Oneohtrix Point Never has shared the first single, “A Barely Lit Path”, off his upcoming album “Again” out September 29th via Warp Records.
Tracklist:
01. Elseware 02. Again 03. World Outside 04. Krumville 05. Locrian Midwest 06. Plastic Antique 07. Gray Subviolet 08. The Body Trail 09. Nightmare Paint 10. Memories Of Music 11. On An Axis 12. Ubiquity Road 13. A Barely Lit Path
The video for the song was directed by Freeka Tet from a treatment by both Freeka and Daniel Lopatin.
This is his first album since the one he released in 2020, however he has been active as a producer and even scoring the Panos Cosmatos directed episode of the Guillermo del Toro’s “Cabinet Of Curiosities” anthology.
No live dates have been announced yet for the USofA (nor Tijuana).
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will be presenting an exhibit for John Waters: Pope Of Trash.
Co-curators Jenny He and Dara Jaffe shared this: “Known for pushing the boundaries of ‘good taste,’ Waters has created a canon of high shock-value, high-entertainment movies that have cemented his position as one of the most revered independent auteurs in the history of American movies. A massive inspiration to other artists who rebelled against the mainstream, Waters’s renegade films are replete with muses and themes derived from obsession and celebrity culture. They lovingly draw inspiration from Herschell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Andy Warhol, and Ingmar Bergman alike, and are also tributes to his hometown of Baltimore.”
This will be the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the artist’s contributions to cinema. On view September 17, 2023–August 4, 2024, the exhibition will explore Waters’s process, themes, and unmatched moviemaking style. Works on view will include costumes, props, handwritten scripts, correspondence and memos, scrapbooks, photographs, moving-image material, and more. Pope of Trash opens to the public one day before John Waters receives his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, organized by Outfest, on September 18, 2023.
John Waters is a multi-hyphenate filmmaker: writer-director-producer-cinematographer-editor-actor, as well as an accomplished visual artist and author. Aimed at skewering traditional institutions, his work led novelist William S. Burroughs to anoint Waters as the “Pope of Trash.” His transgressive approach has spawned paragons of cinematic originality—movies that revel in irreverence, laugh-out-loud humor, and heart.
The exhibition reveals the nuance and detail of how independent films are made and how Waters’s movies have redefined the possibilities of independent cinema. His daring dismissal of social norms and the status quo has been celebrated and adored by audiences for more than fifty years—for films including Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974), Desperate Living (1977), Hairspray (1988), Serial Mom (1994), and A Dirty Shame (2004). Pink Flamingos was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2021. The following year, Hairspray was also named to the list by the Librarian of Congress, in recognition of its significance to American cinematic heritage.
L7 have announced that they’re releasing a new single titled “Cooler Than Mars” out September 12th. The single will be released as a limited edition four pack flexi-disc.
Donita Sparks shared this: “The energy and vibe that smaller venues allow is something that we always want to stay connected to and with a new single coming soon, we can’t wait to see our crowd up close and in the flesh.”
Beirut has shared the first single, “So Many Plans”, off his upcoming album “Hadsel” out November 10th via his own label Pompeii.
TRACKLIST:
1. Hadsel 2. Arctic Forest 3. Baion 4. So Many Plans 5. Melbu 6. Stokmarknes 7. Island Life 8. Spillhaugen 9. January 18th 10. Süddeutsches Ton-Bild-Studio 11. The Tern 12. Regulatory
Zach Condon shared this about the song: “I liked that this song struck a balance between the feelings of acceptance, hope and giving up. The lyric came from a covid-times lament that rolled effortlessly into a kind of short lullaby. The instruments were somewhat unusual for me at the time, having dusted off a baritone uke I never used before to join the album’s primary instruments of either pump or church organ and the modular synthesizer as percussion and bass.”
Beirut shared this about the album: “During my time in Hadsel, I worked hard on the music, lost in a trance and stumbling blindly through my own mental collapse that I had been pushing aside since I was a teenager. It came and rang me like a bell. I was left agonizing many things past and present while the beauty of the nature, the northern lights and fearsome storms played an awesome show around me. The few hours of light would expose the unfathomable beauty of the mountains and the fjords, and the hours-long twilights would fill me with subdued excitement. I’d like to believe that scenery is somehow present in the music.”
slowdive have shared the fourth single, “alife”, off their just released album “everything is alive” out now via Dead Oceans.
TRACKLIST: 01. shanty 02. prayer remembered 03. alife 04. andalucia plays 05. kisses 06. skin in the game 07. chained to a cloud 08. the slab
Neil Halstead shared this about the song: “‘Alife’ is one of the first tunes we finished for the record. Shawn Everett did a really nice job with the mix. We tried so many times to figure out a good mix by ourselves and couldn’t do it… it sort of had us beaten until Shawn stepped in. We decided if he could handle that one he could probably do the whole record. Our friend Jake Nelson did a really nice animation for this song; it takes some of the imagery from the artwork and digs a little deeper into that.”
The band will start a tour in the USofA in late September that will run through mid October, most of the dates are already sold out.
The trailer for the documentary on the Birthday Party titled “Mutiny In Heaven” is here. The film is produced by Wim Wenders and Mick Harvey and directed by Ian White.
The synopsis of the documentary reads like this: “Narrated exclusively by the original band members, Mutiny in Heaven delves deep into a band’s psyche, chronicling how Nick Cave and his school friends startled audiences with their confrontational performances, primal screams, outlaw gothic horror, and anarchic lifestyle. Featuring never-before-seen personal footage from band members, dynamic animation sequences, and jaw-dropping concert clips, the film provides a sweaty, electrifying front-row seat to one of the most legendary live acts. It’s destined to be an instant documentary classic. The film is the first fully authorized telling of The Birthday Party”.
The film will be rolled out city by city as if on tour and the dates for each of them are below.
O.M.D. has shared the first single, “Bauhaus Staircase”, off their 14th album of the same name as the title track which will be out October 27th.
TRACKLIST: 01 “Bauhaus Staircase” 02 “Anthropocene” 03 “Look At You Now” 04 “G.E.M.” 05 “Where We Started” 06 “Veruschka” 07 “Slow Train” 08 “Don’t Go” 09 “Kleptocracy” 10 “Aphrodite’s Favorite Child” 11 “Evolution Of Species” 12 “Healing”
The video for the song was created by Cine1080 Studio. Andy McCluskey shared this about the video: “When times are hard there is a tendency for governments to look at cutting funding for creativity, just at the moment when the arts are most needed to nourish our souls. I am a huge lover of visual arts, especially mid-20th century movements. I reference them often in my titles and lyrics. The song…is a metaphor for strength and artist passion in the face of criticism and adversity.”
Talking about the title for the album, and of course the title track, McCluskey shared this: “The title is derived from an Oskar Schlemmer painting. He taught at Bauhaus, and created the amazing futuristic costumes for The Triadic Ballet, which is referenced in the song.”
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark are scheduled to take part of the Darker Waves festival that will be happening Saturday November 18th at Huntington Beach, CA.
A video for Ryan Gosling’s song “I’m Just Ken” from the movie “Barbie” has been released.
The video shows the behind-the-scenes at Ryan Gosling and his Barbie castmates’ performance of the most likely to be nominated song “I’m Just Ken.”
Ryan Gosling has already released one album with his band Dead Man’s Bones back in 2009 on ANTI- records. The video features all of the Ken’s, Josh Freese, Wolfgang Van Halen and Slash as well as multiple reaction shots of Greta Gerwig.
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