Rock

Whenever asteroids have hit Earth, they have impacted lives, and by doing so, these space rocks have time and again changed the course of history. Although asteroids make close approaches to Earth nearly every day, none of them are big enough to potentially threaten life on Earth. But what if an asteroid, which is capable of ending life, actually hits Earth?Apocalyptic movies like Armageddon or Deep Impact have explored the possibility of a total annihilation of life on Earth. These “What Ifs” of world destruction have…

“I wrote you this album for my closure” is pretty on the nose as refrains on breakup records go – but Princess Nokia has never shied away from being heart-on-sleeve. In the decade or so of her career, the Puerto Rican, New York City rapper-singer (real name Destiny Frasqueri) has shapeshifted sonically many times over, flitting between everything from pared-down east coast MC inflections to melodic emo to boisterous, cartoonish pop. What has tied it all together is Frasqueri’s self-assurance, even while showing her…

I got into this business to write great songs and have fun. I was a quick learner. I read every music magazine I could get my hands on and at 12, after digesting many issues of Creem, I decided to base my personality on Lester Bangs, the rock critic raconteur; his abiding belief in the transformative power of a great rock song matched mine. (I also obsessed over his running arguments with Lou Reed – they confounded me, but I loved it.) Artists and their songs shaped my life, my beliefs, my self-conception as a musician –…

Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images Everyone knows the story of how young Dwayne Johnson was set on the path towards becoming the highest-paid star in Hollywood, with the youngster having a mere seven bucks to his name and very few options on the table after his dreams of becoming a professional football player were left in tatters. He eventually decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a wrestler instead, but he was only a full-time member of the WWE roster for less than seven years, which was…

Warner Bros. Pictures Evil Dead is as Evil Dead does, and in the case of the upcoming fifth franchise installment Evil Dead Rise— heads are certainly set to roll. Directed by Irish horror guru Lee Cronin (Minutes Past Midnight, The Hole in the Ground), we’re sure this new take on Sam Raimi’s mythos won’t disappoint. Check out the blood curdling trailer below, and be warned, this puppy is Red-Band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smTK_AeAPHs In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Cronin talks at length…

Rock image—with ruler boat procession, ca. 3200 BC, Wadi al Agebab. Credit: Mohamed Abdel Hay Abu Baker The desert in southern Egypt is filled with hundreds of petroglyphs and inscriptions dating from the Neolithic to the Arab period. The oldest date from the fifth millennium B.C., and few have been studied. Egyptologists at the University of Bonn and Aswan University now want to systematically record the rock paintings and…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJimmy Kimmel appeared to call out the Academy and the audience’s response to the Will Smith slap during his Oscars 2023 opening monologue.The host addressed the controversial moment that saw Smith hit comedian Chris Rock on stage after he made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.After the ceremony, the incident ended up becoming the biggest talking point, and many were wondering…

Hefting a potato-size rock, wild long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Thailand smash oil palm nuts on stone anvils. As they pound away, sharp flakes sometimes fly off from their hammer stones—flakes that are “almost indistinguishable” from stone tools made by early human relatives more than 3 million years ago, according to a controversial new study. Indeed, the researchers argue, the monkeys’ flakes are so similar to our ancestors’ tools that many…

Tom Grennan is a hard sell in a world as cynical as this. As family photos scroll on giant screens he climbs into the syrupy Here, having dedicated the song to his mum and dad, who are in the building. “When the sky turns black, I’ll be the light you need,” he sings. It makes a change from saying that dreams can come true, at least.When the final chorus hits, confetti rains down in a flash of arena pomp that should be enough to scour away his everyman mask. Instead, it does the opposite: it feels like watching your mate…

Cardiff-born polymath Huw Evans’s first four albums as H Hawkline were marked by opaque lyrics performed in a slightly detached style. His first release in six years represents quite a departure, then, with many of the songs here contemplative reactions to the loss of his mother in 2018, delivered in a voice weighted with emotion that recalls Euros Childs of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci. Longtime consigliera Cate Le Bon is on production duties, and with its surfeit of ideas Milk for Flowers has much common with her most recent…