Jaden Smith has announced plans to release an acapella version of his November album Syre. The Neo Yokio voice actor also announced this month that a Syre sequel called Erys is coming in the new year. Smith teased the vocals-only project with a snippet on Twitter. Listen below.
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The multi-platinum singer/songwriter will be aboard the Carnival Splendor in February.
The news cycle in the Trump era moves quickly. This year, frankly, it moved a little too quickly. A tweet that under normal circumstances would end a presidency got forgotten hours later when the president, say, reached for his phone after getting slighted by Don Lemon. With that in mind, here are eight absurd moments of the…
On Brick Body Kids Still Daydream standout “Hymnal,” Open Mike Eagle and Sammus wrestle with the meaning of audience and the will to write when you don’t feel worthy of the pulpit. The song’s music video is decidedly more confident. The two rappers play a televangelist couple-Mike as “Dr. Alobar Crowley” and Sammus as “Lucinda Simmons Crowley”-hawking…
Run the Jewels have a history of spoiling Stephen Colbert‘s more wholesome attempts at humor, and that trend continued last night when the hip-hop duo crashed the latter’s late show performance of “Jingle Jingle (Santa Party)” with some harsh truths. As Colbert trims the tree against a snowy, suburban milieu, El-P and Killer Mike stroll city streets, tying up Santa in a trunk while reminding us “that’s a drone, not a sleigh.”
“Ho ho ho ho, sheeple, wake the fuck up,” Killer Mike spits before calling declaring St. Nick his bitch. “Quit spying on the kids, you a perv, eat shit,” he rhymes. Though Colbert urges everyone to “put politics aside for just one night,” it isn’t long before he’s rhyming alongside the boys, dropping bleeped-out verses that are “too real” even for RTJ. Watch the whole sketch above.
Just yesterday, Run the Jewels shared their video for “Call Ticketron”, a victory lap in a year that saw them score their first Grammy nomination .
Tool drummer Danny Carey promised fans that the band’s hotly anticipated new album would finally hit shelves in 2018, but stopped short of giving a more specific timeframe. Frontman Maynard James Keenan didn’t confirm or deny the LP news, instead choosing to respond with… well, quite literally a burp.
Now, Tom Morello has chimed in on the churning Tool Album News Cycle, claiming to have heard new music from the forthcoming record. “Had the honor of being the first outsider to hear new #TOOL music today!!” the former Rage Against the Machine guitarist gushed on Instagram, alongside a picture of him and some Tool members inside a studio.
“Still just instrumentals but sounded epic, majestic, symphonic, brutal, beautiful, tribal, mysterious, deep, sexy and VERY Tool,” Morello continued. “Really great. So excited to hear the record when it’s finished.” And there you have it, the very first album review of the new Tool album. The hype is now officially in overdrive.
Check out the Instagram post below.
Previously, Keenan attributed the album’s delay to his bandmates’ indecisiveness. “I like to release records and write things a little more quickly than those guys like to write. Their process is very analytical,” Keenan explained in an interview published over the summer. A representative for the band told Consequence of Sound that “as of now there is no release date.”
Tool’s last proper album came in 2006 with 10,000 Days.
Louis C.K. is purchasing the rights to his recent film I Love You, Daddy from The Orchard, the distribution company that helped with the film’s rollout. According to Deadline, C.K. is reportedly paying back the estimated $5 million he’s already received for the film, as well as the roughly $500 thousand to $1 million that…
CONCEIVED, apparently, as a response to the elections in the US and Europe and the refugee crisis, U2’s 16th album, thankfully, doesn’t dwell on the proselytising at the expense of either energy, melody, wit or inventiveness.
This weekend, U2 will perform on Saturday Night Live as the show’s musical guests. Joined by host Saoirse Ronan, it looks to be an especially Irish affair, given Kenan Thompson’s incredible Irish accent. Watch a trailer for the upcoming episode below.
After teasing that the remix to “Perfect” would be a “really fucking big deal,” Ed Sheeran has released a revamped version of his ÷ single featuring the vocal stylings of the inimitable Beyoncé. Listen to “Perfect Duet” below.
Sheeran revealed Beyoncé as the featured vocalist, as well as the remix’s imminent release, via a post on Instagram…
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