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Listen to Flume’s Eclectic “Good Nights Formal” Mix for Triple J
A digital graduation party with Flume may have seemed like a pie-in-the-sky idea one year ago, but thanks to the wrath of COVID-19 pandemic, it actually happened. Famed Australian national radio station Triple J recently tapped the Sydney-born electronic music superstar for a DJ set for its “Good Nights Formal” event, a virtual graduation party. The radio event, which also featured sets by Australian compatriots Alison Wonderland and Peking Duk, was planned for the country’s students, whose graduation ceremonies were shelved due to the impact of the virus. Flume’s set is nothing short of breathtaking. After kicking things off with an edit of Roddy Rich‘s breakthrough smash hit “The Box,” he cycles through a hypnotic blend of future bass and hi...
Pete Tong’s “O Come All Ye Ravers” Holiday Show to Be Livestreamed Around the World
Pete Tong‘s annual Ibiza Classics holiday performance will look a bit different this year due to the global COVID-19 crisis. Tong, Jules Buckley, the Heritage Orchestra, and thousands of fans usually convene in London’s O2 Arena for a live orchestral performance of dance music classics, but this year’s event will be livestreamed around the world due to the impact of the virus. The virtual concert will mark the first live event in the venue since it was shut down back in March. The Christmas show will be called “O Come All Ye Ravers” and will still take place in the same arena, albeit without a crowd. On YouTube, Tong shared a trailer announcing the event and highlighted the importance of music during uncertain times like these. “...
Peter Gabriel Teases Performance of ‘Biko’ With Angélique Kidjo and Yo-Yo Ma
As part of tomorrow’s (Dec. 1) Peace Through Music livestream concert, a number of musicians will be teaming up for a performance of rarities and dream collaborations. One of those is Peter Gabriel, who is enlisting Angélique Kidjo and Yo-Yo Ma for a performance of his 1980 song “Biko.” You can see a preview of that collaboration below. [embedded content] “The virtual music event will premiere exclusively on Facebook for 48 hours and then on Dec. 10 we’re doing another major launch for International Human Rights Day with the United Nations and that will be all across Playing For Change YouTube and the UN YouTube Channel. So December 1, Giving Tuesday, that’s a 48-hour window where it’ll premiere on Facebook and that’s an amazing opportunity for people to support charities around the w...
Miley Cyrus’s Plastic Hearts Has A Song For Every Mood
By Ashley Oken Miley Cyrus’s long awaited seventh studio album, Plastic Hearts, dropped on Friday (November 27) and sees Cyrus embracing a throwback rock sound, reinventing herself yet again and unapologetically reflecting on her journey from Disney child star to mature artist exploring herself. She spent her immediate post-Disney career trying to shed the clean-cut image that comes with child stardom, and since then, Cyrus has tried embracing many sounds, from pop to country to psychedelic, in order to break away. Now, she seems to have found a bold, fitting path in rock. The track “Gimme What I Want” has Cyrus drawing deeply from Nine Inch Nails and her penchant for covers of ‘80s tunes, while “Prisoner” melds a Runaways-style glam-rock vibe and Dua Lipa’s dance-pop sound with bits of Ol...
Laugh, Scream, And Dance: Your MTV Movie & TV Awards: Greatest Of All Time Categories Are Here
Crowning the greatest of all time is no small task. Luckily, the MTV Movie & TV Awards are up for the challenge. As previously announced, the awards show is leveling up this year, bringing you the MTV Movie & TV Awards: Greatest of All Time to close out 2020. The 90-minute special, set to be hosted by Vanessa Hudgens, hits MTV on Sunday, December 6 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, and as its name suggests, it will honor the GOATs in both film and television across multiple categories. But which ones, exactly? Well, all the important ones. The show will present the GOATs across the following categories: Scream Queen, Legendary Lip Lock, Dance Your Ass Off, Heartbreaking Break-Up, Comedy Giant, Zero to Hero, She-Ro, and Dynamic Duo. We all have the favorite kisses that steamed up our screens, the be...
James Blake Gets in the Holiday Spirit with “In the Bleak Midwinter” Cover: Stream
James Blake has shared a cover of “In the Bleak Midwinter”, the iconic Christmas carol first set to music in 1906 by Gustav Holst and popularized by Harold Darke in 1911. Stream it below exclusively through Apple Music. The Assume Form singer was approached by Apple Music to record a holiday song for their streaming platform earlier this year. At first, Blake wasn’t sure which song to pick, namely because he wanted to choose something pop-leaning that would do well on a playlist. That’s when he began a mental tug-of-war about playing into algorithms versus staying true to his interests. Eventually, Blake realized he should just pick an old British gem he loves instead. “Look man, all the pop Christmas songs have been covered a million times. I’m not going to out-sing Mariah,” Bla...
Björk Shares New Version of “Sonnets” Featuring Iceland’s Hamrahlid Choir: Stream
Like many Icelandic artists before her, Björk spent much of her teenage years singing as part of the renowned Hamrahlid Choir. Things have now come full circle, as the experimental artist has contributed to the choir’s upcoming album, Come and Be Joyful. The two acts have specifically collaborated on a new version of “Sonnets”, originally taken from Björk’s 2004 album Medúlla. This completely reworked a cappella rendition was actually first premiered live by the choir during Björk’s mesmerizing “Cornucopia Tour” in 2019, but hasn’t been released to the public until today. “[Hamrahlid Choir founder] þorgerður is a legend in iceland and has guarded optimism and the light in the tumultuous times that teenagedom is,” Björk praised the choir’s leader on social media. “she has also encoura...
Nick Cave Blasts BBC for Censoring The Pogues “Fairytale of New York”
‘Tis the season for classic holiday songs, which means ’tis also the season for society to wrestle with outdated and offensive holiday lyrics. Our latest discourse is brought to you by Nick Cave, who is incensed at the BBC’s decision to censor a homophobic slur in The Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York”. In the latest edition of his Red Hand Files, Cave wrote that the BBC had “tampered with, compromised, tamed, and neutered” a track that he considers “the greatest Christmas song ever written.” “Fairytale of New York” is a duet with Kirsty MacColl that first appeared on The Pogues’ 1988 album If I Should Fall from Grace with God. The lyrics are set on Christmas Eve “in the drunk tank,” and features frontman Shane MacGowan trading insults with MacColl. MacGowan’s character calls MacColl’s “...
Julien Baker on Her Big Libra Energy, Being Told Lies, and Dunking on Republicans
Kyle Meredith With… Julien Baker Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS Julien Baker hangs out with Kyle Meredith to talk about Little Oblivions and its themes of self examination and survival. Baker speaks about the illusions that we build for ourselves to make us feel comfortable, a life of being told lies, and how she took the news that the Easter Bunny wasn’t real. The Boygenius member also discusses her Big Libra Energy, adding drums into her songwriting, and covering Blink 182’s “Anthem Pt. 2”. Kyle Meredith With… is an interview series in which WFPK’s Kyle Meredith speaks to a wide breadth of musicians. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, Meredith digs deep into the artist’s...
ALEXI LAIHO’s BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT Completes Recording First Music
BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT, the band launched by ex-CHILDREN OF BODOM guitarist/vocalist Alexi Laiho, has completed recording its first new music. The sessions took place at Finnvox studios in Helsinki, Finland. Earlier today, BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT posted a short video from the studio and included the following caption: “Recordings finished now and the files are ready for mixing. More info coming soon…” BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT made its live debut on October 23 at Rytmikorjaamo in Seinäjoki, Finland. The 17-song show consisted entirely of CHILDREN OF BODOM material. Joining Alexi in the group are drummer Waltteri Väyrynen, guitarist Daniel Freyberg (ex-CHILDREN OF BODOM), bassist Mitja Toivonen (ex-SANTA CRUZ) and touring keyboardist Lauri Salomaa. Laiho recently said that he will n...
ARCH ENEMY’s ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ On Her Upcoming Solo Album: ‘It’s A Way For Me To Get My Musical Rocks Off In Any Way That I Want’
Alissa White-Gluz says that she is “looking forward to finishing” up her long-awaited solo album. It was announced in September 2016 that the ARCH ENEMY frontwoman had signed a deal with Napalm Records for the release of her first solo disc, which will feature contributions and collaborations with past and present members of ARCH ENEMY and KAMELOT, as well as MISFITS guitarist Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein. Alissa offered an update on her solo project during a recent appearance on “The Electric Theater With Clown”, the Internet show hosted by SLIPKNOT‘s M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan. She said (hear audio below): “With ARCH ENEMY, I basically do screams — I’m growling; that’s the type of vocals that I do. But I actually do clean vocals...
JOE SATRIANI Says He Was Tapping Before He Heard EDDIE VAN HALEN
In a new interview with the “Behind The Vinyl” podcast, Joe Satriani was asked if he started using the technique of tapping notes on his guitar when he first heard Eddie Van Halen in 1978. He responded (hear audio below): “I’d been tapping before that. I think, just like Eddie, ’cause we were the same age and started playing pretty much at the same time, we saw other people on television doing it. So I saw the guitar players in WISHBONE ASH. There was a show in America called ‘Don Kirshner’s [Rock Concert]’, and I think WISHBONE ASH was on one night. And I think my dad was watching it. And I just walked into the room for a second, and I looked and I see the guy playing with his fingers. And I’m, like, ‘Oh my god!’ I just wen...
