New Music Friday! The weekend is here, which means more streaming, new playlists and the best that music has to offer.
09.06.2023 - 14:03 / thefader.com
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This week, check out King Krule's Space Heavy, Christine and the Queens' Paranoïa, Angels, True Love, Janelle Monáe's The Age of Pleasure, and more.
.New Music Friday! The weekend is here, which means more streaming, new playlists and the best that music has to offer.
It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday — especially when it’s New Music Friday! We’re breaking down this week’s best new tracks to keep on your radar.
Beck and Phoenix have released their new collaborative single ‘Odyssey’ – check it out below.The track, which is written, produced and performed by Beck and Phoenix, arrives ahead of the US musician and French indie band’s co-headline 2023 ‘Summer Odyssey’ tour across North America.“Somewhere / We’ll fall into the ocean / I’ll be there / On an odyssey in the sun…” they sing on the lively, summery track.Check out the song below.Beck and Phoenix will kick off a 19-city run on August 1 in Seattle, Washington, with stops in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Houston, Boston, New York and more before wrapping on September 10 in Columbia, Maryland.
Pride Month is more than halfway over, but we’re still celebrating all sorts of LGBTQ+ art! That means that we’ve been playing music from some of our favorite queer hitmakers on repeat.
Ariana Madix and Katie Maloney have navigated the world of Vanderpump Rules and beyond side by side.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band have announced further support acts joining them at their BST Hyde Park Shows.Announced today (June 16), the newly-announced acts will join The Boss for his upcoming shows in London on Thursday July 6 and Saturday July 8. They will also join previously announced special guests, including The Chicks, Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls — who will be performing at the first show — and James Bay, who will support the rock veteran at the Saturday slot.13 new artists have been named in the announcement, with The Coronas, STONE, Picture Parlour, First Time Flyers, Theo Lawrence and Attawalpa all set to take to the stage at the first show.Newly revealed names supporting the ‘Born In The U.S.A’ icon for the second of the two gigs are Brittney Spencer, Pa Sheehy, Kezia Gill and Kelly McGrath.
The full truth. Kelly Clarkson hasn’t held back when talking — or singing — about her ex Brandon Blackstock.
Mad Cool Festival 2023 has announced it will move to a new location within Madrid that will be more accessible for attendees.The festival will now take place in a new site in the city’s Villaverde District, as part of wider plans to transform the area into a cultural hub. The move is in partnership with Madrid City Council who, together with the festival, aim to create a new cultural meeting point within the Spanish capital.It’s hoped that the new site will attract increased tourism to the area while driving the creation of new jobs.
Every Christine and the Queens cover is an occasion. The pop auteur makes consistently great curatorial choices, and often recasts the production — and even lyrics — of songs to find new notes of emotional resonance.
Lupita Nyong’o is having an out-of-body experience.
Janelle Monáe has discussed the advice they picked up from Prince, and how it informs their creative decisions.The singer released new album ‘The Age Of Pleasure’ yesterday (June 9) and spoke to Zane Lowe for Apple Music about its creation.Discussing Prince, who has previously collaborated with the singer, Monáe revealed some words of wisdom from The Purple One about how to overcome nerves and anxiety in music and life.“Cut it down in half. That’s what Prince would say to his band,” they revealed.
Jenny Lewis’s house looks like an ice cream parlour. So much so that the singer – and her legion of fans – refer to it as Mint Chip. “Look, it’s very minty!” she trills, taking me on a virtual tour of her longtime place in LA.
New Music Friday! The weekend is here, which means more streaming, new playlists and the best tunes from your favorite artists. ET has you covered for everything in between.Despite their current break due to Jin and J-Hope's military service, BTS thrilled fans with a new song, «Take Two.» Shawn Mendes shared an emotional new track, «What the Hell Are We Dying For?,» which pays tribute to the current Canadian wildfires.
It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday — especially when it’s New Music Friday! We’re breaking down this week’s best new tracks to keep on your radar.
Janelle Monae is opening up about business and pleasure.
A.D. Amorosi Every album in the synth-pop arsenal of Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier – aka French vocalist-composer Christine and the Queens – benefits from a delicious brand of drama to go with his often obtuse lyricism. Yet it is only with this weekend’s release of “Paranoïa, Angels, True Love” that Chris (as he prefers to be known) has gone the extra mile in his decade-long journey of music making and found genuine theater his melancholy work, courtesy of the inspiration of playwright Tony Kushner’s iconic HIV-AIDS elegy “Angels in America.” Calling the grand new work a “heart-opening transformation, a prayer towards the self,” and “a rest in true love,” Chris opened up his mind to the smartly, tortured soul of Kushner… and his Queens’ usually cloistered self-productions to collaborators such as Madonna, 070 Shake and Mike Dean, the co-producer of “Paranoia, Angels, True Love.”
Drake scored a leading seven nominations for the music-heavy 2023 BET Awards today, and GloRilla was next with six. Both also are up for Album of the Year. Lizzo and 21 Savage follow with five nominations apiece.
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APPOINTMENTSVV Brown, Laura Mvula and John Truelove have all been reappointed to the Members Council of UK collecting society PRS. Meanwhile, Dru Masters is standing down after six years on the committee. And Tom Toumazis has been reappointed as an independent non-executive council member.
Sophia Scorziello editor When you talk to Candace Bushnell, you don’t really see Carrie Bradshaw. Instead, you see more of a Samantha Jones, a fabulous blonde woman wearing sunglasses inside her Sag Harbor home in the Hamptons. She’s put together, and eager to get down to business — she says she’s working on being her own Mr. Big rather than searching for him. In the mid-1990s, Bushnell wrote a column for the New York Observer titled Sex and the City. There, she examined Manhattan life through the sex lives and relationships of her and her friends. As the column progressed, she began writing about herself under the pen name “Carrie Bradshaw.”