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Hit Parade (Róisín Murphy Album)
''Hit Parade'' is the sixth solo studio album by Irish singer Róisín Murphy, released on 8 September 2023 through Ninja Tune. It was produced by DJ Koze and was preceded by the singles "CooCool", "Can't Replicate" (exclusively as a 12-inch single), "The Universe", "Fader" and "You Knew". "CooCool" was released alongside Murphy's announcement she had signed to Ninja Tune. Murphy will play select shows in North America following the album's release. The album received acclaim from critics, with some calling it her best work yet and one of the best records of the year. Several critics acknowledged and felt that Murphy's August 2023 leaked private Facebook comment about puberty blockers and young trans people had negatively affected the preceding "goodwill" toward the album. ''Hit Parade'' became Murphy's highest charting album on the UK Albums Chart, peaking in the top five, and debuted in the top ten in Germany as well as the top twenty in Belgium, Ireland and Switzerland. The r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Koze
Stefan Kozalla (born 1972), better known as DJ Koze (), is a German DJ and music producer. Biography Born in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Kozalla first became known in the Hamburg music scene. In the early 1990s, he started as a rapper and DJ for various hip-hop groups in Flensburg. In 1991, DJ Koze reached second place in the German DMC Championship (an offshoot of the Disco Mix Club). Two years later, he moved to Hamburg and, together with Cosmic DJ, DJ Stachy, and the "Schreckliche Sven", founded the hip hop formation Fischmob, which persisted for about five years. At the same time, he also worked with electronic music, increasing his name recognition as a DJ and producing remixes, sometimes under the pseudonym Adolf Noise. A collection of such remixes appeared in 2000 under the title ''Music Is Okay''. As Adolf Noise in 2001, with Max Goldt as spokesman, he released the single ''"''Deine Reime sind Schweine''"'', a satire on battle rap tracks in German hip hop. Together wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Róisín Murphy
Róisín Marie Murphy ( , ; born 5 July 1973) is an Irish singer, songwriter and record producer who first became known in the 1990s as one half of the Pop music, pop duo Moloko alongside the English musician Mark Brydon. After the breakup of Moloko, Murphy embarked on a solo career and released her debut solo album ''Ruby Blue (album), Ruby Blue'' (2005), which she wrote and produced with the experimental musician Matthew Herbert, to critical praise. Her second solo album ''Overpowered'' was released in 2007. In 2015, after an eight-year hiatus that was sporadically interrupted by non-album singles, side projects and guest appearances on other artists' records, Murphy released her third solo album ''Hairless Toys'', which was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and Ireland's Choice Music Prize. The following year, she released her fourth album ''Take Her Up to Monto''. In 2018, she released four releases in collaboration with producer Maurice Fulton. Murphy released her fift ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tommy Tiernan Show
''The Tommy Tiernan Show'' is an Republic of Ireland, Irish chat show presented by Tommy Tiernan. It was first broadcast on RTÉ One on 5 January 2017. The first two series aired on Thursday evenings, with the third series moving to a Saturday evening slot. The premise of the show is that host Tommy Tiernan and the audience don't know who the guests will be. Series Episodes Series 1 (2017) Series 2 (2018) Series 3 (2019) Series 4 (2020) 10 episodes * Hozier (musician), Hozier, Mark Smith, Aisling Byrne and Paddy Holohan * Brendan O'Carroll, Elizabeth Oakes, and Donna Zuma Series 5 (2021) 16 episodes * Andrea Corr, Nicola Tallant and Darragh Carroll. Music was by Andrea Corr with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. * Sinéad Burke, Ian Robertson (psychologist), Ian Robertson and Deirdre Robertson, Séamus and Breanndán Begly. Music was by Emma Langford. * Brenda Fricker, Bashir Otukoya, and Senator David Norris (politician), David Norris. * Mary Coughlan (singer), Mary Coughl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Experimental Pop
Experimental pop is pop music that cannot be categorized within traditional musical boundaries or which attempts to push elements of existing popular forms into new areas. It may incorporate experimental music, experimental techniques such as musique concrète, aleatoric music, or eclecticism in music, eclecticism into pop contexts. Often, the compositional process involves the use of electronic music, electronic production effects to manipulate sounds and arrangements, and the composer may draw the listener's attention specifically with both timbre and tonality, though not always simultaneously. Experimental pop music developed concurrently with experimental jazz as a new kind of avant-garde, with many younger musicians embracing the practice of making studio recordings along the fringes of popular music. In the early 1960s, it was common for producers, songwriters, and engineers to freely experiment with musical form, orchestration, reverb, unnatural reverb, and other sound ef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Saturday Paper
''The Saturday Paper'' is an Australian weekly newspaper, launched on 1 March 2014 in hard copy, as an online newspaper and in mobile news format. The paper is circulated throughout Australian capital cities and major regional centres. Since its launch ''The Saturday Paper'' has maintained a focus on long-form journalism and in-depth coverage of current affairs, arts and Australian politics. Publication ''The Saturday Paper'' is published by Morry Schwartz via Schwartz Media, which also publishes books via Black Inc, the magazine ''The Monthly'' and the '' Quarterly Essay''. Upon its launch, Schwartz stated he expected ''The Saturday Paper'' to be profitable within several years, and the paper should sell "between 60,000 and 80,000 copies a week". Another early projection put that figure at 80,000 to 100,000 copies a week. Ultimately, circulation grew to 900,000 by December 2021. Editors Author Erik Jensen was the paper's editor from its founding until June 2018, when Vice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Róisín Machine
''Róisín Machine'' is the fifth solo studio album by Irish singer Róisín Murphy, released 2 October 2020 by Skint Records. The album received critical acclaim upon its release, ranking among the year's best by several publications. Commercially, ''Róisín Machine'' became Murphy's highest-charting album in both Ireland and the UK, debuting at number five and number 14 respectively. The remix album ''Crooked Machine'' was released 30 April 2021. Background According to Murphy, work began on what would become ''Róisín Machine'' a decade prior to its release, during which time she maintained an active presence in the industry, undertaking several releases including the Italian language EP ''Mi Senti'' (2014), studio albums '' Hairless Toys'' (2015) and ''Take Her Up to Monto'' (2016), and a series of EPs with Maurice Fulton in 2018. However, the impetus for the album came as Skint Records founder Damian Harris returned to the label as creative director in 2019. Harris helped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
