It is a "song about family, love, loss, and being thankful for it all", Alana Haim explained, as MTV reports. The song started to come to life when her friend was killed in a car accident. It took time to come to a finished song. Now it's done - it is a loving tribute. The […]
Berlin-based production duo Amnesia Scanner have a new video ‘AS Acá’, made with Peruvian artist Lalita in the main role. Martti Kalliala and Ville Haimala provided an industrial-tinged backdrop for an impassioned vocal performance from Lalita in both Spanish and English – check it out below.
To reimagine the history of Disney songs, Kristen Bell and Jimmy Fallon performed a medley of 17 Disney classics - everything from 'Under the Sea' to 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight' to 'You’ve Got a Friend in Me', as well as a few songs from 'Frozen'. It's fun, he's good, she's GREAT!
Producer Mura Masa unveiled 'Deal Wiv It', an up-beat and raw news song with Slowthai on the microphone. The video for it, released yesterday, shows Slowthai getting out of an apartment ("Fighting with my sisters in the house/She's on the couch, she don't move much"), running about in slow-motion outside a housing estate ("I see […]
There's some well known videos like Lady Gaga's 'Telephone', Jamie XX's 'Gosh', and Grimes' 'Oblivion', and then there are a few surprises like Leningrad's 'Kolshik' and Duck Sauce's 'Barbra Streisand'. Childing Gambino's 'This Is America', below, is sixth on the list. Stereogum...
A Linkin Park fan The Unusual Suspect has created a mash-up of ‘One Step Closer’, featuring 139 movies singing the iconic track. TUS merged lines from a host of recognizable characters from movies such as 'The Lion King', 'Wayne's World', 'Pulp Fiction', 'Wonder Woman', 'Kindergarten Cop' saying the words from the song. It works surprisingly good.
At the end of August at the London patron pub Amanda Palmer saw her friend Maxim play "this very hilarious song" that was written by his cabaret friend Sarah-Louise and she suggested they make a record of that song and a ridiculous video, Patreon writes. So they did and finished it (unlike Brexit itself). Proceeds […]
"That boy won't stop drinking/He's doing cocaine too/Gotta get that boy out of your head/Cuz you know that boy's a fool" - Liana Gabel says quite seriously in her song 'Fool', but the video is actually really funny (watch below). She even dances to the bitter-sweet story of love and addiction. It's from her album […]
Blissed out and contemplative but still very much a hyperactive Dan Deacon - Brooklyn Vegan says about producer's new song 'Sat by a Tree'. The video for it stars comedian/actor Aparna Nancherla, and thousands of bugs (watch below). The song is coming out on 'Mystic Familiar', Deacon's first album in nearly five years, on January 31.
They've got Lebanese rock band Mashrou’ Leila with their video 'Roman' ("strength that celebrates Muslim women"), Radiohead with 'Lotus Flower' ("if it’s a risk, that’s probably a good thing”, Thom Yorke later said), Danny Brown with 'Grown Up' because it "highlights the guileless joy that anchors his music", Robyn and her 'Call Your Girlfriend', FKA […]
Coldplay have shared their video for 'Orphans', one of the songs from their new album 'Everyday Life', coming out November 22. The clip takes a behind-the-scenes look at the songwriting and recording process for 'Orphans'. A joyous song, a nice video, watch it below. Coldplay released another track, 'Arabesque', with Femi Kuti and his band […]
Texan psychedelic rock band The Well premiered their new video for 'Raven', a black and white trippy footage of band headbanging and lin-synching. Good video, but the song is way stronger. Watch the video below, listen to the album 'Death and Consolation', released in April, here.
'Come Down on Jupiter' sees Orielles reliving a spilled-coffee incident at pie & mash shop in London. It was directed by Rose Hendry who says she "enjoyed the idea of centering the video around an incident with a cup of tea — that felt dramatic to me — something 'mundane' becoming something dramatic", Stereogum reports. The […]
'Up' appears on debut studio album by the Atlanta rap duo Earthgang, 'Mirrorland', and the video shows a young student wandering into a closed section of a museum...
Classic video 'Sweet Child O' Mine' by the Guns N' Roses is the first '80s music video to reach a billion views on YouTube, Loudwire reports. The video shows the band performing the track in front of their bullet logo, with cutscenes of the members' girlfriends. It was written by Rose about his ex-wife Erin […]
They look pretty much neo-hippie (how else, they're covering Mitchell, right?) and sound, well, great. Watch below.
American punk-rockers Anti-Flag have returned with a new single 'Christian Nationalist', which takes on modern-day fascism and white supremacy. It comes with a lyric video that uses images of politicians who take money from the NRA, and perpetrators behind recent mass shootings.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ 1994 single 'Red Right Hand' is the theme song of British crime drama 'Peaky Blinders', and for the show's debut the series’ creators commissioned artists like PJ Harvey, Laura Marling, Iggy Pop, and Jarvis Cocker to each record their own interpretation of the song for the show. Now, Snoop […]
'Deleter' is their first new album in four years, it will arrive on January 17, and it finds the band exploring the increasingly merging worlds of technology and humanity, as they said in a statement - "The robots are smarter than ever, and the algorithm knows more and more what we like as individuals, but […]
Donald Trump tweeted out a corny video that depicts the president as a pencil-drawn animation having his hair tussled, dancing and hugging the U.S. flag, resembling A-ha's iconic video for Take On Me. Magne Furuholmen, founding member and keyboardist with the Norwegian pop trio who wrote the famous 'Take On Me' riff, had this to say to Rolling […]
German producer Apparat published his latest album 'LP5' this year, and 'Heroist' is his latest video - black&white, with wolves, nudity and fear (watch below). Just Mustard are a noisy and electronic band from Ireland, their new single 'Seven' - with some cool guitar and powerful vocals - is out now, listen here. 'King for […]
Fact Magazine in cooperation with the British Council made an original mini-documentary that charts the process a musician goes through to compose for film. FACT gets insights from Max Richter, Anna Meredith, Lustmord and Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury about their beginnings, their high points and their relationship with the intimidating global film industry. Watch […]
American folk-rock band The Lumineers have a 44-minute visual accompaniment to the group’s new album, which starkly explores three generations of a fictional working class family - the Sparks - in the American Northeast as they deal with addiction and other dysfunction, Billboard reports. Both the album and the movie are named 'III', with three […]
It's clever, it's funny, it's even philosophical, and it's simple. It makes you think and discuss. Just genius!
Camila Cabello gets punished each time she isn't completely honest with her billionaire boyfriend, and has to start over and over again ('Groundhog Day' style), until she acknowledges the whole truth, being hit by elephants and drones on the way.
“It’s a given that the product of some artistic work is worthless. You are therefore expected to 'mother' it instead of working and being compensated for it", Jenny Hval and director Zia Anger explain their newest work 'Accident', as Fact Magazine reports. They add: "Sometimes this is the best kind of work. Because it doesn’t […]
Prophets of Rage have released powerful new video for their song ‘Pop Goes the Weapon’, which features a comprehensive list of all of America’s mass shootings that have taken place in 2019, including the date, location and number of those killed and injured (watch below).
"I hit IO up and we made this song up in an hour… You know when you write a song so fast, it just feels perfect" - Grimes says about her new song 'Violence' (a good video, and a song, listen/watch below). She's been talking about her new album 'Miss_Anthropocene' since March.
Influential French post-metalers Alcest have shared new single, a six-minute stunner 'Protection', with a video to go with it (watch below). It announces band's sixth album, 'Spiritual Instinct', out in October.
Sturgill Simpson will release his new album 'Sound & Fury' on September 27, as a soundtrack to an anime film of the same name, coming out on the same day, on Netflix, Billboard reports. The lead single from the project, 'Sing Along' has been dropped, a deviation from Simpson's usual country sound, sonically much more […]
