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Electronic Music Exhibit Featuring Kraftwerk Set to Open with Enhanced Speaker System
The Design Museum in London is making new investments into its sound system to support the museum’s electronic music exhibit, which is set to open at the end of this month. The exhibit, titled “Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers,” was originally scheduled to launch in April, but was postponed due to mandatory closures following the onset of COVID-19. Ahead of its reopening, the museum will be installing a PMC 7.1 surround system based on the company’s result6 monitors, which is sure to simulate the experience of a live electronic music show. As long-time PMC users themselves, Kraftwerk was influential in making the decision, insisting the museum adopt the award-winning technology. Kraftwerk Live The exhibit features a 3D Kraftwerk show com...
Mind Control Meets Midtempo in Lucille Croft’s Gripping New Single
Blossoming Australian DJ and producer Lucille Croft has dropped the curtain on her new single “Control,” a blistering bass tune that plunges its listeners into a rabbit hole with its haunting motif of mind control. In something that sounds like it was plucked straight out of a Blade film, “Control” is midtempo mayhem. Croft’s own alluring vocals are at the forefront here, moonlighting as a siren song that beckons listeners into a rip-roaring 100BPM drop brimming with electro gravitas. With its metallic sound design and relentless energy, “Control” marries the sonic verve of an industrial Boys Noize track with the ferocity of a REZZ release to deliver a nasty bass tune from the depths of a dystopian dungeon. However, what renders R...
NICKELBACK’s RYAN PEAKE Didn’t Realize His Band Would Be So Polarizing
NICKELBACK guitarist Ryan Peake says that he never expected his band’s popularity to be so polarizing. Arguably the most disliked band in America, NICKELBACK has earned a type of hatred so potent it’s hard to fathom what they did that was so terrible to the public consciousness. It’s gotten to the point that people who enjoy NICKELBACK are denying their fandom and hiding their CDs like criminal contraband. Speaking to “Talk Is Jericho” about how he feels about the attention NICKELBACK has gotten because of this, Ryan said (hear audio below): “Everybody lives in their own miscrocosm. It’s always worse for you, it seems. But everybody gets their degree of hate and degree of detractors and vitriol on the Internet. So you understand it more when you...
BOB ROCK On LED ZEPPELIN’s JOHN PAUL JONES: ‘He Was So Insulted’ That I Produced First KINGDOM COME Album
Canadian producer, engineer, and musician Bob Rock recently spoke to Tone-Talk about his work on the debut album from ’80s rockers KINGDOM COME, a band perhaps best known for its uncanny musical resemblance to LED ZEPPELIN. The 1988 LP featured the song “Get It On”, which had a stranglehold on AOR radio, prompting thealbum to ship gold. The quintet took to the road immediately as part of the North American “Monsters of Rock” tour alongside VAN HALEN, SCORPIONS, METALLICA and DOKKEN. In addition to touring and extensive radio airplay, they also became MTV favorites with such videos as “Get It On” and “What Love Can Be”, helping the band sell two million albums worldwide. Speaking about how his collaboration with KINGDOM COME came about, ...
Producer TOM WERMAN Accuses DEE SNIDER Of ‘Embellishing’ Facts Surrounding Their Collaboration On ‘Stay Hungry’ Album
Veteran hard rock producer Tom Werman has once again fired back at Dee Snider over the TWISTED SISTER singer’s comments regarding their collaboration on the triple-platinum “Stay Hungry” album. During a recent appearance on “The Jasta Show”, the Internet program hosted by HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta, Snider said had “begged” Werman to put the songs “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “I Wanna Rock” on the LP. “[Tom] didn’t want those two tracks on the record,” Dee said. “I was on my knees in front of him… I wasn’t begging on my knees, but because he was sitting and there was noise going on… And he’s going, ‘Eh, ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’, it’s a little [hums...
GREAT WHITE Plays Concert In North Dakota With No Restrictions In Place: No Social Distancing, No Masks (Video)
GREAT WHITE played an outdoor show this past Thursday night (July 9) in Dickinson, North Dakota as part of “First On First: Dickinson Summer Nights”. Video footage of the concert is available below. More video, shot from a different location, can be found here. While numerous events have been imposing restrictions, such as wearing masks and social distancing, “First On First” has no such rules in place. “We do not have restrictions, believe it or not, we don’t have any,” April Getz, an event coordinator for Odd Fellows, which organizes, runs and comes up with the funding for the events, told The Dickinson Press. “It’s one of those things where if people feel comfortable coming down and mixing and mingling, that’s their personal ch...
Disney World Reopens Parks Amid Spike in Coronavirus Cases
Amid a record number of coronavirus cases in Florida, Walt Disney World in Orlando reopened its gates on Saturday for the first time in four months. Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom them parks reopened on Saturday, while Epcot and Disney’s Hollywood Studios will reopen on July 15th. In guidelines announced prior to reopening, Disney said that all visitors to Disney World would be required to practice social distancing and wear face masks at all times (get yours here). Disney is also employing touch-free temperature checks and having its cast members remind guests to follow its guidelines within the theme park. There will be also be no parades, firework shows, character meet and greets, or any other events that could draw a large gathering. USA Today, which has...
Lady A Issues New Statement: “I Will Not Allow Lady Antebellum to… Look ‘Woke’ to Their Fans”
Lady A, the country band formerly known as Lady Antebellum, is suing Anita “Lady A” White, a Black blues singer who has been performing under the name for over 20 years, over the rights to her moniker. Now, Anita White has issued a new statement to Pitchfork in response to that lawsuit. In the band’s most recent statement, Lady A said the decision to file a lawsuit stemmed from White “demanding a $10 million payment.” That money, as White later clarified, would be split in half to rebrand herself and to donate to organizations supporting Black independent artists — a tradeoff so that Lady Antebellum could keep the Lady A moniker. White is now doubling down in that request, saying, “I will not allow Lady Antebellum to obliterate me and my career so they can look ‘woke’ to their fans.” ...
Outdoor Concerts Are Allowed to Return in the UK
The UK has a nationalized health care system, and the US has a president who makes fun of face masks, and so it’s no surprise that England was faster at getting its coronavirus crisis under control. With new cases decreasing since mid-May, and total cases now under 30,000, the UK government is allowing outdoor concerts to resume starting this weekend — as long as venues maintain “a limited and socially distanced audience.” As Kerrang reports, the announcement was made by Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden. He called this “an important milestone for our performing artists, who have been waiting patiently in the wings since March”. Dowden added, “Of course we won’t see crowds flooding into their venues, but from July 11 our theatres, operas, dance and music shows can start puttin...
Song of the Week: Kid Cudi and Eminem Get Real on “The Adventures of Moon Man & Slim Shady”
Song of the Week breaks down and talks about the song we just can’t get out of our head each week. Find these songs and more on our Spotify New Sounds playlist. Music hasn’t pussyfooted around in 2020. Nor has it turned a blind eye to what’s going on in the world. More and more, artists are tackling the topics we see in our daily media feeds and on our nightly news programs, and they’re getting music into the hands — or at least ears — of listeners faster than ever. And that trend makes sense. In a time where artists reveal more about themselves than ever via social media platforms and the world never sits still for longer than a news cycle, listeners are not only demanding that songs address their needs — something to march to, dance to, or lean on — but that they do so in as close to rea...
Coldplay Shares Never Before Seen First Take Of ‘Yellow’ Video
We’re familiar with Coldplay’s iconic “Yellow” music video: Chris Martin walking along an abandoned beach in full rain gear, soaked to the core as the wind whips his face. But apparently that was not the original plan. On Saturday, the band shared never before seen footage from the shoot on TikTok, in which Martin is dry, barefoot, and donning a red long sleeved shirt sans rain jacket. The short clip is scattered with fun facts about the making of the video. “Take 1 of the Yellow video (we’ve never shown this before),” the first message reads. “There were loads of extras in this version” “But it rained all day so we sent them home at 4pm,” it continues. “Chris grabbed the cameraman and said ‘let’s just walk down the beach’” “Worked out well in the end!” @coldplayTake 1 of the Yellow v...
Paramore Stops Selling ‘Say Their Names’ Poster After Receiving Backlash
The members of Paramore have been quite active in the Black Lives Matter movement following George Floyd’s death in May. Singer Hayley Williams has marched alongside protestors and handed off her Instagram account to a group of teenage activists, while the band donated $25,000 across three organizations that fight for racial justice and against police brutality. However, one of their calls to action was something that didn’t sit well with fans. After a fan recreated Paramore’s Riot! album art to display names of police brutality victims, the band printed it as a poster for purchase with proceeds benefiting NAACP and Color of Change. Though well-intentioned, fans were not pleased with the message it sent and responded to the since-deleted Twitter announcement with concerns about the po...
