<p>Back sometime in the halcyon ’80, great American poet David Scott Mustaine offered up some prophetic lyrical wisdom in “If there’s a new way / I’ll be the first in line / But it better work this time.” Four decades later, that sentiment burns through our screen-bled retinas as DIIV return with not only a proper SOTY contender in “The Fountain,” but the attached promise accompanying forthcoming album ZIRP!: “This is The New Alternative: A New Genre For the 21st […]</p>
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Today's reviews are: Ceremony – Tell Me Your DreamGlitterer – ererCam Kahin – CHUGYou can check out any of our reviews right here. 

<p>Welcome to Four Records! Each episode, we feature one guest as they discuss the four records that helped shape them at four different times in their life. This week, our guest is Chachy Englund from the band Round Eye. Round Eye recently released a single with a super cool video made in using Taishan shadow puppets. </p>
<p>Chachy Englund’s Four Records:</p>
<p>0-10: Good Morning Vietnam Soundtrack</p>
<p>Teenage: Green Goblin Project – Earth Must Be Destroyed</p>
<p>Twenties: Minutemen – What Makes Man Start Fires?</p>
<p>Recent Record: The Instigation – No Way Out E.P.</p>
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<p>Opening song: <a href='https://radskulls.com/'>Rad Skulls</a> – Loud as Shit</p>
<p>Closing song: Lucas Perea – Underneath Ashes</p>

Recently, Weezer's Brian bell was at the debut of Green day's new movie Nimrods. While he was on the red carpet, he was asked by radio station LA 98.7 if Weezer might make a movie, too. Bell offered a bit of a surprise answer: ""We already have. Although I'm not supposed to talk about it. But yes, it's in the can. It's gonna be incredible. You'll see it in 2027." He did not offer details beyond that snippit. We'll keep you updated.

<p>If nothing else, David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street proves that Warner Brothers will — and have, now — spend at least $80 million on a movie in which feathered dinosaurs “do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.” Yes, Mitchell spent nearly a decade in Director Jail following the drama surrounding criminally underrated Under the Silver Lake to make a “Dark Amblin” picture in which big-ass lizards fuck. There’s something deeply endearing about that, in a […]</p>
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<p>I suppose Matt Johnson’s Tony is a best-case scenario for a bad-idea biopic, where, if one were to trim a bit from the runtime, you’d wind up with a regular ol’ coming-of-age story, and it’d be a pretty solid one as well. As a certified super-fan of Greg Mottola’s Adventureland and its ilk, I’m always down for an “idyll struggle,” where a meek young protagonist self-actualizes and crafts an adult identity in the chrysalis-like warmth of summer employment and shit-kicking. […]</p>
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Nerf Herder have re-released IV. The new version is the vinyl debut of the record and it's out via Oglio Entertainment. The band also has three gigs on the docket: August 27 — San Francisco, CA — Bottom of the Hill (Night 1: Greatest Hits); August 28 — San Francisco, CA — Bottom of the Hill (Night 2: First Album & More); October 25 — Gainesville, FL — The Fest.