News of Steve Albini’s unexpected passing on Wednesday, May 8th, has been met with an outpouring of tributes from fellow musicians, including those who had worked with him.
Cloud Nothings worked with Albini on their 2012 magnum opus, Attack on Memory. “steve touched countless lives and changed mine and many others for the better,” frontman Dylan Baldi wrote on Twitter. “a genuine, singular, principled person. spent the last 40 years helping people make art. there’s no reason for him to be gone and the world is less interesting without him. just a really sad day.”
Pj Harvey said working with Albini on 1992’s Dry “changed the course of my life. He taught me so much about music, and life. Steve was a great friend – wise, kind and generous. I am so grateful.”
Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker collaborated with Albini on his 2009 solo album, Further Complications. “Working with Steve Albini was...
Cloud Nothings worked with Albini on their 2012 magnum opus, Attack on Memory. “steve touched countless lives and changed mine and many others for the better,” frontman Dylan Baldi wrote on Twitter. “a genuine, singular, principled person. spent the last 40 years helping people make art. there’s no reason for him to be gone and the world is less interesting without him. just a really sad day.”
Pj Harvey said working with Albini on 1992’s Dry “changed the course of my life. He taught me so much about music, and life. Steve was a great friend – wise, kind and generous. I am so grateful.”
Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker collaborated with Albini on his 2009 solo album, Further Complications. “Working with Steve Albini was...
- 5/8/2024
- by Consequence Staff
- Consequence - Music
Tom Morello, Amanda Palmer, Speedy Ortiz, Kimya Dawson, and more have signed an open letter calling for the restoration of net neutrality, stressing the benefits of an open internet for artists.
Net neutrality, as initially codified during the Obama administration in 2015, broadly established regulations for a more open, accessible internet: The rules ensured that internet providers couldn’t do things like restrict access to certain content, slow or accelerate connection speeds, or hamstring connectivity for customers who didn’t pay a premium fee.
Those rules were scrapped during the Trump administration,...
Net neutrality, as initially codified during the Obama administration in 2015, broadly established regulations for a more open, accessible internet: The rules ensured that internet providers couldn’t do things like restrict access to certain content, slow or accelerate connection speeds, or hamstring connectivity for customers who didn’t pay a premium fee.
Those rules were scrapped during the Trump administration,...
- 1/16/2024
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
It’s been over 10 years since Speedy Ortiz shared their debut album, Major Arcana. Now, the beloved indie quartet is paying homage to the record with a 10th anniversary reissue featuring remastered versions of the songs, due out on November 17th. Listen to the first preview — a remastered version of “Tiger Tank” — below.
Major Arcana became an indie hit when it dropped in 2013, with Consequence’s Katherine Flynn writing at the time that Speedy Ortiz had masterfully utilized older sounds and styles, while still offering something entirely new and compellingly raw. “This is the real deal, ripped from notebook pages, the torn, frilly edges still hanging on,” Flynn wrote.
For her part, Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis explained that the album is teeming with the energy of the band’s early, DIY days. “Speedy made Major Arcana in a flash of momentum — four days of recording at Sonelab with our pal Justin Pizzoferrato,...
Major Arcana became an indie hit when it dropped in 2013, with Consequence’s Katherine Flynn writing at the time that Speedy Ortiz had masterfully utilized older sounds and styles, while still offering something entirely new and compellingly raw. “This is the real deal, ripped from notebook pages, the torn, frilly edges still hanging on,” Flynn wrote.
For her part, Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis explained that the album is teeming with the energy of the band’s early, DIY days. “Speedy made Major Arcana in a flash of momentum — four days of recording at Sonelab with our pal Justin Pizzoferrato,...
- 9/28/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Speedy Ortiz finally got to play a concert for NPR’s Tiny Desk series recently, just ahead of their new album Rabbit Rabbit.
Although bandleader Sadie Dupuis’ other project Sad13 did play a Tiny Desk (Home) concert back in 2020, bringing her main band to the Tiny Desk was a decade in the making — literally. As Dupuis recalls, the band were first invited to the office in 2013, but schedule conflicts (and no time to rehearse) meant they had to politely decline for the time being.
Speedy Ortiz’s request to “do it later” ended up taking quite a while, but their long-awaited Tiny Desk Concert is worth the wait. With seven players total, the band’s four-song set spanned their entire discography, playing one song from each of their albums: “The Graduates” from 2015’s Foil Deer, “Scabs” from Rabbit Rabbit, “Lucky 88” from 2018’s Twerp Verse, and “Plough” from their debut LP Major Arcana.
Although bandleader Sadie Dupuis’ other project Sad13 did play a Tiny Desk (Home) concert back in 2020, bringing her main band to the Tiny Desk was a decade in the making — literally. As Dupuis recalls, the band were first invited to the office in 2013, but schedule conflicts (and no time to rehearse) meant they had to politely decline for the time being.
Speedy Ortiz’s request to “do it later” ended up taking quite a while, but their long-awaited Tiny Desk Concert is worth the wait. With seven players total, the band’s four-song set spanned their entire discography, playing one song from each of their albums: “The Graduates” from 2015’s Foil Deer, “Scabs” from Rabbit Rabbit, “Lucky 88” from 2018’s Twerp Verse, and “Plough” from their debut LP Major Arcana.
- 8/31/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Speedy Ortiz have unveiled “Ghostwriter,” another look at their upcoming album Rabbit Rabbit. Listen to the single below.
As a nu-metal homage, “Ghostwriter” finds Sadie Dupuis seething with rage — a reasonable reaction to this summer’s boiling heat, and what that means for the future ahead. Rather than breaking stuff, however, the bandleader tries to find a more productive release.
“While ‘Ghostwriter’ ruminates on the horrible realities that stoke my anger — in this song’s case, the death of our climate and the criminalization of environmental protesters — it’s also about trying to live with less rage in the day-to-day,” Dupuis explained in a statement. “And not always succeeding, but not getting mad about that, either. And sometimes directing that angry adrenaline toward positive actions.”
Dupuis continued, “My bandmates picked ‘Ghostwriter’ as a single, perhaps because it subtly nods to our unabashed love of nu-metal. It was really fun to...
As a nu-metal homage, “Ghostwriter” finds Sadie Dupuis seething with rage — a reasonable reaction to this summer’s boiling heat, and what that means for the future ahead. Rather than breaking stuff, however, the bandleader tries to find a more productive release.
“While ‘Ghostwriter’ ruminates on the horrible realities that stoke my anger — in this song’s case, the death of our climate and the criminalization of environmental protesters — it’s also about trying to live with less rage in the day-to-day,” Dupuis explained in a statement. “And not always succeeding, but not getting mad about that, either. And sometimes directing that angry adrenaline toward positive actions.”
Dupuis continued, “My bandmates picked ‘Ghostwriter’ as a single, perhaps because it subtly nods to our unabashed love of nu-metal. It was really fun to...
- 8/1/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Speedy Ortiz have returned with “Plus One,” the latest single off their forthcoming album Rabbit Rabbit. The band also announced a number of additional dates for their 2023 tour.
A high-energy waltz taking cues from the “Texan post-hardcore” that bandleader Sadie Dupuis loved as a teen, “Plus One” tackles the topic of trauma through a personal lens. The song was co-produced by Illuminati Hotties’ Sarah Tudzin and blends Dupuis’ resonant lyrics with a tom-driven drum beat, layers of fuzzy guitars, and shiny, double-tracked vocals.
The single also arrived with a music video directed by Dylan Mars Greenberg. Inspired by campy, monster horror movies, the video depicts a “giant” rabbit on a Godzilla-esque rampage destroying the Earth. Watch the video below.
Speaking of the song’s meaning in a statement, Dupuis revealed that she began exploring new songwriting topics in the downtime that the Covid-19 pandemic afforded her. “I found myself ruminating...
A high-energy waltz taking cues from the “Texan post-hardcore” that bandleader Sadie Dupuis loved as a teen, “Plus One” tackles the topic of trauma through a personal lens. The song was co-produced by Illuminati Hotties’ Sarah Tudzin and blends Dupuis’ resonant lyrics with a tom-driven drum beat, layers of fuzzy guitars, and shiny, double-tracked vocals.
The single also arrived with a music video directed by Dylan Mars Greenberg. Inspired by campy, monster horror movies, the video depicts a “giant” rabbit on a Godzilla-esque rampage destroying the Earth. Watch the video below.
Speaking of the song’s meaning in a statement, Dupuis revealed that she began exploring new songwriting topics in the downtime that the Covid-19 pandemic afforded her. “I found myself ruminating...
- 6/28/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Over 100 artists including Rage Against the Machine co-founders Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha, along with Boots Riley and Speedy Ortiz, have announced that they are boycotting any concert venue that uses facial recognition technology, citing concerns that the tech infringes on privacy and increases discrimination.
The boycott, organized by the digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future, calls for the ban of face-scanning technology at all live events. Several smaller independent concert venues across the country, including the House of Yes in Brooklyn, the Lyric Hyperion in Los Angeles,...
The boycott, organized by the digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future, calls for the ban of face-scanning technology at all live events. Several smaller independent concert venues across the country, including the House of Yes in Brooklyn, the Lyric Hyperion in Los Angeles,...
- 6/22/2023
- by Ethan Millman
- Rollingstone.com
Speedy Ortiz have announced Rabbit Rabbit, their first album in over five years, due out September 1st on bandleader Sadie Dupuis’ label Wax Nine. They’ve also shared the album’s lead single “You S02,” and announced US tour dates for 2023.
“You S02” is rife with Speedy Ortiz’s signature poppy, ’90s style guitar rock a-la Splendora. Like previously-released single “Scabs,” it gets lyrically personal in Dupuis’ experience with some of her musical heroes, this time diving deeper into the ones who could use a little more humility.
The song title pulls from the Netflix series You, referencing how Penn Badgely’s character moves from one coast to another without at all becoming a better person. “Changing cities won’t make you a hero if you still treat others badly,” Dupuis said in a press release.
Speedy Ortiz’s US tour dates will start in Chicago July 28th, periodically taking...
“You S02” is rife with Speedy Ortiz’s signature poppy, ’90s style guitar rock a-la Splendora. Like previously-released single “Scabs,” it gets lyrically personal in Dupuis’ experience with some of her musical heroes, this time diving deeper into the ones who could use a little more humility.
The song title pulls from the Netflix series You, referencing how Penn Badgely’s character moves from one coast to another without at all becoming a better person. “Changing cities won’t make you a hero if you still treat others badly,” Dupuis said in a press release.
Speedy Ortiz’s US tour dates will start in Chicago July 28th, periodically taking...
- 6/1/2023
- by Cervanté Pope
- Consequence - Music
Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, the first release of the year from Post Malone, Kelly Clarkson teases her highly anticipated album Chemistry, Doja Cat adds to the narrative in a remix with Sza, and some punky fun from The Linda Lindas.
Post Malone, “Chemical” (YouTube)
Kelly Clarkson, “Mine” (YouTube)
Jorja Smith, “Try Me” (YouTube)
Sza feat. Doja Cat, “Kill Bill” (YouTube)
Fivio Foreign, “Hot Sauce” (YouTube)
Ice Spice feat. Nicki Minaj, “Princess Diana” (YouTube)
Diplo feat.
Post Malone, “Chemical” (YouTube)
Kelly Clarkson, “Mine” (YouTube)
Jorja Smith, “Try Me” (YouTube)
Sza feat. Doja Cat, “Kill Bill” (YouTube)
Fivio Foreign, “Hot Sauce” (YouTube)
Ice Spice feat. Nicki Minaj, “Princess Diana” (YouTube)
Diplo feat.
- 4/14/2023
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Indie rock favorites Speedy Ortiz are back with their first new song in five years, “Scabs.”
The track is vintage Speedy, with busy, biting guitar riffs and some tricky rhythms and time changes, though, the song always returns to a big sing-along chorus: “Who do you wanna prove you’re a big dog to? You turn the screw, but you’re using the wrong size tool,” songwriter/singer/guitarist Sadie Dupuis sings.
Dupuis wrote “Scabs” about the gulf between people “doing tremendous organizing work” and those who “signal their ‘good’ politics through yard signs alone.
The track is vintage Speedy, with busy, biting guitar riffs and some tricky rhythms and time changes, though, the song always returns to a big sing-along chorus: “Who do you wanna prove you’re a big dog to? You turn the screw, but you’re using the wrong size tool,” songwriter/singer/guitarist Sadie Dupuis sings.
Dupuis wrote “Scabs” about the gulf between people “doing tremendous organizing work” and those who “signal their ‘good’ politics through yard signs alone.
- 4/12/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Speedy Ortiz are back with “Scabs,” their first new song in five years.
Despite their time away, “Scabs” has all the makings of a Speedy Ortiz classic: Shaky guitar soundtracks Sadie Dupuis’ verbose verses about labor solidarity (“Born-to-scab solipsists are boogying for big commission”), while the chorus rests on a straightforward singalong (“Don’t talk to me”). The bandleader explained the origins of the track in a statement.
“Living in progressive cities and working in the arts, you meet peers doing tremendous organizing work. And then there are neighbors who signal their ‘good’ politics through yard signs alone,” Dupuis said. “I wrote ‘Scabs’ standing in line at the post office, overhearing customers berate a Usps employee. This was during a time of postal unions-opposed budget cuts and other major issues for mail handlers, which were widely reported on. People advertising their support for essential workers acted conversely when faced with personal inconvenience.
Despite their time away, “Scabs” has all the makings of a Speedy Ortiz classic: Shaky guitar soundtracks Sadie Dupuis’ verbose verses about labor solidarity (“Born-to-scab solipsists are boogying for big commission”), while the chorus rests on a straightforward singalong (“Don’t talk to me”). The bandleader explained the origins of the track in a statement.
“Living in progressive cities and working in the arts, you meet peers doing tremendous organizing work. And then there are neighbors who signal their ‘good’ politics through yard signs alone,” Dupuis said. “I wrote ‘Scabs’ standing in line at the post office, overhearing customers berate a Usps employee. This was during a time of postal unions-opposed budget cuts and other major issues for mail handlers, which were widely reported on. People advertising their support for essential workers acted conversely when faced with personal inconvenience.
- 4/12/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Does your 9-to-5 ever make you feel like a jobber?
In the world of professional wrestling, a jobber is someone who frequently and deliberately loses matches to help push another performer’s popularity. Usually, the anonymous jobber isn’t just meant to lose but to get absolutely squashed by the bigger name. Being a jobber in the hard-hitting world of professional wrestling isn’t all that glamorous, but really, does it sound worse than being a jobber in a normal office setting, where the physical beatings are replaced with spiritual ones?
The parallels of being a bottom-of-the-card wrestler and an underappreciated gig worker sparked something in Kate Meizner, a Brooklyn-based songwriter who has toured as a guitarist with Snail Mail and played in bands such as the Glow, Potty Mouth, and Hellrazor.
“I had a lot of really crappy jobs,” Meizner tells Den of Geek. “Even the jobs that are supposed to be good,...
In the world of professional wrestling, a jobber is someone who frequently and deliberately loses matches to help push another performer’s popularity. Usually, the anonymous jobber isn’t just meant to lose but to get absolutely squashed by the bigger name. Being a jobber in the hard-hitting world of professional wrestling isn’t all that glamorous, but really, does it sound worse than being a jobber in a normal office setting, where the physical beatings are replaced with spiritual ones?
The parallels of being a bottom-of-the-card wrestler and an underappreciated gig worker sparked something in Kate Meizner, a Brooklyn-based songwriter who has toured as a guitarist with Snail Mail and played in bands such as the Glow, Potty Mouth, and Hellrazor.
“I had a lot of really crappy jobs,” Meizner tells Den of Geek. “Even the jobs that are supposed to be good,...
- 3/21/2023
- by Nick Harley
- Den of Geek
Over 200 recording artists, including Tom Morello, Mannequin Pussy, Speedy Ortiz, Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna, and Jeff Rosenstock, have signed off on an open letter demanding that Denver’s famed Red Rocks Amphitheater, ticketing company Axs, and its parent company Aeg Worldwide, cancel its contracts to begin implementing palm-scanning technology from Amazon for entry at the venue.
Aeg and Axs announced the addition of the Amazon One Palm Recognition service for Red Rocks in September, touting the concept’s potential as a more convenient, secure, and hygienic alternative for concertgoers...
Aeg and Axs announced the addition of the Amazon One Palm Recognition service for Red Rocks in September, touting the concept’s potential as a more convenient, secure, and hygienic alternative for concertgoers...
- 11/17/2021
- by Ethan Millman
- Rollingstone.com
A group of musicians, producers, live-music workers and others who work in the music economy that has come together under the banner of the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers has launched a new campaign, called Justice At Spotify, to try to gain support for a series of changes they would like to see the world’s largest streaming service make.
Along with a mission statement and a petition that at press time has been signed by more than 6,000 people — including artists such as Diiv, Julia Holter and Speedy Ortiz, among others — the Umaw also released a ...
Along with a mission statement and a petition that at press time has been signed by more than 6,000 people — including artists such as Diiv, Julia Holter and Speedy Ortiz, among others — the Umaw also released a ...
- 10/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A group of musicians, producers, live-music workers and others who work in the music economy that has come together under the banner of the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers has launched a new campaign, called Justice At Spotify, to try to gain support for a series of changes they would like to see the world’s largest streaming service make.
Along with a mission statement and a petition that at press time has been signed by more than 6,000 people — including artists such as Diiv, Julia Holter and Speedy Ortiz, among others — the Umaw also released a ...
Along with a mission statement and a petition that at press time has been signed by more than 6,000 people — including artists such as Diiv, Julia Holter and Speedy Ortiz, among others — the Umaw also released a ...
- 10/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Sad13’s Sadie Dupuis has dropped a cover of Rilo Kiley’s “Paint’s Peeling.” The rendition appears on No Bad Words for the Coast Today: The Execution of All Things Covers Comp, out November 6th via Bandcamp.
Dupuis’ cover of the 2002 track is considerably slower than the original, throwing dark, heavy synths into the mix that make it feel like a B-side to her recent album, Haunted Painting. “And I feel nothing, not brave,” she sings. “It’s a hard day for breathing again.”
Following the announcement of Rilo...
Dupuis’ cover of the 2002 track is considerably slower than the original, throwing dark, heavy synths into the mix that make it feel like a B-side to her recent album, Haunted Painting. “And I feel nothing, not brave,” she sings. “It’s a hard day for breathing again.”
Following the announcement of Rilo...
- 10/2/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
If you were a fan of Zoom horror flick Host, you’d do right to tune into Sad13’s new video for “Hysterical,” off her upcoming second album, Haunted Painting — out September 25th on her Wax Nine Label.
Based on the 2014 horror movie Unfriended — in which group of friends are picked off by a vengeful ghost over Skype — the video features frontwoman Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz) chatting with a bevy of friends as… they are picked off by a vengeful spirit over a Skype-like service. Much like in Unfriended...
Based on the 2014 horror movie Unfriended — in which group of friends are picked off by a vengeful ghost over Skype — the video features frontwoman Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz) chatting with a bevy of friends as… they are picked off by a vengeful spirit over a Skype-like service. Much like in Unfriended...
- 8/25/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
“Girls, come on over,” Sadie Dupuis beckons in the opening lines of her new stay-at-home anthem, “Ghost (of a Good Time).” In the video, the poet and songwriter wears a witchy costume, surrounded by candles and ghosts. “I’m too loath to twist and shout/RSVP to be not going out,” she adds.
The experience of exiting your twenties and growing weary of nightlife is felt so clearly on the synth-pop track that it’s nearly tangible. Watch the way Dupuis reads a book in comfy socks, as her alarm clock reads 10 p.
The experience of exiting your twenties and growing weary of nightlife is felt so clearly on the synth-pop track that it’s nearly tangible. Watch the way Dupuis reads a book in comfy socks, as her alarm clock reads 10 p.
- 7/7/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
A tribute album to Adam Schlesinger being released today on Bandcamp includes cover songs by two actors who collaborated with the late songwriter on projects, Rachel Bloom and Sarah Silverman, as well as contemporaries of Schlesinger’s from the rock world like Kay Hanley, Nada Surf and Tanya Donnelly.
“Saving for a Custom Van,” which takes its name from the title track of the essential Fountains of Wayne album “Utopia Parkway,” is a 31-track collection that covers the breadth of Schlesinger’s performing and songwriting career. Besides familiar FoW songs from the late ’90s and 2000s, the collection also includes songs from his six-season run as the core house writer for TV’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” the films “Music and Lyrics” and “That Thing You Do!,” and Schlesinger’s other long-standing band, Ivy. Even two of the songs he wrote for “Josie and the Pussycats” figure into the expansive track list.
“Saving for a Custom Van,” which takes its name from the title track of the essential Fountains of Wayne album “Utopia Parkway,” is a 31-track collection that covers the breadth of Schlesinger’s performing and songwriting career. Besides familiar FoW songs from the late ’90s and 2000s, the collection also includes songs from his six-season run as the core house writer for TV’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” the films “Music and Lyrics” and “That Thing You Do!,” and Schlesinger’s other long-standing band, Ivy. Even two of the songs he wrote for “Josie and the Pussycats” figure into the expansive track list.
- 6/16/2020
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Rachel Bloom, Sarah Silverman and Charly Bliss have all contributed songs to a new tribute album to late songwriter Adam Schlesinger, Saving for a Custom Van, out Tuesday, June 16th, on Bandcamp via Father/Daughter Records and Wax Nine.
The extensive 31-song compilation boasts an array of artists covering songs Schlesinger wrote with his bands Fountains of Wayne and Ivy, as well as material he penned for TV shows and films like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, That Thing You Do and Music and Lyrics. The compilation’s lead single is Letters to...
The extensive 31-song compilation boasts an array of artists covering songs Schlesinger wrote with his bands Fountains of Wayne and Ivy, as well as material he penned for TV shows and films like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, That Thing You Do and Music and Lyrics. The compilation’s lead single is Letters to...
- 6/16/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Alice Bag, Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto, Speedy Ortiz, Diiv, Geoff Rickly of Thursday, and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo are among the hundreds of musicians to sign a new letter to Congress demanding more aid for musicians struggling during the Covid-19 crisis.
The organization behind the letter is the newly launched labor group, Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (Umaw), which was formed by a committee of musicians in response to the struggles brought on by the pandemic. While Covid-19 will be one of the union’s top priorities at the moment,...
The organization behind the letter is the newly launched labor group, Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (Umaw), which was formed by a committee of musicians in response to the struggles brought on by the pandemic. While Covid-19 will be one of the union’s top priorities at the moment,...
- 5/4/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Bikini Kill, Neutral Milk Hotel, Snail Mail, Speedy Ortiz, and others have signed an open letter to Congress and state governments demanding unemployment benefits for self-employed workers in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“While all workers are suffering right now, musicians, touring workers, DJs, and other gig economy workers are particularly hurt because we are ineligible for unemployment, paid sick leave, or other benefits under our current system,” the letter reads. “We pay significant amounts in income tax to the state and federal government, but because most of us are categorized as self-employed,...
“While all workers are suffering right now, musicians, touring workers, DJs, and other gig economy workers are particularly hurt because we are ineligible for unemployment, paid sick leave, or other benefits under our current system,” the letter reads. “We pay significant amounts in income tax to the state and federal government, but because most of us are categorized as self-employed,...
- 3/24/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Indie-rock singer-songwriter David Berman passed away in August 2019, and over the weekend, numerous fans, friends and former bandmates gathered to celebrate what would have been the musician’s 53rd birthday with tribute shows in New York, Philadelphia and Portland, Oregon.
At the Portland show — hosted by local zine chickfactor at Bunk Bar — Pavement members Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich covered songs from Berman’s band Silver Jews, including American Water‘s “Random Rules” and Starlite Walker‘s “Trains Across the Sea.” (Both Malkmus and Nastanovich had occasionally performed with Silver Jews.
At the Portland show — hosted by local zine chickfactor at Bunk Bar — Pavement members Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich covered songs from Berman’s band Silver Jews, including American Water‘s “Random Rules” and Starlite Walker‘s “Trains Across the Sea.” (Both Malkmus and Nastanovich had occasionally performed with Silver Jews.
- 1/6/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
More than 100 musicians — including Deerhoof, Ted Leo, Guy Picciotto of Fugazi and Immortal Technique — have signed an open letter pledging to boycott all Amazon festivals and events until the tech giant stops working with Immigration Customs Enforcement.
The letter was posted Thursday via No Music for Ice, and states that the boycott will continue until Amazon meets four demands: Terminates its existing contract with Ice and other agencies “that commit human rights abuses”; stops providing Cloud services to companies like Peter Thiel’s Palantir, which aid deportations; end projects that encourage racial profiling and discrimination,...
The letter was posted Thursday via No Music for Ice, and states that the boycott will continue until Amazon meets four demands: Terminates its existing contract with Ice and other agencies “that commit human rights abuses”; stops providing Cloud services to companies like Peter Thiel’s Palantir, which aid deportations; end projects that encourage racial profiling and discrimination,...
- 10/24/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
An episode of the long-awaited fourth season of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty will get an exclusive, never-before-seen screening at the second annual Adult Swim Festival in November. The two-day event in Los Angeles runs Friday, Nov. 15-Saturday, Nov. 16, with the Rick and Morty screening set for Day 2.
Adult Swim had previously announced that Rick and Morty‘s Season 4 will launch in November.
In addition to the Rick and Morty sneak, this year’s festival will include events described by Adult Swim as “one-of-a-kind, 360° fan experience” attractions such as “Robot Chicken Intergalatic Power Summit, Squidbillies 10 Man Bunkhouse Stampede,” a discussion with Genndy Tartakovsky, and exclusive talent appearances, panels, meet and greets, merchandise, games, and more.
The festival also will feature performances by Dethklok, Jamie xx, Vince Staples, Young Thug, Captain Murphy, The Eric Andre Show Live!, Tierra Whack, Lil Nas X, among others.
Last year’s debut festival drew...
Adult Swim had previously announced that Rick and Morty‘s Season 4 will launch in November.
In addition to the Rick and Morty sneak, this year’s festival will include events described by Adult Swim as “one-of-a-kind, 360° fan experience” attractions such as “Robot Chicken Intergalatic Power Summit, Squidbillies 10 Man Bunkhouse Stampede,” a discussion with Genndy Tartakovsky, and exclusive talent appearances, panels, meet and greets, merchandise, games, and more.
The festival also will feature performances by Dethklok, Jamie xx, Vince Staples, Young Thug, Captain Murphy, The Eric Andre Show Live!, Tierra Whack, Lil Nas X, among others.
Last year’s debut festival drew...
- 6/25/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The second annual Adult Swim Festival is set to take place on Friday, November 15 and Saturday, November 16 at Los Angeles’ Banc Of California Stadium. Music acts on the bill include Lil Nas X (pictured), Jamie xx, Vince Staples, Young Thug, Dethklok, Captain Murphy and Tierra Whack, among many others.
Additional offerings include comedy performers, special experiences and screenings, for example: a 360° fan experience, a premiere screening of “Rick and Morty” season four abd a Robot Chicken Intergalatic Power Summit.
The 23,500-seat Banc of California Stadium open just over a year ago on the site of the venerable L.A. Memorial Sports Arena — site of legendary shows by U2 and Bruce Springsteen as well as basketball’s L.A. Clippers for a time — adjacent to the Coliseum and the USC campus. June 2). The renovation took 20 months and cost more than $350 million.
Tickets start at an affordable $49.
See the lineup below
Friday,...
Additional offerings include comedy performers, special experiences and screenings, for example: a 360° fan experience, a premiere screening of “Rick and Morty” season four abd a Robot Chicken Intergalatic Power Summit.
The 23,500-seat Banc of California Stadium open just over a year ago on the site of the venerable L.A. Memorial Sports Arena — site of legendary shows by U2 and Bruce Springsteen as well as basketball’s L.A. Clippers for a time — adjacent to the Coliseum and the USC campus. June 2). The renovation took 20 months and cost more than $350 million.
Tickets start at an affordable $49.
See the lineup below
Friday,...
- 6/25/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Speedy Ortiz singer-guitarist Sadie Dupuis has one of the most distinct lyrical voices in indie rock. Over the last seven years, she’s filled albums like 2015’s Foil Deer and this year’s Twerp Verse with sharp, funny, surprising words that are impossible to mistake for anyone else’s. In fact, Dupuis trained as a poet in the early 2010s, and she’s continued to publish written work since then. “I get asked to do readings, and I’d like to have a book to read from,” she says over...
- 11/16/2018
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
In the fall of 2017, Flasher were close to a breaking point. The Washington, D.C. punk group had traveled to Brooklyn to make their first full-length album, and it wasn’t going very well. Before entering the studio, they’d had an idea of what Flasher was; now they were ripping at that idea’s seams, trying to invent something new. “It was kind of traumatic, honestly,” says guitarist Taylor Mulitz, 27, who is one of three songwriters in the band, along with bassist Daniel Saperstein, 28, and drummer Emma Baker, 27. “We...
- 11/9/2018
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Speedy Ortiz paid tribute to Liz Phair by covering her “gorgeous mystery rock song.”
“Blood Keeper” is an outtake from Phair’s 1998 LP Whitechocolatespaceegg. Speedy Ortiz stick close to the spirit of the original, building from dispassionate verses to a feisty chorus buttressed by distorted electric guitars: “I’m obsessed, I’m a wreck, I’m insane/ Isn’t that what you want me to say?”
In a statement, Speedy Ortiz lead singer Sadie Dupuis called “Blood Keeper” “one of my favorites of [Phair’s], made all the more tantalizing because 1, it was never officially released,...
“Blood Keeper” is an outtake from Phair’s 1998 LP Whitechocolatespaceegg. Speedy Ortiz stick close to the spirit of the original, building from dispassionate verses to a feisty chorus buttressed by distorted electric guitars: “I’m obsessed, I’m a wreck, I’m insane/ Isn’t that what you want me to say?”
In a statement, Speedy Ortiz lead singer Sadie Dupuis called “Blood Keeper” “one of my favorites of [Phair’s], made all the more tantalizing because 1, it was never officially released,...
- 9/5/2018
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
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