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Time of India
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
One Night in Idaho: The College Murders OTT Release Date - When and where to watch chilling true docuseries
One Night in Idaho: The College Murders OTT Release Date - In the early hours of November 13, 2022, the quiet college town of Moscow, Idaho, was shattered by a crime so brutal it made national headlines within hours. Four University of Idaho students, namely Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, were found stabbed to death in their shared off-campus home. The murders didn't just leave their families and friends in anguish; they ignited an overwhelming wave of media frenzy, online speculation, and collective paranoia across the country. Now, nearly three years later, the case that shook the nation is the focus of a deeply personal and emotionally intense true docuseries titled One Night in Idaho: The College Murders, premiering July 11 on Prime Video. A human story amid chaos What makes this docuseries stand apart is its approach. Directed by Liz Garbus (I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Lost Girls) and Matthew Galkin (Murder in the Bayou), the series brings the audience into the lived experiences of those who were closest to the victims. The series features exclusive interviews with the families of the victims, including Stacey and Jim Chapin, parents of Ethan, and Karen and Scott Laramie, parents of Madison. The directors behind the lens Garbus and Galkin are not new to stories of pain, injustice, and silence. Garbus previously worked on Netflix's Lost Girls, a series that focused on the victims of the Long Island Serial Killer. Galkin's work on Murder in Big Horn put the spotlight on the overlooked cases of murdered and missing Indigenous women in Montana. Their experience working with victims' families shows through in One Night in Idaho; this is a sensitive, unfiltered look at what happens when grief meets the digital age. The pair began working on the project in early 2023, reaching out to families to document the aftermath. Their goal? To give a voice to the ones left behind. The series comes with serious production backing. It's produced by Amazon MGM Studios, Skydance Television, Story Syndicate, James Patterson Entertainment, and Fairhaven. Executive producers include a powerful lineup: Katie A. King, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Matt Thunell, Dan Cogan, Jon Bardin, Kate Barry, Mala Chapple, James Patterson, Bill Robinson, and Patrick Santa.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Music reviews: Tune-Yards and PinkPantheress
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. ★★★ Though Tune-Yards' sixth album probably won't top any sales charts, "it will definitely make you get up and dance," said Attila Peter in The Line of Best Fit. Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, partners in both music and life, "have always been adventurous and uncompromising, showing an eclecticism that draws from African, folk, electronic, rap, and even classical music." But the result is always a form of pop, easy on the ears even when Garbus is singing, as she does here, about all that's happening in the world that infuriates her. "Full of pulsating beats and hypnotic grooves," this latest album is "bursting with an energy and joy that is impossible to resist." If there's a complaint to be made here, it's that the music "backgrounds the songs' meanings," said Andy Crump in Paste. But "there are worse problems for an album to have," especially when "the music is so catchy that repeat plays are practically inevitable." Eventually, you will realize that Garbus is venting her anger about America's current turn toward corrupt authoritarianism. At that point, it may also strike you that Better Dreaming is one of this band's "all-time great records." ★★★ Four years ago, PinkPantheress's music "felt like a future of pop," said Jem Aswad in Variety. The young British singer-songwriter-producer crafted fleet "microsongs" that packed verses, a chorus, and a bridge into 90 seconds, making them immensely TikTok friendly. Thankfully, her new eight-song mixtape avoids the more conventional sound of 2023's Heaven Knows and recaptures her strengths: "tight hooks, fast tempos, skittering beats, percolating bass," plus "her inimitable, breathy vocals." The songs "blaze by in less than 20 minutes," but "pack a velvet-gloved punch." The music doesn't sound like the future, said Harry Tafoya in Pitchfork. Instead, "Fancy That is a portal into an alternate universe where U.K. garage successfully crossed the Atlantic and fashion froze in 2006." It opens with "Illegal," a song that, like many of this 24-year-old artist's best, is "musically busy" and "charmingly conversational." Nothing that follows slips into the "daydreaming detours" of her 2023 release. PinkPantheress "has never been more ready to dance," making Fancy That her "most exciting and fully realized release yet."
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
New Docuseries Reveals the Untold Story of the Idaho Murders
In the early morning of Nov. 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their off campus home. Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were all members of the school's Greek life and beloved by their campus community, which turned the weeks after their murders into a frenzy of national media attention and online speculation surrounding one topic: The Idaho Murders. Despite releasing little information about the investigative process, police in Moscow, Idaho eventually arrested primary suspect Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old criminology graduate student at Washington State University. Now, three years later, with Kohberger's trial finally set to begin in August after numerous delays, filmmakers Matthew Galkin and Liz Garbus are releasing a new Amazon docuseries taking an in depth look at how the people closest to the case dealt with their tragic losses and the media storm that followed them. One Night In Idaho: The College Murders premieres July 11 on Amazon Prime. More from Rolling Stone 5 Things We Learned From 'Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie' Docuseries Mexican Beauty Influencer Shot and Killed on TikTok Live A Bullet Killed Him. AI Brought Him Back to Life in Court Galkin and Garbus first began working on the project in the spring of 2023, doing outreach to the family members that led to a sit down meeting with the Chapin family. Both of the filmmakers are known for past projects that center around the ethical consideration of true crime — including using projects to highlight stories of people on the margins that can typically be ignored by the media and police. (Garbus is perhaps best known for her work on Netflix's Gone Girl: The Long Island Serial Killer — the story of how LISK escaped police capture by targeting young sex workers. Galkin is the director of Showtime miniseries Murder In Big Horn, a series centered on the disappearances and murders of indigenous women in Montana.) The trailer features several interviews from family members and friends closest to the Idaho victims, including the Chapin and Mogen families. 'I've never been involved in a documentary about a case this large and with this many sort of complicated aspects that converge,' Galkin tells Rolling Stone. 'Yeah,' Garbus agrees. 'The whole thing was on steroids in a way I've never seen.' Because the Moscow Police Department gave the public little to no information during their investigation, the national media fury only intensified in online spaces like TikTok's true crime community. Videos about the murders received millions of views, comments, and shares across platforms, with true crime accounts publicly speculating about close friends or people who could have killed the students. Several publicly accused people of the crime, leaving dozens of Idaho students and close friends of victims fearing for their public safety and mental health. Galkin and Garbus tell Rolling Stone they were focused on telling a story that gave viewers an inside look at what was happening behind closed doors. 'In the first conversation with the Chapins, one of the things that truly struck me was their description of being swept up in this circus from the inside. All of the Tiktok videos and hypothesizing and having their son's name dragged through the mud unfairly, obviously, because none of [the conspiracy theories] turned out to be true,' Galkin says. 'I felt like we had never seen that story told from that perspective. Major crime in 2025 has all of these layers of attention and social media and speculation where that didn't exist a few decades ago, but now it's what all of these families have to deal with on a daily basis.' For Garbus, the director says she was focused on unearthing the story that people had missed in the mayhem, avoid sensationalism, and instead giving the families of the victims a chance to tell the world who their loved one actually was — both as a form of memory and as an opportunity to possibly heal. 'What is the side that is untold?' she says. 'At the end of the day, these kids are victims. And their families deserve their stories to be told in fulsome, loving ways.' { pmcCnx({ settings: { plugins: { pmcAtlasMG: { iabPlcmt: 1, }, pmcCnx: { singleAutoPlay: 'auto' } } }, playerId: "d762a038-c1a2-4e6c-969e-b2f1c9ec6f8a", mediaId: "7936b823-4004-4c31-9d66-c2a1c3fe2d78", }).render("connatix_player_7936b823-4004-4c31-9d66-c2a1c3fe2d78_1"); }); Best of Rolling Stone Every Super Bowl Halftime Show, Ranked From Worst to Best The United States of Weed Gaming Levels Up
Irish Independent
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Pain, suffering and losing control: it sounds bleak but Ezra Furman's new album has plenty of playful giddiness
Ten albums into a wildly eclectic career and Goodbye Small Head is an eclectic song collection. From the off, it pays scant regard to genre, but what's impressive is how comfortable Furman is across a range of styles and influences. The Chicago-born, Massachusetts-raised artist suffered a period of ill-health — a mystery illness in 2023 — and that time inspired her to explore pain, suffering and losing control. Such a description sounds bleak, but the songs are anything but. There's a playful giddiness to proceedings that pulls the listener in, and even though the sharp lyrics may speak of troubles, the jauntiness of the music engages. It helps, too, that the tracks flit from indie to art rock, with room for everything from gospel to bossa nova too. It takes a particular talent to hopscotch from one one genre to another like that and still deliver a cohesive album and it's to Furman's credit that she does that. Sudden Storm is an arresting look at a breakdown: 'The lord keeps calling and my body's not responding.' It's notable that despite the weighty subject matter, a commercial sensibility informs several of the songs. Jump Out is typical of the radio-friendly fare, while the funky Veil Song bewitches. In California, meanwhile, Tune-Yards offer their own brand of eclecticism. The musical project of husband-and-wife team Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, the pair were initially lumped in with the 'freak folk' movement, a loose collective of lo-fi troubadours. Such a moniker always seemed to do the band a disservice. For one, there was much more going on, sonically, than most of their peers but even more than that, Garbus, is in possession of a vocal with real depth and range. There's a soulfulness to her singing that really comes into its own on new album Better Dreaming. While the pop sensibilities belie some dark subject matter a celebration of family life and the pleasures of the everyday make their mark time and again. The wonderfully engaging Limelight is inspired by Garbus and Brenner dancing along with their daughter to George Clinton and the three-year-old's vocals are included. What sounds corny on paper, is beautifully rendered in reality. Heartbreak, the album's most enduring track, puts Garbus's vocal front and centre. It's an affecting and lyrically smart song that easily gets under the skin. Both Ezra Furman and Tune-Yards demand work from the listener. In today's instant gratification age, some will recoil from that idea, but if given a proper airing, their latest albums will leave quite a mark.
Scoop
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
Tune-Yards Share New Single Ahead Of New Album 'Better Dreaming'
Tune-Yards, the dynamic duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, have released their new single 'How Big Is The Rainbow', the final offering prior to the release of their upcoming album, Better Dreaming, out this Friday 16 May. The track is accompanied by a music video featuring comedian and actress, Star Amerasu, and directed by Dominic Mercurio. On the new track, Merrill shares 'The title lyric came out in a flash, and felt more sincere than I've ever been lyrically, maybe. But in this day and age, there is no room for subtlety when it comes to advocating for every single human being, for our trans family especially. And SHIT, how big IS the fucking rainbow?! It feels like the time to prove it to each other, to show each other how big it can be.' 'How Big Is The Rainbow' follows pre-release singles 'Limelight' and 'Heartbreak'. Distraction, depression, and heartbreak reign supreme in 2025. 'Making art in this day and age for me is a battle for focus; we're in an age of interruption,' says Garbus of Tune-Yards' sixth album Better Dreaming. Proudly waving an anti-fascist, liberation, freak flag, Better Dreaming contains some of Tune-Yards smoothest, funkiest, and most direct pop music to date, and yes, you can dance to it. And when you do dance to it, be prepared to sweat out something that's been long stuck inside, and pretty deep down. The songs of Better Dreaming came to Garbus and Brenner with unusual ease. They asked themselves what would happen if they simply let the songs come out, following any trail they wished - first thought, best thought style. There was a strong desire to move, to make music that would enter the ear and immediately loosen up the joints, get the whole body wiggling. After covid-isolation, and time away from touring and live shows, the desire to be moved by music was undeniable. The insane experience of growing an actual human being influenced this as well. The rhythms throughout the record carry a certain freshness, with deep pockets full of subtle idiosyncrasies that stem from Tune-Yards' return to making an album primarily as a duo. All but one of these songs are built around Garbus' drum looping and rhythm building, as they were on some of the early albums like Bird-Brains and W H O K I L L – no full kit drummer here, and the songs love it. Better Dreaming is ferocious in its invocation of self-love, of collective action, of dance floor liberation, ego-death deliverance, and a future we could all thrive in. When diving into the present darkness of the world, Tune-Yards asks themselves how much literal energy and joy can be conjured and pumped through the music. In its life-affirming art-pop of the apocalypse, Better Dreaming comes true. Better Dreaming is out on 16 May on all digital platforms, CD, standard black vinyl and clear blue wave vinyl (indie retail only). For more information, and to pre-order, head HERE.
