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Afterparty NFT Music Festival Shares Full Lineup With The Chainsmokers, Gryffin, SOFI TUKKER, More
The organizers of Afterparty, the upcoming NFT-gated music festival and artistic showcase in Las Vegas, have announced a star-studded lineup for its inaugural edition. Gryffin, LANY, SOFI TUKKER, Bob Moses, TOKiMONSTA, Elohim, and many more join previously announced headliners The Kid LAROI and The Chainsmokers in the assemblage of this two-day digital utopia. Afterparty is shaking up the standard music festival model on several fronts. For starters, each of Afterparty’s 1,500 “Utopian” NFT collectibles doubles as a digital art piece as well as the key to accessing the two-day event. You can gain access to the festival by purchasing a “Utopian” NFT or Afterparty Festival Pass. Afterparty‘s Web3 mission statement is to bring NFT utility to ...
Kill The Noise Teams Up With Seven Lions for Stunning Single, “Without You”
Thanks to a decade-long kinship, Kill The Noise and Seven Lions have never wavered in their shared goal of challenging electronic music norms. Long revered for their ability to fluidly oscillate across the spectrum of bass music, the pair have joined forces for a new single called “Without You,” which will appear on Kill The Noise’s upcoming sophomore album EMBRACƎ. With its melodic sensibilities and progressive house backbone, it’s a stark contrast to the tandem’s 2019 collab “The Blood,” a heavy-hitting psytrance and dubstep hybrid. But the notion that “Without You” is a bit of a departure doesn’t make it any less emphatic. Julia Ross’ vocal performance in “Without You” is bot...
ROBERT PLANT And ALISON KRAUSS Share Music Video For ‘Searching For My Love’
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have released their first official music video in nearly 14 years. Set to “Searching For My Love”, a highlight from the duo’s chart-topping, long-awaited new album “Raise The Roof”, the visual follows a series of lonely travelers on a mystical journey up a mountaintop, through the smoke and fog, down dirt paths and into the ocean, crossing paths with mermaids and more in a quest to discover a deeper treasure. “Searching For My Love” was directed and produced by Matt Mahurin and stars Julia Lucey and Rolan Meyer. Originally written and recorded by Bobby Moore and THE RHYTHM ACES, “Searching For My Love” is a song that Plant first started singing as a teenager at school. He calls it “another nugget of ...
Let There Be Witchery – MIDNIGHT
RATING: 8/10 Cleveland speed demon Athenar, the one-man force behind the studio recordings released under the name MIDNIGHT, built that name in the decade following its mid-2000’s formation by piling layers of sleaze, grime, and filth on top of blackened riffs cribbed from VENOM and MOTORHEAD‘s playbooks. This formula stayed in place through 2017’s “Sweet Death and Ecstasy” with minor alterations here and there. MIDNIGHT made the jump to Metal Blade and its 2020 debut for the label, “Rebirth by Blasphemy”, saw a major reduction in overt sleaziness. That resulted in tighter songwriting with the overall power of its blackened riff assault coming off as more sinister with the more prurient aspects of its previous lyrical focus taking a backseat. MIDNI...
JACK RUSSELL Says It Was ‘Difficult’ For Him To Hear People Calling Him A ‘Murderer’ In Documentary About GREAT WHITE Concert Fire
Former GREAT WHITE frontman Jack Russell spoke to “The SDR Show” about “America’s Deadliest Concert: The Guest List”, a documentary about the infamous concert fire nearly two decades ago that killed a hundred people and injured hundreds more. The film received its premiere on Reelz on February 20. The 61-year-old singer, whose pyrotechnics ignited the deadly blaze on February 20, 2003 in Rhode Island, stated about the making of the documentary: “It was tough. ‘Cause I wear my heart on my sleeve. And I didn’t wanna do anything but be really honest and upfront and open about everything that I know and my knowledge about the fire and about what happened and about what it did to me personally and how it affected my friends and my family. “I...
SLASH Had A ‘Hard Time’ With ‘Everything Sounding Really Rubbish’ In Early Days Of Digital Recording
During Slash‘s February 25 press event with members of the Australian media, the GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist was asked what the “biggest adaptation” has been for him in the nearly four decades that he has been involved in the music industry. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I sort of have always just done what it is that I do and it’s never really fit in with whatever the industry standard is anyway, so it’s always sort of been difficult. But the biggest adaptation has really been getting through that whole digital craze, when it really kicked in with MP3s and Pro Tools first coming around and everybody just going into this sort of phase of, like, ‘Look at all the possibilities. It’s amazing. It’s genius.’ Whi...
Wet Leg Release New Song “Angelica”: Stream
Wet Leg are back with another new single ahead of their forthcoming self-titled debut album. Listen to the zany track “Angelica” below. An ode to lead vocalist Rhian Teasdale’s oldest friend, “Angelica” zips around with the irreverent energy we’ve come to expect from Britain’s buzziest band. A disjointed, Wire-like guitar riff zig-zags in the verses, while Teasdale sings of her friend’s thoroughly unimpressed reaction to a party. In the chorus, a wall of distortion blurs out the song’s initial angular melody. “It’s laced with disenchantment,” Teasdale said of the song in a statement. “Even though the chorus is ‘good times, all the time.’ That’s just impossible, isn’t it?” Advertisement Related Video In the accompanying music video, directed by the duo themselves, Teasdale and guitari...
James Brown Documentary from Mick Jagger and Questlove in the Works
A new James Brown documentary, produced by fellow musical legends Mick Jagger and Questlove, is set to premiere on A&E. Dubbed James Brown: Say It Loud, Jagger and Questlove will be joined by Black Thought in making the four-part documentary, which is directed by Deborah Riley Draper. The project is set to arrive in 2023 and will explore Brown’s legacy through never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with friends, family, and collaborators. Jagger said he was “thrilled” to produce the documentary in a statement, calling Brown “a brilliant performer who inspired me from the beginning and was deeply committed to the Civil Rights movement. I have always admired James and learned so much from him.” Advertisement Related Video “The life of James Brown is significant not only t...
Twisted Metal TV Series, Starring Anthony Mackie, Moving Ahead at Peacock
A live-action Twisted Metal TV series is moving ahead at Peacock. Based on the classic demolition derby video game, the series will star Anthony Mackie in the lead role as “John Doe.” The half-hour series, which Peacock bills as a “high-octane action comedy,” is based on an original story conceived by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Deadpool, Zombieland). Per a logline provided by Peacock, the story follows a “motor-mouthed outsider [who is] offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland.” Related Video “With the help of a trigger-happy car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream...
Aretha Franklin’s Granddaughter Auditioned for American Idol… and the Judges Said No???
Hey, not everyone pops out of the womb a star. Grace Franklin, the 15-year-old granddaughter of Aretha Franklin, appeared on American Idol on Sunday (February 27th), but didn’t quite have the same chops as her mythological elder to allow her to advance to the singing program. “I feel like people expect me to sing exactly like her, but I am my own artist and I have my own voice,” the young Franklin said in a pre-recorded clip prior to her audition. Unfortunately, judges Lionel Ritchie, Katy Perry, and Luke Bryan weren’t exactly impressed with the voice she offered. Franklin opened her audition with a Lauryn Hill-inspired cover of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly,” but the performance proved more one-dimensional than the soulful original. “It was all just a little sleepy and subdued to me,...
Nina Nastasia Digitally Reissues Three Out-of-Print Albums
Singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia has returned after a 10-year hiatus to reissue three of her out-of-print albums. Nastasia’s 2006 album On Leaving, 2007 Jim White collaboration You Follow Me, and 2010 record Outlaster are available digitally for the first time via the musician’s new label home Temporary Residence Ltd. (The albums were originally released by FatCat.) In April, Nastasia will set out on tour with Mogwai. Find the dates below. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Nina Nastasia: 04-05 Washington, D.C. – 9:30 Club04-06 Philadelphia, PA – Theater of Living Arts04-07 Brooklyn, NY – Brookl...
The Chicks Announce 2022 North American Tour
The Chicks have announced a North American tour that’s set to start in June. Patty Griffin will support most dates, with Jenny Lewis taking a handful of opening slots in July. See the full itinerary below. The tour is the group’s first since they released Gaslighter, their eighth album, in July 2020. Gaslighter arrived nearly 15 years after 2006’s Taking the Long Way, along with a name change for the group. The Chicks are also set to appear at Bonnaroo alongside J. Cole, Tool, Stevie Nicks, and more in June. Revisit Pitchfork’s Sunday Review of the Chicks’ 2002 album Home. All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The Chicks 2022 North American Tour The Chicks:...
