Incubus have released a re-recorded version of their 2001 album, Morning View. Stream it below.

In a recent interview with Consequence, Incubus vocalist Brandon Boyd spoke about maintaining the “burgeoning legacy” of the original album while revisiting it for Morning View XXIII. “A lot of people love this album the way it is — it’s not like it’s broken,” he said.

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However, the band wanted to capture how the songs have “morphed and changed” over the past few decades. “They’ve evolved out into totally different arrangements and then made their way back to the original arrangement  — we’ve been playing them that long at this point,” he explained. “On the re-recording, you can tell it’s the same song, but there are different embellishments.”

Starting in late August, Incubus will perform Morning View in full on a US arena tour with special guest Coheed and Cambria (get tickets here). This past weekend, the group played BeachLife Festival in California. Read our recap of the event.

Morning View XXIII Artwork:

Morning View XXIII Tracklist:
01. Nice to Know You
02. Circles
03. Wish You Were Here
04. Just a Phase
05. 11 am
06. Blood on the Ground
07. Mexico
08. Warning
09. Echo
10. Have You Ever
11. Are You In?
12. Under My Umbrella
13. Aqueous Transmission

Such a fun movie! I took Friday off this week (not for the movie, for spring cleaning) and I went to a midday show. The perfect spring film to watch on a sunny afternoon.

Can a film be feminist by exclusion? I’m gonna say yes! This film has no violence against women, no women who are defined by their roles as wives/mothers/girlfriends, and no women who are “housewives”. And no one who finds that odd, this is the reality of the world, women work and earn money and have worries beyond partners and children.

On the other hand, there’s no actual “message” in the film. Or a lot of depth or meaning. It’s just fun, just watching these characters live their lives and hit the beats of the narrative. It’s very very pleasant, but I could easily forget it in a week. On the other hand, that means I can also come back to it in a week and watch it and enjoy it all over again, and then forget it again. A gift!

The songs are forgettable, the characters are forgettable, the plot twists are forgettable. I think what I will remember most is just the setting, the reality of the daily lives of these women. Flight Attendant is a glamorous job everywhere, and especially in India. Our heroines are beautiful women with perfect make-up and high heels and short skirts. And then the film gently pushes away that surface and shows the grind of humiliation from the superiors, low pay, corporate uncaring, long hours, and repetitive tasks. Most of all it shows that this job is not done because it is “fun” or “glamorous”, it’s because they need MONEY. And it is one of the few jobs that a woman in India can get and bring money home. Our heroines are the top earners in their household and they go into work every day so they can bring money home, just like anyone else. That’s memorable!

Watch the film for the fun, for the reality of work, for the super charming actors (Shout out to Diljit Dosanjh! Super sexy in this), for a fun girls night out, forget about it, and 3 months later watch it again for a girls night in on Netflix!

Orville Peck has released Stampede: Vol. 1, an album of duets with singers like Willie Nelson, Elton John, Nathaniel Rateliff, and more.

Originally announced back in April, Stampede: Vol. 1 comprises of seven duets — two covers and five originals. Peck previewed the album by joining Willie Nelson for a rendition of Ned Sublette’s “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other.” Orville Peck also recruited Elton John for a cover of his beloved 1973 track “Saturday Nights Alright (For Fighting).”

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Meanwhile, the album boasts original contributions from Nathaniel Rateliff, Allison Russell, Bu Cuarón, Midland, Noah Cyrus, Tobias Jesso Jr., and more. Stream Stampede: Vol. 1 below.

That cowboy must really love his horses, because Stampede: Vol. 1 is the third horse-themed album title in Orville Peck’s discography, following 2022’s Bronco and his 2019 debut, Pony. Stampede also serves as Peck’s first release on Warner Records, having previously released his last album on Columbia.

Orville Peck will be supporting Stampede with a major 2024 North American tour, which kicks off at the end of the month in Asheville, North Carolina end concludes in Brooklyn on October 20th. Get tickets to Orville Peck’s upcoming tour dates here.

Revisit our 2022 interview with Orville Peck, where he discussed the changing tides of the country genre.

Stampede: Vol. 1 Album Artwork:

Stampede: Vol. 1 Tracklist:

01. Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other (feat. Willie Nelson)
02. The Hurtin’ Kind (feat. Midland)
03. Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) (feat. Elton John)
04. Chemical Sunset (feat. Allison Russell)
05. How Far Will We Take It? (feat. Noah Cyrus)
06. Miénteme (feat. Bu Cuaron)
07. Conquer The Heart (feat. Nathaniel Rateliff)

I don’t want you to spoil yourself on this movie, because there’s a whole lot of twists and things that aren’t in the trailer. But I DO want you to spoil yourself on this movie because there’s some bits where it feels like our heroines are doing the wrong thing, and I want you to know that it’s okay.

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Our 3 heroines are all flight attendants out of necessity to support their families while they wait for their dreams to come true (Tabu to open a restaurant with her husband, Kriti to get a job as a pilot, Kareena to start her own company). Their airline is running out of money and they aren’t getting paid. So they start smuggling gold out of the country and making extra money that way. Someone tips off customs (which ruins Kriti’s romance with customs officer Diljit Dosanjh), they avoid arrest but get fired and are shamed by their coworkers who have been struggling without pay while they’ve been enjoying their illgotten gains. And then they learn that the gold they were smuggling was for the owner of the airline, who was preparing to flee the country and live high off the money he embezzled and snuck out in gold. They are furious and shamed as they realize they were part of this corporate scam. So the three women go to the Middle East and try to steal the gold back. They eventually succeed by hijacking the private plane the company owner is taking to the Cayman Islands, set him up to be arrested by customs, and ride off in the sunset with the gold. Which they then distribute to the ripped off employees.

This movie is about the actresses and the characters. It is delightful to see these 3 strong actresses playing complex women. Tabu hates her job, hates the company, but loves her husband and this is their life. She works for the salary and the savings, he stays home and cooks and delivers food while they dream of someday opening a restaurant. Her backstory is being a spoiled Beauty Queen who married into a “good” family and then they ended up thrown out of the family and scrapping on their own. She isn’t booksmart, she isn’t ambitious, she’s just working because that’s life, you work for money. On the other hand, she loves her husband and vice versa and they have a healthy happy sex life. And they have their dreams that aren’t related to family or kids or anything else. Tabu turns to illegal behavior because she is driven to it, she is at the end of her working career and has been waiting for years for things to get better.

Kriti is tough and smart and the pride of her family. Yes she also has a brother, but her parents see her as the one who will go far. They take out loans for her education, they pin all their hopes on her job. That’s a lot to put on her, and it’s especially hard to put it on a woman because, when she isn’t able to get her dream job as a pilot, the best she can do is flight attendant. She’s not Tabu, who doesn’t even have a degree, she’s impressive and accomplished. But she’s also a woman so she has to be the main wage earner of her family, on the only jobs a woman can get. Kriti turns to illegal behavior because all her smarts and abilities and everything else can get her nothing legally.

And then there’s Kareena, the most interesting and complex of the heroines. Most of her co-workers hate her, most people around her dislike her. She is openly out to make money and get rich. The only person she seems to love is her grandfather who raised her. But on the other hand, she gives almost all her cash to the bathroom attendant as a tip, routinely. And she is the voice encouraging Kriti and Tabu to dream big, to spoil themselves, to see the unfairness of the system. If she truly didn’t care about anyone, why would she be trying to help Kriti and Tabu see things differently? In the end, she is just as disgusted and ashamed and angry about helping the rich stay rich by smuggling gold as the other two. She may say she is all about money, but she isn’t really.

The first third of the movie is watching these three women deal with their daily lives as working women, and that is really interesting. The last third of the movie is watching them understand the systemic injustices and try to take down the man who was stealing their wages and their pensions and destroying lives without caring, and part of that is smuggling gold. If you are hiding money, you are probably stealing money. And if you are smuggling money OUT from India (the movie makes the point many times how odd it is to smuggle gold out), then you are stealing from India.

The middle third is where it’s a little bleh. Partly that is on purpose, the filmmakers make sure we see the contrast of the three of them being happy and laughing while their coworkers are still scrapping by and desperate about money. So we the audience never get to FULLY enjoy their spending sprees. But part of that is not on purpose, the film is just hitting the plot points so it can get to part 3.

Making smuggling “wrong” is a tough sell in Hindi films. It’s been established for years and years as the “not that bad” sort of crime. But this film makes it work! Smuggling is rich people avoiding scrutiny on what they are doing with their money. So take it back a step, why don’t they want people to see what they are doing with their money????? What choices are they making? And what choices are they making FOR OTHERS???

The first third and the last third of this film balance just right. All these employees are hanging on waiting for their paychecks and their pension because they have no other options, it’s too hard to start over with a new job. They are powerless in the hands of their boss who is making selfish choices for himself. And then the women take that power back by stealing back the gold.

Maybe the middle bit is less satisfying because we know it isn’t the women taking their power back? They are still being paid for smuggling, they have just traded one uncaring male boss for another. And they take the money and give it to their families and to corporations instead of building their own powerblock. We have the first bit where we clearly see how the power structure has trapped them, and then we have the middle bit where they have money and they are being STUPID and staying in the same patterns. It has to be like that in order to get to the end where they understand what they were doing was just supporting the same oppressors. But it’s frustrating to watch and I think the filmmakers and actresses got a little bored creating it.

Anyway, watch the movie! Women supporting women, healthy loving equal marriage, complicated motivations and (best of all) an anti-corporations message!

The soundtrack for Jane Schoenbrun’s new coming-of-age horror film I Saw the TV Glow has arrived, with songs by Sloppy Jane (featuring Phoebe Bridgers), Caroline Polachek, Bartees Strange, Jay Som, and more.

First announced in February, the soundtrack and its stacked lineup comes via A24 Music, and is available on a thematically-appropriate pink opaque vinyl. Atmospheric and diverse in style, the songs allude to the film’s emotional depth, and even contribute to the world of its narrative.

In the film, Bridgers and Sloppy Jane’s Haley Dahl appear as themselves, as do Kristina Esfandiari and her band King Woman. Also appearing in the film (albeit, as characters) are Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst, Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Conner O’Malley, and Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan (who contributed a bonus track to vinyl editions of the soundtrack).

Polachek’s song, “Starburned and Unkissed” dropped earlier this month as the soundtrack’s lead single. Additionally, Alex G composed the score for the film, which will arrive as an album of its own on May 16th.

I Saw the TV Glow is the latest film from Schoenbrum, who directed 2021’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. The plot follows two friends’ complicated lives, and their shared fandom of TV show. According to Schoenbrum, it’s “about — at least for me — a queer experience of kind of looking for glimmers of a magic that I thought couldn’t exist in real life in art and in entertainment.”

The film premiered in select cities on May 3rd and will have a wide release on May 17th. Stream the soundtrack below.

I Saw the TV Glow (Original Soundtrack) Artwork:

I Saw the TV Glow (Original Soundtrack) Tracklist:
01. yeule – Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
02. Frances Quinlan – Another Season
03. Caroline Polachek – Starburned and Unkissed
04. Florist – Riding Around in the Dark
05. Bartees Strange – Big Glow
06. Maria BC – Taper
07. King Woman – Psychic Wound
08. Jay Som – If I Could
09. L’Rain – Green
10. The Weather Station – Moonlight
11. Drab Majesty – Photograph
12. Proper – The 90s
13. Sadurn – How Can I Get Out?
14. King Woman – Bury
15. Sloppy Jane (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) – Claw Machine