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Sunday, October 16th, 2016
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| 9:36a |
Preview Robbie Williams' new song written by The Killers http://www.nme.com/news/robbie-williams/97160 Robbie Williams has shared a preview of his new song 'Mixed Signals', which was written by The Killers. The song features on his forthcoming album 'Heavy Entertainment Show' and was originally intended to be kept by the Las Vegas band. However, Williams told The Sun earlier this month they gave him the song after he'd heard it at his producer's house. "The Killers' sound is unique and I think Brandon Flowers is one of the best songwriters on the planet," Williams said. "I was at Stuart Price's house and he'd just been working with Brandon and played me this song. He said, 'Have a listen to this.' And all the way through it I was thinking, 'I want this song.' And unbelievably they let me have it and didn't have it for themselves." According to Stereogum, Flowers and his bandmates Mark Stoermer, Dave Keuning and Ronnie Vanucci Jr all receive writing credits on the track. Listen to a clip of the song below. Here's your next taste of #TheHeavyEntertainmentShow - track 3: Mixed Signals. There'll be a new teaser here on Instagram every day - don't go anywhere... #MixedSignals A video posted by Robbie Williams (@robbiewilliams) on Oct 14, 2016 at 7:38am PDT | | 11:48a |
Watch Bruno Mars perform '24K Magic' and an unreleased new song on 'SNL' http://www.nme.com/news/bruno-mars/97162 Bruno Mars performed two songs on SNL last night (October 15). The singer appeared on the US TV show to play new single '24K Magic' and an unreleased new song called 'Chunky' taken from his upcoming new album. Mars last appeared on the programme in 2014 with Mark Ronson and has been on it four times as a musical guest and five times altogether. Watch footage of his latest performance below, via Consequence Of Sound. Mars' new album '24K Magic' will be released on November 18 via Atlantic Records. Skrillex confirmed last month (September) that he has been working on new material with the singer-songwriter. "I'm not going to give specifics of what it sounds like, but what we're doing is so fucking different, awesome and next level and sounds like nothing else that's happened before," he said. The album will be his third following 2010's 'Doo-Wops & Hooligans' and 2012's 'Unorthodox Jukebox', home to the huge hits 'Locked Out Of Heaven' and 'When I Was Your Man'. In 2014, he teamed up with Mark Ronson for the global chart-topper 'Uptown Funk'. He also co-wrote Adele's '25' album track 'All I Ask'. | | 11:48a |
Watch Will.I.Am's anti-Donald Trump video 'Grab'm By The Pussy' http://www.nme.com/news/william-0/97163 William has shared a new video featuring a take on Donald Trump's sexist comments about stars being able to "grab [women] by the pussy". 'GRAB'm By The PU$$Y' features the musician dressed in a suit and blonde wig taking questions from debate moderator, played by fellow Black Eyed Peas member Apl.de.ap. As MC Donald T. Rump, Will.I.Am answers questions about the war in Afghanistan, the unlawful killing of black citizens by police and more saying: "When I'm President, I won't be like Obama/If anyone talks shit about me, I'll bomb 'em". He also cuts off his opponent Madam Boss, played by Liane V, telling her: "Ah, shut up girl/It ain't about you, girl/It's all about me, girl". The video ends with Will.I.Am out of his Trump costume urging viewers to vote for "a leader that not only will lead America, but will help heal the world given its complexity and problems". "OK, it's obvious. I do not look like Donald Trump," he said. "But what's more obvious is that Donald Trump does not look like the President of the United States of America, nor should he be. "This is not a TV show, a circus or a movie. This is real life with real life problems." Watch the video above, via The Independent. | | 5:30p |
Donald Trump isn't happy about Alec Baldwin's latest impression of him http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/donald-trump-isn-t-happy-about-alec-baldwin-s-late/419757 Donald Trump has hit out at Saturday Night Live and Alec Baldwin's impersonation of him on the US comedy show. The Republican candidate seeking to be US President, who has been met with increased criticism over the past week for inappropriate comments made about women and claims of sexual assault, took to Twitter following this weekend's episode to describe a sketch on the long-running NBC show as a "hit job on me". "Time to retire the boring and unfunny show," Trump tweeted. "Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks. Media rigging election!" SEE MORE: The Musicians Who Hate Donald Trump The Most Watched Saturday Night Live hit job on me.Time to retire the boring and unfunny show. Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks. Media rigging election!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2016 Baldwin reprised his Trump impression this weekend, starring in a sketch that parodied Trump's second US Presidential debate against Hillary Clinton. Watch the latest skit below. You can watch Baldwin mock Trump's groping comments in a previous SNL sketch. READ MORE: Conspiracy Theorists Think Donald Trump Might Be Andy Kaufman In Disguise | | 7:44p |
Watch Bob Dylan play guitar live for first time in four years to mark Nobel Prize win http://www.nme.com/news/bob-dylan/97166 Bob Dylan played guitar live onstage for the first time in four years this week, marking his Nobel Prize for Literature win. Credited with having "created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," Dylan, 75, became the 259th American to have won a Nobel Prize. The award is given to an individual who has produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction". On Thursday (October 13), the same day that the Nobel announcement was made, Dylan picked up the guitar for the first time since 2012 to play 'Simple Twist Of Fate' in Las Vegas. Watch footage beneath. Stereogum reports that the last time Dylan played guitar live was in Chicago in November 2012. Both Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits have congratulated Dylan on his win. Sara Danils, Secretary of the Swedish Academy, described Dylan as "a great sampler& and for 54 years he has been at it, reinventing himself. On his classic 'Blonde on Blonde', she said: "An extraordinary example of his brilliant way of rhyming. putting together refrains, and his brilliant way of thinking." "If you look far back, 5000 years, you discover Homer and Sappho. They wrote poetic texts which were meant to be performed, and its the same way for Bob Dylan. We still read Homer and Sappho, and we enjoy it." | | 8:40p |
Morrissey gets non-vegan sandwich named after him in protest to meat ban at his gigs http://www.nme.com/news/morrissey/97167 Morrissey has had a meat-filled sandwich named after him in a protest to his ban of meat products at his live shows. Last month, Morrissey performed at Riot Fest in Chicago, where food vendors were reportedly asked to stop cooking and selling meat during his two-hour set out of "respect to Morrissey and his animal rights activism". A local website has spoken to food vendors Puffs of Doom, who say they thought the ban was "ridiculous", accusing the singer and his management of "bullying" small businesses. Co-owner Luke Petillon said that he doesn't have any issue with Morrissey's veganism but disliked "the way he tried to push his views down the public's throats". "It bullied these little businesses that are already having a hard time hacking it. What it doesn't do is actually change anything," he added. Puffs of Doom has now named a sandwich in the former Smiths frontman's honour, called the 'Pork Morrissey'. It consists of pulled pork plus four types of cheese. Meanwhile, Morrissey recently held a pop-up shop in a dog adoption centre in New York. A fee and percentage of all profits from the shop went towards Sugar Mutts, a non-profit organisation. |
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