125 posts tagged with music by fearfulsymmetry.
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It’s not just a meat snack, It’s a way of life!
Surprisingly, the UK Christmas Number One is the charity single by, youtuber and 'Celebrity Dad Of The Year', LadBaby: 'We Built This City' - a cover of the Starship song that's also a homage to the sausage roll. (Sausage rolls previously)
strenuously inoffensive
Ghost notes
When Classical Musicians Go Digital - How the switching from physical printed scores on paper to digital ones on tablets is changing the performance of classical music.
The fad that just wouldn’t fade.
a series of movements that match the speed and rhythm of cake
Teased with a series of street art pieces and a warped press release from, ahem, Warp Records, Aphex Twin has announced a new forthcoming EP, Collapse, with the release of track 'T69 Collapse' (warning: may trigger epilepsy.)
Heavy metal thunder!
When I wear a lot of black... you can’t see the tomato sauce stains
Helena Hauff is a German techno and electro DJ and record producer. She has released a 'short film' / music video Qualm as a teaser for her coming second album of the same name. 'Every woman who DJs and is visible helps to make a change'. [more inside]
Woman is so artistic
sunken cities, crashed gliders and cheese
Gwenno Saunders aka 'Gwenno' is a Welsh singer, previously of The Pipettes. Her first solo album Y Dydd Olaf was sung in Welsh, her recent second album Le Kov is sung in Cornish. [more inside]
I can't tell where the journey will end
RIP Tim Bergling, Swedish DJ and producer better known as Avicii. Levels. Wake Me Up. True Stories - trailer.
'Our moms weren't happy'
Anatomy of a music video: Daniels - Turn Down for What (by DJ Snake & Lil Jon) (nsfw-ish) [more inside]
I can't stop to mess around
Presentation Day
Young, gifted and classical
Sheku Kanneh-Mason is a cellist from Nottingham, England. In 2016 he won the BBC Young Musician of the Year award, the first black musician to do so. He's just released his first record-breaking album, which along with classical pieces, has covers of 'Hallelujah' and 'No Woman No Cry'. He also has six siblings who all play to concert standard too.
"the Ghetto Gump"
Quincy Jones Has a Story About That Frank Sinatra. Michael Jackson. Ray Charles. Malcolm X. Elon Musk. Truman Capote. Buzz Aldrin. Prince. Tupac. Even Leni Riefenstahl. Quincy Jones has run with them all.
"If it's me and your granny on bongos, then it's the Fall."
RIP Mark E. Smith, one-off, legend, lead singer, song writer and only constant member of the Manchester band The Fall [more inside]
in your head, they're still fighting
Trainspotting and Poptopping
British Rail, Rail Blue 1967-1980 Footage of British Rail trains accompanied by contemporary music hits and radio show clips (SLVimeo)
Vorsprung Durch Techno
Overkill
RIP 'Fast' Eddie Clarke, who had been the last man standing from the classic Motörhead lineup, now joins Lemmy and 'Philthy Animal' Taylor in the tour that will never end. [more inside]
You scumbag, you maggot
I’m drawing in the sand a line
Paper jam
'Obsession' by OK Go (SLYT)
"I don't think any bastard knows who I am anyway..."
"like carpet"
John Carpenter - Christine music video for a track off the soon to be released Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 album. Interview. Another interview. [more inside]
Trump's on the shit list
L7, the all women punk rock group, have released their first single in 18 years... 'Dispatch From Mar-a-Lago'. [more inside]
Never mind the bollocks
‘I wake up in the morning and I just realise that I am chaos.’ Marilyn Manson interviewed by the Guardian.
Diminished Chords
Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice? More and more singers are cancelling big shows and turning to surgery to fix their damaged vocal cords. But is the problem actually down to the way they sing?
Forever and ever
Motörhead's previously unreleased version of David Bowie's classic 'Heroes'... a new covers album will be out in September. [more inside]
Beyond 440
Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin) speaks with ex-Korg engineer Tatsuya Takahasi on their collaboration on the monologue, microtuning, geometry and dreams. Plus new Aphex Twin track 'Korg Funk 5' using exclusively Korg synths. Double plus: 'AI Synths'
Enjoy this trip
‘We launched UK house with just £500 – and a few cans of hairspray’ How we made Theme from S-Express
The day the music died
An Ascot ting
UK Garage Horse Racing (SLYT)
1234!
Forty years of the Ramones ‘They were the smartest dumb band you ever heard’: Bands from the Sex Pistols to Blondie to Talking Heads recall the Bowery punks’ explosive impact
Twenty three years and counting
Feels like Heaven
RIP singer Diane Charlemagne, probably best know as the vocalist on Goldie's classic drum and bass track 'Inner City Life'. Among her many other contributions across a wide range of music she had top ten hits with the Urban Cookie Collective with 'The Key, The Secret' and 'Feels Like Heaven'
Wishing Well
I’ve been given instructions for my meeting with Sananda Maitreya. 1. Please don’t mention the name “Terence Trent D’Arby”, as it is painful for him. 2. Please don’t make any comparisons with Prince regarding his name change, which occurred in 1995 after a series of dreams. 3. Please don’t ask him things like, “What songs do you think would make a good single from your new album, Rise of the Zugebrian Time Lords?”
“I was killed when I was 27”: the curious afterlife of Terence Trent D’Arby
Trombone man
RIP Rico Rodriguez, most commonly know simply as 'Rico', the reggae and ska trombonist. He worked as a solo artist as well as with many other bands and musicians including Prince Buster and Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra but was probably best known as a member of The Specials. [more inside]
Apparently I am still indestructible
Lemmy is as much a collection of myths and legends as a man. In the popular imagination, he’s made up of equal parts Jack Daniel’s, amphetamine sulphate, Nazi memorabilia and extreme-velocity noise.
St Anthony St Anthony, Please come round
St Anthony: An Ode to Anthony H Wilson aka Tony Wilson, founder of Factory Records by Mike Garry and Joe Duddell. More on the project here. Happy Mondays' Rowetta on Tony Wilson: 'He made you love Manchester'
Double time swing
Comparison between a scene in the film Whiplash and the short film it was based on(MLYT) (NSFW) [more inside]
Money for nothing
Thirty years ago this month, Dire Straits released their fifth album, Brothers in Arms... For the first time, an album sold more on compact disc than on vinyl and passed the 1m mark. How the compact disc lost its shine - the rise and fall of the CD
Russian Spring
Pussy Riot's new song 'I Can't Breathe', their first in English, is an ‘Industrial ballad’ inspired by Eric Garner. Q&A. Behind the scenes of the video shoot.
Fade To Grey
RIP Steve Strange lead singer of 80's synth pop band Visage and manager of the Blitz club a focal point for the New Romantic movement.
Road trip
Yini Bo by French band / collective Le Peuple de l'Herbe (SLYT)
'We should be as important as Oasis or Blur'
The Prodigy have a new album, The Day Is My Enemy, out soon. Interview in the Guardian. Nasty [more inside]
Chapstep
Mr B, The Gentlemen Rhymer - who you may know for his chap-hop ditties 'Chap-Hop History', 'Songs For Acid Edward and Hip-Hop Was To Blame After All' has a side project as The Gentlemen Selector with Acid Ragtime and has dropped the first gramophone platter 'Vegetables' [more inside]
Master of Men In Suits
My identity is my creation
Sleaford Mods are an English Hip hop/Post-punk duo based in Nottingham. This year the NME asked them to record a Christmas Message (NSFW swearing) [more inside]