Still feeling the post-midday blues? We’ve got some tasty afternoon treats in the forms of tracks, videos, and news tidbits from around the interwebs that you may have missed that are sure to get you through the afternoon. Dig in!
Lorde Covered Kanye West, Didn’t Get Slammed
Following on from the controversy over Courtney Barnett covering Kanye West’s ‘Black Skinhead’, New Zealand neo-pop sensation (and potential Flume collaborator) Lorde might want to keep her head down. The record-breaking16-year-old recently covered Kanye West’s ‘Hold My Liquor’ live in front of a hometown audience of nearly 5,000 at the recent iHeart Radio Festival. Channelling Yeezus – or more specifically Bon Iver, who sings the original tunes opening lines, before dropping a few half-rapped, half-sung lines from the song (with all the ‘bitches’ and n-bombs relatively intact). Wonder what Fairfax writer Clem Bastow would make of Lorde’s version after stirring the online backlash against Courtney Barnett and other indie artists covering rap songs… (via FasterLouder)
Sticky Fingers Frontman Arrested For Stage Antics
The frontman for Sydney rock group Sticky Fingers may have to face a Perth Court after he was arrested by police last weekend after climbing stage scaffolding during the band’s set at the Rottofest music festival. Dylan ‘Dizza’ Frost’s stage antics included climbing on top of the stage roof, and jumping into the crowd, during the band’s headline set at the Rottnest Island-based arts, music, and comedy event. Security deemed Frost’s behaviour as willingly endangering fans. Police were alerted after a scuffle with security during the Sticky Fingers set. “The security gave him some grief at some point around the roof climb, and he (Frost) didn’t take well to the way they approached him,” explains Sticky Fingers manager Neal Hunt. The actual Police offences are unknown but Frost was asked to leave Rottnest Island following the incident, with charges likely to follow based on “the way the discussions went down,” according to Hunt. Rottofest promoters JumpClimb (how fitting!) also posted footage of Dylan Frost’s ‘offences’ online. (via The Music)
New King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Single
Ahead of the release of their third album, Float Along – Fill Your Lungs (out Friday 27th September via Flightless/Dot Dash), the mighty seven-sized King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are sharing another taste of their new LP. ‘I’m Not A Man Unless I Have A Woman’ finds vocalists Stu Mackenzie and Ambrose Kenny-Smith singing in duet over a frazzled sonic backdrop of bouncing guitar lines and fried-out production. Recorded in dual mono (have a surprising listen with headphones), the new single also features some singed sitar work, just as the first two cuts from the new album have. Namely, the 16-min opening epic ‘Head On/Pill’ and the tantric grooves of ’30 Past 7′, which along with the new gender-bending single have Float Along – Fill Your Lungs pegged as late contender to Album of the Year lists.
Tool Vocalist Says “Music Is Happening On ALL Fronts”
The new Tool album is beginning to reach Chinese Democracy levels in the album delay stakes (or should that be upgraded to My Bloody Valentine’s MBV for cultural currency?). With concrete details from the famously press-elusive prog metal legends still slim, fans have had to take what they can get. Which might make for a collective sigh of relief with Maynard James Keenan’s tidbit update that a new Tool record might land in 2014, while work has begun on new material from his solo project, Puscifer, and his other other band, A Perfect Circle. In a note posted alongside his 666th Instagram (seen below), the vocalist writes: “For my 666th IG photo, I’d just like to say … Music is happening on ALL fronts. Always,” before tagging in all three musical bands and a hashtag for #shitupandletmework and #tool2014. It ain’t much, but considering all progress on the follow-up to 2006’s 10,000 Days had seemingly ground to a halt earlier this year, it’s at least something. Just don’t hold your breath for anything anytime soon, or you’ll end up as blue a corpse as Keenan’s bodypaint colour of choice.
