Smirk, the power-pop-meets-punk-rock brainchild of Portland musician Nick Vicario, has a knack for turning tropes inside out. On his latest effort, Speculative Fiction, he reinvents suburban anhedonia with an unexpectedly meticulous, pop-forward sensibility. With help from friends like Ceremony’s Ross Farrar, Advertisement’s Ryan Mangione-Smith, and members of the Hotline TNT crew (who play in Smirk’s
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Yungblud has celebrated his “beautiful community” after revealing that he broke down following his recent performance at BludFest. The Doncaster artist (real name Dominic Harrison) shared footage on his Instagram on Wednesday (July 1) from his headline set at BludFest 2026 in Czechia on June 27, showing him becoming visibly emotional while speaking to the
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WASHINGTON — On the National Mall this week, Freedom 250 signs pointed visitors toward temporary state pavilions, a Ferris wheel and mobile, transitory history exhibits. Sponsor names appeared beside Trump-aligned programming. Some states were represented by official delegations. Others had opted out, leaving replacement displays or stripped-down booths in their place. As the country prepares
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Once, very stoned around a campfire, I asked my friends what fire was. One scientifically minded member of the group offered a dutiful-if-also-stoned explanation about chemical bonds and oxidation; it left me totally unsatisfied. “No,” I said. “But what is it?” Everyone laughed. The whole thing became a long-running joke, and rightly so. But I
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What To Know The July 2 episode of General Hospital featured a dramatic shootout in which Cassius Faison (Ryan Paevey) was shot and left bleeding. Key plot twists included the revelation that Dr. Britt Westbourne never had Huntington’s Disease and that her diagnosis was fabricated to further a cold fusion device plot. Although Cassius’s condition
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CEO of Citadel Ken Griffin is interviewed Chairman of the Milken Institute Michael Milken (not pictured) during the Milken Institute Global Conference 2025 in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 7, 2025. Mike Blake | Reuters Ken Griffin’s Citadel posted positive returns across its various hedge fund strategies in the first half of 2026, led by
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Jorja Smith has set a release date for her third album. What Are The Odds lands on FAMM on August 21, and Smith previewed it today with a new song with Wizkid, “Alive.” A music video, which follows the singers as they dance, sweat, and flirt their way through a Paris summer night. Watch it
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My Chemical Romance have announced a London release party to celebrate the upcoming deluxe edition of ‘Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys’. The seminal pop-punk band announced the re-release of their fourth and most recent studio album in May, with the original 2010 record being made available alongside a host of bonus material. Formats include 2LP picture disc, zoetrope and colour vinyl variants, as
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Vibe-coding right in your Pocket. Meta Meta appears to have soft-launched a new app called Pocket that’s aimed at getting people to vibe-code their own minigames. Mobile developer and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi spotted Pocket and posted about it to X today, but reporting platform AppFigures told TechCrunch that the app has been
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