GroupM, the media buying arm of advertising giant Wpp, is planning to double its annual investment in women’s sports and create a dedicated marketplace to facilitate deals.
The initiative will begin in the 2024-25 upfront, with an initial roster of advertisers including Adidas, Ally, Coinbase, Discover, Google, Mars, Nationwide, Unilever and Universal Pictures. More brands are expected to come aboard down the line, the company said.
Women’s sports as a category are projected to generate more than $1 billion in revenue in 2024, according to an estimate by consulting firm Deloitte. While growth has come in several areas, basketball has been particularly strong, with rising ratings for NCAA tournament games and the WNBA.
“Our industry has seen the incredible impact of investing in women’s sports over the last several years, but even with continued momentum, women’s sports investments only comprise a mere fraction of total media spend in sports,...
The initiative will begin in the 2024-25 upfront, with an initial roster of advertisers including Adidas, Ally, Coinbase, Discover, Google, Mars, Nationwide, Unilever and Universal Pictures. More brands are expected to come aboard down the line, the company said.
Women’s sports as a category are projected to generate more than $1 billion in revenue in 2024, according to an estimate by consulting firm Deloitte. While growth has come in several areas, basketball has been particularly strong, with rising ratings for NCAA tournament games and the WNBA.
“Our industry has seen the incredible impact of investing in women’s sports over the last several years, but even with continued momentum, women’s sports investments only comprise a mere fraction of total media spend in sports,...
- 3/27/2024
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Matt Sweeney, a pioneering special effects artist who was Oscar-nominated for his work on Ron Howard’s 1995 space epic Apollo 13, died February 19 of lung cancer at Burbank’s Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center. He was 75.
His death was announced by the Alliance of Special Effects & Pyrotechnic Operators board of directors. Sweeney was a founder and past president of the trade organization.
“A special effects guru, industry legend, Asepo founding member and past president, recipient of three technical achievement awards, and Oscar nominee, Matt is well recognized for his generous spirit and deep love of his craft,” the board said in a statement posted on social media. “He etched his marks on this crazy business in so many ways that will persist long after all of us are gone. He never quit, even after his retirement.”
Sweeney, whose roster of special effects credits stretches back to such 1980s hits as 9 to 5, The Goonies,...
His death was announced by the Alliance of Special Effects & Pyrotechnic Operators board of directors. Sweeney was a founder and past president of the trade organization.
“A special effects guru, industry legend, Asepo founding member and past president, recipient of three technical achievement awards, and Oscar nominee, Matt is well recognized for his generous spirit and deep love of his craft,” the board said in a statement posted on social media. “He etched his marks on this crazy business in so many ways that will persist long after all of us are gone. He never quit, even after his retirement.”
Sweeney, whose roster of special effects credits stretches back to such 1980s hits as 9 to 5, The Goonies,...
- 2/22/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Matt Sweeney, the inventor and special effects artist who received an Oscar nomination for his work on Apollo 13 and three Technical Achievement Awards during his long career, has died. He was 75.
Sweeney died Monday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank after a long battle with lung cancer, Dave Burle, who worked alongside Sweeney at his company for many years, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Sweeney also handled effects for films in the Lethal Weapon and Fast & Furious franchise and for 1941 (1979), 9 to 5 (1980), On Golden Pond (1981), Goonies (1985), The Color Purple (1985), The Lost Boys (1987), Big Top Pee-wee (1988), Arachnophobia (1990), Natural Born Killers (1994) and Galaxy Quest (1999), among many other movies.
Sweeney won his Technical Achievement Awards in 1987 for an Automatic Capsule Gun, which simulates bullet hits and is known as the “Sweeney Gun”; in 1998 for a Liquid Synthetic Air system, which mixes liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen to produce safe,...
Sweeney died Monday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank after a long battle with lung cancer, Dave Burle, who worked alongside Sweeney at his company for many years, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Sweeney also handled effects for films in the Lethal Weapon and Fast & Furious franchise and for 1941 (1979), 9 to 5 (1980), On Golden Pond (1981), Goonies (1985), The Color Purple (1985), The Lost Boys (1987), Big Top Pee-wee (1988), Arachnophobia (1990), Natural Born Killers (1994) and Galaxy Quest (1999), among many other movies.
Sweeney won his Technical Achievement Awards in 1987 for an Automatic Capsule Gun, which simulates bullet hits and is known as the “Sweeney Gun”; in 1998 for a Liquid Synthetic Air system, which mixes liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen to produce safe,...
- 2/22/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Super Bowl has long been known as the Big Game, but some people out there are treating it like a smaller one.
Advertisers typically plunk down millions of dollars for a 30- or 60-second ad in the Super Bowl telecast on the broadcast network showing the annual NFL extravaganza. This year, for the first time, they have some intriguing alternatives. Some have chosen to run commercials only on Univision, which has the rights to air the game in Spanish. Others are relying on ads that will appear only on kids-cable favorite Nickelodeon, which is running a telecast aimed at families. At least one advertiser, Ally Financial, has placed an ad only in the Paramount+ stream of the Super Bowl, rather than on CBS.
These niche telecasts “entice brands that either aren’t willing or haven’t the desire to reach that many people and spend that much money in one fell swoop,...
Advertisers typically plunk down millions of dollars for a 30- or 60-second ad in the Super Bowl telecast on the broadcast network showing the annual NFL extravaganza. This year, for the first time, they have some intriguing alternatives. Some have chosen to run commercials only on Univision, which has the rights to air the game in Spanish. Others are relying on ads that will appear only on kids-cable favorite Nickelodeon, which is running a telecast aimed at families. At least one advertiser, Ally Financial, has placed an ad only in the Paramount+ stream of the Super Bowl, rather than on CBS.
These niche telecasts “entice brands that either aren’t willing or haven’t the desire to reach that many people and spend that much money in one fell swoop,...
- 2/6/2024
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Everyone watches the Super Bowl, but for media industry veterans it has come to be seen as an almost holy experience in a world of continuing atomization and linear decline.
With ratings ebbing and business models crumbling, last year’s edition registered the largest audience of any TV event in history, with 115.1 million viewers (albeit with the caveat of revised Nielsen methodology). This year’s matchup on Sunday, February 11, between the San Francisco 49ers and the Taylor Swift-enhanced Kansas City Chiefs could somehow make the big game even bigger. On the corporate front, it will undoubtedly provide a morale boost at Paramount Global, which will reap hundreds of millions of much-needed dollars from the telecast as questions swirl about its future.
With tune-in remaining massive, Super Bowl ad rates have continued to climb. Paramount said last November it had “virtually sold out” its inventory, at a price of up...
With ratings ebbing and business models crumbling, last year’s edition registered the largest audience of any TV event in history, with 115.1 million viewers (albeit with the caveat of revised Nielsen methodology). This year’s matchup on Sunday, February 11, between the San Francisco 49ers and the Taylor Swift-enhanced Kansas City Chiefs could somehow make the big game even bigger. On the corporate front, it will undoubtedly provide a morale boost at Paramount Global, which will reap hundreds of millions of much-needed dollars from the telecast as questions swirl about its future.
With tune-in remaining massive, Super Bowl ad rates have continued to climb. Paramount said last November it had “virtually sold out” its inventory, at a price of up...
- 2/2/2024
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
The world and music of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling novel “Daisy Jones & The Six,” including album “Aurora,” has come to life. Fronted by band members Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), “Daisy Jones & The Six” is now a TV series on Amazon Prime Video, but bringing the show to life meant that the songs that make the titular group a hit needed to actually be written.
Yes, that’s Claflin and Keough really singing in the show, but each song on the album “Aurora” has a stacked list of well-known songwriters.
All the songs in “Daisy Jones & The Six” were either written or co-written by Blake Mills, who also produced the album.
Co-writers include Marcus Mumford, Chris Weisman, Phoebe Bridgers, Jackson Browne, Z Berg, Jason Boesel, Matt Sweeney, Cass McCombs, Ali Tamposi, James Valentine, Barbara Gruska, Ethan Gruska, Stephony Smith, Jonathan Rice, Joe Keefe,...
Yes, that’s Claflin and Keough really singing in the show, but each song on the album “Aurora” has a stacked list of well-known songwriters.
All the songs in “Daisy Jones & The Six” were either written or co-written by Blake Mills, who also produced the album.
Co-writers include Marcus Mumford, Chris Weisman, Phoebe Bridgers, Jackson Browne, Z Berg, Jason Boesel, Matt Sweeney, Cass McCombs, Ali Tamposi, James Valentine, Barbara Gruska, Ethan Gruska, Stephony Smith, Jonathan Rice, Joe Keefe,...
- 3/25/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
“Aurora,” the once fictional album imagined by Taylor Jenkins Reid in her best-selling novel “Daisy Jones & the Six” has come to life with 11 of the 25 original songs written for Prime Video’s TV show adaptation. Blake Mills and Tony Berg reimagined songs Reid listed in the back of her book for “Aurora,” enlisting collaborators like Marcus Mumford, Phoebe Bridgers and more to write and record the album.
But in addition to the original Daisy Jones & the Six songs, classic 70s rock and roll hits like Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move” and The Byrds’ “Goin’ Back” set the scene for the collision of Daisy Jones and rock band The Six, who rocket to fame together, echoing the dynamic of Fleetwood Mac, Civil Wars and The Eagles to name a few.
Here are all the songs in “Daisy Jones & the Six”:
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‘Daisy Jones & the Six...
But in addition to the original Daisy Jones & the Six songs, classic 70s rock and roll hits like Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move” and The Byrds’ “Goin’ Back” set the scene for the collision of Daisy Jones and rock band The Six, who rocket to fame together, echoing the dynamic of Fleetwood Mac, Civil Wars and The Eagles to name a few.
Here are all the songs in “Daisy Jones & the Six”:
Also Read:
‘Daisy Jones & the Six...
- 3/4/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Top executives from Warner Bros. Discovery, NBCUniversal, Mntn, Google, GroupM and Fox will join the Variety Streaming Room for a panel titled, “TV Ads 2.0: How the Connected Age Gives Advertising a Second Life” on Nov. 9 at 9:30 a.m. Pt. The virtual conversation, moderated by Variety Co-Editor-in-Chief, Cynthia Littleton, will cover the current and future opportunities of connected TV advertising.
Panelists include Andrea Zapata, EVP Ad Sales Research, Measurement and Insights, Warner Bros. Discovery; Mark Douglas, President and CEO, Mntn; Dan Callahan, SVP of Data Strategy and Sales Innovation, Fox Ad Sales; Matt Sweeney, Chief Investment Officer, GroupM; Kristen O’Hara, Vice President, Agency and Brand Solutions, Google & YouTube; and John Lee, Chief Data Officer, Advertising and Partnerships, NBCUniversal.
As the connected TV space expands, ad-supported premium TV programming is strengthening its position with advertisers as powerful media to expand and engage audiences. As audiences flock to their must-see streaming programming,...
Panelists include Andrea Zapata, EVP Ad Sales Research, Measurement and Insights, Warner Bros. Discovery; Mark Douglas, President and CEO, Mntn; Dan Callahan, SVP of Data Strategy and Sales Innovation, Fox Ad Sales; Matt Sweeney, Chief Investment Officer, GroupM; Kristen O’Hara, Vice President, Agency and Brand Solutions, Google & YouTube; and John Lee, Chief Data Officer, Advertising and Partnerships, NBCUniversal.
As the connected TV space expands, ad-supported premium TV programming is strengthening its position with advertisers as powerful media to expand and engage audiences. As audiences flock to their must-see streaming programming,...
- 10/26/2022
- by wcinkala
- Variety Film + TV
Dallas Good, singer, guitarist, and founding member of the Canadian garage-country-rock band the Sadies, died Thursday at the age of 48. His death was confirmed by Andrew Colvin, the Sadies’ longtime agent; no cause of death was given. As one of the lead singers of the Sadies, alongside his brother Travis Good, Dallas Good spent roughly 25 years releasing influential, critically revered records and touring as a member of the band.
“It’s with unfathomable sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Dallas on Thursday, February 17th,” the band wrote in a statement.
“It’s with unfathomable sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Dallas on Thursday, February 17th,” the band wrote in a statement.
- 2/18/2022
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
While promoting his new solo album Serpentine Prison, Matt Berninger performed a rowdy cover of the Velvet Underground’s “I’m Waiting for the Man” as part of his Tonight Show set. Now Berninger has released a studio version of the track, to appear on an upcoming Velvets covers compilation, I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico.
Just like his Tonight Show version, Berninger takes a more far-out approach to Lou Reed’s frenetic depiction of a heroin addict. Instead of banging piano keys, we get steady,...
Just like his Tonight Show version, Berninger takes a more far-out approach to Lou Reed’s frenetic depiction of a heroin addict. Instead of banging piano keys, we get steady,...
- 7/30/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Dawn Richard, Second Line
R&b artist Dawn Richard has taken a winding path through her nearly 20-year career. Now, she finds herself on the North Carolina indie-rock label Merge with her sixth LP, Second Line. It may be an unexpected place for her, but the record feels like a culmination of all her experience, suffused into an album that threads decades of music and heritage into a thrilling, organic whole. the decision by Richard to anchor much of Second Line in house and other forms of electronic club music...
R&b artist Dawn Richard has taken a winding path through her nearly 20-year career. Now, she finds herself on the North Carolina indie-rock label Merge with her sixth LP, Second Line. It may be an unexpected place for her, but the record feels like a culmination of all her experience, suffused into an album that threads decades of music and heritage into a thrilling, organic whole. the decision by Richard to anchor much of Second Line in house and other forms of electronic club music...
- 5/3/2021
- by Jon Dolan, Mankaprr Conteh, Jonathan Bernstein, Kory Grow, Hank Shteamer and Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
There’s a certain kind of lyric that Will Oldham excels at writing and delivering, where he sketches out a vaguely unnerving scenario and allows it to hang there in the listener’s mind, offering no assurance whatsoever that everything will turn out Ok. A potent example comes on “Not Fooling,” the final track of Superwolves, the singer-songwriter’s rich, surprising, and deeply fulfilling new collaborative album with guitarist and co-writer Matt Sweeney, and a sequel to the pair’s 2005 collection Superwolf. “All your assumptions/Are righteous nightmares,” he sings,...
- 4/29/2021
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
In the early 2000s, Will Oldham and guitarist Matt Sweeney decided to try a collaborative experiment inspired by the working relationship of Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter.
Oldham — who went by Bonnie “Prince” Billy at the time — would write lyrics from his home in Louisville, Kentucky, and then send them to Sweeney, the guitarist who had played in the innovative New York rock band Chavez and Billy Corgan’s Zwan. The result was 2005’s Superwolf. The follow-up to that record, Superwolves, will be released by Drag City on April...
Oldham — who went by Bonnie “Prince” Billy at the time — would write lyrics from his home in Louisville, Kentucky, and then send them to Sweeney, the guitarist who had played in the innovative New York rock band Chavez and Billy Corgan’s Zwan. The result was 2005’s Superwolf. The follow-up to that record, Superwolves, will be released by Drag City on April...
- 2/9/2021
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
Matt Sweeney and Bonnie “Prince” Billy roam around a dystopian bunker in the video for “Make Worry for Me.”
Shot at Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe’s architectural exhibit A Cell in the Smile, the bunker is located in an undisclosed location outside Cleveland, Ohio — 27 feet underground. Freeman and Lowe directed the clip, which features Sweeney and Billy performing the track in surreal rooms, including a cold war think tank and a natural history museum.
“Superwolves living inside Freeman and Lowe’s waking dream is a dream within a dream come true,...
Shot at Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe’s architectural exhibit A Cell in the Smile, the bunker is located in an undisclosed location outside Cleveland, Ohio — 27 feet underground. Freeman and Lowe directed the clip, which features Sweeney and Billy performing the track in surreal rooms, including a cold war think tank and a natural history museum.
“Superwolves living inside Freeman and Lowe’s waking dream is a dream within a dream come true,...
- 12/9/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Haim, Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews and Feist were among the artists cover Yusuf/Cat Stevens classics as part of Saturday’s CatSong Festival, a livestream celebrating the 50th anniversary reissues of the singer-songwriter’s 1970 albums Tea for the Tillerman and Mona Bone Jakon.
Incubus’ Brandon Boyd, James Morrison, Passenger, Matt Sweeney and Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Sad13, Ron Sexsmith, Imelda May and more also took part in the two-and-a-half hour virtual fest.
Jack Johnson opened the mostly acoustic show with a rendition of “Where Do The Children Play?,” which was followed...
Incubus’ Brandon Boyd, James Morrison, Passenger, Matt Sweeney and Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Sad13, Ron Sexsmith, Imelda May and more also took part in the two-and-a-half hour virtual fest.
Jack Johnson opened the mostly acoustic show with a rendition of “Where Do The Children Play?,” which was followed...
- 12/6/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Kurt Vile was sitting in the Butcher Shoppe studio in Nashville last December when he floated a pipe-dream idea to producer Dave Ferguson. Vile was slated to perform at the Grand Ole Opry with his hero John Prine two nights later and asked if Ferguson would call the songwriting legend and ask if he felt like dropping by the studio.
“Ferg was like, ‘What are you doing, Prine?’” Vile recalls. “Prine was like, ‘I’m watching the game!’”
Vile was astounded when, later that evening, after finishing his game, Prine...
“Ferg was like, ‘What are you doing, Prine?’” Vile recalls. “Prine was like, ‘I’m watching the game!’”
Vile was astounded when, later that evening, after finishing his game, Prine...
- 9/24/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Kurt Vile has shared a duet with the late John Prine, performing the singer-songwriter’s classic tune “How Lucky.” In a statement, Vile referred to the recording as “probably the single most special musical moment in my life.”
“The truth is John was my hero for a long time when he came into the Butcher Shoppe to recut one of his deepest classics with me,” Vile says. “And, man, I was floating and flying and I couldn’t hear anything he told me while he was there ’til after he was gone for the night.
“The truth is John was my hero for a long time when he came into the Butcher Shoppe to recut one of his deepest classics with me,” Vile says. “And, man, I was floating and flying and I couldn’t hear anything he told me while he was there ’til after he was gone for the night.
- 9/24/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Josh Homme skates gracefully through a surreal fever dream in the new video for Desert Sessions’ “Easier Said Than Done.”
Directed by Chapman Baehler, the clip wastes no time in grabbing your attention as a Hitler look-alike enjoys a picnic with a demon of some sort. Their good time, however, is promptly interrupted when Homme — strapped in a straight jacket and on roller skates — appears and urinates on the fascist dictator.
Things get even weirder from there as Homme glides gracefully between bizarre tableaus of authoritarian teachers, masturbating pig-faced billionaires,...
Directed by Chapman Baehler, the clip wastes no time in grabbing your attention as a Hitler look-alike enjoys a picnic with a demon of some sort. Their good time, however, is promptly interrupted when Homme — strapped in a straight jacket and on roller skates — appears and urinates on the fascist dictator.
Things get even weirder from there as Homme glides gracefully between bizarre tableaus of authoritarian teachers, masturbating pig-faced billionaires,...
- 1/30/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Reed Mullin — drummer and co-founder of the long-running, highly influential North Carolina metal band Corrosion of Conformity — has died at age 53.
His band confirmed the news on social media Tuesday, writing: “It’s with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to a friend, a brother, and pioneer. Reed you are loved and always will be.” No cause or date of death was given. A representative for Corrosion of Conformity did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone’s request for comment.
Mullin co-founded Coc in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1982 with guitarist Woody Weatherman,...
His band confirmed the news on social media Tuesday, writing: “It’s with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to a friend, a brother, and pioneer. Reed you are loved and always will be.” No cause or date of death was given. A representative for Corrosion of Conformity did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone’s request for comment.
Mullin co-founded Coc in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1982 with guitarist Woody Weatherman,...
- 1/28/2020
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Stephen Malkmus’ 2019 album Groove Denied was a mix of electronic tunes and garage-rock, recorded minus his longtime band the Jicks. He’s quickly following that enjoyable record with another great solo LP, Traditional Techniques. Where Groove Denied‘s synthy leanings felt like somewhat of a detour, Traditional Techniques is more of a culmination; it’s a folk-rock record, with Malkmus playing acoustic guitar and going all the way in on the fireside, cardigan-sweater-and wool-socks guitar beauty that’s long been a hallmark of his solo albums since leaving Pavement over 20 years ago.
- 1/23/2020
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Stephen Malkmus has announced a new album, Traditional Techniques, out March 6th on Matador. This will be Malkmus’ third solo LP without the Jicks or Pavement, following 2001’s Stephen Malkmus and 2019’s Groove Denied.
Malkmus recorded the record with Chris Funk of The Decemberists and Matt Sweeney, who’s worked with Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Chavez.
The indie artist also shared the album’s lead single, “Xian Man,” on Wednesday. In a press statement, Malkmus referred to the song as “straight-up commune rock,” making reference to Christianity and using Afghani instrumentation amongst its 12-string guitar-picking.
Malkmus recorded the record with Chris Funk of The Decemberists and Matt Sweeney, who’s worked with Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Chavez.
The indie artist also shared the album’s lead single, “Xian Man,” on Wednesday. In a press statement, Malkmus referred to the song as “straight-up commune rock,” making reference to Christianity and using Afghani instrumentation amongst its 12-string guitar-picking.
- 1/22/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
“Call me a bitch, then call me baby/you don’t know me, you don’t own me,” sings Margo Price in the chorus of “Stone Me,” her first new music in two years. The Nashville country and soul singer debuted the song with a live performance on Full Frontal With Samantha Bee.
Written by Price with husband and bandmate Jeremy Ivey, “Stone Me” finds Price shrugging off any slings and arrows that come her way. Attempt to sully her good name? Knock yourself out, she warns. “I won’t...
Written by Price with husband and bandmate Jeremy Ivey, “Stone Me” finds Price shrugging off any slings and arrows that come her way. Attempt to sully her good name? Knock yourself out, she warns. “I won’t...
- 1/16/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme led his first “Desert Session” in 1997, a year after he left stoner-metal firebrands Kyuss, when he invited members of Monster Magnet and Soundgarden, among others, together for an improvisational jam in Joshua Tree, California. After that, he regularly organized different groups of musicians to record whatever came to them and put out 10 volumes of their recordings through 2003.
Now, after a 16-year break that saw him playing with the Queens and Them Crooked Vultures and producing Iggy Pop, he gathered together a new...
Now, after a 16-year break that saw him playing with the Queens and Them Crooked Vultures and producing Iggy Pop, he gathered together a new...
- 11/2/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Josh Homme and his Desert Sessions crew unveiled an action-packed animated video for “Crucifire,” a quick-ripper off volumes 11 and 12 of The Desert Sessions, Arrivederci Despair and Tightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels, out Friday, October 25th, via Matador.
“Crucifire” clocks in at just under two minutes, but boasts driving guitars, rumbling drums and a deceptively tender vocal performance by Royal Blood’s Mike Kerr. The wild anime-style video for the song, directed by Anthony Francisco Schepperd, centers around a half-girl-half-motorcycle hero trying to stop an evil witch from taking control of a...
“Crucifire” clocks in at just under two minutes, but boasts driving guitars, rumbling drums and a deceptively tender vocal performance by Royal Blood’s Mike Kerr. The wild anime-style video for the song, directed by Anthony Francisco Schepperd, centers around a half-girl-half-motorcycle hero trying to stop an evil witch from taking control of a...
- 10/25/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The New York Times reports that Iggy Pop and Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme made a now-not-so-secret album, slated to drop March 18, and are prepping their first round of promotional shows. Titled Post Pop Depression, the nine-track project was put together independently in a total of three weeks, with the help of Dean Fertita, from Qotsa; Matt Helders, from Arctic Monkeys; and other still-unnamed musicians. Judging by the tone of the Times story, Ppd might serve as a kind of coda (or beginning of a coda) to Iggy's already-lengthy career. "What happens after your years of service?" Iggy told the Times, when asked about the record's theme. "And where is the honor?" A brief tour with the new material and band (which will add the likes of Troy Van Leeuwen, from Qotsa, and Matt Sweeney, from Chavez) will take place in March as well, at a set...
- 1/22/2016
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
Seton Hall University tells TMZ Sports there is No investigation into an alleged racial divide on the men's basketball team ... claiming reports of racial harassment between players are Bs. Fyi -- the Seton Hall team (which was ranked #19 in the country earlier this season) has had a disastrous couple of weeks ... punctuated with the sudden departure of starting sophomore guard Jaren Sina last week. There were reports that Sina (who is white) made his decision to leave the team,...
- 2/17/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
The mainstream drew me back in a little this year, though mostly by looking back several decades to the same things I love and incorporating them into music that doesn't especially sound like 2014.
1. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra: Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything (Constellation)
I think of Silver Mt. Zion as the post-rock Pogues. They have the drunken singing and the scratchy fiddling and the punky energy, but in a sort of gritty yet sophisticated Godspeed! You Black Emperor musical context (and in fact founder/singer/guitarist Efrim Manuel Menuck used to be in Godspeed!). On their eighth album, the added intensity that appeared on their previous album is increased; this may be their best yet. My favorite track is "What We Loved Was Not Enough," where at first it seems like he's singing "The days come when we no longer fail," but then when...
1. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra: Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything (Constellation)
I think of Silver Mt. Zion as the post-rock Pogues. They have the drunken singing and the scratchy fiddling and the punky energy, but in a sort of gritty yet sophisticated Godspeed! You Black Emperor musical context (and in fact founder/singer/guitarist Efrim Manuel Menuck used to be in Godspeed!). On their eighth album, the added intensity that appeared on their previous album is increased; this may be their best yet. My favorite track is "What We Loved Was Not Enough," where at first it seems like he's singing "The days come when we no longer fail," but then when...
- 1/4/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Matt Sweeney previously collaborated on the 2005 album, Superwolf, and now the two have reunited to score the documentary Westerly about transgender surfer Peter Drouyn, who now goes by Westerly Windina. The project has an active Kickstarter campaign for donations. Incentives to pledge include copies of the finished film, invitations to the premiere, surfing lessons with Windina, a custom surfboard and much more. Check out a preview of the film below, and head over to the Kickstarter page if you’d like to contribute. (Via Pitchfork)...
- 11/27/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
"Westerly," a doc about transgender surfer Peter Drouyn's controversial journey toward becoming a woman, is in the works with producers Beau Willimon and Jordan Tappis. Alan White and Jamie Brisick will direct the film, with musicians Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney also on board. Drouyn was a surf icon during the '60s and '70s, but beneath the traditionally macho and sexist surf culture he was hiding himself. He disappeared from the scene in the '80s. Then, after a 2002 surfing accident that nearly killed him, he began his transition into becoming a woman. "It was a supernova. It just kicked in one night, and suddenly Peter went, Westerly was there," she says. Westerly Windina is the name Drouyn emerged with in 2008 when she announced on Australian TV that she was living as a woman. The filmmakers state, “Peter Drouyn becomes aware of the woman within and...
- 11/26/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
Three more tracks have been released from the forthcoming indie rock-centric Fleetwood Mac tribute. Below you'll find Mgmt’s clangy, obtuse take on “FutureGames" and Lykke Li’s delicate go at “Silver Springs," while Prefix Mag has an MP3 of Antony’s run at “Landslide,” arguably the best of the bunch. The New Pornographers’ “Think About Me” and Best Coast’s “Rhiannon” were previously released. All of the songs are off Just Tell Me That You Want Me, which also features Matt Sweeney and Bonnie "Prince" Billy, The Kills, Washed Out, Craig Wedren and St. Vincent, and Zz Top ...
- 6/28/2012
- avclub.com
Everett
The I’ll Be Your Mirror Festival by All Tomorrow’s Parties got under way Friday afternoon in Asbury Park, N.J. Festivalgoers walked the boardwalk and enjoyed blue skies and sunshine at the start of the afternoon, only to contend with rainfall by evening that lasted through the night.
Most of the music acts are being held in the historic Paramount Theatre and Asbury Park Convention Hall, two stately structures connected by a grand arcade. The complex has...
The I’ll Be Your Mirror Festival by All Tomorrow’s Parties got under way Friday afternoon in Asbury Park, N.J. Festivalgoers walked the boardwalk and enjoyed blue skies and sunshine at the start of the afternoon, only to contend with rainfall by evening that lasted through the night.
Most of the music acts are being held in the historic Paramount Theatre and Asbury Park Convention Hall, two stately structures connected by a grand arcade. The complex has...
- 10/1/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
T.I., Sheryl Crow, Zac Brown and Trace Adkins featured on Kid's Rick Rubin-produced new album.
By James Montgomery
Kid Rock
Photo: MTV News
Few contemporary artists have embraced all things American quite like Kid Rock. Muscle cars, hip-hop, Bob Seger tunes, getting drunk on lakes in northern Michigan — he's in love with them all, and has fashioned a rather impressive career out of melding them together, sometimes even on the same song.
So when it was announced last month that his new album would be called Born Free, with the title track serving as the first single, many assumed that it was just the next logical step in his progression as an artist — not to mention perhaps the most extreme example to date of his obsession with all things red, white and blue.
But, according to Kid himself, that's not necessarily true. Because while "Born Free" is a patriotic song,...
By James Montgomery
Kid Rock
Photo: MTV News
Few contemporary artists have embraced all things American quite like Kid Rock. Muscle cars, hip-hop, Bob Seger tunes, getting drunk on lakes in northern Michigan — he's in love with them all, and has fashioned a rather impressive career out of melding them together, sometimes even on the same song.
So when it was announced last month that his new album would be called Born Free, with the title track serving as the first single, many assumed that it was just the next logical step in his progression as an artist — not to mention perhaps the most extreme example to date of his obsession with all things red, white and blue.
But, according to Kid himself, that's not necessarily true. Because while "Born Free" is a patriotic song,...
- 9/22/2010
- MTV Music News
New album will feature collaborations with T.I., Sheryl Crow and Zac Brown.
By Gil Kaufman
Kid Rock
Photo: JulNeil Lupin/ Redferns
There's no way you're going to be able to confuse Kid Rock's upcoming album Born Free with twitch-pop bomb-thrower M.I.A.'s song of the same name.
First of all, Rock's eighth studio album, due November 16, was produced by legendary knobmeister Rick Rubin. Second, even though Rock, like M.I.A., will release a song called "Born Free" as his first single, the Detroit bad boy's tune focuses not on world affairs, but on the economic decline of his hometown, Detroit.
A press release announcing the album calls Born Free "transformational," going on to note that while Rock retains his "edge, wit, and swagger" on the record, he has left his rap-metal roots behind. "There isn't even a parental warning sticker," the release says.
Rock described how D-town inspired the Americana feel of some tracks.
By Gil Kaufman
Kid Rock
Photo: JulNeil Lupin/ Redferns
There's no way you're going to be able to confuse Kid Rock's upcoming album Born Free with twitch-pop bomb-thrower M.I.A.'s song of the same name.
First of all, Rock's eighth studio album, due November 16, was produced by legendary knobmeister Rick Rubin. Second, even though Rock, like M.I.A., will release a song called "Born Free" as his first single, the Detroit bad boy's tune focuses not on world affairs, but on the economic decline of his hometown, Detroit.
A press release announcing the album calls Born Free "transformational," going on to note that while Rock retains his "edge, wit, and swagger" on the record, he has left his rap-metal roots behind. "There isn't even a parental warning sticker," the release says.
Rock described how D-town inspired the Americana feel of some tracks.
- 8/30/2010
- MTV Music News
So far we’ve brought you the 1970 Dodge Charger, the Subaru Impreza, the Sparco Pro 2000 seats and even suggestions on how to be inspired by Fast and Furious on the blog. This week it’s the baddies turn and with the movies emphasis on American muscle cars it’s no surprise that he’s got one of the baddest. Undoing all of the good work done by Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino is Fenix Rise (aka Laz Alonso), who drives a green 1972 Gran Torino SportsRoof in the movie, and we’re here to tell you all about it.
The clues in the film’s title for the speed of these cars, and so engines are an important piece of equipment. Fenix’s Torino has a Ford 429 Cobra Jet engine used in muscle cars in the 1970s and part of the 385 series. It has a Holley fuel pump and carburettor, Jaz...
The clues in the film’s title for the speed of these cars, and so engines are an important piece of equipment. Fenix’s Torino has a Ford 429 Cobra Jet engine used in muscle cars in the 1970s and part of the 385 series. It has a Holley fuel pump and carburettor, Jaz...
- 9/22/2009
- Boxwish.com
Will Oldham has always been insanely prolific, but his résumé has gotten downright ridiculous over the past three years: He's collaborated with Tortoise, Björk, Scout Niblett, Matt Sweeney, Sage Francis, Sun Kil Moon, and Dawn McCarthy of Faun Fables, among others. And there's his lead performance in the movie Old Joy, not to mention his popping up on Wonder Showzen and opposite Zach Galifianakis in the alternate video for Kanye West's "Can't Tell Me Nothing." In fact, it's easy to imagine Oldham's solo work being diverted or diluted by all the extracurricular activity. And yet here's another Bonnie "Prince" Billy album—and it's casually, almost predictably magnificent. But that doesn't mean Lie Down In The Light is Oldham as usual: The songs are full, lush, even sparkling, and their teeming arrangements—woodwinds, electric piano, summer-afternoon copulations of banjo and violin—are the best of his career. The biggest upgrade,...
- 5/21/2008
- by Jason Heller
- avclub.com
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