MIDEM’s exclusive keynote session sees Scooter Braun, manager of Justin Bieber and other musical megastars, discuss how he has successfully built SB Projects, a diversified entertainment and media company with ventures at the intersection of music, film, television, technology, brands, culture and social good.
Ryan Reynolds Is Interviewed by Identical Twin Brother During Aviation Gin Spot
Ryan Reynolds and his twin brother Gordon sit down to discuss Father’s Day, Deadpool 2 and Ryan’s new role as owner of Aviation Gin.
Meg Myers Announces 20+ Date Us Tour In Support Of New Album ‘Take Me To The Disco’
With four intimate June shows in NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Kansas City already sold out, Meg Myers announces a 20+ date fall US headlining tour in support of forthcoming album Take Me To The Disco. The tour will make stops at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg, LA’s El Rey Theatre, Chicago’s House of Blues and more.
Meg has also announced that she’ll play a special show with Walk The Moon on Friday, June 15th at Express Live in Columbus, OH.
Meg is known for her transcendent live performances – her “mysteriously shape-shifting” (EW) and “tremendously powerful voice” (Rolling Stone) backed by “feedback-frothed power chords” (NYT) are sure to entrance fans. Meg’s stage presence is marked by a transportive intensity that is nothing short of bewitching.
‘Take Me To The Disco’ has earned early raves from the NY Times, who calledlead single “Numb” “seething and then exploding” and Billboard, who dubbed the track “cathartic” and “life-affirming.” The chilling video for “Numb,” which Uproxx called “as powerful as it is unsettling,” earned a nod from NPR Music’s Bob Boilen and was named one of The 5 Best Videos Of The Week by Stereogum. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORaln6aPqUk
Meg recently released the hauntingly beautiful title track from ‘Take Me To The Disco,’ which Uproxx called “a giant and ethereal song that lives in quiet moments that explode into the dynamic and haunting hook.”
Meg kicks off her headlining tour September 15th at the Observatory in Santa Ana. Full tour routing below.
‘TAKE ME TO THE DISCO’ TRACK LIST
1. Take Me To The Disco
2. Numb
3. Tourniquet
4. Tear Me To Pieces
5. Jealous Sea
6. The Death Of Me
7. Some People
8. Done
9. I’m Not Sorry
10. Little Black Death
11. Funeral
12. Constant
MEG MYERS 2018 TOUR DATES
June 11 – Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room (SOLD OUT)
June 12 – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean (SOLD OUT)
June 15 – Columbus, OH @ Express Live *
June 18 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge (SOLD OUT)
June 25 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo (SOLD OUT)
Aug 11 – San Diego, CA @ 91X X-Fest
Sep 15 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
Sep 20 – Dallas, TX @ Dada
Sep 21 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues – Bronze Peacock
Sep 22 – Austin, TX – Antone’s
Sep 25 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
Sep 26 – Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge
Sep 28 – Norfolk, VA @ Norva
Sep 29 – Washington, D.C. @ U Street Music Hall
Oct 1 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Oct 2 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
Oct 4 – Detroit, MI @ El Club
Oct 6 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues
Oct 7 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
Oct 9 – Denver, CO @ Cervantes Other Side
Oct 10 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The State Room
Oct 12 – Portland, OR @ Dante’s
Oct 13 – Vancouver, BC @ Venue Nightclub
Oct 14 – Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey
Oct 16 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
Oct 17 – Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre
*with Walk The Moon
MORE INFO ON MEG MYERS
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Feminist Punk Icon Viv Albertine On Women’s Anger
Viviane Katrina Louise “Viv” Albertine is best known as the guitarist for the Slits, and her memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, was published in 2014 in the UK by Faber and Faber. It was a Sunday Times, Mojo, Rough Trade, and NME Book of the Year in 2014, as well as being shortlisted for the National Book Awards.
Women’s anger or women’s discontent seems like the last taboo to break. Right now, it’s pretty common for women to very totally open about sexuality, which is great, but you’re still making yourself available to for other people’s pleasure. It’s not coming to terms with your own anger. I get mad about stuff all the time.
Viv Albertine of The Slits: “You say, ‘I get mad about stuff’, but it’s sort of slightly apologetic. Why? When I was growing up, to be an angry girl was to be two terrible, terrible things: unattractive and unfeminine. These were the biggest sins any woman could ever commit. It’s really only in the last couple of years, and I’ve been so thrilled to see it, that women talk about their anger and their rage, because up until a few years ago, most people hid. But, you know, if you’re an angry young man, you’re cool, you’re sexy, you’re deep.”
There’s still nonsense about women’s anger related to being on your period, too…
“The anger one has when one has a period, for instance, is a huge energy that can be harnessed. It’s also a clarity: the bullshit drops from your eyes in that state. So, you start being put down and told you’re vulnerable, but really, you just don’t want to play the game. And that’s threatening to a lot of people, especially people who are still advancing patriarchy.”
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Video Set To David Bowie’s “Life on Mars”
When Falcon Heavy lifted off, it was be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. With the ability to lift into orbit nearly 64 metric tons (141,000 lb)—a mass greater than a 737 jetliner loaded with passengers, crew, luggage and fuel–Falcon Heavy can lift more than twice the payload of the next closest operational vehicle, the Delta IV Heavy, at one-third the cost.
Which is cool, but even cooler is they used David Bowie’s Life On Mars as the soundtrack to their promo video, showing the launch has a life force and a heart.
David Byrne’s Isolated Vocals For Talking Heads’ “Once In A Lifetime”
Now it sounds like Talking Heads’ lead singer David Byrne reciting a monologue, or shouting to no one in a darkened cave, slowly descending into madness.
Freddie Mercury’s Isolated Vocals For Queen’s “Somebody To Love”
You can find Queen’s Somebody to Love on the band’s 1976 album A Day at the Races and was also featured on their compilation album Greatest Hits, but now you can hear Freddie Mercury’s isolated vocals for the song.
And if you think about it, it’s one of the few rock songs on the radio featuring a gospel choir. Written by Mercury at the piano, “Somebody to Love” is a soul-searching piece that questions God’s role in a life without love. Through voice layering techniques, Queen was able to create the soulful sound of a 100-voice choir, with that of only three voices: Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor. John Deacon sat this one out.
How The Media Covered The CD Back In 1981
Towards 2000 debuted on the ABC in 1981. It was a half-hour program showcasing developments and inventions in science and technology. One of the early highlights was this report about the imminent arrival of the next big thing in home entertainment – the compact disc.
Classic Logos and Fonts From Pop Culture Set To Madeon’s ‘Pop Culture’
Melbourne, Australia artist Isaac Moores has created a cool video, Pop Culture Typography, an interesting mashup of iconic logos and fonts from pop culture set to Pop Culture by Madeon.
…and here is Isaac’s mashup with references.
The Mashup Anthem For Us Old People: Rock & Roll Until A Reasonable Hour
We’re all getting a bit older, so what do you do when you still want to rock and roll all night and party every day? You can’t, but thanks to DJ Cummerbund, who mashed up Kiss and The Commodores, you can now Rock & Roll Until A Reasonable Hour.