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If you needed another reason not to get on Karin Dreijer’s bad side, look no further than “Even It Out.” The deliciously venomous cut from Radical Romantics, their brand new third studio album as Fever Ray, comes with a music video that ups the ante considerably. “This is for Zacharias / Who bullied my kid in high school,” Dreijer sings, their voice pulsing with an anger that’s crossed over into deranged ecstasy. “There’s no room for you / And we know where you live.” The song’s disturbing nature is belied by its ultra-catchiness, its anthemic and arena-ready instrumental, and the woo-hoos Dreijer injects into the track at key points (often after an especially maniacal lyric).

Fever Ray has shared a new video for ‘Even It Out’, featuring a cameo from the song’s producers, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.The Nine Inch Nails pair worked on the song with Karin Dreijer, and it appears on the Swedish artist’s new album ‘Radical Romantics’.The track’s official video, an homage to the work of John Waters, was written and directed by Martin Falck.Watch the official clip, which sees Reznor and Ross appear on a television screen, below.‘Radical Romantics’, the third Fever Ray album, was released this week (March 10). Reviewing the album, NME wrote: “‘Radical Romantics’ ability to communicate Dreijer’s perspective on love and relationships exquisitely is thanks largely in part to its inventive production.

Trying to keep up with this week’s new music? Every Friday, we collect new albums available on streaming services on one page.

Karin Dreijer is this week’s guest on The FADER Interview podcast. In advance of the release of Radical Romantics — their third studio album as Fever Ray — this Friday (March 10) via Rabid Records and Mute, they joined Jordan Darville for a wide-ranging discussion of the forthcoming project and much more.

The Spanish holiday hotspot of Ibiza has issued a warning to holidaymakers about a "moderate" risk of dengue fever this summer.

Ella Bleu Travolta is getting real about growing up in the spotlight. Ella, who is the daughter of John Travolta and the late Kelly Preston, spoke about what she has learned from her father's successful career and her favorite memory of her mother in a new interview with Fox News Digital.

Patti Smith hosted a New York screening of Corsage last week, one of many showings since the Oscar-shortlisted Best International Feature contender premiered to a warm welcome in Cannes, where it won Best Performance, Un Certain Regard, for star Vicky Krieps as the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Sisi for short. It’s fitting that Smith, royalty of the avant-garde, came out to support a film about an iconoclastic princess.

Christmas is one of the best times of the year for many people, but it's also prime time to fall ill.

With an NHS Scotland board currently monitoring "unseasonably high numbers" of scarlet fever, some may want to know about its possible warning signs.

An outbreak of Scarlet Fever in Scotland has promoted health professionals to issue urgent advice to the public with cases on the rise.

Claudia Winkleman 's outfit choice on Strictly Come Dancing tonight has left viewers distracted with one saying it was like something from Saturday Night Fever.

Fans of The One Show did a double take as Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson appeared on the BBC teatime show. The Hollywood A-lister beamed as he took a seat on the famous couch alongside fellow Hollywood stars Noah Sentino and Rob Delaney.

Fever 333 frontman Jason Aalon Butler has said that the band will continue despite the recent departure of two members.Earlier this week, guitarist Stephen Harrison and drummer Aric Improta both shared statements to confirm they had left the group.Harrison told fans that “things were pretty bad internally” between himself, Improta and Butler, and highlighted “creative differences” that “sort of left [him] with no choice” but to step down from his role.Improta posted a more cryptic explanation, saying that the pair’s decision to quit was “layered”. He continued: “Ultimately, I’d just rather dedicate my time to projects that operate different than that one.”Butler has now issued his own statement on social media, in which he teased the next “era” of Fever 333 and expressed his appreciation for his former bandmates.“I want to thank Aric and Stephen for their time in this project – not just because a statement feels required, but because I mean that,” the message began.

APPOINTMENTSReservoir has hired Russell Hunt as Senior Creative Manager. He joins from Tigerspring. “I am incredibly excited to be working alongside Reservoir’s exceptional creative team and roster”, he says.

Fever Ray has shared their first new single in five years – listen to ‘What They Call Us’ below.Karin Dreijer, former member of The Knife, last released music under their Fever Ray moniker in the form of 2017 album ‘Plunge’. That record followed on from Dreijer’s 2009 self-titled debut.‘What They Call Us’ was co-written/co-produced by Fever Ray alongside their brother/ex-Knife bandmate Olof Dreijer.As Stereogum notes, the song marks the first collaboration between the pair since The Knife’s 2014 team-up with Europa Europa, ‘För Alla Namn Vi Inte Får Använda’.

Fever 333 have left the band, with both guitarist Stephen Harrison and drummer Aric Improta sharing statements that confirm their exits.Improta was more cryptic in his post announcing the news, explaining that he and Harrison decided to leave the band – which is rounded out by frontman Jason Aalon Butler – together, and that their decision is “layered”. The drummer noted that he’d ultimately “rather dedicate [his] time to projects that operate different than” Fever 333, and teased that he and Harrison “will probably do something together in the future”.Read Improta’s full statement below:A post shared by @st33visHarrison, on the other hand, was more direct in his explanation, revealing that “things were pretty bad internally” between himself, Improta and Butler, and highlighting “creative differences” that “sort of left [him] with no choice” but to leave the fold.

What is life beyond our memories? Celebrated filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu journeys through recollections and the truths they conceal in “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.” The film, which focuses on an award-winning  journalist/documentarian, seems to be a thematic successor to Iñárritu’s “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).” Part illusion, part reality — the principal aspects of ‘Bardo’ push the audience to question everything.  Continue reading ‘Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful of Truths’ Trailer: Alejandro G.

Ekin-Su fever has continued to spread in the weeks following the reality starlet’s Love island victory, with fans in Dublin being brought to tears upon meeting her. Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlua , 28, won the reality dating show Love island alongside now-boyfriend Davide Sanclimenti, 27. And while the pair have recently faced cheating rumours , the craze surrounding them only seems to have continued, with Ekin-Su being mobbed by fans upon arrival in Dublin, where she was opening a new BPerfect store.

Manori Ravindran International Editor It’s Timothée Chalamet Day in Venice. This isn’t a national holiday, but perhaps it should be. It’s just past 1:30 p.m. outside the Venice Film Festival’s Sala Casino, and a crowd of youth have set aside work and school commitments to travel into the Lido to catch a glimpse of the American superstar arriving for a press conference. Every generation has their movie star heartthrob — from Jonathan Taylor Thomas to Brad Pitt in the ’90s and Robert Pattison at the dawn of the Twilight movies. For many young women, Chalamet represents the pinnacle of Gen Z cool. The Chalamet stans arrived as early as 7 a.m. on Friday to catch a glance of Timothée. They are, not surprisingly, mostly female. They describe their favorite performances as “Call Me By Your Name” and “The King” but are mostly drawn to Chalamet because of his kind and friendly nature.

Fever 333‘s Jason Butler caught up with NME backstage at Reading 2022, telling us about befriending his heroes Deftones and what to expect from the band’s “genre-defining” upcoming album. Watch our video interview with Butler above.Last night (Friday August 26), the band performed a blistering headline set on the Festival Republic Stage. The last time NME caught the band was at Mad Cool festival in Madrid, where Butler joined Deftones on stage to perform ‘Headup‘.“We’re homies now so I was just watching,” Butler told us of the hook-up.

Fever 333 have announced details of a new UK and European headline tour for early 2023 – see the list of dates below and get tickets here.The news of the new gigs comes as the band play the Reading & Leeds festivals this weekend (August 26-28), which make up for their cancelled performances at the dual events in 2021.The new UK tour will begin on February 18 next year in Brighton, with gigs in Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol and Birmingham to follow. The tour then wraps up at the Roundhouse in London on February 25.Speaking about the tour, vocalist Jason Aalon Butler said: “When regarding FEVER 333, more specifically – the live element of the project, there’s one thing we can rely on post pandemic and that is the fervor and support of our allies across the Atlantic.“We will be ushering in a new era of FEVER 333 on all fronts and I can’t wait introduce it in the territories that have held us down like none other.

Witch Fever have shared a dark new single today (August 16) called ‘I Saw You Dancing’ – check it out below.The song is another preview of their upcoming debut album, ‘Congregation’, which arrives on October 21 via Sony’s Music For Nations. You can pre-order the album here.The latest single offering is described as a “brutalist slab of IDLES-esque bass, as strings rattle the fretboard and trudge the track into life, whilst claustrophobic vocal lines and intense guitar melodies entwine an oppressive atmosphere throughout the duration,” in a press statement.It adds: “It’s a song about singer Amy Walpole’s experiences in the charismatic church she grew up in, and feeling watched by men as a teenage girl.”Of the track, Amy Walpole says: “This is a song on the album that we’re really excited about as really it’s the first time we’ve written and allowed a song to have space and time to breathe!“We’ve been so used to writing quick thrashy tunes it was fun to experiment and write slower ones for the album.

DJ Khaled has dropped new song "Staying Alive," a collaboration with Drake and Lil Baby, alongside a big budget video. Check that out above.

It sounds to good to be true, but it wasn’t: Actors were plucked from the hell that was the pandemic and dropped into a tropical bubble, where they would end up making The White Lotus for HBO. It would garner an astonishing 20 Emmy nominations, including one for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.

UPDATE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3: Joe Biden continues to test positive for Covid and will continue to isolate, but “continues to feel well,” his physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor wrote in a memo on Wednesday.

Hello and welcome to another week that was in international entertainment. Jesse Whittock here, back to guide you through the big stories and scoops. Also, a warm welcome to another new face in our London office, Zac Ntim, who’s joined us as International Film Reporter. Drop him a note and say hello.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorAMC Networks is a few months away from launching what programming chief Dan McDermott calls “the biggest venture we’ve ever embarked upon from the ground up.”The company that proudly bills itself as a high-end TV boutique is preparing to unleash this fall a TV series adaptation of “Interview with the Vampire.” AMC hopes it will become the cornerstone in a prosperous content franchise rooted in the Southern Gothic milieu based on the works of the well-loved novelist Anne Rice.On the latest episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” McDermott details the world-building process that began after the company struck a wide-ranging rights deal in May 2020 to develop all manner of content from 18 notable Rice books. The pact is a good example of how TV has become so competitive that art of development is fielding Marvel-level interconnected storytelling universes involving multiple series and other content extensions, from gaming to podcasts to internet shorts.

A Scots mum initially thought her tumour symptoms were being caused by hay fever before medics discovered a golf-ball sized mass in her brain. Suzanne Davies was given just 12 months to live after being diagnosed with a glioblastoma multiforme in 2014 - but has beaten the odds to survive eight more years.

Moviegoing is definitely back with viewers flocking to franchise films that 1) continue to roll out in the first sustained barrage of big new titles since Covid, and 2) continue to do huge business as they stick around in theaters. They’re sucking up screens and exacerbating a release-pattern quandary for independent distributors seeking signs that a rising tide raises all boats.

Hay fever sufferers have been raving about a new pill that has helped to keep symptoms at bay this summer.

Hay fever tablets being sold for as little as £4 at supermarkets like ASDA, Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury's have been branded a 'miracle'. The tablets are so popular, people are currently struggling to find any in their local supermarket.

alcohol and hay fever has been considered for some time, as many drinks contain histamine. This is created by the yeast and bacteria in the drinks during fermentation - and is the chemical we try to fight during hay fever and other allergies using antihistamine tablets. Among the worst offenders for this are red and white wine as they have higher levels of histamines than some other drinks including clear spirits such as gin and vodka.

The summer sun has hit Greater Manchester this week, leaving many people with their first bouts of hay fever. People who have never experienced hay fever might be wondering why they have been affected this year - and one leading Manchester allergist has vital information.

With pollen season well underway, those who suffer from hay fever are taking preventative measures to make the condition's symptoms, like sneezing and itchy eyes, more bearable.

Eurovision Song Contest. It was announced earlier today by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) that 2022 winners Ukraine would be unable to host the annual song competition. The EBU then followed up that announcement with confirmation that they have opened talks with the BBC about hosting next year’s contest in the UK.

Married At First Sight star Tayah Victoria has complained to fans after she has been left sneezing "about 100 times a day". The staggering amount of sneezes per day has left the reality star, 26, wondering if hay fever was somehow worse this year. She took to Instagram to post: "Also is it just me or is there something in the pollen this year to make hay fever worse!? "I've been sneezing about 100X times a day".