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Roger Waters Debuts New Version of “The Gunner’s Dream”: Watch
Roger Waters has shared a new recording of “The Gunner’s Dream” alongside a black-and-white video of himself performing it in the studio. The track originally appeared on Pink Floyd‘s 1983 album The Final Cut, which served as Waters’ last record with the band before they parted ways. Lyrically, “The Gunner’s Dream” imagines a post-war life where the world is free from tyranny, terrorism, and cruelty. The new version arrives mere weeks after we watched insurrectionists attack the US Capitol and just two days before their leader exits the White House. According to a statement from Waters, he started to revisit “The Gunner’s Dream” after recently watching a historical movie. “Last night I watched the 2013 documentary film The Man Who Saved The World. The man’s name is Stanislav Petrov,” he sa...
Flux Pavilion is Streaming His Full Upcoming Album on Twitch Today
As the hype for .wav—Flux Pavilion‘s sophomore album—creeps toward its boiling point, the bass music virtuoso has announced a special livestream. Flux Pavilion will be cycling through each cut of the album today via his Twitch channel. Taking to social media to announce the stream, he said he’ll be playing the record start to finish, offering commentary on each song, and answering questions from viewers. Considering the album comprises a whopping 16 tracks, longtime fans of the electronic music tastemaker will want to stop by. Fans can tune in at 11AM PT (7PM GMT, 2PM ET). The longtime dubstep tastemaker recently announced that he is moving on from the genre, citing a lack of interest after a decade of producing some of its most seminal tracks. In a response to a fan ...
Tritonal Announces New Album
It’s been almost two years since fans of Tritonal have heard a new album from the famed dance music duo, but that will soon change. Tritonal took to Twitter over the weekend to announce that they are finishing up a new album, their third studio effort since their 2011 debut. This time around, however, they went in a different direction with their creative process. They produced the entire album in one Logic project file, which comprises a staggering 417 tracks to generate “one big cohesive ethereal & meditative piece of music.” “We’re finishing a brand new Album Today, which is over an hour in length, and was ENTIRELY written front to back in one Logic Pro X File,” Tritonal tweeted. “Track count is 417 Tracks. Its one big ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Was Assassinated 4 Days Before the 1968 Oscars: The Show Did Not Go On
The Oscars initially planned to go forward as scheduled, but it became increasingly apparent that the show simply couldn’t go on. The show was pushed back two days, to April 10, the day after the funeral. With that, these four stars agreed to appear on the show in these roles. The Oscar telecast opened, appropriately, on a serious note. Gregory Peck, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences at the time, offered some sober remarks. “This has been a fateful week in the history of our nation. We join with fellow members of our profession and men of goodwill everywhere in paying our profound respects to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Society has always been reflected in its art and one measure of Dr. King’s influence on the society we live in is that of t...
From ‘Rompe’ To ‘Con Calma,’ Here Are Daddy Yankee’s Longest-Leading Latin Airplay Hits
Check them out below: “Rompe”On the chart: “Rompe” peaked at No. 1 on Dec. 10, 2005, where it reigned for 15 weeks. Before “Despacito,” Daddy Yankee crowned the chart for more than three months, holding steady at No. 1 with his 2005 hit “Rompe.” Along with “Gasolina,” the catchy reggaeton hit about being the best in his lane ultimately put Daddy Yankee, reggaeton and Latin hip-hop on the international map. “Nota de Amor”On the chart: “Nota de Amor” (Wisin & Carlos Vives feat. Daddy Yankee) peaked at No. 1 on April 25, 2015, where it reigned for two weeks. Teaming up with Wisin and Carlos Vives, Daddy Yankee flaunts his romantic side on “Nota de Amor.” The feel-good track is an urban-tropipop hit that perfectly fuses Vives’ vallenato sound with Yankee’s quick-paced rap verses. “Despacit...
Justin Timberlake Confirms Birth of Second Baby With Jessica Biel, Reveals New Son’s Name
Timberlake and Biel married in 2012 and welcomed their first child, son Silas, three years later. During their chat, JT revealed that Ellen was one of the few people “outside of the immediate family” to learn about Biel’s second pregnancy. “I think we were FaceTiming and you said, ‘Hey, you want to know a secret?’ and then Jessica walked in and you put your hand on her stomach. You were like, ‘I’m having another baby!'” the talk show host recalled. In September, Timberlake’s former *NSYNC bandmate Lance Bass revealed news about Phineas’ arrival while speaking with Entertainment Tonight. Reports swirled last summer that the couple had welcomed a second child, but neither had spoken publicly. Watch a snippet of Timberlake̵...
Phil Spector Built a Wall of Sound That Couldn’t Contain the Monster Within Him
But Spector was different. At the start, on the Teddy Bears’ “To Know Him is To Love Him” — a rephrasing of the epitaph from his father’s gravestone that Spector turned into a Hot 100 No. 1 in 1958 — his sound was not so very far removed from the other recordings of the day, many of which carried the spacious aura of the rooms in which they were cut, investing early rock and pop with the mystical sense that new frontiers were being explored. Eventually though, he recognized how to make that aura the centerpiece of his records. You can hear how he did just that in the very first hit on Philles, the Crystals’ “There’s No Other Like My Baby” from 1962. Built like a rocket with three stages, it begins simply, with bass, guitar and voice rippling outward in stark echo before a piano...
What Martin Luther King Jr. Taught His Son About Protest
By Virginia Lowman What translates as Martin Luther King III shares memories of his father, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is the gentle intimacy and admiration between a child and his parent. When we speak in late December, he brings stories of a man whose teachings I’ve studied since I was a young girl, but who I have only known in a scholarly sense. It is both shocking and endearing to hear someone refer to the iconic civil rights leader as “Dad.” On our Zoom call, King speaks warmly of playing baseball in the front yard with “Dad” and two of his siblings. He talks about traveling with his father as a boy in 1967 to organize for the Poor People’s Campaign in the fight for fair wages. He recalls the family’s nightly routine, the “kissing spot,” where each child was given a design...
New QUEENSRŸCHE Drummer CASEY GRILLO Is Involved In Songwriting For Next Album
QUEENSRŸCHE singer Todd La Torre has confirmed to “The Signals Of Intuition” that he and his bandmates have commenced the songwriting process for the follow-up to 2019’s “The Verdict” album. The group’s next disc will apparently mark the QUEENSRŸCHE recording debut of Casey Grillo who replaced original drummer Scott Rockenfield in 2017. Todd said (hear audio below): “Right now, Michael Wilton [guitar] is at my house [in St. Petersburg, Florida]; he’s in the other room, actually, And Zeuss [producer Chris Harris] is here. And Casey lives about 35 minutes away, so he’ll be here this afternoon. So we’re doing just songwriting sessions and coming up with new ideas for the next QUEENSRŸCHE album. “Michael had a little gap,”...
Here Is How JON SCHAFFER’s Arrest Was Covered By TV Stations In His Home State Of Indiana
Indiana news stations WISH and WTHR have uploaded separate video reports on the arrest of ICED EARTH guitarist Jon Schaffer, who was taken into custody over the weekend in connection with the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. You can watch them below. The musician, who resides in Columbus, Indiana, turned himself in to authorities around 3 p.m. Sunday (January 17), Chris Bavender, public affairs specialist for the FBI Indianapolis Field Office, said. According to the FBI, Schaffer was among the rioters who sprayed United States Capitol police officers with “bear spray,” a form of capsaicin pepper spray sold by many outdoors retailers, as part of their efforts to push the officers back inside the Capitol and breach the Capitol building themselves. Schaffer was photogra...
MEGADETH’s DAVE MUSTAINE Earns Jiu-Jitsu Purple Belt At 59 Years Old
According to Jiu-Jitsu Times, MEGADETH leader Dave Mustaine now a purple belt in jiu-jitsu. The 59-year-old musician was promoted to the new rank almost two years after earning the first stripe on his blue belt. He was promoted by Reggie Almeida, who leads Gracie Barra Spring Hill in Tennessee, near Mustaine‘s hometown of Franklin. Almeida shared the good news on the gym’s social media, writing last Thursday (January 14): “After 2 years as a blue belt and hard training and lots of ups and downs today I had the honor to promote Mr @davemustaine to his well deserved purple belt ! Congratulations kid !!!” As the middle belt, purple is when a jiu jitsu player begins to form his or her identity within the grand scheme of the sport. In a 2007 interview, Mustaine said he s...
OZZY OSBOURNE Bassist ROB ‘BLASKO’ NICHOLSON Joins RIPPLE MUSIC As Executive VP And A&R Of Special Projects
Ripple Music, one of the world’s leading purveyors of doom and stoner rock, has names OZZY OSBOURNE bassist Rob “Blasko” Nicholson as its new executive vice president of A&R and special projects. A longtime connoisseur of the psych, stoner, doom, and heavy rock genres championed by the acclaimed Ripple Music roster and catalog, Blasko brings his extensive experience as a musician, manager, and curator to the California based label. Blasko will work directly alongside Ripple Music cofounder and CEO Todd Severin to sign new artists and executive produce special projects with established acts in the newly created position. Concurrently, he continues his roles as bassist for the OZZY OSBOURNE band and manager for his roster of artists. “I am thrilled to welcome Blas...
