Last weekend NTS Radio and Warp Records celebrated three decades of great electro label, with some of the Warp's biggest names debuting new music - Autechre revealed two hours of unreleased material from ’89-93, Boards of Canada contributed a two-hour mix of new and unreleased material, Kelela sang over various retro Warp productions, Death Grips […]
Manchester Orchestra have covered Frightened Rabbit's song 'My Backward Walk', and it'll come out on a tribute album 'Tiny Changes: A Celebration of The Midnight Organ Fight', an album of covers of songs from the band's classic album (listen to Man-Orchestra version below). The album is coming out July 12, and it also includes covers […]
Don Henley said the Eagles would never play live again, after Glenn Frey died in 2016, but on Sunday, the Californian rockers were back at Wembley Stadium, opening the UK leg of their world tour. It did happen, after all, with helping hand from Frey's 25-year-old son Deacon. BBC was there to see it happen.
Madonna has earned her ninth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 'Madame X', her 14th studio album. It was released on Friday, June 14, and moved 95,000 equivalent album units in the first week of its release. Of that total, a whopping 90,000 represent traditional album sales. Billboard...
The supergroup Prophets of Rage - featuring members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill - have released a new song, Blabbermouth reports. 'Made With Hate' is their first new track since last summer, and an album will follow - "we're growing and we're creating and we're going in a new territory […]
Atlanta rapper Jeezy partnered with Figgers Communications to launch F3 cellular phone, and F-Buds earpods. Why? "To give people more access to handheld technology at an affordable price". F3 retails for $449, and the F-Buds earpods for $49. Figgers 3 is the first 5G smartphone made in America (manufacturing is based out of Florida), it comes […]
Cardi received two BET awards - for best female hip-hop artist, and album of the year for 'Invasion of Privacy', and Nipsey Hussle was named best male hip-hop artist, and also given a special humanitarian award, to acknowledge the work he had done on social mobility in the city (artist paid special tribute to Hussle). […]
Berlin-based five-piece classical electronic band Brandt Brauer Frick are the latest subject of Fact Magazine's segment Against the Clock where a band makes a song in no more then ten minutes. This edition on ATC was one of their most ambitious - with grand piano and a trombone - and it resulted in a modern […]
'Infest the Rat’s Next' will be the King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's 15th album in 7 years, and this is what band's frontman Stu Mackenzie says how it all started: “ “In fourth grade there was an older kid who was into Rammstein. I made friends with him and we put together a performance […]
David Gilmour’s 1969 Black Fender Stratocaster went for $3,975,000 at an auction at Christie's in New York, which broke the world record for most expensive guitar sold at an auction. The famed guitar was used on most of Pink Floyd’s albums throughout the ’70s. It was originally estimated at $100-150,000. There were over 120 guitars […]
Yesterday it was sexually inappropriate, today it's "a culturally significant image", which it really is. A good move, Facebook! Social media also revealed that it would now consider the newsworthiness or importance of the subject matter in the future, when deciding whether to allow posts containing similar images, Ultimate Classic Rock reports.
Warp Records took over both of NTS Radio's live streams today for 100 hours of broadcasts marking the label's 30th anniversary. Quite a treasure is on schedule: a "mysterious" two-hour mix by Boards Of Canada, recording of Aphex Twin's 2012 performance at London's Barbican Hall, Brian Eno's collaboration with protest group Extinction Rebellion, previously unheard […]
Moken is a Detroit-based afro-pop balladeer from Cameroon, with a recognizable deep baritone voice, and 'Machine Man' is his new song - "an exciting piece for the brilliantly unpredictable repertoire of the utterly unparalleled Moken" (PopMatters). Simply put, it's strange but pleasant. 'Machine Man' is out 8 August on album 'Missing Chapters'.
Danish indie-electronic producer Trentemøller shared with CoS how he made his song 'In The Garden'. First came the melody - he has a rule that says if he can remember a melody or chord progression the day after he came up with it, it’s worth working further on. This one stuck. Inspiration for the track […]
"The loss of even a single piece of archived material is heartbreaking" - sir Lucian Grainge said in an email to staff, a week after it was revealed that Universal Music's archive had been devastated by fire. The company's boss has described the losses as "painful", and, 11 years after the fire happened, shared a […]
The Quietus explores Madlib through his music, with ten key releases in a vast and varied career, from free-jazzy to straight hip-hop stuff he did (next week he releases 'Bandana', a collaborative album with Freddie Gibbs) . The California producer says how he was "the strange kid" when he was a teenager living in a […]
“The phone tracking, and listening in and everything and all the hacking. I don’t need it” Glenn Danzig explained on radio show Full Metal Jackie's why he doesn't own a smartphone. He added that he didn't really want a flip phone either - "I don’t want people to get in touch with me when I’m […]
The album marked another radical shift in direction for Miles Davis, enlisting musicians from across the funk and soul spectrum. It was even due to feature vocalists Al Jarreau and Chaka Khan. The finished edition now also features new vocals recorded by Lalah Hathaway and Ledisi. It's coming out in September, the Vinyl Factory reports.
French DJ and producer Philippe Zdar has died after accidentally falling from a building in Paris, CNN reports. Media put his age between 50 and 52. Zdar, born Philippe Cerboneschi, had produced tracks for the French rapper MC Solaar before founding the dance music duo Cassius in 1989. He also produced records for Cut Copy, […]
Frances Bean Cobain put a selfie video of her performing "a very sad song" on Instagram, saying "it's raw and truthful so i wanted to share it". The lyrics seem to be directed toward her late father: "I know you weren't meant to stay in this place / Sometimes I find it hard to look […]
British dubstep master Burial has a new EP - ‘Claustro’ / 'State Forest', out now on Hyperdub. It's Burial's first solo release since 2017’s 'Pre Dawn' / 'Indoors' 12''. Listen to it on Bandcamp.
Facebook has started banning artwork from Led Zeppelin's classic album 'Houses of the Holy', and really, a classic design. The cover was created by Hipgnosis designer Aubrey Powell, the photo was originally captured among the basalt columns of Northern Ireland's Giant's Causeway. In the surreal image, a group of naked figures (who were portrayed by […]
Versace presented their latest menswear collection at Milan Fashion Week over the weekend, with several of the looks on display nodded to 1990’s rave culture, while a few of the models referenced The Prodigy frontman’s signature hairstyle, Fact reports. Here's the whole collection, there's more of Flint's style on Instagram.
Carter Tutti Void is a collaborative triangle of Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Nik Void, and - the Quietus' favourite band. They have a new song 't3.5' - "all warm blood pulsing eroticism and hypnotic, narcotic fizz". Their new album 'Triumverate', their third and final album, will be released via Conspiracy International on August 30.
In a city with only one month of winter, outdoor dance parties are a staple and often timed so that migrant workers, often from west Africa, are able to attend. In these warm and welcoming dances, where the crowds cry out for Zion and justice and righteousness, the music of the old diaspora is now […]
Award-winning writer/director team of Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle made a new movie 'Yesterday', with an interesting catch - nobody knows anything about the Beatles. The movie premiered on Tuesday, it stars former EastEnders actor Himesh Patel as a struggling singer-songwriter, as his character Jack Malik wakes up after an accident caused by a global […]
"In the music industry, there’s still segregation. There used to be the black division, race records. Programmers, especially at Pop radio, has this imagery of what beauty looks like. They wanted that imagery to be the same that’s singing those records", Matthew Knowles, Beyoncé father said while on SiriusXM's The Clay Cane Show. The former manager […]
“The lefties of Vila Madalena have never seen a body splayed out on the ground. If they’ve ever seen a coffin it’s because their dog died – or their grandad of old age” - Brazilian rapper Ricardo Alves explains to the Guardian why he supports new Brazilian far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro. He believed Brazil’s left […]
BBC Radio 4 continues to investigate unusual UK music with it's New Weird Britain segment. New episode goes into the strange rural, "the valleys and plains of Britain", as they talk to Gazelle Twin, Richard Skelton, Hawthonn, Folklore Tapes, Farmer Glitch and Saxon Roach. Listen to the show here.
British climate activist Extinction Rebellion will lead a march through the Glastonbury festival on Thursday June 27. The ‘Extinction Procession’ will begin at The Park Stage at 4pm, it then heads to the Stone Circle, where at 5:30pm, the largest-ever human hourglass sculpture will be attempted. The hourglass is also Extinction Rebellion’s logo, Independent reports.
