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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Broken Bells Return to Intergalactic Disco on ‘It’s That Talk Again’
Broken Bells have shared a surprise new song, “It’s That Talk Again,” ahead of the premiere of of their concert film, Live at the Orpheum , airing Saturday at 9 p.m. ET on Palladia . The previously unreleased “It’s That Talk Again” was recorded during the sessions for Broken Bells ’ 2014 LP, After the Disco , and finds frontman James Mercer and Danger Mouse further exploring that album’s intergalactic dance floor vibe. Mercer’s vocals are often airy and delicate, complementing the song’s lithe, wafting synths; but the Shins frontman pushes towards the peak of his upper register as Danger Mouse’s propulsive disco beat and bounding elastic bass intensify. After the Disco arrived four years after Broken Bells’ self-titled debut , which was followed by an EP, Meyrin Fields , in 2011. The group spent much of last year touring in support of After the Disco , including festival sets at Coachella, Austin City Limits and Lollapalooza. Their new concert film, Live … [Read more...] about Broken Bells Return to Intergalactic Disco on ‘It’s That Talk Again’
Hulu Musical Series ‘Up Here’ Casts Kate Finneran, John Hodgman, Brian Stokes Mitchell & More
EXCLUSIVE: The Hulu comedy Up Here starring Mae Whitman ( Good Girls ) and Carlos Valdes ( Gaslit ) has completed casting on several of the leading and recurring roles. The musical romantic comedy from 20th Television and Old 320 Sycamore Prods. is set in New York City in 1999 and follows an ordinary couple (Whitman as Lindsay and Valdes as Miguel) as they fall in love while discovering the single greatest obstacle to finding happiness together might just be themselves. Original songs for the series are from Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. Series regulars include Kate Finneran ( The Gilded Age ) as Joan, the unfailingly proper, appearance-fixated mother of Lindsay; John Hodgman ( Blindspot ) as Tom, Lindsay’s danger-obsessed father and chief coroner of Chittenden County, Va.; Andréa Burns ( West Side Story ) as Rosie, Miguel’s mother; Sophia Hammons ( Under Wraps ) as Celeste, Lindsay’s rule-following, risk averse best friend from seventh grade; and … [Read more...] about Hulu Musical Series ‘Up Here’ Casts Kate Finneran, John Hodgman, Brian Stokes Mitchell & More
Margaret Keane Dies: Kitschy ‘Big Eyes’ Artist, Subject Of Tim Burton Biopic Was 94
Margaret Keane , whose wildly popular paintings of big-eyed, melancholy children (and later celebrities with deep pockets) became one of the most widely recognized signature artistic styles of the late 20th Century – and whose long battle with her husband over his fraudulent and lucrative claims of authorship inspired the 2014 Tim Burton film Big Eyes starring Amy Adams – died Sunday at home in Napa, California. She was 94. Her death was reported on her official Facebook page today: “We’re sad to announce that Margaret Keane, ‘The Mother of Big Eyes, our Queen, a Modern Master and Legend’ peacefully passed away Sunday morning at her home in Napa, CA, she was 94.” Her daughter Jane Swigert told The New York Times that the cause of death was heart failure. Keane’s instantly recognizable paintings of children, typically portrayed and described as waifs with huge, sad and dinner-plate-sized eyes, became massively popular in the 1950s and ’60s, at first sincerely … [Read more...] about Margaret Keane Dies: Kitschy ‘Big Eyes’ Artist, Subject Of Tim Burton Biopic Was 94
Lyndie Greenwood, Chris Sandiford, Dakota Ray Herbert And Paul Braunstein Cast As Leads In Anthony Q. Farrell’s CTV Sitcom ‘Shelved’
EXCLUSIVE: CTV ’s Canadian sitcom Shelved has found its leads. Lyndie Greenwood ( The Expanse , Sleepy Hollow ) will be joined by Paul Braunstein ( Baroness Van Sketch ), Dakota Ray Herbert ( Run Woman Run ) and Chris Sandiford ( What We Do In The Shadows ) in the Anthony Q. Farrell single-cam comedy about employees and patrons at the Jameson Public Library in Parkdale. See above for the first shots of them in role. Taylor Love ( Most Dangerous Game ), Varun Saranga ( Wyonna Earp ) and Robin Duke ( Schitt’s Creek ) round out the ensemble cast. Greenwood stars as Wendy, Head of the library’s Jameson Branch and an energetic dreamer who always sees the best in people and cares passionately about her library and the community of Parkdale. Her staff includes the fastidious and judgmental Howard (Sandiford), who begrudgingly joins after a transfer from a prestigious Midtown branch; social rights activist Jaq (Hebert) , who is obsessed with … [Read more...] about Lyndie Greenwood, Chris Sandiford, Dakota Ray Herbert And Paul Braunstein Cast As Leads In Anthony Q. Farrell’s CTV Sitcom ‘Shelved’