Skrillex Talks About the Making of His S...

There’s a moment in my conversation with Sonny Moore, aka Skrillex, when the line goes silent and I can’t tell whether he’s mulling his point or telling me to move on. (Moore is a voluble speaker, and there have been several times when I’ll think he’s finished his answer, only to hear a stream of words pour forth the moment I open my mouth.) Then, he talks: “You still there?” A second before, he’d described a music video he was very excited about, but couldn’t remember the title of. Now, he’s Googling for it, but he wants me to keep talking. In other words: Sonny Moore is...

Massive Attack’s 3D Collaborates W...

Photo via The Standing March Massive Attack‘s 3D, aka Robert Del Naja, has composed the original score to an artwork by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and French artist JR. Displayed in Paris ahead of today’s U.N. Climate Change Conference, “The Standing March” aims to “remind leaders that the world is watching” by projecting images of 500 people’s faces onto the French National Assembly Building. The piece ran from 8 p.m. until 4 a.m. yesterday, with the same times scheduled tonight. More Paris locations will follow.  Over the...

Blur Perform “This Is a Low”...

Blur have shared another clip from New World Towers, the forthcoming documentary about their post-reunion activity. In it, the band perform “This Is a Low” at Hyde Park, as a voiceover reflects on “something tantamount to magic” that occurs when they’re onstage. Watch it below. New World Towers will screen on December 2 in theaters across the UK. Find the list of locations here. An international release will be announced...

Peter Hook Sues New Order

Photo by Mark McNulty After years of in-fighting, former New Order bassist Peter Hook is suing ex-bandmates Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, and Gillian Gilbert in a royalties dispute, the BBC reports. Hook, who is no longer in the group and now performs with Peter Hook and the Light, has accused the band of “pillaging” New Order’s assets when they set up a new company in 2011 to take care of the band’s finances, and didn’t include him in the company. Hook claims he’s lost out on more than £2.3 million...

Chairlift Share New Single "Romeo&q...

Chairlift recently returned with their single “Ch-Ching”, which will appear on their upcoming album Moth, due out January 22 via Columbia. Today, they’ve shared another track. It’s called “Romeo”—listen below. According to a press release, Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly wrote the song from the perspective of the Greek mythological character Atalanta. Find the song’s lyrics below the audio. Polachek also recently re-imagined the myth of Endymion for a collaboration with MAKE Beauty. Read our interview with Chairlift about...