Björk - Biophilia Live: Amazing musical and visual spectacle.
Björk: Biophilia Live is a 2014 British concert film by Björk, directed and edited by Peter Strickland and Nick Fenton. The film features Björk performing tracks from her Biophilia Tour, which started in June 2011 and ended in September 2013. It was filmed at Alexandra Palace in London on 3 September 2013, and had a theatrical premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on 26 April 2014with screenings across the world throughout the same year.
The film will be released in DVD and Blu-ray on 25 November 2014 and will also have a CD release with the live audio
Of all the multimedia tendrils that have snaked out of Björk’s album, app, installation and performance project Biophilia Live, this record of the tour’s last performance in London is arguably the most conventional offshoot, even if it has additional trippy visuals. That said, this is an impeccably packaged entry to the Biophilia experience, showcasing the musical heart of the concept with spirited, millimetre-precise performances from Björk, her backing all-female choir and a handful of multitasking musicians. The whole lot manage to make a huge, often-beautiful sound with a mixture of traditional and electronic instruments. Even if you’re not mad about the tunes, the light show and interwoven footage of astral bodies, dancing microbes and pulsing starfish is alone worth the price of admission, as is Bjork’s fabulously barmy frock, which looks like it was woven from mushroom gills and fairy dust. The presence of Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio) as co-director may seem odd at first, but when you see his fabulous, lepidoptera-themed next film The Duke of Burgundy, it will all make sense.
Four, the fourth album by the band... 1D members contributed to the composition.
Four is fourth
studio album by English-Irish boy band One Direction. It was released
through Columbia Records and Syco Music on 17 November 2014.
There is literally no stopping One Direction. Following a sell-out world
tour and another promised next year, the lads are back with fresh material in
the form of their fourth album, appropriately titled FOUR.
This time around, the band prove they are not just pretty faces, with 1D
all showing off their song-writing skills by contributing to the album's twelve
tracks.
After the release of lead single "Steal
My Girl" we ensure that Four will satisfy expectations.
The video features special guest Danny DeVito.
The single Steal My Girl recalls Springsteen’s foot-stamping bombast, coated in a sugary gloss, and on this album at least one of the five band members has a writing credit on most songs. It’s hardly groundbreaking pop, but Four is capably sung and beautifully produced.
The Art of McCartney: Paul McCartney inspires that and more
The Art of McCartney is a tribute album to musician Paul McCartney and was released on November 18, 2014. The 42-song set, which covers McCartney's solo work and work with the Beatles features as wide range of artists such as Brian Wilson, Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, Smokey Robinson, The Cure and Kiss. According to producer Ralph Sall, the project has been in the works for over 11 years. It makes sense that Paul McCartney would inspire one of the most impressive tribute-album lineups ever assembled. This 42-song blowout has everything from Willie Nelson doing a raggedly loving "Yesterday" to Billy Joel crushing "Maybe I’m Amazed." There are plenty of surprises, too. “A celebration of one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century and possibly the largest selling composer of all time. Sir Paul McCartney has written many of the world’s best-known songs, and this project features some of the biggest stars in the music industry, performing his, Wings’ and The Beatles’ greatest tracks alongside McCartney’s own backing musicians”.
1. Maybe I’m Amazed – Billy Joel 2. Things We Said Today – Bob Dylan 3. Band On The Run – Heart 4. Junior’s Farm – Steve Miller 5. The Long and Winding Road – Yusuf / Cat Stevens 6. My Love – Harry Connick, Jr. 7. Wanderlust – Brian Wilson 8. Bluebird – Corinne Bailey Rae 9. Yesterday – Willie Nelson 10. Junk – Jeff Lynne 11. When I’m 64 – Barry Gibb 12. Every Night – Jamie Cullum 13. Venus and Mars/ Rock Show – Kiss 14. Let Me Roll It – Paul Rodgers 15. Helter Skelter – Roger Daltrey 16. Helen Wheels – Def Leppard 17. Hello Goodbye – The Cure ft James McCartney 18. Live And Let Die – Billy Joel 19. Let It Be – Chrissie Hynde 20. Jet – Robin Zander & Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick 21. Hi Hi Hi – Joe Elliott 22. Letting Go – Heart 23. Hey Jude – Steve Miller 24. Listen To What The Man Said – Owl City 25. Got To Get You Into My Life – Perry Farrell 26. Drive My Car – Dion 27. Lady Madonna – Allen Toussaint 28. Let ‘Em In – Dr. John 29. So Bad – Smokey Robinson 30. No More Lonely Nights – The Airborne Toxic Event 31. Eleanor Rigby – Alice Cooper 32. Come And Get It – Toots Hibbert with Sly & Robbie 33. On The Way – B. B. King 34. Birthday – Sammy Hagar Vinyl and Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks: 1. C Moon – Robert Smith 2. Can’t Buy Me Love – Booker T. Jones 3. P.S. I Love You – Ronnie Spector 4. All My Loving – Darlene Love 5. For No One – Ian McCulloch 6. Put It There – Peter, Bjorn & John 7. Run Devil Run – Wanda Jackson 8. Smile Away – Alice Cooper Available on: CD (Deluxe Edition), Vinyl and Download (iTunes and Amazon)
Sources: The Art of McCartney, wikipedia, rollingstone.com, ultimateclassicrock.com
David Bowie - Nothing has Changed: Nothing has changed, remains a chameleon of music.
Nothing Has Changed is a bit of a cheeky title for a career retrospective from an artist who is known as a chameleon, and this triple-disc compilation has other tricks up its sleeve.
Chief among these is sequencing the SuperDeluxe 59-track set in reverse chronological order, so it opens with the brand-new, jazz-inflected "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)" and concludes with David Bowie's debut single, "Liza Jane." On paper, this seems a bit like a stunt, but in actuality it's a sly way to revisit and recontextualize a career that has been compiled many, many times before. Previously, there have been single discs, double discs, and triple-disc boxes, but the largest of these was Sound + Vision, a box released in 1989, and the most recent was 2002's The Best of David Bowie, which featured slightly different track listings in different territories but generally stopped in the late '90s. The two-CD version of Nothing Has Changed resembles this 2002 set — there are absences, notably "John, I'm Only Dancing," "Diamond Dogs," and "TVC15," but they're not noticed among the parade of standards — but it's easily overshadowed by the triple-disc SuperDeluxe set. This version of Nothing Has Changed touches upon nearly every phrase of Bowie's career, bypassing Tin Machine but finding space for early pre-"Space Oddity" singles that often don't make Bowie's comps, and naturally it samples from his fine Y2K records, plus his 2013 comeback The Next Day. This expansiveness alone would be noteworthy, but when it's combined with the reverse sequencing the compilation forces listeners to reconsider an artist whose legacy seemed so set in stone it appropriately was enshrined in museums. Obvious high-water marks are undersold — there's not as much Ziggy as usual, nor as much Berlin — so other eras can also enter the canon, whether it's the assured maturity of the new millennium or the appealing juvenilia of the '60s. The end result is something unexpected: a compilation that makes us hear an artist we know well in a whole new way. David Bowie's "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)," taken from the Thin White Duke's upcoming greatest hits compilation Nothing Has Changed, premiered Sunday on BBC Music 6. Spanning nearly seven-and-a-half minutes, this horns-heavy epic is Bowie's most jazz-influenced track since the Aladdin Sane era, while the vocal delivery and disjointed lyrics are reminiscent of singer Scott Walker, of whom Bowie once said "He’s been my idol since I was a kid."
Nothing has Changed Tracklist CD 1: Sue (or In A Season Of Crime) (7.40) Where Are We Now? (4.09) Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy for the DFA Edit) (4.07) The Stars (Are Out Tonight) (3.57) New Killer Star (radio edit) (3.42) Everyone Says ‘Hi’ (edit) (3.29) Slow Burn (radio edit) (3.55) Let Me Sleep Beside You (3.14) Your Turn To Drive (4.44) Shadow Man (4.48) Seven (Marius De Vries mix) (4.12) Survive (Marius De Vries mix) (4.18) Thursday’s Child (radio edit) (4.25) I’m Afraid Of Americans (V1) (clean edit) (4.30) Little Wonder (edit) (3.40) Hallo Spaceboy (PSB Remix) (with The Pet Shop Boys) (4.23) Heart’s Filthy Lesson (radio edit) (3.32) Strangers When We Meet (single version) (4.21)
CD 2: Buddha Of Suburbia (4.24) Jump They Say (radio edit) (3.53) Time Will Crawl (MM remix) (4.18) Absolute Beginners (single version) (5.35) Dancing In The Street (with Mick Jagger) (3.20) Loving The Alien (single remix) (4.45) This Is Not America (with The Pat Metheny Group) (3.51) Blue Jean (3.11) Modern Love (single version) (3.56) China Girl (single version) (4.15) Let's Dance (single version) (4.08) Fashion (single version) (3.25) Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (single version) (3.32) Ashes To Ashes (single version) (3.35) Under Pressure (with Queen) (3.56) Boys Keep Swinging (3.17) ‘Heroes’ (single version) (3.35) Sound And Vision (3.03) Golden Years (single version) (3.27) Wild Is The Wind (2010 Harry Maslin Mix) (5.58)
CD 3: Fame (4.14) Young Americans (2007 Tony Visconti mix single edit) (3.13) Diamond Dogs (5.56) Rebel Rebel (4.28) Sorrow (2.53) Drive-In Saturday (4.29) All The Young Dudes (3.08) The Jean Genie (original single mix) (4.05) Moonage Daydream (4.40) Ziggy Stardust (3.12) Starman (original single mix) (4.10) Life On Mars? (2003 Ken Scott Mix) (3.49) Oh! You Pretty Things (3.11) Changes (3.33) The Man Who Sold The World (3.56) Space Oddity (5.12) In The Heat Of The Morning (3.00) Silly Boy Blue (3.54) Can’t Help Thinking About Me (2.46) You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving (2.32) Liza Jane (2.18) Source: itunes, rolling stone. Available on: CD, Vinyl an download (Buy in: Amazon and iTunes)
TV ON THE RADIO - SEEDS: Something simple but quite attractive
Seeds is the upcoming fifth studio album by American art rock band TV on the Radio, scheduled to be released on November 17, 2014 through Harvest Records. It will be the band's first album since the 2011 death of their bassist, Gerard Smith and was produced by guitarist David Sitek.
Dave Sitek has produced everyone from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Beady Eye, but his best work has come with Tunde Adebimpe, Kyp Malone and Jaleel Bunton: the other members of TV on the Radio (bassist Gerard Smith died in 2011). The 42-year-old Sitek produces the band in his home studio, plays guitar and keyboards, makes killer loops and rocks a Run-D.M.C. T-shirt onstage.
Their old experimental noises have now taken a back seat to 4/4 beats, jangling guitars, punky powerchords and immediate dance grooves. When weirder sounds appear, they’re within conventional pop structures, such as when Ride’s Bowie/Eno-like instrumental intro gives way to a motorik, REM-type melody. The almost-adult oriented rock of Test Pilot and Love Stained will most divide the fanbase weaned on the likes of the genre-defying Dear Science, but Seeds’s sunny melodies contain other depths
The album's first single, "Happy Idiot", was released on September 2, 2014.
On "Happy Idiot," the band creates one of its catchiest tunes while retaining just enough of the old weirdness to keep things off-kilter. A raw guitar riff plays against Adebimpe's shellshocked vocals. "I'm gonna bang my head to the wall till I feel like nothing at all," he mutters, trying to blot out the memory of the lover he can't have. A second guitar enters, providing a sour counterpoint to the first, as things unravel. The song tries to keep pushing ahead, but darker circumstances prevail, a musical mirror to the narrator's struggle.
No Fixed Address is the upcoming eighth
studio album from Canadian rock band Nickelback.
It is scheduled to be released on November 17, 2014. The album release
coincides with the 6 year anniversary of their sixth studio album, Dark Horse.
The album is preceded by the lead single "Edge of a Revolution", which was released on August 18, 2014.
This is the band's first release on Republic Records, after leaving long-time
record label Roadrunner Records in 2013.
Source: Wikipedia.
Marriage
and middle age change a man. Even a man like Chad Kroeger, it would seem.
It sounds
hard to believe, I know. But it’s the only logical conclusion to be drawn from
Nickelback’s eighth studio album.
Arriving
more than a year after his mercilessly maligned marriage to arrested-adolescent
pop princess Avril Lavigne — and roughly coinciding with his 40th birthday on
Nov. 15 — No Fixed Address marks
some major sonic and stylistic shifts for the monarch of the mullet and his
band of bros. Oh, fans needn’t worry too much. There are still plenty of
post-grunge power-chord riffs, anthemic arena-rock choruses, gruff vocals and
expletive-filled lyrics about drugs, partying and doin’ it “right here on the
counter.” (Note to self: Never eat at the Kroeger-Lavigne house.)
But between
those familiarly icky touchstones, there is evidence to suggest that the Chad
is (believe it or not) evolving. Here are some ways No Fixed Address — which
arrives in stores Nov 17 (Pre order) — is not your older brother’s Nickelback.
) — is not your older brother’s Nickelback.