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Director of Lady Gaga’s ‘911’ video considered the concept for Massive Attack decades ago
The director of Lady Gaga‘s latest music video for ‘911’, Tarsem Singh, has revealed he had hoped to use its concept for a Massive Attack video years ago. The video for the single from Gaga’s latest album ‘Chromatica’ was released last Friday. It was the third video to be released from the record, following ‘Stupid Love’ and ‘Rain On Me’ with Ariana Grande. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Singh said he came up with the dream-like concept for the visual 28 years ago, which his friend described as “basically The Wizard of Oz without the first act”. Advertisement He...
Watch London Grammar cover The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’
London Grammar have delivered their interpretation of The Weeknd‘s hit track ‘Blinding Lights’ in a live performance. The track was performed for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge series, and features the band putting their signature spin on the song. Watch London Grammar cover ‘Blinding Lights’ below: Advertisement London Grammar recently returned with ‘Baby It’s You’, their first track since the release of their 2017 album, ‘Truth Is A Beautiful Thing’. NME gave the album a four-star review upon its release, saying “there’s a refreshing amount of stylistic variation compared to the band’s two-million-selling 2014 debut ‘If You Wait’”. Last...
Watch Polo G perform ‘Martin & Gina’ on ‘Fallon’
Chicago rapper Polo G has performed ‘Martin & Gina’ as a musical guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Polo G – real name Taurus Tremani Bartlett – performed the track backed by a four-piece band under a variety of soft, shifting lighting. The song is taken from Bartlett’s 2020 album, ‘THE GOAT’. Watch the performance below: Advertisement ‘THE GOAT’ is Bartlett’s second full-length to date, following his 2019 debut record, ‘Die A Legend’. In June, he was featured alongside Ty Dolla $ign on Murda Beatz’s track ‘Doors Unlocked’. READ MORE: Get to know Polo G, the Chicago...
SXSW announces virtual 2021 festival
South by Southwest has revealed that they’ll be hosting an online 2021 event, following the cancellation of their 2020 event due to coronavirus restrictions. The virtual festival will be taking place from March 16 – March 20 next year, and is set to offer a variety of keynote speeches, conferences, film screenings and more. SXSW’s education conference, SXSW EDU, will take place the week before, commencing on March 9 and going until March 11. View this post on Instagram Today we’re launching #SXSW Online as part of our 2021 offerings. Join us for a digital experience featuring conference keynotes...
Tim Heidecker shares new single ‘Oh How We Drift Away’ featuring Weyes Blood
Tim Heidecker has shared a new single, ‘Oh How We Drift Away’, featuring Weyes Blood. The song is the fourth single and album closer from Heidecker’s forthcoming new album, ‘Fear Of Death’. It follows previous singles ‘Nothing’, ‘Property’, and the title track. Listen to it below: Advertisement In addition to Weyes Blood’s Natalie Mering, ‘Fear Of Death’ features appearances from The Lemon Twigs‘ Brian and Michael D’Addario, Warpaint‘s Stella Mozgawa and Foxygen‘s Jonathan Rado. READ MORE: Weyes Blood on ‘Titanic Rising’, her vital climate change wake-up call: “It’s not music that’s going to save us – it’s activism” ‘Fear Of...
Amanda Palmer to launch new podcast ‘The Art Of Asking Everything’
Amanda Palmer is launching a new podcast called The Art Of Asking Everything – check out the trailer below. Read More: Amanda Palmer – ‘There Will Be No Intermission’ review The weekly series will begin next Tuesday (September 29) and will see the cult musician, author and TED speaker participate in “deep and honest conversations” with a range of guests, including KT Tunstall, Tim Minchin, Lenny Henry, Laura Jane Grace and Susan Cain. “Do you know that I love to talk to people? About hard and uncomfortable things? Well, I do,” Palmer says. “For this podcast, I sit down with...
Fleet Foxes on how the “horrible circumstances” of 2020 inspired new album ‘Shore’
Fleet Foxes‘ Robin Pecknold has opened up on completing the band’s surprise new album ‘Shore’ during the coronavirus-enforced lockdown. The Seattle group released their fourth studio effort, the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Crack-Up’, earlier today (September 22) to coincide with the beginning of the autumnal equinox. It arrived with an accompanying film which was shot in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. “All the lyrics came out of reflections around what’s going on right now and tying that into personal things,” the band’s frontman told Zane Lowe on Apple Music, revealing how he “ended up just driving around in self-quarantine, writing lyrics...
Linkin Park, Slipknot and Fall Out Boy roadies form new band Knifes
A group of roadies who have worked for the likes of Linkin Park, Slipknot and Fall Out Boy have come together to form a new band called Knifes. Read more: Mike Shinoda on writing an album on Twitch, 20 years of ‘Hybrid Theory’ and Chester Bennington’s voice The idea for Knifes was born onstage in Brazil during a Linkin Park concert, when Ben Young stepped in last minute for the band’s guitarist Brad Delson, strapping on an axe in front of 50,000 fans. After filling in for a few more shows, Young started penning his own songs and later roped...
Vinyl sales continue to rise in UK despite coronavirus crisis
Vinyl sales have continued to rise in the UK despite the coronavirus crisis causing significant problems for other areas of the music industry. Read more: Here’s the full list of Record Store Day 2020 releases According to the Official Charts Company, last month’s Record Store Day – the first of three socially distanced events scheduled for 2020 – resulted in a 3% rise in vinyl sales, with 2.7 million units sold so far this year. The new figures come from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA), who manage Record Store Day in the UK. Advertisement This continuing rise comes in spite of...Recent Posts
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