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Radiohead’s ‘Lotus Flower’ Video Perfected A Viral Dance 10 Years Before TikTok
By Amanda Silberling When Radiohead released their divisive eighth album The King of Limbs in February 2011, it had been nearly four years since the release of the revered In Rainbows. As fans, we were parched. This lull sparked the era that cemented the stereotype of the rabid Radiohead fan: poring over obscure B-sides, searching for clues to solve some puzzle that we weren’t sure actually existed. We worshipped Radiohead with such intensity that when music critic Chuck Klosterman proposed that singer Thom Yorke predicted 9/11 on Kid A (2000), we considered it. Meanwhile, blogger Kevin Flick devised the...
Wild Pink Is Bigger Than Christmas
The first time I heard John Ross sing in the back of a Brooklyn venue on a frigid November night, his voice lit up the dark room like an ember. The scene might’ve been captured cinematically with a long lens peering through a frosted window, his vocal glow warming the two dozen people listening inside. Considering his formidable height and physical stature, Ross is not a loud man. As his musical project Wild Pink has evolved over five years, his voice has only become softer, the yelps of early releases mellowed into honey. While boggy, his vocals remain nimble enough to...
Jerry Seinfeld, Awkwafina, Jadakiss and more voice new NYC subway announcements
Jerry Seinfeld, Awkwafina and rapper Jadakiss are among the names who have recorded announcements about coronavirus safety for New York City’s subways. Read more: 10 essential Seinfeld episodes that will initiate you into the ultimate ’90s sitcom cult It comes after social media influencer Nicolas Heller (better known as New York Nico) announced last month that he was partnering with the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) to curate new subway announcements, recorded by various famous New Yorkers. The full list of participants has now been released, which includes the aforementioned names as well the likes of Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Rapaport,...
Foo Fighters score fifth UK Number One album with ‘Medicine At Midnight’
Foo Fighters have scored their fifth UK Number One album with their 10th studio album, ‘Medicine At Midnight’. Read more: Foo Fighters: “Our connection is beyond music” The band’s new album, which arrived last week (February 5), debuted at the top spot with a total of 42,500 chart sales – 74 per cent of which were physical copies, including 10,500 on vinyl. Foo Fighters outsold its six closest rivals combined, including Fleet Foxes‘ 2020 album ‘Shore’ (which debuted its physical release last week) and Black Country, New Road’s debut album ‘For The First Time‘. Advertisement “I would like to thank...
KXNG Crooked talks his own unreleased ‘Dear Mama’ track on 25th anniversary of 2Pac’s ‘All Eyez On Me’
Rapper KXNG Crooked has shared his thoughts on 2Pac’s ‘All Eyez On Me’ to marks the album’s 25th anniversary today (February 13), as well as revealing to NME that he has an unreleased track that has a special connection to the legendary rapper. Crooked, who has worked with the likes of Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and Snoop Dogg, called the Death Row Records album a “multilayered” project “packed full of all the messages we love hip-hop for”. “‘All Eyez On Me’ allows listeners to experience hip-hop on a number of different levels,” Crooked told NME of the album, which features the...
Sharon Van Etten releases full version of ‘On Your Way Now’
Sharon Van Etten has released the full version of ‘On Your Way Now’, almost two years after the song was initially recorded. The track was created for the 2019 documentary, Made In Boise, about four women carrying surrogate babies in Idaho. ‘On Your Way Now’ was written by Mark McAdam and performed by Van Etten, with only a snippet being made available at the time of the film’s release. Now, the full version of the tender, emotional tune has landed on streaming services for listeners to enjoy. Check it out below: Advertisement When Made In Boise was released, Van...
Influential jazz drummer Milford Graves has passed away at 79
Milford Graves, a pioneering jazz drummer most commonly associated with the free jazz movement, has passed away at age 79. NPR journalist Lars Gotrich confirmed that Graves passed away of congestive heart failure on February 12. Graves had been battling amyloid cardiomyopathy — also known as stiff heart syndrome — since 2018, when he was diagnosed and given six months to live. Born in Queens on August 20, 1941, Graves began learning percussion instruments at a young age, most notably the congas. In the 1960s, he was a founding member of the New York Art Quartet, an influential free...
Kodak Black offers to pay tuition fees for children of murdered FBI agents
Kodak Black has offered to pay the college tuition fees for the children of two FBI agents who were murdered last week (February 1). The agents were shot and killed by Florida man David Lee Huber when they served him with a search warrant in connection with a child pornography case. When they arrived at his home, Huber began shooting, wounding three more officers before he was shot and killed by the authorities. Now, Black is offering to help out the families of Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger in the wake of their deaths. Schwartzenberger is survived by two...
System Of A Down’s John Dolmayan says ‘The Mandalorian’’s Gina Carano is victim of “woke justice”
System Of A Down’s John Dolmayan has spoken out in defence of The Mandalorian star Gina Carano after she was fired for sharing offensive and controversial social media posts. The actor was sacked from the Disney+ show after she shared a post that compared US Republicans to Jewish people in Nazi Germany. Read more: The Mandalorian season three: 8 questions we want answered After Carano was fired, Dolmayan weighed in on the situation on his Instagram page. Posting a photo of the actor, he captioned the post: “It takes a lot of guts to put your career on the...Recent Posts
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