Nick Cave and Warren Ellis will score the upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, which received its first trailer last month. The studios behind the film, which stars Marisa Abela in the titular role, revealed the news today along with a photo of the musicians in the studio with director Sam Taylor-Johnson.
“Nick and Warren were the only musicians in my mind to score Back To Black,” Taylor-Johnson said in a statement. “Over the years I’ve listened to everything they’ve composed and longed to realize the dream of working together. Their sensibility as well as understanding of this story has led to a profoundly deep and moving film score.”
Last year, Cave and Ellis provided the soundtrack for the Netflix show Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and the Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde.
Sia has shared a new song, ‘Dance Alone’, featuring Kylie Minogue. It’s taken from Reasonable Woman, her first solo studio LP since 2016’s This Is Acting, which comes out May 3 via Atlantic. It also includes collaborations with Chaka Khan, Paris Hilton, Tierra Whack, Labrinth, Kaliii, and Jimmy Jolliff, as well writing and production credits from Rosalía, Jesse Shatkin, Greg Kurstin, Benny Blanco, Jim-E Stack, Bülow, and more. Listen to ‘Dance Alone’ below.
Reasonable Woman Cover Artwork:
Reasonable Woman Tracklist:
1. Little Wing
2. Immortal Queen [feat. Chaka Khan]
3. Dance Alone (Sia & Kylie Minogue)
4. I Had a Heart
5. Gimme Love
6. Nowhere to Be
7. Towards the Sun
8. Incredible [feat. Labrinth]
9. Champion [feat. Tierra Whack, Kaliii and Jimmy Jolliff]
10. I Forgive You
11. Wanna Be Known
12. One Night
13. Fame Won’t Love You [feat. Paris Hilton]
14. Go On
15. Rock and Balloon
The art of wearing a watch is simple; the most challenging part is owning the timepiece you’re eager to wear. However, today, a dilemma has occurred for people wearing traditional timepieces alongside smartwatches such as a Fitbit or an Apple Watch. Now, you’ll want to stay stylish and keep up-to-date on your health and fitness — completely understandable.
So, how do you wear two watches at the same time? Here is our guide.
No extra jewellery on your wrists
Wearing a second watch acts essentially as a bracelet. So, we wouldn’t recommend putting on extra bracelets on your wrist. Keep it tidy and also comfy. Watches can be complicated to wear in particular weather or work conditions as is, so don’t overdo it.
If you do feel the need for more accessories, wear a stylish ring or a necklace.
Keep it eye-pleasing
While two watches can feel baller, ensure they look appealing to the eye. Feel free to match straps or even have a contrast between the two wrists. There is nothing worse than a clashing outfit. Worst comes to worst, leave one of the watches at home. Hopefully, it will be the smart one.
Make sure they wear comfy
If you’re wearing two watches, things like office work, driving, and arduous labour duties can be more challenging or less comfy than usual. To avoid daily hassle, you can do these things.
Change the watches into calf leather or a NATO strap.
Take them off during work
Wear a single watch
Be aware of scratching
While scratching can occur with a single watch, the odds increase with two watches on two wrists. Wearing a watch is a fun and empowering exercise, yet scratching your watch or the material it touches, such as your work laptop, oak table, or living room furniture, can be daunting.
Constantly adjust your movements if you feel it can cause any damage to your watch or the surface it touches.
TIP: Don’t wear your watch near a laptop; it can magnetize it even though it may be unlikely, and it will most certainly scratch it if you lean your wrists against it.
Woman using smartwatch
Don’t wear both on the same hand
Wearing two watches is seen as silly by some, but even worse when they are worn on the same hand. Firstly, it won’t be comfy, and secondly, it will make you look silly when you reach to see both watches. It will never look stylish, and someone will make a comment; it’s like wearing sunglasses inside. If you’re not Anna Wintour, don’t do it.
Final Thoughts
As mentioned above, wearing two watches can be challenging, so take precautions. Don’t be afraid to change your metal bracelets to calf leather, rubber, or nato straps. These small changes will make a world of difference look-wise but, most importantly, for your comfort. Many watch brands offer excellent options when selecting a style, so don’t be shy and explore your taste in watches.
British watch brand Mr Jones Watches, known for their fun and quirky timepieces, are back with an updated version of their Berry Late design titled Blueberry Late! Designed by London-based artist Ana Dias, the new timepiece marks their first entry in 2024.
While a take on its predecessor, the latest design swaps the pink dial of its original design for a new pastel blue skyline. It also features transparent clouds and blueberries displaying the time. The watch face also includes colourful bubble letters that spell out a hidden message every hour when the two blueberries are opposite each other: “Fuck it! Time is just a social construct.”
Regarding functionality, the trio of blueberries mark the hours and the single berry points to the minutes. When they move away from each other, the letters jumble, forming the appearance of a colourful alphabet soup.
Blueberry Late! is available exclusively from Mr Jones Watches to buy online or from its London store on Neal Street.
Portishead’s Beth Gibbons has announced her long-awaited debut solo album: Lives Outgrown is set for release on May 17 via Domino. Co-produced by Gibbons and James Ford, with additional production from Talk Talk’s Lee Harris, the record features 10 tracks that were recorded over a period of 10 years. Check out Tony Oursler’s video for the new single ‘Floating on a Moment’ below, and scroll down for the album cover, tracklist, and Gibbons’ upcoming tour dates.
The songs on Lives Outgrow touch on themes of anxiety, motherhood, and mortality. “I realized what life was like with no hope,” Gibbons reflected in a statement. “And that was a sadness I’d never felt. Before, I had the ability to change my future, but when you’re up against your body, you can’t make it do something it doesn’t want to do.”
The album also came out of a period “lots of goodbyes,” Gibbons said. “People started dying. When you’re young, you never know the endings, you don’t know how it’s going to pan out. You think: we’re going to get beyond this. It’s going to get better. Some endings are hard to digest…. Now I’ve come out of the other end, I just think, you’ve got to be brave.”
Speaking about the visual for ‘Floating on a Moment’, Oursler commented: “When I first heard ‘Floating On A Moment’ it literally transported me from place to place, filling me with kaleidoscopic emotions and visions. If possible, I wanted to capture that psychic liquid in this video. Beth’s work is so powerful it can lead us through life’s forests and fires, revealing glimpses of possible futures. With a voice and music like that I knew we had to make images which are open, somehow speculative.”
Lives Outgrown Cover Artwork:
Lives Outgrown Tracklist:
1. Tell Me Who You Are Today
2. Floating On A Moment
3. Burden Of Life
4. Lost Changes
5. Rewind
6. Reaching Out
7. Oceans
8. For Sale
9. Beyond The Sun
10. Whispering Love
Beth Gibbons 2024 Tour Dates:
May 27 – Paris, FR – La Salle Pleyel
May 28 – Zürich, CH – Theater 11
May 30 – Barcelona, ES – Primavera Sound Festival
May 31 – Lyon, FR – La Bourse Du Travail
Jun 2 – Berlin, DE – Verti Music Hall
Jun 3 – Copenhagen, DK – Falkonersalen
Jun 5 – Utrecht, NL – Tivoli Vredenburg
Jun 6 – Brussels, BE – Cirque Royal
Jun 9 – London, UK – The Barbican Centre
Jun 10 – Manchester, UK – Albert Hall
Jun 11 – Edinburgh, UK – Usher Hall
The Lemon Twigs have formally announced their new album A Dream Is All We Know, which arrives May 3 on Captured Tracks. The band revealed the album title and cover during a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where they performed its first single, ‘My Golden Years’. Check out an Amber Navarro-directed video for the duo’s new song, ‘They Don’t Know How to Fall in Place’, below.
1. My Golden Years
2. They Don’t Know How To Fall In Place
3. Church Bells
4. A Dream Is All I Know
5. Sweet Vibration
6. In The Eyes Of The Girl
7. If You And I Are Not Wise
8. How Can I Love Her More
9. Ember Days
10. Peppermint Roses
11. I Should’ve Known Right From The Start
12. Rock On (Over and Over)
Iron & Wine has announced his seventh album, Light Verse, which will arrive on April 26 via Sub Pop. Lead single ‘You Never Know’ is out today. Check it out and find the album cover, tracklist, and Iron & Wine’s upcoming tour dates below.
Light Verse marks singer-songwriter Sam Beam’s first Iron & Wine LP in over seven years, following 2017’s Beast Epic and 2018’s Weed Garden EP. Beam produced the record, which was mixed and engineered by Dave Way at Waystation and Silent Zoo Studios in Los Angeles. It includes a duet with Fiona Apple called ‘All In Good Time’, as well as contributions from Tyler Chester (keyboards), Sebastian Steinberg (bass), David Garza (guitar), Griffin Goldsmith, Beth Goodfellow, Kyle Crane (drums/percussion), Paul Cartwright (strings), and a 24-piece orchestra.
Light Verse Cover Artwork:
Light Verse Tracklist:
1. You Never Know
2. Anyone’s Game
3. All in Good Time [feat. Fiona Apple]
4. Cutting It Close
5. Taken by Surprise
6. Yellow Jacket
7. Sweet Talk
8. Tears that Don’t Matter
9. Bag of Cats
10. Angels Go Home
Iron & Wine 2024 Tour Dates:
Fri Jun 14 – Milwaukee, WI – The Pabst Theater
Sat Jun 15 – St Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
Mon Jun 17 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom
Tue Jun 18 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Union
Thu Jun 20 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre
Fri Jun 21 – Portland, OR – McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
Sat Jun 22 – Portland, OR – McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
Sun Jun 23 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
Tue Jun 25 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
Thur Jun 27 – Monterey, CA – Golden State Theatre
Fri. Jun. 28 – Los Angeles, CA – The Bellweather
Sat Jun 29 – Los Angeles, CA – The Bellweather
Sun Jun 30 – El Cajon, CA – The Magnolia
Tue Jul 2 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
Wed Jul 3 – Taos, NM – Kit Carson Park * (support for Avett Brothers)
Fri Jul 5 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
Sat Jul 6 – St Louis, MO – The Pageant
Mon Jul 8 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed
Wed Jul 31 – New Orleans, LA – Orpheum Theater
Thu Aug 1 – Houston, TX- White Oak Music Hall
Fri Aug 2 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theater
Sat Aug 3 – Dallas, TX – Majestic Theatre
Mon Aug 5 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
Tue Aug 6 – Wilmington, NC – Wilson Center at CFCC
Wed Aug 7 – Raleigh, NC – Meymandi Concert Hall
Fri Aug 9 – Washington, DC – The Anthem
Sat Aug 10 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore Philadelphia
Sun Aug 11 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner
Tue Aug 13 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall
Wed Aug 14 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
Fri Aug 16 – Montreal, QC – MTELUS
Sat Aug 17 – Toronto, ON – The Danforth Music Hall
Sun Aug 18 – Detroit, MI – Masonic Cathedral Theatre
Tue Aug 20 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Theatre
Thu Aug 22 – Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
Fri Aug 23 – Louisville, KY – Old Forester’s Paristown Hall
Sat Aug 24 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
Les Savy Fav are back with their first new music in 14 years. The band’s new song is called ‘Legendary Tippers’, and it comes with an accompanying music video directed by Matthew Conboy. Check it out below.
“The guitars have this offhanded virtuoso thing going,” singer Tim Harrington said in a statement. “Seth had stacked all of these semi-improvised scratch tracks into a demo. When I got them, I was immediately drawn to the manic pile-up of using them all, all at once, with zero edits. It’s like if the solo from ‘Taxman’ wolfed down a bottle of Adderall.”
Les Savy Fav’s last album was 2010’s Root for Ruin. “When we finished our last record, there was a sense that if we were going to do more, we wanted to do something more ambitious,” Harrington said. “I think it took us a while to even get in a space where that was possible.”
“The band was never a job, so we can’t get fired and don’t have to quit,” he added. “We had the time to figure out how to bring the people we’ve become and the people we are as artists together authentically. There’s a chaotic, untethered ecstasy at the center of the band’s universe. Squaring that with the desire to create stability and the need to endure some grind isn’t easy.”
Les Savy Fav teased their comeback last year with a series of live shows. They have a run of dates in the UK and Ireland scheduled for February and May and were recently announced for Barcelona’s Primavera Sound.
Les Savy Fav 2024 Tour Dates:
Feb 23 – Camden, UK – Electric Ballroom
Feb 24 – Bristol, UK – Simple Things Festival
May 24 – Dublin, IRE – Whelans
May 25 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
May 28 – Barcelona, ESP – Primavera Festival
The Knife’s Olof Freijer has announced a new solo EP called Coral. The three-track collection is out March 6 via AD93, and it was inspired by the steel-drum experiments featured in his 2023 record with Mt. Sims, Souvenir.
Last year, Dreijer released his debut solo EP, Rosa Rugosa. He also co-produced several tracks on Fever Ray’s latest LP Radical Romantics.
Caroline Polachek has teamed up with Weyes Blood for a new version of her Desire, I Want to Turn Into You track ‘Butterfly Net’. The two artists performed the song live together several times last year, including at Glastonbury and Fuji Rock. Listen to the remix below.
In October, Polachek shared the new song ‘Dang’, which she also performed on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Along with the new rendition of ‘Butterfly Net’, Desire, it’s set to appear on the just-announced deluxe version of the record, I Want to Turn Into You: Everasking Edition.
