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CMU’s One Liners: Tidal, David Bowie, Bono, more
By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 20 February 2017
Other notable announcements and developments today…
• Like most of its rivals, Tidal seems to be boosting its original editorial credentials with two new hires: Rap Radar founder and former XXL Editor-In-Chief Elliott Wilson as an Editorial Director focused on hip hop and Tony Gervino – formerly with Billboard, Slam and XXL – as VP Culture & Content.
• HBO has acquired the rights to the documentary ‘David Bowie: The Last Five Years’, which first aired on BBC2 last month.
• Bono thinks Mike Pence is A-OK.
• St Vincent has released a clip for her previously reported short horror film, ‘Party’.
• Lana Del Rey went and released a new single. It’s called ‘Love’.
• Azealia Banks has released a new Lunice-produced single, ‘Crown’.
• Le1f has released a new video for ‘Umami/Water’, taken from his 2015 album ‘Riot Boi’.
• Dimmu Borgir have released a live performance of ‘Mourning Palace’, taken from their new live DVD ‘Forces Of The Northern Night’, which is out on 28 Apr.
• K-pop group Twice have released the video for new single ‘Knock Knock’.
• High Contrast has announced that he will play his debut live show at Electric Brixton on 18 Mar.