Watch the trailer for Human Playground below. The series will be released on Netflix from the 30th of September.
Nirvana has won the “child pornography” suit filed by Spencer Elden, the baby seen in the Nevermind cover art. In an eight-page ruling, Judge Fernando M. Olguin dismissed the case on the grounds that Elden waited too long to file the lawsuit, based on a 10-year statute of limitations. “In short, because it is undisputed that [Elden] did not file his complaint within ten years after he discovered a violation… the court concludes that his claim is untimely,” Olguin wrote.
“Because plaintiff had an opportunity to address the deficiencies in his complaint regarding the statute of limitations, the court is persuaded that it would be futile to afford plaintiff a fourth opportunity to file an amended complaint,” the jugde continued.
A lawyer for Nirvana told Reuters: “We are pleased that this meritless case has been brought to a speedy final conclusion.”
Nirvana first filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in August 2021, arguing that Elden had willingly associated himself with the Nevermind cover over the years and that too much time had passed for him to sue. Elden revived the lawsuit in January, removing the claim that that the defendants, which also listed Kurt Cobain’s estate, photographer Kirk Weddle, and various labels, “knowingly benefit from participation in what they know or should know is a sex trafficking venture.” The judge’s dismissal will prevent Elden from re-filing the suit, but he can still submit an appeal.
The first of two Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts is taking place today at London’s Wembley Stadium. The event, which kicks off at 11:30 am ET/4:30 pm BST, will stream live on Paramount+ in the US, Pluto TV internationally, and on MTV’s YouTube channels. Watch it below.
The tribute features performances by Travis Barker, Nandi Bushell, Martin Chambers, Chevy Metal, Violet Grohl, Justin Hawkins, Shane Hawkins, Brian May, Krist Novoselic, Joshua Homme, Chris Chaney, Nile Rodgers, Stewart Copeland, Liam Gallagher, Mark Ronson, Kesha, Luke Spiller, Brian Johnson, Josh Freese, and many others. It will also include special appearances by Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock.
“Music is a powerful connector, and we are honored to commemorate Taylor Hawkins’ enduring legacy by bringing together Paramount’s portfolio of brands and assets to build even deeper connections with his global fan base,” Bob Bakish, Paramount’s president and CEO, said in a statement.
“Taylor was not only an incredible drummer and musician but truly one of the most passionate super fans of music the world has seen. His infectious energy and unique talent will continue to live on through his vast body of work,” added Bruce Gillmer, President of Music, Music Talent, Programming & Events, Paramount and Chief Content Officer, Music, at Paramount+. “Together with Foo Fighters and the Hawkins family, we look forward to leveraging Paramount’s global scale to mirror Taylor’s worldwide impact through this special tribute concert for audiences everywhere.”
Online casino games are growing in popularity. Now available on laptops, phones, tablets and even smartwatches, more than 24 million adults in the UK are said to be gamblers. Half even admit that they prefer to gamble online. Plus, as demand grows and technology advances, casino sites have had no choice but to become even more innovative if they want to offer an unrivalled experience.
This has had a huge impact on the games available. But, with thousands of titles to choose from, how do you know which one will suit you best? And is there one category of games that will suit your personality better? Here, we reveal more.
When physical casinos were first launched in the 1930s, it was poker, blackjack, and roulette that led the way. With such a huge following, it’s no surprise that these games were given online alternatives when the casino world first tapped into internet gambling. For example, nowadays you can still play old classics like poker, roulette and blackjack at Paddy Power, and while they still retain the same rules and aim of the game, they’ve been enhanced with modern graphics, a catchy theme tune and even live dealers. Players can also choose how to view the table and a range of offers and promotions keeps interests high too. This not only keeps existing players happy but taps into a new market of gamblers.
Today, there seems to be an online casino game for everyone; whatever your budget, experience or interest. But they all still fall into the following categories: slots, table games, poker, bingo and speciality games. While you might be able to find a game based on a series of personal factors, it seems some titles could better be matched to your personality than you might think.
Poker is one of the most played retro games across the world. It’s a game that requires strategy as well as a cool and calm nature and, despite being played against other gamblers, typically requires solo playing. For this reason, it’s a great choice if you’re introverted or like to gamble in peace.
Like poker, blackjack is a great choice if you prefer to take a step back and watch proceedings before getting involved. In a game of risk and technique, blackjack and poker often gather a large group of spectators who like to analyse the game and potential outcomes before getting involved.
In contrast, slots are loud, brash and eye-catching. Often, when you walk into a physical casino, it’s the noise and visuals of slot machines that will grab your attention first. When it comes to online slots, the same can be said with many featuring bright graphics and playlists. There are even slots that are based on TV shows, artists and movies. The gameplay is relatively straightforward with little requirement for strategy or critical thinking. This makes slots a great choice for those who are free-minded and aren’t looking for a game that involves technique.
Similarly, online bingo is popular and gathers around three million players in the UK every day. It’s another game that doesn’t require technique or strategy. Those who enjoy competition, without the need for critical thinking and fast action, might find that bingo is the game for them.
Of course, this is just a selection of some of the most popular online casino games in the UK. The truth is, whatever your interests and preferences, you’re sure to find a title to suit and it’ll only be time before more are released too.
Cold Cave have shared a cover of Psychic TV’s 1985 single ‘Godstar’. Check it out below, along with Cold Cave’s upcoming tour dates.
Last year, Cold Cave put out the Fate in Seven Lessons EP. Their last full-length was 2011’s Cherish the Light Years.
Cold Cave 2022 Tour Dates:
Sep 8 – San Francisco, CA – The. Chapel
Sep 9 – San Francisco, CA – Green Apple Books *Wes Eisold Poetry Reading*
Sep 9 – San Francisco, CA – The. Chapel
Sep 10 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre @
Sep 16 – Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw (Cold Waves Festival)
Sep 23 – Chicago, IL – Metro (Cold Waves Festival)
Oct 14 – Madrid, SP – Dark Mad Festival %
Oct 30 – Austin, TX – Empire Control Room (Levitation Festival)
@ with Placebo
% with The Human League
Perera Elsewhere has released ‘Who I Am’, the final single off her forthcoming album Home – out September 30 via Friends of Friends. It follows previous entries ‘Heatwave’ and ‘Hold Tite’. Take a listen below.
“We are many people inside one person …. our ancestors, present and future and a whole bunch of brainwashing, marketing, conformity, institutionalised religion and an almost branded rebellion against those things,” Sarah Perera commented in a statement. “The internet is a catalyst and a centrifuge. Thus the ongoing question of ‘Who I Am’ remains: a journey to get to the core of yourself even if your self is a construction in itself. This journey straddles individuality, identity and the simulation of spirituality and authenticity, all ideas/things that the post-materialist societies are obsessed with…”
Norwegian singer-songwriter Siv Jakobsen has announced her next album: Gardening will arrive on January 20 via The Nordic Mellow. It features the previously released tracks ‘Birthday’ and ‘Most of the Time’, as well as a new song called ‘Romain’s Place’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
“Right before the pandemic hit, I was on a small tour and found myself back in a city I used to call home,” Jakobsen said of the new single in a statement. “I hadn’t been back since I left it (and the relationship I had there) behind a good few years ago. I felt quite shocked with how my body and mind reacted to being back, and realised quickly that I had some emotional unpacking to do. I was staying with my friend Romain at the time, and for me my time in his apartment encapsulates this realisation and the start of me dealing with these ghosts from my past that had laid dormant for a while. I was so overwhelmed at the time that it felt as if I was going crazy. I really did feel haunted, as if I had jumped into a time-machine and was somehow back in the past.”
Gardening, the follow-up to Jakobsen’s 2020 record A Temporary Soothing, was produced by Hans Olav Settem and Simen Mitlid, with Zach Hanson (Bon Iver, Hand Habits, Sylvan Esso, The Tallest Man On Earth) handling the mixing. It includes instrumental contributions from Emma Gatrill and Marcus Hamblett.
“Gardening tackles a particular relationship from my past, and its effect on me in the past, present and future,” Jakobsen explained. “When writing it I felt I was doing a continuous and elaborate form of emotional gardening, whilst in real life I was tending to my modest but lovely garden in my home in Oslo. I found great pleasure and comfort in the physical task of gardening, weeding and tending to my modest patio of flowers and edible plants, and their colours and metaphors seeped into my writing. It is a record I am immensely proud of, and one that I hope can make others who have been through similar things feel seen and less alone.”
Revisit our Artist Spotlight Q&A with Six Jakobsen.
Gardening Cover Artwork:
Gardening Tracklist:
1. Small
2. Romain’s Place
3. Most Of The Time
4. Birthday
5. Bad By Design
6. Bad By Design (Reprise)
7. Tangerine
8. Blue
9. Sun, Moon, Stars [feat. Ane Brun]
10. Gardening
11. Gardening (Reprise)
12. The Bay
In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on September 2, 2022:
Portland singer-songwriter Mo Troper has put out his latest album, MTV, via Lame-o Records. The follow-up to 2021’s Dilettante spans 15 songs, including the previously released single ‘I Fall Into Her Arms’. “To me MTV feels like a very wild recording, and I did want to make something that’s sort of aggressive and maybe even difficult, but in some ways it’s also the most organic record I’ve made,” Troper explained in a statement. “I just felt the same kind of freedom as when I first started getting into making music, and it was impossible to make the distinction between something that was a joke or an ‘actual’ song. It’s all wrapped up in the same package.”
Winnipeg, Canada’s Living Hour have come out with their third LP, Someday Is Today, via Kanine/Next Door Records. The follow-up to 2019’s Softer Faces includes four songs released ahead of the LP: ‘Miss Miss Miss’, ‘No Body’, ‘Feelings Meeting’ with Jay Som, and ‘Middle Name’. “I feel like a lot of how I write my lyrics are through symbols,” Sam Sarty said in our Artist Spotlight interview. “It’s hard for me to understand my own emotions sometimes or name them, so I feel like the whole record is kind of me trying to explain a memory or a feeling.” She added: “This record is definitely the most vulnerable and the closest to me on a page.”
Atlanta’s Callous Daoboys have dropped the follow-up to their 2019 LP Die on Mars. It’s called Celebrity Therapist, and it features the previously released singles ‘A Brief Article Regarding Time Loops’, ‘What Is Delicious? Who Swarms?’, and ‘The Elephant in the Room’. “The whole album is about history repeating itself and how we kind of move in circles,” vocalist and keyboardist Carson Pace said in a statement. “It’s two steps forward and three steps back with a bunch of people in my life. The album is me reflecting on these people but realizing I’m guilty of the same at the end of the record. There are a lot of ‘fuck you’ songs because every heavy band likes writing those. But overall, the lyrics are more introspective and quite loving.”
Still Water is the debut full-length from producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Bailey Miller. Following her 2018 Sensitivity EP, the nearly hour-long LP centers Miller’s voice against intimate layers of harp, violin, banjo, autoharp, synths, and the occasional drum machine. It was recorded over a period of four years, in different homes, while Miller was going through what she describes as “a spiritual crisis,” adding: “Every song came from a place of great surrender.” Co-produced with Isaac Joel and released on Whited Sepulchre Records, the album previewed with the singles ‘222’ and ‘Parallel Place’.
Lean Year, the Virginia-based duo of Emilie Rex and Rick Alverson, have released their new album, Sides, via Western Vinyl. Discussing the themes of the LP, Rex explained in press materials: “We thought we’d do a concept album called Sides where we could reflect on all of the division in the world, and some in our own families, but then COVID transformed everything/everyone, and we suffered our own specific losses. The record became about loss and grief. In this way, the title Sides was still appropriate: our individual grief and collective grief, the margins of before and after, the act and feeling of during and enduring.” The album was produced by Alverson alongside Erik Hall and features contributions from Elliot Bergman and Joseph Shabason.
South African-Australian songwriter Ruby Gill has issued her debut album, I’m gonna die with this frown on my face. The 12-track LP includes the previously unveiled songs ‘Champion Ruby’, ‘Public Panic Attacks’, ‘Borderlines’, and ‘I Forgot to be Profound Today’. Recorded in Naarm with producers Tim Harvey and Marcel Borrack (Lisa Mitchell, Gena Rose Bruce, Jade Imagine), the record follows a string of singles, including 2021’s ‘You Should Do This For A Living’, which featured vocals from Angie McMahon and Maple Glider.
Megadeth, The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!; Romeo Santos, Formula Vol. 3; Bitchin Bajas, Bajascillators; George FitzGerald, Stellar Drifting; Pi’erre Bourne, GOOD MOVIE; Two Door Cinema Club, Keep on Smiling; Nina Nesbitt, Älskar; King Buffalo, Regenerator; Pale Blue Eyes, Souvenirs; Flowertruck, Partly Cloudy; Unloved, The Pink Album; SSWAN, Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster; Franc Moody, Into the Ether.
Kali Uchis has dropped a new single called ‘No Hay Ley’. It marks the artist’s first solo release since she she put out Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios) ∞ in 2020. Listen to it below.
“I wrote this song about putting love above all else,” Uchis explained in a statement. “‘En el amor no hay ley’ means ‘there are no laws to love.’ Be with who makes you happy, and don’t listen to what anyone else has to say about it because it wasn’t their business in the first place!”
Last year, Uchis shared collaborative singles with Don Toliver (‘Drugs N Hella Melodies’), Amaarae (‘Sad Girlz Luv Money’), and Omar Apollo (‘Bad Life’).
dodie has announced the Hot Mess EP, which is set for release on September 30. The four-song collection includes the early single ‘Got Weird’, and today dodie has shared the project’s title track. Check out a lyric video for it below.
“Hot Mess is the result of the messiest, most intense, painful and exhilarating start to the year,” dodie explained in a statement. “It’s a wonky, dramatic but playful cycle – charging forward but around and around, again and again. There are flickers of real moments (I really did dry heave after reading a text) in an overall desperate plea to find a way out that in no way is going to come from me!”
dodie released their debut album, Build a Problem, last year. Revisit our track-by-track interview with dodie.
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