ancient…
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Dominic Fike Talks ‘Rocket’ Mixtape, Fatherhood & ‘Babydoll’ Resurgence
Dominic Fike has released his mixtape “Rocket” in 2025, a project whose title stems from a word he had carried in his mind for years, eventually naming his son after it too. The 12-track collection brings together previously unreleased songs, fan favourites and long-requested demos ahead of his next studio album, marking a milestone in…