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Fiona Apple Narrates New Video About ICE Arrests, Teases New Music
Fiona Apple narrates a new short film that outlines how to document arrests by ICE, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The video was produced in conjunction with We Have Rights, Brooklyn Defender Services, and WITNESS. Vulture also published a new interview with Apple in which she explains her decision to narrate the clip. “This is horrible shit that ICE is doing. They’re trapping people and separating people, now at these hotels — there’s no way to track anybody. People are just losing their kids. There’s no situation where people should be without their parents or their lawyers,” Apple said. She also went on to talk about the unrest in Portland (“We fucking need to know our rights”), the Republican lawyers who are helping Kanye West’s presidential bid...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ Set For Big Opening Sales Week In U.K.
TayTay is blowing away her rivals in the U.K. chart race. Taylor Swift’s surprise album release Folklore (EMI) has raced to the lead of the midweek chart, and is outperforming the rest of the Top 5 combined, the Official Charts Company reports. Swift’s eighth and latest album was the most downloaded and streamed LP over the weekend, according to the OCC, and is on track to become the pop star’s fifth U.K. No. 1 following Red (2012), 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017) and Lover (2019). As previously reported, three songs from the new set are tracking for Top 10 debuts on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, led by “Cardigan” at No. 4 (“Exile” with Bon Iver is at No. 7 on the Official Chart Update and “The 1” starts at No. 9). Folklore should enjoy another chart punch in months to come when it’...
The 101 Best Albums of the 2010s
Why now? Because — and there’s no reason to ignore the elephant in the room: SPIN stewardship has changed hands many, many times since we made the online jump — we got our chance. Because plenty of our favorite albums of the last 10 years could still use a boost. Because some of the already unanimously beloved music on this list still merits further praise. Because we relish excuses to sound off on the music that’s affected us the most and to enlist some of our favorite writers to do so. Because the works of art below serve as a reminder that the 2010s weren’t all bad. Because lord knows we need the distraction. Because it’s fun. There’s a lot of music that isn’t on this list. Which, duh, but plenty of artists whose work defined the decade for many, many people, including many of us, ...
Fiona Apple to Donate 2 Years of Song Royalties to Charities
Fiona Apple is pledging to donate two years of TV and movie placement royalties from Fetch the Bolt Cutters cuts “Heavy Balloon” and “Shameika” to various charities. “Heavy Balloon” royalties will be going toward Seeding Sovereignty, which works to replace colonial institutions with Indigenous practices, while funds earned from “Shameika” will go toward the Harlem Children’s Zone, which supports children getting to college. And, if the tracks don’t get picked up for film or TV, Apple has pledged to donate $50,000 to each charity. [embedded content] Apple’s announcement first appeared on the “Fiona Apple Rocks” Tumblr account and also through her friend Zelda Hallman as well. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBbuxqXq5Da/ This isn’t the first time Apple donated or pledged to donate royalties...
Fiona Apple Joins Black Lives Matter Protests in California
Like many around the U.S., Fiona Apple joined the protests against racism and police brutality over the weekend. Carrying a sign with “COPS: DON’T BE WHITE CHAUVINISTS ARREST THE OTHER THREE!!!,” Apple, who also made sure to wear a mask, walked with protestors in Santa Monica. Zelda Hallman, a filmmaker and Apple’s housemate, posted a photo of Apple at the protest and shared a message to urge people to join the movement. “Getting justice for Mr. George Floyd is just the beginning of a VERY long road of dismantling racism in our institutions,” Hallman wrote. “But let’s get that justice. By the way, this was a peaceful protest but the police decided to change that and then I came home and watched a @cnn corespondent outright lie about what was happening. Let’s get justice for Mr. Floyd and t...
Listen to Our Best 50 Songs of the Year So Far
Last week we shared our list of the 50 Best Songs of 2020 (So Far), and we’ve curated a playlist so you can listen to the standout bops of the year in a seamless fashion (you’re welcome). The list covers all musical ground, from the Dixie Chicks to the Used, Dua Lipa to Bob Dylan, Lizzo to TOKiMONSTA, and, let’s face it, is a great source of distraction during a year that seems to just get worse and worse as the months pass. Fiona Apple “confronts her internal strife, but doesn’t sink into it” in “Heavy Balloon” off her equally stunning album Fetch the Bolt Cutters, while Billie Eilish becomes the youngest artist to pen a James Bond theme song with “No Time to Die,” a song that features the 18-year-old’s “beyond-her-years soprano that tops a quietly haunted melody ...
Fiona Apple Composes Music for New Apple TV+ Series Central Park
Fiona Apple has been keeping herself busy. Aside from dropping her latest studio effort, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, she has been speaking about the importance of indigenous lands as well as opening up about previous relationships. And now, we find out that she has been working on music for a new Apple TV+ animated comedy series called Central Park. Created by Loren Bouchard (of Bob’s Burgers fame), Josh Gad and Nora Smith, each of the episodes feature “three to six original songs.” Apple co-wrote the track, “New York Doesn’t Like Your Face,” which appears in the 10th episode. Other music contributors include Sara Bareilles, Cyndi Lauper, Aimee Mann, Meghan Trainor and Anthony Hamilton. Central Park’s first two epsiodes premiered today (May 29), and each week the music from new episodes will b...
The 50 Best Songs of 2020 (So Far)
Great songs have a freedom that albums don’t because great songs only have to pull off their trick once. It’s like how a great SNL sketch can be a terrible movie or why Vine was an underrated miracle of online comedy. Sometimes an artist can get a lot more done in miniature. When people say that no one listens to albums anymore, they’re obviously mistaken, but they mean that no one listens to certain kinds of albums anymore. They won’t wait to get to the good part, and an industry that’s been padding out their wares for decades has had to adapt to a new reality where the customer is always dope. From Hailey Whitters to Hayley Williams, from King Von to Christine and the Queens, here’s a supercut of just the good parts: The songs that have challenged and delighted and comforted us through a...
The 30 Best Albums of 2020 (So Far)
On one hand, who can think about stuff as trivial as this? On the other, what else is there to do? If art was made to fill a cultural vacuum, well… now’s the fucking time, buddy. Hopefully, you’ve been binging every show, reading every book, repainting every bathroom you’ve been putting off. Hopefully, when (and if) we make it out of quarantine alive, we’ll be able to look forward to better things. For now, we still have music. Some of the great albums and EPs below demand your full and undivided attention. Some of them demand to intensify your workout or gaming session. Mostly they just sound good, and you should pair them with whatever activities music enhances for you. Even sleep; lord knows that could be improved upon. Others will keep you wide awake. If any of these albums make you th...
Dave Grohl on Transitioning From Touring Rock Star to Chili-Cooking Family Man
Celebrate their 25th anniversary this year, the Foo Fighters had so much planned to celebrate the achievement. But then the novel coronavirus hit. Now, the tour has been postponed, and the band is doing what they can to keep in touch with their fans like sharing vintage live footage. Dave Grohl recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly about how the global pandemic changed his role from touring musician to stay-at-home-dad. “Right now I’m in such a daddy-domestic headspace that even just calling to do an interview is strange, because what is there to talk about really?” he told Entertainment Weekly. “But we do have this arsenal of material ready to fuckin’ dam-burst all over the world, and it’s just a matter of figuring out when the world is ready because I think that’s a little more import...
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