Rihanna’s New Single “Only Girl (In The World)” Coming Next Week
Rihanna’s New Single “Only Girl (In The World)” Coming Next Week
As noted last week, Rihanna’s not-yet-titled fifth LP is due out by year’s end. Now Ryan Seacrest has announced that the first single, “Only Girl (In The World),” will premiere on September 7 on his official site. “An iTunes arrival date and album release date are yet to be confirmed,” says the American Idol host. “But word within the music community is that ‘Only Girl’ is an undeniable smash hit.” The track is produced by Stargate, so finger’s crossed it’s another “Rude Boy”-sized jam.
Deerhunter – “Helicopter” Video
Gauzy close-ups of Bradford Cox paint the heartbreak of “Helicopter,”‘ a track from the Halcyon Digest LP coming 9/28 via 4AD. Click on Halycon Digest’s Dennis Cooper text to load the film.
The band debuted this song on BBC 6Music a few months back. Here’s that in portable form:
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Proenza Schouler fashion film “Act Da Fool” : Dir. Harmony Korine
lusk81, 3. September 2010, 17:35
www.proenzaschouler.com
Another masterpiece from the man.
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BUG tickets on sale now – for Greenwich Comedy Festival show next Sunday!
Although the next BUG shows at the BFI Southbank are now fully booked, there is a further opportunity to catch BUG in all its glory in London this month – at the Greenwich Comedy Festival, next Sunday, September 12th.
Adam Buxton presents a very special BUG, featuring some of the best music videos shown at the regular shows over the past few months and, in traditional BUG fashion, a look at Adam’s favourite YouTube comment strands and a smattering of his own comic video outpourings.
The show takes place at 5pm on Sunday September 12th at this year’s premiere venue at the Greenwich Comedy Festival – The Big Top situated in the grounds of the Royal Naval College.
Tickets for the Greenwich Comedy Festival show are available here.
There are also a few tickets still available for the next BUG show at the Norwich Playhouse – BUG Norwich 05 – which happens next Wednesday, September 9th – available here.
Torsten Kretchzmar: Le Boche Qui Rit (The Laughing German)
kretchzmar, 3. September 2010, 08:32
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www.kretchzmar.de
Torsten, your best video so far!
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Live review: Herbie Hancock’s ‘Seven Decades – The Birthday Celebration’ at the Hollywood Bowl
There’s a modification of an old joke that came to mind on Wednesday night. “What does a 70-year-old jazz legend get to play on his birthday at the Hollywood Bowl?” The answer for the great Herbie Hancock is, of course, anything he wants.
Not that this would be anything new for Hancock, who has always gone his own way. Starting his career at only 21, the pianist has zigzagged through an array of musical high points that have included eye-opening bandleader, sideman to Miles Davis in a historic jazz combo and innovative cross-pollinator, first with the raucous jazz-funk fusion of the Headhunters and later helping launch both the hip-hop and music-video eras with 1983’s “Rockit.” And that doesn’t even cover an album of the year Grammy in 2008 for “River.”
Billed as “Seven Decades — The Birthday Celebration,” the L.A. Philharmonic realistically needed two or three nights to adequately capture Hancock, who is in his first year as its Creative Chair for Jazz. In a lineup full of high-wattage guests, the program was split into two parts, the first consisting of Hancock’s groundbreaking, mostly acoustic ’60s work and the latter dedicated to Hancock’s equally influential electric period and his new album, “The Imagine Project.”
Though most of the near-capacity crowd knew to arrive early, it was easy to pity the few stragglers hustling to their seats through Hancock’s first set. Opening with a weaving, breezy take on Hancock’s “Maiden Voyage,” the wealth of experience onstage was awe-inspiring as the pianist was joined by longtime collaborator Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Jack DeJohnette on drums, trumpeter Terence Blanchard and, briefly, electric bassist Nathan East.
Joined soon after by expressive young bassist Esperanza Spalding, the group eased into “Orbits,” a Shorter composition from the Davis years. While Blanchard filled Davis’ shoes beautifully with bright, arcing trumpet lines, it was Spalding who wowed the crowd with an acrobatic, joyful duel with Hancock that knocked around the song’s edges, showing she could more than hold her own with the veteran masters.
Land Of Talk – “Quarry Hymns” Video
Land Of Talk’s “Quarry Hymns” video is beautifully shot, in black and white, with a single dancer moving in slow motion. There are a few ominous moments that cut through the gracefulness of the video. Because it’s new, and the trailer is new, it made me think of Darren Arononfsky’s upcoming film Black Swan, though “Quarry Hymns” is a much less dramatic soundtrack. The video was directed by Joseph Yarmush.
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