Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive , Movies Alexandra Patsavas, the music supervisor for the ' Twilight ' films, doesn't want to pick a favorite when it comes to the 15 tracks on the ' New Moon ' soundtrack. "Oh gosh, that's like asking a mother to pick her favorite child," Patsavas tells Spinner. After a long pause, she admits, "I'm especially proud that Thom Yorke agreed to be on the soundtrack." For his part, the Radiohead frontman submitted the unreleased, exclusive solo [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News At Permanent Records in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on Friday night, tUnE-YaRdS , the moniker of New England native Merrill Garbus, performed her impressive genre-bending one-woman show for a rapt, head-bobbing crowd eager to see what all the fuss was about. Garbus was making a pit stop between her opening sets for the Dirty Projectors ' sold-out four-night New York stint, which concludes tonight and Sunday night. The multi-instrumentalist, who is sometimes joined by bass player Nate Brenner, proved she needed no accompaniment Friday, [...]
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Filed under: Video of the Day Artist: Fever Ray Video: 'Seven' Highlight: More of the other-worldy weirdness we've come to expect from the Knife 's Karin Elisabeth Dreijer Andersson.
Filed under: The Chum Bucket Lady GaGa is going to perform for the Queen in London. We weren't aware that she was a fan. [ Angry Ape ] Check out NPR's 'Most Important' records of the decade list. [ NPR ] Rosanne Cash sits down for an intimate performance in the KCRW studio. [ KCRW ] John Mayer and pint-sized pop star Justin Beiber are currently engaged in the artist beef of the century. [ Idolator ] [...]
Filed under: Twisted Tales If you called a Native American "Redbone" at the Thanksgiving table, you might get a drumstick upside the head. But in the late 1960s, when American Indians were reclaiming cultural pride alongside other minorities, two brothers sharing Cherokee, Apache and Shoshone blood defiantly took the term Redbone for the name of their band. The brothers already had a fairly impressive résumé in the music business by the time they decided to make their heritage an asset. Born Pat and Lolly Vasquez in Fresno, Calif., they adopted [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Any album with a title that openly mocks President Obama needs a cover that's equally subversive, and Jello Biafra 's artwork for 'The Audacity of Hype' certainly delivers. The former Dead Kennedys frontman opted for a version of Shepard Fairey's famous "HOPE" picture and replace Obama's image with a demonic version of himself, fangs and horns included . Rather than just get an artist to spoof the picture like so many others have done, Biafra went to [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas is currently "camping out" in Los Angeles. As part of his excursion, he's doing a month-long residency of shows, playing every Friday at the Broadway Palace Theater. It turns out there's a lot of history at the venue. "I don't think there's ever been a rock show in that place," Casablancas tells Spinner. "It's where 'Thriller' was filmed and it's just a rad place, to be honest. It feels [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Video , New Music , Exclusive Jack Penate is your token rock fan-turned-star. "I fought for about an hour over Chris Martin 's guitar way back when Coldplay first started. He threw it in the crowd and I didn't get it," Penate tells Spinner during a recent Interface taping in our Los Angeles studios. He also got handpicked from the audience to dance onstage with Missy Elliot . "I was really obsessed with her [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive , Movies Actor/director Zach Braff gave Grammy-nominated English pop star Imogen Heap plenty of exposure in America when he used 'Let Go,' a former Frou Frou song, in his break-out film ' Garden State ,' so she thought she might return the favor. "I wrote the song 'Wait It Out' for this Zach Braff film called 'Open Hearts,'" she tells Spinner. "I read the script on the way to Hawaii to write songs [...]
The Swell Season provided fans with an extra special performance last night in Los Angeles, Calif. when funny man Jason Segel joined the musicians on stage. Segel, who played piano, performed an original song accompanied by the Swell Season. When Segel asked Marketa Irglova how to write a meaningful song, she told him to "write from the heart and include as much personal information as possible." Segel took this advice to heart and literally provided as much personal information as possible.
Filed under: News , Book Club The young John Lydon was so brilliant, author Greil Marcus argued Thursday night during a presentation at Columbia University, that the iconic Sex Pistols singer, now 53, should be forgiven for appearing in British butter commercials. "I think John Lydon did so much to make the world a richer, more abstract, more contingent place -- and did more to raise the stakes of what people see as art -- that I don't care what he does to make [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Canada There are many ways to tell a story -- words, music, film, paint -- and artists no longer have to choose just one. Case in point, the "multi-dimensional" indie release 'Out of Our Minds' by Melissa Auf der Maur , who grew up in Montreal before '90s rock stardom swept her away to play bass for Hole and Smashing Pumpkins . Three years in the making, there's an 'OOOM' song, forthcoming album, comic book, website and [...]
Filed under: Potent Quotables "The only thing that Katy [Perry] asked for in return for featuring on our single was a massive portion of greasy chips." --Nathaniel Motte Half of electro-rock group 3OH!3 revealed the ' I Kissed a Girl ' singer's thing for the king of the junk foods. "Apparently the grease is her secret trick for opening up the airwaves and making her voice sound great," he speculated. Next Quote
Filed under: Video , UK It's been a busy year for Depeche Mode . They've taken their latest record, 'Sounds of the Universe,' from Luxembourg to Lima, Carcassonne to Ft, Lauderdale, Tel Aviv to Madrid. Their 12th album, it's topped the charts in 21 countries and spawned their latest single, 'Fragile Tension.' And you can watch it after the jump. The single comes as an eight-track double-A side with 'Hole to feed' and a brace of remixed, including a reworking of 'Perfect' by Roger Sanchez. It hits stores on [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Movies When the soundtrack to the first ' Twilight ' film was released a little more than a year ago, it featured an original track by the film's very own resident heartthrob Robert Pattinson , who -- for those of you who live in a dark cave and never come out -- plays lead vampire Edward Cullen. Who knew Pattinson, that guy the tabloids say is dating co-star Kristen Stewart , played guitar, sang and wrote his own music? Two Pattinson tracks were [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Holy Hell An old Kinks tradition of throwing paper plates onto the stage with song requests written on them was thwarted by security at Ray Davies ' Choral Collection concert at Town Hall on Thurdsay. The overzealous goons rushed to the front row thinking the worst, even trying to evict an innocent petite plate-throwing fan from the first row. Davies had to pause the show to assure the guards he was perfectly safe, deciding to risk a [...]
Filed under: Video , Exclusive In Hatcham Social 's new video, 'Sidewalk,' the British band sticks to a classic performance clip, while frontman Toby Kidd scribbles messages on a dry erase board about getting away from it all. "I wanted it to represent the thought process of someone planning an escape," Kidd tells Spinner. The video -- shot with one camera in a single take, according to Kidd -- was filmed for a single from the band's debut full-length album, 'You Dig the Tunnel, I'll Hide the Soil,' [...]
Filed under: News , Video , Movies The Decemberists have revived their most recent album, 'The Hazards of Love,' as an animated full-length video . Titled 'Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized,' the project, which first premiered at a show in Los Angeles last month, will now be available to fans exclusively through iTunes. Colin Meloy and his crew commissioned filmmakers like Guilherme Marcondes, Julia Pott, Peter Sluszka and Santa Maria to create animated pieces for various musical extracts from [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , UK Two of Sheffield's most high profile sons Richard Hawley and Arctic Monkeys ' Alex Turner joined forces at the Mencap Little Noise Sessions at the Islington Union Chapel in London last night (Nov. 19). The pair shared the stage during Hawley's headlining set to perform to a version of Arctic Monkeys' 'The Only Ones Who Know'. Speaking of the collaboration, Hawley told NME how easy it was to team up with Alex Turner. [...]
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