Our favourite New Yoik rock’n’rollers Public Access TV hit the UK next week, supporting their BFF’s Hinds on a bunch of dates which are sure to be 100% raucous, as well as playing a much-hyped headline set of their own as part of the NME Awards Shows 2016 with Austin, Texas. That gig takes place at London’s Birthdays venue on Feb 18 (tickets here), but before then check out the video for their feisty new wave single ‘On Location’.
On first listen, ‘Alien Anthem’ might seem horrifically misjudged – there’s a 45 second drums’n’detuned guitar solo in the middle of it, which sounds a bit like a microwave breaking down.
Vinyl, the raunchy HBO '70s New York music drama produced by Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and legendary director Martin Scorsese debuts in the UK on Sky Atlantic this coming Monday (15th). The show is a filthy and noisey dive head-first into the crazy 70s NYC music scene and stars Bobby Cannavale, Olivia Wilde and Ray Romano (Yes, from Everybody Loves Raymond). To get you in the mood - here are some of essential New York material to read, listen and watch before Vinyl.
Kanye. He's nothing if not romantic. Last night Yeezy streamed his new album 'The Life of Pablo' during a weird fashion show in Madison Square Garden. One of the main talking points, apart from all of this batshit stuff, were the rapper's choice lyrics and it got us to thinking... Kanye's a man with some romantic success, what if we used his brand new lyrics to woo the ones we love this Valentine's Day?
Last night's 'The Life of Pablo' launch - aka "the album of the life" - was a grandiose event, even by typical Kanye West standards. Turning New York City's Madison Square Garden into a giant Selfridges (with real-life models) to launch Yeezy Season 3, Ye also brought his laptop and aux cable along to entertain the 20,000 punters (and the millions watching on the Tidal live stream) with a few tunes.
Kanye West, you may have noticed, doesn't do things by halves. Last night saw him combine his two loves, fashion and music, at a massive, ridiculous event in Madison Square Gardens in New York. Broadcast around the world via cinema screenings and a stream on Jay-Z's streaming service Tidal (which kept crashing due to unprecedented traffic), it treated us to the first playback of his seventh album, The Life of Pablo, as well as the grand unveiling of his third fashion line, Yeezy 3. We've done a first impressions track-by-track review of the record, but first check out the nine weirdest moments (shout out to Joey Bada$$ getting into a fight with a pap) from last night's glitzy, baffling, celeb-studded event.
