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The original Meat Puppets roster — songwriter/frontman Curt Kirkwood, his bassist brother Cris, and drummer Derrick Bostrom — reunited back in 2017 when they were inducted into the Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame. That performance rekindled the magic that brought them together in the first place, and the one-off show soon became a full-blown reunion. Back together for the first time in 23 years, the Puppets now have a new album, Dusty Notes, coming March 8th. The band previously revealed lead single “Warranty”, and today they’ve unwrapped another track, “Nine Pins”. With a playful organ notes (courtesy of keyboardist Ron Stabinsky) and country guitar licks, the track is a surprisingly jaunty track that could be coming right out of Bakersfield. Take a listen below In addition to the new song, Meat Puppets have announced a run of US spring tour dates. The 14-date trek marks the original lineup’s first tour together in over two decades. Neil Hamburger, All Souls, Sumo Princess, and Stephen Maglio will provide support on select dates. Find the complete itinerary below. Meat Puppets 2019 Tour Dates: 04/04 – Mill Valley, CA @ Sweetwater Music Hall * 04/05 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent * 04/06 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour ^ 04/07 – San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar ^ 05/08 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge # 05/09 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl # 05/10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts # 05/11 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Lanes # 05/13 – Woodstock, NY @ Colony # 05/14 – Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom # 05/15 – Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall # 05/16 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall # 05/17 – Portsmouth, NH @ 3S Artspace # 05/18 – Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Music Hall # * = w/ Neil Hamburger ^ = w/ All Souls # = w/ Sumo Princess and Stephen Maglio Source

Christmas is behind us now, but Radiohead remain in a giving spirit. Today, they’ve finally released their rare track “Ill Wind” to digital streaming services for the first time. “Ill Wind” originally appeared on a CD single with their rejected James Bond song “Spectre”, which was packaged as part of the vinyl edition of 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool. Produced by Nigel Godrich, it’s a moody number led by the billowing vocals of frontman Thom Yorke. (Read: Ranking: Every Radiohead Song from Worst to Best) “Keep your distance, then no harm will come,” Yorke advises rather eerily. “No ill wind will blow, will blow.” Check it out down below, followed by its artwork. “Ill Wind” Artwork: Radiohead will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March, though Yorke won’t be in attendance due to prior commitments. In related news, Yorke recently announced an expanded edition of his Suspiria soundtrack featuring previously unheard material. He’s also due to release a new solo album this year. Source

Americana has a new supergroup on its hands: Amanda Shires, Brandi Carlile, and Margo Price have come together and plan to write and record music under a new moniker called The Highwomen. On Wednesday, Shires broke the news to radio host Laura Shine of Louisville’s WFPK — home of our own Kyle Meredith — confirming that she’s written two songs with Carlile and a few others with Jim Lauderdale for an album the trio plan to record this March. “What we want to do is play more country music,” Shires said. “So it’ll be more country.” Shires said she first pitched the idea to Carlile at Nashville venue The Basement. “I was like, ‘I want you to be in it. And I want you to help me run this,'” Shires told Shine, “because I’m terrible at business, and my voice isn’t as great as yours.'” From there, the two extended an invitation to Price, and The Highwomen were born. If you know your country history, you’ll no doubt recognize their moniker as a play on the legendary male Americana supergroup The Highwaymen, which was founded in the ’80s and consisted of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson. It’s a fitting parallel seeing how the three women are superstars themselves. Shires is an accomplished singer-songwriter and violinist; Carlile’s latest album By the Way, I Forgive You is currently nominated for three Grammys, including Best Album in the all-genre category, and Price is similarly up for a Grammy in the all-genre field for Best New Artist. However, don’t start lining up to see them … yet. On Thursday, Shires wrote on her Facebook page that she “accidentally jumped the gun” on the news,” contending that “Brandi and I do have something in the works” and that they will “announce the exact details when it comes to fruition.” For now, she adds that “nothing is official.” Official or not, the gears are certainly in motion. Source

Got a feeling 19 is going to be a good year — especially if you’re a fan of The Who. In a new interview Rolling Stone, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey revealed plans for a new studio album along with a supporting tour. The as-yet-unfinished album will mark The Who’s first since 2006’s Endless Wire, which arrived four years following the untimely passing of longtime bassist John Entwistle and served as the long awaited follow-up to their 1982 album, It’s Hard – and a sequel to Pete Townshend’s 1993 solo record Psychoderelict. Townshend described the new material as “dark ballads, heavy rock stuff, experimental electronica, sampled stuff and cliched Who-ish tunes that began with a guitar that goes yanga-dang.” Daltrey will record vocals later this year with the intention of a 2019 release. The desire to make a new album was spurned on by a lucrative tour offer from Live Nation, according to Rolling Stone. “I said I was not going to sign any contracts unless we have new material,” Townshend explained. “This has nothing to do with wanting a hit album. It has nothing to do with the fact that the Who need a new album. It’s purely personal. It’s about my pride, my sense of self-worth and self-dignity as a writer.” (Listen: Discography: A Who Audio Podcast) Beyond featuring new music, the tour will see The Who joined nightly by a local symphony. Daltrey told Rolling Stone that the idea stemmed from his own recent solo tour in which he plays The Who’s Tommy with the accompaniment of an orchestra. “I’ll be 75 years old in March and this feels like a dignified way to go and do music,” he remarked. “That’s all we’re really left with. We’re old men now. We’ve lost the looks. We’ve lost the glamour. What we’re left with is the music and we’re going to present it in a way which is as fresh and powerful as eve.” The 31-date North American tour will consist of two separate legs, the first of which will take place in April, with a second leg following in September. Specific details will be announced shorty. Daltrey also suggested that the forthcoming tour may be his last. “I think it is always a mistake to ever say ‘farewell,’ but this will possibly be my last tour,” Daltrey remarked. “I’m just being realistic about going through the 75th year of my life. I have to be realistic that this is the age I am and voices start to go after a while. I don’t want to be not as good as I was two years ago.” If that weren’t enough, The Who’s longtime manager, Bill Curbishley, has revealed that a long-gestating Keith Moon biopic is finally moving forward. While speaking to BBC Radio (via Best Classic Bands) on Thursday, Curbishley said: “We’ve talked to Roger about that for 20 years but we’re finally there,” he added. “He’s had a couple of scripts over the years that didn’t really suit, but since I got involved with him we went through a couple of different scriptwriters and we’ve settled on a writer called Jeff Pope.” Pope recently wrote the screenplay for Stan & Ollie, and also co-wrote 2013’s Philomena with the great Steve Coogan. As for who he sees playing Moon, Curbishley wisely suggested that “I’ve fixed on it really being an unknown.” In anticipation, be sure to check out our latest season of Discography in which host Marc with a C is offering the most expansive and comprehensive deep dive into The Who’s catalogue. He’s not only covering the studio records, but also dropping the needle on every live record, single, and solo release from Townshend, Daltrey, Keith Moon, and John Entwistle. Stream the first episode below. Download | Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Radio Public | Stitcher | RSS Source

In a surprise twist to what’s been a very emotional week, Cupcakke has returned with a new single titled, “Squidward Nose”. The track marks her first piece of new music since last year’s two full-length albums: November’s Eden and January’s Ephorize. More importantly, the single arrives only two days after Cupcakke checked herself into a Chicago hospital following a suicide scare. As she later told her fans: “I’ve been fighting with depression for the longest ..sorry that I did it public last night but I’m ok .I went to the hospital & im finally getting the help that I need to get through , be happy , & deliver great music . thanks for all the prayers but please don’t worry bout me.” Needless to say, she hasn’t lost her sense of humor. “His dick’s smaller than my toes,” she jokes in the incredibly catchy chorus, later subverting the elementary nursery rhyme: “Roses are red, violets are blue, all about that head like I’m in beauty school.” Hilarious, punchy, and immediate. Stream the track below. Source

Download | Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS “I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.” Constant Listeners, sit back, relax, and don’t try to move like some dirty birdie. Those cockadoodie legs of yours are down for the count. I know, I know, you want your pills. Always with your pills! You’ll get ’em after I return from my Laughing Place. (Merch: Support The Losers’ Club and Grab Some T-Shirts!) Join Losers Michael Roffman, Mel Kassel, Randall Colburn, and special guest Lara Unnerstall as they hobble through Stephen King’s icy 1987 novel, Misery. Together, they wrestle with the psychology of Annie Wilkes, debate King’s meta-relationship with his readers, and reflect on how the novel says so much about fandom today. Listen above and return next week when the Losers head to the movies for Rob Reiner’s 1990 Oscar-winning adaptation starring Kathy Bates and James Caan. In the meantime, please show your support by proving you’re our No. 1 fan on iTunes. Chapters include: Introductions, History/Synopsis/The Hook (27:00), Structure and Format (1:17:00), Heroes and Villains (1:37:00), Misery (2:10:30), The Sematary (2:27:00), Word Processor of the Gods (2:43:00), Poundcake! (2:52:00), King’s Dominion (3:00:00), Overall Thoughts (3:05:30), and Outro (3:15:00) — Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram — E-mail us tips. Links — Listen and Follow: Coach Hop — In Case You Missed It: Happy Kingmas with Coach Hop’s Charles Honderick — Editorial: The Generation That Grew Up on Stephen King is Taking Him Back — Editorial: Let’s Not Fuck Up This Stephen King Renaissance, Okay? — Feature: Behold, The Stephen King Cinematic Universe! — Guide: Stephen King in Five Films — Ranking: Every Stephen King Movie, Miniseries, TV Show from Worst to Best — List: The Top 10 Stephen King Film Adaptations Source

Well, it’s here. The Weeknd and Gesaffelstein‘s long-teased and highly anticipated collab from the supposed forthcoming Gesaffelstein album has arrived. While I can’t say I’m disappointed in it, I’m not overly impressed either. Simply put, it feels like “Starboy” 2.0 – The Weeknd’s massive collab with Daft Punk, which just hit the 1 billion stream mark on Spotify. The drum pattern is extremely similar in the production from this previous Weeknd collab, and causes “Lost In The Fire” to lose some of its shine for me. That being said, it’s still an instant hit that will be in my rotation for sometime. The Weeknd’s signature style certainly shines through and doesn’t disappoint. Listen below to both and let me know if you agree or disagree – who knows, maybe I’m crazy. And keep your eyes peeled, I wouldn’t be surprised to see The Weeknd come out at Coachella for Gesaffelstein’s highly anticipated return. This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: BREAKING: The Weeknd & Gesaffelstein Unleash Hotly Anticipated Collab “Lost In The Fire” Source

The Weeknd failed to capture the magic of his beginnings on last year’s My Dear Melancholy, EP. However, the Canadian crooner also known as Abel Tesfaye seems determined to make up for that project as he’s already hyping up Chapter 6, a new album that’s reportedly “coming soon.” “Being in Toronto these past two days, I haven’t been this inspired in years,” he told a crowd in November. A release date for Chapter 6 hasn’t been confirmed just yet, but today fans have received perhaps a taste of The Weeknd’s musical direction as of late. The R&B singer has reunited with French DJ/producer and past collaborator Gesaffelstein on a somber new song called “Lost in Fire”. (Read: The Most Anticipated Hip-Hop Albums of 2019) Update: Watch the official video, directed by Manu Cossu, below. The forthcoming Chapter 6 will serve as the official follow-up to The Weeknd’s 2016 full-length, Starboy. Gesaffelstein previously had a hand in two My Dear Melancholy, tracks, “I Was Never There” and “Hurt You.” Today’s new offering will likely appear on the producer’s upcoming solo album, Hyperion, which is set to drop sometime before year’s end. The LP’s lead single, “Reset”, came with a music video that prominently featured a Tekashi 6ix9ine lookalike. Source

R. Kelly remains defiant as ever — even as the walls around him seem to be crumbling. In the wake of Lifetime’s docu-series, Surviving R. Kelly, the controversial R&B singer has become the subject of a criminal investigation in one state, and is a person of interest in another. He’s also been shunned by many of his former collaborators, including Lady Gaga, Chance the Rapper, and Phoenix. One might think Kelly would want to lay low, but on Wednesday night he threw himself a very public birthday party at a Chicago nightclub V75. At one point, Kelly seemed to not only acknowledge the ongoing controversy, he went as far to mock it. After singing the opening lines to “Bump N’ Grind,” Kelly told the gathered audience, “Y’all motherfuckers don’t know it’s my motherfuckin’ birthday and I don’t give a fuck what’s going on tonight.” Unfortunately for Kelly, he was forced to give a fuck after police arrived at the club. According to TMZ, police responded to the scene after being told Kelly had an outstanding warrant for his arrest. However, after speaking with Kelly, officers determined the information to be inaccurate and let him walk free without incident. While Kelly may have avoided arrest this time, Chicago police are clearly keeping a close eye on him. Earlier in the week it was reported that officers paid a visit to his Chicago recording studio, where his “sex cult” is allegedly based. Prosecutors in Cook County are also asking Kelly’s alleged victims to “please come forward” in order to initiate an investigation. Meanwhile, Kelly’s estranged daughter, Joann Lee Kelly, addressed her father’s allegations in a statement posted to Instagram. “The same monster you all confronting me about is my father,” she wrote. “I am well aware of who and what he is. I grew up in that house.” R Kelly’s estranged daughter Buku Abi speaks out against her father, apologizes for taking so long long to say something. Calls him a monster and says that she, her mother and siblings don’t condone Kelly’s behavior pic.twitter.com/SlYh3unopN — BallerAlert (@balleralert) January 10, 2019 Source

Fyre Festival will go down as one of the funniest and most unfortunate things that have ever happened to a bunch of rich people. Fyre Festival is literally synonymous with overpromising something only to brutally underdeliver to the point where people absolutely despise you. The doco dives into what exactly was going through the heads of Ja Rule and Billy McFarland when they agreed to put together the experience, which was supposed to feature luxury dining, celebrities and more Insta worthy moments than you can shake a stick out. Instead, punters were put into refugee tents, served depressing pieces of plain bread and essentially told to piss off and fend for themselves. As a result, Billy McFarland is currently serving a 6 year sentence after defrauding investors by more than $36 million, and after the doco trailer aired it looks like he’s set for a load more shit coming his way. Netflix is releasing the hotly anticipated series on January 18, get keen. Source

There are a lot of ways to go about getting guest list to your favorite DJ’s show. You can be on an email list, know a local promoter, maybe hooked up with a bartender at some point (this goes for guys and girls, we don’t judge), but the quickest way to the front of the line is obviously to know the artist or someone on their team. That being said, there’s a degree of etiquette that goes into asking for guest list, especially depending on the location (venue/city) of the show, how close to show date your request is, and most importantly, how well you yourself know the person you’re hitting up. Apparently, such a topic had been weighing on DJ Lee Burridge’s mind for quite some time as he decided to lay out a guideline for asking for guest list earlier this week. In the lengthy piece, he talks about the myth that guest list is just some endless Google Doc page that names can be added to — no, clubs have capacities. “Also, when you’re added, you really should try to actually turn up.” Check out the full breakdown below if you’re planning on asking an artist or their management for guest list any time in the future; chances are you’ll learn something or realize you weren’t being as courteous as you could’ve been. Photo via Rukes.com This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Want to ask your favorite DJ for guest list? Lee Burridge gives important tips on how to do it right Source

Skrillex “Sicko Mode” Travis Scott, Drake, Skrillex? Put those three names under one roof and a track must be doing pretty well. That looks to be the case with Scott’s Sicko Mode, which rapidly became one of hottest tracks in music. I had a feeling the song was going to be big when I saw my friend’s rapping along to it in the car of instagram stories. Not surprisingly, the song climbed into the top five of the billboard charts in August. In comes Skrillex, who looks to have something brewing off it. Skrillex is not a stranger to remixing hit songs, as his version of ‘Humble’ by Kendrick Lamar was a banger back in 2017. Skrillex works on a ‘Sicko Mode’ remix with dark synth tones. Skrillex Like his passed work, the song is an instant hit. This was actually not meant to be released, because it wasn’t an official remix and just supposed to be for live performances, but Travis liked it so much, he decided to release it. BONUS: Skrillex Boiler Room Set in Shanghai  BONUS #2: Skrillex remix of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Humble’: Follow Skrillex: SoundCloud The post Skrillex Works a Dark Remix of Travis Scott & Drake’s ‘Sicko Mode’ appeared first on EDM | Electronic Music | EDM Music | EDM Festivals | EDM Events. Source

One person’s medical condition is every woman’s dream. A Chinese woman has made headlines after she woke up unable to hear male voices, according to The Daily Mail. The woman, who’s since been identified as Ms. Chen, had gone to bed with ringing in her ears, only to wake up to her silent boyfriend. Upon visiting the hospital, she discovered her situation. “She was able to hear me when I spoke to her,” says ear, nose, and throat specialist Dr. Lin Xiaoqing, “but when a young male patient walked in, she couldn’t hear him at all.” While the scenario sounds like a bizarro version of What Women Want, Chen is actually unable to hear deeper tones due to a rare condition called “reverse-slope hearing loss.” It’s so rare that only one in nearly 13,000 patients with hearing issues are affected. As for why Chen suffered the loss, Dr. Xiaoqing is unsure, but believes it was brought on by stress and long days of working. She expects Chen to make a full recovery, a fate that some people may argue is more of a curse. All joking aside, if you’re suffering from any kind of hearing loss, be sure to seek out a physician immediately. If Chen’s situation is any lesson, it’s imperative you treat any ear condition as soon as possible to avoid any permanent damage. Source

Young up-start Willaris K has had a pretty sterling year after releasing some crowd crumbling beats as well as a stack of festival slots including closers at Beyond The Valley and Lost Paradise has dropped an all australian mix and well, it’s pretty bloody good! In line with his own wares and outside of the more boppy sounds the mix wanders through some darker and techny themes with original cuts from Jack Grace, Nite Fleit and Nutrition as well as remixes from Pat Carroll and Ara Koufa. The mix was actually part of Triple J’s ‘Aus Music Month’ and was voted one of their ‘best of mixup’ so if you missed it back in November this is the hour of power for you! Check out the tracklist and dive into the goodness below. Willaris. K – Cobaki Sky (Prequel) Jack Grace – Downstate (Ara Koufax Remix) Lancelot – Lorikeets Nite Fleit – Partly Sunny Planete – Vectors Willaris. K – Perpetual Love The Nights – Fallen (Pat Carroll Remix) The Nights – Fallen Rossen Culture – Into The Trees [Unreleased] Seekae – John Duncan Nutrition – Soluppgang (Pt. 1) Rossen Culture – Aurora [Unreleased] RUFUS DU SOL – Innerbloom Willaris. K – Natural Selection Source

Origins is a new music feature in which we task artists with dissecting the inspirations behind their latest single. The rock star life is hardly ever as glamorous as the movies make it seem. Singer-songwriter Kevin Olken Henthorn knows this all too well, having jumped head-first into the industry — first as the main songwriter of Stone Cold Fox and now as the leader of his own solo project Cape Francis. Henthorn’s time is divided between his creative pursuits and a much less thrilling desk job at one of the world’s biggest financial institutions. It’s not the ideal setup for any artist looking to steadily churn out material, but there is something of a silver lining to be found: The grueling, 9-5 grind has provided Henthorn with a good chunk of source material for his music. Take, for example, “Button Up”, the latest single from his forthcoming album as Cape Francis, Deep Water. As its name suggests, the track is a bleak examination of The Cubicle Job and how it can very seriously drain a person of their artistic juices. “Button up, suit and tie/ Go work everyday in disguise/ Wonder how all my dead dreams died,” Henthorn sings, recounting his monotonous day-to-day. In a statement to Consequence of Sound, Henthorn says the new song “was meant to be a small snapshot of where I am in my life right now.” He adds, “I’ve spent my entire 20s in Brooklyn, trying to piece together some sort of music career, like so many others I know. I kinda hate it here, I kinda love it here, but often I just feel numb and stuck in this broken loop of living a work life and trying to live a music life.” At least Henthorn doesn’t try to sugar coat things a la Hollywood, and “Button Up” is a mighty fine slice of indie rock, bits of percolating guitar and longing vocals to match the anxiety and melancholy of his daily hustle. Check it out below. Deep Water arrives March 1st via Sleepwell Records. For more background on the new single, Henthorn details a few of the major influences that informed “Button Up”, such as blues rocker Peter Green, his New York subway commute, and one of our former Artists of the Month, Phoebe Bridgers. Peter Green: I grew up playing the blues as a kid, I’ve definitely strayed away from it over time, but the concepts behind it are integral to pretty much everything I do. A core idea in Blues is to draw emotion out of melody, something you can learn and apply to any type of music and is not just inherent to the pentatonic scale. Peter Green is a master at this and has always been my idol as a kid. I can’t think of another guitarist that knows how to pull raw emotion out of thin air more than him. While staying away from traditional blues structure, I’ve always tried to adopt that approach to every song I write. If I had to live with just one riff for this entire album, it’d be the opening of “Button Up”. For me, the way that open D runs into those descending notes is the crux of the emotions I was dealing with at the time and says more than most words I can think of. The J/M/Z subway line: My commute is going from Bushwick to the financial district via J/M/Z. Every day I would pretty much rather be anywhere else in the world than on that train. Often I just imagine driving up north back to Maine, that type of day dreaming definitely played a role in this song and the album as a whole. I imagined the second verse on a late night drive getting as far away from the city as possible. Work: When I got my current job at one of the largest banks in the world, most of my friends were pretty bewildered, I’m literally the last person on earth they’d expect getting a job there. I have no financial knowledge, like less than zero, but somehow I ended up in their media department, editing some of the dullest videos known to man. It takes a good amount of completely dialing off your brain to get through busy work like that, and it feels like an easy enough task. But the long term effect of sitting in one spot for 8 hours tuning it all out has had massive effects on my depression. This is something so many of us face, it’s definitely not a particularly exciting topic to base a whole album on. There’s nothing particularly innovative about writing it down, but as an artist it’s something I felt I needed to face and confront. For the longest time I’ve had this juvenile notion that I’d “never work a desk job”, and to some degree as an artist you need to stick to that notion, because striving for something more keeps you going. However, right now the music world is a lot different than it was when I was a kid. The landscape has changed, the money’s changed, and as artists you have to learn to change and adapt to it if you want to get out alive. A huge part of this album is about coming to terms with this shifting idea of success as we get older and how to confront old expectations set by a younger version of yourself. Fritz Lang — Metropolis: When I was writing this, I always had this Metropolis-type visual of workers in a row, slowly slogging their way in lines. The tempo and slow chug of the song fed into that. It’s what your brain slows down to when you shut off and just do the job. Phoebe Bridgers: Around the time I was writing the record I was shown Phoebe Bridgers. I remember feeling like, how on earth did I not hear this album yet, it just blew me away. I must have listen to Scott Street a hundred times. The way her vocals were recorded, stacked up like that, was so clean and her harmonies were amazing. That album really inspired me to dig further into my own sound and not turn away from honesty, which I can often be persuaded to do when writing songs. Cape Francis 2019 Tour Dates: 03/04 – Los Angeles, CA @ Bardot 03/06 – New York, NY @ Baby’s All Right Source

Foo Fighters started 2019 off on a shaky foot. The band played their first gig of the new year on Wednesday evening, putting on a show at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas as part of CES 2019. Everything seemed to be going fine until frontman Dave Grohl tried to be the cool rock dude we all know he is and slipped up — literally. Grohl was rocking a guitar solo when he sauntered over stage left to a bar by the front of the crowd. He hopped down and asked for a beer, which he placed atop a speaker by his head. At first, he tried to take a hands-free sip only to, predictably, knock the beer over. He quickly scooped it up, smacked his lips, and chugged the lager down. Rock star! The trouble came when he tried to get back up on the stage — and immediately fell off. Fans in the crowd likely had an immediate flashback to 2015, when Grohl broke his leg after a stage fall in Sweden. He finished that concert and played the rest of the tour in a throne. When the Foo Fighters returned to the Scandinavian Nordic country last summer, Grohl pranked the crowd by having a look-alike pretend to fall off stage. This time, thankfully, the frontman seemed to pop up injury free — though that beer spill may have messed with the speaker. The band did call out JBL in an Instagram post earlier today, so maybe the publicity makes everything square: Foo Fighters have plenty of more gigs coming up to get it right. Their itinerary includes stops at music festivals like Reading and Leeds, Sonic Temple, Hurricane & Southside, and Lollapalooza’s inaugural event in — wouldn’t you know it — Stockholm, Sweden. Source

After years of disturbing sexual misconduct allegations, artists are finally speaking out against R. Kelly in the wake of Lifetime’s explosive docu-series Surviving R. Kelly. Last night saw Lady Gaga step forward to apologize for working with the disgraced R&B singer, with the pop star and recent Golden Globe winner vowing to remove their collaboration “Do What U Want” from all streaming services. Now, Phoenix have issued their own statement of regret over having ever linked up with Kelly. The French synthpop outfit and the “I Believe I Can Fly” artist joined forces back in 2013 for a remix of Bankrupt! track “Trying to Be Cool”. That same year, the two acts also hit the Coachella stage together, where they performed a mashup of Kelly’s “Ignition (Remix)” and Phoenix’s hit “1901”. (Read: Beyoncé’s Parents Kept Destiny’s Child Away From R. Kelly) “We are deeply horrified by the stories of abuse surrounding R. Kelly,” Phoenix wrote on Twitter this afternoon. “We regret that we were not both more informed and more discerning when we worked with him previously. We fully support all victims of sexual abuse, and it’s our hope that there will be a path to justice.” We are deeply horrified by the stories of abuse surrounding R. Kelly. We regret that we were not both more informed and more discerning when we worked with him previously. We fully support all victims of sexual abuse, and it's our hope that there will be a path to justice. — Phoenix (@wearephoenix) January 10, 2019 Justice, finally, may be on its ways for Kelly’s alleged survivors, as Georgia authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the singer’s background earlier this week. And the comeuppance may come despite Kelly’s best efforts to quash the backlash sparked by Surviving R. Kelly; on Monday, he launched Surviving Lies, a Facebook account dedicated to “exposing” and discrediting his many accusers. It has since been taken down by Facebook for violating community standards. Phoenix and Lady Gaga join Chance the Rapper and John Legend, who both condemned Kelly last week. Shark Tank judge Daymond John has gone even further, advising that Kelly “kill himself” in jail. Source

POND may hail from Perth in Western Australia, but they’ve named their newly announced album after a different Australian state: Tasmania. The “sister album” to 2017’s The Weather is due out March 1st via Interscope Records. Produced and mixed by the psychedelic rockers alongside Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, Tasmania was recorded in Fremantle, Western Australia. A press release describes the new LP as coating “an undercurrent of restless, anxious dread in a sheen of light, apathetic content — both real and parody — rather than wallowing in self-pity, encouraging us to celebrate the fruits of our planet, frolic in the ocean, kick up the dust, roll in the grass and enjoy the feeling of being in love — while we still can.” Previously released tracks “Burnt Out Star” and “Sixteen Days” are included on the 10-song effort, as is opening number and new single “Daisy”. The track comes via a Jesse Taylor Smith-directed video in which the band takes that “kicking up dust” mentality to heart by enjoying a day in the dusty countryside. The clip was filmed on land owned by the Kulin and Nyoongar Nations, and respect to the Indigenous peoples is paid in the opening card. Check it out below. Tasmania Artwork: Tasmania Tracklist: 01. Daisy 02. Sixteen Days 03. Tasmania 04. The Boys Are Killing Me 05. Hand Mouth Dancer 06. Goodnight, P.C.C. 07. Burnt Out Star 08. Selené 09. Shame 10. Doctor’s In POND are currently set to play a pair of European festivals come summer: Primavera Sound in Barcelona and We Love Green in Paris. Source

Michael Douglas’ recent Golden Globe win for The Kominsky Method only adds more reason for why veteran A-list performers should make the leap to television. Al Pacino is next in line as he’s reportedly signed on to star in Jordan Peele’s forthcoming Amazon series, The Hunt. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the award-winning icon is closing a deal that would have mark his first series-regular role. The closest he’s come to the medium is starring in HBO productions such as Angels in America, You Don’t Know Jack, and last year’s Paterno. Created by David Weil, The Hunt dials back to the clock to 1977 and follows a group of Nazi hunters wandering around New York City in search of former high-ranking officers looking to form a Fourth Reich. Pacino will play a veteran hunter and mentor to series lead Logan Lerman. Both Weil and Nikki Toscano (24: Legacy) serve as the showrunners with Peele and Monkeypaw’s Win Rosenfeld executive producing alongside Sonar’s Tom Lesinski and Jenna Santoianni. The series will bow sometime in the near future on Amazon. Next up, Pacino will star in Martin Scorsese’s highly-anticipated crime thriller The Irishman for Netflix, which pairs Pacino with Heat co-star Robert DeNiro and Goodfellas legend Joe Pesci. Source

It’s official: Martin Scorsese will be directing a long-rumored documentary on Bob Dylan’s iconic “Rolling Thunder Revue” tour for Netflix. Variety reports that the film, entitled Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, will hopefully hit the streaming service sometime in 2019. Netflix confirms that Dylan himself spoke in front of the camera for the film – a rarity for the legendary but reclusive songwriter. Variety also reports that a number of alumni from the period have been interviewed over the last few years as part of the production. Jeff Rosen, Dylan’s longtime manager who also participated in Scorsese’s 2005 film No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, conducted the majority of the interviews himself. Unlike No Direction Home, which centered on the songwriter’s 1965-1966 electric era turning point, Rolling Thunder Revue is said to be less of a straightforward narrative. “There’s a reason the word ‘story’ appears in the title,” a source hinted to Variety. Netflix also provides a brief synopsis of the new doc: “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year. Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, Rolling Thunder is a one of a kind experience, from master filmmaker Martin Scorsese.” Scorsese is currently wrapping Netflix’s The Irishman, a feature-length drama set to star Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino, as well as include roles from Harvey Keitel, Bobby Cannavale, and Action Bronson. Dylan’s latest album came in 2016 with Fallen Angels. For a deeper dive into Dylan’s most influential works, the debut season of the CPN podcast The Opus (hosted by Paula Meija) does a comprehensive interrogation into his 1975 classic Blood on the Tracks. Listen to the entire season on Spotify below. Source

The federal government remains shutdown as President Trump holds the country hostage in a bid to secure funding for his proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico. This despite the fact that the facts and data (and public opinion) are against the concept. If this whole situation has seemed too strange even for fiction, well it actually was fiction, as the whole thing was predicted long ago by 1950s television. Trackdown, an old western series that aired on CBS, featured in 1958 an episode entitled “The End of the World”, where a con man named “Walter Trump” convinces the town of Talpa that the world will come to an end unless they let him build a border wall. Only in his version, it’s not illegal immigrants pouring over a country border, but a meteorite barreling towards Earth. The snake-oil salesman, portrayed by actor Lawrence Dobkin, resembles his real-life namesake in both motive and mannerisms (at one point in the episode he responds to a threat with the retort “be careful son, I can sue you”). However, Trump’s plot to trick the people of Talpa is foiled by the show’s main character, ranger Hoby Gilman (played by Robert Culp). Of course, real life hasn’t paralleled that aspect of the story — yet. You can see the eerily familiar scenes for yourself below. What the fresh hell. This is REAL. Filmed in 1958- about a conman who grifts a small town of suckers into building a wall. History not subtle enough for you? GUESS THE GRIFTER'S NAME (And watch until the end) pic.twitter.com/6FA3p6KC00 — Alex Hirsch (@_AlexHirsch) January 9, 2019 If you believe the similarities seem too on the nose to be real, Snopes has fact-checked the validity of the clip. Let’s hope reality continues to follow the same arc as the episode, and our current political story ends with the lines, “You’re under arrest Trump.” Watch the full Trackdown episode in question below. Source

New Year, Hot New Band Ready to Top the Charts. Meet Juice 2019 has arrived and many new acts are beginning they’re campaigns for Best New Artist/Group. Off to an early start is fast-rising rock band known as Juice. The multi-genre influenced newcomers are catching a lot of attention with their hot new single, simply-titled, “DAVE”. Today, we premiere the band’s new visual presentation of the bonafide hit. “DAVE” tells hip-hop story centered around a disgruntled conservative man’s ceaseless struggle against loud music. Each verse takes place at a different point in 21st-century history, using lyrical and musical references, paint the picture of each era. Juice violinist Christian Rose on “DAVE”: “Dave is a lot of things. It’s Hip-Hop, it’s Easter Eggs, it’s social and political commentary. But most importantly, it’s a portrait of an angry old guy…” In 2018, Juice was featured on The Today Show as Elvis Duran’s artist of the month (August), where the band performed their previous hit, “Sugar” in front of a live studio audience. Watch the new video above. The post Premiere: Hot New Rock Band Juice Introduces Us to “DAVE” appeared first on Verge Campus. Source

As the drip, drip, drip of festival lineups starts leaking, we shouldn’t forget that there’s more than one way to catch a show this year. Festivals are the perfect scene to load up buffet style on old and new music alike. It’s also a chance to see an artist you love get to strut their stuff in front of a large, new group of potential fans. Still, if you only can see a favorite act once, maybe the tour route — be it a dark, dingy (they call it intimate) club, a festival-size outdoor stage, or a corporate arena with ice beneath the floorboards — makes more sense. Either way, here are 30 artists, bands, comedians, and personalities that we’ll be checking out in 2019 when their tours roll through our neighborhoods. We’ll save you a seat. __________________________________________________________ Anderson .Paak Anderson .Paak, photo by Lior Phillips Anderson .Paak has mapped out an extensive 2019 trek officially dubbed “Andy’s Beach Club World Tour” in continued support of his new album, Oxnard. His global tour officially launches February 11th with a North American leg that includes stops in San Francisco, Denver, Atlanta, Boston, New York, and Toronto. .Paak and his Free Nationals band will then head off to Europe, where they’ll play for audiences in Oslo, Copenhagen, Paris, Manchester, Berlin, and Milan. And, yes, the windows on his private jet will be tinted. –Lake Schatz __________________________________________________________ A$AP Rocky ASAP Rocky, photo by Kimberley Ross Earlier this week, ASAP Rocky embarked on his “Injured Generation” North American tour, which comes in support of his latest album, Testing. The tour began in Minneapolis and Chicago and will turn north for a couple days in Canada before hopscotching across the United States through the rest of January and part of February. Rocky’s opening acts will include Playboi Carti, Ski Mask The Slump God, and Comethazine. –Alex Young __________________________________________________________ The Chemical Brothers The Chemical Brothers The Chemical Brothers look to be out in full force in 2019. They’ve got a new video and single out as well as plans to drop their new album, No Geography, in the spring via EMI. Additionally, the UK electronic duo have mapped out their first tour dates in four years, including short stints in both North America (May 2019) and the UK (November 2019). The last time the pair played live was back in 2015, so don’t miss your chance to free yourself. –Lake Schatz __________________________________________________________ The Cure The Cure, photo by Debi Del Grande The Cure are showing no signs of slowing down — even as they celebrate their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Not only has the band mapped out an extensive festival tour for 2019, but they’re also just weeks away from finishing their first new album in over a decade. Smith previously said the band would be playing up to 20 festivals next summer. Thus far, they’ve confirmed appearances at a number of prominent European events, including Belgium’s Rock Werchter, Portugal’s NOS Alive, and Spain’s Mad Cool Festival. For a band who once lamented they had to play large venues after having become so popular, they now seem to embrace nothing more than the chance to cheer up (or is it bum out) a sea of their fans. –Alex Young __________________________________________________________ Dido The English hitmaker Dido is set to return with her first album in five years in early March. In support of the new record, the singer has already mapped out her first tour in 15 years, which includes a North American run in June. Along with material off the new record, Still on My Mind, her setlist is expected to include smash singles like No Angel cut “Here with Me” and “White Flag”, taken from 2003’s Life for Rent. 2019 has Comeback of the Year written all over it for Dido. –Lake Schatz __________________________________________________________ The Good, the Bad & the Queen The Good The Bad & The Queen on Jools Holland After the success of their return album, Merrie Land, and a short stint of UK tour dates to round out 2018, The Good, the Bad & the Queen will be extending their reunion through a small handful of UK dates in April. As for the rest of us, we’ll just have to hope that the group have the whites of their eyes set on America next. –Regan Bexler. __________________________________________________________ The Hives and Refused This spring, The Hives will embark on their first US tour in six years. Better yet, they’ll be sharing the stage with Refused. “The Scream Team Tour” takes place in May and is bookended by festival appearances at Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival in Columbus, Ohio and Las Vegas’ Punk Rock Bowling. In between, they’ll visit Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Lawrence, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas. –Alex Young __________________________________________________________ Hootie and the Blowfish Hootie and the Blowfish on The Tonight Show Seminal roots rock band Hootie and the Blowfish will reunite in 2019, with plans to tour the US and release new music. The Darius Rucker-led outfit has mapped out an expansive 44-city summer tour, which kicks off May 30th in Virginia Beach and runs through mid-September. It marks the band’s first extended outing of the US in over a decade. What’s more, they’ll be joined on the road by Barenaked Ladies, who will open all of Hootie’s reunion shows. –Alex Young __________________________________________________________ Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra Jeff Lynne’s ELO on Jimmy Kimmel This past summer, Jeff Lynne’s ELO embarked on their first extensive North American tour in 35 years. Fans of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame outfit won’t have to wait nearly as long to see them again; ELO have announced a new 20-date swing for summer 2019. This time around, ELO will hit secondary markets like Anaheim, Sacramento, Vancouver, Tampa, St. Paul, and Pittsburgh. Looks like nothing but Mr. Blue Skies for folks in those towns. –Alex Young __________________________________________________________ KISS KISS on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, photo by Andrew Lipovsky/NBC Whether you believe them or not, the members of KISS say their upcoming tour will indeed be their last. Their “End of the Road World Tour” kicks off in North America beginning at the end of January and spans 65 dates across two continents. Following the American leg, which runs through mid-April, the band will make their way across the Atlantic for shows in the UK, Europe, and Russia. The band have also announced a second North American tour leg that will keep the guys on the road throughout August and September. The second North American leg begins August 6th in Sunrise, Florida, and runs through a September 16th date in Oakland, California. According to a press release, the recently announced first leg of KISS’ farewell tour has reached more than half a million tickets sold. Talk about an army. –Alex Young and Anne Erickson __________________________________________________________ Source

Kehlani will celebrate the birth of her first child later this year, but that hasn’t stopped the Oakland R&B singer from lining up a slate of new music projects. In an interview with Zane Lowe today, the mother-to-be noted that a mixtape could be on the way as soon as February, followed by a new album, the follow-up to 2017’s SweetSexySavage. Although hard release dates weren’t divulged by Kehlani, she’s tiding her fans over with a new single called “Nights Like This”. A collaboration featuring rapper Ty Dolla $ign, it sees Kehlani sorting through relationship problems with an untrustworthy, fickle partner. “Can you tell me what’s with all this distant love?” she asks in the chorus. “You gonna say you want me, then go switch it up/ You gonna play with my emotions just because.” Check it out below via its official music video, which stars Kehlani and a robot. Stream her Beats 1 interview. Kehlani spent much of last year on the road supporting Demi Lovato and Halsey. She also released a single titled “Again” in February, and then collaborated with Cardi B on the Invasion of Privacy cut “Ring”. Source

The Pitch: Dell (Kevin Hart) is on the brink in every possible way. His ex-girlfriend Latrice (Aja Naomi King) doesn’t want him around their son. He’s looking for work, but hardly committing to any, which has him looking for a home and barely meeting the terms of his parole. When he stumbles into an interview session for a “life auxiliary”, a full-time live-in assistant for individuals with specialized needs, he’s the least qualified applicant by a mile. But for Philip (Bryan Cranston), a high-society multimillionaire who was left quadriplegic after a hang-gliding accident, Dell is exactly the kind of life auxiliary he’s after, the kind of man who won’t drone on with pity over his condition. His chief executive Yvonne (Nicole Kidman) is hardly impressed, but soon the streetwise Dell and the quietly suffering Phillip begin to change one another’s lives in ways unexpected to them, and wholly expected to anybody who’s ever seen an inspirational melodrama of this nature. Cut From a Familiar Cloth: In 2011, Intouchables became a major hit in France, and even now remains one of the country’s highest-grossing domestic productions ever. Based on a true story, its tale of men from opposite sides of the tracks and their indomitable friendship also became a major awards-season player. Some things translate flawlessly across cultural lines, and so went the kind of maudlin, predictable, feel-good morality play that the Oscars have historically favored on this end of the Atlantic. The Upside retains much of Intouchables‘ plot, structure, and pacing, with director Neil Burger adding an even more lighthearted touch to what was already a dramedy with its emphasis on the latter. Aside from a meager handful of dramatic moments (Dell’s early theft of a rare book, Phillip’s thinly drawn struggles with depression), The Upside is strictly in the business of audience uplift. That’s true of everything from the sardonic exchanges between Hart and Cranston (easily the best scenes in the film), to the generally despair-free way in which the story sidesteps some of its more tragic facets. The Downside: The biggest problem with The Upside, in several different respects, is the way in which it’s clearly pitched as a coming-out party for Kevin Hart as a dramatic performer. After becoming one of the most visible (and profitable) comedians of his generation, the recently embattled Hart clearly saw this film as an opportunity to branch out and demonstrate his range for audiences more familiar with his mile-a-minute comic delivery. The trouble then emerges twofold. First, Hart seems reluctant to entirely abandon the schtick on which he’s made his name, leading to certain sequences in The Upside which seem as though they were cut and pasted from an entirely different and somehow even broader movie. When Hart finds a comfortable rhythm, there are moments that certainly do suggest he has more going on as an actor, particularly in Dell’s casual-but-firm insistence that Phillip be looked in the eye and addressed on his own. There’s a soulfulness to certain aspects of Hart’s performance, which makes the film’s reliance on high-concept setups like catheter panic and smoke sessions all the more grating. The other big issue with The Upside is that it ultimately sidelines Phillip’s story for Dell’s. Whatever you may think of Cranston playing a quadriplegic character as an able-bodied performer, he’s left to draw a character that the film never truly seems to find on its own. The actor does fine enough work, lending Phillip a wistfulness that plays at odds with the gruff characters Cranston’s stuck to in recent years. Yet when the film leaves to follow Dell’s attempts to reconcile with his past and be a better father, it leaves Phillip behind, who’s then tasked with waiting around until he can help Dell complete his own dramatic arc. It’s a strangely dehumanizing perspective to take on Phillip, particularly when the film occasionally acknowledges the ways in which people condescend to the disabled on a daily basis. The inspiration the film pursues ultimately ends up being less about Phillip learning to live again, and more about the ways in which Dell grows from having known him. The Verdict: Although its leads find the odd moment of charm together, even Kidman in what’s somehow the worst-shaded part of all three, The Upside fumbles far too often when it attempts to enlighten or edify its audience. There’s a disingenuousness lurking beneath the swelling score and comic interludes, a sense that this is a film less in the business of telling a genuine story than in cherry-picking its most appealing aspects while racing through anything else at speed. (The one scene in the entire 122-minute film in which Phillip’s condition becomes a crucial part of the scene feels almost obligatory, a generator of blatant pity that the character himself would abhor.) It’s entirely possible to tell this story, perhaps even without the troubling notes of racial patronization that both versions have now struggled with. It would just have to have a perspective that nobody behind The Upside seems to have considered at any great length. Where’s It Playing? The Upside opens nationwide on January 11th. Trailer: Source