French streaming platform Deezer has released an AI tool Spleeter that quickly isolates vocal and instrumental tracks and separates a song into two, four, or five separate audio tracks, Pitchfork reports. Similar tools are difficult, time-consuming, of low-quality, Spleeter on the other side does the job at many times the speed of the original audio. […]
First, he was a lounge singer, then he became an A-list actor, now - Joe Pesci is both. On November 29th, to coincide with his starring role in Martin Scorsese’s 'The Irishman', Pesci will release a new album called 'Still Singing', Entertainment Weekly reports. Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine, the late jazz vocalist Jimmy Scott, and Afro-Cuban […]
DJ Clara! is an authority on reggaeton, Maoupa Mazzocchetti is an EBM producer, together they’re dancehall mutants Clara! Y Maoupa, with a debut album 'Luna Nueva' coming out November 22. The album combines duo’s reggaeton, trap and perreo-channeling beats with DJ Clara!’s frosty vocal delivery, as Fact Magazine reports. Listen to their first single ‘Badman’ below.
A total of 439 songwriters have been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame since 1970, and of these, 31 are women. That's just 7% or every 15th honoree. This year's list of nominees, announced Nov. 5, includes six women. Three are nominated on their own - Mariah Carey, Gloria Estefan, and Patti Smith, and […]
19 Turkish musicians got together and made a rap epic 'Susamam' (stands for "I Can’t Stay Silent"), a 14-verse manifesto about social issues, ranging from domestic violence to animal rights and police brutality. One of the authors of the song Şanişer told the Guardian - “I’m a ‘white Turk’, we’re the people who had the […]
"Lyrically, now, I can’t relate to it, because it was so long ago. I would have no intention ever to write along those abstract lines anymore", Robert Plant said about 'Stairway to Heaven', adding - "lyrically, now, and even vocally, I go, ‘I’m not sure about that'". The rest of the song, however, Plant says, […]
Korean boy-band BTS score a major milestone on the Billboard 200 as their 'Love Yourself: Answer' spends a full year on America's main albums chart, Billboard reports. 'Love Yourself: Answer' re-enters the Billboard 200 at No. 165 for its 52nd, non-consecutive week on the chart. 'Love Yourself: Answer' has now earned 1.1 million total equivalent album […]
Danica Roem, the lead vocalist of thrash metal band Cab Ride Home, made history in 2017 when she became the first openly transgender official to be elected to a state legislature in the US, in conservative-leaning Virginia, Brooklyn Vegan reports. This week the history repeated itself - Roem won her re-election campaign against anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion challenger […]
Plenty of indie-rock on Stereogum's list of the 100 best albums of the 2010s (not over yet, right!?), the strongest pop albums of this decade, the chosen hip-hop albums, and a few metal albums. Generally, it's mostly American music. Still, a good starting point to research a "shaggy, undefinable" decade.
The song 'Bracer' is “about being disoriented and wanting to check out with a substance – I used whiskey”, Katie Gately said about her new song 'Bracer', coming out next year on her new album 'Loom', Stereogum reports. The experimental musician said she made this album after her mother died, and this song is "an […]
Sharon Stone is suing 31-year-old rapper Chanel West Coast for using her moniker dozens of times in a song called 'Sharon Stoned'. The first 30 seconds contain no words other than “Sharon” or “Stone(d),” and “Sharon Sharon Sharon Stone(d)” is repeated on loop several times throughout the remainder of the track. The actress says the […]
Graham King, producer of 'Bohemian Rhapsody', the hit movie about the life of Freddie Mercury and Queen, is to create a biopic about the Bee Gees, Deadline reports. Paramount has purchased the rights to the Bee Gees songs on behalf of King, and will therefore be able to use them in the movie. King scored […]
Goth-rock greats Bauhaus played their first show in 13 years on Sunday night in Los Angeles. The audience got to hear band's favorites 'Bela Lugosi’s Dead', 'In the Flat Field', and 'She’s in Parties', rarities like 'Man with the X-Ray Eyes' and 'Spy in the Cab', with the band finishing up with covers - Iggy […]
Last year American metal band Threatin made a publicity stunt building a big fake tour online, with shows that actually no one or a only a few people had attended. Some of the shows didn't happen at all. This weekend they played London, for real. NME reported from the show: "The music starts and the […]
New Zealand pop singer Lorde is in mourning, since her dog Pearl has died, so she announced she is delaying her new album. "I was holding him when he went, and I know he knew that I was there. But this loss has been indescribably painful, and a light that was turned on for me […]
Organizers of Kanye West's Sunday Service event in Baton Rouge on Friday charged $55 for a Styrofoam plate of lukewarm pancakes, bacon, sausage, and grits, All Hip-Hop reports. Several attendees posted photos of the meal on social media. To add insult to injury (or, maybe, to let people enjoy their meals 🙂 ), Kanye West was […]
"Basically we just want to confuse the fuck out of people, in a good way!” - vocalist and guitarist Sydney Minsky-Sargeant of UK band Working Men's Club said about his group. Sonically, they drew comparisons to the Fall, Soft Cell, Parquet Courts, These New Puritans, with lyrics dealing with the today's world - "If people […]
Kanye West reached the No. 1 spot at the Billboard 200 albums chart with his latest release 'Jesus Is King', which earned 264,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. Of that sum, 109,000 were in album sales, while the rest was powered largely by streaming activity. 'Jesus Is King' on top of Billboard makes Kanye West the […]
Musician Stephen Morris left his 310-year-old violin worth £250,000 on a train in south London, and after secret negotiations, the violinist got it back in a supermarket car park in Beckenham. The man who had the violin said he had made a mistake and apologized when the two met, and the detective involved in the […]
Michael Jackson has topped Forbes’ 2019 list of highest earning dead celebrities after his estate made over £46 million in the last 12 months. Jackson’s streaming numbers “surged” to “2.1 billion US spins, up from 1.8 billion a year ago”. It's his seventh year in a row on top of this list. Elvis Presley came in […]
Dark-emo icons My Chemical Romance announced a reunion show in Los Angeles on December 20, and tickets sold out in a matter of minutes. This will be their first gig since 2012. Alt Press...
Julien Hairon has spent the last six years recording traditional music in Asia, Oceania and Africa, and now he has released his first songs, under the name Judgitzu. ‘Umeme’ is a 180bpm slice of brain-melting bass and ear-shredding synthesis, while on the flip ‘Kelele’ obscures the madness with field recordings of motorbike revs and animal […]
Californian producer PBDY explores love, loss and death on his debut album 'Careworm', out November 15. “Reveling in sadness can create such beauty, but what degree of masochism do we need to go through to find this place of peace with what’s given in life?” - he says, Fact Magazine reports. PBDY shared video for […]
Rage Against The Machine are to reunite next year, and they have announced a series of dates for 2020, including weekends on Coachella, and a few dates in South-West USA; Forbes is guessing it has something to do with American presidential elections. RATM haven't played together since their 2011 L.A. Rising show at the Los […]
Guardian has an interesting article about bands that don’t employ a singer so much as someone who declaims their words, Do Nothing, Black Country, New Road, Talk Show, Dry Cleaning, etc. The London paper talked to these bands; Talk Show’s Harrison Swann said it’s "really visceral and the most real thing you can get. You can’t shy away […]
Over a thousand artists - including Sheer Mag, Chastity Belt, Deerhoof, and Girlpool - have signed a letter No Music For ICE pledging to not participate in Amazon-sponsored events, or engage in exclusive partnerships with Amazon due to corporation's ties with law enforcement in the US. Amazon works with Palantir, a Silicon Valley data mining company that […]
A great selection of songs released this week, chosen by Brooklyn Vegan (some were mentioned here before, so we're skipping those): cloud rap pioneer Clams Casino is back with a new song 'Rune', his album 'Moon Trip Radio' is out next week; Brooklyn rapper Junglepussy is in Halloween mood with 'Spiders'; former Titus Andronicus member Amy […]
During massive protests in Santiago de Chile on Friday, when around one million people gathered in the streets, thousands of people began singing 'El derecho de vivir en paz' by Victor Jara (the title stands for 'The Right to Live in Peace'), Pitchfork reports. Jara was a theatre director, poet, singer and political activist who […]
R.E.M. have launched a new web player that allows users to compare a new remix of their album 'Monster' to the original. The player allows users to toggle between 30-second samples of the remastered original tracks and the new remixes (here). R.E.M. are about the release the 25th anniversary deluxe edition of ‘Monster’ this Friday. […]
Early next year indie-rock band the Innocence Mission will release their new album 'See You Tomorrow', and the first song from it they share is 'On Your Side', about people who have passed but still live beside us - “In my dream, I would be in Paris with my mom. In cafes she would sip […]
