EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment PR firm Relevant has promoted Alex Kahn to Senior Vice President, Julia Scorupco to Junior Publicist and has added Alexa Tombs as a Senior Publicist in the New York office. “We are so proud to be expanding our company by both promoting from within, which has always been important to us, and by finding someone new who we feel is a perfect addition,” Relevant’s partners said. “Alex Kahn has been with us from the beginning and shares our unique vision. We are excited for her to continue to grow in her leadership role within the company. Alexa Tombs’ studio background offers a fresh perspective to our strategy, and Julia Scorupco is one of the rising stars in our company.” Kahn, based in New York, has been with Relevant since its inception and has led campaigns for clients including Saoirse Ronan, Margaret Qualley, Murray Bartlett, Jonathan Bailey, Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor, Zachary Quinto and Michael Gandolfini. She moved to New York in … [Read more...] about Relevant Promotes Alex Kahn To SVP And Expands Teams In Los Angeles And New York
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Kartik Aaryan Says He Never Thought Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 Would Cross Rs 200 Crore Mark; ‘It All Feels Unreal’
Kartik Aaryan's horror comedy Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 came as huge relief for the Hindi Film Industry after a couple of star-driven misses at the box office. The film is still going strong in cinema halls despite its release on Netflix and has already crossed Rs 230 Crore-mark worldwide (nett). Kartik Aaryan ने खिंचवाई School kids के साथ फोटो ; Watch video | FilmiBeat The actor in his latest interaction with News18, opened up on the film's success and said that while he was confident of the film's content and knew that it would enter Rs 100 Crore club, he hadn't anticipated that it would revive Bollywood. Kartik told the news portal, "I was confident of the content and knew that the film will do at least Rs 100 Crore at the box office. But I didn't know that we will be able to revive the industry. We never thought it will cross Rs 200-Crore mark. It is above our expectations. The Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety star admitted that since Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 was … [Read more...] about Kartik Aaryan Says He Never Thought Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 Would Cross Rs 200 Crore Mark; ‘It All Feels Unreal’
Hear Karen O Channel Korean Soap Opera on New Song ‘Yo! My Saint’
Karen O released a distortion-slathered duet featuring vocals from the English singer Michael Kiwanuka on Thursday. “Yo! My Saint” offers a stylized distillation of Sixties rock. Electric guitar is coated in a thick layer of fuzz and an organ plays long, sustained lines. Kiwanuka’s verses betray internal anguish – “Don’t you know the way I feel?/ Can’t you read my mind?” – while O’s are more decisive. “The perfect crime that I’ll commit is loving you,” she sings. “Yo! My Saint” comes to a pretty end with soft strums on an acoustic guitar and wafting strings. O wrote this song to soundtrack a short film for Kenzo’s spring/summer campaign. “For the music, I immediately wanted to do melodramatic and romantic and with lots of yearning and high stakes – all the good stuff that’s in any Korean soap opera,” the singer said in a statement. In 2017, Karen O and her band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs reissued their Fever to Tell album. They have three shows scheduled later this year: One in … [Read more...] about Hear Karen O Channel Korean Soap Opera on New Song ‘Yo! My Saint’
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James Mercer and Danger Mouse are first-class astral geeks. And on last year's Broken Bells , the Shins frontman and the hip-hop surrealist came up with melancholic psychedelic folk hop – somewhere between Pet Sounds and De La Soul Is Dead . This EP suggests their one-off is a full-on "project." Mercer rolls out bright, mussy melodies and turns up his guitar a little, and D.M. decks out his tunes with elegiac surf guitar, computer funk and clouds of candy noise — it's otherworldly but still heart-tugging. "The oddity is aching," Mercer sings; it could be a Bells-tour T-shirt slogan, though these guys seem happiest in their studio bunker. Listen to "Meyrin Fields": … [Read more...] about Meyrin Fields
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith Answers Your Twitter Questions
Although Red Hot Chili Peppers member Chad Smith and his doppelgänger Will Ferrell may have spent much of 2014 trying to prove how different they are from one another, with their hilarious competition on The Tonight Show , the drummer does have something in common with the actor: he’s very funny. As Rolling Stone read the drummer the questions fans sent in via Twitter, he cracked wise about everything from the Chili Peppers’ penchant for wearing socks on their private parts to how Ferrell “robbed” him of the Golden Cowbell during his drum-off with the actor this year. Over the past quarter century, Smith has played with the Chili Peppers, the supergroup Chickenfoot and various sessions with the likes of Kid Rock, the Dixie Chicks and Johnny Cash. And, with an eye toward helping other musicians, he has also spent time lobbying for music education in Washington, D.C. – including a recent trip to the White House – and building a drum community with his Chad Smith Drum … [Read more...] about Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith Answers Your Twitter Questions
Danger Mouse’s Cool Midlife Crisis: Inside Broken Bells’ ‘Disco’
Danger Mouse has become one of rock’s biggest producers in the past five years, working with A-list bands like the Black Keys and U2 – but he admits his personal life hasn’t been quite as successful. “I don’t have a relationship, so I’m kind of all over the place,” says the 36-year-old, whose real name is Brian Burton. “When I meet younger people, I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, I’m not so young anymore. Is this the way it’s supposed to be?'” See Where Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album Lands on the 100 Best Albums of the 2000s Burton’s angst helped inspire After the Disco (out January 14th) – the second LP by Broken Bells , his collaboration with James Mercer of Oregon indie kings the Shins , who are on break. “He can be pretty dark in his musings about life, being single, all that stuff,” says Mercer, who crashed at Burton’s place in Los Angeles while they were making the record, often staying up late to drink and talk. “Whereas I’ve left a lot of that behind. I’m kind of … [Read more...] about Danger Mouse’s Cool Midlife Crisis: Inside Broken Bells’ ‘Disco’
Wincing The Night Away
The Shins ’ 2001 Oh, Inverted World was a siren song from a familiar type: “pimpled and angry” outsider saved by music, but still cut off from the love he seeks by unkind women and cruel fate. In 2003, Chutes Too Narrow topped two pained kiss-off songs with four fatalistic philosophical ones, then shifted into a nostalgic tribute to a girlfriend from the pimpled years, two self-critical relationship songs, and an enigmatic acoustic finale for “Those to Come,” who are “waiting in the ether to form, feel, kill, propagate, only to die.” The shapeliness of this sequence wasn’t instantly self-evident. But nothing less would have suited one of the deftest, subtlest and just plain loveliest guitar-rock albums of the decade. More than three years later, James Mercer and his mates have finally followed up that indie-rock touchstone. Because Mercer is adored for his musical facility, not his thematic depth, anything short of a Metal Machine Music homage will be ecstatically received, … [Read more...] about Wincing The Night Away
Broken Bells Explore Sci-Fi in ‘Holding On for Life’
A human and a spacewoman fall in love and then allow themselves to be manipulated in space by the members of Broken Bells (Danger Mouse and the Shins’ James Mercer) in the duo’s video for “Holding On for Life.” The song is a Bee Gees -like indie-disco number off the group’s forthcoming album After the Disco , which is due out February 4th. The video draws from two sci-fi-themed, seven-minute short films the group recently filmed, one titled “Angel and the Fool” and another dubbed “Holding On for Life,” both of which star Anton Yelchin ( Star Trek , Fright Night ) and actress Kate Mara ( House of Cards , 127 Hours ). The full “Holding On for Life” clip makes for a taut yet open-ended storyline about love and the side effects of inhaling vapors in a space helmet at a party. Some of the action takes place on a dancefloor inside a spacecraft shaped like the pink orb on the cover of Broken Bells’ 2010 debut . Broken Bells’ ‘Vaporize’ and 14 More of the … [Read more...] about Broken Bells Explore Sci-Fi in ‘Holding On for Life’
Daya Processes Her Own Loneliness and a Past Relationship on ‘Love You When You’re Gone’
Daya is processing the feelings of loss following the end of a relationship and learns to be on her own in the new song, “Love You When You’re Gone.” The earworm, which marks Daya’s first release this year, features a nostalgia-inducing, retro-pop feel and an Eighties beat. “I only love you when you’re gone/Lonely hearts just don’t belong,” she sings on the track. “The way you fight, the way you drive reminds me/I can’t stand you I just/Love you when you’re gone.” The Mitch deQuilettes-directed video follows the longing themes of the song as the singer is seen revisiting some love scenes with an ex-lover before the musician is seen playing guitar. “The video was intended to live somewhere in between a sort of dream world and reality where I’m processing the memories of my past relationship while coping with my own day-to-day loneliness and questions of identity without [the relationship],” Daya tells Rolling Stone . “At the end, it’s a cathartic release and acceptance of the … [Read more...] about Daya Processes Her Own Loneliness and a Past Relationship on ‘Love You When You’re Gone’