Friday Five: Kanye reunites with some old friends, James Blake finds peace, and Tops just want to party

The best new songs we heard this week. Every Friday, EW’s music team runs down the five best songs of the week. They had no plans to return to music until he came calling in 2018, asking to collaborate. Abstract Mindstate, James Blake, Tops, The War on Drugs, The Linda Lindas.Credit: Mike Quain; James Blake/YouTube; Arbutus Records; Atlantic Record; The Linda Lindas/YouTube da Hellcat trading playful, sage-like verses over a sped-up soul sample....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 149 words · Craig Allen

Friday Five: Loretta Lynn pays tribute, Steve Aoki's adult contemporary phase, and more

The five best songs we heard this week. Every Friday, EW’s music team runs down the five best songs of the week. “Used to Be” Steve Aoki & Kiiara feat. Credit: Miikka Skaffari/WireImage; Bennett Raglin/Getty Images; Erika Goldring/WireImage; Scott Legato/Getty Images; Erika Goldring/FilmMagic Wiz Khalifa Look, when the chorus hit, I screamed. Marcus Jones “Speak With the Dead” Foxing There’s simply no other band like Foxing. Lil Tjay closes out with his squeaky croon-rapping, surrounding his vocals with a halo of cerulean harmonies....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 123 words · Matthew Espinoza

Friday Five: Lucy Dacus' vengeful coolness, Chika's cinderella story, and more

The five best songs we heard this week. Every Friday, EW’s music team runs down the five best songs of the week. “Thumbs” Lucy Dacus Lucy Dacus has never been a vague songwriter. Credit: Marin Leong; Prince Williams/Getty Images; Jason Koerner/Getty Images; Drakeo The Ruler/YouTube; Mark Horton/WireImage Probably, but she’s only capable of singing like she means it. Eli Enis “Just Retire” Drakeo the Ruler feat. Similar to Pusha T, Drakeo is the gleeful villain of his own songs....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 131 words · Brittany Knight

Friday Five: Meek Mill showcases the other side of America, YG says 'FTP,' and more

The five best things we heard this week. Every Friday, EW’s music team runs down the five best songs of the week. Throughout that time, he’s developed into one of the genre’s preeminent storytellers. Bennett Raglin/Getty Images; Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images; Timothy Norris/Getty Images; The Chosunilbo JNS/Imazins via Getty Images; Courtesy Shamir The added touch of bookended clips from Trump’s “What do you have to lose?” Now, he’s followed it up with the timely “FTP....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 108 words · Curtis Green

Friday Five: Olivia Rodrigo sees 'Deja Vu,' Garbage throw the patriarchy in the garbage, and more

The five best songs we heard this week. Every Friday, EW’s music team runs down the five best songs of the week. Luckily,Olivia Rodrigolearned all the right lessons from the success of"Drivers License. Credit: drain gang/YouTube; Jenny Anderson/Getty Images; Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns; 4AD/YouTube; Dylan Brady/YouTube The song doubly recalls the refracting witch-house vibes of Crystal Castles and the beautifully tragic resonance of Salem. It’s noise-pop for the future.E.E. “A.L.C.”

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 68 words · Vanessa Peterson

Friday Five: Pooh Shiesty ushers in 'blrrrd' season, Hayley Williams grasps for independence, and more

The five best songs we heard this week. Every Friday, EW’s music team runs down the five best songs of the week. “The trouble is the way you stick/To any part of me that remains intact,” Williams sings. Credit: Lindsey Byrnes; Matt Jelonek/WireImage; Haley Scott; Gonzales Photo/Malthe Ivarsson/PYMCA/Avalon/Universal Images Group via Getty Images; Paras Griffin/Getty Images “But if I pull the plug/It isn’t only me that I’m holding back. It’s pop music that doesn’t sacrifice a modicum of hardcore’s snaggletoothed aggression....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 85 words · Justin Reynolds

Friday Five: Snoh Aalegra struggles with an all-consuming love, 100 gecs team up with Fall Out Boy, and more

The five best songs we heard this week. Every Friday, EW’s music team runs down the five best songs of the week. “Sleepless Nights” Dinner Party feat. Credit: Joseph Okpako/Redferns via Getty Images; Lorne Thomson/Redferns; Burak Cingi/Redferns; Kyle Gustafson / For The Washington Post via Getty Images; Sounds of Crenshaw Members of the quartet have worked with everyone fromKendrick LamartoErykah Badu. (Proceeds from sales of the song will go to the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 102 words · Douglas Hanna

Friday Five: Tinashe unleashes her alter ego, the return of Semisonic, and more

The five best songs we heard this week. Every Friday, EW’s music team runs down the five best songs of the week. (Also: A bonus song from the recently reformed Semisonic.) Credit: Erika Goldring/Getty Images; Scott Dudelson/Getty Images; Rick Kern/WireImage; jxdn/YouTube; Rick Kern/WireImage Cults latest single, from their forthcoming album,Host, has a much different vibe. Eli Enis “So What!” Take Jaden Hossler, aka jxdn. Together theyre giving the pop-punk genreBlink-182helped popularize a 2020 update....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 155 words · Megan Baker

Friday Five: Yola holds on, Kiiara and blackbear sing about exes, and more

The five best songs we heard this week. Every Friday, EW’s music team runs down the five best songs of the week. A portion of the proceeds from sales of the song will go to MusiCares and National Bailout Collective. Credit: getty images (5) This pitched-up party record feels like a tease of whats to come from the California rapper. Marcus Jones So SickKiiara feat. It’s up to the listeners to determine how earnest they are while singing about being over one another....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 109 words · Rachel Miller

Friendscast reveal during reunion where their characters are now

Here’s what Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, and Joey are up to now. Warning: This article contains spoilers forFriends: The Reunion. For theFriendscharacters, the question isn’t “How you doin'?” The cast of ‘Friends’.Reisig & Taylor/NBCU but rather “What are you up to nowadays?” Namely, what the core six are doing now. “Let’s say we get married,” she continued. Of course, Ross is still a paleontologist; we’d expect nothing less. Meanwhile,Courteney Coxenvisioned Monica channeling her throw in-A personality into parenting....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 174 words · Gilbert Brown

Friendsco-creator Marta Kauffman addresses the show's lack of diversity

The executive producer elaborated on her own role in the show’s lack of inclusion of people of color. “There were Black shows and there were white shows. There weren’t a lot of shows that were interracial.” The cast of ‘Friends’.Reisig & Taylor/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Last year, the creatordiscussed the lack of diversity during a panel at ATX TV Festival. “We’ve always encouraged people of diversity in our company, but I didn’t do enough....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 121 words · Jason King

Friendsmonkey trainer hits back at David Schwimmer for badmouthing simian costar: 'Let it go'

One of Hollywood’s longest-running feuds has flared up again. (Marcel was played by two female capuchins, one named Katie and one simply named Monkey.) “I hate the monkey,” Schwimmer famouslytold EW back in 1995. David Schwimmer and Marcel the Monkey on ‘Friends’.NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images “The trainers won’t let me bond with it. They’re really, really possessive. It’s a bummer.” It had to hit its mark and do its thing right at the perfect time....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 186 words · William Hammond

Friendsproducer details the scrapped Disney World-set episode too 'risqué' for the Mouse House

Matt LeBlanc’s Joey almost met his Cinderella. “We were very close to doingFriendsin Disney World,” Bright said. “Originally Disney World approached us. Matt LeBlanc’s Joey almost got a Disney World-set ‘Friends’ episode.Jon Ragel/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images; Disney The EP went on to explain, ‘The cast goes down there to see him. They go back to his place, they have sex, and she realizes it’s midnight. She’s got to get that costume back or they’re gonna dock pay from her....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 95 words · Crystal James