Meek Mill Finds a Sweet Spot Between the Serious and Superficial With ‘Expensive Pain’: Album Review

A new study reports that there is a 'sweet spot' of hours to sleep to reduce your risk of dementia.

Coldplay have said they are only going to make three more studio albums in their career.Speaking to NME in this week’s Big Read, Chris Martin said the band are going to stop making studio albums once they reach their twelfth record.He said: “We’re going to make 12 albums. Because it’s a lot to pour everything into making them.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFifty-one years later, how do we appraise “Let It Be,” the Beatles’ swan song, the document of their breakup, the one that the bandmembers themselves initially disliked so much that Paul McCartney took legal action and John Lennon dubbed it a salvage job from “the shittiest load of badly recorded shit — and with a lousy feeling to it — ever”?Of course, the men doth protest too much: The group’s high standards guaranteed that there is no such thing as a bad Beatles

Meek Mill has compared the premise of the hit Netflix TV show Squid Game to “hood poverty”, claiming that it represents “the exact same thing”.The South Korean survival drama, which recently became the streaming service’s biggest-ever series launch, depicts a dystopian contest in which people in debt are forced to partake in a series of deadly games in a bid to win a huge cash prize.Comparing the premise of Squid Game with social issues in the US in a tweet earlier this week (October 12), Meek

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt’s hard to think of a musical genre more difficult to carry off past one’s youth than hardcore punk, which was built to have a short shelf life in almost every way.

Infinity Ward, the long-time developer of the Call Of Duty franchise, is going to open a new studio in Austin, Texas.The 19-year-old studio announced on Twitter that it is expanding its development teams, which are currently based in Los Angeles, Poland and Mexico and that it is hiring for new roles. More information about the Austin studio will follow, according to the post.Infinity Ward is expanding.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJames Blake is one of the most unusual and seemingly contradictory artists to arise in the past decade: an electronic-music auteur whose music is filled of all kinds of odd noises, but he’s also a balladeer with a spine-tingling voice, raised on Laurel Canyon singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell and Neil Young.

which had 499 murders in 2020. “You see somebody get murdered yesterday, you ain’t going to be thinking about that for a week...You’re gonna be thinking about that for like 12 years on a daily basis.

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Social media star Bretman Rock has been revealed as the first out gay man to wear the full iconic bunny suit and ears on the cover of Playboy.

Chris Willman Music WriterIf you require any proof that Brandi Carlile is as gifted a singer as we’ve got right now in pop, folk or rock ‘n’ roll, one listen to her seventh album, “In These Silent Days,” should suffice.

New Music Friday! It's every audiophile's favorite day of the week, and some of our favorite artists from all different genres have blessed us with new tunes.Brandi Carlile released her seventh studio album,, Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett shared their second collection of duets, and Lil Wayne and Rich the Kid teamed up for a new EP, .Meek Mill dropped his first album in three years, Kane Brown and H.E.R.

Drake and Meek Mill have definitely left all their drama in the past. Meek dropped his new album, Expensive Pain, on Oct. 1, and Drake took to Instagram to send him love for the release. “Proud of you boy,” Drake wrote, tagging Meek, on his Instagram Story. “Since the Bahamas cook up we were planning the next chapter. Time to eat.” This love is definitely a far cry from where the two men stood back in 2015.

same-sex coupling. Daniel, who is from the North Coast and who works in sales, made history back in August when it was revealed he would be the first man on the show to be paired up and wed with another man.

Clint Eastwood has just released his latest film, in which he is once again star and director.

Chris Willman Music WriterAmong many other reasons to applaud Mickey Guyton for her long-in-the-works debut album, give her extra credit for being the millionth country artist to sing about “Daisy Dukes” — and the first to immediately follow that with a mention of “dookie braids.” Juxtaposing a white-girl cutoffs cliché with a Black-girl hair reference figures into a song, “All American,” that brings up class, race, gender and music differences to anthemically suggest that maybe we can all just

Netflix has been generous to Mike Flanagan over the last five years, and the consequence of that generosity is style dilation. Flanagan spent the early stages of his career directing movies like “Absentia,” “Oculus,” “Hush,” and “Before I Wake,” small-scale horror efforts with distinctly human hearts; he wasn’t the first filmmaker to care about his cast of victims-in-waiting, but compassion was his prize ingredient, the quality he expressed even at each movie’s peak of suspense.

Chris Willman Music WriterNo false advertising anywhere on the cover of the newest entry in Bob Dylan’s “Bootleg Series” about which era is being covered. The boxed set’s subtitle lays out the dates — 1980-85 — but even before you land on the fine print, there’s the period-specificity of the cover photo, a vintage Ken Regan shot of a suave Dylan with his shirt seductively unbuttoned to give us just a little then-de-rigueur chest-hair action.