Leslie Feist is unparalleled when it comes to humanising thorny feelings in song-form, and on her latest album 'Pleasure' she unravels threads of human emotions, tugging on themes of disconnect, loneliness, rejection, and other driving forces behind "escaping pain and going towards pleasure", all in the name of exploring emotional limits.
To celebrate Lorde kicking off a seven-date tour of New Zealand (and her birthday week!), we've asked each of her personally hand-picked local opening acts to fill us in on what their favourite Lorde song is and why.
Read on for their musings below...
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‘Yellow Flicker Beat’ - Her fearlessness and power is so undeniable in the song. I have such appreciation and love for artists who are innovative in their approach when creating. It's haunting with a groove. I relate. The song is in a realm I am familiar with. Shout out Lorde tbh.
Coup De Main and Live Nation are proud to present the return of Paramore to New Zealand next year, with the band bringing their 'Tour Four' to Auckland for one show only at Auckland’s Spark Arena on February 13th - i.e. Galentine's Day!
Paramore will be touring in support of their latest album 'After Laughter', with special guests still to be announced.
Tickets to Paramore's first NZ show since January 2014 will go on sale from midday on Wednesday, November 15th.
Ahead of their Maida Vale live session next week, Pale Waves premiered their new single 'New Year's Eve' on BBC Radio 1 today, during which frontwoman Heather Baron-Gracie relatably sings, "Maybe I left you / But you were with your friends / I tried to make a good impression but I failed again."
Assumedly, 'New Year's Eve' is lifted from Pale Waves' upcoming debut EP, which is now expected to be released next year:
On his just released debut single ‘It’s Gonna Be Alright’, Jon Lemmon’s infectious optimism in undeniable - and it’s much like his personality in real life. Off the back of one single, he’s also been announced for Auckland City Limits next March - playing alongside Phoenix, Beck, Sigrid, and more.
We caught up with the Wellington-based artist while he was in Auckland recently - check out Jon Lemmon’s answers to our Meet/Greet interview below…
20-year-old Maty Noyes is here to stay - and if you don’t know her name, you’ll most likely know her voice by now, thanks to her 2015 collaboration with Kygo, ‘Stay’, which went Top 20 in the UK and has been streamed over 400 million times on Spotify. She was also heard on ‘Angel’ from The Weeknd’s ‘Beauty Behind The Madness’ LP, and has frequently collaborated with Canadian super-producer Stephan Moccio, who co-wrote Miley Cyrus’ ‘Wrecking Ball’.
Just in time as a post-Halloween trick/treat, Exit Kid (Emre Türkmen of Years & Years, and drummer Dylan Bell), have dropped a Hansel & Gretel-inspired music video for 'Remember Remember' - directed by Joe Baughman, who also helmed visuals for Exit Kid's 'It’s Cool' and 'Caesar'.
Watch the music video for 'Remember Remember' below...
P.S. Keep an eye out for a new interview with Türkmen in CDM Issue #22 (out November 27th).
Pale Waves have announced that BBC Radio 1's Huw Stephens will premiere their new song 'New Year's Eve' tomorrow at 12pm NZ time / 10am Australian time / tonight at 11pm UK time.
As part of Harry Styles and Nick Grimshaw's TV special, 'Harry Styles At The BBC', Styles visited a retirement home and bought joy to the elderly by hosting a game of bingo during which he played the role of bingo-caller.
Styles' debut album is up for grabs as a bingo prize, but sadly no-one seems to want to claim his album as a prize. Poor Harry.
Watch Harry's bingo game below, as well as some live performances...
The 1975's Matty Healy tweeted today, "Okay - one more EP," sending fans into a frenzy over the promise of potential new music.
The only thing we want to know is: WHEN are we getting this new EP, Matty?