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Watch the first trailer for Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, featuring a very rare use of “Stairway to Heaven” Robert Plant and Jimmy Page routinely turn down requests to use “Stairway to Heaven” onscreen — even when Cameron Crowe asked for Almost Famous — but they finally gave in to writer-director Greta Gerwig, allowing her to use it to score the just-released first trailer for Netflix’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew. At a Manhattan premiere for the trailer Tuesday morning, Gerwig told interviewer Stephen Colbert that it helped that Plant and Page are fans of C.S. Lewis and his Chronicles of Narnia saga. “I…
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the former Compton gang leader convicted of orchestrating the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur amid escalating East Coast-West Coast rap rivalries, was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years to life in prison, capping a notorious cold-case homicide probe after three decades of uncertainty. Nevada District Court Judge Carli Kierny sentenced Davis, 63, after a Las Vegas jury needed only three hours to unanimously convict him of first-degree murder on Aug. 31. During the two-week trial, Clark County prosecutors presented evidence that Davis orchestrated the deadly drive-by shooting by obtaining the gun, passing it to the back seat…
A new documentary examining the production and legacy of Michael Jackson’s Super Bowl XXVII halftime show will arrive on Hulu and ESPN next year. Spectacle: Michael Jackson at the Super Bowl will offer a deep dive into famed 1993 performance at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. It’ll feature an array of never-before-seen footage of Jackson and his team preparing for the performance, and explore how it set a new standard of pop spectacle for the halftime show. Landing at Number 16 on Rolling Stone’s rankings of Super Bowl halftime shows, Jackson’s show opened with a voiceover introduction from James…
Michael Stipe wasn’t kidding when he told the New York Times Magazine in 2023 he was “in no rush” to release his long-awaited first solo album. Four years after its initially teased premiere date, the former R.E.M. singer-songwriter has finally revealed when it’s coming in an interview with the LA Times: the first single arrives New Year’s Eve of this year, with the as-yet-untitled LP debuting in May 2027. Also, per Stipe, “five seconds into the new year, there will be a new song with a video setting up the album.” In April, Stipe debuted a song from the project…
The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our writers are playing obsessively and highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff’s favorite new music. The playlist is a grab-bag of tracks: Its only guiding principle is that these are the songs you’d gladly send to a friend.This week’s Pitchfork Selects playlist features Marina Herlop, Cameron…
Kacey Musgraves has hit back at Kristi Noem, after the former Secretary of Homeland Security made a swipe at her online. The Republican politician serves as the United States Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas, having served as Secretary of Homeland Security from 2025 until March 2026. Taking to X/Twitter, she made a jab at country star Kacey Musgraves, pitting her against fellow singer Ella Langley. She shared the comments in response to a post made by Democrat James Talarico, showing him meeting the ‘I Remember Everything’ singer at one of her shows. “I’ll take @ellalangleymusic over Kacey…
A new synthetic opioid on the illicit market is making headlines as the “next killer drug.” DEA officials say cychlorphine is a potent synthetic opioid that could be up to 10 times stronger than fentanyl, though harm reduction advocates caution that media coverage could be inflating the threat. The warnings are urgent, with reports that cychlorphine is taking over the illegal drug supply at an “exponential rate” alarming people across the U.S. In April, after a reported fatal overdose, San Francisco health officials issued a warning about N-Propionitrile chlorphine, saying the drug had appeared in the city for the first…
It’s really difficult to mess up a Mediterranean vanity ambassadorship, but Kimberly Guilfoyle has managed to pull it off. Guilfoyle — the former girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr. and fundraiser for Trump’s 2020 campaign — announced that she is resigning from her post as U.S. Ambassador to Greece. “I will forever be grateful to President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for entrusting me with the extraordinary privilege of representing the greatest country in the history of the world,” she wrote in a lengthy statement announcing her resignation. “While my time as Ambassador may be coming to…
The former secretary of state will co-host the series with prominent tech journalist Kara Swisher Hillary Clinton is set to return to the podcasting game, partnering with journalist Kara Swisher for a new show, High Stakes, that will air in the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections. High Stakes will debut Wednesday, Oct. 14, and will be distributed via the same feed as Swisher’s other show, On With Kara Swisher. New episodes will air weekly through mid-November as the pair discuss the major issues and races in the control for Congress ahead of the second half of Donald Trump’s second…
Robyn and Mechatok have teamed up for a pair of remixes that are out today. Robyn adds a verse—and chorus assist—to “Expression on Your Face,” the Ecco2k and Bladee-led launch track of the German producer’s debut album, last year’s Wide Awake. The rework comes packaged in a two-track single alongside the Mechatok remix of Body Talk salvo “Fembot.” Robyn has adopted the latter as her set opener at recent Sexistential tour dates. Listen to both songs and check out the single art below.The single release is credited to Robyn’s Konichiwa label and Universal-Island, under exclusive license to Young.
