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GroupM, the media buying arm of advertising giant WPP, is planning to double its annual investment in women’s sports and create a dedicated marketplace to facilitate deals.

Iggy Pop has announced two “landmark” UK shows in London and Glasgow, set to take place next year. Find all the details below.Announced today (November 4), the shows will celebrate Iggy’s musical legacy and will see him perform hits from across his five-decade career – from his work with The Stooges to his solo music.According to a press release, the punk icon will also be joined by “special guests” and a band of “celebrated collaborators”, though no names have currently been announced.The two UK shows will take place in London and Glasgow.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The flow of ad dollars to women’s sports is growing. After launching an initiative earlier in 2024 to double the amount of money its clients spend on women’s sports, GroupM, the large WPP-backed media-investment giant, says it has exceeded its initial goals.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music It would probably annoy the Hard Quartet — which features Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, Chavez/Superwolves’ Matt Sweeney, the Dirty Three’s Jim White and Bonnie Prince Billy/ Ty Segall alum Emmett Kelly — very much to be called and indie supergroup, but as the words above show, the shoe fits. The group has announced its eponymous debut album will be arriving Oct. 4 on Matador Records, and did so in supreme fashion with a video for “Rio’s Song” that almost perfectly mimics the Rolling Stones’ iconic 1981 clip for “Waiting on a Friend,” down to the same building and bar on St.

The Hard Quartet have announced their self-titled debut with the jangly new single, ‘Rio’s Song’.Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus first shared details of the project in June, after a series of synchronised posts were shared on social media.The line-up includes Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, Jim White and Emmett Kelly. Today (August 21), they shared their first single, and said in a statement it was their homage to “street rock in the hot afternoon and clowning around with lifer friends in downtown New York City”.The accompanying music video was shot “guerrilla style” by director Jared Sherbert, and revisits The Rolling Stones‘ 1981 video for ‘Waiting on a Friend’, recreating it shot-for-shot.“Both Matt and Stephen individually write music that has soundtracked pivotal periods in my life,” the director told Pitchfork.

Pavement icon Stephen Malkmus‘ new band The Hard Quartet have released their debut single ‘Earth Hater’, as well as announcing their first live shows in the US and UK.The band, consisting of vocalist, songwriter and guitarist Stephen Malkmus as well as Matt Sweeney, Jim White and Emmett Kelly, shared news of a new musical project earlier this month.They’ve just released their debut single as The Hard Quartet, titled ‘Earth Hater’, and it’s accompanied by a creative stop-motion music video directed by Eyedress.‘Earth Hater’ is a broody indie track that leans into the band members’ grunge-y college rock pasts, with a more psychedelic jam twist, as Malkmus sings a chorus of understanding and harmony: “unto others you must do what you would have them do to you“.The claymation music video acts as a warning against littering, with the band acting as guardians of the sea and getting revenge on a littering surfer by sending a trash monster after him for vengeance.Joining Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, The Hard Quartet is made up of Emmett Kelly (best known for his work in The Cairo Gang and The Double), Matt Sweeney (best known for his work with Chavez, Superwolf, and music for Red Dead Redemption 2) and Jim White (Dirty Three and Xylouris White).The members were teasing new materials separately on social media, before publicly revealing the logo and band name of The Hard Quartet.The band have also announced tour dates in Los Angeles, New York and London later this year.OCTOBER10 – Los Angeles, US – The Belasco with Papa M15 – New York, US – Webster Hall with Weak Signal22 – London, UK – Electric Ballroom with TubsYou can buy tickets for their US shows here and their UK show here.

Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus has shared details of a new musical project called The Hard Quartet.The vocalist, songwriter and guitarist shared news of the new band on his social media channels yesterday (July 16), confirming that he would soon be releasing music under a new group called The Hard Quartet.The line-up is comprised of Malkmus, as well as Matt Sweeney, Jim White and Emmett Kelly. All members made the announcement through synchronised posts on their respective social media accounts, and the update shared their new name and logo.It comes after Malkmus had spent the past week teasing fans with the idea of new material, and hinting that the announcement of a new endeavour would be coming shortly.In a series of cryptic messages, they suggested that “a hard band is good to find” and that “a hard band name is good to find” – leading to eagle-eyed fans speculating that a new outfit would be announced.A post shared by Stephen Malkmus (@stephenmalkmus)So far, only the band itself has been announced, with the members and logo confirmed.

Iggy Pop dug a selection of Stooges songs from out of the archives for the first time in over a decade with Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ Nick Zinner, Matt Sweeney, and more in tow.During an appearance at California’s No Values Festival, Pop brought together an all-star band to dust off some old classics in his first show of 2024 and the first since wrapping up the touring cycle for his 2023 album ‘Every Loser’.Joining him on stage was Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, Chavez frontman Matt Sweeney, The Armed’s Uriah Hackney, Las Nubes leader Ale Campos, multi-instrumentalists Joan As Police Woman and Pam Amsterdam, and jazz trombonist Corey D. King.The set was only made up of two of Pop’s own songs, ‘Lust For Life’ and ‘The Passenger’.

Matt Sweeney, a pioneering special effects artist who was Oscar-nominated for his work on Ron Howard’s 1995 space epic Apollo 13, died February 19 of lung cancer at Burbank’s Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center. He was 75.

Ryan Gosling has revisited his iconic song for the Barbie soundtrack, and reimagined it as a Christmas classic.Shared today (December 20), the new release sees the actor – who took on the role of Ken in Greta Gerwig’s hit film – take his song ‘I’m Just Ken’, and re-record it in time for the festive season.Recorded alongside and produced by Mark Ronson, the new Christmas edition of the track is titled ‘I’m Just Ken (Merry Kristmas Barbie)’, and also comes as part of a new ‘Ken’ EP – consisting of three new versions of the song.For the most part, the festive version remains loyal to the debut release, but now incorporates more of an epic approach to that of the original, complete with bells and an orchestra.What’s more, it also comes alongside a new music video set inside a heavily decorated recording studio. In the footage, Gosling is seen telling Ronson how he envisions the final product before they both come together to record it.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Matt Sweeney have shared a previously unreleased their from the sessions for 2005 collaboration Superwolf. Proceeds from the song, “You’ll Get Eaten, Too,” will go to the staffs of Drag City and New York’s Superiority Burger. Hear the rarity below.