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Japanese Breakfast Covers Weezer on Live At Electric Lady EP
Japanese Breakfast is the latest artist to head to New York’s Electric Lady Studios to record an EP for Spotify. In addition to Jon Batiste, Patti Smith, Natalie Bergman, and Faye Webster, Japanese Breakfast was accompanied by the Quartet 121 string section for their Electric Lady set. The band performed “Be Sweet,” and “Savage Good Boy,” and included two songs from their 2021 Jubilee, “Tactics” and “Kokomo, IN.” The EP also features two tracks from band leader Michelle Zauner’s side project, Bumper’s “Ballad 0” and her prior band, Little Big League’s “Lindsey.” “Recording at Electric Lady was truly the perfect experience,” Japanese Breakfast said in a statement. “The longer I’ve worked as a recording artist, the more I’ve realized it’s the simple, stripped down songs that are the hardest ...
Thundercat, black midi, Fuzz, Japanese Breakfast, The Hives Highlight Levitation Festival Lineup
Another day, another festival announcement with the reveal of who’s heading down to Austin for Levitation 2021. Get your costume ready because the event takes place on Halloween weekend beginning on Thursday, Oct. 28 to Oct. 31. There will also be a kick-off preshow on Wednesday Oct. 27 with Red Fang, Nothing, and Starcrawler headlining. The Thursday lineup consists of headliners Chicano Batman, Crumb, and Fuzz. Other performers include Post Animal, Boy Harsher, No Joy, The Vacant Lots, and Drab Majesty. The Friday lineup is headlined by The Black Angels, Tinariwen, and black midi with Connan Mockasin, L.A. Witch, Ringo Deathstarr, and Blushing. On Saturday, Thundercat, Andy Shauf, and Yves Tumor with appearances by Cloud Nothings, Shabazz Palaces, Acid Dad, Glove, and Shannon & The Cl...
Michelle Zauner’s Crying In H Mart Memoir Is Becoming a Movie
Last week, Michelle Zauner released her third album as Japanese Breakfast, which came a few months after the release of her stunning memoir, Crying in H Mart. Now, that book is coming to the big screen. MGM’s Orion Pictures has acquired the film rights to the New York Times best selling memoir. There is no release date set for the film. The film version of Crying in H Mart will be produced by Stacey Sher and Jason Kim and Japanese Breakfast will provide the soundtrack for the film. “It is a surreal thrill to have the opportunity to memorialize my mother in film, and I consider it of the highest honor to pursue that task alongside creative luminaries such as Stacey Sher, Jason Kim and Orion Pictures,” Zauner said in a statement. Last week, we spoke with Zauner about...
The 30 Best Songs of 2021 (So Far)
Best Album lists tend to earn all the internet hype — it always feels like a somewhat serious, academic endeavor, adding to the pantheon of OK Computers and To Pimp a Butterflys. But Best Songs lists are weirder, messier, even more challenging on a nuts and bolts level. (When was this song released? When was the album released? Does it need to be singles only?) While LP lists tend to follow the critical consensus, songs lists are harder to predict. And that makes them fun to explore. Below, we gathered our 30 favorite tracks of 2021 so far. (In this case, we decided songs from any 2021 albums were on the table.) And as you’ll notice, we swerved all over the map — from Bieber to Black Country, New Road. Let’s meet back here in six months and see how things shake out. Bachelor – “Anything At...
Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner Announces Memoir Release Date
Following her 2018 critically acclaimed essay in The New Yorker, Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner has announced that her upcoming memoir, Crying in H Mart, will be releasing on April 20, 2021. “My mother passed away almost six years ago and ever since, my life has felt folded in half, divided into a before and after her death, my identity and my family having been fractured in the wake of her loss,” she said in a statement about the forthcoming book. “I’ve spent the past six years processing grief in the best way I knew how-through creative work. I wrote two albums worth of material in an attempt to encapsulate all of that heavy darkness, confusion and loneliness, and then I spent another three years writing pages and pages to try and capture my mother’s brilliant character and spirit,...
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