Maroon 5’s ‘Jordi’ Is More About Bangers Than ‘Memories’: Album Review

Teen heartthrob and One Tree Hill alum Chad Michael Murray recently opened up about the possibility of a reboot for the iconic teen drama OTH. In a candid chat with TV Fanatic, the 39-year-old star stated: “I believe at some point, I’m sure there will be some new iteration of One Tree Hill,” he explained.

Chad Michael Murray is talking One Tree Hill.

There’s only one Tree Hill — at least until someone reboots it. Chad Michael Murray thinks the teen drama will be back.

Mike Wass Few albums then or since have qualified as seismic cultural events quite the way Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” did in 2011,  when it arrived in a blaze of hype and anticipation not much seen since the heyday of Michael Jackson and Madonna. The electro-pop opus sold more than a million copies in its first week of release and, perhaps even more impressively, brought a collection of songs about otherness, gender identity and individuality to Top 40 radio.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWith “Nine,” the mysterious London-based alt-R&B collective Sault has added another layer to their mystique by making this new album — incredibly, their fifth in just over two years — available for just 99 days. Free downloads can be found on their website and vinyl is available from Bandcamp (and you can even stream the whole thing on Instagram), so it’s not like it’ll be gone forever.

When you’re driving down one of Alabama’s main interstates, it’s not hard to see gaudy Confederate flags flying atop a hill, a memorial site, gravesites, or basically, anywhere else. Growing up in the South brings gradual understanding to just how deep the permeation of Dixie is in the culture — “The Dukes of Hazard“ proudly had the flag on the hood of the General Lee car, a symbol for ’70s Southern pride.

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEven though they’re all alpha musicians in their own right, it’s often hard not to think of Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers — close friends and members of the semi-supergroup side-project Boygenius — as a single, multi-faceted entity.

The Mountain Goats, “Dark in Here” (Merge)“Dark in Here” was recorded in 2020, that calamitous year of fear and mistrust. It shows.High anxiety fills the Mountain Goats' new album, the product of sessions held in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, just as the COVID-19 pandemic began.

The man who revealed that former President Bill Clinton met with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch during the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email servers has died.

HGTV’s biggest renovation project to date is apparently a big hit, delivering strong ratings across several key demos, the network said Friday.

Raiders of the Lost Ark.In the film, Marion and Harrison Ford’s titular adventurer are discussing their past after meeting for the first time in 10 years.“I’ve learned to hate you in the last 10 years,” Marion says, and when Indiana says he never meant to hurt Marion, she replies: “I was a child! I was in love! It was wrong and you knew it.”Later, she adds: “Do you know what you did to me? To my life?”Addressing the scene in a new interview with Uproxx, Allen said: “I guess you could say [there

Spain — another magical beach music scene — he knows what he is talking about.“Albania is the hidden gem of Europe," he added.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt wasn’t all that long ago that Michelle Zauner, the creative force behind shoegaze-pop act Japanese Breakfast, was singing about the idea of becoming “Jimmy Fallon big.” The track from 2017’s “Soft Sounds from Another Planet” may have seemed like wishful thinking at the time, but Zauner’s tongue-in-cheek lyric came full circle in March when the band hit “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” to make Japanese Breakfast’s late-night television debut.The singer

Chris Willman Music WriterIt might be premature to proclaim Allison Russell’s solo debut the album of the year — some of her collaborators and boosters have their records that may merit being in the running, of thousands forthcoming — but “Outside Child” sure has the inside track.

The French Dispatch. Set in a newspaper office in France, Anderson’s follow-up to 2018’s Isle of Dogs stars Benicio Del Toro, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and more.Other standout films on show will be Flag Day which has been directed by Sean Penn; he also stars in the film as a bank robber alongside his daughter Dylan.Another is Mothering Sunday, Eva Husson’s adaptation of Graham Swift’s WW1-set novel about a doomed romance.

Kate Winslet was dedicated to making her latest character as real as possible.

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