Irish rock band NewDad have announced their second album, Altar, which is due for release on September 19. The Madra follow-up is led by the propulsive new single ‘Roobosh’, which is accompanied by a one-shot video from Peter Eason Daniels and Rory Mullen. Check it out below.
“’Roobosh’ is just about being fed up,” frontwoman Julie Dawson commented in a press release. “I wanted to write one song for the album that allowed me to shout, to get out all my frustration. Women get angry and we are expected to contain our rage but on this song I just allowed myself to go there. I wanted a song where I could moan and scream cause we all need to do that every once in a while and honestly it was just a bit of fun, letting myself get angry when I never allow myself to.”
Danny L Harle has teamed up with PinkPantheress for a new single called ‘Starlight’. Though Harle has kept busy as a producer, writer, and remixer – working with the likes of Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX, Dua Lipa, and more – the luminous yet shadowy dance track marks his first solo release since 2021’s Harlecore. Check it out below.
“’Starlight’ reaches for a kind of euphoric melancholy – a guiding light in all of my music,” Harle explained in a press release. “It’s shaped by my love of the melancholic songwriting traditions of Europe from composers like Monteverdi and John Dowland, all the way to 90s Eurodance and the uplifting trance of the 2000s – artists like Gigi D’Agostino and Alice Deejay. PinkPantheress is the dream collaborator for this song, her love for ornamental melodies and hypnotic lyricism fit perfectly into my sound world.”
Syd – singer-songwriter, producer, and leader of the Internet – is back with her first solo song in three years, ‘Die for This’. The slinky, hazy track arrives ahead of her tour as Billie Eilish’s opening act, and you can check it out below.
Couchtuner was one of the most popular streaming sites. But due to legal pressure and site takedowns, it hasn’t been reliable for a while now. Similarly, it has many broken pages and fake duplicate sites. Its dwindling reliability forces users to dig for Couchtuner alternatives to catch up on shows and movies. They want new sites that will deliver quality experience.
This article presents actual streaming choices with real updates from Reddit and current mirrors.
Five Recommended Couchtuner Alternatives
Peacock
Peacock is a subscription-based streaming platform from NBCUniversal. Its premium plan starts at only $7.99 per month, and the plus plan comes at $13.99 a month. Also, these deals give users access to movies, TV shows, original content, live news, and sports programs.
Movie2k
Movie2k has a large catalog of movies and TV shows. Specifically, it claims to have more than 200,000 media files. It says there are no ads, too. At the same time, the site contains several titles in full HD quality. It has become a go-to website for users who want free access to entertainment content.
Braflix
Braflix is another streaming website that promises free content without ads. Similarly, viewers do not need to pay, subscribe, or register to enjoy thousands of films and TV series. Also, its content is well-organized in categories. It even has a dedicated section for top-rated titles on IMDb. It could be a popular replacement for Couchtuner.
HiMovies
HiMovies delivers movies and TV shows to online viewers for free. Similar to other sites on the list, this platform says its content has zero ads. It stands out with its large selection of high-definition movies and TV series. Specifically, there are more than 10,000 titles that users can choose from.
Streamflix
Streamflix is a promising contender among Couchtuner alternatives. It offers unlimited movies and TV shows for free. Anyone can watch or stream content in full high-definition. Also, the content includes local and international titles.
Available Mirror Sites for Couchtuner
Couchtuner mirrors are alternative domains that duplicate the main website. But they are worse than the original site, as they frequently get taken down. That being said, there are not many mirror sites available for Couchtuner. As of now, the working domain is https://www.couchtuner.show/.
Reddit News About Couchtuner
There is not much info about Couchtuner. Aside from a user on the r/Piracy thread who shared that Couchtuner does an okay job but does not update often. Still, it’s best to follow the thread to catch additional reminders about streaming.
Final Notes
Couchtuner is still accessible, but it’s not as reliable as before. So, you should be open to trying out these great streaming alternatives. But remember that some of them do not operate within legal bounds. That can expose you to legal risks and security dangers. You should always be mindful of what you access to maintain a fun streaming session.
The digital world has continuously evolved. But torrenting is still alive and kicking in 2025. Yes — streaming essentially dominates most media consumption. However, peer-to-peer file sharing remains a popular choice. That’s mostly true for users who want to download large files, software, or niche content. In short, there is still a relatively big community that prefers downloading from a Torrent site.
If you’re looking for reliable torrent sites that still work, our list is perfect for you.
Five Best Torrent Sites
The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay is a true veteran in the torrent scene. This globally famous site allows users to download a bunch of stuff. Specifically, they can find movies, software, music, games, and more. Likewise, this is why it remains to be a go-to source for all types of content. It’s still a frequently visited site despite facing several takedowns and legal issues. Hence, the inclusion on the list.
TorrentGalaxy
TorrentGalaxy quickly gained a solid reputation in spite of being a newcomer in the Torrent field. The reason behind its immediate popularity is its extensive range of files and features. Similarly, users can find, download, and share magnet links and torrent files.
1337x
1337x is a website that gives a directory of torrent files and magnet links. At the same time, these are used for peer-to-peer file sharing. Also, the site boasts its clean design and easy navigation. Aside from this, it offers movies, games, software, TV shows, and a lot more. It’s even one of the most popular torrent websites during its peak. So, that means it has fewer dead links and more verified uploads.
Nyaa
Nyaa focuses on providing Eastern Asian media. Particularly, its offering revolves around Japanese, Korean, and Chinese media. Likewise, it includes anime-dedicated content. From manga to music, this torrent site is a top choice for Anime fans.
LimeTorrents
LimeTorrents is a general Torrent download indexer. In simple words, it works as a directory and search engine for torrent files and magnet links. On top of that, it is a reliable backup when other sites are down. The main reason is that it delivers a large collection of torrents across all categories.
Legal and Safety Reminders
Downloading copyrighted material without permission and proper rights is illegal and unethical. Remember to share or download files that you only have the rights to. Similarly, stick to verified torrents to avoid malware. Also, it’s best to support official releases.
Final Thoughts
These torrent sites remain widely used in 2025. However, using them requires a sense of responsibility. Always use trusted sources and respect intellectual property rights.
Baltimore hardcore outfit Angel Du$ have signed to Run for Cover Records , marking the announcement with a 7″ single featuring the songs ‘The Beat’ and ‘The Knife’. The rip-roaring ‘The Beat’, which boasts guest vocals from Taylor Young (Twitching Tongues, God’s Hate, Deadbody, Regional Justice Center), comes paired with a video directed by Blaise Cepis. While ‘The Knife’ doesn’t have a visual, it’s quite unnerving on its own. Take a listen below.
About working with Run for Cover, the band’s Justice Tripp shared: “It was just so organic and natural. As long as I’ve been involved with music the RFC people have been friends to me and have been showing me the ropes, but I always kind of thought AD just wasn’t their bag and never thought about asking them about putting out our music. Then when it finally came up it just seemed like the most obvious right fit for us. I just hold them in such a high regard, and stylistically they obviously do a lot of different stuff, but I think it really makes sense: they’re creative, alternative, sometimes heavy — just like Angel Du$t.”
‘The Beat’ and ‘The Knife’ mark the band’s first new music since 2023’s Brand New Soul.
Saintseneca have announced their first album since 2018’s Pillar of Na. Highwalllow & Supermoon Songs is set for release on October 31 via Lame-O Records. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the seven-minute epic ‘Infinity Leaf Clover’, which is one to get lost in. Check it out below, along with the album cover (an original painting by bandleader Zac Little) and tracklist.
Technically spanning 21 tracks, the new album is billed as “a ten-song landscape orbited by two sonic ‘moons’, Viridian Moon (tracks 11-16) and Cinnamon Moon (tracks 17-21).” Zac Little explained, “I wanted this album to reflect that—some songs were found on the landscape, others were found on two moons, orbiting that landscape like satellites, disparate pieces pulling on each other, creating a world of song.”
Little worked on the LP with longtime collaborator Glenn Davis, with Bright Eyes’ Mike Mogis handling the mixing. “I found that I circled back to the country music that I grew up listening to and always wanted to run from, but then I just wanted to hear it,” he added. “The voice of George Jones, raw and razor sharp with emotion, the alchemical perfection of Hank Williams’ songwriting, Dolly Parton’s crushing melodies. They seemed to effortlessly cut through the air, floating in the atmosphere like perfume even after the songs stopped.”
Commenting on the new song, Little said: “I was under a heavy cloud when I found the perfect 4 leaf clover. I’d searched my entire life, mulling over patches of grass. My efforts always fruitless. One dark afternoon, I looked down. At my feet, four bright green hearts intricately formed, kissing at the points in a clover – twin infinities. I felt it was a love poem placed there just for me. The language of plant matter twisted with a flourish. I felt better. I laid in my backyard and the shadow of a tree passed over a fence post. An improvised sundial. Looking down at my timepiece – 5 o’ clock. Hah, the 5 o’ clock shadow! And just as I noticed, the moment slipped away, the shadow passed – on to where moments go, I suppose. Now it’s 5 o’ clock somewhere else…”
Highwalllow & Supermoon Songs Cover Artwork:
Highwalllow & Supermoon Songs Tracklist:
Highwalllow:
1. High Walllow
2. You Have To Lose Your Hat Someday
3. Sweet Nothing
4. In A Way
5. Escape Artist
6. Non Prophet
7. Holy Hock
8. Hill Still Nameless
9. Infinity Leaf Clover
10. Hot Water Song Viridian Moon:
11. Burnt Hand Hymn
12. May Day
13. Battery Lifer
14. Green Ink Pen
15. Long Winter Cinnamon Moon:
16. Smoke Punching
17. I Don’t Know Why Double Birthday
18. Wild Violent
19. Mt S
20. Bitter Suite
21. Vanishing Point
While fulfilling her contractual obligations with RCA and Kemosabe Records, Kesha used her records as a playground for experimentation. 2017’s Rainbow, 2020’s High Road, and 2023’s Gag Order weren’t perfect, but they ambitiously swayed back and forth between new territory (country, gospel, hyperpop) and old (the party-pop she helped invent with Animal) while giving her permission to be both messy and vulnerable. There’s no doubt that Kesha sounds newly liberated and no less chaotic on her sixth album and first independent release, . (PERIOD), yet it also feels oddly hesitant to take a bolder, more decisive step forward, be it by blending those styles or matching its carefree attitude with more careful production. For every moment that’s deliriously catchy, there’s another that grates. “I really do split my life,” she told Vogue. “It’s like half pop star, half hippie in the woods trying to reach my highest potential and spiritual power.” Instead of giving each side equal weight, . (PERIOD) loses itself somewhere in the middle, feeling, ironically, elliptical.
1. FREEDOM.
A six-and-a-half minute opener drifting from heavenly ambient to sure-footed nu disco, ‘FREEDOM’ is as much a bridge between records as it is an indicator of . (PERIOD)’s gleefully uneven nature. Co-producers Jonathan Wilson and Drew Erickson, who helped Angel Olsen wade into a similarly wide-eyed sense of freedom on 2022’s Big Time, render it a seamless transition, which Kesha overrides with an ironically pitched-down voice: “Narcissism! It makes you happy!” Her distinctive proclamations get the party rolling: “I only drink when I’m happy and I’m drunk right now.” After commanding to be taken to the sex shop, a little distortion bleeds into her voice when she adds, “Bitch.” A song like this is a grand symbolic gesture, but it’s in those small twists and details that her personality comes through.
2. JOYRIDE.
Kesha revs her engine with a goofy accordion sample and a pretty infectious chorus, but a whole year after its release, it’s clear the album’s lead single doesn’t have that much staying power. With lines like “A label whore, but I’m bored of wearing clothes,” though, its absurdity is all the more refreshing. You bet that a few years down the line, when the engine’s even more rusted, it’s only going to sound better.
3. YIPPEE-KI-YAY.
With a steep turn towards country-pop, the kookiness starts to become grating, and the fault’s really in the production. Does every beat and syllable really need this much oomph? The bass that much of a kick, the vocals so many layers, every synth a firework? Trashiness can be delightful, but it should be able to speak for itself.
4. DELUSIONAL.
“Thanks for the heartbreak, it gets my bills paid/ You just keep chasin’ the sun,” Kesha sings on this middling power ballad, the subtext behind the metaphor being that the guy broke up with her when she didn’t take him to Taylor Swift’s party. You’d want to write a song about that, but it doesn’t have to be a song that sounds like it was written this quickly, only for the production to once again blow any real hint of emotion to bits. It’s those booming drums that might be doing most of the damage; hearing them gone at the very end of the song almost made me feel something.
5. RED FLAG.
This is more like it: ‘RED FLAG’ might be straight-down-the-middle club pop, the safest avenue for Kesha’s irreverent tendencies, but it works so well here. BRAT fatigue notwithstanding, it brings the energy back up. Or as Kesha puts it – referring, of course, to her taste in men: “Something so wrong does it so right every time.”
6. LOVE FOREVER.
A sleek bit of Random Access Memories-indebted disco whose cloying chorus makes eternal love sound the least desirable thing one could imagine. Kesha’s playful enunciation in the verses can’t do much to salvage the track, which is produced by Stuart Crichton, the same person who helmed her much-better Eagles of Death Metal collab ‘Let Em’ Talk’.
7. THE ONE.
It’s tempting to call this the worst song on the album, mostly because it sounds the least like Kesha, her voice swallowed up just as she declares that she’s the one. Zhone’s production is really hit and miss on . (PERIOD), but this is way off, sounding huge without much to back it up.
8. BOY CRAZY.
This is more of a hit, a hornily deranged slice of brat-pop that comes a little too late but lands better than ‘Spring Breakers featuring Kesha’ – even if it still makes more sense as an idea than it works in execution.
9. GLOW.
A post-breakup anthem on the other side of ‘DELUSIONAL.’, and what a difference the shift in production makes. Hudson Mohawke’s glitchy, minimal keys and slightly off-kilter beat leave space for Kesha’s sense of humour (“Taste all them boys like a charcuterie board”), punctuating it when necessary (“You on my TikTok, I’m the fucking OG”). Keeping things a little low-key only makes her sound more radiant – the difference between a period and an exclamation mark, if you will.
10. TOO HARD.
Essentially a sequel to ‘LOVE FOREVER.’, with a sense of disappointment creeping in: “No wonder all my love was not enough/ To heal the sadness you hide.” Yet the sentiment of the chorus remains oddly unchanged, reminding the heartbreaker that she will always love him. The song, though, shouldn’t be so easy to forget.
11. CATHEDRAL.
The song’s wispy piano and religious imagery brings the album full circle, but ‘CATHEDRAL.’ isn’t the powerhouse closer it could’ve been. Kesha’s voice has all the gravitas in the world as she finally lays out her journey to freedom, but it’s strangely muffled, as if mirroring her effort to “numb the pain.” You can hear her “gasping for breath,” but instead of opening up when the beat kicks in, it’s just overbearing. “Every second is a new beginning,” she declares, screaming her heart out. Hopefully the next one’s worth every second.
Frank Ocean’s “Blonde,” or “blond,” vinyl regularly sells for over $1,000 on secondary markets. That’s nearly 30 times its original $35 retail price. This price hike makes it one of the most expensive modern vinyl releases you can buy, and fans naturally wonder why exactly Blonde’s vinyl version is so expensive.
Frank Ocean, the R&B artist, released his second studio album “Blonde” in 2016 after a four-year hiatus, which also named his Apple Music show the Blonded Radio. During those years of silence, Ocean’s fanbase grew increasingly hungry for new material. This helped set the stage for a chaotic album release and a rare vinyl release.
Blonde is widely considered a modern classic, but it’s not the music that makes this vinyl so expensive; it’s how Ocean chose to release it.
Why is Blonde vinyl so rare and expensive?
Frank Ocean’s “Blonde” vinyl is rare and expensive because of scarcity and demand. The “Blonde” vinyl became expensive because it was deliberately limited and highly anticipated.
Here are the key factors that turned a $35 record into a four-figure collector’s item:
24-hour exclusive sale window: The vinyl was only available for purchase during a single day on Black Friday 2016.
Limited production: Industry estimates suggest only around 1,000 copies were ever produced, but exact numbers aren’t confirmed.
Reseller market explosion: Early buyers realized they owned something valuable and drove up the secondary market prices.
During the peak levels of hype, finding an affordable “Blonde” vinyl would have worse odds than backing the biggest underdog on betting apps. Music fans can also be quite devoted, like sports enthusiasts. While some can turn this devotion into motivation to bet on competitions like Eurovision, others may focus on collecting rare pieces of music.
Is Blonde on vinyl worth it?
Frank Ocean’s “Blonde” is worth it on vinyl if you’re a collector or a devoted fan of the artist. However, you can skip the vinyl and stream the album online in high quality for a fraction of the cost if you’re a casual listener.
Overall, it’s worth it if you’re:
A devoted Frank Ocean superfan
A serious vinyl collector
A completist who needs to own physical copies of their favorite albums
It’s probably not worth it if you’re:
Working with a limited budget for music purchases
Fine with just streaming music online
However, things have gotten noticeably better in recent years. Finding an authentic Blonde vinyl is easier now. Frank Ocean occasionally restocks the vinyl on his official website, Blonded.co, for around $65. These drops are still rare, and they sell out within minutes.
On secondary markets, like eBay, you’ll find copies ranging from $100 to $200. Some of these can be unofficial bootleg versions, so you’ll need to do your due diligence as a buyer.
When you’re answering emails, attending meetings, and hustling nonstop, it might feel like creativity gets pushed to the sidelines of your life. However, there’s always room for creative hobbies, even if you have the busiest schedule. You just need to find the creative outlets that make sense with the hustle and bustle of your life. If you want to make space to be creative again, even with a full work calendar, here are five creative hobbies that will fit right into your schedule.
Learning to Play an Instrument
Learning how to play an instrument, whether it’s the piano or a ukulele, lets you express your creativity by finding your rhythm (literally!). It’s a classic way to flex those creative muscles in between meetings and work events.
Don’t know where to start when your schedule is so packed? Look for ways to learn how to play the instrument of your choice online, like with South Shore Piano School lessons. Since it’s all online, it’s perfect for squeezing into evenings or weekends when you want to reclaim your life from the office and play a little music!
Watercoloring
Watercolor is one of the best artistic mediums you can play around with. It’s a soft, forgiving medium that lets you have fun blending colors without a lot of pressure. At the office, keep a small watercolor kit with you that has a brush, paint palette, and paper. During breaks or in between meetings, try painting whatever is in front of you, or even just some pretty gradients to calm you down and get those artistic juices flowing.
Bullet Journaling
A bullet journal is a mix between a diary, planner, and creative sketchbook. You can use it to get organized with to-do lists or accounts of your day, or get creative with doodles and drawings. Others use it as a mindfulness tool, so you can tie it in with your daily meditation routine as well. It’s a terrific way to get creative while keeping your busy life in check in a practical way.
Beginner Photography
If you want to get into photography but don’t have the time or resources, you can always practice your skills in between the busiest parts of your day with a phone camera. Pick a weekly photography theme to practice, from movements to textures to colors, then take a few snaps a day. Over time, you’ll start to see the world through a more creative lens, even at your busiest.
Knitting or Crocheting
Repetitive handwork isn’t relaxing. It’s also creative because you get to make something with your bare hands, whether it’s scarves, bags, or even clothes. Keep a small knitting or crocheting project in your bag so that you can whip it out and work on some stitches, even for five to 10 minutes at a time. It’s a fantastic way to recharge in between meetings and deliverables at work or wind down in bed after an exhausting day.
Endnote
You don’t need a full weekend to let those creative juices flow with a new hobby. With just a few minutes of intention every day, you can play a few chords, color a new page, or crochet something small, even if you’re super busy. In between the hectic moments, recharge with these creative hobbies. Your schedule may be packed, but there’s always a way to get creative.
