In 2009 American ambient techno band Telefon Tel Aviv published their latest album 'Immolate Yourself', and band's founding member Charlie Cooper died. Remaining member Josh Eustis has since been working with Puscifer, Apparat, Nine Inch Nails and Vatican Shadow, and in 2017 he made a solo track 'Something Akin To Lust', as Fact Magazine reports. […]
Tool have added their four albums and one EP to streaming services, on Friday (August 2), after years of holding out, with all five entering the iTunes Top 10, while various songs cracked the iTunes Top 10 Songs chart. On the first day at iTunes album 'Ænima' landed at No. 2 on the iTunes Top Albums […]
100-something kids jumped the fence at Lollapalooza at once to get in. Somebody caught it all on video, and it’s since gone viral. Security doesn’t appear to stop any of them, except for one kid who has a prosthetic leg, well at first. Turns out, security caught up with them right after the events on […]
Yoga workshops, talks, therapies, spirituality, exocit and familiar food - hindu spa? No - music festivals! Womad world music festival, held in England, and Burning Man in the Nevada desert, are turning the music festival culture around from drugs, too much alcohol and bad food, to healthy practices, with attendees going home - healthier then […]
American rapper NF debuts on top of Billboard 200 chart with his fourth album 'The Search', sold in 130,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. Of that sum, 84,000 were in album sales, which made it the biggest sales week for a rap set this year (NF's third album 'Perception' also opened at No. 1 at […]
Billboard presents the latest edition of Queer Necessities, monthly LGBTQ-driven playlist where they catch on the latest and greatest bops by queer musicians. This time they've got Sam Smith with "a hard-hitting bass and a beat that's radio-ready" on 'How Do You Sleep?', Charli XCX & Christine and the Queens has "’80s-like drums, infectious synths […]
Fact Magazine picked out best house, techno, electro, disco and rave tracks from the past month. They chose Bobby Analog, AceMoMa and Afrodeutsche with unique takes on classic Chicago house, while Karen Gwyer, Andras and Yu Su took 4/4 into more experimental territory, and Floating Points returns to straight-up club music. Listen here.
Justin Bieber likes Tool, Tool don't like Bieber liking them, so DJ Cummerband stepped in to make amends. He made a mashup of Tool's 'Parabola' and Bieber's 'Love Yourself' into 'Love Your Parabola' with (mostly) their music and (mostly) his vocals, with a little help from Ludacris. It's a different song now, but it works […]
Swedish hardcore punks Refused shared their new song 'Blood Red', the lead single from the band’s forthcoming new album, 'War Music', out October 18th (watch the retrospective music video below). Consequence of Sound likes the song a lot - "[it] puts vocalist Dennis Lyxzén’s charismatic howls in the forefront, with some subtle artistic embellishments — like […]
Gibson might have broken quite a few hearts after a video appeared showing the guitar manufacturer destroying hundreds of Firebird X guitars by running them over with a construction vehicle, Alternative Press reports. A former employee said the company decided to do so following poor sales. Gibson says the Firebird X models were unsalvageable and damaged […]
The singer-songwriter's Divide tour will be officially the biggest, most attended and highest grossing of all time when he plays in Germany later. Ed Sheeran's tour began in March 2017 and will culminate at Chantry Park in Sheeran's local town Ipswich later this month. By the time the finale comes around he will have spent […]
The ruling came down on Friday (Aug. 2) as Rocky's trial came to a close, and he is free to return home to the United States while awaiting a verdict, which is expected to come down by Aug. 14. The 30-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was arrested on July 3rd following a […]
Quentin Tarantino handpicked a total of 70 songs pulled from his iconic filmography in a specially curated four-hour playlist. Among his favorites are Nancy Sinatra’s 'Bang Bang' from the opening scene of 'Kill Bill: Vol. 1', 'Jungle Boogie' by Kool & The Gang from 'Pulp Fiction', and The White Stripes’ 'Apple Blossom' from 'The Hateful Eight'. Louder Sound reports […]
Among the immigrants spread across Europe there's people that feel they don't belong neither in the immigrant community nor the one they came into. Guardian reports about a small community of queer refugees in Netherlands who face racism, homophobia and transphobia so they started Sehaq, a club in Amsterdam that is not only about dancing […]
There's plenty of it obviously, since the Quietus makes a selection every month, and a big one at that. "Weird" is a relative word here, actually, depending on the listener. Well, there's nothing like Cardi B here, but still it's far away from hard-core avantguarde or hard-to-listen-to music. Take Kandodo - atmospheric and mellow, imagine […]
Grand Canyon moved from their classic rock roots to psychedelic rock on their newest EP ('Yesterday's News, out August 2), with the leading track being '21st Century American Man' (listen below). A nearly seven-minute-long epic about self-liberation that sheds societal expectations was actually 25 minutes long in original take, which the California band insisted on […]
Big US event to celebrate 50 years since the Woodstock festival has been cancelled just two weeks before it was due to start. The proposed venue had already been changed and various artists had dropped out. Woodstock 50 originally had Jay-Z, The Killers, Miley Cyrus and many others on the bill. Organisers blamed a series […]
After Deftones announced the very diverse lineup for their second annual festival Dia De Los Deftones with CHVRCHES, Gojira, JPEGMAFIA, Hum, Youth Code, and Brutus, Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta took some issue with the order of the billing. “Who is churches with a v and why the fuck are they playing over Gojira... God the music industry suckkkkks sometimes,” he tweeted. CHVRCHES […]
Paul McCartney admitted that he can’t remember how to play all the Beatles songs - "I have to re-learn everything. I’ve written an awful lot, you can’t retain them all", he told The Mirror. He says he has to rely on bandmates and listen to some of the deeper cuts that he hasn’t played in […]
Florida healthcare worker Christina Settanni talked a man out from commiting a suicide using Linkin Park lyrics, WKMG-TV reports. Settanni was driving along a state road when she noticed a man sitting on a ledge, when she stopped, sat next to him and recited a lyric from the Linkin Park song 'One More Light' - "Who […]
LA producer Maral made a new mixtape 'Mahur Club' where she combined Iranian folk, pop and classical music with reggaeton, dub and Jersey Club. As it turns out it's not just interesting, it's actually quite good. Worth a few listens. Listen to it here. Fact Magazine found it out.
Nick Cave received quite a nasty question from one of his fans, George from Alabama who asked him: “Do you ever get tired of all the pretentious fat lesbians who enjoy your music? Personally I enjoy a lot of your music, but I find most of your fans insufferable". Cave told him he was being […]
Ed Sheeran’s star-studded 'No. 6 Collaborations Project' rules the Billboard 200 list for a second week, with 78,000 equivalent album units sold; in it's first week it sold 173,000 units. Beyoncé has a third Top 10 album this year - 'The Lion King: The Gift' debuted at No. 2 with 54,000 equivalent album units earned […]
London-based 6-piece Black Country, New Road has a new single out (digitally), a powerful noise-rock song 'Sunglasses' with plenty of sax (watch below). On September 6 whey will issue 500 copies of single on 7'', each copy with different Polaroid images on each cover taken by the band; it comes out on Blank Editions.
They are a British duo consisting of delicate vocal lines that float over intricate electronic textures. Kieran Brunt stands behind those choral vocals, while filmic beats are product of heart and craft of Matt Huxley. Strange Boy's latest single 'Suburbia' comes from their latest EP of the same name, listen to the song at SoundCloud here, […]
Recorded during his two-night stay at London’s Alexandra Palace this May, the 'Live at Alexandra Palace, London 8th and 9th May 2019' was uploaded to Four Tet's Bandcamp page - here. The mixed release is broken up into seven tracks spanning from the minute-and-a-half introduction 'Starting' to two-minutes-and-a-half finale 'Ending'. A good set actually...
Loudwire made our metal year so far much easier by compiling what they hear are best metal songs. It's not all, not everything is that great, but it's a start. So, they've got "an instant Amon Amarth classic" Raven's Flight, Born Of Osiris who "teeter between glitchy palm-muted chugs and atmospheric textures" in Cycles of […]
British alt-rock singer-songwriter Annabel Allum's new single 'When the Wind Stopped' finds her "blossoming as a songwriter", PopMatters says. "It's not a song that goes for the quick knockout. Rather it takes its time to penetrate the defenses with razor-sharp lyrical jabs and deftly constructed alt-pop hooks". The video is just as simple as it […]
English video artist and Turner Prize-winner Jeremy Deller made a documentary 'Everybody in The Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992' about cultural significance of rave and acid house on ’80s Britain (trailer below). The documentary includes rare and unseen archive materials and draws lines between protest movements, illegal warehouse raves, ’80s hedonism, Thatcherite politics, […]
Miami city commissioners voted 3-2 Thursday to approve an agreement with Ultra Music Festival, which allows the big three-day electronic dance music event to return to Bayfront Park in March 2020, Miami Herald reports. Last fall the contract was not renewed, after complaints from downtown residents who oppose the event’s large crowds and heavy traffic. […]
