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Depeche Mode’s new album ‘Delta Machine’ drops March 26, and the band will support the record with a lengthy tour across Europe, with North American dates expected any day now. Check out a glimpse of HEAVEN:
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It’s hard to imagine now, but back in 1978, punk rockers the Sex Pistols were public enemies in both the States and their native United Kingdom.
In a sense, the public’s revulsion made sense, since the quartet — frontman Johnny Rotten, guitarist Steve Jones, bassist Sid Vicious and drummer Paul Cook — specialized in antagonism. Their songs were both musically and lyrically aggressive (see the riot-fomenting ‘Anarchy In the U.K.’ and blasphemous-toward-royalty ‘God Save the Queen’), and so were the band’s antics, whether it was dropping profanities on live television or heckling fans from the stage.
On January 14, 1978, in San Francisco, in front of a sold-out crowd of 5,000 people, the band played. The show eventually ended with a cover of the Stooges’ ‘No Fun,’ which featured Rotten darkly muttering the chorus like a cranky grandfather for most of the song.
But six-and-a-half minutes in, Rotten, sitting down and staring blankly at the audience as the music staggered to a stop around him, laughed brattily and said, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? Good night.” With a sneer and a mic drop, he left the stage, closing the chapter of the original band.
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In a move that could make some diehard fans cringe, Mumford and Sons leader and namesake Marcus Mumford has revealed that the neo-folk rock band may replace some of the banjos on their next album with synthesizers.
“We’ve always done what feels good, rather than what we’ve thought long and hard about, and we’ll do whatever feels soulful next, whether that’s with an electric guitar or a synthesizer,” Mumford said.
Ben Lovett concurred, saying that the group doesn’t want to wave the flag for just one style of music, namely alt folk. “It’s dangerous for us to talk about what we’ve been discussing for the third album, but we do have greater ambitions not to just stay within certain sonic,” he said. “We’re not going to be the band that stands for folk music or organic music.”
Source: http://diffuser.fm/mumford-and-sons-synthesizers/
Earlier this year, when Beck announced plans to release his ‘Song Reader’ book, which features sheet music for 20 songs he wrote but hasn’t recorded, he hoped other musicians would take on the challenge of piecing together the tunes and maybe even try recording them. Now that ‘Reader’ is out — it hit shelves earlier this month — some musicians are doing just that, and Beck has started a website, songreader.net, which features videos of various musicians — most of them amateurs — trying their hand at interpreting the songs.
“It’s something that was part of what brought people together,” Beck tells the AP, recalling the era of the ’20s and ’30s when families would sit around a pianist playing off sheet music and sing along. “Playing music in the home is another aspect of that that’s been lost. I’m not on a campaign to get people to take up songs and play music in their home or anything. But it is interesting to me, the loss of that, what it means.”
Source: http://diffuser.fm/beck-song-reader-fan-interpretations/
The second album by The xx, “COEXIST”, was released last month. The second single from “COEXIST”, is titled “Chained”. The video was shot in slow motion, underwater, and beautiful and colorful graphics.
“Spending two days underwater wasn’t quite as easy as we thought,” the xx say of their Young Replicant-directed video for ‘Chained,’ “We love how it turned out, hope you enjoy too.”
The xx will be performing at the Congress Theater to a sold out crowd this Saturday, October 20.
WATCH HERE
http://diffuser.fm/the-xx-chained-video/
Beck has contributed three songs to a Playstation video game, ‘Sound Shapes,’ that will be available on Aug. 7.
A trailer was released that gives us a preview of one of those songs, ‘Cities.’
WATCH IT HERE
http://diffuse r.fm/sound-shapes-beck-cities/
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