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For the better part of the past decade-and-a-half, Laura Marling has been releasing albums at a prolific pace, becoming one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters from the British “nu-folk” scene in the process. In 2011, she won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist and was nominated in the category in four of the next seven years, along with two Grammy nods. But around 2019, Marling hit the brakes, choosing to slow down a career that she launched when she was just 16.

“I really enjoyed this slower turn,” the 34-year-old...

Each week, Consequence rings in New Music Friday by highlighting new albums to stream. We’re almost at the end of October, and there are plenty of great new records to check out this week.

Among the highlights are the excellent new album from Consequence cover stars Amyl and the Sniffers; new releases from alt-rock veterans Pixies, Tears For Fears, and Laura Marling; exciting live recordings from Florence + The Machine and Crosby Stills Nash & Young; and an expansive box set celebrating the 20th anniversary of Green Day’s American Idiot.

Here are 12 new albums to stream today.

Amyl and the Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness

Aussie punks Amyl and the Sniffers are back with their first new album in three years, Cartoon Darkness. Following their exhilarating 2021 sophomore effort Comfort to Me, the act cut the record at Foo Fighters’ 606 Studios in Los Angeles. As evidenced by the pre-album singles, Amyl and the...

On Saturday 19 October 2024, BBC Two broadcasts Later … with Jools Holland!

Season 65 Episode 1 Episode Summary

In the upcoming episode of “Later … with Jools Holland” on BBC Two, music fans can look forward to an exciting lineup. Jools Holland will welcome a mix of talented artists, each bringing their unique sound to the stage.

One of the highlights will be Jade Thirlwall, the South Shields singer known for her powerful voice and dynamic performances. She has made a name for herself in the music industry, and her appearance is sure to captivate the audience.

The Stockport band Blossoms will also take the stage, known for their catchy tunes and energetic vibe. Their performance is expected to be a crowd-pleaser, showcasing their latest hits and perhaps some fan favorites.

Another artist featured in this episode is Nubya Garcia, a composer who blends jazz with other genres. Her innovative style will add a fresh touch to the show.

This Saturday, October 19, 2024, at 9:50 Pm, Later … with Jools Holland kicks off its highly anticipated Season 65 Episode 1 on BBC Two. Music fans can look forward to a spectacular lineup as Jools welcomes an exciting mix of talented artists to the stage.

In this episode, South Shields singer Jade Thirlwall will bring her powerful vocals and charisma, captivating the audience with her latest hits. The Stockport band Blossoms will also take the spotlight, showcasing their catchy melodies and vibrant sound. Joining them is composer Nubya Garcia, whose innovative style promises to add a fresh dimension to the evening’s performances. Folk singer Laura Marling is set to enchant viewers with her poetic lyrics and soulful melodies, while Dublin band Gurriers will bring their unique energy to the mix. To top it all off, legendary drummer Roger Taylor, known for his iconic work with Queen, will make a special appearance.

As always,...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Clairo spins tales that feel like they came from 1970s Laurel Canyon, Ice Spice teams up with Central Cee for the latest sneak peak into her debut album, and Remi Wolf has a pop hit on her hands with an anthemic standout from her new LP. Plus, new music from Rema, J Balvin, Enhypen, and more.

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Ice Spice feat. Central Cee, “Did It First” (YouTube)

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Laura Marling is returning with a new album, Patterns in Repeat, which will officially arrive on October 25th via Chrysalis/Partisan Records. Today, along with the announcement, she’s released the album’s lead single, “Patterns.”

Written, recorded, and produced by Marling at her home studio in London, Patterns in Reverse will be her first full-length release since 2020’s Song for Our Daughter. That album saw her write to a fictional daughter, but now, the new album will explore themes of family following the birth of her actual daughter in 2023.

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Speaking about the creative process as a new parent, Marling explained that she wrote songs while bouncing her daughter in a bouncer. “For the first time in my life, I was able to gaze into another human’s eyes as I wrote,” she said, citing the feeling as “one of the very finest that life has to offer.

This article contains Spoilers for Shoresy season 3.

The Shoresy season 3 soundtrack features various songs that play during different episodes. Season 3 continues the journey of the Sudbury Bluebird Bulldogs following their heartbreaking loss in the previous season. Do It! (Live) by Death From Above 1979 is the first song featured in season 3.

Shoresy season 3 features some great songs throughout the show that help it tell the story. The Letterkenny spin-off continues the journey of the Sudbury Bluebird Bulldogs following their heartbreaking loss in the previous season. Along with the amazing soundtrack, Shoresy season 3 also answered some burning questions that audiences might have had after season 2 ended, resulting in a very satisfying season.

The Shoresy season 3 soundtrack featured 34 songs from different genres, including rock, pop, and hip-hop. The songs in Shoresy aptly fit every moment they are played: from the upbeat tunes that can be heard when the Bulldogs win their games to...

Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien has given fans an update on his next solo album in a message that also calls for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.

In an Instagram post, O’Brien thanked his “little community” of fans and explained that he had needed a break. “I’m deep into my next record, and deep in the process,” he wrote. “I will share some more soon … from music to influences to gear .. all of it… it’s been and continues to be a journey..Sending love and warmth from me and Ziggy.”

Earlier in the message, O’Brien apologized for not commenting on the heightened Gaza conflict earlier. “Like so many of you I have found the events of October 7 and what has followed too awful for words .. anything that I have tried to write feels so utterly inadequate,” he said. “Ceasefire now. Return the hostages.

“Are you for real, tough love? Do you want to feel tough love?” These two questions, which form the chorus of Flyte’s new song “Tough Love,” make Florence Pugh exclaim, “Oh, my God” because of the way the duo lets their voices descend in harmony. But in a new video dubbed a “Mahagony Session,” the actress and singer joins Will Taylor and Nicolas Hill in Taylor’s Northeast London flat on a round of the song.

With Pugh, the trio sit at a table, Taylor’s record collection behind them,...

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Prime Video India has revealed a blockbuster lineup of Indian and international titles ahead of Prime Day 2023 on July 15 and 16. The lineup includes the Hindi-language version of “Ponniyin Selvan 2,” starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, “Babylon,” headlined by Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, Gerard Butler thriller “Kandahar” and Nawazuddin Siddiqui‘s Hindi-language drama-comedy “Tiku Weds Sheru.”

Hindi-language original horror series “Adhura,” headlined by Rasika Dugal, the final season of hit series “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” Tamil-language superhero film “Veeran” and Telugu-language family entertainer “Anni Manchi Sakunamule” are also part of the lineup as are Tamil-language series “Sweet Kaaram Coffee” that captures the journey of three women and Telugu-language Young Adult series “Hostel Days.”

The second season of the hit original series “The Summer I Turned Pretty” completes the lineup.

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The most important character in Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel Daisy Jones & The Six? It’s the music – and any devotee of the book, a fictional oral history of a Seventies rock band, will have strong feelings about exactly how it should sound. It might have shades of Stevie Nicks, a touch of Joni Mitchell, a dash of The Eagles’ soft rock – and it has to feel vital, like it “takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you”, as the group’s singer Billy Dunne puts it. The success of Prime Video’s Daisy Jones TV adaptation, then, was always going to ride on the songs – but how do you write the perfect track for an entirely made-up artist?

There is a time-honoured tradition of music written specifically for on-screen stories, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Think of Lady Gaga’s Ally making her...

“How should we proceed / Without things getting too heavy?” asks Marcus Mumford on his first solo album. It’s a reasonable question to ask of both himself and his listeners, because the 10 raw songs on this self-titled record find the singer processing the sexual abuse he experienced as a child. He was apparently so concerned about triggering other victims that he sent all the lyrics to a trauma specialist to ensure he’d “reflected reality”.

This doesn’t mean he pulls any punches. The self-described former “fat kid from London”, who started out playing drums for Laura Marling and formed his own nu-folk band Mumford & Sons in 2007, has always worn his heart on his sleeve. His parents were both church leaders and he brought a preacher’s zeal into full-throated stadium anthems such as “I Will Wait”. When banjo player Winston Marshall left the band in response to the backlash...

A devastating couplet is every pop star’s secret weapon. Whether it’s Morrissey grumbling about having to go to bed with nothing but a Sylvia Plath anthology for warmth or Kate Bush crooning sweet nothings-that-are-actually-dark-somethings lyrics illuminate and elevate a song. Words bring clarity and drama, opening a secret passage to an artist’s internal life.

Or that is at least the case when they transcend mere bubble-gum and strain for grandeur. The power of a musician’s words has been acknowledged of late in surprising places. Bob Dylan, who once wrote “Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a gypsy queen/Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle all dressed in green”, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, while rapper Kendrick Lamar won a 2018 Pulitzer prize for his supremely literate Damn album.

Here, then, is a thoroughly unscientific but completely from the heart list of the greatest lyrics ever. They run from the clever to the overblown,...

At a vegan Chinese restaurant in North London, the fate of Jockstrap’s debut album, I Love You Jennifer B, was at the whims of an act of mayhem. Someone had just snatched producer Taylor Skye’s backpack. In it was his laptop, which held the only copy of the album that he and singer-songwriter Georgia Skye had spent several years working on. The music wasn’t backed up anywhere.

Luckily, Slowthai was there.

“Ty chased the guy down and got the laptop back,” Skye says, explaining why the celebrated...

A devastating couplet is every pop star’s secret weapon. Whether it’s Morrissey grumbling about having to go to bed with nothing but a Sylvia Plath anthology for warmth or Kate Bush crooning sweet nothings-that-are-actually-dark-somethings lyrics illuminate and elevate a song. Words bring clarity and drama, opening a secret passage to an artist’s internal life.

Or that is at least the case when they transcend mere bubble-gum and strain for grandeur. The power of a musician’s words has been acknowledged of late in surprising places. Bob Dylan, who once wrote “Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a gypsy queen/Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle all dressed in green”, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, while rapper Kendrick Lamar won a 2018 Pulitzer prize for his supremely literate Damn album.

Here, then, is a thoroughly unscientific but completely from the heart list of the greatest lyrics ever. They run from the clever to the overblown,...

By order of the Peaky Blinders, Universal Music is issuing a blood-red vinyl edition of the official soundtrack to the popular series, which just tied its own record for viewers in the Season 6 debut.

The highly-anticipated Season 6 premiere of the period gangster epic was watched by 3.8 million viewers in the UK on Sunday, according to overnight figures. That ties the record set by the Season 5 finale.

The show is expected to return for US viewing via Netflix some time later this year. The soundtrack is available as of May 27, but can be pre-ordered.

Peaky Blinders began airing on BBC Two in 2013 and went on to win the BAFTA for Best Drama in its fourth season. It then moved to BBC One in 2019 and has continued to grow. Executive producers are Caryn Mandabach, Steven Knight, Jamie Glazebrook, David Mason, Anthony Byrne and Cillian Murphy.

The soundtrack features the haunting rendition of...

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Where to Watch ‘Love & Anarchy’: Netflix

If you took out all the flirting from “Love & Anarchy” (though why on earth would you ever do such a thing), what’s left is still a pretty solid workplace comedy. A Stockholm-area publishing house has its share of backward-facing execs, eminently more capable employees lower on the organizational chart, and one receptionist/secretary often baffled by what plays out in front of her desk.

But understandably, the hook of this series is the gradual escalation between Sofie (Ida Engvoll), the company’s new publishing consultant and Max (Björn Mosten), the temporary It specialist who makes a noisy first impression. Much of the opening episodes is devoted to showing how one accidental after-hours interaction sets the template for a series of in-office dares between the two. What starts as a potential dark story of blackmail...

Awards in the Americana and country music categories were handed out during the 63rd Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony on Sunday afternoon with John Prine winning a pair of posthumous Grammys for his song “I Remember Everything.” Written with Pat McLaughlin, “I Remember Everything” was named Best American Roots Songs and Best American Roots Performance. It is the final song that Prine recorded before his death in April from complications related to Covid-19.

“The music community in Nashville and beyond, your love and encouragement has meant the world to us this past year,...

In honor of this month’s Bandcamp Friday, Dawn Landes has released a stripped-down duet with the late Justin Townes Earle. Recorded roughly a decade ago, it’s a plainspoken, finger-picked version of Dolly Parton’s “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind.”

Earle and Landes recorded the song at Landes’ Brooklyn studio while the two singer-songwriters were on tour circa 2010-2011. Proceeds for the song will go to Earle’s family, wife Jenn Marie and daughter Etta St. James Earle. The song was originally released as a free download 10 years ago,...

Spoiler alert for Jane Austen’s 206-year-old novel “Emma,” but the climax of the book hinges on the “handsome, clever, and rich” title character’s sudden realization that she’s in love with the one man who’s been unafraid to challenge her scheming ways and appeal to the better angels of her nature. “It darted through her with the speed of an arrow that Mr. Knightley must marry no one but herself!” Austen wrote, as her heroine’s epiphany is prompted by the news that the naïve boarder girl she’s taken under her wing has feelings for the same man.

That moment is very much included toward the end of Autumn de Wilde’s thoroughly wonderful adaptation of Austen’s penultimate book, but Emma’s rare episode of self-reflection no longer sneaks up on her with quite the same element of surprise. This Emma, played by Anya Taylor-Joy,...

Ingrid Andress and Miranda Lambert lead all country music artists at the 2021 Grammy Awards with three nominations each. Andress earned nominations in the Best Country Album and Best Country Song categories, as well as an all-genre nomination for Best New Artist. Lambert’s three noms include Country Album, Country Song, and Best Country Solo Performance.

Andress, a Colorado-raised songwriter, garners her country nominations on the strength of her debut single “More Hearts Than Mine” and her subsequent debut album, Lady Like. In May, the LP became the highest streamed country debut album by a woman.

Like nearly every working musician on the planet, Suzanne Vega knows firsthand the impact of the Covid-19 shutdown: An entire summer European tour — along with U.S. shows in October and November — were postponed until next year after live music abruptly stopped.

To help some of the struggling, now-empty venues where she would have played, Vega and her manager Mark Spector have announced a pair of livestreamed shows on Wednesday and Thursday at New York’s Blue Note Jazz Club. Any venue that sells tickets to either show (by way...

Watching live rock & roll from the confines of a mini-sheep pen. Superstar artists delaying their big record releases. A rave featuring the Goldman Sachs DJ guy.

Music fans have faced a string of disappointments and oddities in recent months that the music industry will eventually be glad to turn its back on.

Yet when the pandemic finally (hopefully) fades to black, I hope that not every experiment tested out by artists, songwriters, record labels, and others over lockdown gets banished — because there have been a handful of developments that the...

Since Covid began, artists have widely experimented with the livestreaming formula, trying to get their shows to stand out in an oversaturated ecosystem. Travis Scott, The Weeknd, and John Legend have gone the augmented reality route, taking to platforms like Fortnite and Wave to give gamified animated concerts, while shows like Verzuz are airing song battles. Now, Edm DJ and record producer Michael Brun is trying yet another new tactic — by limiting who can tune into his upcoming shows to specific cities.

For the first paid shows Brun is putting on since the pandemic started,...

Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia, Charli Xcx’s quarantine-made How I’m Feeling Now and Michael Kiwanuka’s Kiwanuka are among the 12 albums shortlisted for the 2020 Mercury Prize, the prestigious award honoring the year’s best LP by a British musician.

Stormzy, Laura Marling, Porridge Radio, Sports Team, Georgia, Kano, Lanterns on the Lake, Moses Boyd and Anna Meredith also landed recent albums on the shortlist, with the winner to be announced September 24th; due to the Covid-19 pandemic, no live event will take place to celebrate the awarding of the Mercury Prize.

WME said Thursday that Marc Geiger, a partner and the agency’s longtime worldwide Head of Music, is leaving after 17 years as part of a restructure in the division. The moves include WME’s Co-Head of Music Sara Newkirk Simon transitioning to a consultant role at WME’s parent Endeavor, where she will continue to advise the Music division.

In the new structure, Lucy Dickins has been elevated to Co-Head of WME Music, joining current Co-Heads Scott Clayton and Kirk Sommer. The trio will guide strategy and operations for the division moving forward.

No reason was given for Geiger’s departure, though Endeavor like others in the industry has been slammed by the coronavirus shutdown and notably its reliance on live events — from sports to fashion to concerts — as well as the shutdown of film and TV production. In May, WME announced that 20% of its employees will either be laid off,...

Since livestreaming has taken over in the Covid-induced absence of live music, major and upcoming artists alike have gone to the platform in droves to perform, fundraise for charity, and stay close to fans. But can online shows be properly monetized — and can that revenue stream be a significant one for music creators?

Global superstar group Bts answered those questions this week with a resounding yes. The band held its much-anticipated Bang Bang Con on Sunday, drawing in around 756,600 viewers, marking what the band’s label claims to be the...

According to the scarcity principle, the harder something is to obtain, the more people will be willing to to pay for it. The modern record industry doesn’t seem too keen on this thinking — having roundly dismissed the idea of limiting major new releases to paid-only platforms. But things are already looking a little different in the burgeoning world of livestreaming.

The pandemic-inspired popularity of the Instagram Verzuz series is the music-biz story of the moment, with as many as 710,000 people concurrently “tuning in” to watch live battles between the...

Ed O’Brien has been an under-appreciated but crucial part of Radiohead ever since the band formed in 1985. His contributions may not be as flashy as fellow guitarist Jonny Greenwood, but look to Thom Yorke’s immediate right at any live show and you’ll see him bashing the tambourine on “Reckoner,” echoing the haunting “rain down” refrain on “Paranoid Android,” or pounding away on a portable drum kit during “There There.”

. He’s noted in interviews that he felt he had to release the record, that part of him...

Laura Marling’s new album ends with a lullaby: “For You,” a sparsely strummed ballad with a harmonizing light-gospel quartet, neatly sums up the gentle folkiness of Marling’s new album, Song for Our Daughter, which arrives three years after her off-kilter roots experimentation with Blake Mills on 2017’s Semper Femina.

“For You” is a soft-spoken ode to finding lasting love after years of searching in vain. “I had called out for you/Almost every night,” Marling sings in a near whisper. “Precious things are hard to find.”

The song...

The singer-songwriter on Greta Gerwig, an intimate podcast – and what she’s binge-watching in lockdown

Singer-songwriter Laura Marling was born in 1990, and brought up in a village in Hampshire. She released her debut album, Alas, I Cannot Swim, the week of her 18th birthday. Recipient of a Brit award for best British female solo artist in 2011, she has also received nominations for three Mercury prizes and a best folk album Grammy. As a gesture of solidarity to locked-down music fans, Marling brought forward the release of her seventh LP, Song for Our Daughter, from late summer. It was released on Friday on Chrysalis/Partisan.

Ed O’Brien has shared his tender new song “Cloak of the Night,” an acoustic duet with Laura Marling and the latest offering from the Radiohead guitarist’s upcoming debut solo album Earth.

“Hello good people … here is ‘Cloak of the Night’.. it features one of my favourite and one of the most gifted musicians on this planet Laura Marling,” O’Brien said of the track on Instagram. “We sang this together one cold and damp February afternoon in a studio in Willesden, North London. Hope you like it…”

O...

Radiohead have announced a new weekly streaming series to keep fans entertained as they self-isolate during the coronavirus pandemic. Each week, the band will post an archival show from their newly-launched Radiohead Public Library onto their YouTube channel, starting Thursday, April 9th, at 5 p.m. Et.

“Now that you have no choice whether or not you fancy a quiet night in,” the band wrote on their fan newsletter, “may we draw your attention to these entertainments?”

The series will launch with Live From a Tent in Dublin, which captures a...

During Mumford & Sons’ 13 years as a band, Marcus Mumford has rarely done extensive solo sit-down interviews. He likes his band to operate as a democracy writing songs, and doing interviews, together. But Mumford made an exception for our video series, “The Rolling Stone Interview,” which has recently included far-reaching conversations with Sheryl Crow, the Black Keys, and Chris Martin. Laid-back and reflective in his studio, Mumford traces how he formed one of the biggest bands in the world, all while only using acoustic instruments.

The interview happened at Eastcote Studios,...

The abrupt reshuffling of major events like Coachella, SXSW, and Pearl Jam and Madonna’s shows due to coronavirus is already devastating to the live music industry — but by some predictions, we’re only seeing the start of the chaos.

Coronavirus-related event cancellations seem to be barreling in by the hour, and the $26 billion global live events industry is watching with bated breath. Several sources across the booking, management, and venues sectors either declined to comment to Rolling Stone on the subject because of the uncertainty around the matter, or...

Radiohead member Ed O’Brien will release his debut solo album, Earth, on April 17th via Capitol Records under the name Eob.

The musician has previewed the upcoming album with “Shangri-La,” which will appear alongside previously released track “Brasil.”

“Thank you to all the incredible musicians who helped me and the people who put it together in the studio,” O’Brien wrote on Twitter. “It was a proper journey getting here. Recorded in Wales and London. Phew, we made it!!”

Earth will feature nine tracks and is available for preorder now.

Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart — why not Snoop Dogg and Nick Cave? The rapper has covered the theme song for BBC’s gangster drama “Peaky Blinders.” Originally performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “Red Right Hand,” opens each episode of the series, and has been covered by a lineup of music legends, from Iggy Pop and Jarvis Cocker to Pj Harvey, as well as Arctic Monkeys and Laura Marling. Watch Snoop’s take on the song below.

The video mixes footage from the series, starring Cillian Murphy, with snippets of Snoop Dogg in his element. The opinionated “Peaky Blinders” fanbase, however, isn’t entirely happy about Snoop’s take. Other fans are pretty into this version, which brings a breath of freshness to the early-20th-century-set period series.

Eerie and propulsive, the song “Red Right Hand” first appeared on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ 1994 album “Let Love In,...

Snoop Dogg has offered up a unique cover of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ “Red Right Hand,” which serves as the theme song for the BBC’s hit period crime drama Peaky Blinders.

In a clip for the cover, the rapper reintroduces himself as “Snoop Shelby,” making himself an honorary member of the Shelby crime family at the center of the show. For his take on the track, Snoop cleverly captures the original’s ominous vibe, while still lending it a distinct hip-hop feel that carries elements of reggae,...

Even in the current golden age of innovative television, the popular British crime drama “Peaky Blinders” has set a daring standard for its use of music, with original songs by Nick Cave, Laura Marling, Johnny Cash, the White Stripes and many more. Composer, music director, producer and artist Antony Genn, whose sprawling career has included stints with Pulp, Joe Strummer, Elastica and his own group The Hours, is responsible for the show’s music since season four, and brings a refreshingly punk attitude to an often sedate musical form that adds even more grit to the already gritty Cillian Murphy-starring show.

Genn’s musical career began in his teens when schoolfriend Jarvis Cocker asked him, “Do you fancy playing bass in our band?” “I don’t know how to play bass,” Genn replied. “Don’t worry about that, none of us can really play.” As is shown by this...

Wme has booked veteran music agent Lucy Dickins as Head of UK Music division starting next month. Joining the agency from Itb (International Talent Booking), she has a client roster that includes Adele, Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling, James Blake and Mabel — all of whom Wme now will represent globally. Dickins who recently was named Live Music Agent of the year at the Music Week Awards, also works with the likes of Hot Chip, Bryan Ferry, Rex Orange County, Jamie T and Jack Peñate. “There’s no one else who possesses Lucy’s combination of pedigree, taste and respect in our industry,” Wme’s Head of Music Marc Geiger said. “After being in business with her family for so many years, we feel fortunate that she decided to join Wme, and we look forward to bringing her perspective to our clients and colleagues.” Itb agents James Simmons and Chris Payne are...

Back around the ‘90s, “music inspired by the film” albums got a bad name, as buyers tired of collections full of random recordings that clearly were inspired by nothing but the desire to use movie branding to launch a hit song. But Alfonso Cuarón, the director of “Roma,” is determined to find some artistic validity in the idea of a companion album that was created independently from a film’s soundtrack… and to actually have there be some truth in advertising in that “inspired by” tag.

Not one of the 15 songs on the newly released album “Music Inspired by the Film ‘Roma’” appears in or was intended for the Oscar-nominated movie. The closest any of the choices come is a fresh recording by English singer Laura Marling of Mary Hopkins’ 1968 hit “Those Were the Days,” a version of which does pop up in “Roma” — albeit not Hopkins’ version, but an easy-listening cover by Ray Conniff.

Last month, we heard the gorgeous orchestral cover of 1980s synth-pop cut “Tarantula” that Beck recorded for the soundtrack of director Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma. On February 5th, Beck visited The Late Late Show With James Corden to perform the song — and he brought along the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a few of his best singer-songwriter pals for good measure.

It’s a lovely performance of the song, which was originally recorded in 1982 by 4Ad band Colourbox and later popularized through a cover by This Mortal Coil, the band led by 4Ad founder Ivo Watts-Russell.

Not to be outdone by Ariana Grande’s impending record news, filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón has announced the track list and release date for his new album, which, coincidentally, is also due Feb. 8. He’s the curator of “Music Inspired by the Film Roma,” which was already teased by a Billie Eilish track, and is now revealed to include songs from an eclectic lineup of rock, pop and Edm acts including Beck, Patti Smith, El-p, DJ Shadow, Laura Marling and T Bone Burnett.

This new album is not to be confused with “Roma (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack),” which came out in December and contains the songs — mostly but not entirely Spanish-language — heard in the movie. The “Inspired By” album consists of all new recordings, mostly but not entirely in English, and credits as co-producers Lynn Fainchtein, who served as music supervisor on the film, along with Randall Poster, another celebrated music supervisor.

Beck recorded an ornate cover of Colourbox’s “Tarantula,” a song later made famous by This Mortal Coil, for his contribution to a compilation of songs inspired by Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-nominated film Roma. The song is a slow build, as orchestral strings and piano provide a moody bed for Beck’s reverb-saturated vocals; eventually, percussion joins in for a big outro. Leslie Feist and Alex Lilly contributed backing vocals to the recording.

It’s starkly different from the synth-driven version Colourbox first released as the B side to their...

Edgar Wright loves sharing “best of” lists with his thousands of fans on social media. This year alone, the filmmaker released a list of his 100 favorite horror films and provided an update to his list of his 40 favorite films ever. The end of the year is naturally a time Wright loves most, and he’s published his official list of the 50 top songs of 2017, with an accompany Spotify playlist where fans can stream every entry.

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Wright’s list starts LCD Soundsytem’s “call the police,” which was released as the lead single from the band’s fourth studio album “American Dream.” The list also includes tracks from The Horrors, Wolf Alice, Beck, Arcade Fire, Temples, Broken Social Scene, Laura Marling, The Big Moon, and Hmltd. Artists such as Drake, Father John Misty, Frank Ocean,...

Ildikó Enyedi's On Body and Soul (2017) is having its exclusive online premiere on Mubi in the United Kingdom. It is showing from November 17 - December 17, 2017.Sex and violence are probably considered to be the most hotly contested controversial topics in film, from the hand-wringing parent who worries about exposing their kids too soon to blood and gore to governmental censorship boards editing out onscreen kisses. This isn’t to say that extreme levels of gore and gratuitously hardcore sex don’t merit discussions (see anything from the New French Extremity genre to the perennially talked about Baise-Moi). But there is, however, another film “quality” that ignites ire and repulsion faster than a close-up of an exploding head or a cut-to of cunnilingus: whimsy. Whimsy, that which is held to be quaint, playful, heartfelt and sweet, is often derided as superficial, saccharine. And, to be fair, it often is. Having...

The Werewolf of Washington Heights Written by Christie Perfetti Williams Directed by Charmaine Broad Presented by Carnival Girls Productions at The Kraine Theater, NYC October 11-22, 2017

Many readers these days probably know the feeling of anxiety about what appallingly reactionary new story will leap out at them every time that they set eyes or ears on a news source. To take just the latest in an interminable series of examples, as this review is being written, the head of the U.S. government is threatening to end aid to Puerto Rico, whose American citizens are denied governmental representation, a mere three weeks after an incredibly devastating natural disaster. As it happens, the production of Christie Perfetti Williams' new play, The Werewolf of Washington Heights, will donate one dollar of every online ticket sale to The Boys and Girls Club of Puerto Rico. It also focuses on the political effects (keeping...

Covering songs from Laura Marling's 6 critically acclaimed albums, Blake Danielwill tell stories of his 10-year relationship with New York in his first solo concert appearance.

If someone found a TV network willing to give them 18 hours of original programming all under their domain, it makes sense that person would want to bring a bunch of their favorite bands along with them.

Over the run of “Twin Peaks: The Return,” David Lynch has used the close of every episode as a showcase for past collaborators. Some of these acts have been household names – who could forget Nine Inch Nails rounding out the infamous Part 8 – while others have been more under-the-radar favorites.

These are artists that not only fit thematically with each individual episode, but also hew close to Lynch’s personal fandoms. The director has been open about it in the past, including his appreciation for Au Revoir Simone. Moby, for whom Lynch directed a music video in 2009, popped up this past week and longtime collaborator Chrysta Bell recorded multiple albums with Lynch before taking...

Twin Peaks is back, blowing minds and inspiring people across the land to shout “Hello-o-ooo!” at slot machines in the process. The Showtime revival of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s cult mystery series comes equipped with the now-iconic jazzy, moody music from Angelo Badalmenti, but several memorable songs are also featured, usually in the form of acts headlining at the Bang Bang Bar, because they apparently have great talent bookers in the town of Twin Peaks.

Now you can take in the Twin Peaks tunes courtesy of a Spotify playlist via Indiewire. It currently features music from Chromatics, The Cactus Blossoms, and Au Revoir Simone, and will be updated as the series progresses and the mystery unfolds.

Those hoping to stay firmly in the world of David Lynch beyond the Twin Peaks revival can pay a visit to Lynch’s Festival of Disruption, which returns to the Theatre at...