While it's nothing new, and we're certainly not complaining, Harry Styles' name is inescapable right now.
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The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. Lucy Liyou has been a force in experimental music since long before the release of their official debut album, Welfare/Practice, last year.
This week, they announced that record’s follow-up, Dog Dreams (개꿈), co-produced by Nick Zanca and due out May 12 via American Dreams Records. The news came with the project’s lead single and title track, as well as an interactive 3D “dream game” created in collaboration with Rustin Lee. Read Next: Lucy Liyou announces double LP, shares “Unnie” video “Dog Dreams” is a nearly 15-minute ride through Liyou’s subconscious, beginning in soft, abstract textures that solidify and gain in intensity for the track’s first section.
About four minutes in, a lone, slow keyboard melody enters, rising above the mile-deep drone that continues to develop beneath it. Liyou’s natural speaking voice arrives next (a rare occurrence in their music), adding some semi-solid scenery to their aqueous aural landscape. “I know there was water, and a shore, because I was there with you,” they whisper, hitting a sweet spot in the mix between the prominent piano plinks and the consistent tide of drone.
Their words are followed by a violent crescendo that finally falls back, replaced by fragmented vocalizations more characteristic of their earlier work. Even amid this chaos, though, it’s intuitively evident that “Dog Dreams” is a love song, delivered with intense longing to a shadowy figure who lies just out of reach. In the track’s second half, when Liyou starts to sing, the theme begins to emerge with more clarity.
While it's nothing new, and we're certainly not complaining, Harry Styles' name is inescapable right now.
Guaynaa and Lele Pons are ready for tonight performance at the Latin American Music Awards. In a new interview, Guaynaa spoke about performing with his wife at the LAMAS, what fans can expect, and his excitement to be involved with the show in any capacity.Latin American Music Awards first round of performers announcedGuaynaa reveals that he used to struggle with drug addictionA post shared by Lele Pons (@lelepons)In Spanish, Guaynaa spoke to the journal Opinion, and teased his upcoming performance with Pons. “You don’t know how excited I am to be here,” said Guaynaa.
Boris Sanchez is one of three anchors on CNN News Central and made his debut Monday afternoon hosting alongside Brianna Keilar and Jim Sciutto.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points of “Suzume,” currently playing in theaters. Makoto Shinkai’s latest anime feature, “Suzume,” hits American theaters this weekend. The film is set in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake that devastated Japan’s Tohoku region, centering on themes of loss and grief. Shinkai brings in a talking cat and mobile three-legged chair to help tell the story of a young girl, Suzume, who travels across disaster-stricken Japan in hopes to save the country from its devastation. This leads her to the Ever After, a fantastical realm of souls which Suzume first discovers when she finds a mysterious door and walks through it.
Dominic Fike has dropped his first new music of 2023. "Dancing In The Courthouse" is a coming of age story about Fike's youth misbehaving and running into trouble with the law.
Taylor Swift is getting ready to kick off the fourth weekend of shows for her The Eras Tour and it’s been a couple weeks since she’s been on stage!
The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. Hayden Pedigo is moving fingerstyle guitar forward into a bright, uncertain future.
John Mayer made a shocking confession about one of his songs — on the same weekend Taylor Swift‘s breakup news went public. Hmm…
Little Simz has announced that she will be embarking on a North American tour, starting in September this year.The Mercury-winning London artist shared the news on social media today (April 10), writing: “It’s been a long time. Appreciate your love and patience.
Hilary Swank, 48, took to Instagram on Easter Sunday to share the happy news she has given birth to twins. The Hollywood actress posted a picture of herself late last night holding her newborns in her arms as she watched the sunset. Hilary, who has given birth to a baby boy and girl, looked serene as she looked out to sea in a clean, white bathrobe.
Veruca Salt vocalist-guitarist Louise Post has announced details of her debut solo album – listen to lead single ‘Guilty’ below.The album, titled ‘Sleepwalker’, has been produced by Matt Drenik and is due to be released on June 2 via El Camino Media.Speaking about the album in a press release, Post said: “I have always identified as a sleepwalker. I slept-walked around my house routinely when I was a child, and even down the street.“I believe in hindsight it was me trying to process what was going on in my home with my parents’ troubled marriage.
Did Taylor Swift remove one of her popular songs from the original The Eras Tour set list?
Reclaiming her power! Kelly Clarkson subtly shaded her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, in a teaser for her new song “Mine.”
Because of you! Kelly Clarkson made a telling lyric change that hinted at her split from ex-husband Brandon Blackstock during a recent performance on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
Ahead of the April 6th release of his Netflix dark comedy Beef, Lee Sung Jin has stepped in as screenwriter for Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts, taking over for Black Widow‘s Eric Pearson, Deadline can confirm.
Jon Burlingame editor Variety writer Jon Burlingame’s new book, “Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring,” is published today. The product of 35 years of research and more than 450 interviews, it tells the backstory of every great TV theme dating back to 1949. What follows is an excerpt from the sitcom chapter.
track featuring —at an upcoming spring concert. Melissa Tempel, a dual language teacher at Heyer Elementary in Waukesha, Wisconsin, vented her frustrations on Twitter after learning the song had been deemed too “controversial” for six- and seven-year-olds to perform. “My first graders were so excited to sing 'Rainbowland' for our spring concert, but it has been vetoed by our administration,” Tempel wrote last week. "When will it end?" Initially, administrators did not elaborate on their reasoning for the ban, leading Tempel to wonder if Dolly Parton's vocal support for the LGBTQ community had something to do with it. “The latest I heard is that the song was banned bc @MileyCyrus is controversial,” she added in a subsequent tweet.
A US judge last week dismissed a song theft lawsuit filed against Childish Gambino which claimed that his 2018 hit ‘This Is America’ ripped off an earlier track called ‘Made In America’.The choruses of the two songs are not “substantially similar”, despite what that lawsuit claimed, the judge ruled, while the “distinctive flow” of the earlier work is not protected by copyright.Miami-based rapper Kidd Wes – real name Emelike Nwosuocha – sued Childish Gambino – aka Donald Glover, of course – in 2021, claiming that ‘This Is America’ lifted from his 2016 release ‘Made In America’.“The distinctive flow” heard in Glover’s track, the lawsuit stated, “is unmistakably substantially similar, if not practically identical, to the distinct and unique flow that was employed by Nwosuocha in recording his vocal performance of his rapping of the hook to his copyrighted work”.“The lyrical theme, content, and structure of the identically-performed choruses are also glaringly similar”, the lawsuit then added.Glover responded to the lawsuit last September seeking to have Nwosuocha’s legal action dismissed.
For the first time in its history, the Eurovision Song Contest will be broadcast live in cinemas across the UK.
Thania Garcia In the midst of Offset’s new album ramp-up, the rapper has shared a song snippet containing a posthumous verse from the late Migos member Takeoff. In the nearly one-minute clip uploaded to Offset’s Instagram stories on March 20, Takeoff — who was shot and killed in Houston last November — can be heard rapping alongside American rapper Icewear Vezzo, who is signed to Migos’ former Atlanta-based label Quality Control. (Quality Control was acquired by HYBE America earlier this year) Meanwhile, Offset can be seen smiling while listening to the track in a car, and bopping his head along to the boastful verses that flex nice clothes, cars and “ice” (jewelry), which Offset nods to by zooming in on his diamond earring.