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Four years after Slayer wrapped up their farewell tour — and two weeks after guitarist Kerry King said a reunion was unlikely — the thrash metal legends will return this fall for a couple of headlining festival gigs. The quartet — bassist/singer Tom Araya, guitarists Kerry King and Gary Holt, and drummer Paul Bostaph — have so far booked Chicago’s Riot Fest on Sept. 22 and Louisville’s Louder Than Life on Sept. 27, the band’s first gigs since their goodbye tour concluded in November 2019. “Nothing compares to…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeHold on,” says Kevin Hart, dialling a number on his mobile phone. If, for some reason, I’d needed convincing of the comedian’s full-on lifestyle, I am about to get it. We’re sitting in an otherwise vacant hotel room in central London, but Hart’s head is already back stateside; I listen as he asks some unseen aide to send over various details about an imminent trip to Boston,…

The 81st Golden Globes, which took place January 7th at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, was a memorable night for many celebrities. While Cillian Murphy was awarded Best Actor for Best Performance in a Motion Picture in a Drama for his portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer, Lily Gladstone won Best Actress for her role as Mollie Burkhart in Killers of the Flower Moon.However, the night was far from ideal for the ceremony’s host, comedian Jo Koy, who received backlash—as well as another, unofficial award for the…

Ryan Reynolds-backed Mint Mobile exited to T-Mobile for $1.35 billion last year, and Sam Altman-backed “Ai Pin” startup Humane launched a pricey little device with a $24 monthly subscription that comes with phone number, unlimited data and as many AI-powered queries as you can muster. What do they have in common? They’re both MVNOs, short for “mobile virtual network operators” — independent mobile services built on top of carriers’ infrastructure. MVNOs aren’t new — they’ve been around since the 1990s — but the…

In late 1975, just after her 18th birthday, Shanne Bradley went to a party at St Albans School of Art in Hertfordshire. Unbeknown to her and her friends, there was musical entertainment: a band from London no one had heard of. She suspects the group had just phoned up and asked if they could play. “They were so bad,” she says. “We were dancing, having a good laugh. We thought they were a piss-take of a 60s band. Someone said they saw the drummer afterwards and he was crying because they were so terrible.”Afterwards, the…

The Brit award-winning singer Lewis Capaldi apologised to fans after cancelling all of his upcoming commitments to “rest and recover” ahead of Glastonbury.Capaldi, 26, said in an Instagram post on Monday that he is “struggling” after a “full on” couple of months in which he released the chart-topping album Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent.In the post, the Scottish singer wrote: “Hi everyone, hope you’re well. This is a really difficult message and one that hurts me a lot to have to type.“But I’m really sorry to say…

In its latest Apple Music press release, Apple is bringing more music discovery opportunities to its users, albeit this time it wants you to find more in the real world. Using Apple Maps, Apple will tell you all about local gig and concert venues, as well as upcoming concerts for your favorite artists.There are two parts to Apple's new Approach – Apple Music Guides, rolling out today, and Apple Music's Setlists, also coming out today.Discover local musicApple Maps Guides will help you find more music in certain cities;…

Yes, we did what you might be dreaming about…We took a leap of faith and asked the mighty ChatGPT – How to Earn $10000 Per Month Through Side Gigs. The result might shock you!Since OpenAI launched ChatGPT, it has become the holy grail for some people and a threat to others.The OpenAI Large Language Model (LLM) is so capable that it can perform various tasks, including creative work like writing essays, computational tasks like crunching numbers, generating code, and more.Since it could do so many things, we thought, “Why…

Music fans are battling long queues, technical issues and huge prices in order to see their favourite artists perform. Why has it become such a struggle? Chanté speaks to the Guardian’s deputy music editor Laura Snapes and Emma Reid from Outlier Artists How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know…

White-collar gigs have emerged as a leading catalyst for women to stay in jobs. Post the recent layoffs in the technology sector, women professionals in tech roles are taking to freelancing to build their careers.In nine months from April 2022 to Dec 2022, there was a 3X increase in the number of women consultants registering for white-collar gig roles from the technology sector, according to data and research from the white-collar gig platform FlexingIt. For the same duration, the overall number of women consultants…