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Yahoo
2 days ago
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Nilüfer Yanya Announces New EP Dancing Shoes, Reveals New Song 'Where to Look': Stream
The post Nilüfer Yanya Announces New EP Dancing Shoes, Reveals New Song 'Where to Look': Stream appeared first on Consequence. Nilüfer Yanya is back to announce a new EP, Dancing Shoes, set for release on July 2nd. She's also unveiled the new song 'Where to Look.' Dancing Shoes follows Yanya's 2024 album, My Method Actor, which we deemed one of the best releases of the year. Comprised of four new tracks, Dancing Shoes was written and produced with Yanya's close collaborator Wilma Archer during and in between tour dates supporting My Method Actor. The EP also features 'Cold Heart,' which arrived last month. Get Nilüfer Yanya Tickets Here Reprising her raw, spellbinding guitar work and considered attention to mood and atmosphere, 'Where to Look' has all the touchstones of Yanya's dynamic indie rock sound. The song really begins to lift off in the second chorus, where Yanya's guitar stumbles into a wall of fuzzy reverb and provides more power and emotion behind her croons. While the EP it's on is called Dancing Shoes, 'Where to Look' isn't exactly dancefloor-friendly, instead boasting a more introspective tone. Stream the track below. Yanya has a busy 2025 ahead of her; in addition to a busy summer performing at festivals like Glastonbury and London's All Points East, she'll return to North America for a lengthy stretch of shows opening for Alex G. She'll then head back to Europe for a handful of dates opening for Lorde. See her full list of tour dates below, and get tickets to see Nilüfer Yanya here. Dancing Shoes Artwork: Tracklist: 01. Either Way 02. Where To Look 03. Treason 04. Cold Heart Nilüfer Yanya 2025 Tour Dates: 06/02 — Barcelona, ES @ Primavera a la Ciutat 06/13 — Beekse Bergen, NL @ Best Kept Secret 06/25 — Somerset, GB @ Glastonbury 08/06 — Oslo, NO @ Øya Festival 08/07 — Gothenburg, SE @ Way Out West 08/14 — Crickhowell, GB @ Green Man 08/22 — London, GB @ All Points East 09/07 — Richmond, VA @ Broadberry 09/09 — Amherst, MA @ The Drake 09/11 — Boston, MA @ Roadrunner * 09/13 — Cleveland, OH @ The Agora * 09/14 — Toronto, ON @ History * 09/17 — Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed * 09/18 — Saint Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre * 09/19 — Omaha, NE @ Waiting Room 09/20 — Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom * 09/22 — Sacramento, CA @ Harlow's 09/23 — Oakland, CA @ The Fox Theater * 09/26 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre * 09/28 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre * 09/30 — Austin, TX @ Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater * 10/03 — Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern * 10/04 — Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium * 10/06 — Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz * 10/07 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem * 10/08 — New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall * 10/11 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore * 11/16 — London, GB @ O2 Arena & 11/19 — Glasgow, GB @ OVO Hydro & 11/20 — Birmingham, GB @ Utilita Arena & 11/22 — Dublin, IE @ RDS Simmonscourt & 11/24 — Amsterdam, NL @ AFAS Live & * = w/ Alex G & = w/ Lorde Popular Posts King of the Hill Revival Gets Hulu Release Date, New Opening Sequence Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence Are Now In-Laws Dave Mustaine: Metallica Stole "Enter Sandman" Riff from Another Band David Lynch's Personal Archive Going Up for Auction Man Wearing Nazi T-Shirt Gets a Beatdown from Fans at Punk Rock Bowling Fest Jonathan Joss, Voice of John Redcorn on King of the Hill, Shot and Killed by Neighbor Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
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Somerset man's new poetry collection tackles love, loss, war and peace
A new collection of poems and songs has been published by a Somerset poet and songwriter. John Eaton's collection, Life is a Rollercoaster, explores themes of love, loss, war, and peace, and was published on Monday, May 5. The collection, which also contains 13 songs, also focus on specific moments in history, including the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Poems such as Immortal Shrine and Cold, Cold Heart highlight the violence and coldness of war. Lines from Immortal Shine include: "It is sad, so very sad, when you see bodies in the street, blood pooling by their feet. "Raping children by the side of the road, then watching their bodies decompose. "Massacre; genocidal crimes. "What is it that you feel inside?" Another verse from Cold, Cold Heart reads: "It's winter in the cities; it's freezing in the towns. "The countryside is full of snow, you're aiming to bring our country down. "You've got a cold, cold heart. "You're lost in your cold, cold mind." For the songs in the collection, readers can scan the accompanying QR codes to hear and see music videos. The collection can be purchased from all good bookstores or at A spokesperson for Mr Eaton said: "This powerful anthology invites you to reflect deeply on the meaning of existence, guiding you through the highs and lows of the human experience. "Feel the heartbreak of loss and the bitterness of conflict yet find solace in love and the fragile peace that follows. "Through it all, the unwavering theme of resilience shines, reminding us of our capacity to endure and overcome."
Chicago Tribune
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Biblioracle: Kudos to Dua Lipa for her latest book club pick
I have a bit of a hot and cold relationship with our big celebrity book clubs: Oprah, Reese and Jenna. On one hand, anything that gets people into books is A-OK with me, and each of these women has a monthly megaphone that moves hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of books. On the other hand, these clubs soak up a lot of the available oxygen when it comes to broad, cultural coverage of books, so when they choose books that are not going to lack for attention (such as Oprah Winfrey choosing a memoir by Beyoncé's mom and Reese Witherspoon going with mega-selling author Emily Henry's latest), it feels like a missed opportunity. However, I have just been introduced to a celebrity book club for which I can declare my full enthusiasm, the Service95 Book Club of pop superstar Dua Lipa, which named Max Porter's 'Grief Is the Thing with Feathers' as its monthly read for April. I will be honest. Dua Lipa is a name I've heard but I could not name any of her songs. I believe she is known for her 'bangers,' to use a word that people who know Dua Lipa's music probably don't deploy anymore. That said, shuffling through an Apple Music playlist, there were several songs that had clearly passed across my personal radar, including a remix of 'Cold Heart' featuring Elton John that blends in John's classic 'Rocket Man,' a song that I could sing every lyric to. I do know 'Grief Is the Thing with Feathers,' a book first published in the U.S. by indie publisher Greywolf in 2016. A slim, strange, 128-page marvel, 'Grief Is the Thing with Feathers' is a powerful meditation that manages to capture the strange whipsaws of emotion that accompany a great loss. It is an idiosyncratic choice because of the book's nature, and the fact that it came out a decade ago. The big book clubs seek to make their monthly titles a capital-E event. Dua Lipa looks like someone who wants to share her specific love for specific books and is using the power of her celebrity platform to do so. Like I say, I can get behind that. Previous book club choices I can get behind include Tommy Orange's 'There There' and Paul Murray's 'The Bee Sting,' and Nobel winner Olga Tokarczuk's 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.' Lest we think these are bids to put a patina of highbrow intellectualism over a global pop star, these choices are accompanied by author interviews conducted by Lipa that make it clear she has read these books and is eager to share how these reading experiences have influenced her views of the world. Oprah and Jenna Bush Hager are excellent enthusiasts for the books they choose. They are readers, but Lipa appears to be someone you might come across in your graduate lit seminar and happily talk books with for hours. I don't want this to register as a surprise. I know nothing about Dua Lipa the person, and there's nothing that says famous pop stars can't be interested in literature. What is especially exciting about Lipa's Service95 Book Club is that it's part of a larger media project also touching on travel, fashion, and activism. Books are presented as an entirely normal, expected part of a full and fulfilling life. Authors are regular people who write books the way Dua Lipa is a regular (though very glamorous) person who makes pop music hits. Lipa's lowkey, non-newsy approach to a book club is familiar and charming, and I look forward to what she has for May. John Warner is the author of b ooks including 'More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI.' You can find him at Book recommendations from the Biblioracle John Warner tells you what to read based on the last five books you've read. 1. 'Stone Yard Devotional' by Charlotte Wood 2. 'The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne' by Brian Moore 3. 'True Grit' by Charles Portis 4. 'All Our Names' by Dinaw Mengestu 5. 'Dream State' by Eric Puchner — John S., Chicago For John I'm recommending the jolt of Daniel Woodrell's 'Winter's Bone.' 1. 'Fresh Water for Flowers' by Valérie Perrin 2. 'H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life' by Michel Houellebecq 3. 'Old Man's War' by John Scalzi 4. 'The Days of Abandonment' by Elena Ferrante 5. 'The Year Under the Machine' by Peter Danielsson — Robert C., Rockford This is a big swing, but if it connects, it's a grand slam: 'House of Leaves' by Mark Z. Danielewski 1. 'The Intuitionist ' by Colson Whitehead 2. 'River of Books' by Donna Seaman 3. 'Bronshtein in the Bronx' by Robert Littell 4. 'The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne' by Ron Currie 5. 'The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death' by Charlie Huston — Joe F., Channahon, Illinois Another big swing. I guess I'm feeling bold this week: 'When We Cease to Understand the World' by Benjamin Labatut.
New York Times
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Barbra Streisand's Silky Duet With Hozier, and 9 More New Songs
Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign up for The Amplifier, a twice-weekly guide to new and old songs. Barbra Streisand with Hozier, 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' At 83, Barbra Streisand still commands a voice of dewy-eyed purity, long-breathed grace and tremulous anticipation. She has announced 'The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2' — an album of duets with Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Sting, Laufey and more — with 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.' A deferential, un-gritty Hozier joins her in a slow, string-laden arrangement that changes key to accommodate him. This duet definitely won't eclipse Robert Flack's eternally radiant version, but it has an earnest charm. Ed Sheeran, 'Old Phone' Fireside folk-rock contends with digital technology in 'Old Phone.' It's a guitar-strumming, foot-tapping ditty about realizing, too late, that cellphone storage can hold a Pandora's box of regrets: lost friends, misjudgments, arguments, 'messages from all my exes.' Better to wipe it next time. Summer Walker, 'Spend It' The sound is plush and sensual, a silky, spacious R&B ballad with glimmering vocal harmonies sharing the chorus. But the message is coldly mercenary: 'Give me the last four of your credit card / Buy back my love, you can keep your heart.' Instead of refuting the hip-hop cliché of women as gold-diggers, Summer Walker leans into it. Nilüfer Yanya, 'Cold Heart' With her new single, 'Cold Heart,' Nilüfer Yanya sets aside her trusty fuzz-toned guitar. Amid undulating keyboard chords and programmed beats, she sings about desire, separation, resentment and heartache: 'I don't wanna bear this burden 'cause it hurts like hell,' she sings. Many of her previous songs have built toward grungy catharsis, but in 'Cold Heart,' the chords keep cycling around her; she's still enmeshed. Bambii featuring Jessy Lanza and Yaeji, 'Mirror' Bambii, a Jamaican-Canadian D.J. turned producer and songwriter who's based in Toronto, keeps reconfiguring a sparse, syncopated bass riff and twitchy, flickering breakbeats in 'Mirror.' Jessy Lanza sings in English and Yaeji sings and raps in English and Korean, pondering connection and identity — 'I look in the mirror / I see your eyes' — as the rhythms ricochet. Indigo De Souza, 'Heartthrob' Indigo De Souza brings unbridled enthusiasm even to situations she comes to regret. For 'Heartthrob,' De Souza and her songwriting and producing collaborator, Elliott Kozel, kick up the tempo and pile on the guitars. The chorus is exultantly physical: 'I really put my back into it,' she sings over two galloping chords. Meanwhile, the verses are full of lessons learned — 'He really tricked me / I let him touch me where he wanted' — that still don't prevent her from hoping to find 'a full cup / a true heartthrob.' Sami Galbi, 'L'mjmr' Sami Galbi — a Swiss, French and Moroccan musician based in Lausanne and Casablanca — applies electronic expertise to modal, Arab-inflected North African styles like rai and chaabi. 'L'mjmr' from his new album, 'Ylh Bye Bye,' flaunts Auto-Tuned vocal harmonies, trap percussion and buzzing synthesizer lines without losing the Moroccan essence of the tune. These New Puritans, 'A Season in Hell' 'Sing that lullaby to the abyss,' Jack Barnett chants in 'A Season in Hell,' neatly summing up one of the missions of his band, These New Puritans. 'A Season in Hell' sets up a bleak industrial beat, then laces it with somber, Bach-like church-organ lines as Barnett envisions being 'Tied to the wheel, nailed to the ground / Put to the sword, fed to the hounds.' At the end, Caroline Polachek adds wordless, keening near-screams to perfect the gloom. Marc Ribot, 'Daddy's Trip to Brazil' The guitarist Marc Ribot — an essential sideman for Tom Waits, John Zorn and others — is about to release his first album featuring his lead vocals, which are modest. 'Daddy's Trip to Brazil' is a cranky tour diary from an overly jaded musician: 'I have nothing to say to the local engaged intellectuals / I don't wanna be reminded what I did here in 1998.' Of course it's a bossa nova, subdued with an underlying tension, along with some twisted humor. Who else would complain, at his seaside hotel, about the sound of the waves? Eli Keszler featuring Sofie Royer, 'Drip Drip Drip' The latest album by the percussionist Eli Keszler, who has worked with Oneohtrix Point Never and other musical experimenters, isn't a typical drummer's album. It's more atmospheric than athletic. In 'Drip Drip Drip,' Sofie Royer sings with world-weary calm about 'deaths of despair and lives worth living' over skulking, noirish guitar and distant clanks and clatters. The tempo picks up in the second part of the track, as Keszler layers on live and synthetic sounds before a final dissolution.
Telegraph
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Sir Elton John: I'd rather die than do another tour
Sir Elton John has said he would rather die than do another tour of his classic songs. The 78-year-old singer recently performed at the London Palladium with Brandi Carlile, the American folk, rock and country star with whom he has released a new album. But speaking about the live show, which was being filmed for a televised special of their album, called Who Believes in Angels?,the award-winning artist played down the idea of a solo Elton John 'classics' tour ever happening again. 'Last night was exciting,' he told The Times. 'But to go back and do an Elton John set on tour, I would just kill myself.' He continued: 'We went to New Orleans recently to film Spinal Tap 2. We drove into the back of a big arena and I turned to David and said, 'You know, I've got hives.' 'I couldn't do a better show than Glastonbury 2023, so what would be the point? You have to know when to fold it.' Sir Elton added that it would 'be lazy of me to sit in classic Elton John songs forever', but revealed that he was still far from retiring. Elsewhere in the interview, Sir Elton discussed the fit of rage he had while recording in the studio with Carlile and Andrew Watt, the long-time record producer and musician. The pop legend admitted 'they put up with my little foibles' after he was filmed slamming his headphones down and tearing up some sheet music before telling everyone else in the studio: 'I'm going home.' Speaking about the incident, he said that they 'didn't all agree' during production, adding: 'They stood up to me and I got frustrated, but it's not good working with yes people. 'If I want to make a great album aged 76 or 77 I've got to be told and they put up with my little foibles, which were really about anxiety, self-doubt and not feeling very well at the time.' He said, however, that he could have never abandoned the project, because he knew that 'if I walked away from it I would hate myself for the rest of my life'. Discussing the new sound on the album, he explained: 'I can hear references to my old melodies because that's the essence of who I am. 'I can write Elton John songs until they're coming out of my arse, but this is a new tint on what I did in the Seventies.' The veteran performer went on to discuss the commercial success of his collaboration with Dua Lipa, the 29-year-old pop artist, on the song Cold Heart in 2021. 'I liked the Dua Lipa thing,' he said. 'I've done a new, banging dance tune and I want to do an album of pop songs.' Sir Elton credited pop artists Chappell Roan and Charli XCX as being 'so good at the moment'. Both stars performed at the Grammys in February, where Roan won the best new artist award and Charli XCX took home the award for the best dance pop recording for her track Von Dutch. While he expressed his interest in a pop album, Sir Elton also expressed caution over the genre's chart-sticking power, saying: 'At the same time, it's a fatberg in the singles chart right now because they just sit there. 'Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan went to No. 1 recently and I played it in 2023. A Bar Song by Shaboozey spent 19 weeks at No. 1 in America. I don't like it at all, to be honest.'
