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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic North America will be “Mad!” about the boys when Sparks embarks on a U.S. and Canada tour this summer, which the duo is announcing today on the heels of previously announced overseas dates for 2025. Also new to global Sparks fans today is a fresh single, “Drowning in a Sea of Tears,” the third song to come out as a teaser for the group’s “Mad!” album, due May 23.

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Morrissey calls Sparks “headless Palisades savages who threw their old friends into hot molten lava for sexy kicks”

Morrissey has hit out at Sparks calling them “headless Palisades savages who threw their old friends into hot molten lava for sexy kicks”.The former Smiths frontman had a dig at the duo in an Instagram post featuring a series of photos from the ’90s.One of the pictures features a note from Sparks talking about a bunch of demos they had worked on at the time.In the caption next to the post, Morrissey wrote: “A nice note from Ron and Russell Mael – before they turned into headless Palisades savages who threw their old friends into hot molten lava for sexy kicks.”A post shared by MORRISSEY (@morrisseyofficial)The former Smiths frontman and Sparks were close for many years with the former citing the latter as an influence, even writing to NME as a teenager in 1974 to praise their music.Despite them releasing a single in 2009 entitled ‘Lighten Up Morrissey‘, which appeared critical of the singer-songwriter, he was actually a fan of it according to Russell Mael.He previously told The Guardian: “We’ve had many meetings with Morrissey throughout the years, and surprisingly Morrissey really loved our song Lighten Up Morrissey, and so much so that he’s used the video we made in a montage before he goes on stage. He was happy enough about it so he’d want to show it to his fans.

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It looks like Sparks are teasing their return

Sparks have been fairly quiet since their 2023 album ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte‘, but it looks as though the art pop duo might be back with new music soon.The band, comprising brothers Ron and Russell Mael, posted a short video clip on X (Twitter) today (January 27) consisting solely of an angry cartoon face – also making the face their display photo.Their last post on X was a statement on the recent fires in California, on January 19, and their most recent post before that was one on New Year’s Eve, in which they said, “See you in 2025!”Back in October, meanwhile. Sparks announced that they’d signed to Transgressive Records for the release of their next album – coming sometime this year.They shared the news while collecting their award for Outstanding Contribution to Music at the Association of Independent Music (AIM) Awards.pic.twitter.com/4UPCvytN7v— S P A R K S (@sparksofficial) January 27, 2025Sparks have released 25 studio albums since their 1971 debut, as well as the 2015 album ‘FFS’ as part of a supergroup with Franz Ferdinand, and they’ve also worked on the soundtracks for romantic drama Annette and their documentary film The Sparks Brothers.In an interview with NME in 2021, discussing The Sparks Brothers alongside director Edgar Wright, Ron said, “Cinema has always been a part of us.

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Lewis Capaldi secures second week at the Official Albums Chart summit with Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent

Lewis Capaldi reigns atop the Official Albums Chart for a second week with Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent.

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Cate Blanchett Shows Off Her Dance Moves In Sparks ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte’ Music Video

Cate Blanchett isn’t afraid to bust a move.

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Sparks on Recruiting Cate Blanchett as the Dance-Happy Star of ‘The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte’: ‘We Were Extras in Our Own Video’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Cate Blanchett recently had her way with Mahler’s fifth on screen, but she really digs her dancing heels into Sparks’ 26th — a song from the duo’s 26th album, that is — with the brand new music video for the record’s title track, “The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte.” Blanchett seems to be caught up in her own dance symphony as, rocking a yellow suit and bright red headphones, she alternately hoofs and sulks her way through the spirited track, in which tears and overcaffeination make for a natural brew. Ron and Russell Mael told Variety how a chance meeting with Blanchett at a film festival led to shooting the video in Los Angeles just two weeks ago. (The currently Oscar-nominated “Tar” star corroborated details of their surprise collaboration in a separate interview.) The brothers also talked about the pleasures of bringing the “Latte” album to the public after drawing in new fans with the recent “Sparks Brothers” and “Annette” films, and what it means to finally be playing both the Hollywood Bowl and Royal Albert Hall this summer, 52 years after the start of their recording career.

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Sparks unveil new album title-track ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte’ and tease video starring Cate Blanchett

Sparks have shared the title track for their new album ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte’.The Los Angeles duo – comprising brothers Ron and Russell Mael – also announced that the song, which you can listen to below, will come with a video featuring actress Cate Blanchett at 5pm GMT tomorrow (March 3) here.They said via press release: “We met Cate Blanchett in Paris at the César Awards last year, little knowing that a year later, one of the great actors of our time (and a splendid person!) would graciously consent to lending her bootie-shaking skills to the first video from our new album, ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte’. Dreams really do come true.

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DEALSSparks have announced that they will release their 26th album ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte’ on 26 May. The release sees them return to Universal Music’s Island Records, the label that put out their 1974 breakthrough ‘Kimono My House’. “Here we find ourselves in 2023, almost 50 years later, re-signing with Island Records, again with an album that we all feel is as bold and uncompromising as anything we did back then, or for that matter, anytime throughout our career”, say Ron and Russell Mael.

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‘X Crucior’ Musical From Sparks Duo Ron & Russell Mael In Works At Focus Features

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features is getting back in business with musicians Ron and Russell Mael, after serving as the distributor for the 2021 Edgar Wright doc The Sparks Brothers, of which the duo were the subjects. The studio has today announced the launch of development on X Crucior, an original musical epic to be written and exec produced by the Maels.

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‘The Sparks Brothers’ Director Edgar Wright On His Descent Into The Mael-strom

Pop music brothers Ron and Russell Mael, who perform as Sparks, were ‘meta’ before it became a thing, and certainly before Mark Zuckerberg decided to call his company by that name.

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Sparks say their longevity is down to their “shared vision” that pop can “still be done in a fresh way”

Sparks have said one of the reasons behind their longevity is their “shared vision” that pop music can “still be done in a fresh way”.The duo, which is comprised of brothers Ron and Russell Mael, was formed in 1969 and have released 25 albums to date.Speaking to the Guardian, Russell explained their decades-long career was harmonious. “Our roles don’t overlap,” he said.

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Sparks Mania Continues as Mael Brothers Set Spring 2022 Tour

Chris Willman Music WriterFor years, Los Angelenos and others who subscribe to alerts from ticketing agents have had to deal with the false promise that the rock duo Sparks is coming to town, only to suffer the letdown, again and again, that it actually refers to an appearance by the WNBA team the Los Angeles Sparks.

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Marion Cotillard Says Adam Driver Made Movie Musical History in the Craziest Way with His 'Annette' Performance

Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver are stepping out in style for the 2021 Cannes Film Festival!

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Edgar Wright Picks His Five Favorite Sparks Albums, as the Mael Brothers Recall 50 Years of Bold Choices

Chris Willman Music WriterFilmmaker Edgar Wright turns to Ron and Russell Mael — inasmuch as anyone can turn to another in a Zoom call — and laughs about the task at hand: “I have to say, it’s very strange for me, but I kind of love it, rating your albums in front of you.”Mind you, Variety has not asked Wright to run through the entire discography of 25 Sparks studio albums from the last 50 years in order of preference, an exercise in which there would be no possible way to beat the clock. We only asked the director of the new documentary “The Sparks Brothers” to name his five favorite albums by the brother duo, with the Maels on hand via Zoom to offer their own recollections of the classic and fresh LPs under discussion.

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Sparks reveal that they’re working on new music in the studio

Sparks have revealed that they’re working on new music.In a post on social media, the brothers shared a picture from the studio with the caption “#newsparksalbum”.In an accompanying picture, Ron and Russell Mael can be seen inside the studio wearing masks whilst Russell can be seen holding up a sign that reads: “SHHH! SPARKS RECORDING!”You can see the post here:A post shared by S P A R K S (@sparks_official)Speaking to NME last year about their last album, ‘A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip’, Russell said: “The only battle plan was to try to do something that would sounds as compelling and urgent and provocative as anything we’ve ever done, even to someone who had never heard Sparks before.“We don’t want people saying, ‘Oh you should have heard the

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Edgar Wright unveils trailer for ‘The Sparks Brothers’ documentary

Edgar Wright‘s upcoming Sparks documentary The Sparks Brothers has been given a first proper look in a new two-minute-long clip.The film, which has just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, takes a look at the 50-year career of the Los Angeles-based group, formed by brothers Ron and Russell Mael.The clip was shared by Wright on his Twitter page, the Hot Fuzz director writing: “I’m so excited for those attending to see my three-years-in-the-making doc on legendary band @sparksofficial.

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‘The Sparks Brothers’ Review: Edgar Wright’s Irresistible Celebration of 50 Years of Art-Pop’s Brightest Sparks

Jessica Kiang How to introduce an entity as mercurial as Sparks, the band that forms the subject of Edgar Wright’s fantastic, fond, fizzy documentary portrait, to those who don’t know them? With over five decades and 25 albums’ worth of music, sibling frontmen Ron and Russell Mael have been virtually the only constant in a group whose lineup has changed with roughly the frequency of iPhone updates, and whose sound pinballs around the pop-musical map, from glam-rock to prog-rock to electro to disco to techno. So maybe, given their fondness for the French New Wave, we’ll just say: one sings, the other doesn’t.

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Introducing Sparks: The Inside Story Of Edgar Wright’s Doc On The Enigmatic Mael Brothers

Edgar Wright, the British director behind Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver, is a big fan of Sparks, the enigmatic pop band known for hits such as This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us and When Do I Get To Sing ‘My Way’.

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