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Death Cab for Cutie have unveiled a batch of shows behind I Built You a Tower early next year. Ben Gibbard and co. had already booked a string of dates in Europe, Japan, and Australia—appended by a one-off show in Chicago in November—and will head now out on a full North American trek starting in Nashville in March. With the news comes a video for “Stone Over Water” from musician and animator Sean Solomon, which you can watch below.The new dates run into the spring, with shows above, below, and—in the case of Niagara Falls—practically on the U.S./Canada border. There…
Hayley Williams has shown her support for the artists who dropped out of Ed Sheeran‘s tour by including them in her pre-show playlist. Sheeran’s upcoming ‘Loop’ shows are currently lacking any opening acts after Macklemore was dropped from the tour over his impassioned “free Palestine” speech made while opening for Sheeran at New Jersey’s Gillette Stadium. The speech prompted calls for Macklemore’s removal from figures like Pink and the Israeli American Council, and Gillette Stadium owner Robert Kraft later confirmed that he found Macklemore’s speech “deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community”, resulting in his dismissal. Since then, all of Sheeran’s support acts and backing band have dropped out of the tour,…
MTV has added several new artists to its lineup of performers for this year’s Video Music Awards. Gunna, Lisa, Raye, Shaboozey, Gener8ion, Sienna Spiro, and Yung Lean will now all perform at the ceremony, which will air on CBS and MTV at 7:30 p.m. ET on Sept. 26. The show will also be streaming on Paramount+ (premium) and available on Paramount+ and MTV on the 27th. Lisa will perform her new single, “SaWaDiKa,” at the event, previewing her upcoming EP, Press Play, due Oct. 23. Shaboozey, meanwhile, will perform “Cowgirl” and get an assist from Gunna for a rendition of…
Cover of Jimmy Reed’s blues classic is meant to evoke the “electric energy” of video game’s Vice City Keith Richards put his spin on Jimmy Reed’s 1961 blues classic, “Bright Lights, Big City,” for Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album. It’s one of 34 songs intended to “capture the electric energy of Grand Theft Auto VI’s world of Vice City and Leonida” on the video game’s soundtrack, due out Nov. 19. Reed took the original version at a medium tempo, imbuing Jimmy Reed, Jr.’s guitar line with swinging swagger, as he slurred the lyrics and let his voice tremble while…
POLITICAL STATEMENT Macklemore Free Palestine Shirt This T-shirt features the rapper’s name, image, and logo on the front, along with the words “Free Palestine.” The back of the T-shirt features quotes taken from Macklemore’s speech from the concert at MetLife Stadium. Among the words on the shirt, “To all of my Jewish brothers and sisters: criticism of Israel, criticism of apartheid, being against genocide in no way is a criticism of you. My message is for peace; love for all human beings to be treated with dignity, respect, and equality.”
The president remains laser-focused on desecrating Washington, D.C.’s most venerated structures The war against Iran is continuing, the affordability crisis is worsening, and the Republican Party’s chances to retain control of Congress in November are looking increasingly grim. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is laser-focused on renovating Washington, D.C. The president mused on Wednesday evening about “ripping down” the Kennedy Center if the courts don’t let him put his name on it, and a few hours later posted an image of the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial surrounded by construction equipment and coated in gold. New media post from Donald J. Trump(…
Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner became a New York Times bestselling author with her 2021 memoir, Crying in H Mart. Now, she’s making her highly anticipated return to the nonfiction world with her new book, Thank You for Your Suffering. The upcoming memoir—out April 27, 2027, via Knopf—documents the year that Zauner lived abroad in South Korea, learning how to read and speak Korean more fluently, connecting with her late mother’s side of the family, and immersing herself in the culture. Take a peek at the book’s cover below.In an interview with Elle, Zauner explained how the title’s origin comes from…
Fontaines D.C. have shared the full tracklist for their upcoming fifth album ‘Dopamine Chamber’, revealing that one song is a collaboration with Rosalía. As well as lead single ‘Marianne‘ along with two new fan favourites recently debuted live in the form of ‘Six Shot Morning‘ and ‘Happy For You‘, the full album’s song list also has a surprise in a duet with Spanish pop pioneer Rosalía on ‘Where Is Gone?’ This marks the band first ever guest vocalist on a track, despite frontman Grian Chatten long-harbouring a desire to work with Lana Del Rey. The tracklist for ‘Dopamine Chamber’ is: …
Fall sports are back in full swing and so is Soccer Mommy. Today, Sophie Allison released “Rings of Saturn,” her first song in two years. The somber track was produced by Rosalía and Björk collaborator Elliott Kozel, and comes accompanied by a dreamy visual directed by Suji Park. Check it out below.“This song is about feeling lost and looking for hope from anywhere,” Allison explains. “I wrote it during a difficult time when I would often take my telescope out into the yard to look at the moon or at planets. There’s something about feeling small that can kind of…
Rhythm section ace literally tries to break the chains that bind him in clip for title song on thrashers’ new album Chains drag a man through fog, smoke, water, and brick tunnels until he’s drawn and quartered in the video for “Cursum Perficio,” the title track of Anthrax‘s album out Friday. “Now it’s over,” frontman Joey Belladonna sings over crunching guitars and stabbing drums, seemingly taunting this victim of unseeable menace. Then he sings, “Your journey’s over,” which is a rough translation of the song’s title from Latin. But things take a turn halfway through the video as Belladonna sings,…
