Welcome to HNGN's weekly top picks, where we cull the best and brightest releases in music, fashion, beauty, tech and pop culture. Come back every other week for more of-the-moment goodness. - Editing by Michael Lello.

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MUSIC
By Michael Lello

Jason Isbell: Something More Than Free (Southeastern Records)
In 2013, former Drive-by Truckers member Jason Isbell put himself on the map as a solo artist with his fourth album, “Southeastern,” which became a staple on critics’ annual best-of lists. He hasn’t missed a beat with “Something More Than Free,” which debuted atop the Billboard Country charts when it was released last week. Below, check out the new track “Palmetto Rose,” perfect for fans who like artists who hang out at the corner of rock and country, like Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter and Neko Case.

Joss Stone: Water For Your Soul (S-Curve/Stone’d)
British soul singer Joss Stone stormed onto the scene as a teenager with her 2003 debut “The Soul Sessions.” Six albums and more than a decade later, she’s departed from her signature sound to create an album dominated by reggae and hip-hop flavors. Produced by Damian Marley – a son of Bob Marley – the new sound seems to have its roots in SuperHeavy, the short-lived supergroup Stone and Marley were in alongside Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart and A.R. Rahman.

Check out the fun music video for Stone’s empowering track “The Answer” below.

Wilco: Star Wars (dBpm)
Wilco shocked its fans – in a good way – earlier this month when it released, for free, a new album called “Star Wars.” The overall feel of the album, the band’s ninth, is tuneful but with heavy shades of “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,” the 2002 album that the band’s label at the time famously refused to release due to its experimental nature.

You can download “Star Wars” for free at the band’s official website, while CD and vinyl versions will be for sale on Aug. 21 and Nov. 27, respectively.

You can also stream the entire album via YouTube below.

Public Enemy: Man Plans God Laughs (Spitdigital)
The iconic socially and politically driven rappers, at it for more than 30 years, are back with a typically lyrically sharp collection of new songs on their 13th studio release. MC Chuck D and company nod to the past with references like a sample of the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy For The Devil” in the lead track, “No Sympathy For The Devil,” while keeping an eye on the issues of the present.

MOVIES
By Cal Setar

Pixels (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
When aliens mistake video footage of old arcade games as a declaration of war, a battle breaks out that will decide the fate of Earth. Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad, Ashley Benson and Brian Cox make up an all-star cast of characters out to save, and in some cases, destroy, the planet.

Paper Towns (20th Century Fox)
“The Fault In Our Stars” author John Green’s new coming-of-age story about a boy, Quentin, and his neighbor. Quentin becomes enamored with the mercurial Margo, whose mysteriousness increases tenfold when she suddenly disappears one night, leading Quentin and his friends on an adventure that reveals to Quentin the true meanings of friendship and love.

Southpaw (Weinstein Company)
“Southpaw” tells the story of Billy “The Great” Hope, the one-time Junior Middleweight Boxing Champion of the World. A set of tragic circumstances push Billy to the edge – he loses his wife, his child and his title – and force him to rebuild himself anew as he looks to win the fight of his life.

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (Paramount Pictures)
Ethan Hunt and his team of elite, high-level operatives take on their biggest and most difficult mission yet. With the IFM disbanded, Hunt and his crew are out in the cold, forced to operate on their own – and with a little help from a member of a rogue nation – as they look to take down this newest threat, the Syndicate.

FASHION & BEAUTY
By Oulimata Ba

NARS Satin Lip Pencil
This makeup junkie was treated to a free sample of NARS’ Satin Lip Pencil for her birthday and I can’t stop gushing about it.

The pencil delivers a smooth dose of velvety pigment in just one glide. And the shades alone are worth mentioning because they come in 16 novel colors, like Sangria, Rose Brown and Cognac, and are named after real parks from around the world.

NARS’ Satin Lip Pencils range from $25 to $26.

Karen Walker for Sephora Collection
After teaming up with jewelry designer Alexis Bittar for a collection of gilded makeup brushes, Sephora is looking to pimp out your glam tools with another collaboration. This time the muse is Karen Walker, a New Zealand-based designer hailed for her eyewear and lauded as the epitome of quirky cool fashion.

This fall, look out for Walker's six-piece brush set designed with handles that look like sleek tortoise shells. The brushes come in a golden stand, so it adds a royal touch to your home. Walker continued the turtle theme with a $48 compact mirror, made in the image of her round-frame Orbit sunglasses, as part of the Sephora collection.

Karen Walker's $125 Amber Craft brush set is expected to hit Sephora shelves in October.

Chuck Taylor All Star II Converse

Converse is romancing Chuck Taylor fans by introducing a modern twist on the beloved classic. The new version, the first update in the basketball sneaker company's nearly 100-year history, features a sock liner made of lunarlon foam – invented by Nike, which owns Converse – for enhanced cushioning and support for your arches.

The iconic black-and-white shoe's younger sibling also features a micro-suede lining for even more comfort as well as a more stable, padded tongue so it doesn't slide out of place. Shop Chuck Taylor All Star II, $75, online now at Converse.com.

Marc Jacobs Mod Noir Eau de Parfum
Marc Jacobs (whose been on fire lately coming to Nicole Kidman’s rescue with her controversial Vogue cover) is another designer to fashion a fragrance based on their favorite flower. For Jacobs, it’s gardenias which provide the perfume with its captivating essence. With the exception of Marc Jacobs’ Daisy fragrance, I’m not a fan of floral-based scents. I guess they come off as smelling too shampoo-ey. But the new Mod Noir has the right balance of floral and musk notes, all preserved in a round black and white bottle that invokes the ‘60s.

Mod Noir is available starting at $70.

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DVD, BLU-RAY & STREAMING RELEASES
By Emily Morgan

DVD/Blu-ray:

Home (Dreamworks Animated)
The latest Dreamworks animated film features an alien named Oh, who is on the run from his home planet. He lands on Earth and forms a friendship with a girl, Tip, who’s also on a journey of her own.

Jim Parsons voices the purple talking alien who discovers the true meaning of “home,” with his human pal, voiced by Rihanna. Steve Martin also lends his vocal talent to the alien Captain Smek.
Special features on the Blu-ray/DVD (Party Edition) include deleted scenes, a how-to-draw-the characters piece, a collection of shorts and a music video for Jennifer Lopez’s “Feel the Light.”

The Water Diviner (Warner Home Video)

Russell Crowe directs and stars in this World War I drama about an Australian farmer in search of his sons after the Battle of Gallipoli in Turkey.

Crowe plays Joshua Connor, whose three sons go missing in the battle. He travels to Istanbul to discover what happened to them and befriends a war-widowed hotel manager and her young son.
The film also stars Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney, Cern Yilmaz and Yilmaz Erdoğan.

The only special feature on the Blu-ray/DVD is a making-of-the-movie feature.

Descendants (Walt Disney Studios)
The offspring of Disney’s greatest villains including Cruella De Vil, Maleficent, The Evil Queen and Jafar star in this Disney Channel original movie.

The evil descendants have grown up on the Isle of the Lost where their parents and other villainous characters were sent upon their defeat. In the majestic kingdom of Auradon, the son of the King and Queen (Beast and Belle from “Beauty and the Beast”) makes a generous offer to the children of the Isle to enroll at his prep school.

The four teenagers will have to make the decision to avenge their villainous families and take over the kingdom or save their new friends from evil and embrace the good that lives inside them.
Special features on the Blu-ray/DVD include exclusive backstage dance rehearsals with the cast and director Kenny Ortega (“High School Musical”).

Other movies and TV shows available on Blu-ray and DVD include:

Wild Horses (Entertainment One); Comet (MPI Home Video); Kung Fu Killer (Well Go USA); Starve (MTI Home Video); What We Do in the Shadows (Paramount); Helix: Season Two (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment); Robot Chicken: Season 7 (Warner Home Video); Ancient Aliens: Season 7 – Vol. 1 (A&E Home Video); Justice League: Gods and Monsters (Warner Home Video)

Movies and TV Shows Streaming Online:

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

David Wain and Michael Showalter, creators of the 2001 cult classic, revisit Camp Firewood in this prequel series starring all the original actors from the first film.

The limited series will start at the beginning of camp in the summer of 1981 and reveals a somewhat different dynamic between the characters compared to the movie.

Returning cast members include Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Ian Black, Christopher Meloni, Janeane Garofalo, Molly Shannon and many more. The new series also welcomes Kristen Wiig, Jordan Peele, John Slattery, Michael Cera, Josh Charles, Jon Hamm and Chris Pine.

Netflix will have the series available for streaming on July 31.

Unexpected
Cobie Smulders stars in this Sundance favorite as a pregnant inner-city schoolteacher who develops an unlikely bond with her teenage student who is also pregnant.

The expectant mothers navigate their unplanned pregnancies together as they struggle with the idea of motherhood in this indie comedy. The film also stars Gail Bean, Anders Holm and Elizabeth McGovern.

iTunes has the film available for purchase.

The Patriot
Mel Gibson stars in the American Revolutionary War drama directed by Roland Emmerich and featuring a young Heath Ledger in one of his first major films.

Gibson plays a reluctant veteran of the French and Indian War who tries to shield his family from the bloody battles taking place in the Southern theater. He soon can’t avoid the war and takes charge of a local militia to fight against the British troops led by the ruthless Colonel William Tavington (Jason Isaacs).

The film also stars Joely Richardson, Chris Cooper and Tom Wilkinson.

Amazon has the film available for streaming.

Check out our complete list of movies available for streaming on Netflix this month and see below for more options on Amazon Prime and for purchase at iTunes.

iTunes
• Hot Pursuit
• The Divergent Series: Insurgent
• Unfriended
• Descendants
• Smosh: The Movie
• Dark Places
• Comet
• Eminem: A Shady Story
• Lynyrd Skynyrd: One More for the Fans
• Before We Go
• A LEGO Brickumentary
•That Sugar Film
• The Sandlot
• Break Point
• About Elly
• Guns Along the Trail
• Child 44
• Unreal
• Trust
• Felix and Meira
• Lucky Stiff
• White God
• Aces High
• Blackbird
• Death of a Cyclist
• The Internship Games
• The Escort
• The List of My Desires
• Halloween Home Haunts
• We Bare Bears, Vol. 1
• Northmen: A Viking Saga

Amazon
• Jim Norton: Contextually Inadequate
• The Newsroom: Season 1 & 2
• Hercules
• Behind the Candelabra (available July 30)
• Entourage: The Complete Series (available July 30)
• The Skeleton Twins (available July 31)
• The Longest Day (available Aug. 1)
• Olympus: Season 1 (available Aug. 1)
• The Patriot (available Aug. 1)
• Unforgiven (available Aug. 1)
• Erased (available Aug. 4)

TECH
 By John Nassivera

 Moto G
Motorola has released a new version of its Moto G smartphone that keeps the good features of older models while including some improvements. The third-generation model comes with a 5-inch, 1,280x720-pixel resolution screen, a 1.4GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor with Adreno 306 graphics and 4G LTE support, which was missing in the previous model.

The basic version includes 8GB of internal storage and 1GB of RAM, while a more expensive version has 16GB of internal storage and 2GB of RAM. Improvements include an upgraded camera, faster processor and the ability to stay waterproof up to 1 meter for 30 minutes. The Moto G is available now in 60 countries for $180 without a contract, or $220 for the extra internal storage.

 Karma Go
Karma now has a new mobile hotspot for people looking to avoid monthly fees. Karma Go, an LTE version of the original device, provides pay-as-you-go Internet through 100MB of data, which rolls over from month to month until it is used. Users can get an extra 100MB if other people connect to their device. Those who order the $149 Karma Go now will receive it in 40 days.

ZTE Axon Pro

ZTE is treating customers with the Axo Pro, a cheaper alternative to unlocked smartphones. The device comes with a 5.5-inch, 2,560x1,440 LCD screen and is made of warm aluminum. Additional features include Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 processor (2GHz), 4GB of RAM, an AKM AK4961 DSP chip for high-quality audio, a 13-megapixel main camera that provides 4K video recording at 30 frames per second, and a secondary 2-megapixel camera. The ZTE Axon Pro is available now for $450 and comes with a microUSB cable and JBL in-ear headphones.