The Quietus combed through underground music published this May in Britain, and found all sorts of stuff. There's Brit-Italian industrial hip hop by Kinlaw & Franco Franco, very political and very french project Harrga, electro-folk by EBU, very rhythm-based techno by Harpoon, ambient music by Sean Addicott, jazzy blues by Adam Coney, tender-electro by LOFT, […]
So, this is exactly what he had to say: "What it’s NOT going to be is your ‘fav member lineup’ playing their ‘classic records’ in full etc. Maybe we’ll play old shit, who knows how we feel. Just remember our past campaigns never relied on playing requests or going fully backwards …it’s new shit, new […]
Los Angeles street gang the Crips, that Nipsey Hussle was a member of, have made a move to register Hussle's program “The Marathon Continues” in a variety of matters, primarily in youth sports programs. The company that registered it is Crips LLC, and they are are “developing educational manuals for others in the field of […]
Fans have complained of lousy sound at Spice Girls concerts for the second time, and some are demanding a refund. Fans first complained about sound issues at band's opening gig at Dublin's Croke Park on Friday, and again Cardiff's Principality Stadium on Monday night, some claiming they could not hear the music properly. “What we […]
Tyler, the Creator’s new LP 'IGOR' has topped the Billboard 200 albums chart - the record earned 165,000 equivalent album units, with 74,000 albums in sales and 122 million song streams. DJ Khaled’s 'Father of Asahd' is second on Billboard's 200, with 136,000 equivalent units sold. 'IGOR' is Tyler, the Creator’s first No. 1 album, […]
The Cure are in the middle of their Disintegration 30th Anniversary tour, and on weekend they played at the Sydney Opera House. In addition to the classics from that album, they also played a second set of b-sides and outtakes from the era - songs 'Babble', 'Out of Mind', 'Fear of Ghosts', 'Delirious Night', 'Esten' and […]
Drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott and his brother Dimebag Darrell, who famously played together in power-metal band Pantera, are buried next to each other, as band's social pages revealed grave marker installed last week, Blabbermouth reports. Metal musicians are buried at Moore Memorial Gardens cemetery in Arlington, Texas, and Abbott's grave marker is engraved with quote: […]
American scientists have created an underwater sound so loud that it instantly boils water and could even rupture person's heart and lungs, if heard outside of an aquatic surrounding. Stanford scientists directed small blasts of water at powerful X-rays that instantly vaporized the surrounding water, resulting in a shockwave. A train of shockwaves followed and once the threshold for how […]
This weekend Spice Girls began their reunion tour with a string of dates, including three nights at Wembley already sold out. UK and Ireland tour features Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Geri Horner and Melanie Chisholm, better known as Scary, Baby, Ginger and Sporty Spice, without Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham. BBC questions "how can we explain […]
The Mars Volta frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala hinted that the band's reunion is "happening" in a response to a fan. Earlier in the week he also seemed to insinuate that The Mars Volta were in the studio: “We are in the kitchen finding new ways to through curve balls”. Earlier in the month Bixler-Zavala revealed he was […]
Puma are to release a collection that Nipsey Hussle worked on before his death in an effort to provide for his children – daughter Emani, 10, with ex Tanisha Foster, and two-year-old son Kross with girlfriend Lauren London. Weeks before his death, Hussle shared a video on Instagram announcing that a collaboration between Puma and his […]
Elton John wrote a lovely article for the Observer, about his childhood, parents, bringing up, his own family, and how he doesn't really like seeing himself on the screen. He describes how the movie producers wanted a watered-down version of his life - "Some studios wanted to tone down the sex and drugs so the […]
It's titled 'Giant Baby' and it it is a kind of a lullaby, slightly psychedelic. It's mostly Wayne Coyne singing with an acoustic guitar in the background. A nice song actually, not that weird at all, it features The Clash guitarist Mick Jones, narrating a story about a - giant boy. Listen to it below. […]
Beast Coast is the largest collective of New York rappers, taking three members of Flatbush Zombies, all two members of The Underachievers, and Pro Era’s Joey Bada$$, Kirk Knight, Nyck Caution, CJ Fly, and Powers Pleasant, and this week they released their long awaited debut album 'Escape From New York'. All Hip Hop says it's […]
The Quietus went searching for underground Irish music, and found experimental pop, punk, avant-garde electronics, folk, club sounds and hip hop – not to mention what’s in between. Their article is rich with names, and music, check it out - here.
His grandfather was from Bolivia, and his parents liked early jazz and Motown, he looks like an accountant, but instead he sings heartfelt, smooth soul music. He's got a debut album out, 'This Love', and a new video, 'Lonely Girl', with a - girl, mostly naked, getting out of focus. Listen to his album at […]
Guardian asks why all the movies with/about musicians this year, and last. It's been a handful: 'A Star Is Born' about fictional Ally, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' about pretty much real Freddie Mercury, 'Will Rose' about a woman out of prison and in the country music, 'Vox Lux' about a fictional star Celeste, 'Beats' about stupid law […]
In PopMatters' new edition of Brits in Hot Weather they have have some great music - "trap-infused indie from 13XL, the compelling electronics of Le Module, anthemic indie from the Polarity, barrelling post-hardcore from Cagework, and sunshine filled house from Disciples".
“Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream” - Netflix describes their new Bob Dylan documentary 'Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story', coming to the service June 12. It's directed by Martin Scorsese, his second Dylan documentary, following the 2005 'No Direction Home'. Dylan gave a rare interview for 'Rolling Thunder Revue', and the doc […]
The Verve's Richard Ashcroft has got the rights to song 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' after a legal battle od 22 years. The Rolling Stones' duo Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have now relinquished all publishing rights to Ashcroft. He acknowledged that it was the Stones' late manager, Allen Klein, who had been responsible for the situation, […]
"It’s old, it’s finished, and it really has nothing more to say. Guys in rock bands dress like they’ve come to fix your electrics” - Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie said The Daily Telegraph in an interview. "There’s not one sex symbol in white rock anymore, cause there’s no sex in it. It’s very solipsistic, […]
The Guardian has an article about an unexpected phenomena - Inuit music. They say it is booming, as artists blend modern pop with throat singing. Musicians representing the Inuit scene are - drummer and singer Kelly Fraser, rapper Mister, electropop vocalist Riit, throat singers Cynthia Pitsiulak and Charlotte Qamaniq.
By 2021 Live Nation, the world's largest concert promoter, will eliminate single-use plastics at its venues and festivals. It's part of a push to achieve zero waste at Live Nation's clubs, concert halls and venues by 2030, the Spoon reports. Live Nation says it will start trialling plant-based water bottles across Europe in 2019. Live […]
Posters promoting Morrissey's latest album have been removed from Merseyrail stations in Liverpool after a commuter complained. Morrissey has previously expressed support for the far-right For Britain party and earlier this month wore a badge with its logo on during a TV show, but he denies he is a racist, Liverpool Echo reports. Earlier this […]
The 1975 won songwriters of the year for their album, 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships' and best contemporary song for 'Love It If We Made It', at the 2019 Ivor Novello songwriting awards, Independent reports. The organizers praised The 1975's efforts as "a bold, inspirational and original statement, bringing together an awareness of contemporary […]
BBC remembers some of Elton John movie moments, in light of his new biopic, no big roles, but memorable scenes. First he played the character Pinball Wizard in The Who's film, Tommy, dressed in seven foot high boots, in the movie adaptation of the band's 1969 rock opera. Then in 1995 he sang Can You […]
French fashion label Vetements is selling an “Oversized Printed Cotton-Jersey T-Shirt” that rips off the “Corporate magazines still suck” shirt that Kurt Cobain famously wore on the cover of Rolling Stone in 1992. They sell it for $550! The shirt reads “CORPORATE MAGAZINES STILL SUCK A LOT!” The “A LOT!” is a new addition to […]
The world’s oldest record store, Spillers Records in Cardiff, banned Morrissey records from its store, as Wales Online reports. The store in Wales capital will not stock his releases because of the singer’s fervent support for the far-right.
The 1960s counterculture had a great impact on society that lasts to this day, and some remnants are felt this year, literally. Eliot Curtis, the Broadcast Operations Manager for KPIX Television, felt that. He was recently tasked with the restoration of a vintage Buchla Model 100 modular synthesizer - an instrument that had been sitting […]
Decades long love between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen is the subject of 'Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love', a documentary by Nick Broomfield, who also worked on 'Kurt & Courtney', 'Biggie & Tupac', 'Whitney: Can I Be Me', and other films, Brooklyn Vegan reports. 'Marianne & Leonard' premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and it’s set for release in […]
