American post-hardcore band mewithoutYou have announced that they’re calling it a day after 2020 - “we have decided on next year as our last as an active band. We nevertheless have many plans in the interim, the details of which are forthcoming”. MewithoutYou formed in 2000, which means their final year will also mark their 20th […]
At Elton John’s final tour the audience can use a device called PEEX which allows them to mix the instruments the way they like. Individual instrument tracks from backstage are transmitted via radio signals to PEEX and then synchronised with the sound being sent - meaning there is no delay. Audience members can then mix […]
Use of music across major on-demand platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video has more than tripled (up 238%) in the past five years – from 145bn minutes in 2014 to 490bn minutes in 2018, figures by PRS (Performing Rights Society) for Music show. The Guardian reports has several examples - in 2012, the […]
American rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again comes to the top of Billboard 200 chart with his EP 'AI YoungBoy 2'. The album sold 110,000 equivalent album units in the U.S., of that sum, just 3,000 were in album sales, while the rest was overwhelmingly powered by streaming activity, Billboard reports. Rap-balladeer Lil Tjay arrives at […]
Amazon has announced a Las Vegas music festival called Intersect. In two days of December it will be headlined by Foo Fighters, Beck, Kacey Musgraves, and Anderson .Paak. Guardian already dislikes it - "like so many other branded events today, it exists only to exploit artists and audiences... [it] values immediate sensory thrills over deep […]
The list goes from Bromley Davenport's minimalist analog synth, haunting melodies, whirring electronic effects and woozy waltzes in movie 'Xtro' he also directed at spot 35, to John Carpenter's 'Halloween' with minimalist piano at spot 1. Check the full list here.
K-pop actress-singer Sulli rose to prominence as a member of girl band f(x), but she came to be known for speaking out on mental health issues, cyberbullying and women's rights - issues that remain sensitive in a conservative society like South Korea, BBC reports. Guardian goes a step further - London paper reports about anger […]
Canadians anders and FrancisGotHeat made a trap song 'Sticky Situation' that samples sounds from actual weed plants, Exclaim reports. Samples of cannabis were created by running a range of electrical currents through the plants themselves, which were then turned into MIDI data. From there, the recordings were converted into instrument sounds for FrancisGotHeat to manipulate […]
Consequence of Sound, with a little help from Seth Rogen, has found a great and hilarious story, about a guy hired by Snoop Dogg - to roll him joints. Snoop said, in Howard Stern interview, that he calls the gentleman a “P. B. R.: Professional Blunt Roller”, pays him “$40 to $50,000 a year", is […]
Cuban ballet dancer Alicia Alonso, one of the greatest 20th Century ballerinas, has died age 98, with president Miguel Diaz-Canel saying "Alicia Alonso has gone and left an enormous void but unbeatable legacy", Independent reports. BBC has a short biography. After the 1959 revolution, she helped found the National Ballet of Cuba with then leader […]
Part of 'I Feel Saved' can be heard in the trailer for the new movie 'Age Out' (watch/listen below), directed by A.J. Edwards. The movie is scored by Colin Stetson (his unmissable sax is heard towards the end of the trailer).
DJ Premier announced a new Gang Starr album, titled 'One of the Best Yet' and due November 1, Hot New Hip Hop reports. It's band's first in 16 years, nine years after band's MC Guru died, and DJ Premier said he was "just very happy to be making music with Guru again". The album features J Cole, Q-Tip, Royce […]
The National frontman Matt Berninger is releasing a solo album 'Serpentine', produced and arranged by Booker T. Jones of Memphis soul group Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Rolling Stone reports. The first song out from it is 'Walking on a String', a collaboration with Phoebe Bridgers, which appears in Zach Galifianakis’ Netflix film 'Between Two […]
Some are actually quite well known - Black Midi, Slowthai, DaBaby, Fontaines D.C., Just Mustard - although quite new as well, the rest both new and less popular. So, Stereogum chose - Norway coffeehouse indie duo Konradsen; California exhilarating aural assault 100 Gecs; some regular disco by Channel Tres; speed-metal Californians Dead Heat; psych-rock Canadians […]
Metallica's 'S&M2' movie screened last week in over 95 countries and more than 3,700 cinemas worldwide. The film achieved a significant global screen average of $1,500 with 460,000 admissions, earning in total $5.5 million, which makes it the largest ever global rock event cinema release in history, Loudwire reports. Thanks to the big demand, Trafalgar […]
Leading Chicago rappers Noname, Saba, and Smino announced this week that they had formed a rap supergroup called Ghetto Sage. Today, they’ve already shared their first song - 'Häagen Dazs'; listen below. They have an Instagram profile - here.
Brooklyn Vegan has, per usual, best selection of songs released this week: Fontanel is a "sultry, ethereal, mysterious and quite lovely" collaboration of Eartheater and Dadras; post-rockers Mono have a 2019 live-in-studio recording of one of the band’s earliest songs, Halo, recorded and mixed by Steve Albini; Michael Kiwanuka has a nice new song Piano […]
Songwriter and producer Justin Raisen has posted a video on Instagram comparing Lizzo's hit single 'Truth Hurts' to a song 'Healthy' he and others wrote with Lizzo in 2017, Time reports. Both songs share the same opening line – “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that bitch” – as well as […]
Stormzy won best solo act at last night's Q Awards, The 1975 were named best act in the world today, Scottish chart-topping singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi took home the best track gong for 'Someone You Loved', while song of the decade went to Lana Del Rey for her breakthrough hit 'Video Games'. Best breakthrough act went […]
"My duty as a songwriter is not to try to save the world, but rather to save the soul of the world. This requires me to live my life on the other side of truth, beyond conviction and within uncertainty, where things make less sense, absurdity is a virtue and art rages and burns; where dogma is […]
Adele's '21' is the UK's best-selling album of the 21st Century, selling more than five million copies since being released in 2011. The record, which features the hits 'Rolling In The Deep' and 'Someone Like You', is more than a million copies ahead of the second biggest-seller, Amy Winehouse's 'Back To Black'. Adele also takes […]
'Glorious' is the latest single by American r'n'b singer Sudan Archives, a "slicing and boisterous [song], Parks’ impressive violin-playing serving as the pivot that the entire track hangs around", as Stereogum puts it. Her Bandcamp profile says she is self-taught on the violin, inspired by Sudanese fiddlers, R&B, West African rhythms, and experimental electronic music. […]
The Hall Of Fame just announced this year’s nominees, and nine of the 15 are up for the first time - The Notorious B.I.G., the Dave Matthews Band, Whitney Houston, T. Rex, Thin Lizzy, Pat Benatar, Motörhead, and the Doobie Brothers. Other nominees have been up for induction many times - Kraftwerk six times, MC5 […]
Rappers Noname, Saba, and Smino are joining forces under the name Ghetto Sage, with their first single presumably coming out October 17. Consequence of Sound emphasizes the fact that the trio is coming together at a highpoint of their solo careers - Noname shared her new album’s name along with one of the best songs […]
Fact Magazine calls it's For Club Use Only "one-stop guide to the best underground dance music from across the world" forecasting "next wave of sounds due to break through into the mainstream". It goes from Kelman Duran’s reggaeton and M.E.S.H.'s neo-goth to Air Max ’97's EBM/dancehall and Via App’s techno. Not that much a pleasant listen, rather […]
Wu-Tang Clan headlined the final night of Desert Daze on Sunday (10/13), and as a surprise for the crowd they brought out Texas psych-funk Khruangbin, to back them on 'Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off)', Stereogum reports. The trio is known to throw a medley tribute to ’90s hip hop into their sets. Turned up […]
On Oct. 31, American actor and singer/songwriter Rain Phoenix will release her first solo album, 'River', on the same date her older brother and former bandmate River died in 1991. The music video for her first single, 'Immolate', directed by Gus Van Sant, director of 'My Own Private Idaho', is out now (watch below). Hollywood Reporter...
Harvard University is to honor rapper and actor Queen Latifah with Hutchins Center for African and African American Research's W.E.B. Du Bois Medal for her contributions to black history and culture. Latifah is one of seven honorees who will receive the honor at a ceremony on October 22 - other recipients include poet and educator […]
Dawson has just released his newest album '2020', so the Quietus had asked him to name his favourite albums. It's a diverse selection containing some classics like Nina Simone, and then there's Mongolian band Huun Huur Tu about men hunting with eagles, because - "so many musicians are posers, which is fine, but I never […]
In true Neil Young fashion, he splits his time in the trailer between performing songs and yelling expletives into his microphone - Exclaim says about the trailer for new Neil Young documentary about recording his latest album 'Colorado' (out October 25, watch trailer below). The film is described as "a raw and extremely unfiltered look […]
