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Chance The Rapper and Vic Mensa have teamed up for a new song and video – watch ‘Writing Exercise #3: Wraith’ below.The pair – both members of the Savemoney hip-hop collective – have previously worked together on the track ‘Cocoa Butter Kisses’ from Chance’s breakout 2013 mixtape ‘Acid Rap’, and on Mensa’s song ‘Tweakin”. Last year, they collaborated on a track called ‘Shelter’ with Wyclef Jean.To mark the release of ‘Writing Exercise #3: Wraith’, Mensa also teased that more new music from the pair would be coming soon, telling Complex: “Me and Chano have been working on a lot of music for a while now, there’s much more to come.“This was produced by the homie Smoko Ono and Beat Butcha,” he added of ‘Wraith’.

Moses Sumney, Shygirl and David Bowie photographer Rankin.Among the winners of last night’s ceremony, held at Abbey Road, was Eric Johnson, who won the Icon Award for his legendary photographs of the late ’90s and early ’00s New York hip-hop scene, including famous shots of Biggie Smalls, Aaliyah, Nas, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill and many more.Abbey Road’s Managing Director Isabel Garvey said of the awards: “Everyone at Abbey Road Studios is thrilled with the quality of the entries and winners in our first Music Photography Awards.

NME about curating Brooklyn Academy of Music’s spring 2022 music series to “build a world around the vastness of Black performance”.Through multiple books, including Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes on A Tribe Called Quests and A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, the National Book Award finalist and MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient has built a career focused on extending the “understanding of the multitudinous and global nature of Black performance.”With the intention of highlighting Black musicianship, celebrating the return of in-person communal experiences, and “expanding my imagining of what a live music concert can be”, the essayist and critic organised America’s oldest performing arts centre’s first foray into live music since the start of the COVID pandemic.The intimate and creative shows, which kicked off on February 25 and run until May 21, have featured Abdurraquib’s hand-picked selection of artists, including Moses Sumney, Bartees Strange, Devonté Hynes, and L’Rain, with performances from Mavis Staples and the premiere of Omar Offendum’s hip-hop musical, Little Syria set for next month.“It’s interesting to be in a position where you can do anything, because my initial response was, ‘Well I don’t wanna do anything’,” Abdurraquib told NME.

Naman Ramachandran A concert by Arcade Fire will headline the reopening of iconic London music venue KOKO on April 29. Arcade Fire last played London in 2018 and the KOKO show will celebrate the release of their sixth studio album “We,” out May 6. The historic live music venue, which first opened as the Camden Theatre in 1900, shut down in Jan.

Chance The Rapper is putting blackness in the spotlight during his appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Chance The Rapper has performed new song ‘Child Of God’ on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert – watch the moment below.Chance’s latest single arrived last month (March 24) and features Moses Sumney on vocals.In the video for the new track, Chance is seen rapping in the same room from his 2021 music video, ‘The Heart & The Tongue’. In the background, artist Naïla Opiangah paints on a canvas behind him.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorDowntown Music Services has inked a global music publishing administration agreement with Brooklyn-based artist, composer and producer Daniel Lopatin, the company announced Wednesday.Lopatin, who records and performs as Oneohtrix Point Never, has released multiple albums and tracks over the years including his most recent project, “Magic Oneohtrix Point Never.”He also has collaborated extensively with the Weeknd over the past two years, serving as an executive producer on the recent “Dawn FM” album, and also was musical director of the artist’s 2021 Super Bowl Half Time performance. Earlier this year he completed work on his first full album production for another artist, Soccer Mommy’s upcoming album “Sometimes, Forever.” His production credits over the years also include David Byrne, Moses Sumney, Anohni and Charli XCX as well as collaborations with Iggy Pop, Rosalía, James Blake and Elizabeth Fraser.His original film scores include Josh and Benny Safdie’s “Uncut Gems” and “Good Time,” for which he received the Best Soundtrack Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

Chance The Rapper has shared the video for his new song, ‘Child Of God’ – watch it below.Chance’s latest single arrived earlier this week (March 24) and features Moses Sumney on vocals.In the video for the new song, Chance can be seen rapping in the same room as that for his 2021 music video, ‘The Heart & The Tongue’.In the background, artist Naïla Opiangah paints on a canvas behind him. The pair met during a trip to Accra, Ghana and have recently opened a contemporary art project together called ‘Child Of God’ at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art.You can watch the video here:Chance took to Twitter earlier this week (March 20) to hint that new music was on the way. He shared a cryptic post that read: “My mind is decided” alongside a release date.Chance has been hinting at his return for some time in a series of Instagram posts where he’s shared images from apparent writing and recording sessions.He also shared a snippet of some new political music earlier this month, in which he rapped about the death of the first US President George Washington.The track began with a symbolic narrative based around Washington’s death and his ownership of slaves.

APPOINTMENTSThe UK trade group for the independent music community, AIM, has hired Esta Rae as its new Senior Events Manager. “Events are a major part of entertainment so being appointed in this role, I want to push the boundaries in terms of how events are delivered, visualised and captured by the onlooker and those involved”, she says.———————————————-EDUCATION & EVENTSThe electronic and dance music focused International Music Summit in Ibiza has announced the first batch of speakers for this year’s event, including Lyor Cohen, Brian Eno, Deadmau5, Beatport’s Robb McDaniels, TikTok’s Ole Obermann and Laurent Garnier.

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, podcaster, and curator of worlds. His ability to find parity in the disparate, along with his exquisite command of the English language, has made him one of the 21st century’s most celebrated cultural critics.

UTA has expanded its Music division with the addition of Mary Allen, Aaron Arkin and Vatana Shaw as Agents.

Quentin Tarantino inspired her to keep working in Hollywood, ahead of her starring role in new A24 film Everything Everywhere All At Once.Yeoh, who recently appeared in Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings and Crazy Rich Asians, plays Evelyn, a mother thrown into a sci-fi action-adventure after she learns she’s able to access the memory and skills of alternate versions of herself throughout the multiverse.The actress almost broke her back during an on-set injury while filming 1996’s The Stunt Woman, however, leading the former ballerina to question her career path.“‘You like to work, but this is insane,’” Yeoh recalled friends telling her at the time, per The Hollywood Reporter. “‘We feel so bad, but only you can help yourself.

Mitski and David Byrne appear together on "This Is A Life," the first single from Son Lux's soundtrack to new A24 movie Everything Everywhere All At Once. You can hear what the three artists cooked up together below.

David Byrne and Mitski have released a new collaboration today (March 8). Listen to ‘This Is A Life’ below.The song features on the soundtrack for the new A24 film, Everything Everywhere All At Once.Son Lux have scored the sci-fi action film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. The film is released in the US on March 25 (UK date TBA), while the soundtrack lands on April 8.Other contributions on the soundtrack come from Andre 3000, Randy Newman, Moses Sumney, Nina Moffitt, Chris Pattishall, Rob Moose, yMusic, Surrija, and actor Stephanie Hsu.Listen to ‘This Is A Life’ here:Sharing a statement about their work on the project, Sox Lux said: “Even though we knew from the moment Daniels asked us to score this film that it would push us in new and unexpected directions, we couldn’t have predicted how much we’d learn from the project.“What emerged was our most ambitious undertaking to date, over two years in the making, resulting in two hours of new music.

André 3000, Mitski, David Byrne, Moses Sumney and more acts feature on the soundtrack for the new A24 film Everything Everywhere All At Once.Son Lux have scored the sci-fi action film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. The film is released in the US on March 25 (UK date TBA), while the soundtrack lands on April 8.Mitski and Byrne duet on a song called ‘This Is A Life’, while André 3000 plays flute across the record. Other contributions come from Randy Newman, Moses Sumney, Nina Moffitt, Chris Pattishall, Rob Moose, yMusic, Surrija, and actor Stephanie Hsu.Son Lux shared a statement about their work on the project: “Even though we knew from the moment Daniels asked us to score this film that it would push us in new and unexpected directions, we couldn’t have predicted how much we’d learn from the project.“What emerged was our most ambitious undertaking to date, over two years in the making, resulting in two hours of new music.

Moses Sumney has released a new concert film, ‘BLACKALACHIA’ – you can watch it below.The film – which arrives to coincide with Sumney’s new live album ‘Live From Blackalachia’, which is set to be released tomorrow (December 10) – was directed by Sumney himself and shot in one-take.“In early 2020, my band and I gathered in my home in Western North Carolina, living and breathing together, re-arranging songs from my first 2 albums into a live odyssey,” Sumney explained in a statement.He continued: “As the year unfurled and the international tour was wiped off the cosmic schedule, I realised there should be some kind of record, a copper snapshot of those musical arrangements and the turmoil and beauty of that year.

Moses Sumney has released a new live film, called ‘Blackalachia’, which he directed, and which features performances of songs from his ‘Græ’ and ‘Aromanticism’ albums that were staged in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina.“Over the course of two days, we filmed fourteen songs, totally live, the trees as our audience, the grasshoppers our background singers”, says Sumney. “The film is a wild imagining of what can happen when we seek not just to reclaim nature, but to reintegrate with it”.The film was funded by WeTransfer’s WePresent platform.

Whenever Moses Sumney decides to film a live performance, it's always exciting to witness. He blessed 2020 with stunning concerts for NPR's Tiny Desk (Home) series, the Soul Train Awards, and Live From Planet Afropunk as well as, of course, his double album græ, No.

Moses Sumney has shared a new single, ‘In Bloom (In The Woods’) – listen to it below.The stripped-down track reimagines his ‘græ’ track, ‘In Bloom’ and is taken from ‘Live From Blackalachia’ – his upcoming new album and film.The forthcoming LP was recorded in Western North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, during the summer of 2020.

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Moses Sumney has revealed he has a new live album on the way, titled ‘Live From Blackalachia’, which will arrive with an accompanying film.The forthcoming LP was recorded in Western North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, during the summer of 2020. It will feature 14 songs from his previous records ‘græ’ and ‘Aromanticism’, which were released in 2020 and 2017, respectively.The accompanying film, Blackalachia, was directed by Sumney himself and shot in one-take.