NEW DOCUMENTARY FILM 

‘GORILLAZ: REJECT FALSE ICONS’

IN CINEMAS WORLDWIDE ON DECEMBER 16th 2019

THE ONE-NIGHT THEATRICAL EVENT PREMIERES IN CINEMAS AROUND THE WORLD ON DECEMBER 16th 2019 

Tickets on sale from November 27th at: http://rejectfalseicons.com

Gorillaz today announce a brand new feature documentary film titled GORILLAZ: REJECT FALSE ICONS, directed by Denholm Hewlett and available in cinemas worldwide for one night only on December 16th.

Released in partnership with Gorillaz Productions, Eleven, Trafalgar Releasing and Warner Music Entertainment, GORILLAZ: REJECT FALSE ICONS documents life in the studio with Gorillaz co-founders Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett; producers The Twilite Tone of D /\ P, Remi Kabaka and James Ford; as well as stellar roll call of featured artists including Vince Staples, Jean-Michel Jarre, De La Soul, DRAM, Pusha T, Peven Everett, Little Simz, Jamie Principle, Yasiin Bey, Bootie Brown, Cheick Tidiane Seck, Graham Coxon, Pauline Black, Zebra Katz, Danny Brown, Ben Mendelson, Kelela, Jehnny Beth, Hypnotic Brass, Junior Dan, Shaun Ryder, Mavis Staples, Sidiki Diabete and Noel Gallagher.

In his debut feature, director Denholm Hewlett followed the band’s every move for three years, covering the making of two critically acclaimed albums, ‘Humanz’ and ‘The Now Now’, as well as the band’s most ambitious world tour to date encompassing dates across Europe, North America, South America and Mexico, bookended by its own Demon Dayz Festivals in the UK and US. The result is the first ever all-access immersive journey into the world of Gorillaz and its extended family – featuring never-seen footage, where the virtual meets the real – to capture the wondrous chaos of life under the watchful eye of Murdoc Niccals (bass), Noodle (guitar), Russel Hobbs (drums) and 2D (vocals).

GORILLAZ: REJECT FALSE ICONS will be screened in cinemas around the world on December 16th 2019. Tickets will be on sale on November 27th from rejectfalseicons.com where fans can find the most up-to-date information regarding participating theatres.

Notes to Editors:

About Gorillaz:
Virtual group Gorillaz is singer 2D, bassist Murdoc Niccals, guitarist Noodle and drummer Russel Hobbs. Created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, their acclaimed eponymous debut album was released in 2001. The BRIT and Grammy Award winning band’s subsequent albums are Demon Days (2005), Plastic Beach (2010), The Fall (2011), Humanz (2017) and The Now Now (2018). A truly global phenomenon, Gorillaz have topped charts around the world and toured the globe from San Diego to Syria, picking up hundreds of millions of streams and record sales along the way. Gorillaz have achieved success in entirely ground-breaking ways, winning numerous awards including the coveted Jim Henson Creativity Honor. The band are recognised by The Guinness Book Of World Records* as the planet’s Most Successful Virtual Act.

About Trafalgar Releasing:
Trafalgar Releasing is the global leader in event cinema distribution. A subsidiary of Trafalgar Entertainment, Trafalgar Releasing’s global operations include production, acquisition, marketing and distribution of specialized content to over 4,000 cinemas in more than 100 countries worldwide.

A full spectrum of releases includes high arts (The Metropolitan Opera, Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Opera House), award winning theatre (The King and I: from the London Palladium, An American In Paris, Funny Girl), iconic moments (Monty Python Live, David Bowie is happening now, They Shall Not Grow Old), heritage music acts (Roger Waters The Wall, David Gilmour Live in Pompeii, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds) and contemporary music sensations (BTS’ Burn the Stage the Movie, Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams, Muse Drones World Tour). Headquartered in London, the company also has offices in New York, Los Angeles and Denver. More information about Trafalgar Releasing can be found at www.Trafalgar-Releasing.com.

THOM YORKE

ANIMA & “SUSPIRIUM” NOMINATED FOR FOUR TOTAL GRAMMY AWARDS

Thom Yorke’s solo releases ANIMA and Suspiria will contend across four categories in the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards come January 26, 2020.

The nominations, which span Alternative Music Album to packaging and film/visual medium categories are as follows:

Best Alternative Music album:
ANIMA

Best Boxed OR Special Limited Edition Packaging:
ANIMA
Stanley Donwood & Tchocky (Thom Yorke), art directors

Best Music Film:
ANIMA
Paul Thomas Anderson, video director; Paul Thomas Anderson, Erica Frauman & Sara Murphy, video producers

Best Song Written For Visual Medium:
“Suspirium”
Thom Yorke, songwriter

ANIMA was released June 27 by XL Recordings, accompanied by a Paul Thomas Anderson-directed “one-reeler,” also titled ANIMA, on Netflix. The New York Times noted both the album’s “subtle, complex, changeable layerings and richly shadowy sounds” and praised the film as “elusive, dreamlike and worthy of its leading man: a singer who knows how to move.” ANIMA was written by Thom Yorke, produced by Nigel Godrich and features the London Contemporary Orchestra on all nine tracks. 

Described by Rolling Stone as “peak Yorke, and scary good,” “Suspirium” was the first track to be revealed from Thom Yorke’s Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film), released October 26, 2018 on XL Recordings. The song was written and arranged by Thom Yorke, recorded and produced by Thom and Sam Petts-Davies, and featured the London Contemporary Orchestra and Choir, and Pasha Mansurov on solo flute.

VAMPIRE WEEKEND

NOMINATED FOR THREE GRAMMY AWARDS:
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM 
BEST ROCK SONG

Vampire Weekend has been nominated for three GRAMMY Awards including Album of the Year. The band will be also be competing for Best Alternative Music Album (for its acclaimed fourth album Father of the Bride) and Best Rock Song (Ezra Koenig for “Harmony Hall”) when the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards take place January 26, 2020.

Father of the Bride was released May 3rd on Columbia Records, quickly becoming the third Vampire Weekend album in a row to reach #1 on the Billboard 200. Father of the Bride’s first week sales of 138,000 marked the highest single week sales of the Grammy-winning band’s career, including 20,000 vinyl copies, putting the LP at #1 on the vinyl chart by a large margin—not to mention #1 debuts on the Album Sales and Internet Sales charts.

Critical acclaim for Father of the Bride has been unanimously enthusiastic, including:

“A veritable feast of music” —Billboard

“One of the most ~important~ bands of the 21st century… With Father of the Bride, their fourth album, the group has expanded itself and the conception of what a band can be.” —GQ

“The band’s long-awaited fourth album also just became the frontrunner for best album of 2019” —New York (Vulture)

“Sonically eclectic and lyrically profound… the indie-rock band’s most affecting material to date.” —People

“A sheer delight in craft and sound.” —Rolling Stone

“Vampire Weekend returns as the best indie band of their generation… the album proves that they’re still better than most, if not all, of the other artists of that era… More important, the band has a genius-level songwriter in (Ezra) Koenig” —USA Today

“An almost universally radiant offering… an album that could soundtrack an afternoon picnic or be used as fodder for a doctorate thesis on songwriting. It’s a beautifully realized cipher in an age of unsatisfying answers.” —Variety

Vampire Weekend has won one previous GRAMMY, for Best Alternative Music Album at the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards for 2013’s Modern Vampires Of The City, and was nominated for a Best Alternative Music Album at the 53rd annual GRAMMY Awards for 2010’s Contra. in 2014 Vampire Weekend performed at the yearly GRAMMY In The Schools Live! concert, accompanied by members of GRAMMY Camp — Jazz Session. The band is currently on the European leg of its Father of the Bride Tour—its biggest and most ambitious outing to date, and one that has seen the band play a triumphant September 6th homecoming staged in-the-round for a sold out crowd of nearly 20,000 fans at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The tour will continue through 2020.

NASTY LITTLE MAN: BEST OF 2019

As 2019 comes to a close, we here at nasty little man proudly present (and refresh your memory with) the best of 2019:

New Albums
BECK: Hyperspace (Capitol Records)
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: Ghosteen (Ghosteen Ltd.)
DESERT SESSIONS: Vols. 11 & 12 – Arrivederci Despair / Tightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels (Matador)
TAYLOR HAWKINS & THE COATTAIL RIDERS: Get the Money (Shanabelle/RCA Records)
JENNY LEWIS: On The Line (Warner Records)
LINDEMANN: F&M (Caroline Records)
IGGY POP: Free (Loma Vista Recordings)
RAMMSTEIN: Untitled (Caroline Records)
VAMPIRE WEEKEND: Father of the Bride (Columbia Records)
THOM YORKE: Anima (XL Recordings)

Films (features, shorts, videos)
METALLICA & SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: S&M²
RAMMSTEIN & SPECTER BERLIN: “Deutschland”
THOM YORKE & PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON: Anima

Miscellaneous
BROKEN BELLS: “Good Luck” (30th Century Records)
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM: Electric Lady Sessions (Columbia Records/DFA)
PAUL McCARTNEY: Egypt Station Traveller’s Edition Box Set (Capitol Records)
THOM YORKE: “Not The News” EP (XL Recordings)

BECK

“EVERLASTING NOTHING” NEW ALBUM TRACK OUT NOW

HYPERSPACE OUT NOVEMBER 22nd ON CAPITOL RECORDS

“EVERLASTING NOTHING,” “DARK PLACES,” “HYPERLIFE,” “UNEVENTFUL DAYS,” & “SAW LIGHTNING” INCLUDED WITH ALL PRE-ORDERS

Appearing Live December 6th at Intersect in Las Vegas.

The penultimate point on the timeline to Hyperspace has been charted: “Everlasting Nothing,” the latest album track from seven time GRAMMY-winner Beck’s upcoming new album is now available across digital platforms and with all pre-orders.

“Everlasting Nothing” is the show stopping finale of Hyperspace, a stunning, sublime ballad written and produced by Beck and Pharrell Williams, the two of whom play every instrument on the track—Beck on vocals, guitar and piano and Pharrell on drums and keyboards. The sun-drenched vocal harmonies that complete the song are supplied by Alex Lilly, Roger Manning, and a nine-person choir.

“Everlasting Nothing” can be reached HERE.

Hyperspace will be released November 22nd on Capitol Records. The new record will be Beck’s 14th studio album and first since 2017’s Colors, which won Best Alternative Music Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical at the 61st GRAMMY Awards. Hyperspace’s release will be followed by Beck’s December 6th headline appearance at the Intersect festival in Las Vegas.

BECK 
PAISLEY PARK SESSIONS
Audio EP OUT NOW Only On Amazon Music

Exclusive Beck Interview Here

Videos To Be Released November 18

Earlier this year, Beck accepted the honor of an invitation to record at Paisley Park, Prince’s legendary production complex and creative sanctuary in Minnesota. The resulting Paisley Park Sessions EP captures a near-impromptu jam by Beck and his band, who performed two of Beck’s own songs in addition to a medley of Prince’s iconic hits.

Beck is the first major music artist to record in Prince’s revered Studio A since his passing in 2016 – it was his primary workspace for over three decades wherein he wrote and recorded countless hits.

Paisley Park Sessions, now available on Amazon Music as an Amazon Original audio release, showcases Beck and his band channeling the studio’s inspired energy into a Prince medley of “Raspberry Beret,” “When Doves Cry,” “Kiss,” and “1999.” Rounding out the EP are unique, streamlined arrangements of two classic Beck originals, “Where It’s At” and “Up All Night,” respectively from the GRAMMY-winning albums Odelay and Colors. The sessions are available to stream on all tiers of Amazon Music, including in the highest quality audio with Amazon Music HD.

Also available today is an exclusive video interview with Beck captured at Paisley Park about this not-so-mellow gold experience, viewable only at Beck’s YouTube/Vevo channel. Three performance clips from the Paisley Park Sessions will follow on November 18th. 

Beck’s forthcoming 14th studio album, Hyperspace, will be released November 22nd on Capitol Records.Amazon Music listeners can hear Beck’s Paisley Park Sessions by simply asking, “Alexa, Play Beck at Paisley Park” in the Amazon Music app for iOS and Android and on Alexa-enabled devices. In addition, Amazon Music listeners can access hundreds of Amazon Originals featuring both emerging and established artists across numerous genres, available to stream and purchase only on Amazon Music.

ABOUT PAISLEY PARKPaisley Park, Prince’s private estate and production complex in Chanhassen, MN offers fans of the late music icon the unprecedented opportunity to tour the legendary, 65,000-square-foot complex that was the center of Prince’s creative universe for over three decades. Stewarded by The Prince Estate, guided tours take visitors throughout the extensive main floor, including studios where Prince recorded, produced and mixed most of his biggest hits. The tour also features hundreds of artifacts from Prince’s personal archives, including iconic concert wardrobe, awards, musical instruments and concert memorabilia.  To learn more, visit PaisleyPark.com

NICK CAVE
AND THE BAD SEEDS
New Album

GHOSTEEN 
VINYL AND CD OUT NOW

European and UK Tour On Sale Now 

Buy the album on CD and vinyl here

Ghosteen, the new two part album from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, is out now on double vinyl, double CD and across all digital platforms. Order now here.

Ghosteen premiered globally in full on YouTube on October 3rd 2019, accompanied by a video revealing words and lyrics in a beautiful, ethereal cloudscape that shifted in color and made subtle references to each song, watch here.

Listening sessions took place simultaneously in independent record shops across the world, with fans gathering to experience the music together.

The news of the album was first revealed by Nick Cave on The Red Hand Files in direct response to a question from a fan.

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have also announced a 33 date European and UK Tour for 2020, starting in Lisbon on April 23rd, the tour will visit 19 countries, including 7 dates in the UK.

Track Listing:
Part One

1 Spinning Song             4:44 
2 Bright Horses              4:53 
3 Waiting for You           3:55 
4 Night Raid                    5:08
5 Sun Forest                     6:48
6 Galleon Ship                4:15
7 Ghosteen Speaks        4:03
8 Leviathan                     4:48

Part Two

1 Ghosteen             12:11
2 Fireflies                 3:23
3 Hollywood         14:13

‘The songs on the first album are the children.
The songs on the second album are their parents.
Ghosteen is a migrating spirit.’

Nick Cave

The album was recorded in 2018 and early 2019 at Woodshed in Malibu, Nightbird in Los Angeles, Retreat in Brighton and Candybomber in Berlin. It was mixed by Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Lance Powell and Andrew Dominik at Conway in Los Angeles. Cover painting by Tom duBois.

Nick Cave – vocals, piano, synthesizer, backing vocal
Warren Ellis – synthesizer, loops, flute, violin, piano, backing vocals
Thomas Wydler – drums
Martyn Casey – bass
Jim Sclavunos – vibraphone, percussion
George Vjestica – guitar

Ghosteen is the seventeenth studio album from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, following 2016’s Skeleton Tree, and is released via Ghosteen Ltd.

“(4.5 stars) One of the most moving albums of his career… Ghosteen is a masterpiece of melancholy”—ROLLING STONE

“Some music sets out to conjure eternities. Extended drones, chantlike repeating phrases, tolling chords, spacious reverberation: Those are meditative sounds, defying fracture or interruption, tuning out the momentary and the trivial, invoking concentration, absorption, ritual and rapture. It’s the kind of music Nick Cave has chosen for Ghosteen, his 17th studio album leading the Bad Seeds.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Best New Music (8.8) One of his most powerful albums yet, an endlessly giving and complex meditation on mortality and our collective grief… you don’t need to be an expert in Cave’s wider cosmology to be swept inside of Ghosteen, to be devastated by its despair and lifted higher by its humanity. You only need the ability to suffer and the desire to survive.” —PITCHFORK

“This is the sound not of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds pushing against the heavens or crash-landing in the attempt, but floating in the stratosphere themselves… Ghosteen is another major achievement in one of the most remarkable late-career stretches anyone’s ever had… the best version of him as an artist. As a writer, he is concluding this decade at the height of his powers.” —STEREOGUM

“What Cave sends us from this new place is remarkable. Ghosteen is both his most solitary recording since 2001’s No More Shall We Part and impossible to imagine without the contributions of The Bad Seeds. Long one of rock’s most versatile and visceral bands, here they’re tasked with wrapping swirls of atmospheric sound—braids of synth, vibraphones that echo from a mile away—around Cave’s elegant piano playing. He sounds simultaneously alone at the edge of the world and surrounded by benevolent spirits, a fittingly biblical cloud of witnesses who haven’t seen the power of God so much as they’ve moved through the fallout of their own atomic blasts; theirs is a communion of radiation.” —AV CLUB

“A dream world filled with prancing fire horses, stairways to heaven, and ghastly specters traveling down rain-glossed streets. Each line evokes poetic scenes with a vibrancy to rival the best of literature”—CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND

“Cave’s radical openness has brought him into conversation and solidarity with this global community of people who have lost and who continue to live. For such people, Ghosteen is a sweeping and remarkable gift.” —PASTE

“Nick Cave’s ‘Ghosteen’ finds beauty and hope after darkness… when Nick sings, ‘Just want to stay in the business of making you happy,’ it’s one of the most purely beautiful lines in a love song released this year.” —BROOKLYN VEGAN

TAYLOR HAWKINS & THE COATTAIL RIDERS   

“I REALLY BLEW IT” ALL-STAR VIDEO LIVE NOW 

DIRECTED BY WILEY HODGDEN & TAYLOR HAWKINS 

GUEST STARRING DAVE GROHL, PERRY FARRELL & MORE 

NEW ALBUM GET THE MONEY OUT NOW ON SHANABELLE/RCA RECORDS

Tonight’s the night: You can finally spend the evening with Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders’ full length new album Get The Money, now available on Shanabelle/RCA Records.

Heralding the album’s arrival with a 1970s late night music video TV show vibe is the epic clip for “I Really Blew It.” Directed by Wiley Hodgen and Taylor himself, “I Really Blew It” spins a classic rock n roll seduction story featuring a flaming Dave Grohl apparition, miniaturized Coattail Riders jamming with Perry and Etty Farrell, members of the Hawkins family, and of course Taylor—flexing his thespian skills here in multiple roles. 

Get The Money’s release was preceded by the glam-tastic “Middle Child,” the “all-out hard rock assault” (ROLLING STONE) of “Crossed The Line,” and the title track  STEREOGUM described as “a proggy classic-rock curio that reminds me of late Zeppelin.”

Get The MoneyHERE. Exclusive Merch bundles are also available HERE. Just let your inhibitions run wild.

BECK 

“DARK PLACES” ALBUM TRACK & LYRIC VIDEO OUT NOW

HYPERSPACE OUT NOVEMBER 22nd ON CAPITOL RECORDS

“DARK PLACES,” “HYPERLIFE,” “UNEVENTFUL DAYS,” & “SAW LIGHTNING” INCLUDED WITH ALL PRE-ORDERS

Appearing Live December 6th at Intersect in Las Vegas.

New coordinates have been transmitted from Hyperspace in the form of “Dark Places.” The latest album track from the seven-time GRAMMY-winner’s upcoming new album is now available across digital platforms and with all pre-orders.  

The “Dark Places” lyric video can be viewed HERE. 

“Dark Places” follows closely on the heels of single “Uneventful Days,” hailed by STEREOGUM as “quite possibly the best song Beck has made since Morning Phase” and realized as a video by Dev Hynes that features album intro “Hyperlife” as well as starring turns from Evan Rachel Wood, Tessa Thompson and Alia Shawkat.

Hyperspace’s “collection of lush, atmospheric songs” (Rolling Stone) will be released November 22nd on Capitol Records. The new record will be Beck’s 14th studio album and first since 2017’s Colors, which won Best Alternative Music Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical at the 61st GRAMMY Awards. Hyperspace’s release will be followed by Beck’s December 6th headline appearance at the Intersect festival in Las Vegas.

RAMMSTEIN-SINGER TILL LINDEMANN AND PETER TÄGTGREN (PAIN, HYPOCRISY) RELEASE THIRD SINGLE FROM THEIR FORTHCOMING ALBUM.

“KNEBEL” OUT NOVEMBER 1st

NEW LINDEMANN ALBUM “F & M” OUT NOVEMBER 22nd.

LINDEMANN, the second coming: the German-Swedish power duo Till Lindemann (Rammstein frontman) and Peter Tägtgren (mastermind behind legendary metal bands Pain and Hypocrisy) are set to unleash the second LINDEMANN album on the 22nd of November. In this renewed collaboration, the duo takes some unfamiliar and sometimes unexpected paths.

Their first common effort „Skills In Pills“ reached Gold status in Germany and was entirely in English. On this second opus the rules have changed: German lyrics sung by Till Lindemann’s unmistakable voice are set in an intense and unique musical composition.

The starting point of these new LINDEMANN songs was a collaboration between Till Lindemann and the Hamburg Thalia Theater in the context of a modern adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Hänsel & Gretel”, which addresses topics such as fear, hope, poverty, abundance, cannibalism or death.

Five songs from this critically-acclaimed play have been supplemented with six brand new masterpieces to form the impressive new studio work from LINDEMANN.

The third single “Knebel” will be released on Friday the 1st of November. “Knebel” translates to “gag” in English. The video for “Knebel” was directed by Zoran Bihac and filmed in some very cool locations in Russia and Germany. Due to the explicit content of this mind-blowing video, the uncensored version will broadcast only once on knebel.tv. Miss it and you’ll miss out! The video will drop spontaneously the day after single release with teasers posted beforehand on LINDEMANN social. The censored video will then be uploaded to the LINDEMANN Youtube channel.

This is truly one of the toughest videos the band has ever made. Lindemann and Tägtgren are pushing the limits again.

Ich Weiss Es Nicht (Physical Single) // Release Date: Nov 1st 2019
The physical single will be released as CD and 7-inch on 1st November.

Physical Maxi CD Tracklist:
1. Ich Weiß Es Nicht l 2. Ich Weiß Es Nicht (Ministry remix) l 3. Knebel

Physical 2-Track 7-inch Tracklist:
1. Ich Weiß Es Nicht l 2. Ich Weiß Es Nicht (Ministry remix)
“F & M“ (Album) // Release Date: Nov 22nd 2019

The album “F & M“ contains 11 tracks and will be released on the following formats:
– Standard Edition (6-panel digipack)
– Special Edition (deluxe hardcover book)
– 2LP (180gr black vinyl)
– Digital

Album Tracklist:
1. Steh auf
2. Ich weiß es nicht
3. Allesfresser
4. Blut
5. Knebel
6. Frau & Mann
7. Ach so gern
8. Schlaf ein
9. Gummi
10. Platz Eins
11. Wer weiß das schon

Only included on the special edition, 2LP and digital formats:
12. BONUS TRACK: Mathematik (Original Version)
13. BONUS TRACK: Ach so gern (Pain Version)