I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it, the eagerly awaited new album from the UK art-pop quartet THE 1975 is now available for pre-order from all participating digital retailers. The album will be released February 26 via Dirty Hit / Interscope / Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company.
Those pre-ordering the digital album will receive instant downloads of first single Love Me and the album track UGH! which premiered yesterday as Zane Lowe’s World Record on Beats 1. The album can also be purchased in a variety of physical formats: CD, double gatefold vinyl on heavyweight transparent pink vinyl and a super deluxe box set HERE.
Last week, THE 1975 announced their 2016 headline tour which kicks off April 18 in Los Angeles and includes Canadian stops in Vancouver April 27 and Toronto May 20. Tickets are available now HERE.
The 1975 are one of the breakthrough British bands of the past decade. They got together as school friends on the outskirts of Manchester and reinvigorated the alternative scene as they took 2013 by storm. It was a year that set the band on what Matthew Healy has described as a “delirious ascent.” Propelled by anthemic songs such as Chocolate and Girls, their self-titled debut album entered the UK charts at No 1 and went on to sell one million albums worldwide and one million singles in the US alone while Chocolate is gold in Canada. Healy’s graphic letter regarding UGH! follows below.
To mark the launch of Quentin Tarantino’s new film The Hateful Eight and its thrilling new score from Ennio Morricone, both artists met for a special event at Abbey Road Studios. Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight Original Motion Picture soundtrack features compositions from Ennio Morricone and will be released on December 18, 2015.
Tarantino and actors Kurt Russell and Walton Goggins watched as Morricone conducted the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in a live recording of music from The Hateful Eight, cut to vinyl. As a gift to fans, those who pre-order the album will be given the chance to receive one of these hand-stamped, direct-to-vinyl editions through www.thehatefuleightsoundtrack.com, while supplies last.
While they were at Abbey Road, Morricone, Tarantino, Russell, Goggins and the orchestra signed the famous wall outside Abbey Road, which had been covered in The Hateful Eight artwork. Just hours later, Morricone’s score for The Hateful Eight was nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Original Score category.
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While Tarantino is a lifelong fan of Morricone’s work and has used his music in his past five films, this historic collaboration marks the first time Morricone has recorded original score specifically for one of Tarantino’s films. It is also the first time Morricone has scored a Western film in over 40 years, since the release of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
In The Hateful Eight, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of red rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former Union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of red rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate general Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to red rock after all…
The Hateful Eight film will be released on December 25, 2015, screening exclusively in glorious Ultra Panavision 70 mm film for a limited period and going wide in January 2016.
Written and directed by Academy Award-winner Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight is produced by Richard N. Gladstein, Stacey Sher, and Shannon McIntosh. The executive producers are Georgia Kacandes, Harvey Weinstein, and Bob Weinstein.
It’s been a long time since my Sesame Street Toddler Bed, a sturdy and cheerful piece of furniture I clearly remember. It was equipped with two rails, the purpose of which is to ensure the safety of me, or rather, me getting out of bed, as well as my parents peace of mind. The medium support mattress, though, is really what I can remember, bouncing up and down at night to the moon and back (my imagination) and sometimes falling off the bed missing my mark as I fall from space (THAT was real).
Mattress buying is one of the things in life you never think of doing until you have to. You do your research and look for a particular coil count, check out the layers of good quality foam or maybe even latex or memory foam if you’re trying to go for the more high-end, quality ones. And then you just lie down on a bunch of them, close your eyes, and pretend you’re in the deep sleep of 9 hours. But you’re in a mall or store, and it’s akin to widely dancing at a wedding. It’s not a real club, and this really isn’t my bedroom.
I usually don’t get more than a handful of hours of sleep, and it’s broken up by Indigo needing to go outside in the middle of the night. These nights could almost pass for soothing. But when I had the opportunity to try the Fleep’s mattress in our house, I took it. Fleep made its North American market debut in November with its launch of a revolutionary mattress offering two-way comfort, available exclusively online. An emerging company founded by two young entrepreneurs with a unique product idea, Fleep exceeds market standards for both comfort and customer satisfaction.
Its simplicity also extends to its packaging – the mattress is compressed and rolled and comes in a compact, easy-to-transport box the size of a golf bag. The mattress is packaged rolled up in a vacuum-packed bag, and expanded with great amusement when sliced open. WHAT SORT OF WIZARDRY IS THIS? HOW IS THIS HAPPENING, AND DID I MISS ALL OF THIS IN SCIENCE CLASS?
20 minutes later, I went upstairs, hoping the mattress would stop growing. Although, part of me wished it wouldn’t. “Hello, Police? My roof has been crushed from INSIDE by my mattress. Yes, I’ll hold.” It was now in it’s full size, and because it adapts to all flat surfaces – slatted bed base or mine, which is a bed base with slats spaced about 5 inches apart. Fleep is also right at home on any kind of platform bed or solid bed base.
Since it was late at night, I immediately began putting the mattress and two pillows provided onto the bed, and laid down. Fleep’s expertise is felt right away as it absorbed my movement, and supported my spine, helping prevent back pain down the line. It instantly provided cozy comfort that molds perfectly to the contours of my body and couldn’t wait to actually go to sleep.
Which was 5 minutes later. I closed my eyes, with the lights on, and because Fleep’s firm side provided perfect support for my entire body all night long, I didn’t wake up until the morning. Indigo gave me a night off.
Hannah tires out the Fleep mattress.
Fleep offers consumers two levels of firmness: one side consists of perforated gel-infused memory foam that’s beautifully soft, while the other side is made with perforated instant response foam. I can choose the firmness that suits me best after sleeping on both sides for a number of nights.
This is the greatest mattress I’ve ever had. Seriously. Fleep’s creative process has energized me. The Fleep memory foam pillow adjusts perfectly to the way I sleep, completing my perfect bed. They offer free shipping, and delivered in just 3 nights in a box straight to your office, home, or cottage. Jason Monfette and David Gélinas, long-time friends and business partners, have combined their respective entrepreneurial skills to create a fun company in Fleep selling relaxation, how cool is that? It’s made from 100% QC/Canadian materials, so you know it’s the best quality, made right here in this country. And here’s the best part in case you don’t believe me – they offer a 111-night trail and a 10-year warranty. This kind of policy shows Fleep got the whole package right from the start, making your next mattress purchase irresistible as it is comfortable.
So enjoy those moments with your new Fleep mattress. And then, let’s all treat ourselves to a nap.
His distinctive voice in tact, here’s Louis C.K. doing his standup routine at the age of 21 on The Cable Comedy Show. His first attempt at stand-up was in 1985 at an open-mic night at a comedy club in Boston, Massachusetts, during the apex of the comedy boom. He was given five minutes of time, but had only two minutes of material. He was so discouraged by the experience that he did not perform again for two years. He and Marc Maron later reminisced about their early careers and friendship on Maron’s WTF Podcast.
Musician Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs viral fame sets his sight on Adele’s hit Hello as if Green Day performed it. If it was actually a ten-second song, there would be very little room for complaint, but as it’s the full version, this is your new standard, rock bands.
When Madonna appeared on Nightline back in 1990 discussing MTV banning her “Justify My Love” video, she was asked if MTV should have a designated time for “adult content,” the singer delivered a brilliantly spot-on answer still relevant today. “I think MTV should have their violence hour and I think they should have their degradation to women hour,” she said, eyes rolling. “If we’re going to have censorship, let’s not be hypocrites about it. Let’s not have double standards. We already have these videos that display degradation to women and violence that are played 24 hours a day, but yet they don’t want a video playing that deals with sex between two consenting adults.”
33 1/3 is a brilliant series of short books about popular music, focusing on individual albums by artists ranging from James Brown to Celine Dion and from J Dilla to Neutral Milk Hotel. Each album covered in the series occupies such a specific place in music history, so each book-length treatment is different. Jonathan Lethem, Colin Meloy, Daphne Brooks, Carl Wilson and Gina Arnold are just some of the authors who have contributed to the series so far. Widely acclaimed by fans, musicians and scholars alike, 33 1/3 celebrated its 10th anniversary with the publication of the 100th volume in September of 2014. This boxed set includes the first 100 volumes published in the series and is a must-have for all serious music lovers and record collectors. I counted today, and I have 65 of them, so this has my seal of approval and consider it the Greatest Hits of Greatest Hits.
Producer ToToM combined Kanye West’s lyrics and Queens of the Stone Age’s riffs – where do I sign up? If you love the next President Of The United States, you can download the album for free, but ToToM will donate any proceeds to charity.
The audio is taken from the recording sessions for The Beatles’ Rubber Soul, as reported by Rolling Stone, while the band was working on the song “Think for Yourself.” On his way to the bathroom, he riffed the melody of an earlier Beatles ditty, “Do You Want to Know a Secret?,” but he changed the lyrics to, a private part.
“The sale of music paid for the production of the product and for a portion of my living as a touring artist. That’s the way it works. When the sale of music goes away, gigs alone will not pay for the tour bus, equipment, tour managers, and touring bands (if you pay them decently).
Already I can hear one of those angry music bloggers (the ones who have never toured or tried to make a living in music) saying, ‘Stop your whining and get back on the road!’ Then they crush their empty beer cans and throw them at my car.
They’ll say we musicians need to be lean, mean, touring machines. They’ll say to replace publicists with selfies. They’ll tell John’s girlfriend to learn Pro-Tools so his band doesn’t have to hire George Martin.
One journalist said he thought I would like this ‘DIY’ world. There’s a difference between having the final artistic say on who I hire and the new normal of not hiring anyone at all.
The Attitude of Gratitude will not fix what’s happened here.”
