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Sylvan Esso Break Down Their New Album Free Love Track by Track: Stream
Our Track by Track feature provides musicians the chance to guide fans through each track on their latest album. Today, Sylvan Esso gives us some much needed Free Love. Sylvan Esso have today shared their third studio album, Free Love. Stream the 10-track effort below via Apple Music or Spotify One of the fall’s most anticipated releases, Free Love follows Sylvan Esso’s 2017 record What Now. Self-produced in the band’s own studio in the woods of North Carolina, the LP is billed as their “first true ‘band’ record.” It finds vocalist Amelia Meath and producer Nick Sanborn working hand and hand on all elements of the songwriting and recording, instead of one focusing on melody and the other on beats. Sylvan Esso describe the album as “about being increasingly terrified of the world aroun...
Action Bronson Unveils New Album Only For Dolphins: Stream
Action Bronson has unveiled his new album Only For Dolphins. Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify. The album marks Bronson’s sixth full-length record overall and follows 2018’s White Bronco. Spanning 12 songs, the project boasts guest bars from Meyhem Lauren, Hologram, and Yung Mehico, as well as production provided by The Alchemist, Harry Fraud, DJ Muggs, and Daringer, among others. However, perhaps the LP’s most notable contributions come from an unlikely, non-human source: scattered throughout are giddy dolphin cackles. In a press statement, Bam Bam attributed his obsession with the aquatic mammals to their intelligence. “The dolphin is one of the most intelligent creatures ever created on whatever planet we’re on,” he said. “They have their own way of communicating. They have nu...
Fargo Season 4 Is a Thrilling and Timely Indictment of the American Dream: Review
The Pitch: Like the first fall of snow in an open field, Fargo drifts back into this desolate year with its fourth season. Three years after Mary Elizabeth Winstead blew us away and Ewan McGregor won our hearts twice, FX’s black comedy/crime drama returns, this time focusing on two rival crime families and their struggle for control over 1950 Kansas City. In order to broker peace, Loy Cannon (Chris Rock), leader of the Cannon crime syndicate, and Donatello Fadda (Tommaso Ragno), head of the Italian mafia, trade their youngest sons to be raised by their enemies. A sudden turn of events leaves this new peace in jeopardy as both family heads struggle to navigate shifting loyalties and outside pressure. Meanwhile kooky nurse Oraetta Mayflower (Jessie Buckley) befriends her neighbor, high schoo...
The Entire Town of South Park Sat in the Stands for Today’s Denver Broncos Game
Under normal circumstances, cartoon characters do not attend live sporting events. But the novel coronavirus has robbed us of normal circumstances, and so it makes sense that the denizens of South Park should appear as cutouts in the stands of a Denver Broncos football game. Via Sports Illustrated, the September 27th tussle between Denver and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers also featured more than 5,000 flesh-and-blood fans. They watched their hometown heroes get shellacked by Tom Brady’s Bucs, 28-10. Surely their attention occasionally wandered from the gruesome on-field product to the colorful occupants of the south stands. According to Broncos’ reporter Benjamin Albright, every resident of South Park was represented. As pictures demonstrate, the illustrated fans a...
ALTER BRIDGE’s MYLES KENNEDY Completes Recording Second Solo Album
ALTER BRIDGE frontman Myles Kennedy has completed recording his second solo album. He used the same team that worked on 2018’s “Year Of The Tiger”, including producer Michael “Elvis” Baskette, engineer Jef Moll, as well as drummer Zia Uddin and bassist Tim Tournier. On Saturday (September 26), Myles posted an Instagram photo of him behind a recording console, and he included the following message: “After spending the last 7 months writing and recording, the 2nd solo record is tracked and ‘in the can’ as they say. The process, which started with me writing and demoing for the first half of the year merged into connecting with @zznuddin @timothysonoftimothy and driving nearly 3000 miles to Florida with gear in tow to meet up with the legend tha...
METALLICA’s KIRK HAMMETT Pays Tribute To CLIFF BURTON On 34th Anniversary Of Bassist’s Death
METALLICA‘s Kirk Hammett has paid tribute to the band’s late bassist Cliff Burton on the 34th anniversary of his death. Earlier today, Hammett shared a classic concert photo of him and Burton, and he included the following photo: “Cliff was one of my closest friends. He was really smart and funny too. We shared a love for horror, HP Lovecraft, and THE VELVET UNDERGROUND. He constantly pushed me to be a better person and musician. One of his favorite quotes he would say to me often was ‘There is power in truth, never back down.’ “It was so unexpected when he left us. The sadness remains. I will always remember him. “I am not sure who took this photo — but it’s a great one. @metallica #metallicafamily” Burton was asked to join METALLICA i...
LARS ULRICH: The METALLICA Song I Never Want To Hear Again
In a new interview with Vulture.com, Lars Ulrich was asked to name the METALLICA song he never wants to hear again. He responded: “There’s a song called ‘Eye Of The Beholder’ on the ‘…[And] Justice [For All]’ album. Wherever I hear that song, it sounds kind of like — I guess we don’t want to be super-disrespectful to it — but it sounds really forced. It sounds like you put a square peg in a round hole. It sounds like it’s got two different tempos. There’s kind of a 4/4 feel in the intro and on the verses, and then I think the choruses are more like in a waltz tempo. It literally sounds like two different worlds rubbing up against each other. It sounds very awkward to me. I’m not a huge fan of that song. “I guess the asterisk...
WOLFGANG VAN HALEN Pays Tribute To Original VAN HALEN Bassist MARK STONE: ‘He Was A Wonderful Man’
Wolfgang Van Halen has paid tribute to VAN HALEN‘s original bass player, Mark Stone, who died on Saturday (September 26) after a battle with cancer. According to Van Halen News Desk, Stone had been under hospice care recently. Earlier today, Wolfgang tweeted: “Heartbreaking news to hear of Mark‘s passing. Met him a few times and he was a wonderful man. My heart goes out to his family”. After one of Wolfgang‘s Twitter followers suggested that Mark “hadn’t talked” to Eddie Van Halen or Alex Van Halen “for decades,” the current VAN HALEN bassist, who is also Eddie‘s son, shot back: “Really odd to lie about something you know nothing about. What do you get out of this? “They absolutely still talked. How else would I ...
Alison Wonderland Featured on New Amazon Billboard in Times Square
In honor of the release of her latest single, New Yorkers and visitors alike might find themselves locking eyes with a 200-foot Alison Wonderland during their travels. No, this wasn’t the unexpected result of an experiment gone wrong—she’s the featured artist on Amazon Music‘s Times Square billboard. Featuring art from her newly released single “Bad Things,” the billboard home is smack-dab in one of the most packed areas in the Capital of the World. On Twitter, she shared photos of the billboard and later exulted in the song’s release and seeing her vision come to life. In addition to the new billboard placement, her latest single and her likeness has been included at the forefront of Amazon Music’s “EDM Bangers” playlist. The thre...
Here is a Painful Video of People Awkwardly Dancing to Vin Diesel’s EDM Song on The Kelly Clarkson Show
Science fiction authors have been offering grim outlooks of the future for as long as the genre has existed. Many have told tales of dystopian societies battling worldwide sickness, oppressive government, economic crises, and weaponized artificial intelligence. Unfortunately for us, reality has been far worse than the stories. In real-life 2020, we’re facing worldwide sickness, oppressive government, economic crises, weaponized artificial intelligence, and virtual daytime TV studio audiences awkwardly dancing along on webcam to dance music created by a beefy action movie star. This horror story came to life during an episode of Kelly Clarkson‘s talk show earlier this week. Instead of hosting music from talented and underrepresented up-and-comers deserving of recognit...
College Student Develops Electronic Music Production Application for the Visually Impaired
A college student in the United Kingdom has developed software that allows the visually impaired to create electronic music with ease. After performing at a music festival in 2017, Ché Leader was in a serious car accident that left him hospitalized with a split tongue, broken nose, and chipped tooth. While he recovered, he also suffered severe eye injuries and is now visually impaired, experiencing chronic pain and psychological problems from the incident. The difficulties he faces each day and his background in sound design inspired him to create something that helps others in a similar situation. While specifics on his application have not yet been revealed, Leader’s software allows users to create electronic music with less reliance on sight than your average digita...
Ampium Drops Progressive House Single “Open Their Eyes” Featuring ZHIKO
Ampium is the fresh new face out of Adelaide, South Australia here to deliver a vibrant dose of progressive house with his latest single, “Open Their Eyes” featuring ZHIKO. Having been influenced dance music legends like Avicii and Martin Garrix, you can hear the sounds of Europe come alive in this release. It’s the type of track that would flourish at festivals like Ultra and Tomorrowland and it features classic anthemic saws alongside vocals that feel like they could be taken straight out of a Nicky Romero single in the best way possible. Ampium shared his inspiration behind the track in a press release, stating, “I always strive to create music that feels a year ahead, and ‘Open Their Eyes’ sounds like the future. Creating inspiring p...
