Bastard

Track will appear on the band's upcoming 14th studio album, Saviors Fresh off of somehow managing to shock conservatives with their famously anti-Trump, left-of-center political views, Green Day are back with a new song, “One Eyed Bastard.” The track begins with a classic heavy metal riff before launching into the kind of bruising, big guitar anthems Green Day was delivering on American Idiot (the careening power chords even bear a slight resemblance to “Holiday”). “Vendetta is a friend of…

Image: NetflixTV shows getting canceled are never fun, particularly when they’re at Netflix. The streamer puts out so much content that it’s hard to know what their metrics are for success—at least, until they vaguely allude to these supposed success stories—and it turns, it’s all the easier for shows to get the axe out of nowhere.Everyone has their own examples of a Netflix show that’s abruptly got canned, and now the newest show to fall is The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself, which released back towards the end of…

Joe Barton attends Sky “Up Next” ArrivalsImage: Eamonn M. McCormack / Stringer (Getty Images)A few weeks ago, without a lot of fanfare, Netflix dropped one of the most exciting and gritty YA series of 2022: The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself. Adapted from Sally Green’s series of novels that started with Half Bad, the show follows a young witch, Nathan (Jay Lycurgo), as he attempts to escape the clutches of a clan of witches and get his father’s blood before he comes into his powers. He’s joined by his friends…

A bisexual baby witch, his destructo-bomb GF and his punk croissant BF just out to destroy the systems of power, NBDImage: NetflixIn late October, Netflix released an adaptation of Sally Green’s Half Bad, renamed The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself, without much fanfare. In a world divided between witches and fains, two warring clans of magic-users fight over legacy, tradition, and power; creating a brutal rift in between Fairborn witches and Blood witches, whose differences seem more ideological than practical.…

“Been living with HIV since 17/ Am I hideous?” Even in today’s pop climate, where disclosure of mental and physical ailments is almost demanded, the xx singer Oliver Sim’s directness on Hideous is devastating. Partly because we expect xx members to be taciturn, vague, less explicit, but also due to a rawness in his singing, a strength and fragility he has rarely hinted at before. Nothing else on his solo debut is as powerful – Sim isn’t always the most compelling presence in the xx, and so it proves here. Yet with genius…

| Matthew Price is a member of the Teen Titans Academy, who fell out of the sky, and was rescued by the U.S.S. Eisenhower missing all his memory. He has powers of flight, superhuman hearing, durability and strength, as well as a form of heat vision, triggered by a change in emotion. But this wannabe Superman may have a very different history ,and this week's final Teen Titans Academy #15 gives a very heavy hint as to Matthew Price's origins. Teen Titans Academy #15 Not heat vision at all, but Omega Beams. Used by…