<p>We don’t often take credit for industry-wide trends, but we’re going to when it comes to Pixar pivoting away from making moral fables with occasional humor and back to making bug-fucking-nuts Tex Avery-style animated comedies.* Sure, Hoppers will probably have some sort of grade-A treacle at the center of its chaotic chocolatey coating, but man, we’re just so excited to see these guys have some true, honest-to-god fun again. After all, it’s a movie essentially making fun of the Avatar […]</p>
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<p>One aspect of her repertoire that Charli XCX really developed in 2024, her annus mirabilis, was her film career, so if you’re wondering next year why she’s suddenly in a shitload of movies, well, it’s because she was busy making them while you were trying to figure out exactly which shade of green was the most cover-accurate. She’s going to be in Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex, Romain Gavrais’ Sacrifice, Pete Ohs’ Eruptcja, and we’re sure that we’ve forgotten […]</p>
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Blag Dahlia of The Dwarves is releasing a 12-inch Christmas EP under his Ralph Champagne moniker. The release finds Ralph covering "your a mean one, mister grinch." It also has a new version of "Drinking up Christmas" with Dexter Holland of The Offspring. There release features five tracks total and is out via Greedy / Rad girlfriend. You can see the regular and special edition cover below.

Koffin KatsThe Last Gang and Crazy and the Brains are going on a three week tour. It kicks off in Mid-February and runs from the mid-west to the West Coast. DFL jump on for four shows. You can see the dates below.

Bitter Branches have released a new single. The band includes Tim Singer (Deadguy, Kiss It Goodbye, No Escape), Jeff Tirabassi (Walleye), Matt Ryan (Calvary), Kevin Sommerville (Lighten Up!) and Dan Yemin (Lifetime, Kid Dynamite, Paint It Black) and the new single is called "Basic Karate." as per the band, the track is "about how easy it would be to join the dark side and just not give a shit." It's out via Equal Vision and appears to be a standalone digital release for now. You can hear it below.

Deryck Whibley has recorded a new record. It's an acoustic album comprised of all Sum 41 songs. He stated in an interview, which you can see below, that it might come out next year. He also stated that an acoustic tour might coincide the record. You can see a snippet of the interview below.

London, Ontario-based rockers Nameless Friends have released two new songs. They are called “There’s a rapist in the White House” and “Mary” and are available digitally now. The band has also released a short film for both of the songs which was written by Gibson Szafran, directed by Declan Rolph, and produced by Richard Ferguson and Lydia Wilton. Nameless Friends released the deluxe edition of their 2023 album Blasphemy in 2024. Check out the video and songs below.

Matty Grace has surprise-released a new EP. It is called Waiting Out The Clock and features four new songs: “It’s Terminal”, “There Is a Light That Only Goes Out”, “At What Cost?”, and “Death Would Be Too Kind”. The EP features additional instrumentation from Thee Male Nurse, who also mixed and mastered the record. Matty Grace released her album Cheap Shame earlier this year. Check out the EP in full below.