Rock
Tame Impala Celebrates 10th Anniversary of ‘InnerSpeaker’ With Box Set, ‘Memories’ Video
Featuring never-before-seen footage, the homemade flick shows a young Parker in his element, listening to DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing in the car, twiddling knobs on his desk, beating the drums and more. Matt Sav directs and Alex Haygarth edits. Watch below. Fans can score themselves something more tangible, in the shape of a deluxe, four-LP reissue of InnerSpeaker. The expanded boxed set includes new mixes of several album tracks, an unearthed jam, instrumentals, a 40-page booklet and more. Recorded in 2009 and released in May 2010, InnerSpeaker made an immediate impact and established Parker as an allrounder with special powers. The album reached No. 4 in Australia, was nominated for the J Award and an ARIA Award, and featured heavily in year-end critics lists. In the years since, Parker has...
Revivalists Singer David Shaw Unveils New Single, Preps NFTs for Debut Solo Album
“Feeling Good was inspired by Shaw’s recent sojourn to Los Angeles where the shift in lifestyle got him thinking about how one’s environment can shift the way artists think about influence. “Every day I’d get up early in the morning and head down to the coffee shop for a cortado before heading out to the beach for a swim. I was mostly listening to Beck, a little Sublime and a lot of Bowie at the time and the intersection of those influences mixed with my geographical location got me in the mood to make a song that went with the kind of days and nights that I was having,” he says. David Shaw was produced by four-time Grammy-winning producer Jack Splash, who Shaw calls “the perfect choice to help bring these songs to life in a fresh yet pedestrian kin...
‘Tina’ Doc’s Oscar-Winning Directors on Bringing a Fresh POV to Tina Turner’s Life
This Saturday (March 27), Lindsay and Martin’s new documentary Tina premieres on HBO at 8 p.m. ET and will stream on HBO Max. Covering everything from her hard-scrabble childhood to her abusive marriage to Ike Turner to her against-the-odds comeback and global domination in the 1980s, Tina paints a portrait not just of Tina Turner the human but of the Tina Turner narrative, detailing her frustration as she was routinely forced to re-live traumatic incidents from her life during countless press spots. Favoring new interviews with people who knew her instead of celebrity testimonials, Tina serves both as an introduction to the uninitiated and an important summation of her remarkable life and talent for longtime fans. Ahead of Tina‘s HBO premiere, directors Lindsay and Martin hopp...
Vicky Cornell vs. Soundgarden Lawsuit: Judge Recommends Dismissal of 2 Claims
Vicky Cornell has been embroiled in an ongoing legal dispute with the band’s remaining members after her husband’s sudden death on May 18, 2017 at the age of 52 while on tour in Detroit. He left his property — including his intellectual and personal property rights — to her for the benefit of their two minor children. On Dec. 9, 2019, two and half years after Chris Cornell’s death, Vicky Cornell filed a lawsuit against the remaining members of the band — Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd — and their business manager Rit Venerus, asking a judge to declare her the rightful owner of her husband’s unreleased sound recordings and of his name and likeness. She also demanded the court order the band to open its finances to her and to provide her with an inventory o...
Machine Gun Kelly & Travis Barker Go Goth For ‘A Girl Like You’ Cover in ‘Paradise City’ Trailer
A director’s note on the preview explains, “For kids that grow up with one parent, you can go on one of two paths: You can blame the world, your parents, blame God, blame lack of God, or it can light a fire under you that you’re gonna make it no matter what. Paradise City is the show made to inspire these millions of teenagers and young adults. It reminds us that there is no light without darkness, that sorrow and heartbreak can be the greatest drivers of art. It reminds us that there is always hope, that you are never alone and that music is always there if you let it be.” Creator/director Ash Avildsen explains that almost everything in the show was inspired by real events he experienced growing up in a single mom household in which he was estranged from his father...
10 Album Covers Worse Than Justin Bieber’s Justice
Justin Bieber’s new album, Justice, immediately caught people’s attention when it was first announced — not necessarily for the music it promised but for having a really terrible album cover. Along with Bieber’s painful attempt to edgily pose in a dim, green tunnel, as if he was the new Skins cast member, eagle-eyed music lovers also spotted the album font’s similarity to the band Justice’s logo. <img data-attachment-id="1114012" data-permalink="https://consequenceofsound.net/2021/03/justice-cease-and-desist-justin-bieber/justin-bieber-justice-logo-cease-and-desist/" data-orig-file="https://consequenceofsound.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/justin-bieber-justice-logo-cease-and-desist.jpg?quality=80" data-orig-size="1200,675" data-comments-opened=&q...
Rob Zombie Scores First No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart With ‘Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy’
Lunar’s arrival at No. 1 continues Zombie’s hot streak on the tally, as all seven of his solo studio albums have reached the top 10. It follows Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser (No. 5 in 2016), Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor (No. 7, 2013), Hellbilly Deluxe 2 (No. 8, 2010), Educated Horses (No. 5, 2006), The Sinister Urge (No. 8, 2001) and Hellbilly Deluxe (No. 5, 1998). Of Lunar’s starting sum of 26,000 sold, physical album sales comprise 20,000 of that figure (CDs: 13,200; vinyl LPs: 6,500 and cassettes: 300). The remaining 6,000 were digital albums. The album’s CD sales were enhanced by the availability of a special edition of the set, packaged in a retro cardboard longbox. Lunar was also sold on multiple colored vinyl LP variants, helping the title debut ...
Chester Bennington’s Widow Shares Sweet Father-Son Video on What Would Have Been His 45th Birthday
In honor of Chester Bennington’s birthday, Talinda Bennington shared a sweet memory of her late husband on social media. Talinda posted a clip of Chester doing a fun dance with their now 15-year-old son Tyler when he was younger. “Happy Birthday,” she wrote on Instagram Saturday (March 20). “You would have been 45 and yes, Tyler would have you doing this dance again!” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
John Mayer Updates Fans on New Music: ‘My Album Is Recorded, Mixed and Mastered’
In the clip, which he also shared on his Instagram Story, Mayer wrote that his new album is “recorded, mixed and mastered. I’ve just been chilling and sharing it with friends for the past couple of months.” The singer-songwriter further teased fans by repeating several times into the camera: “I think I’m going to drop a clip of the single.” Mayer hadn’t shared any further details about new music as of Sunday morning. Watch his TikTok video here. Mayer’s seventh and most recent album, The Search for Everything, dropped in 2017 and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. With Search, Mayer became the first artist to lead Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart on three occasions in a single year. The 12-track featured previously unheard music ...
‘The Sparks Brothers’ Documentary Gets a Release Date
The film, out June 18, chronicles the decades-long career and influence of the cult pop duo and features archival footage as well as interviews with fans. Focus Features is set to release Edgar Wright’s documentary directorial debut The Sparks Brothers on June 18, 2021. The dating follows Wright’s film about the cult pop duo Sparks debuting at Sundance and screening at SXSW in Austin on March 19. The documentary chronicles the decades-long career and influence of the Sparks and features archival footage as well as interviews with fans that include Beck, Flea, Neil Gaiman and Mike Myers. MRC Non-Fiction is behind the documentary, which Wright produced with Nira Park under their company Complete Fiction Pictures, along with Laura Richardson and George Hencken. You Deserve to ...
Matt ‘Money’ Miller, Titus Andronicus Founding Keyboardist, Dies at 34
Matt “Money” Miller, the founding keyboardist of Titus Andronicus, has died, according to his cousin and the band’s frontman Patrick Stickles. He was 34. Stickles announced Miller’s “sudden and untimely” death on the band’s Twitter account Wednesday. No cause of death has been revealed yet. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce to you the sudden and untimely death of Matt ‘Money’ Miller, founding keyboardist of Titus Andronicus, cover model of ‘A Productive Cough,’ lead vocalist of ‘Home Alone (On Halloween),’ my beloved cousin and the dearest friend I ever had,” Stickles wrote on the official Titus Andronicus Twitter account along their pictures. “It’s hard to know what to say, but I ...
‘Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché’ Doc Explores Punk Trailblazer In All Her Contradictions
Born Marion Elliott to a white mother and Black father (he was Somali born) in what she described as a tough neighborhood, Styrene felt like an outsider from both the white and Black communities; some of the most revelatory parts of the documentary are Zoë Howe’s reading of poems (“Half-Caste,” “I Wanna Go Back to Africa”) that Styrene wrote about her racial identity. Considering the banshee warrior wail that characterized Styrene’s vocals, it’s unfortunately easy to miss the depth of her lyrics, but hearing her poems read aloud is a testament to the succinct strength of her pen. Forming X-Ray Spex as a teenager by taking out an ad in Melody Maker, Styrene was famous (in the U.K., at least, by punk scene standards) by 19, with songs like the female...
