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A favorite on the Kardashians' shows, the nonagenarian died earlier in July A death certificate has revealed that Kris Jenner's mother, Mary Jo Shannon (née Campbell), died of acute cardiopulmonary arrest, according to Us Weekly. Essentially, the 91-year-old's heart and lungs stopped at the same time. The medical report also revealed that Shannon, known affectionately to fans as “MJ,” suffered from acute respiratory failure and metastatic lung cancer. For the death certificate obtained by the outlet, she'd had these conditions for months. Jenner reported on social media that her mother, grandmother to the Kardashian clan, had died on July 16.…
Paste Magazine has started a big project destined to develop over several months: choosing the best songs of all time. The idea is to proceed decade by decade, selecting favorite singles and album tracks, before creating a big definitive ranking over the course of the autumn. After the top 100 of the 60s, here is the ranking of the 100 best songs of the 70s. “We do not intend to claim that our ranking is better than all the others, we have rather tried to offer an interesting perspective on what could have been the greatest decade in the history…
Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament has announced a new photography book titled Since Forever, featuring more than 250 images from the band’s formative years. The 9” x 12” hardcover book will bring together Ament’s black-and-white photographs of the people, places and moments that surrounded Pearl Jam’s rise during the 1990s. Created with his brother, designer Barry Ament, the visual memoir will see the photographs accompanied by the musician’s personal reflections and observations. Most of the images were taken between 1990 and 1998, with Ament saying that 90 per cent of them have never previously been made public. “If there was a goal,…
When acclaimed producer James Ford, who’s overseen every Arctic Monkeys album since 2007’s Favourite Worst Nightmare, found himself undergoing cancer treatment in a London hospital last year, he says it was only natural that his mind would eventually drift back to music. “I’d been in hospital feeling awful and the first moment that my energy came back a bit I realized I was in survival mode and I didn’t really have any creative thoughts, which was terrifying in a way,” he recalls. “I’m so used to making music every day and it’s a real part of my self-worth and identity. All these things are…
Fcukers are giving Ö the remix treatment. On July 30, they’ll release a new EP, NüYork, comprised of three new versions of tracks from their March LP. They teased the project today with a flip of “If You Wanna Party, Come Over to Me House” by veteran New York DJ Eli Escobar. Check that out below. The other two remixes on NüYork come courtesy of two other tri-state area legends: Justin Strauss, who contributed a redux of “Beatback,” and Junior Sanchez, who flipped “TTYGF.”The duo of Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis also added a few dates to the tour…
Robyn and need some guidance on their latest collaboration, a sultry remix of Robyn's Sexistential single “Talk to Me.” “Thanks for blessing this h*rny track with your swagger and your powerhouse vocals,” Robyn wrote to Larsson on Instagram. “Your voice can raise anyone's heartbeat.” Larsson opens the song, titled “Talk to Me, Zara,” with a brand new verse, singing, “The way you move your lips/Communicate with my body/Hiding my senses/Come finish what you started.” The Swedish pop forces trade harmonies back and forth across the song as they build up to the bridge. “Talk to me/It's not as good by…
The sounds returned unexpectedly last week. Sharp, staccato bursts from a bygone era of culinary entertainment, interrupting the quick-cutting shuffle of vertical videos that chronicle the creation of the next viral garlicky, citrusy, beany, herby, brothy whatever. “Let’s kick it up a notch!” “Forty-eight cloves of garlic!” “Actually … we’re gonna add two beers!” And loudest of all, “Bam!” Emeril Lagasse, the chef, restauranteur, and onetime king of daytime-TV cooking, was going viral. Like all the most delightful internet phenomenons, this one appears to have been launched by a random poster, who simply opined, “I’m watching old Emeril Lagasse episodes…
The identity of Sadie Sink's character in the new Spider-Man movie is top secret, but Lacy may not have known that Spider-Man has faced a long list of villains since his creation in 1963, from the well-known (Dr. Octopus, Green Goblin) to the totally ridiculous (The Hypno-Hustler, Videoman). But the latest addition to the list was beyond the imagination of even comic-book creators: Steve Lacy. Yes, that Steve Lacy, of “Bad Habit” fame, who just released his excellent third album, Oh yeah? The identity of Sadie Sink's character in Spider-Man: Brand New Dayout Friday (which features the title track of…
Last chapter of the long career under the monicker Sinner for Mat Sinner and his band. With this “Boom Bang Goodbye” the blond German bassist, historic pillar of the Teutonic heavy… Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
“I want to make music that will take people to another place beyond their understanding,” Daniel Lanois says, “for them to feel that a record will be a reliable transporter.” He’s talking about Belladonna Nocturne, his gorgeous new instrumental album, where each track is a unique, nearly tactile soundscape. But he’s always applied applied that same philosophy to his work as a producer of world-shaking albums, including U2‘s The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby, Peter Gabriel‘s So, and Bob Dylan‘s Oh Mercy and Time Out of Mind. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Lanois goes deep on…
