In today’s entertainment news, Black is back.

The Black Crowes are releasing a new album called A Pound of Feathers. In advance of its March 13th debut, the band has unleashed the singles “Profane Prophecy” and “Pharmacy Chronicles.” (See links below.)

A Pound of Feathers is the band’s eleventh studio album, a follow-up to 2024’s Happiness Bastards, which came 14 years after the Crowes released Croweology in 2010. The band gained had widespread popular and critical success with its first release Shake Your Moneymaker in 2010, which launched singles like “Jealous Again”, “Hard to Handle” and “She Talks to Angels”.

“We made this record in eight to ten days,” says Chris Robinson in a press statement. “Bringing the high and inspiration from Happiness Bastards into this album, it was a natural progression. We experimented more, we wrote on instinct and how we were feeling in the moment. Rich brought a spontaneity to the record that I can’t describe, but it’s the best shit he’s ever done.”

Robinson’s brother and bandmate Rich Robinson said, “This album feels transformative to us. Going back to our roots, we felt that spark in the studio and how we work together. Lighting a fire that hits harder, more jagged but is still true to our musical essence.”

The Black Crowes will solo in a tour of Australia and Japan this spring, followed by a UK/European leg in June and July. After that they join Guns ‘n’ Roses to support their North American dates.

In streaming news, Netflix has renewed tech-nightmare series Black Mirror for an 8th season.

Creator Charlie Brooker is currently writing the next season’s episodes of the dystopian anthology series. In an interview with Netflix’s media site Tudum, Brooker said, “Black Mirror will return, and hopefully it’ll be more Black Mirror than ever.”

Netflix didn’t say when Black Mirror Season 8 would drop, but we should know something soon. The show has now been on TV for nearly 15 years, having started on the UK’s Channel 4 in 2011 before debuting its third season (along with the previous 2 seasons) on Netflix.

About his much talked-about 7th season, Brooker told Tudum, “with Black Mirror, one of the things fans are always going to do is rank them. People have wildly different [takes]. Of all the seasons we’ve done, this is the one where I think I’ve seen every episode at the top and bottom of someone’s list, which is part of Black Mirror’s DNA. I always wanted each episode to feel like it had quite a lot of variety, even though obviously the subject matter, the focus, it’s gone through my brain, and there’s a Black Mirror-y tone to it.”

Brooker is also working on another series for Netflix, an untitled detective series starring Paddy Considine, Lena Headey and Georgina Campbell. He describes it as “profoundly serious,” in an extremely tongue-in-cheek way. “The most detective show of all time,” Brooker told Tudum. “It’s a deeply profound and profoundly serious crime thriller.”