Brian Eno: Last News

Brian Eno will be teaching a songwriting course early next year – find out more below.Last night (November 13), the School Of Song announced its January 2025 program, which will see the legendary multi-hyphenate conduct a songwriting course for its applicants. The course, titled Songwriting With Brian Eno, will take place over the course of a month.The School of Song wrote on social media to announce the course: “School of Song is overjoyed to announce that Brian Eno will be leading our Songwriting Workshop in January 2025.

Record Store Day has shared a number of releases that are coming for the 2025 edition, and are set to raise funds for the War Child charity.The new announcement was shared this morning (March 26), and features 13 titles that have been specially created for this year’s edition of RSD.They come as part of a partnership with War Child, and will see £1 from every copy sold donated to the non-profit organisation.

Matty Healy of The 1975 has shared a list of his all-time favourite albums.

Brian Eno has surprise-released a new album, ‘Aurum’ – check it out below.Last night (March 20), Eno surprise dropped ‘Aurum’ on Apple Music, marking his latest solo release since 2022’s ‘FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE’. The album is exclusive to Apple Music due to its use of the service’s spatial-audio technology, meaning the record won’t be available on Spotify or other streaming platforms.‘Aurum’ consists of 11 tracks and spans one hour and 19 minutes. It marks his 30th solo album – you can check it out below.Besides releasing ‘Aurum’ exclusively on Apple Music, Brian Eno has also had a chat with Zane Lowe for Apple Music.

saw the brand release an exclusively-made t-shirt with the iconic cover art for the Aphex Twin’s 1999 track ‘Windowlicker’.Aphex Twin, real name Richard James, also released jackets, hats, jerseys, t-shirts and more through the brand. Now, the electronic musician has made a playlist for Supreme, made up of almost 200 songs and comprised of mostly chilled, low-tempo selections.Titled [mostly mellow], it features songs from The Beach Boys, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Squarepusher, Marvin Gaye, Delia Derbyshire, and Ragga Twins.

Netflix blockbuster comedy Don’t Look Up, says he’s devastated for the city of Los Angeles and its world-famous filmmaking community as emergency workers continue to battle a series of deadly wildfires.“We’re heartbroken. Afraid.

Lupe Fiasco is going to be teaching a course on rap at Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Institute – find out more below.On New Year’s Day (January 1), the veteran rapper took to social media to announce that he will be conducting a course for Johns Hopkins’ new four-year hip-hop degree program in Fall this year.He wrote: “I’ll be joining the faculty at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute in Fall 2025 as a Distinguished Visiting Professor, teaching Rap as part of the groundbreaking new 4-year Hip Hop Degree Program led by the visionary Professor [Wendel Patrick]”Lupe Fiasco continued: “I’m honoured to contribute to this legacy doing what I love most, Rap.”He also confirmed that he will at the same time continue to teach as a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and pursue his Yale fellowship.A post shared by Lupe Fiasco (@lupefiasco)Applications for Johns Hopkins’ new four-year hip-hop degree program close today (January 3) – you can find more information and apply for the course here.Per the course’s official site, the degree program will be led by accomplished composer, producer, pianist and professor Wendel Patrick. It will consist of one-on-one turntable majors with a private instructor, rap majors with Lupe Fiasco and will include performances among students.Apart from private lessons, students and applicants will also learn about the cultural history and influence of hip-hop.Lupe Fiasco isn’t the only acclaimed musician to be taking on the role of professor this year.

Spotify is filling listeners’ playlists with “ghost artists” to minimise royalty costs.Per Liz Pelly’s findings shared in Harper’s Magazine, popular playlists ranging from jazz and classical to lo-fi hip-hop are being padded out with material by ghost artists, effectively decreasing the amount of royalties Spotify pays genuine musicians while increasing their overall profit margins.Known as “Perfect Fit Content” (PFC), the practice was introduced to Spotify’s editors in 2017 and engineered to maximise profit by partnering with a collection of production companies, largely located outside the US.Pelly’s report noted that when the issue first came into public view earlier this year, a Spotify spokesperson claimed the allegations were “categorically untrue, full stop”, and denied the company was creating its own fake-artist tracks.NME has reached out to Spotify for a comment.“But,” she continued, “while Spotify may not have created them, it stopped short of denying that it had added them to its playlists.”The report also nodded to findings by music writer David Turner, who used analytics to show Spotify’s “Ambient Chill” playlist had been wiped of artists like Brian Eno, Bibio, and Jon Hopkins in favour of tracks from Epidemic Sound, a Swedish company that offers a subscription-based library of production music, including the kind of stock material largely used in the background of adverts and TV programmes.One former employee said of the practice: “Some of us really didn’t feel good about what was happening. We didn’t like that it was these two guys that normally write pop songs replacing swaths of artists across the board.

Charli XCX has declared her love for the 1967 album ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’, calling it “the apex of fine art”.She namechecked the debut album by the influential New York City underground rock band in her acceptance speech at Variety’s Hitmakers Awards on Saturday (December 7), where she picked up the Hitmaker of the Year prize.As well as naming some of her other musical inspirations – Lana Del Rey, Caroline Polachek, Jack Antonoff – she singled out the seminal LP and its famous Andy Warhol-designed sleeve as a big contributor to her aesthetic.“In March 1967, The Velvet Underground released their album ‘The Velvet Underground And Nico’,” she said. “It debuted on the Billboard 200 at Number 199. And a few weeks later, it rose to its peak position of 195.

FKA Twigs, Jarvis Cocker, Munroe Bergdorf, Marcel Dettman, Annie Mac, Jayda G, Tony Andrews, Nonotak and No Tags Podcast, with more to be announced.Then, the night programme will feature club shows at HERE @ Outernet and EARTH Hackney, with performances from Erika de Casier, Kojaque and Mechatok.You can see the full line-up below, and sign up to access tickets here.A post shared by AVA Festival (@avafestival)A post shared by AVA Festival (@avafestival)FKA Twigs will feature in a live recording of the Resident Advisor Exchange podcast at the British Library, while Jarvis Cocker is set to deliver a special climate-themed lecture titled “Biophobia” in association with EarthPercent.AVA first ran in 2017 and has previously hosted the likes of Brian Eno, Charli xcx, Laurent Garnier, Bicep, Orbital, Joy Orbison and Irvine Welsh.In other news, FKA Twigs is set to release ‘Eusexua’, the long-awaited follow-up to 2019’s ‘Magdalene’ on January 24 2025 via Young (available for pre-order here).So far, she’s shared three tastes of the record.

Talking Heads‘ Jerry Harrison and King Crimson‘s Adrian Belew have announced their 2025 ‘Remain In Light’ UK and European tour.The five-date run will see Harrison and Belew make their way across the EU and UK beginning with a gig in Stockholm on May 18. From there, the duo will make stops in cities such as Oslo, Copenhagen, Cologne, Warsaw and Luxembourg before heading over to the UK with stops in Manchester and Wolverhampton.

Brian Eno has said politicians are doing little to address the growing issue of climate change, despite the fact it’s happening “quite fast”.The legendary musician, composer and producer made the comments in a new interview with the BBC’s World Service’s In The Studio programme.Eno has long championed environmental causes and set up the charity organisation EarthPercent in 2021, which aims to reduce the environmental impact of the music industry. Artists to have collaborated with Eno on the project previously include R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Coldplay, CHVRCHES, Nile Rogers and Anna Calvi.Speaking about climate change in the interview, Eno said: “I notice that hardly any of our politicians are talking about the most important problem.

U2 are back in the studio with drummer Larry Mullen Jr., guitarist The Edge has revealed – find out more below.Speaking to the BBC‘s Jo Whiley to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the band’s ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’, The Edge revealed new information about new music within the camp.Per the guitarist, longtime drummer Larry Mullen Jr. – who had to sit out of the band’s historic Las Vegas Sphere residency due to injury and recovering from surgery – is now “good” and “taking it easy but he’s back in the saddle on the drums” in the studio.The Edge revealed that U2 are now recording new music with Mullen Jr., which he described as “crazy”.

Sugarcane, the story of sexual abuse and disappearances at a school for Indigenous children in British Columbia, leads the nominations for the prestigious documentary-focused Cinema Eye Honors awards with six. Four films are next with five noms each: Dahomey, Eno, Frida and No Other Land. See the full list below.

Coldplay’s Chris Martin surprised onlookers yesterday (November 11) by kissing the tarmac at Sydney Airport before boarding a plane heading to Auckland, New Zealand – you can view footage below.He has been seen doing a similar ritual before when he landed in Malaysia last year ahead of the band’s show there and in Indonesia on their previous tour.Martin has never said why he kisses the tarmac on airport runways, similar to what the Pope often does, but it has been suggested that it may stem from a near-death experience he suffered on a plane in 2005.He previously revealed that he almost died when his plane hit a dust storm flying over West Africa not long before it was supposed to touch down in Ghana.“It was so terrifying, the plane was all over the place,” Martin told The Sun at the time. “Once a year, for a week, all this dust blows over from the Sahara Desert.

The Snuts‘ Jack Cochrane has hit out at people who dislike Coldplay and have called them “uncool” adding that they “pretend they’re too cool” to enjoy the band.In a new interview with The Times, the frontman of the Scottish outfit opened up about his love for Chris Martin and co and revealed that his favourite Scottish gig ever was seeing Coldplay at T in the Park at age 15.“I think people who don’t like Coldplay are uncool. They’re one of those bands that everybody pretends they’re too cool to properly love, but the performance, the production and atmosphere, with everybody blasting their songs, was unforgettable,” he told the publication.Though people love to hate on the ‘Clocks’ band, the group have made history as the only band to headline Glastonbury five times.

Apple TV+’s Girls State and HBO’s Ren Faire scored three nominations apiece to lead all broadcast nominees announced Thursday for the 18th Cinema Eye Honors. The group, which recognizes the year’s outstanding nonfiction and documentary films and TV series, also revealed the 16-film longlist for its annual Audience Choice Prize, won last year by National Geographic’s Bobi Wine: The People’s President, which went on to get nominated for the Documentary Feature Oscar.

Lykke Li has shared the nature-featuring ‘TЯAƎH ЯUOY OT YAWHӘIH’ – as well as telling NME about new music which she described as “dealing with the sense that we’re at the after-party of the world.”The Swedish art-pop icon released ‘TЯAƎH ЯUOY OT YAWHӘIH’ today (Thursday October 24) on streaming platforms – a reimagined version of her track ‘Highway to Your Heart’ from 2022 album ‘EYEYE’.However, this fresh interpretation features NATURE as a credited artist. Back in April 2024, NATURE officially launched as an artist on streaming platforms as part of Sounds Right, a project co-created by Brian Eno’s climate change and music foundation Earth/Percent.The initiative was designed as a way for artists who collaborate with the sounds of our surrounding world to acknowledge the contribution nature has in creativity, and for NATURE to receive a percentage of the royalty for her contribution, which goes back into her own conservation.

Brian Eno has announced a new book ‘What Art Does’, in collaboration with artist Bette A.‘What Art Does’ is a full-colour, illustrated hardback book, available in a limited run of 777 copies. Each copy is signed and includes a slipcase hand-painted by Eno and A, with a black-and-white PDF version also available for a week following the initial release.Per a press release, ‘What Art Does’ will ask the questions: “Why do we do it? How does it help us? And how does it hold us all together?” by examining the “functions of fictional worlds”, and suggesting a new theory of art.All profits will be split between two charities: Earth Percent, a climate charity co-founded by Eno, and The Heroines! Movement, a non-profit collective of grassroots teams making story projects that celebrate local women role models co-founded by A.A limited special edition will be available to ship from Metalabel and Enoshop on December 3, and hardback and ebook editions will be available from January 16 2025.

Coldplay‘s Chris Martin sat down for an impromptu interview in a park recently – watch footage below.He was approached in New York’s Washington Square Park by Dutch music journalist Sagid Carter, who previously worked in radio but recently launched her own interview series on YouTube.In the video, she recalled how she saw Martin with his manager Phil Harvey on her last day in New York (October 1). She proceeded to “just wanted to shoot her shot” by asking for some interview time.

Fred again.. is the latest guest of Nardwuar The Human Serviette, whom he calls “one of my absolute heroes” as they chat about Four Tet, Brian Eno and more.