Peruvian YouTuber and economist, Ioanis Patsias staged a big tribute show recreating Rosalía's performance from her latest Motomami tour. Patsias played the avant-garde pop queen himself, and he was helped on stage by eight dancers, picked out from 100 who auditioned for the part. They recreated the costume changes, the dance numbers, the lighting and stage design at an amphitheatre in Lima’s Parque de la Exposición, managing to sell-out the venue, with 3,500 fans attending the show. It took months of preparation and $100,000 of Patsias' money, who only managed to recoup only part of the money

"Many of the year’s most viral moments on TikTok were derived from live shows this year: Rosalía elaborately chewing gum during her song Bizcochito, Healy relentlessly touching his crotch, Gaga belting a power ballad while wearing an Edward Scissorhands-style claw and standing on a flaming stage. Perhaps these moments are reverse-engineered to go viral?" - Guardian asks about the nature of live shows. Tobias Rylander, who designed the 1975’s At Their Very Best tour, affirms the question - he says he’s always trying to put together “a show that reads well on social media”. LeRoy Bennett says that he and Lady Gaga were “absolutely” thinking about social media when designing her latest tour Chromatica Ball. Lorde and Rosalia had similar approach with their latest tours.

"The past felt particularly not dead and especially not past on many of the year’s most acclaimed and most consumed albums. So much music deemed notable by critics and audiences alike in 2022 was profoundly shaped by the pandemic, the quarantine era in particular, giving it a temporal wooziness" - Jezebel reflects on the effects the pandemic has had on recent albums by Björk, Rosalia, Bad Bunny, Beyonce, and others.

Billie Eilish and Rosalía release their dramatic pop ballad 'Lo Vas a Olvidar'; Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou follow their last year's debut collaboration with a new EP - 'Orphan Limbs' is the stand-out track from it; Forhist of Blut Aus Nord shares a sympho/black-metal song 'II'; Vast Aire of Cannibal Ox bites hard on 'Good Fuel'; NYC rapper Marlon Craft releases a melancholic albeit determined political song 'State of the Union'.

On their split single King Khan and The Sadies each recount the same debaucherous, hallucinogens-enhanced night; 'Celeste' is a single from the first album brothers Brian Eno and Roger Eno made as a duo; 'Turn the Bow' by Local H is just some Pink Floyd-esque rawk; Rosalia makes plenty with just some hand-clapping, flamenco guitar and her voice in 'Juro Que'.

The 2020 Grammy Awards take place on Sunday, January 26th, in Los Angeles (starting at 5 PM local time). The ceremony will be streamed live on Grammy.com. Alicia Keys returns for her second go-around as host of the Grammys, confirmed Grammys 2020 performers include Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, Lizzo, Rosalía, Tyler the Creator, Jonas Brothers, and Demi Lovato. Aerosmith will team up with Run-DMC, and Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton will share the stage for the first time. There will also be a special tribute performance to Nipsey Hussle, featuring John Legend, Meek Mill, DJ Khaled, and Roddy Richh. Plus, Lil Nas X will join forces with BTS, Billy Ray Cyrus, Diplo, and Mason Ramsey for a performance as “Old Town Road All-Stars”. Camila Cabello will lead an all-star rendition of the Fame song 'I Sing the Body Electric' with Gary Clark Jr., John Legend, Common, Cyndi Lauper, Ben Platt, as “a tribute to longtime Grammy executive producer Ken Ehrlich to acknowledge the importance of music education in schools”.

"If you’re looking for something to keep you company on a long drive or help you turn up a workout, I hope there’s a track or two in here that does the trick” - Barack Obama said in his post on social media, where he listed his favorite songs of 2019. There’s 'Redesigning Women' from […]

Stereogum and Brooklyn Vegan made a very good choice of songs released this week (or is it just that the week was just rich witch good releases!?). There are, among many others: 'Nothing Is Safe' by the great experimental rap trio clipping.; 'Not', a "roiling, fraying rock", new song by Big Thief, coming on a […]

Catalan pop star Rosalía used Catalan-Spanish words in 'Milionària', her first single in Catalan, upsetting language purists who say she dilutes the language, Guardian reports. In her new single she uses the word "cumpleanys", a corruption of the Spanish "cumpleaños", to mean birthday, instead of the Catalan "aniversari", she also uses "escoltada" (accompanied) when in Catalan the word is "escortada". She was […]

The choice: Rosalia's 'F*cking Money Man' because it defies"the notion that effortlessly fun pop music must be shallow by default", Bon Iver and 'Faith' for sounding "exultant", Jenny Hval with 'Ashes to Ashes' - "a bit of dark synth-pop that is far more fun to dance to than dissect", Pharmakon with 'Self-Regulating System' because "self-cannibalism", […]

It's about being "comfortable, enjoying a peaceful day" - James Blake explains what's his latest video 'Barefoot in the Park' is about. He has Rosalia singing it with him, and in the video they go towards one another, before... something happens. 'Barefoot in the Park' is from Blake’s most recent LP 'Assume Form', and the […]

It's mostly solo women and only one band in the top 10 artists nominated for BBC Sound of 2019. Names and description: Grace Carter Searingly personal, piano-led pop Silence Flohio Raw, punchy, poetic rap Wild Yout Dermot Kennedy Folk roots with a hip-hop influence Power Over Me King Princess Queer pop queen-in-waiting 1950 Mahalia Casual, […]