The students at the Viewpoint School in Calabasas, California were treated to an impromptu Red Hot Chili Peppers concert during a Halloween assembly this morning. The band played the school, which enrolls students from kindergarten through 12th grade, because drummer Chad Smith's kids are students, per a tweet Smith shared. The 57-year-old has five children,…
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Prince Harry might soon be getting into the New Zealand drum and bass scene, with Prime Minister Jacinda Adern gifting the royal one of Shapeshifter's albums during a visit to the country. If you're not too well-versed in regards to what happens when politicians meet, it's often customary to exchange gifts as a sign of good faith. Why, Denmark's PM gave Indonesia's President a Metallica boxset just last year, and Donald Trump attempted to bury the hatchet by giving Kim Jong Un a signed Elton John CD (despite the fact that it was inexplicably signed by Donald Trump). However, it seems that this custom also extends to members of the royal family, who received a couple of presents during their trip to New Zealand. As the NZ Herald reports, Prime Minister Jacinda Adern met with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex this week, where she bestowed upon the pair a series of gifts, including a copy of an album by New Zealand drum and bass act Shapeshifter. While Adern reportedly received a community cooking book from Duchess Meghan, she decided to return the favour with a rather strong local flavour. “I also used the opportunity to share a few personal gifts,” Adern explained. “For the Duchess of Sussex, I shared with her a personal gift of a set of Boh Runga earrings featuring the crossed feathers.” Prince Harry however, was gifted a copy of Shapeshifter's 2009 album, The System Is A Vampire. “[This is] because it includes a track titled 'Dutchies', which is the song that the All Blacks enter onto the field with, including at Twickenham,” explained Jacinda Adern. She also reportedly presented Prince Harry with a copy of their 2016 album, Stars, on vinyl, noting that it “is a fine album”. While there's no word as to whether Prince Harry is now a fan of the Shapies, the city of Auckland undoubtedly pulled out all the stops with their gift, hand-knitting baby clothes for the royal couple. “As a gift from Auckland, council staff have knitted some beautiful woollen clothing for their future baby,” explained Mayor Phil Goff. “We are also presenting two children's books – A is for Auckland and A is for Aotearoa – to remind them of their visit here.” Check out Shapeshifter's 'Dutchies':The Gainesville dedication ceremony took place on what would have been his 68th birthday
Download | Subscribe and listen via iTunes | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS Chan Marshall, also known as Cat Power, talks with Kyle Meredith for Kyle Meredith With… about the minimal style of her new record, her lifelong songwriting practice of “three chords and the truth,” and the importance of freeing oneself from one's past. The singer-songwriter also speaks to what it means to be a wanderer, and why she wrote “Black” from the perspective of a ghost. Kyle Meredith With… is an interview series in which WFPK's Kyle Meredith speaks to a wide breadth of musicians. Each episode, Meredith digs deep into an artist's work to find out how the music is made and where their journey is going, from legendary artists like Robert Plant, Paul McCartney, U2 and Bryan Ferry, to the newer class of The National, St. Vincent, Arctic Monkeys, Haim, and Father John Misty. Check back Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for new episodes. Rate the series now via iTunes. Follow on Facebook | Podchaser | Twitter Bibi Bourelly jump-started her career in 2015, but her resume reads like that of a longtime music veteran. The Berlin-born musician, at just 24 years of age, has written for pop stars like Selena Gomez (“Camoflauge”), Mariah Carey (“GTFO”), Camilla Cabello (“I Have Questions”), and Usher (“Chains”). Bourelly was partially the mastermind behind a little known song - I don't know if you've heard of it - called “Bitch Better Have My Money” by Rihanna. Bourelly has also steadily spearheaded her own solo singing career and is expected to drop her debut album sometime before the end of 2018. As a teaser for that project, she has released a new song today titled “Writer's Song”. True to its name, it offers insight into her mind as a songwriter, which despite all of her accomplishments, still goes through periods of intense self-doubt. She's human after all. “I don't believe myself, don't even trust no one else,” she sings over bare-bones acoustic guitar, her vulnerability relatable to just about anyone, chart-topping music icon or aspiring bedroom songwriter. “How the fuck imma write a song if I don't feel like it/ No, I don't write that well.” “I wrote 'Writer's Song' when the suits were pressuring me to come up with a radio single,” Bourelly told High Snobiety. I couldn't think straight and so I just went in the booth and this is what came out. I wrote it in about 10 minutes in New York.” Take a listen below via its music video, which features footage of her penning the song.
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Today marks the release of Coheed and Cambria's new album, The Unheavenly Creatures. Subscribers of Apple Music and Spotify can stream it below. Spanning 15 tracks, the self-produced album clocks in at 78 minutes and finds frontman Claudio Sanchez returning to the conceptual science-fiction narrative of The Amory Wars, a story Sanchez has sought to tell through his music, a novel, and a comic book series. The band's last album, 2015's The Color Before The Sun, was the first to deviate from the narrative, and this reinvigorated return to the story marks what's, in this writer's opinion, their best album in a decade. It's got hooks galore and a compellingly bombastic tone that matches the grandeur of Sanchez's narrative, which brims with a healthy dose of heart. The Unheavenly Creatures is part one of the five-part Vaxis series, and Sanchez elaborated a bit on how it fits in a new interview with Heavy Consequence. “It's sort of a new story, but as the stories come out with Vaxis, the later records II and III, we sort of unveil where this story truly fits within the timeline and how these characters are related to Coheed and Cambria's arc. So, right now, it's really kind of an introduction to a new set of characters within the mythos and after the continuation of the Good Apollo Two story, No World for Tomorrow, just the fact that it is a pentalogy and the idea resembles the symbol number five.” The concept, he says, helped inform the songwriting. “I was just trying everything, but when I got to 'Old Flames', for example, that was the first song where I started to really visualize what the concept was. The visual I had was the cover of the album, the two of them embracing, creature and sister as the sub servers were rising up to meet their makeshift army and having to support them on their ascent out the 'Dark Sentencer' the prison planet that they were inside of. I started writing that song on piano and I noticed my son started singing the melody after I played it maybe three times just working through it, so I thought it was speaking to him and I'm getting this tuneful visual of a climax of a movie or a book, I let that stuff tell me when the song was the song.” The Unheavenly Creatures Artwork: The Unheavenly Creatures Tracklist: |
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