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Neutral Milk Hotel Announce Career-Spanning Vinyl Box Set, Share Previously Unreleased Song: Listen
Neutral Milk Hotel have announced a career-spanning vinyl box set. The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel includes both of the group’s LPs—1996’s On Avery Island and 1998’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea—as well as live recordings, alternate takes, unreleased material, and more. The collection arrives February 24 via Merge. Among the perviously unreleased tracks included in the box set is “Little Birds,” which has been released digitally today for the first time. Hear it below and scroll down for images of the box set. “Little Birds,” according to a press release, is a song that Neutral Milk Hotel mastermind Jeff Mangum wrote in 1998 and played at a friend’s party later that day. He wrote the track after a confrontation with a street preacher in Athens, Georgia, who was spewing...
Boston Calling 2023 Headliners: Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Paramore, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Boston Calling has announced its 2023 lineup. Friday’s headliners are Foo Fighters and Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Saturday’s are the Lumineers and Alanis Morissette; and Paramore and Queens of the Stone Age will close the weekend on Sunday. Elsewhere on the bill, the National, Flaming Lips, the Walkmen, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Bleachers, 070 Shake, and the Linda Lindas are among the acts. The festival takes place on Memorial Day weekend, May 26-28, at the Harvard Athletic Complex. Check out the poster below. Other artists on this year’s bill include Maren Morris, Niall Horan, Chelsea Cutler, Teeddy Swims, Noah Kahan, Mt. Joy, Fletcher, Genesis Owusu, Declan McKenna, and the Aces. Foo Fighters are yet to play their first headline shows since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins las...
Country Westerns Announce New Album Forgive the City, Share Song: Listen
Country Westerns: 02-21 Atlanta, GA – The E.A.R.L. ^02-22 Athens, GA – World Famous02-23 Asheville, NC – Static Age02-26 Nashville, TN – The Five Spot02-27 Savannah, GA – Over Yonder02-28 Chattanooga, TN – Cherry Street Tavern03-02 Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge #03-03 Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon #03-04 Saint Paul, MN – Turf Club #03-05 Fargo, ND – The Aquarium #03-07 Great Falls, MT – The Newberry #03-08 Spokane, WA – Lucky You Lounge #03-09 Vancouver, British Columbia – The Fox Cabaret #03-10 Seattle, WA – Sunset Tavern #03-11 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios #03-14 Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s #03-15 San Francisco, CA – The Chapel (Patio) #03-16 Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst ...
Logic Announces Eighth Studio LP ‘College Park’ With Animated Trailer
Logic may have just put out his last album, Vinyl Days, in June 2022, but the rapper is already gearing up to drop his next project. His next record is entitled College Park and will arrive on February 24. The Maryland-born rapper shared the news on social media via a teaser in the form of a short animated film. “Alright y’all the moment is finally here,” an emcee narrates in the opening clip. “If you came out here to turn up, make some motherf***in’ noise right now for my boy, Logic.” The trailer cuts to an animated sequence of the earlier days of Logic’s career, driving with friends to perform a show in Washington D.C. The group stops at a gas station, where they find themselves in the middle of a robbery. The teaser is soundtracked by one of the unreleased songs on the forthcoming LP. A...
KDrew and Culture Code Craft Picture-Perfect Moment In “Spaces On The Wall”
KDrew and Culture Code find the perfect framing for their high-flying collaborative effort, “Spaces On The Wall.” Individually, the two are no strangers to bringing equal parts heat and heart to their music. With stadium-filling energy and soul-searching lyrics, the powerhouse duo make the most of the moment with “Spaces On The Wall,” out now via Lowly. It’s a production that effortlessly falls into place. A mosaic of soaring gated melodies, cathartic builds and punchy, rock-like chords, the arrangement has a spectrum of sounds that collectively build and release tension that you could cut with a knife. However, where this track particularly shines is with its stellar songwriting. Like a crowded, wandering mind, the emotional journey underpinning “S...
Researchers Print the World’s Smallest Vinyl Record With Nanoscopic Accuracy
There’s very little holiday cheer to be found on this Christmas record printed by DTU Physics at the Technical University of Denmark. That’s because it’s a record so small that it could fit within a single groove of a standard sized copy. This impressive feat of engineering marks the world’s smallest vinyl printed record, and it holds just 25 seconds of “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree.” In a demo showcased by the university’s DTU Physics organization, the Nanofrazor Scholar 3D lithography system presses a 15×15 micrometer record into polymer film. More impressively, the depth of the grooves inscribed on this sliver of a record are just 65 nanometers deep. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles “I have done lithography for ...
Watch Dillon Francis Endure Hilarious Fantasy Football Punishment In An IHOP
We suspect Dillon Francis won’t be returning to IHOP anytime soon. After coming in last place in his fantasy football league, the superstar DJ and dance music producer headed to the breakfast chain to serve a punishment that pushed his appetite to its limits. Francis was sentenced to spend 24 hours in IHOP for a punishment whose timeframe could only be reduced by eating pancakes. For every flapjack he consumed, Francis could effectively scale down his punishment by one hour. The supersized pancakes withered Francis’ initial sense of confidence, but he was dogged in his fight to shave time off the clock. Documenting his efforts in a TikTok video, he is seen passing the painful hours in-between helpings by napping perusing miscellaneous YouTube tutorials. Scroll to Cont...
Here Are the Lyrics to Stephen Sanchez’s ‘Until I Found You’
Stephen Sanchez notched his first hit on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart with “Until I Found You,” which peaked at No. 38 on the chart. “I was in a serious relationship at the time,” Sanchez previously told Billboard of writing the song. “There was a lot of back-and-forth toward the beginning because I was super fearful of it, and I pushed her away because of that. We had established a very solid friendship before then, and it isolated us from even having that. I moved to Nashville months later, we reconnected and I took her out on a date. The song is just reflecting that time: When I was without her friendship and loving, it was so hard. I just remember how shallow that time felt in my life. [When] I wrote the song, we were very much in love, and it made that moment of our lives more be...
Paul Mescal Replaces Blake Jenner in ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Movie Musical
Paul Mescal is replacing Blake Jenner in the decade-spanning production of the movie musical of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Richard Linklater will be directing the project, which is being backed by Blumhouse, and will shoot over a 20-year span. (The director shot his Oscar-winning Boyhood over 12 years.) The much-beloved musical, based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, follows Franklin Shepard, a talented composer of Broadway musicals who abandons his friends and career to become a producer of Hollywood movies. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards i...
Here Are the Lyrics to Luke Combs‘ ’Going, Going, Gone’
Luke Combs is crooning about a girl who moves on easy with “Going, Going, Gone” off his popular 2022 album, Growin’ Up. “Sometimes I feel like a college kid, and some days I feel like I’m 65 or 70 — I wouldn’t say I’m middle-aged, but it’s like I feel like a real adult,” the CMA Awards reigning entertainer of the year previously told Billboard of his skyrocketing career. “When I walk into a room, no one’s like, ‘That can be a guy in college.’ Nobody thinks that… It’s like, time to kind of get it together fully, and dig into this life thing.” If you need a guide to follow along with Luke Combs’ “Going, Going, Gone,” find the lyrics below: Some things in life are meant to flyAnd others, they were born to runYou can’t tie down up and leavingLike the changing of the seasonsGood things, they co...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ on Track For Fifth Week at No. 1 In U.K.
Taylor Swift’s Midnights (via EMI) is set to extend its reign in the U.K. Based on midweek data published by the Official Charts Company, Swift’s tenth and latest studio album is on track for a fifth non-consecutive week at No. 1. It’s already Swift’s longest-reigning album in the U.K., overtaking the three-week lead for 2020’s Folklore. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Meanwhile, SZA holds at No. 2 on the midweek chart with SOS (RCA/Top Dawg), while The Weeknd’s The Highlights (Republic Records/XO) should complete the podium. The highest debut on the next chart would appear to be Gabrielle Aplin’s Phosphorescent (Never Fade), the English singer-songwriter’s fourth LP. Phosphorescent lights up the Official Chart Update at No. 4, and should give ...
Public Image Ltd Try for Eurovision 2023 With New Song “Hawaii”: Listen
Public Image Ltd have shared their first new song in years, and with it, they are angling to represent Ireland at the 2023 Eurovision Song Content. The uncharacteristically soul-bearing “Hawaii,” John Lydon said, “is dedicated to everyone going through tough times on the journey of life, with the person they care for the most. It’s also a message of hope that ultimately love conquers all.” Listen to the song below. This would not be Lydon’s only recent flirtation with proudly schlocky entertainment. In November 2021, he revealed himself from the Jester costume in The Masked Singer. Public Image Ltd’s last album was 2015’s What the World Needs Now…. Read Pitchfork’s feature “John Lydon on the Music That Made Him,” and the Sunday Review of The Flowers of Romance. Content This cont...
