Childish Gambino released Atavista, the long-awaited complete version of his pandemic era 3.15.20 record, on Monday, May 13. The rapper, comedian and TV star who goes by Donald Glover outside the music industry has also revealed what cities he'll be visiting during an upcoming world tour. The trek will be his first time out on the road since 2019. Glover also dropped a music video for the song "Little Foot Big Foot," which is the only Atavista track that didn't also appear on 3.15.20. "There's a special vinyl coming soon w/ visuals for each song," the rapper said in a tweet. Fans in the commen...
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By the beginning of 1967 the Monkees were already huge in America. On May 13 of that year, they sealed their status as the hottest band in the world by topping the British charts with their second LP, More of the Monkees. That album had come hot on the heels of their first long-player, The Monkees, which had already dominated the No. 1 spot for seven weeks through February and March. If one were to be only slightly facetious, one could even argue that in 1967 the Monkees were arguably bigger than the Beatles. During the entire year only four LPs reached No. 1 in the U.K. – The Sound of Music, ...
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Jimi Hendrix was never really a studio musician, so much as an incendiary live performer who also made some recordings. It just so happened that the three studio albums he wrote during his tragically short lifetime – 1967’s Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold as Love, and 1968’s Electric Ladyland – were also all bona fide classics. And of the three, it was the debut, released on May 12, 1967 in the U.K., that was the real game changer. Until Are You Experienced, albums were seldom regarded as an artistic entity in their own right, so much as a collection of songs either already released or inte...
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Joost Klein, the Dutch contestant for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, has been ejected from the final after a complaint made by a female member of the production crew. In a statement issued by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the body in charge of the annual song contest, just hours before the ceremony on Saturday May 11, they said that the disqualification came following “a complaint made by a female member of the production crew after an incident following his performance in Thursday night’s Semi Final”. The complaint is now being investigated by Swedish police. The EBU also added...
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After being nominated for two Grammy Awards (and winning one) for her work on 2021's Vulture Prince, the Pakistani-born, New York-based singer and composer Arooj Aftab is returning next month with her new album Night Reign. Today, she's sharing the beautifully shimmering song "Whiskey," which features Kaki King and Gyan Riley on guitars, Maeve Gilchrist on harp, Linda May Han Oh on bass, Jamey Haddad on percussion, and TimaLikesMusic on keyboard and electric piano. “‘Whiskey’ is about being out at night with someone you like, but the evening gets a little carried away,” Aftab explains in a sta...
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In entirely unsurprising news, Radiohead multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood will be scoring the next film from director Paul Thomas Anderson, The Guardian reported via a profile of the musician on May 10. The film -- yet untitled, though reportedly set to star Leonardo DiCaprio -- will be Greenwood's sixth collaboration with the director. The pair's partnership has been an extremely fruitful one. Greenwood established his reputation as an adventurous, serious film composer with his score to Anderson's There Will Be Blood in 2007. He earned his first Academy Award nomination for his music in...
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Paul Weller is releasing his 17th solo album 66 on May 24, the day before his 66th birthday. Today, the legendary former frontman of the Jam and the Style Council has given us another taste of the record by sharing the languid, jazzy new track "Nothing." Listen to "Nothing" below. Weller recorded 66 at his own Black Barn Studio, and the LP features contributions from friends and collaborators including Noel Gallagher, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Madness’ Suggs, Richard Hawley, the Blow Monkeys’ Dr Robert, Le SuperHomard’s Christophe Vaillant, and Erland Cooper, plus string arrangements by...
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Eurovision's Dutch participant Joost Klein was barred from the contest's dress rehearsal on Friday, May 10. This came in response to an unspecified backstage "incident." Judges use this dress rehearsal to score performers ahead of the grand finale, which is scheduled for Saturday, May 11. They're evaluating Klein based on a taped performance from earlier in the week instead, BBC reported. Some of the props the musician used to perform his track "Europapa" were placed on stage and removed shortly thereafter. This year's contest has been embroiled in controversy due to the inclusion of Israel, w...
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Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl have added their voices to the growing chorus of bands and musicians paying tribute to the late Steve Albini, the legendary recording engineer and producer who died of a heart attack this week at the age of 61. Albini recorded Walking Into Clarksdale, the 1998 album by Page and his Zeppelin bandmate Robert Plant. He worked with Grohl when he produced Nirvana's 1994 album In Utero, and they later reunited when Albini recorded the Foo Fighters song "Something From Nothing" for their 2014 album and series Sonic Highways. "I was very sad to he...
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A Bone Thugs-N-Harmony member teased a 30th anniversary celebration in a recent social media post. Creepin on ah Come Up, the group's first EP under the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony name, dropped in June 1994. "We celebrating 30 years now," Layzie Bone said in a video posted to his Instagram on Tuesday, May 7. "June 23, 1994, is the day that 'Thuggish Ruggish Bone' came out. The celebration of 30 years. Now you know you got your Bone and Biggies. You got your Tupacs and your Mariah Careys. And JDs, and Bow Wow. We done mixed and mingled with a lot of people. So now, on the 30th year anniversary, we’re...
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