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Perth Now
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Zach Bryan and Kings of Leon drop powerful new song Bowery
Zach Bryan and Kings of Leon have shared the collaboration Bowery. The 29-year-old country music star admitted it was the "honour of my life" to join forces with the indie band on the breathtaking track, showcasing the raw intensity and emotional range of Bryan and Caleb Followill's vocals. Announcing the tune, Bryan wrote on Instagram: 'Honor of my life.' Kings of Leon said in their own post: 'Did a song with our friend. Had fun doing it. Couldn't be more proud.' Whether this is a standalone single is not clear, but Bryan teased that a new EP entitled Heaven On Top in coming on January 9, 2026. In January, Bryan got Matthew McConaughey to announce his "final major label album" and an accompanying film titled Motorbreath. The superstar has one last album to release under his contract with Warner Music – which has released his music via his Belting Bronco imprint since 2022 – and he recruited the Hollywood star to record a voice note in his soothing Southern accent to tease the upcoming projects. Dallas Buyers Club star Matthew, 55, said in a clip posted to Bryan's Instagram: "This is not a film about a band. 'This is a film about a boy from Oklahoma, a boy who joined the Navy with a love of writing. That writing connected with people — a lot of people. This film is about a group of best friends taking a two-week motorcycle ride across America while recording one final major label album. Oh, and the title of the film, you ask? Motorbreath.' Bryan also posted a preview of a track that appears to be called Birdie. His last studio album was 2024's The Great American Bar Scene. Meanwhile, Bryan recently upset fans of the Kansas City Chiefs. He claimed he will "never" play Kansas City again after getting locked in a war of words with their supporters. Bryan supports rival American football team the Philadelphia Eagles, and after irking the other side on X/Twitter, he declared he will never perform in the Missouri city. Poking fun at the Chiefs for failing to secure three consecutive Super Bowl wins after losing to the Eagles this year , he taunted their supporters: 'Where are all the three peat people from last year :/ (sic)" When one user called Bryan out for singling out a fan base, he responded: "Please understand I will never play in Kansas City." He followed up with the declaration: 'I'll be about to finish my show and then get a taunting call if I play at that stadium.' Bryan then suggested he was just having some harmless banter: "guys it's okay to talk trash to each other about football yall are weird as hell (sic)"
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Hear Zach Bryan Team Up With Kings of Leon for New Song ‘Bowery'
Zach Bryan teams up with Kings of Leon, the opening act at his recent shows, for the new song 'Bowery.' The singer paired the track with a video of Bryan and the Followill clan recording 'Bowery' in the studio. Bryan sings on the opening verse and first chorus, with Caleb Followill contributing the second verse and chours before the two singers come together to close it out. More from Rolling Stone Zach Bryan and Brianna Chickenfry's Messy Breakup Timeline Zach Bryan Recruits Bruce Springsteen to Perform 'Atlantic City' at New Jersey Concert Zach Bryan Sings a Melancholic Duet With Gabriella Rose on 'Madeline' 'You picked the wrong one / If you're in it for the long run / 'Cause I got the passion / But I don't give it away,' they sing on the chorus to a girl sitting in a Bowery bar. 'Honor of my life,' Bryan previously said of the collaboration with the 'Sex on Fire' rockers when he revealed the song earlier this week on social media. Bryan and Kings of Leon recently linked up onstage to accompany Bruce Springsteen on a rendition of 'Atlantic City' during Bryan's concert at East Rutherford, New Jersey's MetLife Stadium. The singer and the band have one more gig lined up together — Aug. 15 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park — before they part ways, with Bryan performing some Midwest stadium gigs next month while Kings of Leon head off to Europe before returning stateside for the Ohana and Pilgrimage festivals. The always-prolific Bryan has been especially productive in recent weeks, dropping new songs like 'Streets of London,' 'Song for You,' 'River Washed Hair,' and 'Madeline' with Gabriella Rose over the past month alone. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
UPI
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- UPI
Zach Bryan, Kings of Leon team up on 'Bowery'
Zach Bryan shows off his New Male Artist of the Year Award at the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2023. He teamed up with Kings of Leon for a new song out Friday. File Photo by Ian Halperin/UPI | License Photo Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Zach Bryan has teamed up with Kings of Leon on a new song. He released "Bowery" Friday and a music video that shows the musicians in an apparent recording session. The music video is shown in black-and-white as the group sings about a potential one-night stand. "You picked the wrong one, if you're in it for the long run. And I got the passion, but I don't give it away," they sing. "But when the time's right, I'm a hell of a good night. I'll make you burn bright as the heat of the day." In an Instagram post promoting the song, Bryan called the collaboration the "honor of my life." He released his self-titled album in 2023.
Forbes
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Uptown French Food, Downtown Decor: Maison Nur Opens In New York
The florid, exuberant design of Maison Nur. @2025 Liz Clayman It's an edgy location: on the Bowery, surrounded by funky galleries, the speakeasies and cool kid cafés of the new version of the street and the holdover kitchen supply stores of the old days. But once you enter the week old Maison Nur, you're very much in its own unique world: an everything everywhere all at once design, florid and fanciful, infused with music, serving refined but boundary-pushing uptown French food tweaked with American touches. As indicated by the fact that he's put his name on it, it's the world of hospitality impresario Nur Khan, the culmination of what he's been aiming for in his 30 year career. Nur Khan (right) and Richard Farnabe. @2025 Liz Clayman Nur is well known for his in-demand, exclusive bars including two that he recently opened in this neighborhood: No. 79 Bar & Terrace and Bar Tetto Rooftop. Others in his CV that were incredibly hard to get into unless you were A list: Wax; Rose Bar in the Gramercy Hotel; Butterfly Soho; Sway; Hiro Ballroom; Kenmare; Electric Room at the Dream Downtown and TAO Downtown Lounge. Tuna Tarte with wasabi cream, shiso and ponzu. Liz Clayman To go to the next stage and open a restaurant, he approached a chef he'd long admired: Frenchman Richard Farnabe, a veteran of top kitchens in France followed by Jean-Georges, Mercer Kitchen, Daniel, Petrossian Restaurant and Picholine in New York. But as much as Farnabe was schooled in classic French technique, what Nur wanted was to let him loose to devise dishes that incorporated touches not seen anywhere else. Parmesan Wrapped Spaghetti with Reggiano Sauce. Liz Clayman Clearly, he's responded. Ingredients may be similar to ones other top restaurants are using such as sushi grade tuna, Colorado lamb, Baby Gem Lettuce, Dover Sole but the dishes that appear are a surprise—in a good way. It might sound odd to have spicy peanut butter included in a Baby Gem Salad but it blends in without calling attention to itself and gives the overall salad an extra hit of richness. The Tuna Tarte arrives as an impression of a pizza with a circle of top grade tuna sprinkled with wasabi cream, shiso and ponzu, incredibly tender Colorado Rack of Lamb is surrounded by crispy Maitake mushrooms and bone marrow bordelaise. But the dish that is truly unmissable is Parmesan Wrapped Spaghetti with Reggiano sauce that works as seduction by cheese, drawing you in gently without biting. Anyone who thinks they'll split it with a dining companion will selfishly take the offer back. Colorado Rack of Lamb with crispy maitake mushrooms and bone marrow bordelaise. Liz Clayman Desserts sound like they adhere more closely to French classics with choices such as chocolate bombe with hazelnut mousse. But there are also surprises here: cannelloni with white chocolate sake and a luscious Paris-Brest with little hats of praline popcorn, luscious on their own. Botan ebi crudo (spot prawns) with ossetra caviar. Liz Clayman The Cocktail Menu Cocktails are also topflight, as would be expected with Khan's background. As devised by British mixologist Charlotte Voisey named U.K. Bartender of the Year and now Executive Director of the Tails of the Cocktail Foundation, offerings include Last Days of Disco composed of pisco, lemongrass, fresh lemon and bubbles; Beautiful People composed of rosé wine, passionfruit, fresh lime, tamarind and bubbles and Smoke Show, which actually is one composed of tequila, mezcal, agave, lime, tamarind and smoke. The Decor The bar at Maison Nur. @2025 Liz Clayman A definite link to Khan's background is the décor which he designed along with Jason Volenec of Volenec Studios with whom he collaborated at Butterfly Soho. The large, hypnotic Damien Hirst kaleidoscope spirals on opposite walls of the dining room came straight from Khan's home; he also created the chandelier which looks like it was pieced together with shark's teeth. There are mohair banquettes, patina walls, flickering candelight, a marble bar bordered by electric green stripes and green bar stools with gold fringe. He also created the playlist that- rare for New York restaurants-provides an interesting background but still enables guests to be able to talk. A New Nightspot This restaurant, though, is not the only room. Downstairs, Khan is putting together a cozy lounge with perfect acoustic speakers and a ceiling of dancing optics. It will be a place for music, for VIP hanging out after dinner or with a separate, hidden entrance, for slipping in as a late night gathering spot. It seems that given his background, just creating the restaurant wasn't enough; Khan had to give New York another nightspot as well. 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Fast Company
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Fast Company
How Talking Heads fa-fa-fa-fa'd all over NYC to celebrate the band's 50th anniversary
Legend has it that Talking Heads played their first-ever show on June 5, 1975, in New York City, opening for the Ramones at CBGB on the Bowery. Now, 50 years later, stickers, wheatpaste posters, T-shirts, subway buskers, radio takeovers, an airplane banner, and billboards popped up along the Bowery, all with a variation of a single line: 'Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa.' The cryptic street campaign is a throwback marketing push to celebrate the anniversary and a first-ever video for the band's hit song 'Psycho Killer,' released this week. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Mike Mills, and starring Saoirse Ronan, the video chronicles the ups, downs, mundanity, absurdity, and joy of an everyday life. In a world in which CBGB is now a John Varvatos store, and the ability to reach millions of eyeballs is a small matter of algorithmic wizardry, simply seeing the Bowery plastered with less-than-obvious Talking Heads marketing is, frankly, refreshing. Modern throwback Created by experiential studio De-Yan, working with Warner Music, the goal of the work was to celebrate the iconic song of a legendary band in a way that felt a bit more '77 than social network. Jason Kreher, De-Yan's chief creative officer, says this wasn't a project aimed at marketing innovation, instead the goal is to capture a sense of wonder, fun, and curiosity. The brief from Warner was simple: Build buzz around the Talking Heads as a band for people who might not have heard about them, and for people who may have forgot about them. 'For younger people, a guerrilla marketing music campaign is as novel to them as the song 'Psycho Killer' by the Talking Heads,' says Kreher. 'You don't have to reinvent the wheel every time to delight people.' De-Yan is known for creating mesmerizing, technologically-driven live experiences for artists like Alicia Keys and Lady Gaga, as well as brands like Louis Vuitton and La Mer. Here, though, the means were decidedly lo-fi, but the goal remains the same. 'I don't imagine this is going to win awards, because it doesn't have to,' says Kreher. 'The song says 'fa-fa-fa' a lot. I thought that was funny. So we put it everywhere we possibly could until we ran out of money. I don't know if that's innovative but it's the correct thing to do, and I'm really excited about it.' There are bootleg T-shirts in a Chinatown shop, neon signs at indie record stores, local radio takeovers (WFAFA, New York's only station that only plays 'Psycho Killer'), an aerial banner that just says FAFAFAFAFA, and iconic subway buskers playing the song all day on the F(A) train line. Limits > Limitless Talking Heads fans may be pissed off that this anniversary brings only a new video and this fun campaign, rather than a full-on reunion tour (the band reportedly declined an $80 million offer from Live Nation last year). Here we have an iconic band and a hit song, but what impresses about this work is actually the restraint of keeping its promotion distinctly street level. Or at least as close as you can in 2025 (see: DudeWithSign). It's part of a growing trend among brands looking to create experiences to go along with their algorithm investments. According to a study from agency Archival, 74% of Gen Zs think IRL experiences are more important than digital ones. Stats like that and work like this remind me of a recent edition of James Kirkham's Inked In & Iconic newsletter about the old Nintendo Game & Watch handheld gaming devices from the 1980s. 'As we hurtle toward Zuckerberg's 'infinite creative' future, where AI spits out endless variations of soulless content, Game & Watch reminds us what you get from limitations, simplicity and constraint,' Kirkham wrote. 'Sometimes the most valuable thing you can offer isn't more. It's enough. Maybe that's what we're really searching for in our underground raves and our no-phone policies and our limited edition everything: the Game & Watch promise. A finite universe we can master. Boundaries. Limitations that set us free.' Virality may be every brand's goal, but the process behind it has become so mechanized that words like authentic and organic have seemingly lost all meaning. Kreher appreciates the limitations and constraints of budget, time, and production to craft something different. 'Experiences are a marketer's fastest shortcut to meaningful attention,' he says. 'This was as gritty as I could get so we can make a moment that feels like a very specific time and place.'
