Courtney Barnett has shared a video showing her trying out various musical instruments. She goes from an acoustic guitar to an upright piano while Barnett sings what seems to be pieces of new songs she has been working on with the video ending with text that says “Tell Me How You Really Feel.” Watch it below.
A hip-hop documentary called Word Is Bond is going to premiere on Showtime on Friday, February 16th. The network shared a trailer featuring Anderson .Paak discussing his influences tody. “I consider myself someone that’s coming up out of the hip-hop culture. And when I really was trying to write music, I thought I was going to be an MC. I thought I was going to be a gangster rapper,” he says. “I was influenced by Snoop and Dre, and there was nothing bigger than that.”
.Paak continues, “I love Radiohead’s stuff. I like sad white boy music, too. That stuff is all important to me, and it all goes into my artistry, but it’s coming from a hip-hop perspective. I feel like it’s coming from a drummer’s perspective.” Watch below.
Word Is Bond is directed by Sacha Jenkins and according to a press release, “the film explores the transformative power of lyrics in the world of hip-hop.” The documentary will also feature interviews with Nas, Pusha T, J. Cole, Rapsody, Big Daddy Kane, and others. Word Is Bond will premiere at 10 p.m. Eastern on Friday, February 16th.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra have announced their new album called Sex & Food. It is set to be out April 6th via Jagjaguwar. They have also shared a video for the track “American Guilt.” Watch the Greg Sharp-directed clip below. The record was recorded in Seoul, Hanoi, Reykjavik, Mexico City, Auckland, and Portland.
Sex & Food:
01 A God Called Hubris
02 Major League Chemicals
03 Ministry of Alienation
04 Hunnybee
05 Chronos Feasts on His Children
06 American Guilt
07 The Internet of Love (That Way)
09 This Doomsday
10 How Many Zeros
11 Not in Love We’re Just High
12 If You’re Going to Break Yourself
Experimental filmmaker Paul Clipson has died as KQED reports. He passed on February 3rd at 53. His cause of death is unknown. The filmmaker worked with musicianslike Grouper, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, How to Dress Well, Lawrence English, Sarah Davachi, Maggi Payne, and Black Spirituals. Clipson moved to San Francisco in the 1990s where he began making visuals for experimental musicians while working as a film projectionist at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art for two decades.
A clip from Isle of Dogs, the latest film from Wes Anderson has arrived. A group of dogs, in the clip, fight over a bag of scraps. Watch it below, via Vulture. The stop-motion film features a cast of Yoko Ono, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johannson, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, and more. It will arrive in theaters on March 23rd.
Dev Hynes, aka Blood Orange, has released two new songs for Black History Month. Hynes shared the tracks, “Christopher & 6th” and “June 12th,” with an Instagram post with the caption, “U must luv yourself.” Listen to the songs below.
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Best Buy will stop stocking CDs starting July 1st, according to Billboard. Best Buy used to be a major U.S. merchandiser for music, CD sales have gradually declined as streaming becomes the popular way to listen to music. Best Buy will still sell vinyl for the next two years to honor a commitment to its vendors.
BROCKHAMPTON took over Times Square in New York today when they were on “TRL.” The “all-American boy band’s” performance of “BOOGIE” involved them jumping out of a van near the studio. They then moved down the street with a crowd behind them. Watch below.
Pussy Riot have announced their first U.S. tour with their “live music performance art.” The Russian feminist art collective will start the tour on March 6th in Chicagoand will continue through cities including Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Boston. The group will be adding dates to the tour as well. See their full itinerary.
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Donald Glover is putting his Childish Gambino EP up for streaming as Billboard points out. EP was the release that featured one of his first breakthrough songs, “Freaks and Geeks.” The streaming reissue will come out tonight at midnight Eastern through Glover’s creative agency Wolf + Rothstein in partnership with Stem.
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