“Drank someone else’s juice and left only the rind,” Katie Crutchfield boasts on her excellent new Waxahatchee album, Tigers Blood. She’s got a right to sound cocky. The long-time indie-rock underdog hero won herself a lot of new fans with Saint Cloud, her 2020 breakthrough hit, going for a laid-back style of heartland rock & roll twang. But Tigers Blood is even more rugged and confident, a master storyteller fully aware she’s on a hot streak. She sings about adult romance, struggling for sobriety, the day-to-day work of holding...
- 3/21/2024
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
No matter what stylistic mode Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield is working in, from the emo-infused indie-folk of 2013’s Cerulean Salt to the sterling, country-tinged heartland rock of 2020’s Saint Cloud, her music boasts a persuasive, authorial presence. Her moniker is derived from the Alabama town where she grew up—“named after a city y’ain’t never seen,” she muses on the title track of Tigers Blood—and the album, like much of her discography, is stocked with scenes of vividly rendered rural life.
What’s perhaps most striking about Crutchfield’s music is that it dares to wrestle with honest depictions of its milieu. Tigers Blood is reflective without being overly sentimental. She pushes beyond idyllic small-town imagery, exploring the recklessness of youth and the privilege that comes with it: “Drank someone else’s juice and left only the rind,” she sings on “Tigers Blood.”
The way Crutchfield’s...
What’s perhaps most striking about Crutchfield’s music is that it dares to wrestle with honest depictions of its milieu. Tigers Blood is reflective without being overly sentimental. She pushes beyond idyllic small-town imagery, exploring the recklessness of youth and the privilege that comes with it: “Drank someone else’s juice and left only the rind,” she sings on “Tigers Blood.”
The way Crutchfield’s...
- 3/16/2024
- by Charles Lyons-Burt
- Slant Magazine
Waxahatchee makes sense of a needy relationship, but with compassion, in “365.” The new song is off her upcoming album, Tigers Blood, due out March 22.
The song feels gentle with its slowly strummed guitars and organ in the background as she sings about how she lifts someone up. “Three hundred and sixty-five days,” she sings toward the end of the tune, “Tell me I’m your lucky charm/We defy gravity again/Somehow make it out unharmed.” The person to whom she’s singing is struggling with addiction, a topic...
The song feels gentle with its slowly strummed guitars and organ in the background as she sings about how she lifts someone up. “Three hundred and sixty-five days,” she sings toward the end of the tune, “Tell me I’m your lucky charm/We defy gravity again/Somehow make it out unharmed.” The person to whom she’s singing is struggling with addiction, a topic...
- 3/12/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. The takeaway from this week’s new releases can be summed up by Lainey Wilson’s new one “Country’s Cool Again,” which Queen Bey reaffirmed with her rodeo-ready new single. Beyond the country music takeover, Dua Lipa sets the bar high for future lovers, Karol G delivers a dance-ready love anthem, and Gunna gets introspective. Plus, new tracks from Ariana Grande and Mariah Carey, Schoolboy Q, and Kim Petras.
- 2/16/2024
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Welcome to Millionaires, where we profile creators who have recently crossed the one million follower mark on platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch. There are creators crossing this threshold every week, and each of them has a story to tell about their success. Read previous installments here.
Occasionally, we here at Tubefilter like to use our Millionaires column to spotlight creators who are well past one million followers, but have hit some other big -million marker. That’s the case today, where we’re tapping in Viva La Dirt League, a gamer-loving sketch group that’s been making videos on YouTube since 2011.
We got the chance to chat with Adam King, who joined Viva La in 2015, after hitting it off with Rowan Bettjeman and Alan Morrison–the group’s two founders–through the New Zealand film industry. Bettjeman and Morrison already had an established YouTube channel where they made videos about Starcraft II,...
Occasionally, we here at Tubefilter like to use our Millionaires column to spotlight creators who are well past one million followers, but have hit some other big -million marker. That’s the case today, where we’re tapping in Viva La Dirt League, a gamer-loving sketch group that’s been making videos on YouTube since 2011.
We got the chance to chat with Adam King, who joined Viva La in 2015, after hitting it off with Rowan Bettjeman and Alan Morrison–the group’s two founders–through the New Zealand film industry. Bettjeman and Morrison already had an established YouTube channel where they made videos about Starcraft II,...
- 2/15/2024
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
Waxahatchee has given us another taste of Tigers Blood, her new album out next month.
The new single, “Bored,” is a surge of upbeat Americana — just watch the excited crowd in the video below, recorded at Devil’s Backbone Tavern in Fischer, Texas. “I can get along — my spine’s a rotted two by four,” Katie Crutchfield sings. “Barely hanging on – my benevolence just hits the floor/I get bored.”
“I feel like my comfort zone when writing songs lies somewhere on the emotional spectrum of sadness and heartache,” Crutchfield said of the track.
The new single, “Bored,” is a surge of upbeat Americana — just watch the excited crowd in the video below, recorded at Devil’s Backbone Tavern in Fischer, Texas. “I can get along — my spine’s a rotted two by four,” Katie Crutchfield sings. “Barely hanging on – my benevolence just hits the floor/I get bored.”
“I feel like my comfort zone when writing songs lies somewhere on the emotional spectrum of sadness and heartache,” Crutchfield said of the track.
- 2/13/2024
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Waxahatchee is back with “Bored,” the latest single from her forthcoming album, Tigers Blood.
Built around an acoustic guitar-led arrangement, “Bored” shows off the melodic sensibilities of Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, with subtle verses blossoming into soaring choruses. Lyrically, she flows through scenes and observations, culminating with the wonderfully-resonant, nearly cathartic refrain: “I can get along, my spine’s a rotted two by four/ barely hanging on, my benevolence just hits the floor/ I get bored.”
The second song to arrive from Tigers Blood — following last month’s “Right Back to It,” named Song of the Week — the new single, “Bored,” arrives with a music video depicting Crutchfield performing live at Devil’s Backbone Tavern in Fischer, Texas. Watch the video below.
First announced earlier this year, Tigers Blood is due in full on March 22nd via Anti-. Pre-orders for the album are ongoing.
Up next, Waxahatchee will hit...
Built around an acoustic guitar-led arrangement, “Bored” shows off the melodic sensibilities of Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, with subtle verses blossoming into soaring choruses. Lyrically, she flows through scenes and observations, culminating with the wonderfully-resonant, nearly cathartic refrain: “I can get along, my spine’s a rotted two by four/ barely hanging on, my benevolence just hits the floor/ I get bored.”
The second song to arrive from Tigers Blood — following last month’s “Right Back to It,” named Song of the Week — the new single, “Bored,” arrives with a music video depicting Crutchfield performing live at Devil’s Backbone Tavern in Fischer, Texas. Watch the video below.
First announced earlier this year, Tigers Blood is due in full on March 22nd via Anti-. Pre-orders for the album are ongoing.
Up next, Waxahatchee will hit...
- 2/13/2024
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: Drink (Responsibly) Every Time They Say “Cat”
Like midnight movie canonization, the Cat Distribution System works in mysterious ways. The term, as made popular on TikTok, refers to an informal branch of feline government by which every cat-human connection is ostensibly forged. Whether you met Mittens at your local animal shelter — or found Paul Gia-Meowti in an empty boarding school over Christmas break — the central tenets of the C.D.S. suggest that any time a cat and owner find one another that connection was somehow fated.
Watching a grindhouse...
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: Drink (Responsibly) Every Time They Say “Cat”
Like midnight movie canonization, the Cat Distribution System works in mysterious ways. The term, as made popular on TikTok, refers to an informal branch of feline government by which every cat-human connection is ostensibly forged. Whether you met Mittens at your local animal shelter — or found Paul Gia-Meowti in an empty boarding school over Christmas break — the central tenets of the C.D.S. suggest that any time a cat and owner find one another that connection was somehow fated.
Watching a grindhouse...
- 2/3/2024
- by Alison Foreman and Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Katie Crutchfield’s indie folk project Waxahatchee has announced a new album, Tigers Blood, out March 22nd via her new label home Anti-. Along with the news comes lead single “Right Back to It,” as well as a run of US tour dates in 2024.
Crutchfield wrote most of the songs on Tigers Blood during what she calls a “hot hand spell,” while on tour near the end of 2022. She reunited with producer Brad Cook, who also produced her 2020 album Saint Cloud, and welcomed onboard some new collaborators including Mj Lenderman and Spencer Tweedy. Pre-orders are ongoing.
“Right Back to It” sees Crutchfield lean into her country side, singing alongside an arpeggiated banjo jangle courtesy of Phil Cook as Lenderman joins her in harmony on the choruses. On it, Crutchfield reflects on maintaining a long-term romantic relationship, and the bittersweet beauty of building a partnership that can outlast your worries:...
Crutchfield wrote most of the songs on Tigers Blood during what she calls a “hot hand spell,” while on tour near the end of 2022. She reunited with producer Brad Cook, who also produced her 2020 album Saint Cloud, and welcomed onboard some new collaborators including Mj Lenderman and Spencer Tweedy. Pre-orders are ongoing.
“Right Back to It” sees Crutchfield lean into her country side, singing alongside an arpeggiated banjo jangle courtesy of Phil Cook as Lenderman joins her in harmony on the choruses. On it, Crutchfield reflects on maintaining a long-term romantic relationship, and the bittersweet beauty of building a partnership that can outlast your worries:...
- 1/9/2024
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
It’s been three years since we’ve had a new Waxahatchee album, but the wait is over: Katie Crutchfield will release Tigers Blood on March 22 via Anti-.
Crutchfield previewed the long-awaited album with the lead single “Right Back to It,” a duet with Wednesday’s Mj Lenderman. It’s an Americana burner full of tender twang, with lines chronicling a longtime love. The video, which you can watch below, features Crutchfield and Lenderman in Caddo Lake, Texas, serenely riding in a low boat.
According to Crutchfield, “Right Back...
Crutchfield previewed the long-awaited album with the lead single “Right Back to It,” a duet with Wednesday’s Mj Lenderman. It’s an Americana burner full of tender twang, with lines chronicling a longtime love. The video, which you can watch below, features Crutchfield and Lenderman in Caddo Lake, Texas, serenely riding in a low boat.
According to Crutchfield, “Right Back...
- 1/9/2024
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
QuarXX’s “This Thing Inside of Me,” Caye Casas’ “Malamuerte” and maybe the biggest buzz title in the whole selection, Sean Wainsteim’s “Idaho Winter,” a multi-media mashup, feature in a robust, variegated lineup at Sitges FanPitch, which is quickly establishing itself as a key early fall global genre project platform drawing on titles from not only Spain but Europe, Latin and North America and Asia.
Unspooling Oct. 6-7, the FanPitch ranks as one industry centrepiece at the Sitges, International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, a hallowed genre fest Mecca and one of the most important in Europe.
Projects range widely from multiple psychological thrillers, often driving deep into protagonists’ deep trauma, to black horror-comedy, stylish scarefests, near-future allegories, the allegedly true-event paranormal, and vampire actioners.
One title, “Idaho Winter,” is billed as “YA meta-fiction.” Another, fantastical series “The Lost Gods of Memphis,” surely the biggest budgeted of all projects at this year’s FanPitch,...
Unspooling Oct. 6-7, the FanPitch ranks as one industry centrepiece at the Sitges, International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, a hallowed genre fest Mecca and one of the most important in Europe.
Projects range widely from multiple psychological thrillers, often driving deep into protagonists’ deep trauma, to black horror-comedy, stylish scarefests, near-future allegories, the allegedly true-event paranormal, and vampire actioners.
One title, “Idaho Winter,” is billed as “YA meta-fiction.” Another, fantastical series “The Lost Gods of Memphis,” surely the biggest budgeted of all projects at this year’s FanPitch,...
- 9/20/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
There were plenty of incredible performances at MTV’s Video Music Awards on Sunday, from a Nicki Minaj medley to a Bad Bunny show that went viral when he kissed a male backup dancer. The ceremony wasn’t without some duds, though which it came in the form of a collab with Eminem and Snoop Dogg to plug the metaverse and their Bored Ape NFTs.
The two rappers get transported into a digital world by way of Eminem getting a contact high from Snoop onstage, and we are then treated to clunky 3D models of the two of them on a flying stage that quickly morph into their Bored Ape avatars rapping verses.
Both Eminem and Snoop Dogg sounded fine, though seeing their Bored Apes walk jerkily around with minimal personality between sets made the show look more like an early video game cutscene than cutting-edge tech. Plus, the digitized...
The two rappers get transported into a digital world by way of Eminem getting a contact high from Snoop onstage, and we are then treated to clunky 3D models of the two of them on a flying stage that quickly morph into their Bored Ape avatars rapping verses.
Both Eminem and Snoop Dogg sounded fine, though seeing their Bored Apes walk jerkily around with minimal personality between sets made the show look more like an early video game cutscene than cutting-edge tech. Plus, the digitized...
- 8/30/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have created a multitude of new opportunities for artists to take control of their work. But the blockchain technology is not without its risks, as Seth Green now knows all too well.
The actor and “Robot Chicken” creator has spent much of the past year developing a new show based on an Nft he purchased from the Bored Ape Yacht Club. The series, “White Horse Tavern,” was set to be centered around Bored Ape Yacht Club #8398, an ape cartoon that Green acquired in 2021. People who purchase the popular (and expensive) Bored Ape NFTs have complete ownership of their character, and are free to use it to develop commercial projects. Many saw Green’s series as an exciting example of Nft culture merging with mainstream entertainment.
But progress on the show has halted because, as a new BuzzFeed story details, Green’s ape Nft was allegedly stolen from him in a hack.
The actor and “Robot Chicken” creator has spent much of the past year developing a new show based on an Nft he purchased from the Bored Ape Yacht Club. The series, “White Horse Tavern,” was set to be centered around Bored Ape Yacht Club #8398, an ape cartoon that Green acquired in 2021. People who purchase the popular (and expensive) Bored Ape NFTs have complete ownership of their character, and are free to use it to develop commercial projects. Many saw Green’s series as an exciting example of Nft culture merging with mainstream entertainment.
But progress on the show has halted because, as a new BuzzFeed story details, Green’s ape Nft was allegedly stolen from him in a hack.
- 5/30/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
“The Alienist’s” Rosy McEwen has boarded Georgia Oakley’s upcoming feature “Blue Jean” in the lead role.
McEwen, who was named one of Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch 2020, will play the eponymous Jean, a teacher who finds herself grappling with her identity during the tail-end of the 1980s.
Oakley, whose debut short film “Little Bird” was nominated for best narrative short film at Tribeca Film Festival, is directing the film from her original screenplay.
“Jean is a woman forced to wear multiple masks in the different areas of her life, and as such she has this sort of taut, cloistered energy that Rosy has absolutely mastered,” Oakley said in a statement. “I think it takes an actor such as Rosy, with such intelligence and poise to communicate these kinds of complex emotions; I can’t wait to work with her to bring Jean to life.”
McEwen said of the...
McEwen, who was named one of Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch 2020, will play the eponymous Jean, a teacher who finds herself grappling with her identity during the tail-end of the 1980s.
Oakley, whose debut short film “Little Bird” was nominated for best narrative short film at Tribeca Film Festival, is directing the film from her original screenplay.
“Jean is a woman forced to wear multiple masks in the different areas of her life, and as such she has this sort of taut, cloistered energy that Rosy has absolutely mastered,” Oakley said in a statement. “I think it takes an actor such as Rosy, with such intelligence and poise to communicate these kinds of complex emotions; I can’t wait to work with her to bring Jean to life.”
McEwen said of the...
- 2/21/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Opening Night of the First Billie Eilish Tour in Two Years Was Everything Fans Hoped For (Plus Rain)
Outside New Orleans’ Smoothie King Center on Thursday night, a torrential downpour turned the scene into an accidental remake of Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever” video. It was an appropriately epic meteorological moment, as the 20-year-old had just touched down in the city for the start of her new world tour. Finally.
In the spring of 2020, Eilish made it three dates into her biggest headlining trek ever before Covid-19 forced her to postpone then eventually cancel the tour. Her sudden free time allowed her to complete her second album,...
In the spring of 2020, Eilish made it three dates into her biggest headlining trek ever before Covid-19 forced her to postpone then eventually cancel the tour. Her sudden free time allowed her to complete her second album,...
- 2/4/2022
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
Billie Eilish not only has the No. 1 album in the country—Happier Than Ever—she’s also the subject of the Emmy-nominated documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry, directed by R.J. Cutler.
The Apple Original Films doc chronicling the Grammy-winning teenage singer-songwriter’s creative process, family life, astonishing rise and adjustment to worldwide fame earned Emmy nominations in four categories including music direction, sound mixing, sound editing and picture editing.
Music director and music mixer, Aron Forbes, a double Emmy nominee, has worked with Eilish for years already, and co-wrote one of her earliest hits, “Bored.” Eilish performs the song early in the film.
“She was 13 years old when I wrote that with her, which is just unbelievable to think about,” Forbes said during a panel discussion for the documentary at Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees awards-season event. Forbes said knowing Eilish as well as he does...
The Apple Original Films doc chronicling the Grammy-winning teenage singer-songwriter’s creative process, family life, astonishing rise and adjustment to worldwide fame earned Emmy nominations in four categories including music direction, sound mixing, sound editing and picture editing.
Music director and music mixer, Aron Forbes, a double Emmy nominee, has worked with Eilish for years already, and co-wrote one of her earliest hits, “Bored.” Eilish performs the song early in the film.
“She was 13 years old when I wrote that with her, which is just unbelievable to think about,” Forbes said during a panel discussion for the documentary at Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees awards-season event. Forbes said knowing Eilish as well as he does...
- 8/14/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Studio71 has linked up with Lithuanian DIY and crafts media company Bored Panda Group to sign 16 of its YouTube channels.
Bored Panda's flagship YouTube hub, Crafty Panda -- which counts 19 million subscribers on the strength of its bizarre how-to videos, such as My Girlfriend Is a College Queen/How to Become Popular at School -- is now joining the Studio71 family, as are its Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Arabic, and Indonesian-language iterations. Other signings include the similarly-themed Kaboom (1.8 million subscribers), female-focused Girly Panda, and quirky news channel Bored Panda
The rest of the signings include: Astuces du Panda, Crafty Panda Go, Crafty Panda School, Dear Diary, Hacks von Panda, Kaboom Zoom, Kaboom! Indonesian, Kaboom! Spanish, Kreatif Panda, Trucos Panda, Truques do Panda, and باندا الإبداعات.
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Bored Panda's flagship YouTube hub, Crafty Panda -- which counts 19 million subscribers on the strength of its bizarre how-to videos, such as My Girlfriend Is a College Queen/How to Become Popular at School -- is now joining the Studio71 family, as are its Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Arabic, and Indonesian-language iterations. Other signings include the similarly-themed Kaboom (1.8 million subscribers), female-focused Girly Panda, and quirky news channel Bored Panda
The rest of the signings include: Astuces du Panda, Crafty Panda Go, Crafty Panda School, Dear Diary, Hacks von Panda, Kaboom Zoom, Kaboom! Indonesian, Kaboom! Spanish, Kreatif Panda, Trucos Panda, Truques do Panda, and باندا الإبداعات.
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- 7/26/2021
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
(The SXSW Film Festival may have been cancelled, but our coverage will go on with reviews of films and TV shows made available to our critics.) There’s this weird in-between time when you’ve put in the work for a thing but the work for said thing hasn’t paid off just yet. That feeling manages to […]
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- 4/3/2020
- by Amelia Emberwing
- Slash Film
Anime continues to push boundaries not only in animation, but also in terms of what can be accomplished in a television series.
There are now more ways than ever to stream anime. These anime streaming services offer deep libraries that can be overwhelming. There are countless anime landmark shows worth your time, but here’s a list of some of the most impressive new anime series to come out in 2019 and 2020 to help cut through the noise and alleviate those anime streaming woes.
Mob Psycho 100 II
What’s It Like? Bored to Death meets Legion
Where Can I Watch It? Crunchyroll, Funimation (Sub and Dub), Adult Swim (Dub only)
There’s nothing like a good comeback story. Few anime have such incredible turnarounds between seasons as Mob Psycho 100 did. During the show’s first season, the creator’s sister series, One-Punch Man, was the more impressive of the two.
There are now more ways than ever to stream anime. These anime streaming services offer deep libraries that can be overwhelming. There are countless anime landmark shows worth your time, but here’s a list of some of the most impressive new anime series to come out in 2019 and 2020 to help cut through the noise and alleviate those anime streaming woes.
Mob Psycho 100 II
What’s It Like? Bored to Death meets Legion
Where Can I Watch It? Crunchyroll, Funimation (Sub and Dub), Adult Swim (Dub only)
There’s nothing like a good comeback story. Few anime have such incredible turnarounds between seasons as Mob Psycho 100 did. During the show’s first season, the creator’s sister series, One-Punch Man, was the more impressive of the two.
- 3/23/2020
- by Chris Longo
- Den of Geek
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