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Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters is adding another brick to his wall of musical accomplishments: narrating and adapting Igor Stravinsky’s classic modern fairy tale The Soldier’s Tale. Due October 26th from Sony Classical Masterworks, Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale is a new adaptation of the narration for Stravinsky’s 1918 theatrical work solely for orchestra, where Waters is set to narrate the story and voice all of its characters. Waters worked with seven musicians associated with the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, forming an ensemble that sought to honor Stravinsky’s work while reinterpreting it for a new audience. According to a press release, this project is but the latest in a string of forays into the world of high art for Waters. “Both here and in other works Waters certainly feels an affinity with this moment in the history of music whenever he has to decide how atonal to make his music. How radical should it be? And how is music related to the Classical and Romantic tradition? This is arguably the most important question that progressive music has to ask itself today.” Waters’ choice of The Soldier’s Tale is serendipitous, give that “he has wanted for a long time to engage more deeply with the work of a composer whose weight and occasional inaccessibility may perhaps have much in common with” his own music. Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale is set for release October 26th via Sony Classical Masterworks. View the album art below. Last year, Rogers released his first album of original material in 25 years with Is This the Life We Really Want?. Source

Mumford and Sons previously teased a 60-date world tour in support of their fourth LP, Delta, which is due out November 16th. Now, the UK folk quartet has detailed the massive outing, their largest tour to date. Kicking off next month in Ireland, the jaunt will find the band covering every inch of Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand. Maggie Rogers will open for the band on a handful of dates, as will Michael Kiwanuka. During a recent appearance on Kyle Meredith With…, Mumfords’ Ben Lovett and Ted Dwane described the new arena show as an “immersive and inclusive experience.” Take a listen to the interview below. Listen and download via iTunes | Google Play | Stitcher | YouTube | RSS Tickets go on sale next Friday, October 12th. You can also pick them up here. Mumford and Sons’ latest single is “Guiding Light”, which they recently performed live on Fallon. Mumford and Sons 2018-2019 Tour Dates: 11/16 – Dublin, IE @ 3 Arena 11/18 – Belfast, IE @ SSE Arena 11/20 – Glasgow, UK @ SSE Hydro 11/21 – Manchester, UK @ Manchester Arena 11/23 – Birmingham, UK @ Genting Arena 11/24 – Sheffield, UK @ Fly DSA Arena 11/25 – Newcastle, UK @ Metro Radio Arena 11/27 – Nottingham, UK @ Motorpoint Arena 11/28 – Cardiff, UK @ Motorpoint Arena 11/29 – London, UK @ O2 Arena 12/01 – Leeds, UK @ First Direct Arena 12/02 – Liverpool, UK @ Echo Arena 12/07 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center * 12/09 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden * 12/10 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden * 12/14 – Washington DC @ Capital One Arena * 12/17 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena * 01/12 – Auckland, NZ @ The Outer Fields at Western Springs & 01/15 – Brisbane, AU @ Entertainment Centre # 01/18 – Sydney, AU @ Qudos Bank Arena # 01/22 – Melbourne, AU @ Sidney Myer Music Bowl # 01/24 – Adelaide, AU @ Entertainment Centre # 01/27 – Perth, AU @ RAC Arena # 02/27 – Providence, RI @ Dunkin Donuts Center 02.28 – Hartford, CT @ XL Center 03/02 – Albany, NY @ Times Union Center 03/04 – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre 03/05 – Ottawa, ON @ Canadian Tire Center 03/08 – Buffalo, NY @ KeyBank Center 03/09 – Cleveland, OH @ Quicken Loans Arena 03/11 – Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena 03/12 – Lexington, KY @ Rupp Arena 03/14 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena 03/16 – Charlottesville, VA @ John Paul Jones Arena 03/17 – Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena 03/18 – Charleston, SC @ North Charleston Coliseum 03/20 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena 03/22 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena 03/23 – Birmingham, AL @ Legacy Arena at The BJCC 03/25 – Indianapolis, IN @ Bankers Life Field House 03/27 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena 03/29 – Chicago, IL @ United Center 03/30 – Madison, WI @ Kohl Center 03/31 – Milwaukee, WI @ Fiserv Forum 04/25 – Lisbon, PT @ Altice Arena 04/27 – Barcelona, ES @ Palau Sant Jordi 04/29 – Milan, IT @ Medialanum Forum 05/01 – Munich, DE @ Olympiahalle 05/03 – Vienna, AT @ Stadthalle 05/05 – Basel, CH @ St. Jakobshalle 05/07 – Paris, FR @ Zenith 05/08 – Luxembourg, LU @ Rockhal 05/09 – Amsterdam, NL @ Ziggo Dome 05/11 – Berlin, DE @ Mercedes Benz Arena 05/13 – Frankfurt, DE @ Festhalle 05/15 – Cologne, DE @ Lanxess Arena 05/17 – Copenhagen, DK @ Royal Arena 05/18 – Gothenburg, SE @ Scandinavium 05/19 – Oslo, NO @ Spektrum 05/21 – Stockholm, SE @ Ericsson Globe * = w/ Maggie Rogers & = w/ Gentlemen of the Road with Leon Bridges, Michael Kiwanuka and Sam Fender # = w/ Michael Kiwanuka Source

Earlier this year, Chris Evans announced that he was hanging up the shield as Captain America, having appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for eight long years. Well, as honest as Steve Rogers, he’s stuck to his word. Today, Evans confirmed on Twitter that he’s finally done for good: Officially wrapped on Avengers 4. It was an emotional day to say the least. Playing this role over the last 8 years has been an honor. To everyone in front of the camera, behind the camera, and in the audience, thank you for the memories! Eternally grateful. — Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) October 4, 2018 Whether or not this confirms his fate in the follow-up to this year’s Avengers: Infinity War is up for debate. However, this does leave the door wide open for plenty of speculation leading up to next year’s Avengers 4. Regardless, Evans has been a paramount hallmark of Marvel’s ensuing billion-dollar franchise, having appeared in their most successful entries and establishing a cinematic brand that is unstoppable. Avengers 4 is scheduled to hit theaters on May 3rd. In the meantime, he’s busy on Twitter, valiantly defending America against Kanye West’s nonsense. Source

Anderson .Paak and Kendrick Lamar have unveiled a new collaborative track called “Tints”. It can heard below via Spotify. The collaboration serves as the first single off Oxnard, .Paak’s new album and much anticipated follow-up to 2016’s Malibu. Due out sometime before year’s end, the LP marks .Paak’s first release on Aftermath Entertainment, and is expected to feature label honcho and mentor Dr. Dre, in addition to DOOM and Freddie Gibbs producer Madlib. (Read: The 25 Most Anticipated Albums of Fall 2018) “I feel like ambition is missing from today’s music,” .Paak told Rolling Stone in a discussion on Oxnard. “This is the album I dreamed of making in high school, when I was listening to [Jay-Z]’s The Blueprint, The Game’s The Documentary, and [Kanye West’s] The College Dropout.” .Paak was recently announced as a performer at the star-studded Mac Miller benefit/tribute concert, set for October 31st in Los Angeles. Source

Spencer Krug, the Canadian cult musician behind Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown, will return with his fifth and final LP under his Moonface moniker, which the songwriter has reserved for his more experimental projects. Called This One’s For The Dancer & This One’s For The Dancer’s Bouquet, the ambitious, 16-track album arrives on November 2nd via Jagjaguwar. The album was born out of “two separate projects,” a press release reveals, “each with different collaborators, recorded in different studios, in different towns, in different years.” They’re distinguished on the album by their POV—half of the songs emerge from Krug’s own perspective, while the other half adopt the POV of the Minotaur of Greek mythology. (Anyone familiar with Krug’s myth-heavy Sunset Rubdown work shouldn’t be surprised.) The project sounds as if it will encompass elements from the majority of Krug’s Moonface work. Marimba will play a role, echoing the project’s first release, 2010’s Dreamland EP, and the record’s electrified aspects recall Krug’s numerous collaborations with the Finnish instrumental outfit Siinai. Meanwhile, the album’s stirring lead single, “Walk The Circle In The Other Direction”, is buoyed by Krug’s nimble piano work, which formed the spine of 2013’s wonderful Julia With Blue Jeans On. Ghostly rips of saxophone occasionally puncture the track, which rides along Krug’s propulsive vocal melody. No matter how much he experiments, it’s that rich, spectral voice that will emerge as the most captivating part of any Krug project. Hear the track below. “I never made an album under that name I was embarrassed by, and this is one of my favorites, so I may as well get out while I still can, on a personal high note to boot,” Krug said in a statement. “Take this album as a sort of parting gift before Moonface sails into oblivion; the alter-ego’s final offering.” Pre-order the album here. All pre-orders will ship with a postcard included for “a handwritten AMA.” Basically, if you write out a question for Krug, he’ll personally respond and mail it back to you. Neat. See the album’s artwork and tracklist below. This One’s For The Dancer & This One’s For The Dancer’s Bouquet Artwork: This One’s For The Dancer & This One’s For The Dancer’s Bouquet Tracklist: 01. Minotaur Forgiving Pasiphae 02. The Cave 03. Minotaur Forgiving Knossos 04. Heartbreaking Bravery II 05. Last Night 06. Minotaur Forgiving Minos 07. Aidan’s Ear 08. Minotaur Forgiving Theseus 09. Sad Suomenlinna 10. Minotaur Forgiving Daedalus 11. Okay To Do This 12. Dreamsong 13. Hater 14. Minotaur Forgiving The White Bull 15. Walk The Circle In The Other Direction 16. Minotaur Forgiving Poseidon Source

Sometimes dead is better, but also sometimes re-imaginings. The latter appears to be the case for Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kölsch’s forthcoming retelling of Stephen King’s terrifying 1983 novel, Pet Sematary. Today, Entertainment Weekly ran a fairly comprehensive editorial on the new film, which hits theaters on February 19th, featuring a burial ground of new photos that take us deep into their version of Ludlow, Maine. As you can see below, we get our first real looks at John Lithgow as Jud Crandall and the entire Creed family, specifically Jason Clarke as Louis, Amy Seimetz as Rachel, Jeté Laurence as Ellie, and twins Hugo Lavoie and Lucas Lavoie as baby Gage. “One of the things about doing a new version now is our understanding of life and death has progressed,” producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura told the publication. “But are we more sophisticated about it or less?” Listen and subscribe via iTunes | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS In addition to on-set photos, the spread shares some details about the movie, from describing the new titular cemetery to acknowledging that Jud’s wife Norma will be a presence, to how they’re handling Victor Pascow (he’ll be played by Obssa Ahmed), and, of course, the way in which they’re bringing Rachel’s terrifying sister Zelda to life. “[Zelda’s] more accurate to the book, I’ll just say that,” Widmyer explained, though they have yet to reveal any photos (please don’t, guys — keep some mystery for us). “In the original movie, it’s a 21-year-old guy in drag playing it, and in the book, as you recall, it’s a 10-year-old girl.” Zelda will be played by the young Alyssa Brooke Levine, who will have the daunting task in following Andrew Hubatsek in director Mary Lambert’s haunting 1989 original. It’s a role that haunted an entire generation. Whether Levine terrorizes our dreams and beyond will be one of the more intriguing developments to come. For now, we’re pretty amped at what we’re seeing, and can’t wait to make that trek with Jud and Louis in February. Subscribe to The Losers’ Club, our weekly Stephen King podcast that celebrates the author’s entire bibliography in chronological order. Currently, they’re spending the next two months in Derry, reading through It. Stephen King’s Top Horror Movie Adaptations The Come Up: The Music Box Quentin Tarantino’s 5 Best Kills The Star Wars Universe Truly Began at Mos Eisley's Cantina Source

On Friday, October 5th, Jim James will unveil Uniform Clarity, a new companion album to his solo album Uniform Distortion, which dropped in June. The 13-track effort features acoustic versions of Uniform Distortion tracks, in addition to a pair of all-new songs. In anticipation, the My Morning Jacket frontman performed one of those reimagined songs on The Tonight Show on Wednesday. Titled “Over and Over”, the performance paired James’ luminous signature vocals with sparse instrumentation. He was also joined by five soulful backup singers from the Resistance Revival Chorus. “The idea for Uniform Clarity came from Uniform Distortion, an album of intentional chaos/dirt: literal and figurative distortion of lyrics and sound meant to echo and hopefully shed some light on the twisted times and distortion of the truth in which we now live,” James said of the forthcoming album in a statement. “Uniform Clarity is meant to illuminate the other side — raw and real, but very clear, much like in the early days of recording where all you could hear was the truth because there were no ways to manipulate recordings in the studio.” Catch the replay below. Beginning November, James is scheduled to bring both Uniform Distortion and Uniform Clarity on the road for a North American tour. Source

Kacey Musgraves released one of the best albums of the year, Golden Hour, back in March. Since then, the country music star has announced a 2019 headlining tour featuring openers in Natalie Prass and Soccer Mommy. She has also appeared on the Late Late Show (“Slow Burn”), Ellen (“High Horse”), and Seth Meyers (“Rainbow”). On Tuesday evening, Musgraves continued to make her rounds on the TV circuit, guesting on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Outfitted in a long dress with butterfly patterns, she performed a pair of Golden Hour tracks for the audience. “Love is a Wild Thing” came first, and featured Musgraves on guitar while backed by pinkish hues of lighting. The Texas native followed that up with “Wonder Woman”, which she delivered as she walked all around the stage, interacting with the crowd and her backing band. Catch both video replays below. Musgraves’ “Oh, What a World Tour” officially kicks off January 9th. Grab tickets here. Source

On November 16th, Brian Eno will gift fans with deluxe vinyl reissues of four of his seminal ambient albums: Discreet Music (1975), Music For Films (1976), Music For Airports (1978), and On Land (1982). Due out through UMC/Virgin EMI, this reissue project sees each original album spread out across two, 180-gram vinyl discs, and remastered at half speed for 45 RPM by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. Each release comes packaged in a gatefold sleeve with Obi spine strip and Abbey Road Certificate of Authenticity. A standard one-LP vinyl edition, remastered at normal speed, will also be available for purchase. “Although originally released interspersed with other albums and thus not fully sequential, these landmark records chart 4 key points in a fascinating journey that saw Eno explore generative music, found-sound ‘non instruments’, studio experimentation, ‘figurative music’ and – most notably – building upon Erik Satie’s concept of ‘furniture music’, eventually coining the now vernacular-standard term ‘ambient,'” a press statement describes this reissue series. (Read: 10 Brian Eno Songs That Made Films Better) The first of the reissues, Discreet Music, was inspired by a hospital stay in which he was bed-ridden and listening to 18th century harp music. The experimental music pioneer recalled how these listening sessions, coupled with the sound of rain, “presented what was for me a new way of hearing music – as part of the ambience of the environment, just as the colour of the light and the sound of the rain were parts of that ambience.” On Land, the final edition in this “ambient” series, found Eno shifting from “electro-mechanical and acoustic instruments towards ‘non-instruments’ like pieces of chain, sticks and stones.” In an interview with Mojo about the project, he recounted: “One of the big freedoms of music had been that it didn’t have to relate to anything – nobody listened to a piece of music and said, ‘What’s that supposed to be, then?’, the way they would if they were looking at an abstract painting; music was accepted as abstract. I wanted to try and make music which attempted to be figurative, for example by using lots of real noises.” Below, watch a trailer announcement for these vinyl reissues, followed by the full artworks and tracklists. Pre-orders have begun here. Discreet Music Artwork: Discreet Music Tracklist: Side A 01. Discreet Music Part One (15:34) Side B 01. Discreet Music Part Two (15:41) Side C 01. Fullness of Wind (9:57) Side D 01. French Catalogues (5:18) 02. Brutal Ardour (8:17) Music For Films Artwork: Music For Films Tracklist: Side A 01. M386 (2:50) 02. Aragon (1:37) 03. From The Same Hill (2:58) 04. Inland Sea (1:23) Side B 01. Two Rapid Formations (3:24) 02. Slow Water (3:16) 03. Sparrowfall (1) (1:11) 04. Sparrowfall (2) (1:45) 05. Sparrowfall (3) (1:23) Side C 01. Quartz (2:02) 02. Events In Dense Fog (3:43) 03. There Is Nobody (1:42) 04. A Measured Room (1:41) 05. Patrolling Wire Borders (1:02) Side D 01. Task Force (1:20) 02. Alternative 3 (3:11) 03. Strange Light (2:08) 04. Final Sunset (4:16) Music For Airports Artwork: Music For Airports Tracklist: Side A 01. 1/1 (16:30) Side B 01. 2/1 (8:20) Side C 01. 1/2’ (11:30) Side D 01. 2/2’ (6:00) On Land Artwork: On Land Tracklist: Side A 01. Lizard Point (4:30) 02. The Lost Day (9:29) Side B 01. Tal Coat (5:48) 02. Shadow (3:03) Side C 01. Lantern Marsh (5:35) 02. Unfamiliar Wind (5:16) Side D 01. A Clearing (4:06) 02. Dunwich Beach, Autumn 1960 (7:08) Back in March, Eno released his expansive Music For Installations box set. Source

The last time Arctic Monkeys were on late-night TV, Alex Turner had a completely shaven head. Fast forward just two-and-a-half months, and the frontman’s slicked-back-yet-flowing locks are back on his head and the band is back on the telly. In continued support of their latest LP, Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino, the English outfit performed “One Point Perspective” on the Late Late Show with James Corden on Wednesday night. Already one of the album’s most hypnotizing tracks, the performance was made all the more mesmerizing by Turner’s occasional moments of stillness. It wasn’t all immobility for the singer/guitarist, though, especially during that smokey, bending solo. Check out the replay below. During a recent show in Manchester, Arctic Monkeys dusted off “Dancing Shoes” for the first time in four years at a gig in Manchester. For more on Tranquility Base, revisit Turner’s appearance on Kyle Meredith With… below. Listen and subscribe via iTunes | Google Play | Stitcher | YouTube | RSS Source

The Lowdown: According to frontman Nergal, the title of the new album from Polish extreme metal lifers Behemoth is a Bible quote attributed to none other than Jesus Christ. “For [us] to use it as the basis of our record,” explained Nergal, “it’s sacrilege to the extreme.” If that seems like begging the point a little bit, you clearly have never listened to this band before. And on their 11th studio album, the trio goes perfectly over the top, bringing in a children’s choir and a 17-piece orchestra to drive their blasphemous point home. The Good: Amid all the grandeur and the sheer force of the band’s collective incursion throughout, a remarkable tone of restraint that has crept in Behemoth’s work. It was present on the band’s highly acclaimed 2013 album, The Satanist, but it has taken root on I Loved You At Your Darkest with music that feels more direct and all the more powerful as a result. The demon invocation “Bartzabel”, for example, plays out like a particularly vicious power ballad, with its mid-tempo groove and Nergal’s arms akimbo pleas (“Come unto me, Bartzabel/ By the moon and stars, I swear!”). Elsewhere tracks like “Rom 5:8” and “Coagvia” pitch and yaw between a blastbeat-heavy overload and more measured passages that feel positively spacious by comparison. The Bad: Subtlety has never been Behemoth’s raison d’être, but at times, the band appears to be straining to make their point about the hypocrisy of organized religion and their hatred of its icons. Saddling these songs with titles like “God = Dog” and “Havohej Pantocrator” may result in diluting the messages within. The Verdict: I Loved You At Your Darkest is another strong addition to Behemoth’s remarkable run, which has now lasted more than a quarter century. It reveals some welcome growth within a subgenre of heavy music that has often been resistant to evolution. The trio doesn’t leave much to chance on this new album, but that’s only because they want to make sure their missives of impiety aren’t forgotten any time soon. Essential Tracks: “Bartzabel”, “Coagvia”, “Ecclesia Diabolica Catholica”, “Rom 5:8”, “Sabbath Mater” Behemoth's Top 5 Songs Metallica’s Top 5 Songs Tool’s Top 5 Music Videos Alice in Chains' Top 5 Videos Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy” Annotated Video Source

Kurt Vile is inching closer to the release of Bottle It In, the proper follow-up to his 2015 solo effort b’lieve i’m goin down…. Ahead of the record’s October 12th release via Matador, he’s back with one more teaser single in “One Trick Ponies”. The new song is bright country tune that sways on Vile’s bouncy guitar, like the wind rustling a field of tall grass alongside a dirt road. Accentuating the lovely message of the song is the backing vocals from Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa and Farmer Dave Scher on the chorus: “Loved you all a long, long while/ Looked down into a deep, dark well/ Called all your names, they echoed down for miles and miles/ And all that other mystical, well, never-you-mind.” Take a listen via the lyric video below. “One Trick Ponies” follows previously singles “Loading Zones” and “Bassackwards”. Additional guests on Bottle It In include Kim Gordon, Cass McCombs, and Mary Lattimore. Vile will tour behind the album in the coming months, with his current schedule stretching into April 2019. Source

Courtney Barnett is in the final throes of a North American tour in support of her latest LP, Tell Me How You Really Feel, with a European leg set to kick off next month. The Aussie songwriter remains prolific, however, having just released a brand new song called “Small Talk”. (Read: The Top 25 Albums of 2018… So Far) An unreleased track from the sessions for her latest album, “Small Talk” is included on Mom+Pop Music’s 10th anniversary compilation, which will enjoy a release party featuring Barnett in Brooklyn on October 22nd. The song represents everything we’ve come to love about Barnett, from her patient, springy jams to her clever, nostalgic lyrics, which here evoke the forced pleasantries of the song’s namesake. Hear it below. Recently, Barnett released a music video for “Charity”, and offered up a live rendition to Spotify alongside a cover of Elyse Weinberg and Neil Young’s “Houses”. See her remaining tour dates below, and grab tickets here. Courtney Barnett 2018 Tour Dates: 10/05 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre * 10/08 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre ! 10/10 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre ! 10/12 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom ! 10/14 – Oakland, CA @ Treasure Island Music Festival 10/17 – Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater ! 10/21 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues ! 10/22 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel (Mom + Pop 10th Anniversary Show) 10/23 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore 10/25 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works ! 10/27 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s 11/01 – Berlin, DE @ Berlin at Huxley’s Neue Welt + 11/03 – Stockholm, SE @ Kagelbanan + 11/04 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega + 11/05 – Oslo, NO @ Rockerfeller Music Hall + 11/07 – Paris, FR @ Casino De Paris + 11/09 – Wiesbaden, DE @ Schlachthof + 11/10 – Kortrijk, BE @ Sonic City Festival + 11/12 – Dublin, IR @ Olympia Theatre + 11/14 – London, UK @ O2 Brixton Academy + 11/15 – Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy + 11/16 – Brighton, UK @ The Dome + 11/18 – Cardiff, UK @ The Great Hall + 11/19 – Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy + 11/20 – Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy + 11/21 – Newcastle, UK @ Northumbria University + * = w/ Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks and Waxahatchee ! = w/ Waxahatchee + = w/ Laura Jean Source

Rare is the day we get to write about The Police. Ever since Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers threw down their badges in 2008, things have been fairly quiet for the group. This holiday season, however, they’re back with a new box set. Due out November 16th, Every Move You Make: The Studio Recordings collects all five studio albums on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl, in addition to a sixth record dubbed, Flexible Strategies, which strings together 12 non-album recordings and B-sides. Each record — 1978’s Outlandos d’Amour, 1979’s Reggatta de Blanc, 1980’s Zenyatta Mondatta, 1981’s Ghost in the Machine, and 1983’s Synchronicity –was re-mastered at half speed by Miles Showel at Abbey Road Studios. In addition to music, the package comes with a special 24 page, 12”x12” photo book that includes a ton of rare and unseen images from the band’s personal archives. So, if we’re lucky, we’ll see cute photos of Copeland strangling Sting! Consult the tracklist for Flexible Strategies and peep photos of the box set down below. Meanwhile, catch up with Sting our latest episode of Kyle Meredith With…, which finds the legendary singer-songwriter talking reggae, Shaggy, and Dune. Download | Listen and subscribe via iTunes | Google Play | Stitcher | YouTube | RSS Flexible Strategies Tracklist: Side One: 01. Dead End Job (1978) 02. Landlord (1979) 03. Visions Of The Night (1979) 04. Friends (1980) 05. A Sermon (1980) 06. Shambelle (1981) Side Two: 07. Flexible Strategies (1981) 08. Low Life (1981) 09. Murder By Numbers (1983) 10. Truth Hits Everybody (Remix) (1983) 11. Someone To Talk To (1983) 12. Once Upon A Daydream (1983) Cover Artwork: Source

Cat Power is less than 24 hours away from the release of Wanderer, her first album in six years. In anticipation, the singer-songwriter known as Chan Marshall turned in a performance of “Woman” on last night’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She was accompanied by quite dim stage lighting, and was sans the single’s collaborator Lana Del Rey, but Marshall’s voice — teeming with both intensity and vulnerability — was clearly all she needed to convey herself. (Read: The 25 Most Anticipated Tours of Fall 2018) Catch the replay below. Wanderer, one of the most anticipated albums of 2018, is out tomorrow through Domino. She previously teased it with a pretty incredible cover of Rihanna’s “Stay”. Update: In support of the release, Marshall has mapped out new tour dates, including a run of US shows in December. Grab tickets here. Cat Power 2018-2019 Tour Dates: 10/05 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club 10/06 – South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground 10/08 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre 10/09 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall 10/11 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater 10/12 – Louisville, KY @ Headliners Music Hall 10/13 – Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage 10/23 – London, UK @ Roundhouse 10/25 – Paris, FR @ Le Trianon 10/26 – Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique 10/28 – Berlin, DE @ Astra 10/29 – Zurich, CH @ X-Tra 10/30 – Lausanne, CH @ Les Docks 11/01 – Barcelona, ES @ Razzamatazz 11/02 – Madrid, ES @ Circo Price 11/05 – Bologna, IT @ Estragon 11/06 – Milan, IT @ Alcatraz 11/17 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox 11/18 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater 11/20 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater 11/21 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel 11/23 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory OC 11/24 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park 11/25 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren 11/27 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s 11/28 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall 11/29 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater 12/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer 12/16 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club 12/18 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel 12/19 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre 12/20 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall 02/09 – Melbourne, AU @ Zoo Twilights 02/11 – Sydney, AU @ Enmore Theatre 02/12 – Brisbane, AU @ The Tivoli Source

Golden Gate Park is a city unto itself, with over 1,100 acres of fields, lush and foggy forest, museums, lakes, and even bison. It’s a place to explore, escape, relax, and, of course, get into some weird shit. So, naturally, San Franciscans have used this rectangular stretch of land between the Haight Ashbury and the Pacific Ocean to party for decades – from the counter-culture genesis that was the Human Be-In to Day on the Green, the annual unofficial 420 gathering on Hippie Hill, and, more recently, Outside Lands. Yet, the most San Francisco event held in Golden Gate Park is, undoubtedly, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. The free, three-day festival is held annually during the first weekend in October (this year Oct. 5-7) and has become a cornerstone of Bay Area culture since its inception as the Strictly Bluegrass festival in 2001. During its 18 years, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB) has drawn some of the biggest names in roots and Americana music while also providing stages for lesser-known groups, up-and-coming names, and legends that don’t often get a chance to shine. The beloved festival draws over 500,000 people each year who come for a uniquely curated lineup that offers a smorgasbord of sound. HSB might have the most diverse festival lineup in the country, an increasingly admirable accomplishment as once-independent festivals get scooped up by concert conglomerates and descend into a homogenized electronic glory. Yet, how does a free festival, which has booked everyone from singer-songwriter Gillian Welch and Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant to Ana Tijoux, Graham Nash, and The Greyboy Allstars (the latter three will perform on the same stage this year) manage such a robust and singular lineup? “To me, putting together a festival is an art,” said talent buyer Chris Porter, an industry veteran who joined HSB this year after longtime buyer and co-founder Dawn Holliday stepped down. “The essence of a great festival is music and arts discovery, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass certainly does that. But it has its own vibe. Something on this level that is free is very rare … I can’t think of another example in North America.” Cultivating Roots Music: In All Its Forms Strictly Bluegrass Inaugural Poster (2001) Hardly Strictly’s genesis is exemplary of San Francisco’s groovy, pioneering, and community-oriented spirit. The late investment banker and philanthropist Warren Hellman approached Holliday in 2001 with the idea of producing a multi-act bill to showcase lesser-known folk singer-songwriter Hazel Dickens. Hellman loved bluegrass and would later become an accomplished banjo player; co-founder and producer Sheri Sternberg said Hellman also wanted to put on a festival that honored the interests of his sister, a musician who had fallen ill. “We cultivate roots music in all of its forms, and there’s a lot of offshoots of that. We don’t need a certain amount of this or that to feel relevant or fill our quotas,” Sternberg told Consequence of Sound. “We want a well-rounded event. Even when it was Strictly Bluegrass, we wanted to mix it up.” Holliday – also the former general manager of popular local venues Slim’s and The Great American Music Hall — was instrumental in expanding the festival’s definition of roots music. Aiming to showcase bands that greatly influenced or otherwise reflected the roots of soul, blues, and punk (HSB doesn’t discriminate, but generally does not host hip-hop, metal, or EDM groups), Holliday got major names from across the board. She secured Elvis Costello and Rosanna Cash, tapped legends like Primus bassist Les Claypool and Richie Havens, and offered space for up-and-comers like the Allah-Las, Ben Miller Band, and Fantastic Negrito. “I don’t think we ever had a vision,” Holliday told The San Francisco Chronicle. “I think Warren just wanted to hear live music and wanted it to affect people. There’s still a guiding principle, but it doesn’t need to have a banjo attached to it.” David Rawlings, Gillian Welch, and Willie Watson (Photo by Jon R. Luini) At the same time, HSB grew a stable of country and bluegrass pillars who would return to the festival’s main Banjo Stage year after year. Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, T Bone Burnett, Gillian Welch, and The Flatlanders anchor the weekend of performances. These artists try to do something special each time they perform at Hardly Strictly, “so you’re not necessarily seeing the same show as you did last year,” Porter added. “It’s the most free live music reaching the largest number of people on a yearly basis anywhere in the universe that I know of … and I get to see my friends,” Earle, a preeminent country-folk singer-songwriter, told Consequence. These anchor acts have become an accidental tradition. “Bringing them back every year wasn’t necessarily intentional — we weren’t sure if we’d have a second year — but it seemed to be a natural fit as we evolved,” Sternberg said. “Warren really wanted to maintain relationships with these artists; loyalty was important to him.” Following Hellman’s death in 2011, HSB continued to be funded by an endowment through the Hellman Family Foundation. Speedway Meadows, the part of Golden Gate Park that hosts HSB every year, was renamed Hellman’s Hollow. An Unyielding Commitment to Music Discovery Pick a Stage (Photo by Kristen Wrzesniewski) “Dawn did a really great job of coming up with the next big thing or finding something that had been around for a while and highlight it,” Sternberg said. “It was amazing to see people’s careers blow up – from Justin Townes Earle to Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson. Sharon Jones really took off around the time she performed at our event [in 2010].” Hardly Strictly is notable not only for the diversity of its artists, but for a high quality of musicianship. Even a first-time attendee navigating the massive matrix of stages and showtimes will be able to find familiar artists they like and expose themselves to something phenomenal that might be outside their wheelhouse. That level of exposure, and the promise of quality HSB provides, is all in the name of music discovery. “Sound diversity and the demographics that they draw are important to me. I love putting newer acts and older acts that are very complimentary to each other back to back. HSB gives me the opportunity to stretch out and be creative with the lineup while staying true to the roots of the festival,” Porter said of his first year booking HSB. “People will be surprised walking by a stage,” Sternberg said, mentioning Bollywood-meets-blues singer Aki Kumar, who performs Sunday. “It happened to me a couple years ago with Gregory Alan Isakov, who’s coming back this year. I was blown away; he was on the Rooster Stage, and it was an amazing experience.” In a world where festival tickets are expensive (passes to Another Planet Entertainment’s Outside Lands, which is held on much of the same park space as HSB, cost hundreds), Hardly Strictly has the serious advantage of being free. When attendees aren’t spending significant cash to see top-billed acts, they’re more likely to give those names in smaller print a chance. Booking “timely” artists – those who have a new record but have flown under the radar or have contributed heavily to a genre but haven’t performed much – is important to Porter, who spent 18 years as the talent buyer for Seattle’s Bumbershoot! Festival. He pointed to Kacy & Clayton, who have been performing for years but recently released a record produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, and honkytonk legend Dale Watson, who will perform at HSB for the first time this year. Porter was excited to book Ween, Robyn Hitchcock (who typically performs solo but will have a full band this year), and Matador! Soul Sounds, a soul-funk supergroup that’s “a real gem that’s not going to be on a lot of people’s radar but should be.” From his home in Washington state, Porter said he was most excited to showcase a rare performance by Roky Erickson, a singer-songwriter and founder of psych rock band The 13th Floor Elevators. “He seemed like a really cool act to put there, and it would be very complementary. He’s from Texas, but there are bootlegs and records of him playing live in SF in the ‘60s, so there’s a historical tie to the Bay Area,” Porter said. The ability to host so many acts without relying on one or two big names to draw a crowd isn’t common among festivals of similar size. HSB’s unique abilities stand in stark contrast to the increasing corporatization of the festival industry. Concert Consolidation In years past, festivals had more of a localized identity, drawing from local scenes or ascribing to fewer genres that would entice a more specialized crowd. With the commodification of festival culture well underway, major music promotion companies began snapping up once independent festivals. AEG Live purchased Coachella in 2004 and likely gave rise to what The Outline described as a “corporate dystopia” (to say nothing of the incredible talent booked on its multiple stages). Similarly, Live Nation owns Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, Sasquatch, and Lollapalooza. The result: festivals across the country now have strikingly similar lineups and vibes. In 2016, The New York Times opined it would not cover such big-name festivals in favor of “smaller festivals with purpose.” “Often I see notices for festivals and gatherings that are very narrowly focused thematically and almost completely ignored critically,” the Times continued. “Want to see LCD Soundsystem? You can catch them at Coachella, Bonnaroo, Panorama, and Way Home. Major Lazer? Coachella, Sasquatch, Firefly, and Panorama. ASAP Rocky? Coachella, Firefly, and Panorama. Gary Clark Jr.? Coachella, New Orleans Jazzfest, Governors Ball, and Way Home.” Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Founder Warren Hellman Some of this lineup homogeneity is a financial decision that’s compounded by the relatively short span of “festival season.” Only so many artists are touring at once, and it makes financial sense to do “block booking” of a major touring act. Those big acts are guaranteed to sell tickets and please sponsors. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass doesn’t have to worry about ticket sales, thanks to its endowment from the Hellman Family Foundation, nor does it have a problem drawing big-name acts. Porter said nearly 80 percent of the artists to whom he made first-round booking offers accepted. “That speaks volumes about how well-respected Hardly Strictly is in the music community and how well it treats the artists.” Some festivals are playing both sides, hosting major artists while trying to expand their attendees’ tastes. Sternberg went to Goldenvoice’s Stagecoach Festival several years ago and said most of the bands she wanted to see was sparsely attended. “For me to see [Carolina Chocolate Drops founder] Rhiannon Gidden and only have a couple hundred people there was a travesty. It shows that the talent buyers want to educate people in music, but the average person who goes to these events is interested in seeing the big-name acts on the big stage instead of going to see something that’s more niche that they wouldn’t expect. “Our folks wander around. Other festivals are giving the people what they want, and that’s their job,” Sternberg added. Yet, the plethora of music festivals and the group of acts supporting them has led to “festival fatigue” and many failures. Porter expects that “boutique festivals” – those with 15,000 people or less – are likely the future. “I think there are always going to be people who want to put these things together, and there will be money and interest, but you have to be extra creative to rise above the pack and get the public’s notice,” Porter said, citing multi-venue Massachusetts festival The Town and The City and Oregon’s Pickathon. Keeping Grounded Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Audience (Photo by Kristen Wrzesniewski) Hardly Strictly also adheres to the activist spirit that’s entrenched in local culture, offering several community-focused events throughout the weekend. For years, local MC Hammer performed a children’s benefit on Friday afternoon; this year, ukulele and vocal duo The Letterboxers will perform with over 50 San Francisco middle school students on Oct. 5. During the height of Sunday afternoon performances, survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting and other tragedies will perform Raise Your Voice, an album of musical and spoken-word pieces that tackle issues of gun violence. “These students are going to get a taste of very different styles of music, and I think a lot of them are going to love it,” said The Letterboxers’ John Mansfield, also a school district consultant for HSB. Mansfield and musical partner Winona Hendrick are continuing HSB’s educational mission by bringing HSB musicians into classrooms for performances, workshops, and lectures about protest music, songwriting, and improvisation. HSB also iterates on its lineup by offering special events. The 2018 festival will feature a performance and taping of radio variety show Live from Here, as well as Tubes’ drummer Prairie Prince performing The Who’s Tommy. All of this is heightened by the beauty of Golden Gate Park, which guides the layout of the festival and placement of artists. Bigger names like M. Ward thrive in the intimacy of the Porch Stage, located at the eastern edge of the festival; the Rooster Stage, located in a tucked-away meadow, offers impeccable sound for acoustic artists (though the incomparable Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings blew the lid off the place). “We try to work with the park itself and see what fits best in any location. The intimacy is really brought by the park,” Sternberg said. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is more than a festival — it’s a communal experience that manages to naturally satisfy, inspire, and pique curiosity. It’s a family atmosphere that encourages you to bring a lawn chair and camp out at the Banjo Stage for an up-close view of comedian Steve Martin playing bluegrass as the Steep Canyon Rangers. You’ll be equally at home bouncing around from stage to stage with a joint in hand, letting something new capture you. Whatever you hear will be good, and you’ll likely come away with a handful of new favorite bands. Hardly Strictly proves that free doesn’t always mean cheap. Source

Download | Listen and subscribe via iTunes | Spotify | Google Play | Radio Public | Stitcher | RSS To keep tabs on the ever-growing pop culture zeitgeist that is Star Wars, we bring you State of the Empire. Led by Art Director Cap Blackard, the series speculates on the future of the franchise and looks for news in Alderaan places. In the Disney era of Star Wars, the movies might have the center stage, but when it comes to expanding the universe, the real action is happening in animation. Star Wars Rebels enhanced and bridged the history of the Original Trilogy and the Prequels in fascinating and validating ways, and even re-shaped and the nature of The Force itself. Rebels might’ve been a “kids show”, but as the series matured, it carried itself with an all-ages candor that won over the hearts of even the staunchest detractors. Now the Lucasfilm animation department has shifted gears and are taking on a whole new time period – one in desperate need of deeper storytelling: The New Trilogy. Star Wars Resistance takes place just before the events of The Force Awakens and sees Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron recruiting a young pilot into a life of spying in Leia’s Army. Main character Kaz Xiono has to navigate an outer rim outpost filled with the raddest racers this side of Mon Gazza Speedway. It’s a character driven, high octane ride that’s a ton of fun right out the gate and here on State of the Empire you can look forward to our episode-by-episode Resistance recaps. Listen in to our spoiler-free podcast on the two-part debut, “The Recruit” – hear our hot takes on Kazuda and co. and how far we think this series could go in exploring and improving the modern era of Star Wars stories. Star Wars Resistance‘s two-part debut hits Disney Channel this Sunday at 10PM EST, with future episodes Sundays on Disney XD. Support State of the Empire! — State of the Empire Socials: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Star Wars Spoilers — Rate & review us on iTunes — Rate & review us on Podchaser | How to use Podchaser Links: — The Star Wars Resistance trailer — Resistance: Team Fireball Featurette — Resistance: The Aces Featurette — Resistance: Extended Sneak Peek Willow Links: — Willow screening and Q&A with Ron Howard and Bob Dolman – Oct 21st – Santa Monica, CA Source

Bay Area sensation tells the world about what’s going on in the Bay All summer long, Richmond sensation RBC Bugzy has been drawing a lot of attention to himself with his hot new music and explicitly hypnotizing new videos. Creating a buzz that all leads up to the release of his new project, entitled, Good Life. RBC’s new EP is a charismatic, raw, and exciting project the sherds a new perspective of the bottomless amazing talent that continuously comes out of the Bay Area. Solely produced by Madiou Diouf, Good Life is a six-track effort that delivers the new comer with a happy new lease on life and putting the past to rest as he ascends to a bright future. Good Life features only from his label members Rich City Stu and RBC Dobe. This is one you can’t miss. Stream ‘Good Life’ by RBC Bugzy above. The post RBC Bugzy is Living a ‘Good Life’ on New EP: Listen appeared first on Verge Campus. Source

Kate Bush’s entire back catalog will be reissued on vinyl and CD in November. Many of Bush’s albums have been unavailable on vinyl for at least a decade. Not only that, but the archival campaign marks the “first (and definitive) programme of remastering and includes the release of many rarities and cover versions on vinyl and CD for the first time,” according to a press release. Bush personally remastered each album herself with assistance from James Guthrie (Pink Floyd). The reissues will be packaged in four distinct vinyl boxes and released in two waves. The first two box sets are due out on November 16th, with the latter two sets following November 30th. Specifically, the fourth box is made up of rarities previously unreleased on vinyl, including an entire disc of cover versions. Pre-orders are now ongoing. The exact content of each box set are as follows: Vinyl Box Set 1 (out Nov. 16th): The Kick Inside, Lionheart, Never For Ever, and The Dreaming Vinyl Box Set 2 (out Nov. 16th): Hounds of Love, The Sensual World, and The Red Shoes Vinyl Box Set 3 (out Nov. 30th): Aerial, Director’s Cut, and 50 Words for Snow Vinyl Box Set 4 (out Nov. 30th): 12″ Mixes, The Other Side 1, The Other Side 2, and In Others’ Words Vinyl Box Set 4 Tracklist: 12-Inch Mixes 01. Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) 02. The Big Sky (Meteorological Mix) 03. Cloudbusting (The Orgonon Mix) 04. Hounds Of Love (Alternative Mix) 05. Experiment IV (Extended Mix) The Other Side 1 01. Walk Straight Down The Middle 02. You Want Alchemy 03. Be Kind To My Mistakes 04. Lyra 05. Under The Ivy 06. Experiment IV 07. Ne T’Enfuis Pas 08. Un Baiser D’Enfant 09. Burning Bridge 10. Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) 2012 Remix The Other Side 2 01. Home For Christmas 02. One Last Look Around The House Before We Go 03. I’m Still Waiting 04. Warm And Soothing 05. Show A Little Devotion 06. Passing Through Air 07. Humming 08. Ran Tan Waltz 09. December Will Be Magic Again 10. Wuthering Heights (Remix / New Vocal from ‘The Whole Story’) In Others’ Words 01. Rocket Man 02. Sexual Healing 03. Mná na hÉireann 04. My Lagan Love 05. The Man I Love 06. Brazil (Sam Lowry’s First Dream) 07. The Handsome Cabin Boy 08. Lord Of The Reedy River 09. Candle In The Wind Source

Long before soundtracking 50 Shades of Grey and James Bond films, both Jessie Ware and Sam Smith were pretty embedded in London’s dance music scene. Back then, they worked with the likes of grime/garage/post-dubstep producers such as SBTRKT and Joker, in addition to house duo and fellow PMR Records label mate Disclosure. Although the two artists’ most recent albums seem to indicate they’re in pop land for the long haul, Ware has shared a new song today that suggests a return to her roots à la 2012’s stellar Devotion debut. Titled “Overtime”, it sees the UK singer hitting the clubs once again. Its house-inflected sway and groove come courtesy of producers Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford and Bicep’s Andy Ferguson and Matt Mcbriar. “‘Overtime’ is a taste of what’s to come,” Ware told BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac. “It’s been really fun being back in the studio and I’m so excited to share this track. I worked on it with some of my favourite producers; James Ford & the guys of Bicep. It feels like I’m going back to my early days; it’s a late-night song to flirt too. Whilst I carry on working on new music, I hope you really enjoy this one.” Take a listen below. Ware’s last full-length, Glasshouse, came out October 2017. She recently supported the LP with a performance on Seth Meyers. Source

Australia’s festival scene is a huge part of our Summer life and we’re lucky to be blessed with events like Babylon, Electric Gardens, Subsonic and a slew of others. But if you go back in time as recently as 3 or 4 years ago Australia was getting names in dance music that have become iconic and renowned as some of the best electronic artists of all time. We revisited some of these classic festivals with huge lineups (a lot of which aren’t around any more) to give you our picks for 5 of the best Aussie dance music festival lineups of all time! 1. Parklife 2010 Parklife is another festival that made the list that has since left Australian shores. Groove Armada, Cut Copy, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool are all artists we’ve posted as throwback tracks and there’s a reason, these guys are all legendary. On top of that we had Midnight Juggernauts (Whatever happened to those guys?) Bag Raiders and that’s before we’ve even got to the huge Ed Banger infused DJ lineup. Busy P, UFFIE, DJ Mehdi and Brodinski to name a few! Parklife is definitely one of the festivals we wish we could get back. 2. Creamfields 2011 Creamfields had a pretty good Aussie run, most years its lineup was legendary, including a Bloody Beetroots headed 2010, (that may or may not have been bumped out due to its involvement of LMFAO) Another one we were sad to see go but, not without our fond memories. 2011 was headed up by Deadmau5 and Skrillex featuring Martin Solveig along with Bingo Players, Dada Life and Round Table Knights. A lineup that remains relatively relevant by today’s standard! 3. Future Music Festival 2014 Add Future Music to the list of passed on Aussie festivals. Headlined by Deadmau5 it covered so many dance music bases. Hardwell was up there when he was regarded as one of if not the best DJ in the world alongside Eric Prydz’ first ever Australian show and Porter Robinson when he’d just hit it as huge. Knife Party ran a stage and you had a good healthy does of DnB with Rudimental and Netsky and honestly the lineup’s that huge that you really need to just read it for itself! 4. Field Day 2012 Field Day has had a bunch of killer lineups, in fact their lineup for this year is also pretty huge! But this one takes the cake in our opinion. There didn’t seem to be a full lineup poster anywhere, but it was headlined by Justice premiering their newest live show, featured Calvin Harris, Crystal Castles next to Moby and if you scroll down in the list far enough you’ll see a young Motor City Drum Ensemble, Elizabeth Rose and Alison Wonderland next to some Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and even Flying Lotus. There’s no doubt in our mind that this Field Day lineup takes the cake! 5. Stereosonic 2012 We’ve always touted this as possibly the best ever AUS music lineup before and it’s something we pretty much stick by. At the time Tiesto, Avicii (RIP) and Calvin Harris were at the top of their game. Funnily enough a lot of these guys are still getting tour time today, but music evolves, people change and this lineup wouldn’t be the same if we it happened again. Things to note: Major Lazer above Diplo, Mr. Oizo right near the top and Brodinski and Gesaffelstein right down near the bottom (but not as low as Duke Dumont and Dillon Francis who were still on the come up!) Source

No one likes a surprise more than Dave Grohl, and it looks like Foo Fighters’ frontman has quite a treat in store for attendees of the band’s Cal Jam Fest, which takes place this weekend in San Bernardino, CA. Over the last 24 hours, Foo Fighters have posted two cryptic tweets in reference to Cal Jam. In a tweet announcing a screening of Joan Jett’s new documentary, Foo Fighters responded by tweeting: “CAN’T WAIT!!!! What else could we have up our sleeves???” Stay tuned….” Hours later, Foo Fighters shared footage from Nirvana’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame afterparty, which took place following the band’s induction in 2014. That tweet included the caption, “This is a Jam @caljamfest #CalJam18,” and it was retweeted by Nirvana’s verified Twitter account. What’s it all mean? Is a Nirvana reunion really in store for Cal Jam? Here’s what we know for sure: All three surviving Nirvana members will be present at the festival. Grohl and Pat Smear, of course, play together in Foo Fighters, while Krist Novoselic is scheduled to appear with his current band, Giants in the Trees. Also on the Cal Jam lineup are two of the vocalists from Nirvana’s 2014 reunion show: the aforementioned Joan Jett and John McAuley of the band Deer Tick. McAuley is also featured in the below video, which shows “Serve the Servants” played backwards. Update: Foo Fighters have shared a second video from Nirvana’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame afterparty, this time featuring Jett. “…anyone got @joanjett’s number ??” says the tweet. We’ve reached out to Foo Fighters’ representatives for more information. CAN'T WAIT!!!! What else could we have up our sleeves?? Stay tuned….#CalJam18 https://t.co/OA525e7pg0 — Foo Fighters (@foofighters) October 3, 2018 This is a Jam @caljamfest#CalJam18 pic.twitter.com/cOJKFihzMj — Foo Fighters (@foofighters) October 3, 2018 …anyone got @joanjett's number ??https://t.co/CD3sbZ8R2M#caljam18 pic.twitter.com/AEZUI74l7K — Foo Fighters (@foofighters) October 4, 2018 For reference, here was the setlist played at Nirvana’s 2014 reunion: Smells Like Teen Spirit (with Joan Jett) Breed (with Joan Jett) In Bloom (with Joan Jett) Territorial Pissings (with Joan Jett) All Apologies (with Joan Jett) (Krist Novoselic on accordion, Kim Gordon on bass, St. Vincent on guitar) Drain You (with J Mascis) Pennyroyal Tea (with J Mascis) School (with J Mascis) Lithium (with St. Vincent) About a Girl (with St. Vincent) Heart-Shaped Box (with St. Vincent) Serve the Servants (with John McAuley) Milk It (with John McAuley) Very Ape (with John McAuley) Scentless Apprentice (with John McAuley) tourette’s (with John McAuley) Aneurysm (with Kim Gordon) Negative Creep (with Kim Gordon) Moist Vagina (with Kim Gordon) (Live premiere) Source

Daily Show alumni Jon Stewart and Steve Carell are reuniting for a new feature-length film. The film is titled Irresistible and is billed as “a political satire based on [Stewart’s] original idea.” Stewart will serve as director, marking his second time behind the lens following his 2014 debut, Rosewater. Carell is an early talks to star in the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Carell can next be seen in Robert Zemeckis’ Welcome to Marwen and Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney biopic Vice, both of which hit theaters in December. As for Stewart, he recently learned how to drum. Over the summer, he toured alongside Dave Chappelle in anticipation of his first standup comedy special in 21 years. Source

You’d assume that for most American’s copping a warning text from old mate Donnie is probably the last thing in the world they’d want to happen to them. However, all the meme lords out there rubbed their hands with glee as a new template appeared before their very eyes. The message was apart of the first test of the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system, which is essentially the system that America uses to inform their citizens that something has gone terribly, terribly wrong. Even though it was widely publicised and the President commented on it, a bunch of people still missed it and were fairly surprised when Donald popped up on their phone. Take a look at some of the spiciest memes, they won’t disappoint. When you get a text from Trump pic.twitter.com/Wj24vQOT5P — Josiah Johnson (@KingJosiah54) October 3, 2018 congrats to tiffany trump, who just received her first ever text from her dad! — Johnny LaDeadnik (@jlazebnik) October 3, 2018 Well, now we know how The Purge will be announced. — Buzz Andersen (@buzz) October 3, 2018 Results of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System year were mixed. Several of us with AT&T either didn’t get the alerts or got them much later. However, rest assured @AbeTV5’s flip phone got it! pic.twitter.com/EDP9rnssMy — Jordan Vandenberge (@NEWSjordanv) October 3, 2018 Did everyone get this? pic.twitter.com/UurRByPc8l — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) October 3, 2018 That presidential alert message just popped up on my phone and I’m annoyed, I don’t want to hear from that orange Cheeto!!! pic.twitter.com/tUa2KkRkV6 — pat tobin (@tastefactory) October 3, 2018 extremely meh copy pic.twitter.com/THe1xqBlXB — Amber Discko (@amberdiscko) October 3, 2018 DID YOU GET MY PRESIDENTIAL ALERT pic.twitter.com/u3bP7jIf3q — kelly cohen (@politiCOHEN_) October 3, 2018 Source

Once Episode IX is released next year, it may be some time before you see another Star Wars film in theaters. After dishing out five films in as many years, Disney CEO Bob Iger recently acknowledged movie audiences may be suffering from Star Wars fatigue. Thus, previously rumored spinoffs involving Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi are reportedly on hold for the time being. Instead, Disney and Lucasfilms are shifting their efforts to a live-action TV series from director Jon Favreau, which will debut on Disney’s forthcoming streaming service in late 2019. Favreau — best known for helming the first two Iron Man films as well as Disney’s forthcoming Lion King remake — will write and executive produce an original, live-action scripted series called The Mandalorian. On his Instagram, Favreau shared a brief synopsis of the forthcoming series: “After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe. The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. We follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic.” Make sure to subscribe to our Star Wars podcast, State of the Empire, where we recently discussed Mandalorians as a possible subject for Favreau: Download | Listen and subscribe via iTunes | Spotify | Google Play | Radio Public | Stitcher | RSS Source