Over the course of her decades-long career, Scarlett Johansson has consistently showcased her versatility as an actress, captivating audiences in a variety of roles across genres, from action-packed performances like Black Widow in the MCU to compelling portrayals in comedy and drama. And after all this time, the acclaimed actress continues to surprise her fans.
Scarlett Johansson in Hail, Caesar! | Credit: Universal
Along with her on-screen prowess, Johansson has also carved out a niche as a singer, a pursuit she initially explored in the mid-2000s, soon after, she released her first album Anywhere I Lay My Head in 2008. As her debut album completes 16 years, fans can’t help but share their surprise upon learning about the lesser-known aspect of the Marvel star’s illustrious career.
A Brief Look At Scarlett Johansson’s Music Career
Scarlett Johansson has always been passionate about music. The actress has shared that her interest...
Scarlett Johansson in Hail, Caesar! | Credit: Universal
Along with her on-screen prowess, Johansson has also carved out a niche as a singer, a pursuit she initially explored in the mid-2000s, soon after, she released her first album Anywhere I Lay My Head in 2008. As her debut album completes 16 years, fans can’t help but share their surprise upon learning about the lesser-known aspect of the Marvel star’s illustrious career.
A Brief Look At Scarlett Johansson’s Music Career
Scarlett Johansson has always been passionate about music. The actress has shared that her interest...
- 5/16/2024
- by Laxmi Rajput
- FandomWire
Chelsea Wolfe’s music is heavy. Whether it’s the neofolk of her early releases or the doom metal of 2017’s Hiss Spun, the singer-songwriter’s work is always immersed in gothic touches. Wolfe’s seventh studio album, She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She, finds her moving in yet another sonic direction—closer to trip-hop and industrial than traditional rock—but still channeling that same witchy, backwoods spirit.
The album’s inspirations are immediately apparent on opener “Whispers in the Echo Chamber.” The timbre of Wolfe’s voice evokes that of Portishead’s Beth Gibbons, and the beat is strikingly similar to the trip-hop pioneers’ aptly titled “Machine Gun.” Throughout the track, Bryan Tulao’s metallic lead guitar helps to elevate the tension.
Wolfe and producer David Sitek give the music more space to breathe on the album’s second half. Backed by ominous piano, “Salt” is restrained but just as menacing,...
The album’s inspirations are immediately apparent on opener “Whispers in the Echo Chamber.” The timbre of Wolfe’s voice evokes that of Portishead’s Beth Gibbons, and the beat is strikingly similar to the trip-hop pioneers’ aptly titled “Machine Gun.” Throughout the track, Bryan Tulao’s metallic lead guitar helps to elevate the tension.
Wolfe and producer David Sitek give the music more space to breathe on the album’s second half. Backed by ominous piano, “Salt” is restrained but just as menacing,...
- 2/1/2024
- by Steve Erickson
- Slant Magazine
Chelsea Wolfe has announced her new album, She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She, arriving February 9th as the first release on her new label home Loma Vista. Wolfe also shared the video for the album’s second single, “Whispers in the Echo Chamber.”
The new song follows the same experimental post-metal path as the LP’s lead single, “Dusk,” but features a more tangible industrial stance. A pulsing electronic drum beats sets a sparse and methodical pace, as Wolfe’s voice shimmers and sways against the dark musical backdrop. According to a press release, the vocal effect was achieved by running her voice through producer David Andrew Sitek’s modular wall and was “meant to reflect those persistent intuitive voices that start rising up within you when it’s time to step out of the old and into the new.”
The elegant black-and-white video for “Whispers in...
The new song follows the same experimental post-metal path as the LP’s lead single, “Dusk,” but features a more tangible industrial stance. A pulsing electronic drum beats sets a sparse and methodical pace, as Wolfe’s voice shimmers and sways against the dark musical backdrop. According to a press release, the vocal effect was achieved by running her voice through producer David Andrew Sitek’s modular wall and was “meant to reflect those persistent intuitive voices that start rising up within you when it’s time to step out of the old and into the new.”
The elegant black-and-white video for “Whispers in...
- 10/24/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Scarlett Johansson‘s music career is getting some new love.
The 38-year-old MCU actress released a tribute album of Tom Waits classics back in 2008, called Anywhere I Lay My Head.
The record is now being re-released in vinyl format as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday 2023 event.
Set to be released on November 24 in a limited quantity of 2,000 copies, the Rsd Exclusive release features guest appearances by David Bowie.
The vinyl comes in green, along with a printed insert and single-pocket jacket, per Record Store Day.
The album was recorded over five weeks in the Spring of 2007 at Dockside Studios in Maurice, Louisiana, and was produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio. It includes an original song as well, “Song for Jo,” and the track “Falling Down” was released as its lead single.
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The 38-year-old MCU actress released a tribute album of Tom Waits classics back in 2008, called Anywhere I Lay My Head.
The record is now being re-released in vinyl format as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday 2023 event.
Set to be released on November 24 in a limited quantity of 2,000 copies, the Rsd Exclusive release features guest appearances by David Bowie.
The vinyl comes in green, along with a printed insert and single-pocket jacket, per Record Store Day.
The album was recorded over five weeks in the Spring of 2007 at Dockside Studios in Maurice, Louisiana, and was produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio. It includes an original song as well, “Song for Jo,” and the track “Falling Down” was released as its lead single.
Find out which albums by women are the best-selling in the world!
- 10/2/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Chelsea Wolfe has announced a 2024 North American tour and a new record deal with Loma Vista Recordings. Her first single for the label, “Dusk,” has also been released to coincide with the signing.
Divide and Dissolve will provide support for the upcoming trek, which launches on February 27th in San Diego and runs through March 30th in Los Angeles.
A Live Nation pre-sale for select dates is currently ongoing using code Studio, with general ticket sales beginning on Friday, September 22nd at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.
Fans can also look for deals or get tickets to sold-out dates via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.
“Dusk” marks Wolfe’s first solo material since her contributions to the soundtrack for the A24 film X. Perhaps a credit to her recent soundtrack work, the new song has a moody, cinematic feel, as Wolfe...
Divide and Dissolve will provide support for the upcoming trek, which launches on February 27th in San Diego and runs through March 30th in Los Angeles.
A Live Nation pre-sale for select dates is currently ongoing using code Studio, with general ticket sales beginning on Friday, September 22nd at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.
Fans can also look for deals or get tickets to sold-out dates via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.
“Dusk” marks Wolfe’s first solo material since her contributions to the soundtrack for the A24 film X. Perhaps a credit to her recent soundtrack work, the new song has a moody, cinematic feel, as Wolfe...
- 9/20/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are back with their first new song in nearly a decade, “Spitting Off the Edge of the World,” the first offering from their upcoming album, Cool It Down, out Sept. 30 via Secretly Canadian.
“Spitting Off the Edge of the World” is a smoldering cut that finds Karen O sharing vocal duties with Perfume Genius, their voices combining as the song builds to a massive peak filled with crashing drums and keening guitar riffs. The track — produced by TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek — also arrives with...
“Spitting Off the Edge of the World” is a smoldering cut that finds Karen O sharing vocal duties with Perfume Genius, their voices combining as the song builds to a massive peak filled with crashing drums and keening guitar riffs. The track — produced by TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek — also arrives with...
- 6/1/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Karen O and Willie Nelson have partnered for an unlikely cover of Queen and David Bowie’s classic hit, “Under Pressure.”
The pair completely transform the 1981 pop gem into a slow-and-steady country-tinged ballad, with O and Nelson’s vastly different voices combining in a particularly poignant way — the former’s sweet croon intertwines with the latter’s weathered drawl as they move through the song’s bridge. The cover was produced by Dave Sitek and features guitar from Nick Zinner, Imaad Wasif, and Johnny Hanson, as well as background vocals from Priscilla Ahn.
The pair completely transform the 1981 pop gem into a slow-and-steady country-tinged ballad, with O and Nelson’s vastly different voices combining in a particularly poignant way — the former’s sweet croon intertwines with the latter’s weathered drawl as they move through the song’s bridge. The cover was produced by Dave Sitek and features guitar from Nick Zinner, Imaad Wasif, and Johnny Hanson, as well as background vocals from Priscilla Ahn.
- 10/28/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Grouplove have become the first band in the U.S. to be certified climate positive by the United Nations.
The Los Angeles indie-pop group achieved this by partnering with Chooose, a company that offers subscriptions to reduce CO2, for their upcoming tour. The shows are in support of their new LP, Healer, out Friday.
Tour has been postponed in light of the spread of Covid-19, but when they do hit the road, the band has pledged to stay in sustainable hotels, drink from reusable bottles, implement vegetarian meals on their rider,...
The Los Angeles indie-pop group achieved this by partnering with Chooose, a company that offers subscriptions to reduce CO2, for their upcoming tour. The shows are in support of their new LP, Healer, out Friday.
Tour has been postponed in light of the spread of Covid-19, but when they do hit the road, the band has pledged to stay in sustainable hotels, drink from reusable bottles, implement vegetarian meals on their rider,...
- 3/13/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Grouplove have dropped a new single, “Deleter,” as well as an accompanying music directed by Chris Blauvelt. The track is the first song to be released off the band’s upcoming fourth album, a follow-up to their 2016 effort Big Mess.
In the upbeat, lo-fi video, the band members, dressed in orange jumpsuits, perform the new track in an artsy warehouse and take to the streets of Los Angeles. Blauvelt was the cinematographer on Jonah Hill’s directorial debut, Mid90s, and fans can catch a glimpse of Hill setting up...
In the upbeat, lo-fi video, the band members, dressed in orange jumpsuits, perform the new track in an artsy warehouse and take to the streets of Los Angeles. Blauvelt was the cinematographer on Jonah Hill’s directorial debut, Mid90s, and fans can catch a glimpse of Hill setting up...
- 1/9/2020
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer linked up with Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith of Tears for Fears for a performance of “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday.
Smith and Rivers Cuomo shared vocal duties on the song, trading verses while Weezer guitarist Brian Bell breezed through the song’s famous twinkling guitar lines alongside Orzabal. The best moments of the performance, however, came when Orzabal joined Cuomo and Smith to croon the famous chorus in perfect three-part harmony.
The performance on Kimmel comes days after Tears for Fears joined...
Smith and Rivers Cuomo shared vocal duties on the song, trading verses while Weezer guitarist Brian Bell breezed through the song’s famous twinkling guitar lines alongside Orzabal. The best moments of the performance, however, came when Orzabal joined Cuomo and Smith to croon the famous chorus in perfect three-part harmony.
The performance on Kimmel comes days after Tears for Fears joined...
- 4/16/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
In the nearly 25 years since Rivers Cuomo and his bandmates released their first album, there have been many Weezers: the instant MTV hitmakers of their debut; the emo cult favorites of Pinkerton; the comeback kings of the Green Album… and that’s just the start. With two new Weezer albums out this year (the Teal Album, with covers of the likes of TLC and Toto, and the Dave Sitek-produced Black Album) our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now, took a career-spanning look at the band, and tried to figure out...
- 3/30/2019
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
On their debut Antidotes, produced by TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek, Foals stepped from their stalls with shifty post-punk grooves, kinetic percussion, and nervous, sulky vibes. By 2013, with Holy Fire, they smoothed and super-sized their sound with production from U2 vets Flood and Alan Moulder. Their latest LP finds Foals mostly self-producing, with help from engineer Brett Shaw (Florence and The Machine, Robyn), and swinging for what used to be the fences on a proggy, ambitious project; part two is due this fall.
Bless ‘em for their ambition,...
Bless ‘em for their ambition,...
- 3/8/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
Twenty-five years after “Buddy Holly,” Rivers Cuomo still remains peerless in his ability to get you humming a line like “leave a five star review and I’ll leave one too” until the only way to un-hum it is by stabbing yourself in the thigh with the nearest sharp object. The 13th Weezer LP is full of such confounding moments. It arrives just two months after the band followed up their surprise hit version of Toto’s “Africa” with The Teal Album, an all-covers set that felt a little like...
- 3/4/2019
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer recruited the Roots and Jimmy Fallon for a “classroom instruments” version of A-ha’s “Take on Me” on Thursday’s Tonight Show. The group went suitably retro for the occasion, with Fallon and Rivers Cuomo sporting New Wave/synth-pop haircuts and neon jackets with sharp shoulder pads and rolled-up sleeves.
The ramshackle, 13-member crew performed the chart-topping 1984 single with the show’s usual arrangement of shaker, wood block, toy xylophone, tambourine, bongos, ukulele, floor tom and melodica. Cuomo belted out the song’s signature, octave-leaping lead vocal, with the...
The ramshackle, 13-member crew performed the chart-topping 1984 single with the show’s usual arrangement of shaker, wood block, toy xylophone, tambourine, bongos, ukulele, floor tom and melodica. Cuomo belted out the song’s signature, octave-leaping lead vocal, with the...
- 3/1/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer dusted off their power-pop anthem “Buddy Holly” on Tuesday’s Tonight Show with a comedic twist by joining Jimmy Fallon and his barbershop-style vocal group, “the Ragtime Gals,” for a late-night rendition.
All four Weezer members—frontman Rivers Cuomo, guitarist Brian Bell, bassist Scott Shriner and drummer Patrick Wilson—adopted cartoonish vocal styles for their a capella version of the 1994 hit, with everyone dressed in matching, red-green-and-yellow jackets.
Later in the show, the group played a non-jokey take on “Living in L.A.,” the latest single from their upcoming 13th LP Weezer,...
All four Weezer members—frontman Rivers Cuomo, guitarist Brian Bell, bassist Scott Shriner and drummer Patrick Wilson—adopted cartoonish vocal styles for their a capella version of the 1994 hit, with everyone dressed in matching, red-green-and-yellow jackets.
Later in the show, the group played a non-jokey take on “Living in L.A.,” the latest single from their upcoming 13th LP Weezer,...
- 2/27/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer have teamed with Calpurnia – the indie rock band led by Stranger Things‘ Finn Wolfhard – for a nostalgic new video for their cover of a-ha’s “Take On Me.” The track appears on Weezer’s new self-titled covers record, also known as The Teal Album.
In the video, Wolfhard plays a young Rivers Cuomo, an aspiring rocker done-up with massive metalhead hair, who leads Calpurnia through Weezer’s rendition of “Take On Me” in the living room of his parents’ house. In a nod to a-ha’s famous music video,...
In the video, Wolfhard plays a young Rivers Cuomo, an aspiring rocker done-up with massive metalhead hair, who leads Calpurnia through Weezer’s rendition of “Take On Me” in the living room of his parents’ house. In a nod to a-ha’s famous music video,...
- 2/12/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
A little after midnight last night, Weezer shocked their fans by dropping a new album of cover songs. Since they’ve basically ran out of colors at this point, they’re calling this one The Teal Album. It begins with their shock comeback hit “Africa” and then gets into Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean,” Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid,” Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” and even TLC’s “No Scrubs” in addition to many others.
The album is especially surprising since they’re going to release The Black Album on March 1st,...
The album is especially surprising since they’re going to release The Black Album on March 1st,...
- 1/24/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Rivers Cuomo is at his home studio in Southern California when he picks up the phone on a recent afternoon. “That’s where I am, all day, every day,” says the Weezer frontman, 48. “Always working on songs, and now computer programming, too.”
The songs are for Weezer’s latest self-titled LP, known to fans as the Black Album. A few months ahead of its March 1st release date, the band is deep in sessions with producer Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio. “It’s so cool, man,” Cuomo says.
The songs are for Weezer’s latest self-titled LP, known to fans as the Black Album. A few months ahead of its March 1st release date, the band is deep in sessions with producer Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio. “It’s so cool, man,” Cuomo says.
- 11/27/2018
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer have shared their new song “Zombie Bastards” as well as detailed their upcoming self-titled “Black Album.” The LP – the fifth in a series of color-coded eponymous albums following their 1994 debut “Blue Album,” 2001’s “Green Album,” 2008’s “Red Album” and 2016’s “White Album” – is due out March 1st, 2019. TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek, working with Weezer for the first time, produced the “Black Album.”
Rivers Cuomo wrote the album’s songs entirely on piano, a first for a Weezer album, before the singer brought the tracks to the studio.
Rivers Cuomo wrote the album’s songs entirely on piano, a first for a Weezer album, before the singer brought the tracks to the studio.
- 11/21/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer released the first song off their upcoming The Black Album, which will drop next year via Crush Music/Atlantic Records. The thumping rock song “Can’t Knock The Hustle” arrives in the form of a music video that stars Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz as an Uber driver.
In the four-minute video, produced by Jerry Media, Wentz plays a driver who is fed up with his obnoxious nighttime passengers. As Wentz drives around Los Angeles he has to deal with a couple who can’t stop making out,...
In the four-minute video, produced by Jerry Media, Wentz plays a driver who is fed up with his obnoxious nighttime passengers. As Wentz drives around Los Angeles he has to deal with a couple who can’t stop making out,...
- 10/11/2018
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Like so many other things in 2018, the music scene is loud, unsettled and afflicated with an ever-shortening attention span. In just the past few months we’ve seen Cardi B and Camila Cabello become fully-fledged superstars; we’ve seen Kendrick Lamar win a Pulitzer Prize for last year’s album “Damn.” (and seen him continue his reign with the “Black Panther” soundtrack); we’re seeing the release of five Kanye West-helmed albums in as many weeks. And at the year’s mid-way point last weekend, we saw Beyonce and Jay-z — masquerading as “The Carters” — drop a tag-team album that, while below their usual dramatically high standards, is still one of the most significant releases of the year.
Yet there’s an outlier: In a sign of the times, the fastest-rising musical genre — SoundCloud rap, the “emo”-inflected hip-hop of Lil Pump, Lil Uzi Vert, Trippie Redd, Smokepurpp and the...
Yet there’s an outlier: In a sign of the times, the fastest-rising musical genre — SoundCloud rap, the “emo”-inflected hip-hop of Lil Pump, Lil Uzi Vert, Trippie Redd, Smokepurpp and the...
- 6/22/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
With “Everything Is Love,” the three-season musical miniseries about Beyonce and Jay-z — a.k.a. the Carters — reaches a happy ending. It’s both a completion — of the marriage trilogy that began with Beyonce’s 2016 album “Lemonade” and her widely discussed accounts of Jay’s infidelity — and a continuation, with his tales of contrition on last summer’s “4:44.”
As with such a triumphant denouement, everything about this long-rumored tag-team album from America’s first couple, which arrived with little warning on Saturday afternoon, speaks to marital unity, equality, fairness, forgiveness and redemption. It’s officially credited to “The Carters,” which may include their children, who are mentioned in many of the songs. Eldest Blue Ivy even shouts out to her younger twin siblings, Rumi and Sir, between tracks.
That message of familial parity carries over to the way the two share the spotlight. Their participation in the visuals, the...
As with such a triumphant denouement, everything about this long-rumored tag-team album from America’s first couple, which arrived with little warning on Saturday afternoon, speaks to marital unity, equality, fairness, forgiveness and redemption. It’s officially credited to “The Carters,” which may include their children, who are mentioned in many of the songs. Eldest Blue Ivy even shouts out to her younger twin siblings, Rumi and Sir, between tracks.
That message of familial parity carries over to the way the two share the spotlight. Their participation in the visuals, the...
- 6/18/2018
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
Dave Sitek has done more things while high than most of us will do sober. “I’ve been high pretty much most of my life,” he says at the beginning of this episode of Merry Jane’s “Deep Weed” video series, and to look at the breadth of his work—production work for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars, Foals, Little Dragon, and…
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- 9/12/2017
- by Randall Colburn
- avclub.com
Dave Grohl joined Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Jon Batiste and Stay Human for a monster jam on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Wednesday.
Grohl was on hand with his mother, Virginia, to discuss From Cradle to Stage, her new book about rock star moms. After the interview, Grohl leapt off the couch and jumped behind a drum set to join Preservation Hall and The Late Show house band for a fiery rendition of the former's new song, "Santiago."
This isn't the first time Grohl has teamed with Preservation Hall Jazz Band...
Grohl was on hand with his mother, Virginia, to discuss From Cradle to Stage, her new book about rock star moms. After the interview, Grohl leapt off the couch and jumped behind a drum set to join Preservation Hall and The Late Show house band for a fiery rendition of the former's new song, "Santiago."
This isn't the first time Grohl has teamed with Preservation Hall Jazz Band...
- 4/27/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Blondie and Garbage are teaming up for a U.S. tour this summer. Blondie & Garbage Team Up For Joint Summer Tour The tour, called the “Rage and Rapture Tour,” comes just after the release of Blondie’s new album Pollinator, which will be out May 5. Tracks will feature appearances from Dave Sitek, Sia, Charli Xcx, Laurie Anderson, Devonté Hynes, Joan Jett, Johnny […]
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- 2/9/2017
- by Hillary Luehring-Jones
- Uinterview
Last year, 22-year-old New Orleans–born rapper Pell turned heads with his Floating While Dreaming mixtape, a collection of hazy rap-sung songs branded as "dream rap" evocative of Chance the Rapper. For his label debut, Limbo, released last week, he worked with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek to further experiment with his sound. On the album's standout track, "Queso," he matches Sitek's cowbell- and bass-heavy production with lyrics echoing our Tinder age: What's the point of courtship, anyway? In its colorful, '70s-inspired video, which Vulture is premiering today, he cuts to the chase, flirting with the object of his affections in more absurd ways, like role-playing as her gynecologist and romancing her with a talking deer head, as you do. In an intense handwritten note, Pell recalls to Vulture all the uncertainty that accompanies dating, which inspired the song: "Even when the world opens its arms as...
- 11/10/2015
- by Dee Lockett
- Vulture
Scarlett Johansson is no stranger to the music scene, but her latest project is something completely different.
News: Scarlett Johansson: My Baby Looks 'Completely Different' From What I Imagined
The actress has assembled a pop supergroup featuring singer-songwriters Julia Haltigan, Holly Miranda and Kendra Morris, as well as eldest Haim sister Este Haim, who's traded in her trademark bass for a seat behind the drum kit. Johannson cites Grimes, the Bangles and the Go-Go's as influences for the group, currently calling themselves The Singles.
"The idea was to write super-pop dance music written and performed by girls," Johansson told Rolling Stone. "I wanted it to be like those bands: ultra-pop but also a little ironic, a little in on the joke."
Check out the group's fun, electro-pop single "Candy" below.
News: Scarlett Johansson Married Romain Dauriac in Secret Ceremony
The Singles is a new direction for Johansson's music career, which has already...
News: Scarlett Johansson: My Baby Looks 'Completely Different' From What I Imagined
The actress has assembled a pop supergroup featuring singer-songwriters Julia Haltigan, Holly Miranda and Kendra Morris, as well as eldest Haim sister Este Haim, who's traded in her trademark bass for a seat behind the drum kit. Johannson cites Grimes, the Bangles and the Go-Go's as influences for the group, currently calling themselves The Singles.
"The idea was to write super-pop dance music written and performed by girls," Johansson told Rolling Stone. "I wanted it to be like those bands: ultra-pop but also a little ironic, a little in on the joke."
Check out the group's fun, electro-pop single "Candy" below.
News: Scarlett Johansson Married Romain Dauriac in Secret Ceremony
The Singles is a new direction for Johansson's music career, which has already...
- 2/21/2015
- Entertainment Tonight
After her brush with Tom Waits, Scarlett Johansson has joined a girl group! ScarJo, Holly Miranda, Kendra Morris, Julia Haltigan, and Este Haim (yes, one of the Haim girls) make up the Singles, and their first song, "Candy," sounds like if Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend" hung out with TV on the Radio and the Go-Go's. That TV on the Radio sound makes sense: Dave Sitek, who also worked with ScarJo on her Waits album, produced the track. All in all, pretty catchy! It would be a damn shame to call a song "Candy" and not have it be addictive. ...
- 2/20/2015
- by Lindsey Weber
- Vulture
Mikky Ekko is a safer driver than you. Or he has psychic powers. In a moving addition to the Car Crash Music Video genre, the "Smile" clips co-stars the singer with a lovely garlanded (as opposed to Garlanded) maiden. The lovers traipse the field in reverse, retelling a tale of old, and one man faces the eternal question: do I let my girlfriend drive my automobile? "Smile" is the first single from Ekko's debut album "Time," out via RCA some time this fall. The set features collaborations with TV On The Radio collaborator Dave Sitek, Jeff Bhasker, Stargate, Dennis Herring, Clams Casino, Nick Ruth, Justin Parker, Benny Blanco and recent music video heartbreaker Ryan Tedder (of OneRepublic). Mikky Ekko is out on tour with Alt-j -- who had a big Billboard 200 bow this week -- in November. Still trying to place that voice? Ekko was featured on Rihanna's smash hit "Stay.
- 10/2/2014
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
TV On The Radio singer Tunde Adebimpe had an idea for a music video, where "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" actor and icon Paul Reubens would play a race car driver losing his mind. He took the idea to Funny Or Die. Apparently, those kind of pitches work. Rope in "Doctor Who" and "Guardians of the Galaxy" star Karen Gillan, throw the formerly indie band in some smashing white suits, and you've got yourself this Danny Jelinek-directed video insanity, for song "Happy Idiot." "I got to speak with [Reubens] over the phone about doing it and, in between being blindingly nervous that I was actually talking to an actor who had shaped a Lot of my world view and trying not to freak him out by saying so, he mentioned that he's been a fan of the band for awhile," Adebimpe explained in a press release. "He liked the idea, and, somehow, here...
- 9/30/2014
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
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After featuring on both of 2013's biggest singles, Pharrell will complete his comeback with a new solo album in the spring. Other big-name acts making a return include U2, the Black Keys, Stevie Wonder (twice), Beck, the Prodigy, Sean Paul and Glasto headliners elect Fleetwood Mac… Morrissey will hope to capitalise on the buzz surrounding his autobiography, while a third Stone Roses album remains a vague hope for next winter, though the prospect of new Blur material has been superseded by Damon Albarn's debut solo record… Kanye West will remain ubiquitous well into 2014 with a Yeezus follow-up already underway and a sequel to the Cruel Summer comp (called Cruel Winter, obvs) also on the slate. Sometime Kanye producer Hudson Mohawke is also readying his second solo album. Rap hook-writer du jour Future will finally release Honest in the spring,...
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After featuring on both of 2013's biggest singles, Pharrell will complete his comeback with a new solo album in the spring. Other big-name acts making a return include U2, the Black Keys, Stevie Wonder (twice), Beck, the Prodigy, Sean Paul and Glasto headliners elect Fleetwood Mac… Morrissey will hope to capitalise on the buzz surrounding his autobiography, while a third Stone Roses album remains a vague hope for next winter, though the prospect of new Blur material has been superseded by Damon Albarn's debut solo record… Kanye West will remain ubiquitous well into 2014 with a Yeezus follow-up already underway and a sequel to the Cruel Summer comp (called Cruel Winter, obvs) also on the slate. Sometime Kanye producer Hudson Mohawke is also readying his second solo album. Rap hook-writer du jour Future will finally release Honest in the spring,...
- 1/4/2014
- by Sam Richards, Gwilym Mumford, Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe claims that he "sees tons of people looking lost and lethal, and I think we're all the same" on the band's latest single, but if "Mercy" is any indication, there's far more "lethal" than "lost" to come from the Brooklyn natives.
HuffPost Entertainment is glad to be premiere the new song, which the band teased when they curated All Tomorrow's Parties and comes as a signal of the band's return to making music (there have been no announced plans for a full LP). It also marks the group's first outing on member/producer Dave Sitek's new label, Federal Prism. In keeping with the band's interest in technology, a preview was first teased on The Huffington Post's account.
“Couldn't be more excited to be getting back into it, all together," band member Kyp Malone tells HuffPost. "The new songs 'Mercy' and 'Million Miles' came...
HuffPost Entertainment is glad to be premiere the new song, which the band teased when they curated All Tomorrow's Parties and comes as a signal of the band's return to making music (there have been no announced plans for a full LP). It also marks the group's first outing on member/producer Dave Sitek's new label, Federal Prism. In keeping with the band's interest in technology, a preview was first teased on The Huffington Post's account.
“Couldn't be more excited to be getting back into it, all together," band member Kyp Malone tells HuffPost. "The new songs 'Mercy' and 'Million Miles' came...
- 7/30/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
These past few months, I've grown weary trying to find albums that engage me from start to finish. In fact, I've yet to find one album in the past few months I can listen to top to bottom. I truly believe that we are back in the land of "singles." Not saying that a Blood on the Tracks, Dark Side of the Moon, Ok Computer, or (What's The Story) Morning Glory? isn't lurking in the shadows, but.... I'm old enough to have bought 45s back in the '60s when I was a young pup; my first was The Beatles' "Rain"/"Paperback Writer." In the land of digital, I'm happy to download one song from some new noteworthy act and let it fall into my enormous random shuffle playlist (over 8,700 songs and counting). And that "single" is not always the band or label's choice; in the age of iTunes, we...
- 7/3/2013
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
Beady Eye have confirmed plans to perform on The Voice UK this weekend.
The Liam Gallagher-fronted band will play new single 'Second Bite of the Apple' during the BBC One singing show's semi-final episode this weekend.
The performance is in support of their second studio album Be, which has landed at number two on the midweek chart update.
Meanwhile, Beady Eye release new studio footage during the making of their album, which has been narrated by producer Dave Sitek.
"This will go out into the world, and our work is done, and that's our primary responsibility," he says. "And the gift that we get from doing something like this is the present. Like, when we press play.
"That's the highest gift anyone can have, it's like, 'Woah, f**k, we made something happen'. I mean, life is about growth, it's about change."
Watch Beady Eye's new studio footage...
The Liam Gallagher-fronted band will play new single 'Second Bite of the Apple' during the BBC One singing show's semi-final episode this weekend.
The performance is in support of their second studio album Be, which has landed at number two on the midweek chart update.
Meanwhile, Beady Eye release new studio footage during the making of their album, which has been narrated by producer Dave Sitek.
"This will go out into the world, and our work is done, and that's our primary responsibility," he says. "And the gift that we get from doing something like this is the present. Like, when we press play.
"That's the highest gift anyone can have, it's like, 'Woah, f**k, we made something happen'. I mean, life is about growth, it's about change."
Watch Beady Eye's new studio footage...
- 6/12/2013
- Digital Spy
Just a month after the band announced it would be putting out a single on member Dave Sitek’s new label, TV On The Radio has announced its split from Interscope Records. Singer Tunde Adebimpe told Spin that the label “can ask for another record,” but he doesn’t think the band’s going to do it, saying, “They did what they did. That’s as diplomatic as I can put that.” (Interscope has been the band’s home since 2006’s Return To Cookie Mountain; prior to that, Tvotr was on Touch And Go.) Adebimpe also told Spin that ...
- 4/24/2013
- avclub.com
Facing the blustery winter conditions, Scarlett Johansson headed out for her afternoon errands in New York City on Tuesday (March 26).
The 28-year-old actress bundled up in a puffy coat and black skinny jeans as she made her way through the Big Apple streets.
Yesterday afternoon (March 25), the blonde bombshell grabbed a takeout order with her boyfriend Romain Dauriac.
In related news, Scarlett fans can look forward to another tune from the talented star according to an interview with music mogul Dave Sitek.
“We did another single that’ll be out as soon as possible. We’re in the mixing process. Spike Stent is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of mixing and he’s doing the mix for me,” Dave said.
The 28-year-old actress bundled up in a puffy coat and black skinny jeans as she made her way through the Big Apple streets.
Yesterday afternoon (March 25), the blonde bombshell grabbed a takeout order with her boyfriend Romain Dauriac.
In related news, Scarlett fans can look forward to another tune from the talented star according to an interview with music mogul Dave Sitek.
“We did another single that’ll be out as soon as possible. We’re in the mixing process. Spike Stent is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of mixing and he’s doing the mix for me,” Dave said.
- 3/26/2013
- GossipCenter
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced the release of a new album, Mosquito, due out April 16. The band's goal with Mosquito, as lead singer Karen O said in a press release, is to make the fans "feeeeel something": "So much feeling went into this record," she wrote. "It was the rope ladder thrown down into the ditch for us to climb up and dust ourselves off." O added that the album—which reunites them with longtime producer Dave Sitek, as well as Nick Launay and (on one track) LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy—boasts "more moodier and tripped-out ...
- 1/14/2013
- avclub.com
The cover to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' forthcoming new album "Mosquito" looks like "Paranorman" mixed with a Garbage Pail Kids reboot. The effort was produced and engineered by LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek and Nick Launay (YYYs, Arcade Fire, Nick Cave). The song teaser they posted sounds like the Black Angels. Karen O said that fans will hear "roots reggae and minimalist psychedelia influences" in the effort. Well, this should be interesting. The New York band confirmed the arrival of a new album this spring today. "Mosquito" flies onto shelves on April 16 via Interscope, with an abomination...
- 1/14/2013
- Hitfix
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced their fourth studio album. Mosquito is the follow-up to 2009's It's Blitz and is released on April 15 in the UK and April 16 in the Us, via Interscope. The album is the band's fourth studio record and has been produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio who worked on the band's 2003 debut Yeah Yeah Yeahs with Nick Launay, who collaborated with Sitek on It's Blitz!. "Man! the years whiz past but the (more)...
- 1/14/2013
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
New York City trio Yeah Yeah Yeahs are set to release their long-awaited follow-up to 2009’s It’s Blitz! on April 16. Mosquito will be the band’s first album in four years and was recorded at Sonic Ranch in Tornilla, Texas. Lead singer Karen O says this album is moodier and more “tripped-out” than fans are used to, with influences from reggae and psychedelia. It was produced (separately) by Dave Sitek (TV on the Radio) and Nick Launay (Arcade Fire). James Murphy also produced a track. “So much feeling went into this record, it was the rope ladder thrown down into...
- 1/14/2013
- Pastemagazine.com
Beady Eye have confirmed that work on their second studio album has started. The Liam Gallagher-fronted band have teamed up with producer Dave Sitek for the follow-up to 2011's Different Gear, Still Speeding. The producer - best known as a member of TV On The Radio - has previously worked with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Scarlett Johansson. "Beady Eye have returned to the studio to start on the follow-up to their Different Gear, Still Speeding debut album released last year," (more)...
- 11/13/2012
- by By Lewis Corner
- Digital Spy
The history of movie stars becoming rock stars is just as unfortunate as the history of rock stars becoming movie stars, as anyone who's heard Bruce Willis' blues-rock or Steven Seagal's country record can attest to. But just as Justin Timberlake has become one of the rare figures to bridge the divide from the recording world, stars Scarlett Johansson and Zooey Deschanel have found some success collaborating with established artists like Dave Sitek and M. Ward in recent years. And it looks like one more actress is hoping to follow in their footsteps, in the shape of "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" star Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Winstead's already been having a pretty good few months; she's soon to star in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," and she won enormous acclaim for her leading role in Sundance indie "Smashed," which Sony Pictures Classics will release in the hopes of an...
Winstead's already been having a pretty good few months; she's soon to star in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," and she won enormous acclaim for her leading role in Sundance indie "Smashed," which Sony Pictures Classics will release in the hopes of an...
- 5/23/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Rockers Jane's Addiction have teamed up with a group of Moroccan world musicians for an exotic new track. Singer Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro and drummer Stephen Perkins have recorded "End to the Lies" with the legendary The Master Musicians of Joujouka.
The 14 village musicians hail from the Ahl Srif mountain range of the southern Rif Mountains in northern Morocco, they are Sufi trance artists who use reed, pipe and percussion to create drones and complex rhythms. Late The Rolling Stones star Brian Jones recorded them in 1968 for his album "Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka".
Farrell says, "We wanted to add a sense of ancient ritual and some depth beyond normal instrumentation, getting off the typical path that rock bands use." The band took producer Rich Costey and temporary bassist Dave Sitek to Joujouka to record the sounds.
He adds, "It was all recorded in the...
The 14 village musicians hail from the Ahl Srif mountain range of the southern Rif Mountains in northern Morocco, they are Sufi trance artists who use reed, pipe and percussion to create drones and complex rhythms. Late The Rolling Stones star Brian Jones recorded them in 1968 for his album "Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka".
Farrell says, "We wanted to add a sense of ancient ritual and some depth beyond normal instrumentation, getting off the typical path that rock bands use." The band took producer Rich Costey and temporary bassist Dave Sitek to Joujouka to record the sounds.
He adds, "It was all recorded in the...
- 4/13/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
I may not be the best judge of new Jane's Addiction material, for their last studio foray "Stays," from 2003, greatly disappointed. But that was eight years ago. The band's return will certainly be heralded with a little help from new track "End to the Lies," produced by the act's new bassist/producer/solo artist/TV On The Radio collaborator Dave Sitek. It rocks good and tough, primed for hard rock radio, Perry Farrell's vocals pushed way back behind Sitek's signature fuzz. The amps may have given the guitars a lot of character but studio trickery gives it some nice atmosphere. What's with the...
- 3/31/2011
- Hitfix
With their new album Nine Types of Light complete, Smith will sit out band's spring tour while receiving treatment.
By Gil Kaufman
TV On The Radio's Gerard Smith
Photo: Michael Lavine
Just as TV on the Radio were finishing work on their upcoming album, Nine Types of Light, bassist Gerard Smith was diagnosed with lung cancer. The avant rock band announced the diagnosis on its website on Monday in a note that updated Smith's condition.
"As a result [of the diagnosis, Gerard] has been undergoing treatment and will be unable to participate in the upcoming tour," read a statement from the band. "Gerard is fortunate enough to have health insurance and is receiving excellent medical care. Already we have seen dramatic results. Combine that with Gerard's legendarily willful disposition and it might just be cancer that has the problem. We appreciate your concern and support for Gerard and his family." Smith has been...
By Gil Kaufman
TV On The Radio's Gerard Smith
Photo: Michael Lavine
Just as TV on the Radio were finishing work on their upcoming album, Nine Types of Light, bassist Gerard Smith was diagnosed with lung cancer. The avant rock band announced the diagnosis on its website on Monday in a note that updated Smith's condition.
"As a result [of the diagnosis, Gerard] has been undergoing treatment and will be unable to participate in the upcoming tour," read a statement from the band. "Gerard is fortunate enough to have health insurance and is receiving excellent medical care. Already we have seen dramatic results. Combine that with Gerard's legendarily willful disposition and it might just be cancer that has the problem. We appreciate your concern and support for Gerard and his family." Smith has been...
- 3/15/2011
- MTV Music News
Well, this should sound interesting. TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek has linked up with Jane’s Addiction to play bass and write tunes for the forthcoming Jane’s album. He joins singer Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro and drummer Stephen Perkins in the band. Also signed on is producer Rich Costey, who’s worked with Muse, Franz Ferdinand and Interpol. Founding bassist Eric Avery, who has come and gone before, left the band last year. Duff McKagan joined briefly, but only lasted six months and left in September. [More after the jump...] "Dave, Steve and I are fully immersed in the process of...
- 1/4/2011
- Hitfix
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