Jack Antonoff is writing music for a brand new reimagined Romeo and Juliet play that can arrive on Broadway this autumn.
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Rachel Zelger (West Facet Story) and Package Connor (Heartstopper) will star within the new musical model of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, which is directed by Sam Gold.
Music for the play has been written by Antonoff whereas Sonya Tayeh is writing the motion. Tickets for the present go on sale in Might here.
In keeping with the musical’s synopsis, “The youth are fucked”. It continues: “Left to their very own gadgets of their mother and father’ world of violent ends, an impulsive pair of star-crossed lovers hurtle in the direction of their inescapable destiny. The intoxicating excessive of ardour rapidly descends right into a brutal chaos that may solely finish a method.”
In an announcement, director Gold mentioned: “With the presidential election developing in November, I felt like making a present this fall that celebrates youth and hope, and unleashes the anger younger individuals really feel in regards to the world they’re inheriting.”
Just lately, actress Francesca Amewudah-Rivers has been backed in open letter condemning the “racist and misogynistic abuse” she has obtained since her casting in a West Finish efficiency of Romeo & Juliet this summer time.
Following the announcement of the solid, which additionally consists of Tom Holland, Amewudah-Rivers was topic to a “barrage” of on-line abuse.
In response, The Jamie Lloyd Firm made an announcement condemning the “barrage of deplorable racial abuse on-line directed in the direction of a member of our firm.”
They continued: “This should cease. We’re working with a outstanding group of artists. We insist that they’re free to create work with out going through on-line harassment.”
“Any abuse won’t be tolerated and can be reported. Bullying and harassment haven’t any place on-line, in our business or in our wider communities,” the theatre firm wrote.
“We have a good time the extraordinary expertise of our unbelievable collaborators. The Romeo & Juliet group will proceed to rehearse with generosity and love, and deal with the creation of our manufacturing.”
Nick Cave has recalled making peace with the artists which have “disillusioned” him, explaining that he’s prepared to look past their private choices if the artwork they make is “genuine”.
The Unhealthy Seeds frontman mentioned the subject in a brand new replace on his weblog, The Red Hand Files, after a fan bought in contact with him to query him about his “spiritual flip” and requested if he ever seems like he’s “letting down [his] queer and feminine followers”.
Responding, Cave went on to share his personal expertise of being disillusioned by artists he as soon as admired and defined how he was capable of look past their private decisions and luxuriate in their art work for what it’s.
“After I consider the artists that I really admire, those who I’ve caught with over time, sooner or later of their prolonged careers they’ve all disillusioned me,” he started.
“Bob Dylan, Neil Younger, Nina Simone, Kanye, Van Morrison, Morrissey, Brian Eno, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith – these are artists that, for me, kind a form of confederacy of excellence, however at one time or one other they’ve every alienated, confounded or displeased me. They’ve usually not travelled within the route I might have hoped or wished for, as an alternative following their very own confounding paths (rattling them!) to their very own truths.
“In the midst of this I’ve typically been discomforted by issues they’ve finished, disagreed with issues they’ve mentioned, or not appreciated a specific document they’ve made. But there’s something about them that retains me captivated, and eternally alert to what they may do subsequent.”
He continued: “Greater than something, this has to do with their authenticity. I do know that on a elementary degree they’re on their very own path and they don’t seem to be within the enterprise of shaping their lives, creative or in any other case, in an effort to please or make others really feel higher. They’re absolutely and acutely genuine, no matter my emotions, or the emotions of anybody else and I discover this deeply reassuring in a world that so usually feels devoid of genuineness. In actual fact, if I sense that an artist is creating, saying or doing issues simply to win public approval, or to yield to the calls for of the market, properly, that’s once I have a tendency to show away.”
Nick Cave performs as a part of the Nick Cave and Warren Ellis “Australian Carnage Tour” at Sydney Opera Home on December 16, 2022 in Sydney, Australia. (Photograph by Don Arnold/WireImage)
Cave additionally went on to say that the affect that religion has in his music “shouldn’t be written with animosity or disrespect”, however somewhat put ahead as he goals to “stay true to myself as a way of respect and to not bend to the wants of others.”
“Our lives are difficult and all of us assume and do issues which can be usually unfathomable to 1 one other, however we achieve this as a result of we dwell our experiences and discover our truths somewhere else. To my appreciable shock, I’ve discovered a few of my truths in that wholly fallible, usually disappointing, deeply bizarre, and completely human establishment of the Church. At occasions, that is as bewildering to me as it might be to you,” he concluded.
“Ultimately, I believe that it’s inside the music that we are going to all discover each other. Certain collectively by sound and rhythm, in that particular place past dogma and opinion and offence, we will make sense of the world.”
The feedback by the singer-songwriter come shortly after he spoke about woke tradition in a latest interview, and criticised it as having “an absence of mercy” and “an absence of forgiveness”.
He clarified that “the idea that there are issues with the world we have to handle, resembling social justice; I’m completely down with that.” Nevertheless, he specified that he didn’t “agree with the strategies which can be used in an effort to attain this aim – shutting down individuals, cancelling individuals.”
“These [approaches] go towards what I essentially consider on a non secular degree, as a lot as something. So it’s a tough one. The issue with the suitable taking maintain of this phrase is that it’s made the dialogue not possible to have with out having to hitch a complete load of nutjobs who’ve their downside with it.”
The dialogue additionally arose after he was questioned in regards to the feedback he made again in 2019, when he mentioned he was “repelled” by wokeness and its “lack of humility”.
Nick Cave of Nick Cave And The Unhealthy Seeds performs on stage throughout All Factors East at Victoria Park on August 28, 2022 in London, England. (Photograph by Jim Dyson/Getty Photos)
Moreover, in 2022 he carried the sentiment over to his views on Kanye West – explaining that whereas he finds the rapper’s anti-Semitic views “distasteful” and “disappointing”, he doesn’t plan to change his listening habits due to it.
“It’s been very disappointing to listen to [West make] these remarks and such type of apparent, boring form of reductive tropes that he’s really pedalling… [however] on some degree I don’t care what Kanye has to say on issues. I do love Kanye, his music.”
He added: “It’s a private selection as as to whether you may go on and take heed to that particular person’s music. I personally can. I really like Kanye’s music. I really feel that he’s finished the perfect music of anyone in a while, essentially the most fascinating, difficult, daring music.”
Cave additionally shared the same view with NME final Might, when he defined how “there’s actually no metric that claims that virtuousness makes good artwork.”
“I don’t significantly care the place my artwork comes from. It doesn’t hassle me if somebody wears a For Britain badge [Morrissey] or is an anti-semite or no matter and so they’re making extraordinary music,” he mentioned. “It’s not that I agree with their politics, which I don’t, I simply assume that what they’re placing into the world [with music] is basically good so it must be inspired.”
“I don’t assume that it’s an accident, or it appears to me that there’s some correlation between transgressive and dangerous behaviour and good artwork. It’s no accident that the actually nice stuff is usually made by essentially the most problematic individuals,” he added. “I don’t fairly perceive it, however there’s actually no metric that claims that virtuousness makes good artwork. In the event you begin trying round for the great individuals who make good artwork, the dialog shuts down in a short time. All the nice stuff appears to be made by people who find themselves in a roundabout way, out of order in a roundabout way or one other.”
At present, the singer is ready to launch his newest LP ‘Wild God’ in August. He introduced the information of the album final month, and likewise shared the title observe because the final single. Following the announcement, he introduced that he can be hitting the street as a part of a European solo tour this summer time. Go to here for remaining tickets.
Jamie xx has returned with an uplifting new single titled ‘Baddy On The Flooring’, starring Honey Dijon. Test it out under.
Arriving earlier this week through Younger, the observe first made an look throughout Jamie xx’s 2021 headline set at All Factors East, and is the primary collaboration between the cross-continentally-based DJs and producers – who made the observe by way of video calls throughout the pandemic.
After over three years within the works, the one lastly acquired its official launch yesterday (April 15) on Younger. It premiered on Radio 1’s Future Artists with Jack Saunders and, in an interview with the host, Jamie xx additionally confirmed {that a} new solo LP is on the way in which, which is able to mark his first since 2015’s ‘In Color’.
Hearken to the storming new observe under, which captures the identical attraction of ‘90s home, and embeds some old-school disco horns on the halfway level.
‘Baddy On The Flooring’ marks Jamie xx and Honey Dijon’s first time working collectively on a tune, though the 2 have beforehand appeared on the identical line-ups prior to now, together with The xx’s 2018 Night time + Day pageant in Bilbao and Jamie xx’s curated Manchester Warehouse Mission in 2021.
The xx producer made his comeback firstly of the 12 months with the one ‘It’s So Good’ – his first new music beneath his personal identify since 2022. He additionally broke out ‘Baddy On The Flooring’ throughout his Coachella set over the weekend.
At time of writing, additional particulars of the upcoming LP have but to be introduced, though it has been confirmed that Jamie xx is about to carry out at this 12 months’s version of Glastonbury Competition on June 28.
This slot at Worthy Farm can be adopted by two US pageant appearances over the summer season – the Pitchfork Music Competition in Chicago on July 20 and the HARD Summer season Music Competition in Inglewood, California on August 3. Discover tickets to all upcoming exhibits here.
Apart from his solo materials, Jamie xx additionally not too long ago teamed up with The xx bandmate Romy for her critically acclaimed album ‘Mid Air’. For this, he co-produced the one ‘Take pleasure in Your Life’, which additionally featured contributions from Fred Once more.. and Stuart Worth.
He additionally took on manufacturing duties for The xx’s Oliver Sim – contributing to the acclaimed 2022 debut solo album ‘Hideous Bastard’.
As for brand spanking new materials from the band, Romy spoke concerning the plans for brand spanking new materials throughout an interview with NME on the BRIT Awards 2024.
“[The xx have] been within the studio since I final spoke to NME and we’re within the studio once more subsequent week, so we’re assembly up commonly,” she defined. “It’s been actually good. I believe we’ve all frolicked aside and it’s wholesome to overlook one another.”
Romy added: “We’re simply conserving it actually open and we’re up for attempting new issues, however it seems like us. That’s all I can say proper now.
“We’ve realized so much from our completely different solo initiatives and it’s cool to be taught from one another once more. We grew up collectively and we had a whole lot of experiences, however to then have time aside and be taught new expertise, get new musical concepts and experiences and evaluate them… it’s been a wholesome break.”
The xx’s third and most up-to-date studio album, ‘I See You’, was launched in 2017.
The Cult have introduced particulars of a UK tour, which can rejoice their fortieth yr as a band. Discover upcoming dates and ticket particulars beneath.
Introduced in the present day (April 16), the exhibits are set for later this yr and can see the long-lasting ‘80s rock group carry out in 10 cities throughout the nation. The dates are available celebration of an enormous milestone for Ian Astbury and co., as this yr marks 4 many years because the band shaped as we recognise them in the present day – swapping their identify from the unique title ‘Demise Cult’ into ‘The Cult’.
“Following up from the nice power of Demise Cult 8323 exhibits, I’m wanting ahead to bringing that sense of celebration of the band’s music, and the communion with our followers, to Cult 8424,” guitarist Billy Duffy stated of the brand new announcement. “CFFC. Let the ceremony start!”
The exhibits all happen this winter, and kick off on October 21 with a gap night time on the De Montfort Corridor in Leicester. That is adopted the subsequent night time with a gig at Swansea Enviornment (22), adopted by stops in Edinburgh (24), Manchester (25), Bristol (27), York (29) and Newcastle (30).
The ultimate run of the brand new tour dates will happen within the first week of November; together with a slot at Guildhall in Portsmouth on the first, and a present at Civic Corridor in Wolverhampton the next night time. The dates wrap up with a closing present on the prestigious Royal Albert Corridor in London on November 4.
Tickets go on sale this Friday (April 19) at 10am BST. Visit here to get tickets and discover a full checklist of tour dates beneath.
Charlie Jones, John Tempesta, Ian Astbury, and Billy Duffy of The Cult carry out onstage through the Harley-Davidson’s Homecoming Pageant – Day 1 at Veterans Park on July 14, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Credit score: Barry Brecheisen/Getty
The Cult 2024 tour dates are:
OCTOBER 21 – Leicester, De Montfort Corridor 22– Swansea, Swansea Enviornment 24 – Edinburgh, Usher Corridor 25 – Manchester, O2 Apollo 27 – Bristol, Beacon 29 – York, Barbican 30 – Newcastle, O2 Metropolis Corridor
NOVEMBER: 1 – Portsmouth, Guildhall 2 – Wolverhampton, Civic Corridor 4 – London, Royal Albert Corridor
The dates for 2024 come following a tour the band launched into final yr, celebrating 40 years since their first formation beneath the identify ‘Demise Cult’.
Happening across the UK, Eire and the US, the tour was known as ‘Demise Cult 8323’ and noticed Duffy and Astbury return to play iconic venues they beforehand carried out in at first of their profession.
The reside exhibits targeted on Demise Cult and their eponymous EPs, and likewise boasted a setlist that spanned “the three phases of the band, from Southern Demise Cult, to Demise Cult, and The Cult’s first two albums: ‘Dreamtime’ (1984) and ‘Love’ (1985).”
Extra lately, Billy Duffy joined Johnny Marr on stage in Frome final summer season to play tracks by The Smiths and Depeche Mode.
The on-stage look was the newest of the a number of occasions the 2 musicians have joined forces, as they each have a protracted historical past of taking part in music collectively – stemming again to their adolescent years.
DJs who stream on Twitch might turn out to be required to reveal their earnings with their document labels, says Twitch CEO Dan Clancy.
The CEO made the feedback in a brand new interview with TweakMusicTips, the place he revealed the streaming platform was quickly to make an settlement the place each DJs and Twitch would “need to share cash with the labels”.
“It doesn’t come without spending a dime,” he continued, and went on to stipulate that Twitch would pay a sum of cash for what labels had been owed: “We’re going to separate no matter the price is.”
The information comes amidst Twitch’s ongoing debates with using copyrighted music on its platform. Based on Endgadget, Clancy hopes this new cope with labels will forestall DJ streamers from being hit with DCMA takedown requests.
Credit score: Thomas Trutschel/Photothek through Getty Photos
He additionally claimed that at the moment, Twitch has a “fairly good factor” with labels the place Twitch pays them cash to make use of copyrighted music on the platform. Nevertheless, Endgadget alleges it’s not a sustainable answer, therefore the necessity for the deal: “Twitch is engaged on one other answer that can make them (extra) cash.”
Clancy steered that Twitch would monitor the music performed by DJ streams, detecting any copyrighted music and thus asking streamers to reveal their earnings to the suitable labels. He has additionally steered that DJs mute movies which are pre-recorded in the event that they don’t need to pay out.
In different information, Twitch has lately banned using sure “intimate” physique components as viewing screens.
It adopted a viral clip of streamer Morgpie streaming widespread recreation Fortnite through her greenscreened bum.
Days after the clip, Twitch put out a press release saying: “Beginning on Friday March twenty ninth, content material that focuses on intimate physique components for a chronic time period is not going to be allowed.”
“Chances are you’ll not present, supply, or promote[…] content material that focuses on clothed intimate physique components such because the buttocks, groin, or breasts for prolonged durations of time.”
Courtney Love has shared her ideas on Taylor Swift – see what she needed to say under.
Chatting with The Standard in an interview lately the Gap singer to advertise her new BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Sounds sequence known as Courtney Love’s Girls, Love spoke about Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey and Madonna.
Although she makes use of the Girls present to uplift and have fun girls in music, Courtney Love slammed Swift in her interview with The Customary. Love advised the outlet: “Taylor shouldn’t be essential. She could be a secure area for women, and she or he’s most likely the Madonna of now, however she’s not fascinating as an artist.”
Courtney Love attends The NME Awards 2020 on the O2 Academy Brixton on February 12, 2020 in London, England. (Photograph by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Pictures)
Love has additionally grown uninterested in current Coachella 2024 headliner Lana Del Rey, saying she stopped liking the singer-songwriter in December final 12 months: “I haven’t appreciated Lana since she lined a John Denver track, and I feel she ought to actually take seven years off. Up till ‘Take Me House, Nation Roads’ I believed she was nice. After I was recording my new album, I needed to cease listening to her as she was influencing me an excessive amount of.”
Courtney Love then spoke on Madonna, with whom she has had a rocky relationship for many years. In 2007, Love questioned Madonna’s validity as an artist, writing in her weblog on the time: “Madonna is a superb enterprise girl however come on, she’s weak as an arists and everyone knows it. I like Madge however as a related musician it’s a joke.”
Courtney Love performs with Gap in 1990. CREDIT: Kevin Mazur/Getty Pictures
Now, Love has stated to The Customary: “I don’t like her and she or he doesn’t like me. I beloved Desperately Searching for Susan, however for the town of New York as a lot as her.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Love spoke about Beyoncé and ‘Cowboy Carter’: “I like the concept of Beyoncé doing a rustic report as a result of it’s about Black girls going into areas the place beforehand solely white girls have been allowed, not that I prefer it a lot. As an idea, I adore it. I simply don’t like her music.”
Again in February, Love joined Billie Joe Armstrong‘s covers band The Coverups onstage in London the place she delivered a joint efficiency of Gap‘s ‘Superstar Pores and skin’. She additionally made a shock look on the first present, helping Armstrong and co. on covers of Tom Petty‘s ‘Even The Losers’, and Low-cost Trick’s ‘He’s A Whore’ and ‘Give up’, in addition to teasing a Gap reunion.
Armstrong subsequently advised NME about his longtime friendship with Love on the BRIT Awards 2024, sharing: “We’ve recognized her since ’94, she’s all the time nice! She’s a wild girl, she has a whole lot of nice tales and I really like Courtney… She’s positively like a rock n’ roll-er in herself. She’s bought her sea legs again so we’ll possibly be listening to extra from her.”
Courtney Love acting on ‘Later…With Jools Holland’ in 2010 (CREDIT: Andre Csillag)
Again in 2020, Courtney Love spoke with NME after choosing up the Icon Award on the 2020 NME Awards and opened up about why she selected to cool down in London.
“After I arrived in London from Liverpool aged 16 within the early ’80s, I ended up staying on the Columbia in Bayswater – the scene of a lot decadent rock and roll exercise. My data of London actually turned the tube from Bayswater to Oxford Avenue – that’s actually all I knew,” she defined.
“You haven’t bought almost the Thought Police you assume you do in comparison with in Portland or components of LA. I’m allowed to dissent right here, which I haven’t felt snug doing lately elsewhere. Having the ability to have an actual dialogue and browse all types of opinions… it made me fall in love with the UK much more.”
Willow has shared her whimsical new single ‘Massive Emotions’ and has introduced her new album ‘Empathogen’.
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The observe opens up with a jazzy piano riff adopted by a pounding kick drum. “I’ve such large emotions / Can’t shut ’em down and not using a sound / I’ve such large emotions / Can’t shut ’em down or let ’em out,” she sings over the whimsical beat.
Talking in regards to the observe in an announcement (Per Stereoboard), Willow mentioned: “The piano a part of this music is so dense and dissonant but in addition darkly lovely. I wrote ‘b i g f e e l i n g s’ throughout every week the place I used to be coming to phrases with my very own emotional patterns that I hadn’t identified had been there. Musically, it has a darkness and complexity that displays what all of us expertise in our personal minds. The music is about accepting these intense emotions that you don’t have any concept what to do with.”
Directed by Willow herself, the music’s accompanying visualizer sees her standing infront of black backdrop with a yellow and inexperienced circle. All through the video, Williow is seen sporting a lightweight blue blazer, geometric braids and a gold grill whereas she laughs, poses and stares on the digicam.
‘Massive Emotions’ is the second music to be launched from upcoming sixth studio album ‘Empathogen’ which is about for launch on Might 3 and is available for pre-order/pre-save. The observe follows lead single ‘Symptom Of Life’.
‘Empathogen’ will see Willow collaborate with Jon Batiste on ‘Residence’ in addition to St. Vincent on ‘Ache For Enjoyable’.
‘Empathogen’ observe record is:
‘Residence (feat. Jon Batiste)’ ‘Historical Woman’ ‘Symptom of Life’ ‘The Worry Is Not Actual’ ‘False Self’ ‘Ache For Enjoyable (feat. St. Vincent)’ ‘No Phrases 1 & 2’ ‘Down’ ‘Run!’ ‘Between I and She’ ‘I Know That Face’ ‘B I G F E E L I N G S’
‘Symptom Of Life’ serves as her first providing from her upcoming album. The LP will observe 2022’s ‘COPINGMECHANISM’. In a four-star overview of the album, NME shared: “Over a comparatively small variety of tracks in comparison with among the bloated albums that get launched as we speak, WILLOW has opted for high quality over amount as soon as once more.”
It continued: “Nevertheless, regardless of utilising the same premise as on her final album by plucking her emotions away on a guitar, ‘<COPINGMECHANISM>’ remains to be an necessary report in her musical development. Within the poetic and considerate nature of it, in addition to the odd glimpse of the place she may go subsequent, WILLOW’s fifth report must be famous as her breaking sonically mature new floor.”
Final 12 months, Willow shared her transcendental single ‘Alone’ and shared an image from the studio that includes St. Vincent – aka Annie Clark – main many followers to consider {that a} collaboration was within the works.
Two report labels, Alcopop! and Huge Scary Monsters, have confirmed they’re becoming a member of the boycott of The Nice Escape over its ties to Barclays financial institution.
The Brighton-based competition is sponsored by the financial institution, which has been a supply of controversy amid the present occasions in Gaza due to its monetary funding in firms that offer arms to Israel.
The difficulty was first highlighted by a petition began by the promoter Catch a Pig and the band The Menstrual Cramps, and has since been signed by artists together with Kneecap, Lambrini Ladies, Alfie Templeman, Lip Critic, Wunderhorse and Mary within the Junkyard who’ve urged the competition to drop Barclays as a sponsor. Altogether, 208 of the 440 bands who had initially been booked for the line-up have signed the petition, which has 977 signees in whole.
It reads: “A financial institution that’s concerned in Israel’s genocide has no place at The Nice Escape, which is a fixture of the impartial music scene and has a prized place within the business. We refuse to let music be used to whitewash human rights violations. We can’t let our artistic outputs turn out to be smokescreens behind which cash is pumped into murdering Palestinians.” The petition can be found here.
Now, Alcopop! and Huge Scary Monsters have confirmed they are going to not be related to The Nice Escape. “To be associating with Barclays doesn’t sit proper with our moral standpoint, and if we are able to do something to assist increase consciousness, and finally spotlight the company greed on the coronary heart of this horrendous genocide in Gaza, we’ll,” Alcopop! mentioned in an announcement.
Huge Scary Monsters confirmed that they’d pulled their showcase with Alcopop!, sharing a hyperlink to the petition and re-iterating requires The Nice Escape to chop ties with Barclays. The bands who have been speculated to play the showcase together with The Menstrual Cramps, Orchards and Different Half, have all pulled out.
Quite a few different acts have additionally dropped out, together with Cherym, who mentioned in an announcement: “Barclays/Barclaycard are answerable for investing over £1bn+ into firms which can be arming the IDF and offering weaponry that allows the continuing atrocities towards Palestinians to proceed.”
“As a result of The Nice Escape’s reference to Barclays/Barclaycard, we really feel in good conscience, that we can’t go forward with our scheduled performances at The Nice Escape. We’ve got been informed by The Nice Escape that the competition has no affiliation with Barclays/Barclaycard instantly this 12 months, however as a result of refusal to take away them as a sponsor from their promoting we merely can’t participate.”
In the meantime, Rett Madison additionally confirmed she can be dropping out: “In assist of the Palestine Solidarity Marketing campaign, I’m becoming a member of the boycott of Barclays and withdrawing my efficiency at The Nice Escape Pageant this Could.”
NME has contacted The Nice Escape for remark.
The transfer comes a month after swathes of artists refused to play Austin’s SXSW Pageant, because of its connections with the US Military and weapons firms amid the Israel-Gaza battle.
Gruff Rhys, Kneecap, Sprints, Lambrini Ladies, Gel, Rachel Chinouriri, Cardinals and NewDad all finally pulled out from SXSW, in addition to each Irish act on the invoice. Lots of the artists expressed that they’d made the choice out of solidarity with the folks of Palestine.
In gentle of the withdrawals, SXSW launched an announcement concerning all the bands and artists who’ve been pulling out of the competition, saying: “We’re an organisation that welcomes various viewpoints. Music is the soul of SXSW, and it has lengthy been our legacy. We absolutely respect the choice these artists made to train their proper to free speech.”
Explaining its sponsorship with the US Military, SXSW wrote: “The defence business has traditionally been a proving floor for lots of the techniques we depend on immediately. These establishments are sometimes leaders in rising applied sciences, and we imagine it’s higher to grasp how their method will influence our lives.”
Fontaines D.C. are persevering with to tease new music with a Stanley Kubrick-inspired clip forward of their new album ‘Romance’.
The Irish post-punk group began to trace at new music final week with a 30-second clip during which frontman Grian Chatten is seen topless and in shiny inexperienced trousers, with a black, swollen eye and heavy cuts and bruises throughout. He’s petting a pig, whereas the thriller track performs excessive.
Now, they’ve adopted that clip with a brand new 90-second visualiser that takes inspiration from Kubrick’s The Shining. It options an empty hallway with two small brown armchairs sitting reverse one another, adjoining from an orange set of elevator doorways in a transparent nod to the enduring 1980 movie. Nevertheless, the place within the movie the doorways open to disclose a river of blood, Fontaines’ clip makes use of inexperienced gunge pouring out of the doorways as a substitute.
The track taking part in the background begins eerie and gradual, over which Chatten sings: “Into the darkness once more / In with the pigs within the pen / God is aware of I really like you / Screws in my head /nI might be beside you until you’re useless.” Because the music swells and turns into extra intense, the neon inexperienced gunge gushes out of the doorways.
‘Romance’ will mark Fontaines D.C.’s first unique music since 2022’s ‘Skinty Fia’. Since then, they’ve additionally coated Nick Drake’s ‘Cello Tune’ for a compilation album.
In December, the band teamed up with Large Assault and Younger Fathers to launch a restricted version 12” single to help Médecins Sans Frontières of their aid efforts in Gaza.
“Fontaines DC be part of hundreds of thousands internationally in demanding a direct ceasefire and a everlasting finish to Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine,” they wrote on the time.
“Since October, Medical doctors With out Borders have been on the bottom in Gaza, the place each human is an IDF goal, risking their lives to present very important care to the 1000’s injured by Israel’s indiscriminate assaults on the ravenous and defenceless. We really feel completely helpless in what we are able to do at this level, nevertheless we do hope our small contribution to this file can increase some desperately wanted funds for Medical doctors With out Borders in Gaza. Ceasefire Now. Free Palestine.”
Chatten opened up in an interview with NME final yr about struggling psychological well being points whereas touring, revealing he beforehand skilled “suits of hysteria and rage”.
The Irish musician, who launched his debut solo album ‘Chaos For The Fly’ final summer time, mirrored on how his angle to touring has developed through the years.
“Round ‘A Hero’s Demise’, I used to be actually struggling to reshape myself to suit this new sort of life-style, and I used to be coping with fatigue… and psychological sickness; the despair that occurred,” he defined.
“The nervousness was fairly intense as nicely. I used to be simply sick of not fucking residing wherever for 5 years. I didn’t even take into consideration the truth that half a decade had handed with out me feeling like I belonged wherever exterior of a tour bus.”
Arcade Hearth have introduced the most recent gig of their “restricted variety of” exhibits, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their debut album ‘Funeral’.
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The band – comprised of frontman Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara – might be enjoying at Brixton’s O2 Academy in London on July 4. Warmduscher might be serving as opening help.
A ticket pre-sale will begin on Wednesday (April 17) at 10am native time. Basic ticket gross sales will happen on Friday (April 19) at 10am native time. Visit here to purchase tickets and see a full listing of tour dates beneath.
Arcade Hearth ‘Funeral’ twentieth anniversary tour dates are:
JULY 2 – Rho, Italy, Fiera Milano 4 – London, UK, O2 Academy Brixton 7 – Dublin, Eire, The Malahide Citadel
The newly introduced date is the most recent gig to be shared after Arcade Hearth revealed that they’d be enjoying “a restricted quantity” of exhibits in celebration of their seminal 2004 debut LP.
Arcade Hearth’s gig at Brixton Academy comes after the venue’s reopening since closing its doorways in December 2022 after a deadly crowd crush that left two individuals useless.
Again in February, the band shared two separate invitation posts that learn: “Save the date. Arcade Hearth invite you to attend a celebration of the 20 th anniversary of their debut album ‘Funeral’”. The caption of the posts learn: “We might be enjoying a restricted variety of particular concert events, and we might be honoured in the event you would be part of us. Black tie non-compulsory; ought to be actual enjoyable.”
The primary two dates to be revealed have been July 2 on the Fiera Milano in Rho, Italy and July 7 on the Malahide Citadel in Dublin, Eire. Echo And The Bunnymen have been additionally introduced as particular company for the Eire date with extra to been shared quickly.
Arcade Hearth launched ‘Funeral’ on September 14, 2004 by way of Merge Information. In 2005, the LP earned a Grammy nomination within the class for Greatest Different Music Album. Since its launch, ‘Funeral’ has acquired widespread crucial acclaim and has been thought-about one of many best albums of all time.
The band beforehand performed the album in full again in 2018 at their present in Los Angeles on September 20. They handled followers to all 10 tracks – back-to-front – earlier than diving into the remainder of their 23 music setlist.
‘Funeral’ is one in all many basic 2004 albums that are turning 20 this 12 months. Journalist Rhian Daly wrote: “[the album] was so known as after most of the band’s members had suffered losses of their households, however out of grief got here a brand new starting. The file – a sprawling, epic, theatrical magnificence – instantly received the group widespread acclaim, placing a chord with its cathartic and suave compositions.”
The band have been met with controversy in recent times. In August 22, frontman Win Butler was accused of sexual misconduct and “inappropriate” behaviour by 4 individuals. These actions ranged from sexual assault to sending undesirable specific textual content messages and pursuing relationships with followers of the band a lot youthful than him. The next November, a fifth particular person got here ahead to accuse Butler of “emotionally abusive, manipulative, poisonous” behaviour in the direction of them.
Butler has denied allegations of misconduct, saying he was “very sorry to anybody who I’ve damage with my behaviour” however that every one contact along with his accusers was “consensual”.
In different information, Arcade Hearth have introduced a run of competition dates for summer time 2024 and are set to play this 12 months’s version of Bilbao BBK Reside. Different acts set to carry out at he competition embrace Large Assault, The Prodigy, Jungle, Overmono, Ezra Collective, Floating Factors, Underworld, Noname, Khruangbin, JPEGMAFIA, Dying From Above 1979, Alvvays, Los Bitchos, Parcels and extra.
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