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5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Mike Peters of The Alarm
Name Mike Peters, MBE Best known for Big hair in the ‘80s—and more recently for saving lives one concert at a time through our Love Hope Strength Foundation. Current city Dyserth, North Wales. Really want to be in I would love to be back in Los Angeles on the beach and running up and down the boardwalk between Santa Monica and Venice Beach. Having the chance to play a show while I was there would be a bonus! Excited about The new Coloursound album with Billy Duffy, and The Alarm recently released a new album entitled WAЯ that was written, recorded and released in 50 days, starting on the night the capital building was being occupied on Jan. 6. It was released on my birthday, Feb. 25, just as the last fader was moved on the mixing desk, we put it straight onto the Internet and a...
Chance the Rapper Shares New Trailer for Upcoming Concert Film ‘Magnificent Coloring World’
Chance the Rapper has released a new trailer for his upcoming concert film, Magnificent Coloring World. The movie, directed by Jake Schreier, showcases a secret concert that Chance filmed in 2017, right after he had taken home three Grammy awards for his mixtape, Coloring Book. The concert — held in the rapper’s hometown of Chicago in front of a select groups of fans — was intentionally staged to be filmed for a movie. The trailer provides a first look at Chance’s high-energy performance with never-before-seen footage, along with testimonials from fans who attended to the unique concert experience. At the end of the preview, Chance speaks on the euphoric sensation of performing in front of a crowd, saying, “Hearing these giant choral sounds — it hits you right in the heart.” On top of...
Inside Track: How the Music Business Is Preparing to Return to the Office
Katovsky explains that BMG tested its return-to-work plan at its offices in Sydney, Australia, where COVID infection rates were low until recently. After surveying its global staff, Katovsky says that moving forward, the majority of BMG’s employees will be permitted to work from home two days per week. “We’re eager and excited to get back into the office, but we’re also pragmatic about that, and accept that we’ll have to make changes along the way,” he says. Meanwhile, a source says Sony Music has told its employees that, moving forward, the company plans to support more flexibility regarding working from home, and Triple 8 Management founder George Couri says the company’s employees, who are based in Nashville and Austin, Texas will have the option to work at home for part of the week. “A...
Billie Eilish Describes the ‘Crazy Process’ of Recording ‘Happier Than Ever’ Album
The dark single is the fifth release ahead of Eilish’s highly anticipated album, out July 30 via Darkroom/Interscope Records. And in the self-directed video, the muscle car-loving 19-year-old hangs out on a desert highway at night as two dozen professional stunt drivers skillfully weave around her. She told Lowe that there was originally a completely different concept for the visual, but that it all fell apart due to some unnamed “complications and it didn’t work out. But it was OK, because we then had deadlines and I was like, ‘OK, OK. OK, think,'” she said. ” I was like, ‘What am I going to do?’… And I figured it out. It’s definitely one of the coolest videos I’ve ever made in my life.” ...
In Eight Nights, Vince Staples Made the Most Personal Album of His Career
“I was just learning how to speak appropriately. How to say things with the right production, tempo, and cadence so that they are understood in the right light,” he explains. Staples is also juggling the numerous other creative endeavors he has his hands in. In addition to this project, the “Norf Norf” rapper has his graphic novel Limbo Beach, Netflix’s The Vince Staples Show, an Amazon podcast, and his next album Ramona Park Broke My Heart in tow. Check out our interview with Vince Staples, where he speaks on Tyler, The Creator’s work ethic paying off, leaving Def Jam for Motown Records, and putting a bow on the Los Angeles Clippers season. Walk me through what the studio sessions with Kenny Beats were like and how this album came together. We too...
Alessia Cara Shares Advice For Olivia Rodrigo, Talks Dropping Two Singles
“I’ve always struggled with falling asleep my whole life, and being in quarantine, being alone, I didn’t have a lot going on in my life, so I was like, ‘I need to write about this,'” she says. She adds that the other song, “Shapeshifter,” is even more personal for her, as she got to work with her idol Amy Winehouse’s producer, Salaam Remi Gibbs, on it. “I got to write it in the room and house where she [Winehouse] wrote all of Back to Black — which was so crazy for me,” says Cara. “It was just one of those full circle, beautiful, magical moments. Working with Salaam was amazing because they were so close.” The 24-year-old singer has been on a rocket ride to fame since gaining attention in her late teens, a disorienting journey tha...
Amazon Greenlights ‘The Tomorrow War’ Sequel
After a massively successful debut earlier this month, a sequel to The Tomorrow War has now been greenlit by Amazon and Skydance. According to new reports, the two companies are already looking at developing a second film for the sci-fi epic, which managed to break pretty much all streaming records on Amazon within the first 48 hours of its release and became the top streamed film in the world. The entire cast and crew are set to return for the next installment, meaning Chris Pratt will likely reprise his role alongside J.K. Simmons, Yvonne Strahovski, Betty Gilpin, Sam Richardson and Edwin Hodge as well as director Chris McKay and writer Zach Dean. Unfortunately, there aren’t any details at the moment regarding its plot, but given how The Tomorrow War concluded, it’ll be interesting ...
Watch an Exclusive Clip of LeBron James in ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’
Ahead of the highly-anticipated animated/live-action film starring LeBron James, HYPEBEAST and Warner Bros. are bringing audiences an exclusive clip of Space Jam: A New Legacy to fans. The latest clip introduces fans to a series of characters on the Goon Squad. Don Cheadle, who plays an evil computer A.I called AI-G Rhythm, a name that is a playful pun on “algorithm” presenting the Goon Squad to the Tune Squad. Audiences see James’ team begin to face-off against The Brow, Wet-Fire, White Mamba and Chronos. The film’s synopsis follows LeBron and his young son Dom who are both trapped inside a digital space curated by a rogue A.I. In order to get home safe, James must enlist the Looney Tunes gang to play against and come out victorious as digitized champions on the court. The Tunes versus Go...
Getting Real With Girlfriends
When Nick Gross and Travis Mills first entered the music business, reality was an afterthought. It was 2006, the height of Laguna Beach fascination, when a 17-year-old Gross signed his first major-label deal, due in large part to his bandmates’ newfound celebrity (See: pseudo-scripted romances) on the tastemaking MTV show. The group, an Incubus-adjacent outfit called Open Air Stereo, broke up two years later. And it was 2011 when Mills, a 21-year-old bedroom rapper with emo flare, inked a contract with Columbia Records under the name T. Mills, at the expense of his authenticity. “I wanted so badly to be successful when I was younger, that I would say things that weren’t necessarily true, or I would kind of embellish on things and create these fun, hype songs,” Mills tells SPIN. Flash...
The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber Stop Time For Upbeat “Stay” Music Video
The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber have reunited for an energetic, synth-controlled single, titled “Stay,” along with an accompanying music video. The visual, directed by Colin Tilley, finds LAROI and Bieber frozen in time, as the former levitates in midair before running through the streets of downtown Los Angeles, while the latter sings his verse from a rooftop. The pair meet at the song’s high point, dancing and harmonizing through the final chorus, singing, “I told you I’d change, even when I knew I never could/ I know that I can’t find nobody else as good as you.” Concluding the video, LAROI peers into a diner’s window where a presumed love interest stays frozen with tear-filled eyes and staring at a phone screen. “Stay” will land on The Kid LAROI’s upcoming mixtape, F*CK LOVE ...
Mother Nature and LEGIT Get Under the Tracks with Consequence on Vans’ Ch 66
The latest episode of Consequence’s bi-weekly livestream show Under the Tracks is bringing some of the finest names in Chicago underground hip-hop right into your homes. Broadcasting on Vans’ Channel 66 on July 12th, this week’s show will see host NNAMDÏ joined by rising stars Mother Nature and local stalwart LEGIT. LEGIT has been grinding from the Southside for years. An accomplished rapper, singer, producer, and DJ, he’s known for a genre-blending chemistry with collaborators like Young $antana, Young Meech, Deadboy, and more. His output rate is one of the fiercest in the city, with hundreds of songs released in just the last few years. Mother Nature, meanwhile, have been on a swift climb in recent months. Having been putting out their uniquely conscious rap for nearly half a d...
Ministry Announce New Album Moral Hygiene, Unleash “Good Trouble”: Stream
Ministry have announced their new album Moral Hygiene, arriving October 1st. In advance of its release, the industrial legends have unveiled the new single “Good Trouble.” Frontman Al Jourgensen wrote the band’s politically charged 15th studio LP amidst the election cycle and the pandemic. Like 2018’s AmeriKKKant, Jourgensen’s progressive views are once again upfront and unabashed. For example, the latest single “Good Trouble” was inspired by the work of the late congressman John Lewis and the Black Lives Matter protests. Jourgensen remarked that the past year of relative idleness during the pandemic allowed him to observe the social and political turmoil with a bird’s eye view. This resulted in tracks like the anthemic “Alert Level” — the album opener that was released in 2020. Related Vi...
