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Angel Olsen, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash, Rufus Wainwright, and more contribute covers to The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed, out on Record Store Day, April 20 Keith Richards takes on the Velvet Underground’s classic “I’m Waiting for the Man” for an upcoming tribute album dedicated to the music of Lou Reed. Arriving a day before what would have been Reed’s 82nd birthday, Richards also shared a new video of studio footage from the recording of his rendition, which puts his trademark…

There’s a 2013 Black Mirror episode in which a young widow played by Hayley Atwell signs up to an online service that scrapes a person’s entire digital footprint to create a virtual simulation. She soon starts chatting online with her late husband (Domhnall Gleeson), before things inevitably get Black Mirror-y.Laurie Anderson, the American avant garde artist, musician and thinker, hasn’t seen the episode but, in the last few years, has lived a version of it: growing hopelessly hooked on an AI text generator that emulates…

When you look at Dave Bautista, the last thing you think of is failure. Even if he wasn’t a former wrestling superstar turned mega movie star, if you saw this tall, muscular, tattoo-covered man walking down the street, you’d instantly think he’s got it figured out. But in Dune: Part Two, Bautista’s character doesn’t have anything figured out. And the actor loves him for it.Working With Recasted CharactersOnce again, Bautista is Glossu Rabban Harkonnen, nephew of Baron Harkonnen and the new lord of Arrakis... having…

On the evening of 13 January 1966, the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry held its annual dinner at a hotel on Park Avenue. On the menu were string beans, roast beef and baby potatoes. The entertainment was less conventional – a local artist named Andy Warhol had been invited to say a few words, but instead put on a multimedia performance with the band he was managing. The Velvet Underground and Nico cranked up the volume and played Heroin (“Because when the smack begins to flow, I really don’t care any more”) and…

It’s one of the first cold fall nights in the mountains of East Tennessee and Lindsay Lou is tightening her winter coat as she prepares to take the outdoor stage at CaveFest, an Americana and bluegrass gathering held southeast of Nashville at the Caverns, an underground venue with an aboveground amphitheater. “I feel more deeply connected with myself and everyone around me,” the singer-songwriter tells Rolling Stone backstage. “Even if my life blew up for a few years.” Lou, an artist who has been deftly…

If you've enjoyed the English dub of the animated Netflix series "Trese," you have heard Lou Diamond Phillips in another of his comic book voice acting roles, as Mayor Sancho Santamaria. "Trese" is based on the comic book series of the same name by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo, meriting its inclusion here. "Trese" Season 1 hit Netflix in 2021, and the following year, Phillips voiced one of the DC universe's most fearsome heroes. Phillips took on the role of Spectre in "DC Showcase: Constantine – The…

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of the latest and coolest merchandise around. This week, Harley Quinn’s classic Batman: The Animated Series look gets an awesome new figure, Guardians of the Galaxy’s animal heroes hit the spotlight, and a new collection brings the cars of Fast and Furious to your shelf. Check it out!Spoilers of the Week April 24-29Image: MondoMondo Batman: The Animated Series Harley Quinn Sixth-Scale Figure (Timed Edition)Every new take on Batman is just a reminder that the Dark Knight…

Demystifying the Data Science Behind 2022's Physics Nobel PrizeStatistics is a core pillar of data science, yet its assumptions are not always fully tested. This is exacerbated by the rise of quantum computing, where even statistical axioms can be violated. In this article, we explore just how quantum physics breaks statistics, and uncover ways to understand it using data science analogies.2022’s physics Nobel came down to doing coin-flips, and finding out that quantum physics violated the basic laws of statistics…

How do stars – or any of us – tick? Artists, of course, have bodies of work for their exegetes to parse, and Lou Reed’s is one of the more influential in western popular music. From his early days in the Velvet Underground documenting the New York demi-monde to a series of dissonant and beautiful solo works thereafter, the public Reed had a reputation as a curmudgeon who did not suffer fools gladly.But he had another body of work: his actual body, damaged by drug use and beleaguered by diabetes and hepatitis C. That body…

‘Be here, Aimee!’ Aimee Lou Wood said to herself, “Soak it in!” She was sitting with her hero Bill Nighy late last year, eating penne all’arrabbiata, and she was trying, really trying to be in the moment. She’d just won a Bafta, she was nearing the end of a life-changing project, acting in her first lead film role opposite Nighy in the Oscar-nominated Living, and her career was exploding, and she was 28, and she should have been high-fiving everybody she met, alive with gratitude and appreciation and champagne. But Nighy…