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CMU’s One Liners: Taylor fucking Swift, Liverpool Sound City, Mark Ronson, oh and probably some other stuff

By and | Published on Tuesday 11 November 2014

Liverpool Sound City

Other notable announcements and developments today…

• You didn’t think we’d make it through a whole day without mentioning her, did you? Taylor Swift has made the video for her new single, ‘Blank Space’, available for free for all to watch on-demand, which is surely “completely disrespectful to that superfan who just wants to invest”. Whatever. Watch here. And tomorrow our Taylor coverage will be limited to Hanson, Dayne and Lautner (yeah, even though he’s not a musician), promise.

• Liverpool Sound City has announced the first three speakers for the conference side of next year’s event, and they are Mark E Smith, former Ramones manager Danny Fields and Cream founder James Barton. With the festival side moving from the city centre to the Bramley Moore Dock, the conference is also shifting to the The Titanic Hotel in the near-by Stanley Dock. But we’ve been assured it won’t sink mid-event.

• “The UK’s only FREE major music industry networking event” for people “with ambitions of working in the music industry” – apart from all the others, obviously – the Ultimate Seminar will take place at the University Of Westminster on 22 Nov. Details here.

• Pop super-producer Mark Ronson has revealed a new Bruno Mars-featuring track titled ‘Uptown Funk’, the lead single off of his ‘feat’ artist-rich next solo (ha) LP ‘Uptown Special’, which itself features Tame Impala, Hudson Mohawke, Miike Snow’s Andrew Wyatt and rapper Mystikal. That’s released on 27 Jan, and this is that lead single I mentioned.

• Marilyn Manson has detailed his self-descriptive (well, not really) ninth LP, ‘The Pale Emperor’, assigning it a release date of 20 Jan 2015, and this VERY silly tracklisting. God speed you! Marilyn Manson.

• Aphex Twin has added to an online landfill of experimental tracks and back-dated trimmings as part of part II of his massive ‘Syrobonkers’ interview with Noyzelab, this following part I, which contained a lot of things ‘definitely’ written by AT’s six year old son. Open this new trove of live recordings, and a pile of modular synth-based samples, via SoundCloud.

• Producer Nightwave has announced a new EP, called ‘Nightlife’. The first track off it is called ‘Kiss Kat’ and features Ashnikko. Listen right here.

• The best-not-judged-on-their-name King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have released the video for ‘Satan Speeds Up’, the latest track from their upcoming debut album, ‘I’m In Your Mind Fuzz’. Have a watch, why don’t you?

• The CMU approved Meadow Décor, featuring former members of I Remember Tapes, have announced that they will release a new EP, titled ’47’, on 24 Nov. And as if by magic, here is a track from it.

• The shortlists for next year’s European Festival Awards, which will take place during the Eurosonic Noorderslag festival in January, have been announced. Apparently this year there were 1.2 million votes submitted for festivals in 25 countries. See the full breakdown of potential winners here.



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