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From Whitney to Madonna to Ariana, pop music is built on iconic voices. But how are they captured into a powerful, enduring song? Enter the vocal producer, the often overlooked profession wrangling these instruments into the irresistible product we eventually hear on the track.

These New Puritans have announced their new album ‘Crooked Wing’ and shared its lead single ‘Industrial Love Song’, featuring Caroline Polachek.It will be the Southend band’s first studio record in six years and the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Inside The Rose’. It will be released on May 23 via Domino, and is available to pre-order/pre-save here in multiple formats, including digital, CD and vinyl.They have given fans the first taste of the album in the form of ‘Industrial Love Song’, a track that finds two cranes singing to each other.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com How far would you go to lift a deadly curse? Ahead of the film’s world premiere at this year’s SXSW, Annapurna Sriram‘s “Fucktoys” has unveiled its trailer exclusively to Variety, teasing a grindhouse adventure through a town named Trashtown, USA. After a woman named AP (Sriram) loses a tooth and is unexpectedly cast with a curse, psychics promise that it can be lifted by a measly $1,000 payment and animal sacrifice.

BRIT Awards has announced the winner of this year’s Producer Of The Year prize.The 2025 ceremony is due to take place at The O2 in London this Saturday (March 1), with Jack Whitehall returning as host. It’ll be broadcast exclusively on ITV1 and ITVX.Ahead of the event, it’s been revealed that Charli XCX‘s longtime collaborator A.

Olly Alexander has released an “epic love song” called ‘When We Kiss’. Check it out below.Following the release of singles ‘Cupid’s Bow’, ‘Polari’ and ‘Archangel, ‘When We Kiss’ marks the fourth taste from Alexander’s upcoming album ‘Polari’, due on February 7 (pre-order/pre-save here.Created alongside Danny L Harle (Charli XCX, Dua Lipa, Caroline Polachek), ‘Polari’ draws from the earliest innovators in electro-pop, charting desire, voyeurism and fate, and is Alexander’s first album release since abandoning the Years & Years moniker.Describing the newest track, the former Eurovision entrant said it was “an epic love song” inspired by a “difficult moment in a relationship when you don’t know whether you should break up or if you should stay together forever.”He continued: “I wanted this song to reflect those conflicted feelings, all the pain and ecstasy of loving someone.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music We Are Moving the Needle has announced the return of the Resonator Awards, taking place January 28, 2025 at Avalon Hollywood in Los Angeles. The Resonator Awards celebrate the creative and technical achievements of underrepresented voices in the recording arts. The evening includes a seated dinner, awards ceremony, and live performances.

Olly Alexander has shared a new “eternally optimistic” single, ‘Archangel’, from his upcoming album ‘Polari’.Created alongside Danny L Harle (Charli XCX, Dua Lipa, Caroline Polachek), ‘Polari’ draws from the earliest innovators in electro-pop, charting desire, voyeurism and fate. The album is set for release on February 7, 2025, and you can pre-order/pre-save here.It marks the Years & Years frontman’s first album release under his own name, and has so far been previewed with ‘Cupid’s Bow’ and ‘Polari’.

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.

Charli XCX has crossed off London on her ongoing ‘Brat’ world tour, and she brought along friends Robyn, Caroline Polachek, and Yung Lean. Check out photos, footage and the setlist below.On the UK victory lap for her whirlwind year off the back of the cultural phenomenon of ‘Brat’ summer, inspired by her acclaimed sixth album and subsequent remix record, Charli performed at London’s O2 Arena after kicking it off at Manchester’s Co-Op Live yesterday, where she debuted the remix of ‘So I’ in tribute to SOPHIE.Last night (November 28), Charli mostly performed tracks off her wildly-successful sixth album and its remix companion, including ‘Club classics’, ‘365’ with opener Shygirl, and ‘Apple’, the latter a concert staple that features audience members performing its viral TikTok dance.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music A day after “Brat” teaser billboards appeared outside several U.S. venues, as expected, Charli xcx has announced dates for a brief U.S. headlining arena tour that will follow her top billing at the 2025 Coachella festival, which also was announced earlier this week.

Cruel Intentions is streaming on Amazon Prime Video now, but what songs are included on the show? Read on to find out.All eight episodes are streaming on the platform as of Thursday (November 21), with Sarah Catherine Hook (First Kill), Zac Burgess (Boy Swallows Universe) and Savannah Lee Smith (Gossip Girl) taking on the lead roles.The show is based on the cult 1999 movie of the same name, directed by Roger Kumble and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon. That film was in turn a modern retelling of the 1782 novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.The new version is set in an elite Washington D.C.

Caroline Polachek covered Radiohead‘s ‘True Love Waits’ in front of Claude Monet’s famous painting Water Lilies – check it out below.Polachek was performing at Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris on October 18 as part of Art Basel Paris and included in her set the final track from Radiohead’s album ‘In Rainbows’.“Deepest thank you to [Klaus Biesenbach] and [Olivier Berggruen] for inviting me to come perform a short program of songs on the occasion of the Museum Berggruen and Neue Nationalgalerie exhibition of the Heinz Berggruen collection at the Musée de L’Orangerie for Art Basel Paris 2024,” Polachek wrote on Instagram after. “I had chills all over to sing in that room, while seeing those paintings IRL for the first time.“‘True Love Waits’, like the Water Lilies, went through decades of versions and distillations,” she continued, “through time and loss and perseverance.”Check it out below:A post shared by Caroline Polachek (@carolineplz)In other news, Polachek has appeared on Charli XCX’s reimagined version of the cultural phenomenon of the summer, the ‘Brat’ album.

Charli XCX has now confirmed all the artists who will feature.Last month, the pop singer announced a reimagined version of the cultural phenomenon of the summer, the ‘Brat’ album. It’s titled ‘Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat’ and can be pre-saved here.The remix record is set for release on October 11, and has so far been previewed with ‘Von Dutch’ featuring Addison Rae, ‘Girl, So Confusing’ with Lorde, ‘360’ with Robyn and Yung Lean, ‘Guess’ with Billie Eilish, and ‘Talk Talk’ with Troye Sivan, plus a spoken contribution from Dua Lipa.Various potential names had been circulating online ahead of XCX’s confirmation of the line-up, with artists including including Madonna, Caroline Polachek, SOPHIE and Grimes rumoured to appear.Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat feat: pic.twitter.com/Bn6HD2LRiE— Charli (@charli_xcx) October 4, 2024Earlier this week, XCX’s team started erecting ‘Brat’ green billboards in the hometown of artists that are now confirmed to feature on the album – including the 1975, Bon Iver and Tinashe.

Charli XCX is teasing new ‘Brat’ remixes with Bon Iver and Tinashe.Last month the pop singer announced a reimagined version of her latest album and summer phenomenon ‘Brat’, titled ‘Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat’.The record appears to be a remix album and will be released October 11. So far the new edition has been previewed with ‘Von Dutch’ featuring Addison Rae, ‘Girl, So Confusing’ with Lorde, ‘360’ with Robyn and Yung Lean, ‘Guess’ with Billie Eilish, and ‘Talk Talk’ with Troye Sivan, plus a spoken contribution from Dua Lipa.Various other potential names have already been circulating online, including Madonna, Caroline Polachek, SOPHIE and Grimes.Now it seems that Bon Iver and Tinashe have been thrown into the mix after after a green ‘Brat’-style board with ‘Bon Iver’ spelt backwards was spotted in Wisconsin, along with a similar one featuring Tinashe’s name in Pasadena.

Charli XCX’s upcoming ‘Brat‘ remix album is circulating online, and it seems Madonna, Caroline Polachek, SOPHIE and Grimes are among those set to appear.Last week, Charli announced a reimagined version of her latest album-turned-cultural-phenomenon ‘Brat’, titled ‘‘Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat’. The new version appears to be a remix album and will be released October 11.There’s already been a string of remixes shared from the record.

Blu DeTiger has teamed up with Fender to unveil her limited edition signature Player Plus Jazz Bass.The bass virtuoso’s axe features a Sky Burst Sparkle finish with sleek chrome hardware and a mirrored pickguard which reflects DeTiger’s “vibrant style”. It also has custom Blu DeTiger Fireball bass humbucker and Player Plus noiseless jazz bass pickups, a chambered lightweight ash body, a satin maple neck, and a bound 9.5” rosewood fingerboard which was designed for comfort during long performances.Speaking about the collaboration in a press release, DeTiger said: “This bass is a reflection of everything I love about playing.

Orla Gartland has spoken to NME about her “bolder” and “more intentional” second studio album, ‘Everybody Needs A Hero’ – on which she tackles themes of “girlhood and womanhood”.The Irish singer-songwriter’s new record will be released on October 4 via her own label, New Friends. It’s a record she told NME was created very differently to her debut, 2021’s ‘Woman On The Internet’, with the album’s title being key to its narrative.“The last track of the record is called ‘Everybody Needs A Hero’ as well, and I actually just really wanted to call both the album and the song this before they existed, which is very different to how it worked with the first album,” Gartland explained.“For the first album, I really did just write a collection of songs and then took the title from a lyric, whereas this whole album process was a lot more intentional,” she added.Gartland elaborated on the differences between the two records, saying: “Making this album took a lot longer than the first one did, and it was picked up and put down because of how busy I was last year, and I’m really proud of myself for pushing forward and for committing.“When I listen to it now, I have a real ‘We did it Joe’ feeling, we just got to the end, and I was able to be in control of it the whole way.”Ahead of the record’s release later this year, NME caught up with Gartland to discuss creating the record, the impact of collaborative group FIZZ on her solo music, the inspiration of St.

Orla Gartland has spoken to NME about her “bolder” and “more intentional” second studio album, ‘Everybody Needs A Hero’ – on which she tackles themes of “girlhood and womanhood”.The Irish singer-songwriter’s new record will be released on October 4 via her own label, New Friends. It’s a record she told NME was created very differently to her debut, 2021’s ‘Woman On The Internet’, with the album’s title being key to its narrative.“The last track of the record is called ‘Everybody Needs A Hero’ as well, and I actually just really wanted to call both the album and the song this before they existed, which is very different to how it worked with the first album,” Gartland explained.“For the first album, I really did just write a collection of songs and then took the title from a lyric, whereas this whole album process was a lot more intentional,” she added.Gartland elaborated on the differences between the two records, saying: “Making this album took a lot longer than the first one did, and it was picked up and put down because of how busy I was last year, and I’m really proud of myself for pushing forward and for committing.“When I listen to it now, I have a real ‘We did it Joe’ feeling, we just got to the end, and I was able to be in control of it the whole way.”Ahead of the record’s release later this year, NME caught up with Gartland to discuss creating the record, the impact of collaborative group FIZZ on her solo music, the inspiration of St.

The 1975 drummer George Daniel has shared his debut solo single – listen to ‘Screen Cleaner’ below.The musician, producer and DJ released the glitchy dance track yesterday (August 1) on dh2 – the electronic imprint he spearheads via The 1975’s label, Dirty Hit.Daniel’s debut song boasts chopped-up vocal samples, hi-hats and synths across its three-minute-30-second duration. The single was co-written by Tove Lo and Tim Nelson, the latter of whom also co-produced ‘Screen Cleaner’ under his TimFromTheHouse moniker.Tune in here:A post shared by George daniel (@bedforddanes75)Daniel recently earned co-writing and production credits on his fiancé Charli XCX‘s new album, ‘Brat’.

Ellise Shafer George Daniel, the producer and multi-instrumentalist best known as the drummer for the 1975 and a collaborator of his fiancé Charli XCX, has dropped his first solo single. “Screen Cleaner,” a heart-thumping dance track laced with hi-hats and chopped-up vocal samples, also marks Daniel’s debut release on dh2, the brand-new electronic imprint he founded via the 1975 label Dirty Hit.

Blossoms have announced a new ‘Covers Edtion’ of their forthcoming album ‘Gary‘ and features classic hits from Radiohead, Lady Gaga and more.The band’s fifth album ‘Gary’ is set for release on September 20, and was produced by their frequent collaborator James Skelly of The Coral, alongside Jungle’s Josh-Lloyd Watson. ‘Gary’ will also see Tom Odden and co. join forces with BRIT-nominated singer-songwriter CMAT, who has co-written two tracks, titled ‘I Like Your Look’ and ‘Why Do I Give You The Worst Of Me?’, on the album.Today (July 10), Blossoms took to their official social media accounts to share that they will be releasing ‘Gary (Covers Edition)’ which will feature their renditions of some of their favourite songs.Gary (Covers Edition) available to pre order now! If you ever needed Whitney, The Real Thing, Radiohead, Mario, Neil Diamond, Caroline Polacheck, Gaga and Bob Marley in one place, you now have it.