Music features

Spanish director Trueba and illustrator Mariscal are re-teaming after their Oscar-nominated 2010 animation Chico & Rita, which chronicled a romance between a piano player and a beautiful singer. Trueba has a variety of music film credits including Calle 54, a doc about the Latin Jazz music scene. Mariscal’s work includes illustrations for the covers of New Yorker and a recent travel book collaboration with Louis Vuitton. … [Read more...] about Jeff Goldblum To Voice Musical Animation ‘They Shot The Piano Player’ From ‘Chico & Rita’ Directors; Film Constellation Financing – AFM

Roxy Music, Roxy Music (Super Deluxe)This comprehensive portrait of Roxy Music’s era- and self-defining debut celebrates the LP’s 45th anniversary with demos, outtakes, Peel Sessions and concert recordings, in addition to the 1999 remaster of the original album. You’re able to hear the group re-make and re-model their formative rock experiments, including an outtake of “If There Is Something” with a little more honky-tonk piano and a Peel Session performance where the sinewy hypnotic melody in the middle becomes even more mesmerizing. The first demo of “Ladytron” is even more robotic and rugged than the original, and “The Bob” goes through five fuzzy iterations, including a mostly instrumental, totally out-there seven-minute cut. The physical release includes a DVD with BBC appearances and rare footage from 1972, as well as a 5.1 surround mix of the original album and a 136-page book. An enlightening look at Roxy Music at their most … [Read more...] about 10 New Albums to Stream Now: Justin Timberlake, Rhye, John Oates and More Rolling Stone Editors’ Picks

This tense backstory contrasts with the casual origins of Rhye – and the pillowy ease of their music. Milosh, a music-school graduate with a jazz drumming background and an electroacoustic studies major, put out three electronic albums through the Los Angeles indie Plug Research during the 2000s. He lived the life of an itinerant musician, with stints in Thailand, Holland and Montreal. While temporarily settled in Berlin, he was asked to do a remix for his Plug Research label mates Quadron, a Danish soul duo containing Hannibal and the singer Coco O. What started as a remix project turned into the first three Rhye songs (“Major Minor Love,” “The Fall,” “Woman”) and eventually set off a bidding war. … [Read more...] about Drawing ‘Blood’: How Former It Band Rhye Returned From the Brink

When did you find out you were going to be sampled by Justin Timberlake?I’m not gonna lie, the last few months have been the longest months of my life. I want to say we found out end of summer, middle of fall. We had the wait through fall; now we’re deep into winter. I’ve been clawing my hair out – the anticipation is killing me. I kind of reminds me of those guys from YouTube, the 4YallEntertainment guys in Canada who got sampled by Drake [on “Madiba Riddim”]. They had to chill the whole time, and once it came out they dropped their Vlog of them playing it. I’m doing the same thing. I’m in Cali, so the actual album will be released at 9 here. I’m going to be turnt, driving around listening to my voice. … [Read more...] about Viral Best Buy ‘Sauce’ Guy Talks Being Sampled on Justin Timberlake’s ‘Man of the Woods’

We also asked those FBI officials involved . . . whether the FBI received any other information, such as from members of the USIC, that the FBI relied upon to predicate Crossfire Hurricane. All of them told us that there was no such information. . . . We also asked [James] Comey and [Andrew] McCabe about then-CIA Director John Brennan’s statements. . . . Comey told us that while Brennan shared intelligence . . . [he] did not provide any information that predicated or prompted the FBI to open Crossfire Hurricane. … [Read more...] about Five Questions Still Remaining After the Release of the Horowitz Report