Home Blog Page 565

Madi Diaz Announces Deluxe Edition of ‘Weird Faith’, Shares New Single ‘Worst Case Scenario’

Konstantinos Pappis
-
0
Madi Diaz Announces Deluxe Edition of ‘Weird Faith’, Shares New Single ‘Worst Case Scenario’

Madi Diaz has announced the deluxe edition of her latest album, Weird Faith, which came out in February. It’s out October 25th via ANTI-, and it features the newly unveiled ‘Worst Case Scenario’, as well as a new version of ‘For Months Now’ with Lizzy McAlpine and the previously shared Lennon Stella collab ‘One Less Question’. Check out ‘Worst Case Scenario’ below.

“Sometimes when I’m afraid, I test out a theory I’ve made up in the last few years: Life has never completely gone the way I imagined it would go (for better or worse),” Diaz said of the new song in a press release. “From time to time, I find myself daydreaming up scenes and playing them out in my mind, thinking if can get ahead of it all by thinking of the worst and how I’d survive it, then maybe it won’t actually happen. This song was my prevention plan against what I imagined would be the worst possibilities playing out.”

“This deluxe edition is an ode to the era of Weird Faith. Some of the demos capture the magic of the moment they were written that will never happen quite the same way ever again. It feels so important to honor those moments,” Diaz explained. “There’s a rawness to the energy the second a song is finished and sung. I try to touch that feeling every time I perform — the feeling that there is still something new here, a lesson or an unlocking. I hope these demos show what these songs unlocked for me, and maybe they might unlock something in you too.”

Weird Faith (Digital Deluxe) Cover Artwork:

Weird Faith (Digital Deluxe) Tracklist:

1. Same Risk
2. Everything Almost
3. Girlfriend
4. Hurting You
5. Get To Know Me
6. Kiss The Wall
7. God Person
8. Don’t Do Me Good (feat. Kacey Musgraves)
9. For Months Now
10. KFM
11. Weird Faith
12. Obsessive Thoughts
13. Worst Case Scenario
14. For Months Now (III) (feat. Lizzy McAlpine)
15. One Less Question (feat. Lennon Stella)
16.  Human Condition (demo)
17. Don’t Do Me Good (demo)
18. Get To Know Me (demo)
19. Same Risk (demo)
20. Weird Faith (demo)

Mdou Moctar Announce New Album ‘Tears of Injustice’, Share New Single

Konstantinos Pappis
-
0
Mdou Moctar Announce New Album ‘Tears of Injustice’, Share New Single

Mdou Moctar have announced Tears of Injustice, a new version of their latest LP Funeral for Justice completely re-recorded and rearranged for acoustic and traditional instruments. It’s out February 28, and the first single, ‘Imajighen (Injustice Version)’, is out now. Check it out below.

“We wanted to make a separate version of Funeral for people to hear,” the band’s US-based bassist and producer, Mikey Coltun, explained in a statement. “We’re always playing around with arrangements at shows. We wanted to prove that we could do it on a record, too. And there’s a whole other side of the band that comes out when we play a stripped down set. It becomes something new.”

“When Mdou writes the lyrics, he typically writes them with an acoustic guitar. So you’re getting closer to that original moment,” Coltun added. “It retains heaviness, but it’s haunting.”

Tears of Injustice Cover Artwork:

Tears of Injustice Tracklist:

1. Funeral for Justice (Injustice Version)
2. Imouhar (Injustice Version)
3. Takoba (Injustice Version)
4. Sousoume Tamacheq (Injustice Version)
5. Imajighen (Injustice Version)
6. Tchinta (Injustice Version)
7. Oh France (Injustice Version)
8. Modern Slaves (Injustice Version)

Faye Webster Shares Video for New Single ‘After the First Kiss’

Konstantinos Pappis
-
0
Faye Webster Shares Video for New Single ‘After the First Kiss’

Faye Webster has shared a new song, ‘After the Kiss’, alongside an accompanying video. Check out the clip, directed by Kyle Ng of Brain Dead Studios, below.

Webster’s latest album, Underdressed at the Symphony, came out earlier this month.

Ela Minus Announces New Album ‘DIA’, Shares New Single ‘BROKEN’

Konstantinos Pappis
-
0
Ela Minus Announces New Album ‘DIA’, Shares New Single ‘BROKEN’

Ela Minus has announced a new album, DIA, which will be released on January 17 via Domino. It follows the Colombian artist’s 2020 debut, acts of rebellion, as well as her collaborative ♡ EP with DJ Python. Today, she’s shared the single ‘BROKEN’, alongside a video co-directed with Losmose. Check it out below.

‘BROKEN’ follows the previously released single ‘COMBAT’. “I started writing this thinking I was perfectly fine and finished writing knowing I was not,” Minus explained.

Revisit our 2022 interview with Ela Minus and DJ Python.

DIA Cover Artwork:

DIA Tracklist:

1. ABRIR MONTE
2. BROKEN
3. IDOLS
4. IDK
5. QQQQ
6. I WANT TO BE BETTER
7. ONWARDS
8. AND
9. UPWARDS
10. COMBAT

The Weather Station Announces New Album ‘Humanhood’, Shares New Single ‘Neon Signs’

Konstantinos Pappis
-
0
The Weather Station Announces New Album ‘Humanhood’, Shares New Single ‘Neon Signs’

The Weather Station has a new album on the way: Humanhood is out January 17 via Fat Possum. It follows 2021’s Ignorance and its 2022 companion, How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Neon Signs’, which is accompanied by a video co-directed by bandleader Tamara Lindeman and Jared Raab. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.

Discussing ‘Neon Signs’, Lindeman said in a statement: “The song came with multiple strands entwined; the way that something that is not true seems to have more energetic intensity than something that is, the confusion of being bombarded with advertising at a moment of climate emergency, the confusion of relationships where coercion is wrapped in the language of love. Ultimately though, isn’t it all the same feeling?”

The new album was recorded over two sessions in the fall of 2023 at Canterbury Music Company with drummer Kieran Adams, keyboardist Ben Boye, percussionist Philippe Melanson, improviser Karen Ng, and bassist Ben Whiteley. Lindeman co-produced it with Marcus Paquin, and it features contributions from Sam Amidon, James Elkington, and Joseph Shabason.

Earlier this year, the Weather Station contributed to the soundtrack for Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow.

Humanhood Cover Artwork:

Humanhood Tracklist:

1. Descent
2. Neon Signs
3. Mirror
4. Window
5. Passage
6. Body Moves
7. Ribbon
8. Fleuve
9. Humanhood
10. Irreversible Damage
11. Lonely
12. Aurora
13. Sewing

The Weather Station 2024 Tour Dates:

Wed Feb 26 – Hamburg, DE – Nochtspeicher
Thu Feb 27 – Copenhagen, DK – DR Studie 2
Fri Feb 28 – Berlin, DE – Silent Green
Sun Mar 2 – Amsterdam, NL – Tolhuistuin
Mon Mar 3 – Brussels, BE – Botanique / Museum
Tue Mar 4 – Paris, FR – Point Ephemere
Thu Mar 6 – Brighton, UK – CHALK
Fri Mar 7 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
Sat Mar 8 – Dublin, IE – Button Factory
Mon Mar 10 – Glasgow, UK – Saint Luke’s
Tue. Mar. 11 – Manchester, UK – Band On The Wall
Wed Mar 12 – Bristol, UK – The Fleece
Thu Mar 13 – London, UK – Islington Assembly Hall

Grumpy Unveils Video for New Song ‘Flower’

Konstantinos Pappis
-
0
Grumpy Unveils Video for New Song ‘Flower’

Grumpy, the NYC-based project of Heaven Schmit, has shared a new song called ‘Flower’. It’s taken from their upcoming EP Wolfed, which was led by the single ‘Saltlick’, and arrives with a music video co-starring May Rio. Check it out below.

“Relationships arent’ forever, but love can be,” Schmit said of the new song in a statement. “Flower is about how, for me, at this stage of my life, love isn’t about building a permanent commitment to someone, it’s about nurturing a bond so that it may last a lifetime. In Flower, I accept the end of a relationship with a peacefulness and gratitude that it happened at all. When I love someone, I know that love is bound to change shape, rather than dissolve, post romance.”

Wolfed comes out October 25 on Bayonet.

Kassie Krut Sign to Fire Talk, Share New Song ‘Reckless’

Konstantinos Pappis
-
0
Kassie Krut Sign to Fire Talk, Share New Song ‘Reckless’

Kassie Krut – the new project featuring Kasra Kurt and Eve Alpert (of the defunct Philly experimental outfit Palm) and Matt Anderegg (Mothers, Body Meat) – have signed to Fire Talk. To mark the news, they’ve shared a new single called ‘Reckless’, which is accompanied by a Guy Kozak-directed video filmed at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Check it out below.

“‘Reckless’ is an exercise in restraint,” the band explained in a press release. “We challenged ourselves to write a song with one bass note, one drum beat and just a couple simple chords. Sometimes we experience self-doubt so it was fun to create a tougher version of ourselves – someone who’s fast and mean – as well as playing w the misconception that Kassie is an individual and not a band. Also our project name is a little strange so we took the opportunity to spell it out for the listener.”

“The idea of a museum visit came early on, as did the idea of the name spelled out with hands and signage,” Kozak added. “I like that the track works as a sort of introduction to the band, and I wanted the video to work in a similar way. I love this song!”

Lauren Mayberry Releases New Song ‘Something in the Air’

Konstantinos Pappis
-
0
Lauren Mayberry Releases New Song ‘Something in the Air’

CHVRCHES vocalist Lauren Mayberry has released a new song called ‘Something in the Air’. It’s set to appear on her forthcoming debut album Vicious Creature, which will be out “later this year,” according to a press release. It follows previous singles ‘Change Shapes’, ‘Shame’, and ‘Are You Awake?’. Check it out below.

“‘Something in the Air’ is a song that really came out of nowhere,” Mayberry explained in a statement. “I was in London finishing another song with my friend, co-writer and producer Dan McDougall. We were taking a break in the shared kitchen in the studio complex when a pretty iconic British musician, who I won’t throw under the bus here, came in and started making conversation about electricity, 5G and how it’s making us all sick. Dan and I went for a walk around the block before going back to the studio and were unpacking those theories, and why people want to believe them – and the chorus lyric just appeared.”

The Comprehensive History of Indian Football at the Olympics

Our Culture Mag & Partners
-
0
The Comprehensive History of Indian Football at the Olympics

The history of the Indian football team’s presence on the international stage, marked by its pinnacle moments and significant downturns, shares a significant link with the Olympic Games. Remarkably, the first international football match played by independent India took place at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Hence, any comprehensive discussion regarding the evolution of the Indian national football team necessitates mentioning their participation in the Olympics. Between 1948 and 1960, India consistently qualified for the Olympics, marking as the golden era of Indian football. Alongside their Olympic achievements, this era also saw India establish itself as a formidable force in Asian football, securing gold medals at the Asian Games in 1951 and 1962.

Indian Football Team at the 1948 London Olympics

The Olympics, a global sports spectacle, draws millions of viewers and athletes worldwide, celebrating unity and athleticism. In contrast in the year 2023, casino games have also gained immense popularity, offering convenience and entertainment, driven by technology and accessible from anywhere.

Marking its Olympic debut, the Indian football team participated in the 1948 London Olympics, a momentous occasion as it came just a year after India gained independence from British rule. Competing in the Summer Games in the former colonizer’s capital added a layer of significance to the event.

Beyond the prevailing political and societal contexts, the tournament’s first-round match against European powerhouses France held additional importance as it was India’s inaugural international match as an independent nation.

On July 31, 1948, under the leadership of the dynamic Talimeren Ao and coached by Balaidas Chatterjee, the Indian football team, representing the tricolour for the first time, stepped onto the field at East London’s Cricklefield Stadium, greeted by a crowd of 17,000 spectators.

Indian Football Team at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics

Four years subsequent to their debut, India faced a challenging match at the Helsinki Games. The encounter was memorable but for unfavourable reasons. India experienced a significant 10-1 defeat against Yugoslavia, the eventual silver medallists, marking the heaviest loss in India’s international football history. Despite this, it’s worth noting that the Yugoslavian team boasted several World Cup players, including Bernard ‘Bajdo’ Vukas, one of the greatest Croatian footballers and athletes of the 20th century. Vukas, along with other notable players, significantly contributed to India’s overwhelming defeat, with Ahmed Khan scoring India’s sole goal.

Indian Football Team at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics

During the Melbourne 1956 Olympics, India, led by Coach Syed Abdul Rahim and Captain Samar Banerjee, created a historic milestone. Initially scheduled to face the formidable Hungary, India advanced due to Hungary’s withdrawal in response to the Hungarian Revolution. In the quarter-finals against host nation Australia, India secured a 4-2 victory, with Neville D’Souza achieving the first-ever Olympic hat-trick by an Asian player and Krishna Kittu adding the fourth goal.

Indian Football Team at the 1960 Rome Olympics

The Rome 1960 Summer Games marked India’s last Olympic football appearance. Drawn in a challenging Group D with Hungary, France, and Peru, India faced tough competition. Despite a valiant effort led by the iconic trio of PK Banerjee, Tulsidas Balaram, and Chuni Goswami, India suffered a narrow 2-1 defeat against Hungary, which featured several future stars. India demonstrated resilience, pushing Hungary harder than any other team in the Group stage. In the subsequent match, India achieved a commendable 1-1 draw against France, showcasing their growing prowess on the international stage.

Two years prior, the French team had secured third place at the World Cup. In the concluding group match, India faced defeat against Peru with a score of 3-1, hindering their advancement to the knockout stages. Tulsidas Balaram netted the only goal for India in this match. This encounter marked the end of the Indian football team’s participation in the Olympics.

Tiles As Flowing Memories Shore by Minglin He

Abbie Wilson
-
0
Tiles As Flowing Memories Shore by Minglin He

As an artist, Minglin He has made remarkable achievements through her delicate and sensitive perceptions, cross-cultural perspectives, and in-depth explorations of memory and desire. Her series of artworks ‘Tiles As Flowing Memories Shore’ has been widely featured in art exhibitions worldwide in the past two years. Minglin’s works not only demonstrate the profound aesthetic enjoyment of art but also show that art can be like a blanket that warms and soothes the human soul and touches people’s deepest emotions and memories.

For the artist Minglin, the tiles found in old houses are the most striking visual graphics in the domestic space. The various tiles enable each domestic space to evoke a distinct sensibility, each imbued with unique memories. Aristotle discusses the properties of memory, arguing that ‘Memory is neither perception nor judgment, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by the lapse of time.’ This triggers a series of associations between space, memory, objects, and emotions for Minglin, and allows her to continue to explore connections and boundaries.

The famous French philosopher Henri Bergson elaborates in his book Matter and Memory that ‘Memory is the resistance of people to the logic of time and space. The subtle cracks between the past and the present constitute memories. Therefore, memory is a double movement.’ The appearance of a concrete object implies the emergence of a node of association between memory and emotion. The narrative nature of the object itself gives it a grandiose world of infinite depth, and it usually can trigger and pull memory. Memory, in turn, is the equivalent of the visual dimension, which underpins a particular emotion and feeling we have towards the object. In Minglin’s series of paintings Tiles As Flowing Memories Shore, she uses tiles as nodes to explore the cracks of memory and dismantles tiles from the objective world. She reorganizes them freely in the subjective world, to explore the possibilities of objects beyond the established reality.

In this series of paintings, Minglin uses visual and installation art to simulate and recreate memory. Following the guidance of Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, she reassembles the ‘fragments’ of tiles, memories, and emotions in space and time, exploring their boundaries and providing a visual interpretation. The symbols of Mnemosyne like the fountain, the spring, and the Throne of Mnemosyne become indispensable elements in this series of paintings. The poems of Mnemosyne like ‘On the right side of the dwelling of Hades, you will see a spring, where a white swan stands not far away: do not go near this spring but beside it, and you will see another spring, where the clear water flows from the marshes of Mnemosyne: the gardeners watch over it.’ has also become an integral part of her paintings.

Artist Minglin He not only creates a series of paintings in this work but also interactive art installations to better trigger the audience’s empathy. This art installation allows audiences to explore and engage with the intricate relationships between memory, objects, and individuals in a more profound manner. ‘Tiles As Flowing Memories Shore’ breaks through the conventional symbolism and transcends traditional painting, touching on the ambiguous zone between the visible and the invisible, the spoken and the unspoken. This multi-layered art experience makes the viewer not only an audience but also a participant in the process of intertwining memory and reality.

1...564565566...1,990Page 565 of 1,990