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Lana Del Rey Performs “Arcadia” on Stephen Colbert: Watch
Lana Del Rey celebrated the release day of her new album, Blue Banisters, by paying a visit to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. As the evening’s musical guest, the pop crooner gave a performance of the album’s lead single, “Arcadia.” “Arcadia” already calls to mind Del Rey’s earlier career highlights like “Video Games,” but her outfit and the black-and-white filter of her remote performance especially felt like a throwback to 2012. With a stripped-down piano background and minimal stage decor, Del Rey’s voice took the forefront, making the simple track feel all the more poignant. Watch her performance below. Now that Blue Banisters has finally arrived, it seems Del Rey might be taking some time away from the public eye: After some questionable missteps over the past year or so...
Matty Healy Makes Surprise Appearance at Phoebe Bridgers’ Los Angeles Show: Watch
Back before, y’know, all this happened, Phoebe Bridgers was slated to open for The 1975 on their tour in support of 2020’s Notes on a Conditional Form. On Friday night, however, the two acts finally got to team up in person. The band’s frontman Matty Healy made a surprise appearance opening up for Bridgers’ gig at Los Angeles’ Greek Theater, and the pair performed NOACF highlight “Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America” live for the very first time. Just a few hours before the show, Bridgers offered some sage advice on Twitter: “Come early tonight. Trust me.” And the surprise was well worth it. In addition to their duet, Healy debuted two new songs — one of which is titled “New York” — as well as a self-described “emo” rendition of the band’s Tumblr-era anthem, “Sex.” Chec...
Coldplay Cover Pearl Jam’s “Nothingman” in Seattle: Watch
Coldplay celebrated the release of their latest album, Music of the Spheres, with a record release show at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena on Friday night. In addition to playing songs from their ninth LP, Coldplay paid tribute to one of Seattle’s greatest bands: Pearl Jam. “So because we’re here in Seattle we wanted to pay tribute to all of the bands that we fell in love with when we were just young teenagers in the ’90s,” Coldplay frontman Chris Martin told the audience. “This is a 44-year-old man remembering how much he fell in love with Pearl Jam in 1991. And if you told that kid he would be here singing this song, that kid would’ve said ‘Are you sure that’s a good idea?’ And I would’ve said ‘Maybe not!’ But we’re doing it!” And with that, Martin and drummer Will Champion segued into a ...
Los Angeles Lakers Face Chemistry Questions After Dustup Between Anthony Davis & Dwight Howard
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Kevork Djansezian / Getty The Los Angeles Lakers opened up the 2021-22 NBA season as favorites to potentially win it all in the west after trading for Russell Westbrook and adding some other key pieces from teams past. However, the new-look Lake Show might have to talk some things out behind closed doors after big men Anthony Davis and Dwight Howard got into it on the bench. The Lakers are just two seasons out of winning the NBA championship and any team with LeBron James is a shoo-in to be a contender for the title. However, the young NBA season has proven already that what looks good on paper might not be good in reality. It should also be noted that the Lakers’ bench is a bit depleted as Talen Horton-Tucker, Kendrick Nunn, Wayne Ellington, and Tr...
K-Pop Star Giselle of aespa Lip Syncs N-Word, Twitter Gathers & Educates Her Over Folly
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: @flrtyvs / Twitter It’s 2021, and people still can’t wrap their heads around about when and when not to use the N-word. Giselle of K-pop group aespa is learning this the hard way as she was spotted lip-syncing the racial slur, and Twitter is gathering but also educating her on the misstep. The video in question was uploaded to aespa’s Youtube (it was reportedly a behind the scenes clip of the making of the song “Savage”), and then removed. In the clip the group is singing SZA’s “Love Galore” and Giselle clearly emphasized the n-word while she was getting her karaoke on. See it below, this is the Internet, where nothing gets wiped once it’s out there. Did Giselle know that lip-syncing the word, and passionately at that, was a no-no? The receipts are ...
Jon Hopkins’ New Album Is Strategically Designed to Last the Length of a Ketamine Trip
Jon Hopkins‘ forthcoming album is at the cutting-edge of a new field emerging at the intersection of music and wellness. His forthcoming album, Music for Psychedelic Therapy, is exactly what one would expect: a guided tour for healing while in an altered state. According to The Guardian, the album itself is timed to last the average length of a ketamine trip. “We’re entering an era where this kind of therapy is going to be legal and widespread, and you need to have music for it,” Hopkins said. “I’ve got to be really careful of sounding too grandiose, but it really feels to me like there is a frontier here – a new genre of music.” Ketamine has shown recent breakthrough promise in curbing the potential for suicide and curtailing the frequency of major depre...
Watch Ducks Feast to Make Beats In Experimental Project By Benn Jordan
Oftentimes the opportunity and inspiration to make music exists where you’d least expect it, from the shockwaves of a Tesla coil to a vacuous black hole billions of miles away. Meanwhile, Benn Jordan set out to determine whether ducks could make music. On the surface, it seems like a fowl proposal, but with an Arduino tethered up to three aluminum containers filled to the brim with duck feed, Jordan was willing to test his hypothesis. Despite the odd feeding arrangement this flock didn’t try to duck the opportunity to get their bread. Around a dozen ducks gathered around the food, digging in feverishly and triggering various drum and percussion loops as they gorged. Initially the output of the ducks’ feeding process was cacophonous, off-beat, and sure to ruffle some ...
Songwriters Get Hit In the Wallet by Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora… Again
Digital service providers Spotify, Apple Music, Google, and Pandora have submitted paperwork stating what they believe songwriters’ royalty rates should be for the years 2023 to 2027. The Copyright Act states that every five years Copyright Royalty Judges oversee discussions to determine what streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music pay as a mechanical royalty rate to songwriters and publishers. These platforms are notorious for incredibly low payout rates and “exploitative practices” when it comes to paying music creators. Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek. Magnus Höij/Wikimedia Commons The National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) has fought for higher mechanical royalty rates for music publishers and songwriters. The organization’s president and...
SLASH Says GUNS N’ ROSES Has Yet To Start Writing New Music, Explains Decision To Rework Old Songs
Slash says that GUNS N’ ROSES has yet to begin writing new material after recently releasing two reworked songs from the “Chinese Democracy”-era sessions. Last month, the guitarist and his bandmates dropped “Hard Skool”, which came more than a month after their performance and subsequent official release of “Absurd”, a reworking of GUNS N’ ROSES previously unreleased “Silkworms”. Slash, who is promoting the upcoming “4” album from his solo band SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS, discussed the status of new GUNS N’ ROSES music while speaking to Audacy Check In host Remy Maxwell. “As far as new GUNS is concerned, we haven’t even gotten to that point of really in earnest sitting down and...
DAVID ELLEFSON Doesn’t Have A Copy Of New MEGADETH Album With His Bass Tracks: ‘They Weren’t Mine To Have’
In a new interview with Joshua Toomey of the “Talk Toomey” podcast, David Ellefson was asked if he has a copy of MEGADETH‘s upcoming album with his bass tracks on it before they were replaced following his exit from the band. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I don’t, no, because it was all in sort of Dropbox and all that kind of stuff. You don’t take anything out of there; you always leave it in there. That’s the professional acumen. So, no, I do not. I don’t have a copy…. They weren’t mine to have. They belong to Universal Records. It’s their property. They paid for it; it’s their property.” MEGADETH leader Dave Mustaine has yet to reveal who played bass on the band’s new album after Ellefson&...
GENE SIMMONS On KISS’s Upcoming Las Vegas Residency: ‘The Show Is Gonna Come Into The Audience’
KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons spoke to Beond TV about the band’s upcoming second Las Vegas residency, which will kick off at the end of the year. The legendary rockers’ engagement at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood will launch the last week of December. Regarding what fans can expect to see this time around, Gene said: “We hired a big technical staff, and to the extent that the concert facility is gonna allow us, we’re gonna blow the roof off the joint. There are gonna be things that are gonna be lifted and separated — in other words, the show is gonna come into the audience. I don’t wanna say too much about that. So wherever you are, even in the upper areas and stuff, the show is coming at you. Usually shows stay on stage. You’ll see what I mean...
NIKKI SIXX Says VINCE NEIL Was ‘Really Lucky’ When He Fell Off Stage: ‘The Guitar Broke His Fall’
MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx says that Vince Neil is “on the mend” after breaking his ribs during a concert earlier in the month. Fan-filmed video showed the 60-year-old CRÜE singer walking to the front of the stage while performing with his solo band on October 15 at the Monsters On The Mountain festival at LeConte Center in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. With his guitar strapped around him, Neil was encouraging the crowd to clap along while playing the 1989 MÖTLEY CRÜE hit “Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)” when he suddenly fell and dropped out of the camera’s view almost instantly. TMZ later reported that there was a small gap between the speaker and the stage that Neil didn’t notice. His roadie and a security guy helped him get to his feet, and Vin...
