"Rise" is technically a new song from Antony Hegarty rather than Antony and the Johnsons, and it arrives after the announcement of a new Antony and the Johnsons' album, Cut The World. "Rise" is featured in Coral Rekindling Venus, a film by Lynette Wallwort about coral reefs. Listen to the new song in the film's trailer below.
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Don’t get too psyched about this new track from Antony Hegarty – it’s not from a new Antony and the Johnsons record. “Rise” is featured in the filmmaker Lynette Wallwort’s new movie Coral Rekindling Venus, about the plight of the world’s coral reefs. When you listen to Antony’s typically gorgeous, chilling track and grasp a bit of its lyrical content, you’ll understand how perfectly it fits with Wallwort’s film. You don’t have to see the movie to listen to the song – you can check it out in...Read Full Story
Last we heard from Parisian sister-duo CocoRosie was their excellent Dave Sitek-produced single “We Are On Fire.” Don’t know about you, but we’ve still got that one stuck on repeat, so we’re pretty stoked to hear the song’s b-side, the Antony Hegarty-assisted “Tearz For Animals.”Continue reading: New CocoRosie & Antony Hegarty: Tearz For AnimalsRead more articles like "New CocoRosie & Antony Hegarty: Tearz For Animals" on Pretty Much Amazing. Tags: Antony Hegarty, CocoRosieRead Full Story
Secretly Canadian has announced a new album from Antony & The Johnsons. The new album, Cut The World, is a collection of live performances from all of the band’s four full-length albums. The only new song is the title track, previously featured in the play, The Life and Death of Marina Abramović. The new album was recorded live on September 2nd and 3rd, 2011 at the DK Concert Hall in Copenhagen, DK. Check out the album’s track list and the video for “Future Feminism” below.
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DOWNLOAD MP3: My Gold Mask – “I Don’t Need The Reason”Performing under the moniker My Gold Mask, drummer/vocalist Gretta Rochelle and guitarist Jack Armondo have blown up my radar with last year’s rapturous “Violet Eyes” (from their A Thousand Voices EP), and now the duo are back with brand new single “I Don’t Need The Reason” and a new 12″ EP, A Million Miles (From Where We Were Last). (Continue Reading)LISTEN: Antony & The Johnsons – “Flétta” f/ BjörkAntony Hegarty and Björk have come...Read Full Story
HERE’S a challenge. Whatever kinds of cultural events you enjoy going to – comedy shows, concerts, exhibitions, plays, films etc – try, between now and August, only to go to ones that are not part of a festival. This will be difficult, unless you ...
Lou Reed is set to play a one-off London show as part of the Antony Hegarty-curated Meltdown festival this August. Reed will play the Royal Festival Hall on August 10. Tickets go on general sale at 10am (BST) on May 31. Southbank Centre members will have ...
The line-up for Antony Hegarty's Meltdown festival at London's Southbank Centre has been revealed. The Antony And The Johnsons singer is curating the annual festival, following in the footsteps of Jarvis Cocker, David Bowie and, most recently, The Kinks ...
One star of that film, Joey Arias, "is my New York hero really," he says. "In the film I saw this queen dressed as Billie Holiday, singing in the voice of Billie Holiday A Hard Day's Night by the Beatles. It was like seeing a black swan made out of razor ...
having performed at Patti Smith's Meltdown in 2005 and American Jazz composer Ornette Coleman's in 2009. The Southbank's artistic director, Jude Kelly, described Hegarty as "one of the most fascinating artists of our age". She added: "From the moment we ...
Nobody in the world sounds like Antony and the Johnsons. Antony Hegarty's voice is haunting in a way that makes you actually feel like maybe you're being haunted. It's ghostly and spooky, but not ...