Morning Music Notes – Beyonce to Sing!
How to destroy angels_ Gives Some More Album Details, Plus a Creepy New Video
Trent Reznor’s post-Nine Inch Nails band, How to destroy angels_, are dropping their new album Welcome oblivion on March 5. This much we already knew, when we saw the video for The Loop Closes. Now we have artwork and tracklisting. Just give us the whole damn thing already!
Those of you who are vinyl lovers will get 2 extra tracks – Unintended consequences and The province of fear, as well as a slightly different order of the tracks. Plus vinyl lovers will have to stop what they are doing and flip over the record, making millions wonder “Why bother?” Check out the tracklisting for both mediums below. But before that, we have the depressing, apocalyptic-like new video for the track How long?
How to destroy angels_ – How long?
Tracklisting for How to destroy angels_ – Welcome oblivion
CD
01 The wake-up
02 Keep it together
03 And the sky began to scream
04 Welcome oblivion
05 Ice age
06 On the wing
07 Too late, all gone
08 How long?
09 Strings and attractors
10 We fade away
11 Recursive self-improvement
12 The loop closes
13 Hallowed ground
Vinyl
01 The wake-up
02 Keep it together
03 And the sky began to scream
04 Ice age
05 Welcome oblivion
06 On the wing
07 Too late, all gone
08 The province of fear
09 How long?
10 Strings and attractors
11 Recursive self-improvement
12 Unintended consequences
13 We fade away
14 The loop closes
15 Hallowed ground
When Beyonce is Actually Singing, It’s Apparently News
The scandal that keeps on giving. Beyonce was under fire for using a backing track / lip syncing at President Barack Obama’s inauguration. She is singing at the Super Bowl this Sunday, where Shania Twain was previously a victim of lip syncing. At a press conference, Beyonce addressed this head on, saying “I will absolutely be singing live. I am well-rehearsed. I will absolutely be singing live, and this is what I was born to do” (via NME).
She also explained why she didn’t see live at the inauguration. “I am a perfectionist, and one thing about me, I practice until my feet bleed. And I did not have time to rehearse with the orchestra… Due to the weather, due to the delay, due to no proper sound-check, I did not feel comfortable taking a risk.”
Can we never hear about this again please?
If You Fire Me, I Might Go Crazy on The Company’s Twitter Account. Sorry, HMV
HMV, which recently went into administration in the UK, laid off a bunch of people yesterday. One employee clearly had access to the company’s Twitter account, and decided to vent a little.
One message read “we’re tweeting live from HR where we’re all being fired! Exciting!!”, while a follow up tweet said “There are over 60 of us being fired at once! Mass execution, of loyal employees who love the brand.”
Actually, that sounds like a press release – are we sure it was an inside job?
Mike Tyson Likes Justin Bieber
No real news here, just that former “baddest man on the planet” Mike Tyson likes the teen pop star who is the exact opposite, Justin Bieber (via MTV). That’s like Charles Manson saying he loves the Dalai Lama.
