RS says it goes from the Beatles to Nas and beyond, and it's actually much broader than that, and not that much classic rock at all. A lot of, well relatively, it's still the Rolling Stone, hip-hop, pop music, indie rock. Good list, all in all, and a good starting point to get into musicians' […]
K-pop star and actor Sulli has been found dead at the age of 25. The star was a victim of online bullying, had severe depression, and the Korean police says “it seems that she took her own life". Sulli was a member of the popular K-pop girl group f(x) from 2009, went on hiatus from […]
SuperM exist for only two months now, but they have already reached the top of Billboard 200 album chart (album sales in US). Their EP named 'SuperM: The 1st Mini Album' sold 168,000 equivalent units, of that sum 164,000 were in album sales, Billboard reports. SuperM is a new K-pop septet that’s branded as a […]
“I feel very bad about myself. I cannot see anything positive in my body, I hate to look at myself in the mirror and it makes me suffer a lot" - a young fan named Barbara asked Nick Cave on his Red Hand File blog. Cave thanked her for “entrusting him with such a courageous […]
Phonocut is the size of a regular turntable, and it allows users to connect a digital audio source of their choice and use an accompanying app to help format the audio to fit two sides of a 10-inch record. From there, a diamond stylus will etch the sound wave into the surface of the record. […]
Production at National Audio Company, America’s largest cassette tape manufacturer, has slowed due to the worldwide shortage of gamma ferric oxide, material essential for the production of cassette tapes, Pitchfork reports. The only factory that refines the magnetic material used in the production of professional audio recording tape has been under renovation for most of […]
A new branch of HMV opened in Birmingham today (October 11), the biggest entertainment store in Europe - it's almost the size of 12 tennis courts. HMV almost went bankrupt, when Sunrise Records owner Doug Putman bought the company, keeping over 100 stores open, though 27 ended up closing. The new Birmingham store, to be […]
For the first time, black students made up more than 3% of new undergraduates at Cambridge University, and, partly at least, it's thanks to Stormzy. Grime artist has pledged to fund the tuition fees and living costs of two students each year, BBC reports. This year 91 black students were admitted to the university, up about […]
Green Day made a new theme song for this NHL season - their track 'Fire, Ready, Aim' will serve as the Wednesday Night Hockey opening music, Consequence of Sound reports. The song is also to be featured on Green Day’s forthcoming album, 'Father of All Motherfuckers'. Listen below.
American indietronica band Poliça have a new song out, 'Driving' (watch below), and a new album, 'When We Stay Alive', coming out in January. The album was written, as Stereogum reports, when Poliça singer Channy Leaneagh fell off her roof in early 2018 and broke a vertebra - "Laying in bed, as I healed from a […]
Fatboy Slim mixed Greta Thunberg's UN speech in a performance of his club favourite 'Right Here, Right Now' in the UK over the weekend. His mix starts with Thunberg’s speech to world leaders about the climate crisis - “We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw […]
Brooklyn Vegan made a good choice of new songs of the week. There are Petbrick, new industrial project from former Sepultura drummer Igor Cavalera and Big Lad’s Wayne Adams, with guest vocals by Laima Leyton; Texas collective Golden Dawn Arkestra with their French pop-post-punk-krautrock-tropicalia project; first new Caribou song in five years; Sebastian give us pulsating new […]
Pitchfork likes their indie rock and (selected) pop musicians, so the selection of the best albums of the last 10 years (2019 is not over yet, right!?!) mirrors that philosophy. Check it out here. As for the best songs of 2010s, a lot of artists absent from the albums list found their place at the […]
New Batman movie 'Joker' has come under fire for using a track by convicted pedophile Gary Glitter on its soundtrack. The movie uses Glitter's 1972 hit 'Rock and Roll Part 2' in a lengthy and pivotal scene, in which Joaquin Phoenix dances down a long flight of stairs and transforms into the iconic character. A number of upset […]
BadBadNotGood keyboardist and co-founder Matthew Tavares has confirmed his departure from the group, after taking a hiatus in 2017, Exclaim reports. "This decision did not come easy however", he said in an Instagram post - "I had invested every waking hour into this project since I was 20 years old, and on-top of co-producing and […]
All of the 135,000 tickets for the 50th year of Glastonbury have been sold out in 34 minutes, with a record 2,4 million people signing up to have chance of securing a ticket, Daily Mail reports. The ticket sale was the second fastest in the event’s history, with only the 2014 festival selling out a […]
Tones And I set a new Australian chart record, with her single 'Dance Monkey' spending 10 consecutive weeks atop Australia's singles chart. Apart from her homeland, Tones And I is now No. 1 in 13 countries; globally, the tune has raked in more than 250 million streams, Billboard reports. 'Dance Monkey' is just the second […]
The 50th anniversary edition of the Beatles' 'Abbey Road' returns to the UK album chart at No. 1, breaking Beatles' own longevity record. 'Abbey Road' has the longest-ever span between runs at the summit, at 49 years and 252 days since its original 17-week at No. 1 ended on Jan. 31, 1970. The Beatles held the […]
The media are making selections of best performances by Ginger Baker, a famous drummer who changed rock drumming raising it to another level. It goes from his rock staple Cream, collaboration with world-music great Fela Kuti, his works with Blind Faith, Public Image Ltd, Hawkwind, stoner rock pioneers Masters of Reality, to jazzers Charlie Haden and Bill Frisell. Louder […]
Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller and filmmaker Nicholas Abrahams made a documentary about Depeche Mode fans from around the world - Moscow, Tehran, Cambridge... "If it’s wrong to get goosebumps watching a marching band play 'Personal Jesus', then we don’t want to be right" - the LA Times said about it. Watch it below.
Manchester producer Medulasa has released an EP 'Typhoid Mary' in memory of a friend that has passed away recently. The short album was “Written in the aftermath of the passing of a dear friend", Medulasa says - "in part to celebrate their impeccable tastes, in part to process the tragedy of their death, and in […]
UK bands could be badly hit by the need for visas, carnets and documents if UK leaves the EU without an exit-agreement. Bands would face extra issues with documentation, travel and the transport and sale of goods as they go to the EU. Guardian goes into details: European health insurance cards may not be valid […]
'Death Stranding' is a highly anticipated new PS4 game from Hideo Kojima, author of 'Metal Gear Solid', and the game will arrive alongside an album of original music, Polygon reports. Scottish pop group CHVRCHES has written the game’s end song - "thinking of the themes of the game and what it is trying to say to […]
Australian singer Jason Donovan was a hero of the day in his neighborhood Notting Hill in London when he helped tackle a fire at his neighbour's house. 51-year old actor and singer and actor, who lives across the road spotted the flames from his home, went out wearing only his dad-underpants, and tackled the fire […]
Berghain is probably the most famous club in the world today. It all began in 1989 with gay sex club Snax - the same people went on to create Berghain. A new book No Photos on the Dance Floor! Berlin 1989 - Today and an exhibition of the same name capture the period from those […]
In two days of May Yasiin Bey, YBN Cordae, Rapsody, Herbie Hancock, Andra Day, Terrace Martin, Bilal, Buddy, Denzel Curry, Mick Jenkins, SiR, and other artists stopped by the studio where the acclaimed instrumentalist Robert Glasper was recording his 'Fuck Yo Feelings'. They all added to the mixtape, creating concert-like atmosphere. It's out this week, All Hip Hop reports. Judging […]
"When we wrote the album Hail to the Thief, that seemed pretty bad, that period of time when Bush Jr. got in. And now we’re here” - Thom Yorke said in a rare late-night appearance as a guest on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where the Radiohead singer talked about Brexit, American politics, his new […]
English indie-rock singer-songwriter Emmy the Great kept an on-tour diary on her latest tour while having a small baby touring with her. At her first concert "We are incredibly late for soundcheck. Then we are late getting to the hotel for the bedtime routine. Then I am late getting on stage because I was laundering […]
Since kicking off their farewell tour on March 10, 2018, thrash-metal legends Slayer have sold $10 million of merchandise, the industry magazine Pollstar reports. They've still got one final tour leg left to go and by the end of the run, Slayer will have played nearly 150 farewell shows around the globe. Those shows are great moneymakers […]
Damon Albarn is turning to classical music as well, like some of his peers from the Brit-pop era - next year he is launching an entirely new project called The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows. In May 2020, over the course of 12 shows in Europe, Albarn will perform a “new, very personal […]
