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Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke are teaming up for a new collaborative album. Tall Tales is the name of their first record as a duo, and it will be released on May 9th via Warp Records. In the meantime, the two Englishmen have dropped a new song titled “This Conversation is Missing Your Voice,” which you can listen to below.

The chameleonic electronic producer and Radiohead frontman previously collaborated on a track from Pritchard’s 2016 album Under the Sun titled “Beautiful People.” Last month marked their second official collaboration “Back in the Game,” which Yorke had been performing during concerts throughout 2024.

Along with the album, visual artist Jonathan Zawada (considered an honorary member of the project) has created an accompanying short film to Tall Tales, which has been in development alongside the record for many years, according to a press statement. Both videos for “Back in the Game” and “This...

Radiohead haven’t released an album since 2016, but the band’s frontman, Thom Yorke, has been on an extraordinary run of studio creativity lately, laying down three great albums with the Smile, his band with Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and jazz drummer Tom Skinner. And it turns out that since 2020, Yorke has been quietly enmeshed in another collaboration, piecing together a sublime new album with veteran electronic producer Mark Pritchard: Tall Tales, due May 9 on Warp Records. It’s accompanied by an intensely trippy animated film by artist Jonathan Zawada,...

Thom Yorke has teamed up with Mark Pritchard for the new single “Back in the Game,” the second collaboration between the Radiohead singer and the electronic artist.

“Back in the Game” previously debuted onstage last year during Yorke’s “Everything” solo tour of Australia and Asia, with the studio version arriving Thursday along with a video directed by visual artist Jonathan Zawada, who found inspiration from — of all things — a disco movie.

“On first hearing the original demo of ‘Back In The Game,’ I was immediately struck by the deranged...

Maggie Rose performed a trio of songs off her Grammy-nominated album No One Gets Out Alive during her debut appearance on CBS Saturday Morning.

The Maryland native and Nashville lifer sang the devastating indictment of two-faced friends, “Fake Flowers,” a lilting “Under the Sun,” and the title track, a declaration to live a life uninhibited. “Buy the house, visit Rome/Wear the dress that stops the show,” she sang to open “No One Gets Out Alive.”

Released in April, No One Gets Out Alive cemented Rose’s expert pivot to rootsy Americana vocalist,...

Militarie Gun have announced Life Under the Sun, a new EP due on January 26th featuring reimaginings of songs from their debut album, Life Under the Gun. Along with the announcement, they shared the single “My Friends Are Having a Hard Time” featuring Manchester Orchestra.

Life Under the Gun debuted in summer 2023 and served as a proper introduction to the blend of kinda-sorta hardcore sonics and personal songwriting that earned Militarie Gun a spot on Consequence‘s list of 15 rising artists to watch in 2024. The track “My Friends Are Having a Hard Time” — which has now been reimagined as a duet with Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull — exemplifies that blend.

“My girl says this song makes her really sad,” frontman Ian Shelton told Consequence for Militarie Gun’s Track by Track breakdown of Life Under the Gun. “Being someone who loves melancholy songs, I just love it. At the time I wrote it,...

Chrystia Cabral’s Spellling & the Mystery School is a collection of songs from throughout her career as Spellling, but with a twist, as each track has undergone a complete reimagination. The already eerie “Under the Sun,” from 2019’s Mazy Fly, has been masterfully reworked into an even eerier sci-fi ballad with an ominous string arrangement and an interlude punctuated by synth flashes, while “Phantom Farewell,” from 2017’s Pantheon of Me, beefs up some of the song’s original sonic distortions for a bigger, grander sound.

The new electronic elements may give the album’s songs a supernatural quality, but there’s heart and humanity in the lush orchestral arrangements, velvety drum patterns, and Cabral’s captivating, soulful voice. The minimalistic percussion and piano on tracks like “Hard to Please (Reprise)” provide Cabral the space to showcase her impressive vocal prowess, accompanied by background vocalists Toya Willock and Dharma Moon-Hunter.

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Spellling, the art-pop project of Bay Area musician Chrystia Cabral, has a new album on the way called Spellling & The Mystery School that’ll be out on August 25th via Sacred Bones. To celebrate the news, Cabral has shared the record’s first two singles, “Cherry” b/w “Under the Sun.”

The Mystery School takes a bit of a non-traditional approach. Rather than a string of brand-new songs, these tracks feature re-imaginations of songs already in Spellling’s discography. Now, recorded with her full touring band, these new versions take into consideration audience feedback, with Cabral now “understanding what excites them and/or what makes people wanna dance more.” The album features contributions from Del Sol Quartet, Divya Farias, Jaren Feeley, Patrick Shelley, and more, and pre-orders are ongoing.

“With this album, I wanted to capture the ways that these songs have morphed,” Cabral said in a press release. “They...

This story about Phil Dunster and “Ted Lasso” first appeared in the Comedy Series issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.

Ask “Ted Lasso” fans to name their favorite storyline of the surprisingly super-sized Season 3 and you’ll likely get a unanimous answer: the burgeoning bromance between Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) and Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster). The relationship would have been unimaginable in Season 1, when the two alpha males openly despised each other. But the bad blood was wiped clean by Jamie’s transformation from AFC Richmond bad boy to team sweetheart.

“I made a petition that I signed 25,000 times myself and gave it to the writers every day so that they would start writing Roy and Jamie scenes, because it was sort of my raison d’etre for a while,” Dunster said, smiling. “Brett is a huge part of why people enjoy that story because you can see him fighting...

J. Cole’s Dreamville festival aimed to reach new heights in its third year the moment the lineup was announced with Cole himself and Drake as co-headliners for the second night. Getting those two superstars in one place is a major feat in itself — the only thing harder to pull off in Raleigh, North Carolina, this weekend might have been getting an Uber after the festival ended, with a reported 80,000 fans crowded into Dorothea Dix Park to see them. On top of that, attendees on April 2 were treated to several surprise special guests as GloRilla,...

Russian documentary filmmaker Vitaly Mansky doesn’t keep things off the record, he said during his masterclass at Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Festival. Celebrated with a tribute section featuring “Under the Sun,” “Putin’s Witnesses” and his latest doc “Gorbachev. Heaven,” Mansky has already outlined his methods in his 2005 manifesto “Real Cinema,” including the fact that directors shouldn’t abide by any “moral” restrictions.

“Once you agree to be filmed, you lose your right to say things off the record. I am not here to have a chat about your life, I am here to record and then it’s up to me whether I will keep it or not. Otherwise, I would lose my freedom,” he said, admitting that Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union, accepted his rules.

“He very soberly assessed his physical state. Initially, he was a bit shy about it, but we managed to persuade...

Poland’s documentary festival Millennium Docs Against Gravity is set to finally come of age after postponing its 18th edition due to Covid-19 restrictions, originally slated to take place in May. Once again unspooling in seven different cities between Sept. 3-12, with local authorities sponsoring their own respective awards, the event will then continue online, wrapping on Oct. 3.

“The government’s decision to, so to speak, ‘liberate cinemas’ came too late,” says founder Artur Liebhart, explaining the change. “But we have not given up on our audience, not even for a moment. Most documentary festivals cater to the needs of the industry but to us, the audience and their willingness to participate is the absolute priority.”

The festival’s collaboration with cinemas all over Poland is “based on mutual respect,” says Liebhart, which is why it forgoes the usual hybrid model. “First, we will watch films on 42 screens and only then will we move online,...

The upshot of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” becoming an internationally franchised pop phenomenon is that drag performance has firmly moved from the LGBTQ fringes into the mainstream: As an artform with an audience that now spans all demographics, it follows that it will become more inclusive on stage too. That’s the driving moral, at least, of “Dancing Queens,” a chipper, youth-targeted Swedish comedy that, in more ways than one, encapsulates the cultural broadening of drag in the post-RuPaul era.

Actor-turned-filmmaker Helena Bergström brings sequined cheer and free-to-be-you-and-me spirit to this story of a young, cisgender female dancer who gets an unlikely break by concealing her gender identity to perform in an ailing Gothenburg drag club, and it should duly find a sizable global audience when it premieres on Netflix at the outset of Pride month. In its eagerness to please, however, the film winds up pushing its own queer characters...

Black Sabbath are expanding their masterful Vol. 4 album, home to fan favorites “Snowblind” and “Changes,” with several discs of rarities and previously unreleased music for a super deluxe reissue, out February 12th.

The box set, which comes either in four-cd or five-lp packages, contains 20 never-before-issued outtakes, live recordings, and the original album remastered.

The bonus material includes six outtakes, including an instrumental version of “Under the Sun,” all of which engineer Steven Wilson has mixed for the release. It also includes alternate takes of several songs with false starts and fly-on-the-wall studio dialogue.

Even in his dotage, stooped and tissue-skinned and walker-dependent, the former (and final) Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev is an imposing, even intimidating figure — formidable enough to have stymied the venerable Werner Herzog two years ago. The German auteur’s oddly cautious 2018 doc “Meeting Gorbachev” was a missed opportunity, colored by the filmmaker’s obvious admiration for his subject but never getting under his skin in any sense. In “Gorbachev. Heaven,” Russian docmaker Vitaly Mansky has another go at cracking this particularly tough nut, with richer, more resonant results — making a virtue of Gorbachev’s enigmatic, evasive manner in what turns out to be more poetic character study than exacting political profile.

Alternating between head-on rhetorical confrontation and melancholic everyday observation, this weighty IDFA premiere should match the festival and arthouse profile of Mansky’s recent films “Under the Sun” and “Putin’s Witnesses,” sealing his reputation as one of...

Busta Rhymes previewed his soon-to-be-released album Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God on Thursday with a new song, “Look Over Your Shoulder,” featuring Kendrick Lamar.

Built around a sample of the Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There,” the track sees the two hip-hop titans trading bars about their respective successes. Lamar stresses the importance of staying true to form and not letting outside influences distract him: “Bite no hand that feed/The culture vulture die and bleed/My focus hold these thoughts and dreams/Control this pen/Boldest lines...

Ruston Kelly has announced plans for Shape & Destroy, the full-length follow-up to the singer-songwriter’s acclaimed 2018 album Dying Star. On Wednesday, Kelly gave a preview of the project, which is due August 28th via Rounder Records, with the new song “Rubber.”

A meditative ballad that builds from circular, fingerstyle acoustic guitar to a spacious full-band arrangement, “Rubber” finds Kelly trying to address some of the wrong turns in his life and wondering if he has the resilience to regain what’s been lost. “Oh, can I bounce back?/Oh, or just lay flat,...

The author and comedian on his lockdown viewing, including a Tiger King binge, and why today’s greatest screen creations are animated

Like many, I began lockdown by bingeing on Tiger King, which remains one of the most extraordinary pieces of TV I’ve ever seen – although I’ve become disenchanted with the, ahem, lionisation of it since, particularly the reflexive mass-hatred of the only significant woman in it. Nonetheless, it’s a hilariously disturbing portrait of just how wrong a self-enclosed world can go.

I haven’t watched many films. I saw Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which felt from another era. By which I mean, not the 1960s but from when it was made, pre-coronavirus – Tarantino’s retro worldview may now itself be retro. I also watched the extraordinary 2015 documentary about North Korea, Under the Sun, by the Russian film-maker Vitaly Mansky [now on Amazon Prime Video]. The film...

Giving fans something to do amidst coronavirus isolation, Donald Glover dropped a new album last night. The 12-song collection, called Donald Glover Presents, is currently streaming on loop on his website. The stream includes new takes on previously released songs like “Feels Like Summer” and “Algorythm.”

“What’s good?” Glover asks in the song “Under the Sun.” There is “love in every morning” and “the cup runneth over” on every track available. The album features more R&b than rap, and the productions are lush and beautiful, fun and funky. The stream includes the song “Time,” which features Ariana Grande. “Seven billion people trying to free themselves said a billion prayers trying to save myself,” he sings while Grande offers a “breath of fresh air, like a cold in the breeze.” This is the second collaboration between Gambino and Grande, who teamed with Glover for the 2014 song “Break Your Heart Right.

The fact that a Russian director would shoot a documentary about North Korea was very intriguing by itself, to start with, but the way the film ended up being shot gave it a hypostasis that reaches the borders of mythical. Let us take things from the beginning though.

After years of negotiation, the Russian director Vitaly Mansky was invited by the North Korean government to make a film about one girl and her family in the year she prepares to join the Children’s Union, on the ‘Day of the Shining Star’ (Kim Jong-Il’s birthday). North Korea permitted only Mansky, cinematographer Alexandra Ivanova, and a sound assistant to visit the country. Unknown to North Korean authorities, Mansky hired a Russian translator who was fluent in Korean, but had no experience in sound recording, to act as the sound assistant. Furthermore, and despite the efforts of the...

J. Cole, J.I.D, Bas, EarthGang’s Olu and Young Nudy hook up in Atlanta, Georgia to go for the crown in their new “Down Bad” video. The song appears on the third installment of Dreamville’s Revenge of the Dreamers compilation, which was released in July.

Young Nudy kicks things off in East Atlanta, wearing a crown as he drops his opening verse before he fist-bumps it over to J.I.D, who takes the baton for his verse and the chorus. “I was just fucked up/I was just down down bad,...

Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” regained the Number One spot on the Top 100 on Monday. The track was temporarily dethroned last week by a strong opening week for Post Malone’s “Goodbyes” featuring Young Thug. But “Old Town Road” bounced back thanks to 21.1 million streams. “Goodbyes” dropped two spots to Number Three.

The Rolling Stone Top 100 chart tracks the most popular songs of the week in the United States. Songs are ranked by Song Units, a number that combines audio streams and song sales using a custom weighting system.

Post Malone’s new single “Goodbyes,” a mopey, bitter ballad featuring Young Thug, debuts at Number One on the latest Top 100 chart. The track was co-written and co-produced by Louis Bell and Brian Lee, who previously worked together on hits like Camila Cabello’s “Havana” and Selena Gomez’s “Wolves.” “Goodbyes” earned around 40,000 downloads opening week, and it was also streamed more than 28 million times.

The Rolling Stone Top 100 chart tracks the most popular songs of the week in the United States. Songs are ranked by Song Units, a number...

Filmmaker Pippa Bianco first attended the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 with her short film “Share,” which won the Cinefoundation section. The feature-length version of “Share” was produced by A24 and premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival before landing a special screening slot at this year’s Cannes. During this year’s festival, Bianco kept a diary of her experiences leading up to and following the screening of her film, and shared them with IndieWire.

Entry 1

It’s surreal to be heading to Cannes. I’ve been once before when we premiered the short version of this film a few years ago, and standing in the airport now I feel the same feeling. For me, festivals can be exciting but overwhelming — I feel much more comfortable behind a camera or at computer than I do facing an audience. With that short, I was continually reminding myself to enjoy it, that this might never happen again,...

A young man’s addiction breeds madness in Iceage’s vivid new video for “Pain Killer,” their collaborative song with Sky Ferreira.

The clip opens with the protagonist suffering an injury at a construction site. He wakes up in the hospital with a head injury, and the doctors hand over some painkillers before he reenters the world. From there, the character jumps off a bridge, floats in mid-air, frantically drives his car and repeatedly spits out pools of blood.

Throughout are several animated, psychedelic interludes full of rainbows, butterflies and bloodshot eyes.

German industry agency German Films, whose Managing Director Mariette Rissenbeek is leaving to become the co-head of the Berlin Film Festival, has appointed producer Simone Baumann to the role. The independent producer, whose credits include documentaries Under The Sun and Khodorkovsky, has been representative of German Films in Central and Eastern Europe since 2003. She will assume the role from February 1, 2019 and will be based in Munich.

The promotion body’s board met in Munich yesterday to agree to a business plan of €4.9M. The 2019 plan includes one-off activities such as a German Focus at the Sunny Side Of The Docs documentary market. The board also decided to increase the distribution support for German films abroad by 15% due to what they said was “an above-average increase in the demand for funding in the past two years.” The group also elected the six-person supervisory board for the two years from January 2019 to...

Elias Ronnenfelt holds a colorful bouquet as he and his bandmates perform on a stage of flowers in the new Iceage video for “Under the Sun.” The track is the new single from the Danish rock band’s fourth album, Beyondless.

The video was shot in Tokyo during Iceage’s “Opening Nights” residencies, an inter-continental exhibition that was staged in several cities including NYC and Los Angeles. In this clip, the band collaborates with famed floral artist Makoto Azuma, whose famous frozen flower sculptures set the backdrop for the dramatic tune.