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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases New Song “5.17”: Listen
Thom Yorke has shared a new solo song called “5.17.” Apple Music lists a second Yorke single titled “That’s How Horses Are” as coming out on April 2. Both songs were written for the British drama series Peaky Blinders. Check out “5.17” below. Last month, Peaky Blinders director Anthony Byrne revealed that Yorke and Jonny Greenwood contributed original music for the sixth and final season of the TV show. “I’m over the moon about all of that,” Byrne told NME. “The music has always been really important historically, and I was really keen to bring a dramatic score into it.” Yorke released his most recent solo album, Anima, in 2019 and his debut film score for Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria remake in 2018. In recent months, he’s stayed busy with his BBC Radio 6 music mix, remixing MF Doom’s “Gazzi...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Announce UK Shows and Promise to Play New Songs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced two shows in the United Kingdom this summer. They’re playing the O2 Apollo in Manchester, England, on June 5, where they’ll be joined by English Teacher. At the O2 Academy Brixton in London on June 7, Dry Cleaning and Anika are also on the bill. Karen O and co. have promised to play new songs at the shows. Tickets go on sale this Friday. Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ statement reads: OK UK! We are coming to lend our light to dark ages and holy shit are we ready to play our hearts out for you!! Yeah it’s been 9 years since we’ve graced your club stages! Yeah we’ve got some tunes so fresh and so NEW to try out on you! Yeah the bill is so MAJOR with Dry Cleaning and Anika in London and English Teacher in Manchester. Dress up! Make a night of it! Support your fave band ...
Massive Attack’s 3D Selling Art Prints for Ukraine Relief
Massive Attack’s Robert “3D” Del Naja has announced the sale of a new art print, where all profits will be directed to the Disasters Emergency Committee’s Ukrainian relief efforts. The sale takes place until March 22. It follows an initial print release last week, which is being extended to March 22 as well and has already raised over £110,000 (roughly $143,000). Find more information at the Fire-Sale website. It’s not the first time Del Naja has released artwork for benefit purposes. Others include a work to benefit the Bristol Food Union’s Feed the Frontline in 2020. Late last year, Massive Attack unveiled their plan to reduce carbon emissions across the music industry.
Lin-Manuel Miranda Channels Rafael Nadal When he’s Writing Songs: Watch
Lin-Manuel Miranda has a superpower. He collects awards like no-one else. The multi-hyphenate musicals master has two Emmys, three Grammys, three Tonys, and a Pulitzer Prize. With his recent Academy Award nomination for Encanto, he could attain EGOT status, all at age 42. On Monday night (March 14), Miranda stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live for a chat and to poke fun at his own good fortune. The animated Disney film’s “Dos Oruguitas,” for which which Miranda composed the music and lyrics, is nominated for best original song at the 2022 Oscars. Explore See latest videos, charts and news How much does he want that EGOT? Surely he’d kill for a shot at glory, Kimmel pressed at the top of their spot. “It’s like stats,” Miranda explains. “When (Spanish tennis champion) Rafa Nadal broke the reco...
Dave Grohl Recounts Seeing David Bowie For the First Time, And the Art of Saying ‘No’
When you’re Dave Grohl, two-time Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductee, you don’t so much rub shoulders with the rich and famous. You are the rich and famous. But the Foo Fighter, like the rest of us, has his heroes. Right at the top of the heap is the late, great David Bowie. Speaking on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s 7.30 program, Grohl recounted the first time he laid his eyes on Bowie, the Man Who Fell to Earth. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Bowie was headlining a festival in England, Grohl was on the bill, lower down. “I stood in the photo pit and looked at him and it was like seeing an alien,” he recounts. “You know, it was like seeing a UFO for the first time, like, ‘Oh, my God, it’s real’. That’s something I’ve never seen bef...
Evan Rachel Wood Talks ‘Phoenix Rising,’ Alleged Abuser Marilyn Manson: ‘I Don’t Believe That He Will Stop Until He Is Stopped’
Evan Rachel Wood appeared on The Daily Show on Monday night (March 14) to talk about the 16-year journey she took to confronting her alleged abuser and the reason she hopes her new two-part documentary, Phoenix Rising, could help other people who feel trapped in a cycle of abuse come forward and speak their truth. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I don’t believe that he will stop until he is stopped,” she said of Marilyn Manson, her former fiancé, who she claims in the film methodically groomed her when she 18 and isolated her before allegedly subjecting the Westworld star to ritualistic abuse. “And sometimes the greatest act of love is stopping that person from hurting themselves or hurting anybody else.” The nearly three-hour mini-series, dir...
Megan Thee Stallion Wants You to Take a Bite of Her Extra-Sweet ‘H-Town Hottie Pie’
Megan Thee Stallion did the math and realized that the only way to properly celebrate the nerdiest holiday is with a sweet and savory dessert. The rapper helped her Hotties raise a fork to Pi Day on Tuesday (March 14) — the global party commemorating the Greek letter that is used as mathematical symbol to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter (3.14159…) — by offering up the mouth-watering “Megan’s H-Town Hottie Pie.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news The $59 delight cooked up with GoldBelly, was inspired by Megan’s “hometown of Houston and her love for all things sweet,” according to a statement. It is described as a “deliciously decadent” mix of sweet and salty, rich and gooey, made up of coconut, pecans, butterscotch chips, dusted with edible...
SABATON Announces 2022 North American Tour With EPICA; BLABBERMOUTH.NET Presale
Swedish metallers SABATON have announced “The Tour To End All Tours – North America 2022”, a 25-date U.S. trek that will include a special headline show at Montreal’s Place Bell, the band’s first-ever arena headline concert in Canada. The tour, produced by FPC Live, kicks off on Thursday, September 15 at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Washington, and will wrap up at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom on October 23. Supporting SABATON on all dates will be special guest EPICA, the renowned Dutch symphonic metal band. A special BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale will begin on Thursday, March 17 at 10:00 a.m. local time and end on Thursday, March 17 at 10:00 p.m. local time. When prompted, type in the presale code “BLABBERMOUTH” to access tickets befo...
Watch STEEL PANTHER Perform In Cape Coral, Florida
Fan-filmed video of STEEL PANTHER‘s March 13 concert at Dixie Roadhouse in Cape Coral, Florida can be seen below. The first leg of STEEL PANTHER‘s “Res-Erections” 2022 tour kicked off on March 10 in St. Petersburg, Florida and will wrap up on March 26 in Dubuque, Iowa. As 2021 brought the shocking news of the departure of their original bassist Lexxi Foxx, STEEL PANTHER announced the “Road To The Road” tournament to help them narrow the choices for their new bass player. Vocalist Michael Starr, guitarist Satchel and drummer Stix Zadinia, along with the public, whittled down the list of contestants to a manageable number out of the 1669 submissions. An announcement will be made public once the band finalizes their decision. STEEL PANTHER has been hard at ...
Ex-ASKING ALEXANDRIA Singer DENIS ‘STOFF’ SHAFOROSTOV Shoots Down Rumor He Was Killed In Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine
Ukrainian vocalist Denis “Stoff” Shaforostov, who recorded one album with ASKING ALEXANDRIA, “The Black”, before exiting the band in October 2016, has shot down Internet chatter that he was killed during Russia’s ongoing invasion of his country. The rumors apparently started when his Wikipedia page was updated to indicate that he passed away on Sunday (March 13). Earlier today, Shaforostov took to his Instagram Story to write: “I’m still in a safe place and I’m fine today. Whoever faked my Wikipedia deserve what they deserve… Let’s pray together that this war ends soon. Love ya guys.” After Denis left ASKING ALEXANDRIA more than five years ago, guitarist Ben Bruce said in a video message that Shaforostov had “just stop...
DEICIDE Announces Summer 2022 ‘Legion’ 30th-Anniversary North American Tour
Florida death metal veterans DEICIDE have announced a special summer 2022 North American tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their second album, “Legion”. The Glen Benton-fronted outfit will perform the LP in its entirety, along with other tracks from the band’s vast catalog. Support on the trek will come from KATAKLYSM, which will perform its classic 2004 album “Serenity In Fire” in its entirety, along with INHUMAN CONDITION. The 29-date trek will kick off on August 11 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and conclude on September 10 in Tampa, Florida. Tour dates: Aug. 11 – Baton Rouge, LA @ Chelsea’s Live Aug. 12 – Houston, TX @ Scout Bar Aug. 13 – San Antonio, TX @ The Rock Box Aug. 14 – Dallas, TX @ Trees Aug. 15 – Albuquerque...
SXSW Review: Under the Influence Interrogates the Addictive Escalation of David Dobrik
This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 SXSW Film Festival. The Pitch: Out of the great, grand entertainment experiment that is YouTube, David Dobrik is easily one of the platform’s greatest successes. Leveraging his devil-may-care attitude and penchant for increasingly ambitious or invasive stunts, Dobrik quickly became a multi-millionaire on a level most non-movie stars would never enjoy, with six-figure sponsorship deals, 18 million subscribers, and a cadre of fellow sex-and-booze-loving daredevils (colloquially known as the Vlog Squad) whose boats his rising tide would also lift. But the same sensationalism that fueled Dobrik’s success would also be his downfall (inasmuch as one of the richest kids on YouTube, with a cultish zoomer following, can fall). In 2021, he suffere...
