Primavera Sound 2024 dedicates stage to Steve Albini

Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul marveled at Steve Martin’s ability to perform their rapid-fire song in Season 3 of Only Murders in the Building. Martin’s character, Charles-Haden Savage, struggles with “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It” until episode 8 of the season. Unlike Savage, though, Martin nailed it in a tight two-hour time window.

Primavera Sound have announced dates for the 2025 Barcelona edition – check out details below.This year’s edition saw the likes of Lana Del Rey, Pulp, The National, SZA, Disclosure, Justice, Mitski, Phoenix, PJ Harvey and Vampire Weekend play at the festival.Now, after a spectacular year – which saw NME give the festival four stars – Primavera Sound has unveiled the dates for next year in Barcelona. Taking to social media, organisers wrote: “A new countdown is on the horizon.

PJ Harvey dedicated a song to Steve Albini at Primavera Sound at the weekend.Harvey and Albini worked together on creating her second studio LP, 1993’s ‘Rid Of Me’.The legendary record producer – who was the mastermind behind iconic albums such as Nirvana‘s ‘In Utero‘ and Manic Street Preachers‘ ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’– died last month of a heart attack while at Electronic Audio – his recording studio in Chicago.On Saturday (May 31) Harvey said during her performance in Barcelona: “I would like to sing this next song in memory of Steve Albini. Steve should have been here for this festival, and it would be nice if you all think of him.”She then proceeded to perform ‘The Desperate Kingdom Of Love’ from 2004’s ‘Uh Huh Her’.

Jon Burlingame Music for drama can take on various styles and colors, as demonstrated by three of this year’s most talked-about miniseries. Jeff Russo spent two and a half years thinking about, and composing, the score for “Ripley,” Steven Zaillian’s eight-part thriller about a sociopath (Andrew Scott) who finds the high life in 1960s Italy worth killing for. “Every piece of music I wrote was related to Tom Ripley,” Russo (an Emmy winner for “Fargo”) says of the Netflix series.

Charli XCX played an unreleased song, ‘Everything is romantic’, during her show at Primavera Sound last night (June 1) in Barcelona, Spain – check it out below.The track features shades of Brazilian funk and contains lyrics such as “Bad tattoos on leather tanned skin/Jesus Christ on a plastic sign/Fall in love again and again/Winding roads doing manual drive.”‘Everything is romantic’ is set to appear on Charli’s forthcoming album ‘Brat’, which will arrive on June 7 (pre-order/pre-save here). It also features the singles ‘Von Dutch’, ‘Club Classics’, ‘B2B’ and ‘360’.Check out Charli’s performance of ‘Everything is romantic’ below:pic.twitter.com/6Tm3TjB5hC— v (@ViralContentz) June 2, 2024Prior to her night-time set, Charli announced a “surprise party girl” DJ set with A.G.

Jon Burlingame Historical dramas often demand a specific musical approach: Music that suggests the time and place, along with reflecting the (often real-life) characters and the unique circumstances of their lives. Five of the past season’s miniseries featured outstanding scores along these lines. For producers Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, “Masters of the Air” marked the completion of a World War II trilogy (after “Band of Brothers,” about American soldiers in Europe, and “The Pacific,” about Marines in the Pacific theater), and composer Blake Neely worked on all three.

Primavera Sound 2024 will take place in Barcelona, Spain – and you can catch it at home via livestream.The festival, which runs from Thursday (May 30) to Saturday (June 1), is partnering with Amazon Music to broadcast select performances from its Parc del Forum venue. On Tuesday (May 28), Amazon Music confirmed in a press release the artists whose performances will be broadcast on its livestream.

Victoria Stevens The 2024 Cannes Film Festival is underway, with major premieres like “Megalopolis,” “Horizon,” “The Substance,” “Emelia Perez” and more. Check out some of Variety‘s photography from the festival.Hunter Schafer, who appears in Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness, photographed at the Carlton Hotel in CannesJoe Alwyn, who appears in “Kinds of Kindness,” photographed at the Carlton Hotel in CannesKevin Costner, director and star of “Horizon,” photographed in Cannes.Nathalie Emmanuel, who stars in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” photographed in Cannes.Ron Howard, who was honored by Variety in Cannes, photographed after his Palais photo call.

Steve Albini‘s bands Shellac and Big Black now have their catalogues available for listening on Spotify.Albini passed away aged 61 earlier this month due to a heart attack. He was well known for being the producer of major albums such as Nirvana’s ‘In Utero‘, Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa’, PJ Harvey’s ‘Rid of Me’, Manic Street Preachers‘ ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ and more.Back in 2022, the late producer took his music off the streaming platform.

Shellac have just released their final album ‘To All Trains’, nine days after the band’s lead guitarist Steve Albini passed away.The legendary record producer, or audio engineer as he preferred to be described, was the mastermind behind iconic albums such as Nirvana‘s ‘In Utero‘, Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa’ and Manic Street Preachers‘ ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’. He died on May 8 of a heart attack while at Electronic Audio, his recording studio in Chicago.He also had a highly influential and accomplished recording career, notably as part of the bands Big Black (1981-1987) and Shellac, a noise rock and hardcore band that had been together since 1992.Their new album is their first in 10 years, and was first announced in March.

Steve Albini has opened up about his feelings towards Steely Dan.The producer and engineer took to Twitter yesterday (February 6) to share his views on the New York rock band, writing: “I will always be the kind of punk that shits on Steely Dan.“Christ the amount of human effort wasted to sound like an SNL band warm up,” he continued.Albini then appeared to pose pro Steely Dan arguments before offering his rebuttals, including the suggestion that they “spent three weeks on the guitar solo”.I will always be the kind of punk that shits on Steely Dan— steve albini (@electricalWSOP) February 6, 2023“Three weeks of watching guitar players give it their all while doing bumps and hitting the talkback, “More *Egyptian* but keep it in the pocket…,” he said.“‘Their engineer invented a machine to play the bass drum…’ Did he now. And yet it sounds like this.”“Look at yourselves.

Joanna Newsom has paid tribute to the late Steve Albini with a performance of ‘Cosmia’ at Kilby Block Party.Albini recorded Newsom’s 2006 album ‘Ys’, and in her first advertised live performance since 2020, the musician dedicated a song from the album to him.The legendary record producer – who was the mastermind behind iconic albums such as Nirvana‘s ‘In Utero‘, Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa’ and Manic Street Preachers‘ ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’– died on May 8 of a heart attack while at Electronic Audio, his recording studio in Chicago. His death was confirmed by the studio’s staff members.Watch Newsom’s tribute below:Newsom introduced the song with a personal tribute to Albini, who she described as someone “who I love very, very much and admire in every possible way you can admire a person”.“I was saying to my friend this morning that on the list of all the reasons why he’s my hero, music and music-related stuff doesn’t even crack the top ten.

Foo Fighters have dedicated a performance of ‘My Hero’ to the late legendary record producer Steve Albini.While performing at the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, North Carolina as part of their ‘Everything or Nothing At All’ tour, the band took the time to dedicate their hit track to the great Albini.The legendary record producer – who was the mastermind behind iconic albums such as Nirvana‘s ‘In Utero‘ and Manic Street Preachers‘ ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’– died on May 8 of a heart attack while at Electronic Audio, his recording studio in Chicago. His death was confirmed by the studio’s staff members.“Tonight I’d like to dedicate this song to a friend that we lost the other day, who I’ve known a long, long time,” Foos frontman Dave Grohl told the crowd. “He left us much too soon.

Yourcodenameis:milo have spoken to NME about the 20th anniversary of their cult classic debut mini album ‘All Roads To Fault’, what’s next – and working with the late, great Steve Albini.Released on this day in 2004 (May 10), ‘All Roads To Fault’ by the Tyne and Wear post-hardcore outfit would go to inspire scores of rock acts from the UK and beyond and finding fans in the likes of The 1975 and My Chemical Romance. The release us now known asone of the most influential rock releases of the decade.The band released two acclaimed follow-up albums before they went on an “indefinite hiatus” in 2007 – with frontman Paul Mullen going on to join The Automatic as well as forming Young Legionnaire and Losers, and guitarist Justin Lockey launching a range of projects as well as becoming a full-time member of Editors and Frightened Rabbit side-project Mastersystem.

Steve Albini – see what Durango had to say below.Earlier this week, the music world was shaken by the news of iconic rock engineer, producer and musician Steve Albini dying from a heart attack at the age of 61. Besides recording and producing some of rock’s biggest albums including Nirvana‘s ‘In Utero’ and Pixies‘ ‘Surfer Rosa’, Albini was also in several bands – one of which was Big Black.Now, Big Black guitarist Santiago Durango has shared a statement with Rolling Stone about his former bandmate, in which he called Albini a “caring and giving person”. Describing Albini’s death as a “total gut punch”, Durango said to the publication: “I always believed Steve would outlive me.

When I was 15, my first boyfriend gave me a burned CD with the words “cool music” written in Sharpie across the bottom. It contained over a dozen songs, the kind you’d expect to receive from a brooding indie rock-minded teenager with a gutterpunk streak; the track I’d play on loop was a cover of Kraftwerk’s “The Model.” Steve Albini’s punk band Big Black had transformed it into something unapologetically intense and so unafraid of its imperfect emotion that it was willing to be mistaken for an exorcism.

Thurston Moore has paid tribute to the late Steve Albini in a lengthy X/Twitter thread, calling him “a stick of dynamite in shredded low-top sneakers”.The former Sonic Youth bandmember took to social media to share his memories of the legendary musician and engineer, who passed away yesterday (May 8) due to a heart attack.Moore began his statement by writing: “Like the music he adored and devoted his life to – punk and experimental action, suspect and resistant to any semblance of exploitation – Steve Albini was a person of passion and contradiction.”The musician went on to praise Albini for his ability to “articulate, from a surprisingly young age, with intelligent and intellectual passion, reasons not to set foot in the manipulative cogs of “major” label indignity,” adding: “While wholly serious in his analysis he also seemed to be able to write it all off at the end of the day as being alive in an absurd universe. Alongside his set-in-stone scowl was always a genuinely soulful smile.”Moore recalled the day he first heard of Albini when meeting Byron Coley and Jimmy Johnson from Forced Exposure in NYC.

Dave Grohl hailing Steve Albini has resurfaced following the late producer’s death yesterday (May 8).Albini who worked on Nirvana’s final album ‘In Utero’ died following a heart attack while at Electronic Audio – his recording studio in Chicago.Speaking in an interview with BBC 6 Music’s Matt Everitt in 2015, Grohl said that despite being well aware of his reputation, the first time he ever met the legendary producer was during the recording sessions for their 1993 record.“He was the smartest, most cynical producer/music critic/band leader/pundit, everyone was scared of him. Then you see pictures of him and he just looks like this skinny little guy.

Steve Albini, fans have been re-sharing a clip of the producer talking to the late Anthony Bourdain about his politics, career and love of Chicago.The legendary record producer – who was the mastermind behind iconic albums such as Nirvana‘s ‘In Utero‘ and Manic Street Preachers‘ ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’– died yesterday (May 8) of a heart attack while at Electronic Audio – his recording studio in Chicago. His death was confirmed by the studio’s staff members.Albini appeared as a guest on season seven episode three of the Emmy-award-winning show Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.

PJ Harvey has paid tribute to the late record producer Steve Albini, sharing “He changed the course of my life”.Harvey and Albini worked together on creating her second studio LP, 1993’s ‘Rid Of Me’. The ‘You Said Something’ singer chose to work with Albini after admiring his distinctively raw recordings of bands like Pixies, Slint, The Breeders and The Jesus Lizard.The legendary record producer – who was the mastermind behind iconic albums such as Nirvana‘s ‘In Utero‘ and Manic Street Preachers‘ ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’– died yesterday (May 8) of a heart attack while at Electronic Audio – his recording studio in Chicago.