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A New Side Of Taylor Swift, A Crackling Rico Nasty, And More Songs We Love
The search for the ever-elusive “bop” is difficult. Playlists and streaming-service recommendations can only do so much. They often leave a lingering question: Are these songs really good, or are they just new? Enter Bop Shop, a hand-picked selection of songs from the MTV News team. This weekly collection doesn’t discriminate by genre and can include anything — it’s a snapshot of what’s on our minds and what sounds good. We’ll keep it fresh with the latest music, but expect a few oldies (but goodies) every once in a while, too. Get ready: The Bop Shop is now open for business. Taylor...
Watch Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin cover The Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’ for new Hanukkah song series
Dave Grohl and producer Greg Kurstin have teamed up to cover The Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’ – the first in a new series of covers to celebrate Hanukkah. In a video posted to Twitter, Grohl is seen delivering vocals and drums on the furious rendition of the 1994 track, while Kurstin plays the song’s distinctive keys. Sharing the track to Twitter, they wrote: “As the only Rock and Roll Hall Of Famers with a lyric about kugel, we thought it would be a shanda to not kick off this party with New York’s (and Abraham’s) finest…known by some as Shadrach, Meshach,...
Watch The Avalanches’ new video for ‘The Divine Chord’ with Johnny Marr and MGMT
The Avalanches have today released their third studio album ‘We Will Always Love You’, and alongside it delivered a video for album cut ‘The Divine Chord’ alongside MGMT and Johnny Marr. The music video, like much of the album’s concepts, centres around space and planets, while also featuring a small child camping and wandering in a forest. READ MORE: The Avalanches – ‘We Will Always Love You’ review: frontier psychiatrists get back in the saddle It’s the sixth song from ‘We Will Always Love You’ to receive a music video, with the latest being ‘Interstellar Love‘ alongside Leon Bridges....
The National on working with Taylor Swift on ‘Evermore’: “It’s been the experience of a lifetime”
The National‘s Aaron Dessner and Matt Berninger have opened up about their experience collaborating with Taylor Swift on her surprise new album, ‘Evermore‘. On social media, The National frontman Berninger – who contributed to album cut ‘Coney Island’ – likened singing a song with Swift to “dancing with Gene Kelly”. “She made me look good and didn’t drop me once… Such a blast being a part of ‘Evermore’.” Advertisement Swift responded on Twitter, saying that she “might print that out and hang it on my ‘most charming tweets’ wall.” She added, “I’m a The National mega fan, I have...
Read Taylor Swift’s essay on her ninth album, ‘Evermore’: “I have no idea what comes next”
Taylor Swift‘s surprise ninth studio album ‘Evermore’ is out in the world, and she has taken to social media to share an essay about the album’s conception. READ MORE: Taylor Swift – ‘Evermore’ review: the freewheeling younger sibling to ‘Folklore’ The essay included words she shared upon the album’s announcement yesterday (December 10). Swift wrote, “In the past I’ve always treated albums as one-off eras and moved onto planning the next one as soon as an album was released. “There was something different with ‘Folklore’,” referring to her eighth studio album, which was surprise-released in July and marked as...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Evermore’ is here here’s how fans reacted
Taylor Swift‘s surprise new studio album, ‘Evermore‘, has dropped and, as could be expected, it has taken the internet by storm. Swift took to Instagram yesterday (December 10) to announce the release of her second album of 2020, which she called a “sister record” to ‘Folklore’, which dropped in July. Read more: Taylor Swift – ‘Evermore’ review: the freewheeling younger sibling to ‘Folklore’ Even before ‘Evermore’ landed, fans and fellow musicians – including album collaborators Haim and The National‘s Aaron Dessner – flooded Twitter with excited posts and support for the ‘folklore’ artist. .@taylorswift13 they don’t even know what’s...
Watch Tame Impala cover Edywn Collins’ ‘Girl Like You’
Tame Impala have taken to triple j’s Perth studios to perform a cover of Edwyn Collins’ ’90s hit ‘Girl Like You’ for the Australian radio station’s Like a Version segment. The psych juggernauts were faithful to the original in their rendition, even down to Collins’ vocal filter. They performed in the same trio configuration of frontman Kevin Parker, Jay Watson (aka GUM) and Dom Simper (aka bambi) playing samplers and sequencers that they debuted for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series in August – a setup Parker dubbed “Tame Impala Soundsystem”. Watch it below. Advertisement In a post-performance interview, Parker spoke...
Jack Harlow on why he kept Tory Lanez on ‘What’s Poppin’” remix: “Who am I to judge?”
Jack Harlow has explained why he chose not to remove Tory Lanez from his ‘What’s Poppin” remix. READ MORE: The NME 100: Essential new artists for 2020 During an interview with LA radio station Power 106, Harlow was asked why he decided to keep Lanez on the track, with reports of the Canadian rapper allegedly shooting Megan Thee Stallion breaking soon after its release. “I don’t think I’m God,” he replied. “I don’t have no room to judge anybody. I wasn’t there when this and that happened, I don’t know anything. Who am I to judge? Advertisement “For me it’s...
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard warn of impending doom on new single ‘If Not Now, Then When?’
Less than a month after the release of their last studio album, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have returned with a new single, ‘If Not Now, Then When?’. The track begins with the microtonal, doom guitar that has recently dominated their music, before pivoting onto an electric harpsichord groove – frontman Stu Mackenzie sings dire warnings on climate change in falsetto. READ MORE: King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard: “It’s cool how divisive we are” “This song was written pre-covid, but feels even more potent now. Look out your window; the world is on fire,” the band wrote...Recent Posts
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