Bring Me the Horizon's sound has changed drastically from their deathcore roots, as evidenced by their pop-leaning new single, “Medicine”, which the band released today along with a visually stunning music video. With the release of their sixth album, amo, just a few weeks away, “Medicine” marks the third song unleashed from the UK act's upcoming disc, following “Mantra”, which recently received a Grammy nomination, and “Wonderful Life”. The video is an effects-laden clip, courtesy of animator Extraweg and art director Oliver Latta, that shows a statue-like bust of singer Oli Sykes' head as it is engorged by a plague of demon-like representations of himself (watch below). [See Also: BMTH's “Mantra” on the Top 30 Metal + Hard Rock Songs of 2018] The new album was originally slated to be released on January 11th, but has been pushed to January 25th. Bring Me the Horizon will embark on a North American tour starting January 23rd in Nashville, Tennessee, and running through February 16th in Las Vegas, Nevada. They'll also return to the States to play the Epicenter, Welcome to Rockville, and Sonic Temple festivals in May.
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It is an enormously exciting album, very much a band of equals and the songs and playing show an incredible progression from 'Steal', their last album and a masterpiece in its own right.
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Albums got shorter and longer, jazz came back again, and our cups ran over with killer music from Janelle Monáe, Idles, Mitski and more. See our top 10 albums below Not a year goes by without the music industry undergoing rapid change. This year, the UK's biggest-selling album wasn't by Ed Sheeran, Adele or even George Ezra, whose Staying at Tamara's came second; it was a film soundtrack about an American circus impresario (see Turkey on my list) – a populist cultural phenomenon you could say was endemic in our times (if you weren't over-fond), or confirmation of a renaissance in the musical form (if you were). “What a terrible time to be alive if you're prone to overthinking,” Ezra reckoned. Or Mamma Mia!, as the fourth best-selling album of the year had it. Did this mean that the death of the artist album, so long foretold, was finally upon us? Not quite. But things happened to the formats we listened to in 2018 – disruptions led by US hip-hop. As radio play lost ground to streaming in the US this year, songs were unhitched from the format determined long ago by 45rpm vinyl. Songs seemed to get shorter – the better, some believe, to keep our attention in the competitive churn of Spotify, or to rack up greater numbers of individual streams to maximise chart positions, or to compete with other distractions (or all three). Continue reading...Following accusations of “horrific abuse” and sexual assault, MJ has denied the allegations
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Geddy Lee: Rush will never tour as “Alex, Geddy, Neil” again but another incarnation is possible10/23/2018 We may not have seen the last of Rush. Tucked away at the end of a long interview with Rolling Stone about the new 40th anniversary deluxe reissue of the prog-rock trio's album Hemispheres, bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee says that while “there are zero plans to tour again,” they are still in constant contact and that some iteration of the group could hit the road before too long. “We're very close and talk all the time, but we don't talk about work,” Lee said. “We're friends, and we talk about life as friends. I can't really tell you more than that, I'm afraid. I would say there's no chance of seeing Rush on tour again as Alex, Geddy, Neil. But would you see one of us or two of us or three of us? That's possible.” Rush wrapped up their last tour, a celebration of the band's 40th anniversary, in 2015 and have been inactive ever since, with guitarist Alex Lifeson telling the Globe and Mail earlier this year, “We're basically done. After 41 years, we felt it was enough.” In that same piece, Lifeson admits that he's still been busy, working on a few different musical projects, as well as contributing a column to The West End Phoenix, a monthly paper published in Toronto. The end of Rush was precipitated by Neil Peart's retirement from playing the drums due to suffering from chronic tendinitis and shoulder issues. The musician announced his decision in an interview with Drumhead magazine in 2015 and was backed up by Lifeson in a Rolling Stone interview from 2016 about the band's last tour. “[Peart] didn't even want to do the tour, to be honest with you,” Lifeson said. “It's been increasingly difficult for him, but he committed to the tour and we got through it. As far as he was concerned, that was the end of touring…his shoulders were hurting, his arms were hurting, his elbows, his feet, everything, He didn't want to play anything less than 100 percent. He was finding it increasingly difficult to hit that mark on this last tour.” As for Lee, he recently announced the publication of Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass, a book that features photos of his extensive collection of bass guitars and interviews with fellow players like Adam Clayton of U2, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, and Metallica's Robert Trujillo. While he says that tome has demanded much of his attention, he also told Rolling Stone that he's “always thinking about another music project” and does spend time in his home studio working on ideas for songs as they come to him. “When you've spent 42 years working closely with the same people and formed the kind of bond and friendship that the three of us have had - and maintained, to this day - it's a big decision and a big question what you want to do next,” Lee said. “Or if you want to do something next. These are fundamental, existential questions, and I cannot say that I've answered that question satisfactorily enough to move in one direction or another.” Tool's Top 5 Music VideosMetallica's Top 5 SongsBehemoth's Top 5 SongsAlice in Chains' Top 5Pearl Jam's “Jeremy” Annotated VideoHe'll also debut a new song called “Skeleton's Tooth”
Singer writes on social media that she now feels very differently about voicing her political opinions Taylor Swift has made her first foray into US politics, publicly endorsing two Democrats for the upcoming midterm elections, while aligning herself to fight for LGBTQ rights, gender equity, and an end to the “terrifying, sickening and prevalent” racism in the US. “In the past I've been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now,” Swift wrote on social media on Sunday night, in a plea for her young fans to register and vote. The post accrued 360,000 Instagram likes within the first hour. Continue reading... |
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