Funko has released 3-packs of action figures featuring popular characters from Netflix‘s original series, Stranger Things.
Broken Social Scene Releases “Stay Happy”, Announces First West Coast Dates Since 2011
Today, Toronto’s Broken Social Scene released “Stay Happy”, Led by the vocals of newcomer Ariel Engle, “Stay Happy” is the fourth song from their upcoming album Hug of Thunder.
Broken Social Scene are also excited to announce a run of West Coast dates in addition to their previously announced 2017 tour dates. The West Coast tour, which are their first West Coast shows since 2011, will kick off in Vancouver on October 21 and wrap up in Los Angeles on October 28 with The Belle Game opening these shows. The band has also announced three special performances opening for Arcade Fire in Canada on November 1 in Windsor and November 3 and 4 in their hometown of Toronto. A presale for these shows via Spotify will happen tomorrow, Tuesday June 27, at 10 am local time, and go on sale to the public on Thursday, June 29 at 10 am local time. For these dates, Broken Social Scene are partnering with Plus 1 so that $1 from every ticket goes towards providing access to arts education for young people in disadvantaged communities.
The tour will follow the release of Broken Social Scene’s upcoming album Hug of Thunder, out on Arts & Crafts on July 7. Produced by Joe Chiccarelli and mixed by Shawn Everett, Hug Of Thunder is everything BSS fans love from the Canadian collective and then some, an album overflowing with glorious open chords, multi-voice harmonies, spacious psychedelia-tinted breakdowns, and more. It is a panoramic, expansive album that manages to be both epic and intimate; and like all things BSS, in troubled times, it offers a serotonin rush of positivity. Since their inception in the early Aughts, BSS have always pushed sonic boundaries while remaining reverent of a perfect chorus; almost twenty years down the line, Hug Of Thunder sharpens that balance. The record’s twelve songs refract the band’s varying emotions, methods, and techniques in ways that not only reference their other albums, but surpass them. Hug Of Thunder is righteous but warm, angry but loving, melodic but uncompromising. And if you’ve ever fallen in love with Broken Social Scene – as many of us have – it is a perfect return that was truly worth the wait.
TOUR DATES
6/24/17 Pasadena, CA @ Arroyo Seco Weekend
7/21 -23/17 Edmonton, AB @ Interstellar Rodeo
8/05/17 Montreal, Quebec @ Osheaga
8/18-20/17 – Winnipeg, MB @ Interstellar Rodeo
9/15/17 – Ottawa, ON @CityFolk
9/16/17 Ithaca, NY @ State Theatre ~
9/17/17 New York, NY @ Meadows Music & Art festival
9/19/17 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club ~
9/21/17 Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel ~
9/22/17 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle *
9/24/17 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant *
9/26/17 Des Moines, IA @ Hoyt Sherman *
9/27/17 Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater *
9/28/17 St. Paul, MN @ The Palace *
9/29/17 Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom *
9/30/17 Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore *
10/1/17 Pittsburgh, PA @ Byham Theater *
10/3/17 Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore
10/5/17 Portland, ME @ State Theater *
10/6/17 New Haven, CT @ College Street *
10/7/17 Boston, MA @ House of Blues
10/21/17 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom ~
10/23/17 Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre ~
10/24/17 Portland, WA @ Crystal Ballroom ~
10/26/17 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater ~
10/28/17 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern ~
11/1/17 Windsor, ON @ Family Credit Union #
11/3/17 Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre #
11/4/17 Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre #
~ – with The Belle Game
* – with Frightened Rabbit
# – with Arcade Fire
Andy Warhol eating a hamburger
Andy Warhol eats a Whopper, from Jørgen Leth’s 1982 documentary/art film “66 Scenes from America,” a collection of moving “postcards” from the United States.
https://youtu.be/Ejr9KBQzQPM
Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Isolated Guitar Track For “Pride and Joy”
Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Pride and Joy is notated in the key of E, although with Vaughan’s guitar tuned one-half step lower, resulting in the pitch of E♭, in 4/4 time with a moderately fast tempo. Listen for Vaughan extracting extra sound from the guitar by choosing finger shapes that allow the maximum number of strings to ring at a time, often the top E-string.
https://youtu.be/Kqb9IFVIIFg
That Time The Beastie Boys Created A ‘Hello Nasty’ Infomercial
Hello Nasty is the fifth studio album by Beastie Boys, released on July 14, 1998 by Capitol Records and sold 681,000 copies in its first week, debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart. The album won two awards at the 1999 Grammys, in the categories of Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for “Intergalactic”.
To promote their album, the group used an ingenious marketing tactic by way of creation of an infomercial. Calling the 1-888 number that flashed on the screen throughout the half-hour parody led viewers to where they could pre-order Hello Nasty and have it delivered to their doorstep on July 14, the ad also included the URL for Grand Royal’s newly launched website.
Leonard Cohen on Moonlight
“I don’t feel any compulsion just to stand under the spotlight night after night unless I have something to say“ – Leonard Cohen
One evening in December of 1974, Leonard Cohen went on WBAI FM in New York City. This radio interview has rarely been heard since the night it aired.
Cohen talked about his creative endeavors and influences during the interview, but we circled in on the conversation about his writing and his poetry. Cohen read a poem he had written nearly 20 years earlier, Two Went to Sleep. There’s something about hearing him read his own words and taking a journey into his mind.
“Scooby Scooby Doo, Where Are You?” Done In Ska
Scooby Scooby Doo, where are you? Here’s a cool cover version of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon theme song, performed in the Ska style by The Holophonics.
Paul Simon explains how he wrote “Mrs. Robinson”
So what did Paul Simon mean when he wrote the lines, Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio, Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, in his hit, Mrs. Robinson?
In 1970, Paul spoke to Dick Cavett on composing that still-brilliant song for the film The Graduate.
Neil Young Opens Up About His Pagan Beliefs In An Animated Interview From 2006
“I go where the wind is. That’s my church.” – Neil Young in 2006, as told to Cal Fussman.
St. Vincent Unveils “Fear The Future Tour”
St. Vincent has announced the “Fear the Future Tour,” her first extended run of dates in over two years. The tour begins October 17 in London and concludes December 2 at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre.
USA pre-sale registration begins today at 10AM ET. Global fan pre-sale begins June 27. General on-sale for the entire tour begins Friday June 30. Fans will be able to choose from standalone show tickets as well as the “Fear The Future” Enhanced Experience – including tickets plus signed poster, photo with St. Vincent’s guitar, film screening and more. A full list of tour dates is below.
The “Fear The Future Tour” announcement comes in the midst of an eventful year for St. Vincent (nee Annie Clark). The GRAMMY®-winning artist and “bona fide guitar god [and] pop visionary” (Rolling Stone) made her directorial debut in February when ‘The Birthday Party’ from the ‘XX’ horror anthology premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (she also wrote and scored the piece). More recently, she was named ambassador for Record Store Day 2017, recorded a 7” single with John Legend to benefit Planned Parenthood, and unveiled updates to her signature collection of Ernie Ball guitars.
8/19 – Tokyo, Japan – Summer Sonic
10/17 – London, UK – O2 Academy Brixton
10/18 – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo Manchester
10/20 – Dublin, Ireland – Olympia Theatre
10/23 – Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique
10/24 – Paris, France – Le Trianon
10/26 – Berlin, Germany – Huxleys
10/27 – Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVrendenburg
11/14 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
11/15 – Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room
11/17 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater
11/18 – St. Paul, MN – Palace Theater
11/19 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
11/20 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
11/21 – Louisville, KY – The Kentucky Center
11/22 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
11/24 – Knoxville, TN – Tennessee Theatre
11/25 – Durham, NC – Durham Performing Arts Center
11/27 – Washington, DC – The Anthem
11/28 – Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
11/30 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
12/1 – Portland, ME – State Theatre
12/2 – Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre