The Raconteurs guitarist speaks out about his new solo album 'What Kind of World'
 |  |
M.I.A. takes "The Fast and the Furious" to Ouarzazate, Morocco in her new video for "Bad Girls," which features Arabic street racers, ghost riders and women in patterned, blinged-out burkas touting semi-automatics.
The new single, which features Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., debuted on Ryan Seacrest's radio show.
Bon Iver, Beck, St. Vincent, The Shins, Feist and the newly announced solo project from Jack White will be featured at the Sasquatch! Music Festival.
Florence And The Machine, Bombay Bicycle Club, Deadmau5 have also been added to the bill
| |
Reminiscent of deeper cuts on the last few White Stripes albums, "Love Interruption" is an unusual but tantalizing lead track.
For all the cynicism about money-grabbing majors, labels still offer artists the security they need to produce their best work
In the thread beneath one of my most recent articles about the 2012 report on digital music from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, StevieBee123 asked: "Sorry â€' what exactly do we need record companies for again?" LawlessGreed replied with a question of his own: "If there is no music industry, how are musicians supposed to earn a living from their work?" to which malcolm replied: "Try, ehhh, selling direct to the pubic ... no brainer!" That discussion, as well as one I had on Twitter has highlighted a certain confusion regarding what today's record labels actually do.
It's true the internet has been brilliant for artists in many ways, giving them an alternative route to make contact with and sell directly to fans, but record labels do much more than distribute to retailers. I recently spoke to Ed Sheeran's producer, Jake Gosling (more of which will appear in next week's Behind the Music), and asked why Sheeran had decided to sign with Asylum/Atlantic, part of Warner Music Group. After all, by working extremely hard for years the two of them had been able to record numerous EPs on their own, get to No 2 on the iTunes charts with one of them, get millions of hits on his SBTV video for You Need Me as well as...
Interview From Our Time In Brazil. ( lmfao at hodgy and frank is on BSD? sick)
Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain" spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, while Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger" bounds 8-2.
A whopping seven debuts dot the top 10, led by country superstar Tim McGraw. His "Emotional Traffic" drives in at No. 2 with 68,000 sold.
Photo by Eirik Lande
Update: This track is not entirely new-- it's an instrumental version of a remix of Rui Da Silva's "Touch Me" that he made with DJ Yasmin and aired during a BBC 6 Essential Mix last year.
This week, the label Young Turks guest-hosts the midday show on Australia's 94.5 FBi Radio. On yesterday's show, they premiered a new track from Jamie xx, called "Touch Me". It comes in at about the 49 minute mark in the above stream.
The MIA, Annie and Sugababes producer says he doesn't think there's a 'big evil piracy network' behind album leaks
| |
Singer says her performance will be 'nerve-wracking' but 'very exciting'
| |
The 23-year-old says she's "immensely proud" to be performing at the ceremony in Los Angeles next month following surgery on her throat.
After weeks of speculation, it has finally been announced that Adele will be performing at the 54th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 12, marking her first live debut since undergoing vocal surgery last year.
Jack White has revealed he will release his debut solo album, Blunderbuss, in April.
The Recording Academy uses the two weeks prior to the Grammy Awards to announce performers and presenters and executive producer Ken Ehrlich says Thursday should yield a "major interesting" announcement. Ehrlich tells Billboard that this year's telecast -- 8 p.m. Feb. 12 on CBS -- will feature 17 or 18 production pieces with about 22 songs being performed. "Arguably it's one of the biggest shows" in the history of the Grammys, he says.
Nashville singer says she's 'lucky' to have hooked up with ex-White Stripes man
| |
The singer and guitarist reveals he will release his debut solo album Blunderbuss in April.
The former White Stripe's first solo outing sounds slight at first but is brilliantly compelling on repeat listens
It was always going to happen, wasn't it? Sooner or later, serial collaborator Jack White was going to run out of people to work with (Brendan Benson! Alicia Keys! Insane Clown Posse!) and have to release a record all by himself. His solo album, Blunderbuss, is due through XL and Third Man Records on 23 April and was announced with little fanfare on Monday (his new site reveals his colour palette now includes duck-egg blue). The first taster from the album is Love Interruption, a lyrically bitter take on love (perhaps inspired by his recent divorce?). "I want love to stick a knife inside me and twist it all around/ I want love to murder my own mother and take her off to somewhere like hell or up above," he sings over a pretty Wurlitzer melody and acoustic guitar, while fellow Nashville singer Ruby Amanfu adds harmonies to a song that feels slight on first listen but is brilliantly compelling.