Ahead of their new album Merciless arriving on November 22, Body Count has teamed up with Pink Floyd’s lead/rhythm guitarist, David Gilmour, to reimagine the 1979 classic “Comfortably Numb.” “For me, ‘Comfortably Numb’ is an introspective song—it’s me acknowledging that I’m older now,” Ice-T shares. “I’m telling the younger generation, you’ve got two choices: you can keep the fire burning or you can give up. It’s me trying to make sense of what’s happening but also pointing out that we’re all in a place where we don’t have to face reality. We’ve got flat-screen TVs and popcorn, and we can… Read more »
Today we talk about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation into the US Supreme Court, The Weeknd’s latest wild vinyl, and Pink Floyd’s first new song in 28 years.
Lonely the Brave tackle a classic Pink Floyd song in this week’s (Un)Covered.
The latest recruits to Equal Vision Records, Northern Faces recently released their debut EP Southern Places, a strong effort consisting of five self-produced tunes that spotlight the band’s indie rock roots while pulling elements from noise, experimental, and even blues rock.
Kanye West and his Caps Lock button were back in action on the rapper’s blog yesterday in a post about the role of celebrity photographers. Just days after pleading not guilty to charges of assaulting a TMZ photographer, West applauded the skills of one paparazzo and compared some of music’s biggest names with superstars of another era in an effort to prove a point. Kanye was inspired by a candid photo of Rihanna, the muse of his new 808s & Heartbreak video “Paranoid,” as she was stepping into a yellow cab in New York City. “ Yo why can’t all… Read more »
Although it doesn’t quite have the mega-selling juice of the Beatles’ 1 collection from last year, the new Pink Floyd retrospective Echoes is doing quite well for itself. The album will debut at Number Two in next week’s Billboard, with premiere-week sales of more than 214,000 copies, trailing Britney Spears but topping Michael Jackson. The album’s 26 songs run from the group’s recording debut in 1967 through its latest album, 1994’s The Division Bell, meaning it features material from the brief period Syd Barrett led the band as well as songs recorded after his departure in 1968, when bassist Roger… Read more »
“I never want to say we’re done completely, but we may be,” says Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. “With the length of time since we’ve done something together, it just doesn’t feel like something I’ve missed very much. I don’t want to be touring anymore. I’m fifty-five; it’s a young man’s game.” Gilmour’s revelation comes with the release of Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, a lavish and thoughtfully assembled double-CD retrospective tracing the band’s thirty-six-year career – from its apprenticeship in the mid-Sixties London club scene and its psychedelic explorations to its reincarnation as the high priests of Seventies… Read more »
Pink Floyd release their much anticipated retrospective album “Echoes – The Best Of Pink Floyd” in November, through Capitol Records in the U.S. and EMI in the rest of the world. Newly remastered and assembled by long time Pink Floyd producer and engineer James Guthrie, “Echoes – The Best Of Pink Floyd” is available as a 2-CD double pack, on vinyl and cassette. Featuring more than 2 hours and 20 minutes of the greatest Pink Floyd tracks ever recorded, and mixed together as one piece of continuous music, “Echoes – The Best Of Pink Floyd” represents the definitive Floyd collection… Read more »
Douglas Adams, the cult author who wrote “The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” has died suddenly at the age of 49. Adams died of a heart attack on Friday at his home in Santa Barbara, California, his personal assistant Sophie Astin said. “It was a very sudden and unexpected death,” Astin told Reuters. Adams’ science fiction saga, about a group of galactic travelers who survive the demolition of earth to build a space by-pass, began life as a 1978 BBC Radio series. It was turned into best-selling novels, a TV series, record album, computer game and adapted for stage.… Read more »
