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Watch The Wiggles fuse Tame Impala’s ‘Elephant’ with ‘Fruit Salad’
Beloved children’s entertainers The Wiggles took to the studios of Australian broadcaster triple j for their first ever Like A Version performance this week, covering Tame Impala‘s ‘Elephant’. The six-piece remain mostly faithful to the psych-rock original, adding a polka rhythm on the keys – that is until after the first break down, when they seamlessly transition into ‘Fruit Salad’. The Blue Wiggle, Anthony, sports a very cute elephant costume throughout. The old Red Wiggle, Murrary, also rejoined the group for the performance to play the second guitar solo. Advertisement Watch the delightful performance below. Emma Wiggle explained their...
BTS have been named the best selling global act of 2020
BTS have been named the best selling act of 2020. READ MORE: BTS – ‘BE (Deluxe Edition)’ review: a sensitive, stunning document of pandemic life The K-pop outfit topped the IFPI poll – the organisation that represents the global recorded music industry, based on worldwide sales, downloads and streams. They are the first non-Western act to win, and the first whose songs are not predominantly sung in English. Advertisement They beat Taylor Swift, who took the crown in 2019, into second place and Drake. The Weeknd finished fourth and Billie Eilish came in at number five. Congratulations to @BTS_bighit, the...
The Mars Volta tease “La Realidad De Los Sueños” in new video
Eight years after they formally broke up, The Mars Volta have posted a mysterious six-second teaser video to social media. The clip was shared via Clouds Hill Music, a recording studio in Hamburg, Germany that Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has called his “second home”. In 2020, he released a triple solo album called ‘The Clouds Hill Tapes’. It features ambient sound from ‘Son Et Lumiere’, the opening track to the band’s debut album ‘Deloused In The Comatorium’. In very brief flashes, the words “The Mars Volta” and “La Realidad De Los Sueños”, meaning “the reality of dreams” appear...
The Strokes tease behind the scenes video from ‘The Adults Are Talking’
The Strokes have teased a behind the scenes video from ‘The Adults Are Talking’. Read more: The Strokes: “Journalists kiss your ass to your face and talk shit when they’re writing the article” The New York band shared the official Roman Coppola-directed video for the single, taken from their acclaimed sixth album ‘The New Abnormal‘ released last December, which saw them taking on robots at baseball. Now they’ve taken to Twitter to tease that “something cool” is coming tomorrow (March 5) alongside a one minute clip which shows the band acting out the video in front of green screens. Advertisement...
Steve Albini hits out at Joe Rogan and “all the anti-woke comics”
Steve Albini has hit out at Joe Rogan and “all the anti-woke comics” in a new interview. The producer/engineer was speaking to Oxbow frontman Eugene Robinson last month for the singer’s ‘5 Easy Pieces’ feature, which saw Albini label podcaster Rogan as “trash garbage”. Read More: From the mixing desk of Steve Albini – five essential albums Claiming that some forms of transgressive art are “just a veneer used to justify being a fucking creep”, Albini spoke of the media companies he has “always hated” – including Barstool Sports. Advertisement He then mentioned Rogan specifically. “Rogan, Barstool, all the...
Arctic Monkeys launch new range of merchandise designed by Matt Helders
Arctic Monkeys have launched a new range of ‘Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’ merchandise designed by Matt Helders. READ MORE: 10 nerdy facts about Arctic Monkeys’ seminal debut album ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’ The limited edition merch was shared by the band on Twitter today (March 4) and includes a black long-sleeved top with the album’s logo, a green beanie hat and white and mustard t-shirts featuring lyrics from ‘Four Out Of Five’. They retail from £15 to £35 and can be purchased here. Limited edition merch designed by Matt Helders during lockdown is available now...
Watch Shame’s new ‘Live In The Flesh’ concert film
Shame have shared a new concert film called Live In The Flesh online – you can watch it below. READ MORE: Shame: “If this is a good year, everything can change around” The south London band performed a live-streamed show from London’s Electric Brixton in January to mark the release of their acclaimed second album ‘Drunk Tank Pink’, which came out four days prior. Directed by Molten Jets, the performance has today (March 4) been shared in its entirety via Shame’s official YouTube channel. It was previously only made available to fans who pre-ordered the group’s new record. Advertisement Featuring...
Jay-Z sells Tidal platform to Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is to buy Jay-Z’s streaming platform Tidal in a $297million (£213million) deal. Dorsey, who is also the CEO of Square, has acquired a majority stake in the service in a bid to expand his mobile payment company’s tools to emerging and established artists. Tidal will now operate independently within Square. READ MORE: Jay-Z’s Tidal streaming service has split the music industry apart – Who is for? Who is against? Having launched Tidal in 2015, Jay-Z will join Square’s board of directors under the new deal. Last month, Dorsey and the rapper launched a fund to “make...
Watch Suede’s Brett Anderson and Nadine Shah perform a powerful cover of Mercury Rev’s ‘Holes’
Suede‘s Brett Anderson and Nadine Shah have teamed up with the Paraorchestra for a one off concert of covers including David Bowie, Echo & The Bunnymen and Mercury Rev. The nine-track gig, dubbed ‘Death Songbook’, which will be streamed by BBC Cymru as part of GŴYL 2021 this weekend, also features Portishead‘s Adrian Utley on guitar and Seb Rochford from Sons of Kemet on drums. The acoustic/electric set was recorded in a COVID-safe environment in January on the largest of Wales Millennium Centre’s stages and featured tracks by Suede along with Bowie’s cover of Jacques Brel’s ‘My Death’ and...Recent Posts
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