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By Stuart GRAHAM, Helen ROWE LONDON, Nov 2, 2023 (AFP) – A new Beatles song produced with a little help from artificial intelligence and including the vocals of John Lennon was released on Thursday — to lukewarm reviews. The song comes more than four decades after it was originally recorded as a demo, but despite the hype left critics distinctly underwhelmed. “‘Now and Then’ is not terrible… But ultimately, it’s kind of mundane,” wrote Geoff […]
(Eagle News) — A young Filipino policeman decided to compose a song to inspire Filipinos forced to stay at home amid the COVID-19 quarantine. The 32-year old cop, Christian Pagaduan Villamor, presently assigned at the Lupao Police Station in Nueva Ecija performed his song himself while strumming his guitar, dedicating it to all Filipinos fighting the war against the coronavirus. Villamor’s hobby is composing songs, especially when there are calamities, saying he wants to inspire […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Jamming and astrophysics go hand-in-hand for Queen lead guitarist Brian May, who announced Wednesday he is releasing a musical tribute to a far-flung NASA spacecraft that is about to make history. The US space agency’s New Horizon’s spacecraft will soon make the most distant flyby of a cosmic object ever, zipping by an object called Ultima Thule — a billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, on January 1. A […]
by Shaun Tandon Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Charlie Puth’s silky falsetto made him a global star with the pop ballad “See You Again,” but his roots, he is quick to point out, are in jazz. Puth spent a year and a half writing and revising his second album, “Voicenotes,” which comes out May 11 after a delay, and despite warnings that it was not commercially viable, he found himself repeatedly […]
by Shaun TANDON Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Tensions may be mounting dangerously around the world but for Maroon 5, this isn’t the time for protest songs — it’s time to dance. The chart-topping pop-rockers on Friday release their sixth studio album, “Red Pill Blues,” a collection of toe-tapping, funk-inflected tracks that mine the emotional drama of human relationships. Frontman Adam Levine, whose ever-impressive falsetto again powers much of the music, […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Miley Cyrus, whose young career has already undergone marked transformations, on Thursday released a lo-fi rock ballad in a departure from her previous sound. “Malibu,” the first single of an album expected later this year, is driven by a lo-fi, jam-rock guitar with Cyrus’ voice dreamy and understated. In an accompanying video, Cyrus rolls in the sun-kissed sand and sits meditatively in a field of flowers, at times petting […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Troubled singer Chris Brown has released a song shortly after his arrest for allegedly threatening a woman — and the lyrics may obliquely take aim at her. Brown uploaded a free new dance track entitled “What Would You Do?” The title is likely no accident as his accuser, Baylee Curran, asked rhetorically “what would you do?” in a video she made about her decision to call police. Set to […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The iconic British rock group Queen is trying to stop Donald Trump from using their hit song “We Are The Champions”, lead guitarist Brian May has revealed. The rock star said property tycoon Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in the US presidential elections, was using the song without permission. May, 68, said he had received an “avalanche of complaints” about Trump using the anthem during an appearance on US television […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Madonna on Thursday triumphed in a copyright case concerning her song “Vogue,” in a victory for artists seeking to use samples. The lawsuit concerns a brief horn riff that appears five times in the radio version of “Vogue,” a dance track that was a major hit for the pop superstar in 1990. The Salsoul Orchestra funk ensemble first recorded the horns in the early 1980s on the song “Ooh […]
