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Wishbone to Bark Up More Literary Tales in New Movie
What’s the story Wishbone? You’d have to ask filmmaker Peter Farrelly. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar winner has signed on to produce a feature film based on the popular ’90s PBS series for Universal and Mattel films. Roy Parker, who was featured on the 2019 Black List, will write the script, which will undoubtedly revolve around a cute Jack Russell terrier chewing on a classic literary tale. As of press time, there’s no director attached. “Our deep library of iconic franchises continues to offer cinematic storytelling opportunities,” said executive producer Robbie Brenner. “We’re thrilled to be working with Peter Farrelly, Roy Parker, and Universal to take the beloved dog classic into a new direction with a modern reimagination of the franchise.” Wishbone was originally a ...
Whitney Cover David Byrne, Brian Eno, John Denver, and More on New Album Candid
Chicago indie rockers Whitney have announced a new covers album. Titled Candid, it’s due out August 14th through Secretly Canadian. Spanning 10 tracks, the album sees Whitney tackling originals by David Byrne and Brian Eno (“Strange Overtones”), Kelela (“Bank Head”), and Damien Jurado (“A.M. A.M.”). The album also includes the group’s previously shared rendition of the John Denver classic “Take Me Home, Country Roads” featuring Waxahatchee and their take on “Rain” by SWV. In a statement about their choice in covers, drummer and singer Julien Ehrlich explains, “This could’ve been as simple as saying we really love these songs and we love our bandmates and making a covers record just felt right but it truly became an exploration into how we can evolve as a band going forward.” Editors&#...
Whitney Announce Covers Album, Release Rendition Of The Roches’ ‘Hammond Song’
Few bands can emulate the twang of John Denver. Fewer can come close to showcasing the soul of SWV. And, well, only one band can really do both. Chi-town indie rockers Whitney announced this morning that they’ll be releasing a 10-track album, Candid, next month with covers ranging from Denver’s “Country Roads” to SWV’s “Rain.” Also in the mix are tracks by Kelela, David Byrne and The Roches, whose single “Hammond Song” was reimagined by the group and shared today in promotion of the record. “This could’ve been as simple as saying we really love these songs and we love our bandmates and making a covers record just felt right,” drummer and singer Julien Ehrlich said, “but it truly became an exploration into how we can evolve as a band going forward.” On Twitter, the group explained that they...
The Revenge of /\/\/\Y/\
As the 2000s became the 2010s, no artist looked more poised to transform the landscape wholesale than Mathangi Arulpragasam, whom most millennials know as M.I.A. A brilliant Sri Lankan musician, political disruptor, and cultural synthesizer from London, she made music almost entirely about being exiled by birthright, about her complicated relationship with societal upheaval having an activist father with links to (but not, as oft-believed, actually in) the LTTE, about how rich music itself becomes when you look outside of spaces colonized by Western whites. Then she ate a truffle fry. It’s instructive to look back on how deeply M.I.A.’s and Kanye West’s paths diverged as the 2010s took shape. Both were cutting-edge royalty beginning in 2004, pulling just about every musically inclined pers...
A-Trak Shares Preview and Astonishing Story of a Remix for Michael Jackson That “Will Never Come Out”
A-Trak took to Twitter yesterday, July 14th, to share the astonishing story behind an official remix he produced for the the King of Pop, which he admits “will never come out.” “Back in 2012, I got asked to do a Michael Jackson remix for the 25th anniversary of Bad,” A-Trak wrote. “They said I could pick any track on the album.” He goes on to say that he chose Jackson’s legendary single “Smooth Criminal,” which appeared on the late artist’s seminal studio album Bad, before teaming up with Oliver to flesh out the remix. When music producers are tapped for a remix, the original artist simply sends the DAW project file or the song’s stems in a Zip archive. This exchange is somewhat perilous, though, since it leaves a digit...
Celebrate Porter Robinson’s Birthday With 5 of His Most Memorable Moments
Few artists have garnered the diehard loyalty Porter Robinson has in his career. The multi-genre producer has helped to usher in a new era of dance music in that time, and we share greater appreciation for his impactful contributions with each passing year. To celebrate Porter Robinson’s birthday, we are turning back the clock to some of his biggest career moments thus far. Porter Releases Breakout Spitfire EP Porter Robinson’s Spitfire EP was not the rising complextro producer’s first work, but it was his first long-form project, which poised the star for a breakout. The EP, which became the first release on Skrillex‘s OWSLA imprint, included six originals and a handful of remixes. The cover, featuring a Titan II GLV rocket lifting off, was predict...
Manager of Lady Gaga Producer BloodPop®: Women “Will Usher in a New Revolution” of Dance Music
Following the release of her sixth studio album Chromatica, Lady Gaga is going to need a forklift to haul the hardware coming her way. According to a report by Bloomberg, Gaga has dethroned Bad Bunny as the world’s biggest pop star thanks to the EDM-inspired Chromatica, which features production from Madeon, Skrillex, Tchami, Axwell, and Boys Noize, among others. Following the album’s ballyhooed release, it skyrocketed up the charts to rapidly emerge as the best-selling album in the US this past month. According to Bloomberg, Mother Monster sold over 400,000 copies over the course of the month while no other artist even eclipsed 300,000. The record’s lead singles, “Stupid Love” and “Rain on Me,” the latter of which we predicted as an...
METALLICA & SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: ‘S&M2’ Live Album And Video Details Revealed
METALLICA and San Francisco Symphony‘s September 6 & 8, 2019 “S&M²” concerts were historic on multiple levels: They served as the grand opening of San Francisco’s Chase Center, reunited the band and Symphony for the first time since the 1999 performances captured on the Grammy-winning “S&M” album, and featured the first-ever symphonic renditions of songs written and released since those original “S&M” shows. The sold-out concerts were rapturously received by the 40,000 fans who traveled from nearly 70 countries, as well as the media: Rolling Stone raved “the group proved that anything was possible,” Variety noted an atmosphere “buzzing with excitement,” while the Mercury News witnessed “a concert ...
DREAM THEATER’s JORDAN RUDESS Pays Musical Tribute To ENNIO MORRICONE
DREAM THEATER keyboardist Jordan Rudess has paid tribute to Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone, saying he “left us with some of the must beautiful music this planet has ever heard.” Morricone passed on July 6 at the age of 91. According to Morricone‘s longtime lawyer, the composer died in a Rome hospital of complications following a fall, in which he broke a leg. Rudess has uploaded a video of him performing some of the Morricone’s compositions, and he included the following message: “Here is my tribute to Ennio Morricone– who left us with some of the must beautiful music this planet has ever heard. May his melodies bring him directly to a special place in heaven.” Morricone composed “The Ecstasy Of Gold”, the song from the classic ...
DESTRUCTION Releases Mini Documentary On ‘Socially Distanced’ Concerts In Switzerland
German thrashers DESTRUCTION played their first two concerts after the coronavirus pandemic closures on July 3 and July 4 in Pratteln, Switzerland. In response to COVID-19 restrictions, only 300 tickets were made available for each show at the 1,600-capacity Z7 club. According to DESTRUCTION frontman Schmier, 250 people attended the July 4 gig, and 300 fans were present at the July 3 show. DESTRUCTION has now released a seven-minute “aftermovie” capturing the highlights of the band’s return to the live stage. Check it out below. Schmier states: “I am very glad that our film team could capture those moments. The first shows after the loosening of the rules in Switzerland for concerts were for sure a special moment for all of us. The fans did a very good job, and the ...
DRAGONFORCE’s HERMAN LI And SAM TOTMAN Show You How To Write A SABATON Song In 10 Minutes (Video)
During a recent Twitch livestream, DRAGONFORCE guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman had some fun by attempting to write a SABATON-style song in 10 minutes. “We’ve known SABATON for so long,” Li said. Totman added: “I read this interview with them, and apparently, we were like their first-ever tour. I didn’t even realize it at the time, but that was like their first tour they ever did.” Herman said to his bandmate: “I think we should force you to write a SABATON song right now. Then we can finish a SABATON album within, what? An hour?” Video of the resulting session has since been uploaded to DRAGONFORCE‘s official YouTube channel and can be seen below. Two years ago, SABATON bassist Pär Sundström told Finland’s Soundi magazine that...
Kanye West Drops Presidential Bid (Report)
We hardly knew Ye. Kanye West’s presidential bid is over before it started. According to a report in Intelligencer, West hired a get out the vote specialist to try to whip up 100,000 signatures to get him on the ballot in Florida and South Carolina. Steve Kramer, the specialist, said they were “working over the weekend there, formalizing the FEC and other things that they’ve got to do when you have a lot of corporate lawyers involved.” Ultimately, Kramer told the publication that he received word from the group that hired him that “he’s out,” with “he” being Kanye. Earlier in the week, the first national poll with West’s inclusion had him 2% of the vote, which isn’t getting him elected. Interestingly, when he was included in that poll, West took votes away from President Donald T...
