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We Sat Down With 2022’s Most Viral Piece of Music Merchandise, Chris Farren’s The Cup
Chris Farren knows a lot of music and merchandising. First, he served as the frontman for the Florida-based punk act Fake Problems for nearly a decade. For the past eight years, he’s been releasing indie rock albums under his own name, building up a rabid fan base via his captivating online persona and social media presence. On the side, he’s also created merchandise that’s been embraced by the internet, most notably his The Smiths parody shirt, which became so popular that Jimmy Fallon presented one to Will Smith during an appearance on The Tonight Show in 2014. However, Farren has never created a piece of merch that’s also a sentient being… until now. To promote his latest release for Polyvinyl Records, “Death Don’t Wait” (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) — which is itself a score to ...
Father John Misty Shares New Video for “Kiss Me (I Loved You)”: Watch
Father John Misty has shared a video for his Chloë and the Next 20th Century song “Kiss Me (I Loved You).” Directed and edited by David Raboy, the video stars Annie Hamilton and Alexander Zuccaro as they spend the night at a bar. Watch below. Misty recently announced a world tour, which includes dates across North America this fall and then European shows in spring 2023. Leading up to the release of his God’s Favorite Customer follow-up, he released multiple singles, including “Goodbye Mr. Blue,” “Q4,” and “Funny Girl.” A deluxe edition of Chloë is packaged with a 7″ of Lana Del Rey and David Lynch (credited as Jack Cruz), where both singers cover songs from the record. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Watch Bright Eyes Perform “Dance and Sing” on Colbert
Bright Eyes were the musical guests on last night’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Watch Conor Oberst perform “Dance and Sing” with the full band and a mini orchestra below. The track appears on 2020’s Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was The band will release their forthcoming Letting Off the Happiness: A Companion EP on May 27 via Dead Oceans. It features a cover of Elliott Smith’s “St. Ides Heaven” featuring Phoebe Bridgers. The band’s last studio LP was Check out Pitchfork’s 5-10-15-20 interview “The Music That Made Conor Oberst.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Panda Bear Shares New Song Apparently Rejected by Calm App: Listen
Panda Bear has made public a new song that was apparently rejected by popular meditation app Calm. On Monday (April 11), he tweeted a link to download a 17-minute song file titled “calm app (rejected).wav.” The upload sparked reasonable speculation that Panda Bear’s piece had, in fact, been turned down by the app, a platform that has commissioned music from Clams Casino, Flock of Dimes, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, RZA, Moses Sumney, Emily A. Sprague, and more. You can listen to Panda Bear’s new song below. When contacted by Pitchfork, a representative for Panda Bear offered no comment. Pitchfork has also reached out to representatives for Calm for more information and comment. Panda Bear issued his last solo album Buoys in 2019. Earlier this year, Animal Collective returned with their latest LP...
Kurt Vile on the Influence of Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, and His Latest Sprawling ‘Masterpiece’ Watch My Moves
Welcome to the latest edition of The Offramp! Each month, rock writer Corbin Reiff will highlight some of the most dynamic artists and projects going on in music today. Throw on the turn signal, crank up the stereo and enjoy the ride! As 2019 ticked into 2020, Kurt Vile had had enough. The Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter spent the better part of the last decade on the road, playing packed shows with his band the Violators. He’s also been relentless in his pursuit of new music, working with a myriad of different collaborators, while hitting up various recording studios across the country to lay down his latest sonic imaginations. The results speak for themselves. During that time, Vile has steadily amassed one of the most engrossing discographies in all of indie rock. His solo albums l...
Safdie Brothers Producing Andy Kaufman Documentary
A documentary on the late, great Andy Kaufman is finally in the works. Emmy-nominated filmmaker Alex Braverman will direct a forthcoming deep dive into the comedy legend’s life, up until a battle with cancer cut it short in 1984 at age 35. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the feature project has just started production, with Josh and Benny Safdie executive producing via their company Elara Pictures. Kaufman’s life was previously memorialized in the 1999 biopic Man on the Moon, in which Jim Carrey portrayed the Saturday Night Live star. That film, in turn, was examined in the 2017 doc Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, which mostly centered around Carrey’s method acting approach to bringing Kaufman to life. This currently untitled project, however, will mark the ...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Dealt In to Rian Johnson’s Murder Mystery Series Poker Face
Joseph Gordon-Levitt will attempt to hide his tell in Rian Johnson’s upcoming Peacock series Poker Face, reports Variety. Details about Gordon-Levitt’s character and how many episodes he will appear in the mystery drama are being kept under wraps, but he is joining star and executive producer Natasha Lyonne. Not much is known about the series, except that it will follow a procedural format tasking Lyonne’s character with solving a different murder in each episode. Back in March 2021, Peacock announced Johnson would serve as the creator, writer, and director of Poker Face, which will consist of 10 episodes. Although it marks Johnson’s first time writing a TV show, he has previously directed three episodes of Breaking Bad (including Season 3’s “Fly”) and one episode of Te...
Conversations With a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes Shows the Banality of Evil: Review
The Pitch: Years on, the American public is still obsessed with serial killers — who they are, what makes them tick, the lurid details of their murderous escapades. No one knows this more than the folks at Netflix, who toss out a new true-crime documentary every other week, and whose biggest hits include shows like Mindhunter. One of the platform’s biggest hits was 2019’s Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, which assembled a four-part chronicle of his crimes, his history, and the trial that ignited the public’s imagination. Now director Joe Berlinger is back with a follow-up, The John Wayne Gacy Tapes, drawing from nearly 60 hours of recorded interviews with another infamous mass murderer to tell another tale of lost innocence, the nature of madness, and the various...
CMT Music Awards Score Big Increase in TV Ratings With CBS Move
The CMT Music Awards scored huge year to year ratings increases on Monday — no surprise, since the show moved from its namesake cable outlet to broadcaster CBS. ABC’s American Idol finished in a near-tie with the awards, with both coming in way ahead of American Song Contest on NBC. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The CMT Music Awards averaged 5.33 million viewers for CBS, almost four times the 1.43 million who watched the 2021 awards across CMT, Paramount Network and MTV (last year’s show also aired on MTV2 and TV Land, but figures from those two aren’t immediately available). Monday’s show delivered a 0.67 rating among adults 18-49, more than doubling the 0.29 for CMT, Paramount Net and TV Land last year....
Teyana Taylor & Iman Shumpert Address ‘Extremely Hurtful’ Marriage Rumors
Teyana Taylor and her husband Iman Shumpert grace the cover of Ebony’s April issue alongside their two daughters, Iman Tayla (affectionately called Junie) and Rue, and the happy couple addressed rumors that surfaced earlier this year regarding their marriage. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In February, a TikTok user alleged that an unnamed singer — who fans believed was Taylor — suffered a drug overdose after learning that her husband had cheated on her. Taylor initially slammed the rumors in since-deleted social media posts. The Shumperts both addressed the allegations as part of the cover story, which also discusses the importance of Black love, navigating the industry, raising their children, and Junie’s international fashion success. “Thes...
Hailey Bieber Begs Trolls to Leave Her Alone: ‘Be Miserable Somewhere Else’
Hailey Bieber has had enough. On Tuesday, the model shared a message with her online haters and didn’t hold anything back. “This is for you guys in my comments every single time I post,” she captioned the frank TikTok video, which finds her speaking directly to the camera. “Leave me alone at this point,” she says in the clip. “I’m minding my business, I don’t do anything, I don’t say anything. Leave me alone. Please. Enough time has gone by where it’s valid to leave me alone. I beg of you, truly. That’s my only request. Leave me alone. Be miserable somewhere else. Please.” The online harassment experienced by Bieber has been a near-constant in her life ever since she started dating now-husband Justin Bieber. In fact, back in December 2020, the pop star even publicly called out a fan of his...
Flume Takes us Out of This World In ‘Sirens’ Music Video: Watch
It’s full-speed ahead for Flume. The Australian electronic music master is about to hit the road, and he’s gearing up for Palaces, his third studio album. But first, he unveils the music video for “Sirens,” the second release from it. Directed by Daniel Askill (Sia, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney), the “Sirens” video reaches deep into dreamland. Askill keeps the camera trained on vocalist-turned-siren Caroline Polachek, who drops in from the heavens to check on Flume, who’s out of sorts on a fantasy island. Once again, the producer is kitted-out in his motorbike leathers and helmet, hanging in a space that could be Gollum’s cave if the Extreme Makeover team got involved. “This amazing track by Flume and Caroline inspired us to create a film that hovers at the intersection of nature and te...
