Massive Attack Archives - Hot Pop Today Hot Pop Today Mon, 22 Apr 2019 06:18:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 8 Calm and Motivational Albums to Study to https://hotpoptoday.com/8-calm-and-motivational-albums-to-study-to/ Mon, 22 Apr 2019 04:54:27 +0000 https://hotpoptoday.com/?p=1870 Forget the low-fi study hip-hop radio on Youtube. Here are 8 albums from a variety of genres to calm your study nerves and get the creative juices flowing. Ludovic Einaudi: Nightbook Einaudi is a stunning contemporary classical musician who is breathtaking yet also easy to listen to. Any of his albums are great to study […]

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Forget the low-fi study hip-hop radio on Youtube. Here are 8 albums from a variety of genres to calm your study nerves and get the creative juices flowing.

Ludovic Einaudi: Nightbook

Einaudi is a stunning contemporary classical musician who is breathtaking yet also easy to listen to. Any of his albums are great to study to but Nightbook is particularly relaxing.

The XX: XX

The XX’s debut album is what happens when electronica meets the art of the lullaby. The album is stripped back enough to not be distracting but well crafted enough to be enjoyable.

Bonobo: Migration

All of Bonobo’s albums are chilled and worth listening to. The newest album, however, is particularly laid back.

Miles David: Kind of Blue

There’s nothing like a bit of jazz to stimulate the brain and get the creative juices flowing.

The Lord of the Rings soundtrack

It’s the perfect combination of peaceful classical music and epic motivation!

Eric Satie: The Complete Solo Piano Music

Another contemporary pianist with the ability to calm your nervous, revising soul.

Massive Attack: Blue Lines

If you want some chilled electronica that won’t risk putting you to sleep, the iconic Blue Lines is a good place to start.

Dave Brubeck: Angel Eyes

Another jazz album but mostly piano based. Angel Eyes is definitely album to wash that pre-exam anxiety away.

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Massive Attack Announce Rescheduled Dates for North America Tour https://hotpoptoday.com/massive-attack-announce-rescheduled-dates-for-north-america-tour/ Sun, 17 Mar 2019 08:11:29 +0000 https://hotpoptoday.com/?p=4299 Massive Attack was scheduled to tour North America in spring in honor of the 20th anniversary of their third studio album Mezzanine, but ended up canceling these shows due to illness. Now the band announced rescheduled dates and the tour is now set to take place in September. The English electronic music will begin their […]

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Massive Attack was scheduled to tour North America in spring in honor of the 20th anniversary of their third studio album Mezzanine, but ended up canceling these shows due to illness. Now the band announced rescheduled dates and the tour is now set to take place in September.

The English electronic music will begin their North America trip in San Diego on September 1st, and they will wrap the tour in New York with two shows on September 26th and 27th in Radio City Music Hall.

The band also announced that proceeds from Mezzanine Anniversary tour merchandise will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.

“As the ‘Mezzanine XXI’ show contains some explicit material from the war in Iraq, the band felt it was important to donate to Medecins Sans Frontieres who continue to be active in the region.” – said the “Teardrop” duo in a press release.

Released in 1998, Mezzanine is the band’s commercially most successful album to date, having topped the charts in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom while breaking into top 10 in 12 other countries. It also received significant critical acclaim by the critics.

Massive Attack’s most recent studio release came in 2010 with the album Heligoland.

Here is the full list of rescheduled dates for North America Mezzanine Anniversary Tour.

09-01 San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Amphitheater
09-03 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
09-04 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
09-05 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
09-07 San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
09-10 Saint Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
09-11 Chicago, IL – The Chicago Theatre
09-12 Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple
09-14 Montreal, Quebec – Bell Centre
09-17 Toronto, Ontario – Sony Centre
09-20 Philadelphia, PA – Metropolitan Opera House
09-21 Boston, MA – Boch Center
09-24 Washington, DC – The Anthem
09-26 New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall
09-27 New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall

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Massive Attack Would Rather Be “Unpredictable” Than Have A Nostalgia Tour https://hotpoptoday.com/massive-attack-would-rather-be-unpredictable-than-have-a-nostalgia-tour/ Fri, 22 Feb 2019 06:34:13 +0000 https://hotpoptoday.com/?p=4035 Massive Attack aren’t in it for the nostalgia. Their latest tour would rather be “unpredictable” than “formulaic”. Massive Attack is taking their iconic album Mezzanine on tour over 21 years after its release in 2019. Their tour is taking the album round the world but in a superb interview with The Guardian, Robert Del Naja […]

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Massive Attack aren’t in it for the nostalgia. Their latest tour would rather be “unpredictable” than “formulaic”.

Massive Attack is taking their iconic album Mezzanine on tour over 21 years after its release in 2019. Their tour is taking the album round the world but in a superb interview with The Guardian, Robert Del Naja has admitted that it will not be a nostalgia tour.

Del Naja confessed: “I don’t think I’ve got a problem with nostalgia, because a lot of the time things are self-referential…I stopped feeling nostalgia for the moment because I imagine myself looking back on it from the future, which really freaks me out. I get this vertigo where I’m not thinking about the past, I’m thinking about how I’m going to feel in 10 years’ time.”

“I’m happy for it to be unpredictable,” he added later in the interview. “That’s the point. There’s no sort of bants, no chatting because you kind of felt… Well, you wouldn’t go to a play and the actors turn around and say: ‘Are you all right?’ And there has to be some personal creative risk attached where you don’t know what’s going to happen. It should be disorienting for us and the audience otherwise…”

Adam Curtis interjects; “Gigs have become very formulaic these days. Not just gigs but all of culture – and that’s the challenge. The way you make people look again is by finding a different sort of image. And so the overall aim is to show how over the past 20 years, we’ve gone into a very static, repetitive world that surrounds us with the same images that keep us from really looking.”

Massive Attack will play at the 02 in London on Friday 22nd Feb before heading to Montreal, Canada March 11.

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Forget the low-fi study hip-hop radio on Youtube. Here are 8 albums from a variety of genres to calm your study nerves and get the creative juices flowing.

Ludovic Einaudi: Nightbook

Einaudi is a stunning contemporary classical musician who is breathtaking yet also easy to listen to. Any of his albums are great to study to but Nightbook is particularly relaxing.

The XX: XX

The XX’s debut album is what happens when electronica meets the art of the lullaby. The album is stripped back enough to not be distracting but well crafted enough to be enjoyable.

Bonobo: Migration

All of Bonobo’s albums are chilled and worth listening to. The newest album, however, is particularly laid back.

Miles David: Kind of Blue

There’s nothing like a bit of jazz to stimulate the brain and get the creative juices flowing.

The Lord of the Rings soundtrack

It’s the perfect combination of peaceful classical music and epic motivation!

Eric Satie: The Complete Solo Piano Music

Another contemporary pianist with the ability to calm your nervous, revising soul.

Massive Attack: Blue Lines

If you want some chilled electronica that won’t risk putting you to sleep, the iconic Blue Lines is a good place to start.

Dave Brubeck: Angel Eyes

Another jazz album but mostly piano based. Angel Eyes is definitely album to wash that pre-exam anxiety away.

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Massive Attack Announce Rescheduled Dates for North America Tour https://hotpoptoday.com/massive-attack-announce-rescheduled-dates-for-north-america-tour/ Sun, 17 Mar 2019 08:11:29 +0000 https://hotpoptoday.com/?p=4299 Massive Attack was scheduled to tour North America in spring in honor of the 20th anniversary of their third studio album Mezzanine, but ended up canceling these shows due to illness. Now the band announced rescheduled dates and the tour is now set to take place in September. The English electronic music will begin their […]

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Massive Attack was scheduled to tour North America in spring in honor of the 20th anniversary of their third studio album Mezzanine, but ended up canceling these shows due to illness. Now the band announced rescheduled dates and the tour is now set to take place in September.

The English electronic music will begin their North America trip in San Diego on September 1st, and they will wrap the tour in New York with two shows on September 26th and 27th in Radio City Music Hall.

The band also announced that proceeds from Mezzanine Anniversary tour merchandise will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.

“As the ‘Mezzanine XXI’ show contains some explicit material from the war in Iraq, the band felt it was important to donate to Medecins Sans Frontieres who continue to be active in the region.” – said the “Teardrop” duo in a press release.

Released in 1998, Mezzanine is the band’s commercially most successful album to date, having topped the charts in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom while breaking into top 10 in 12 other countries. It also received significant critical acclaim by the critics.

Massive Attack’s most recent studio release came in 2010 with the album Heligoland.

Here is the full list of rescheduled dates for North America Mezzanine Anniversary Tour.

09-01 San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Amphitheater
09-03 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
09-04 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
09-05 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
09-07 San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
09-10 Saint Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
09-11 Chicago, IL – The Chicago Theatre
09-12 Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple
09-14 Montreal, Quebec – Bell Centre
09-17 Toronto, Ontario – Sony Centre
09-20 Philadelphia, PA – Metropolitan Opera House
09-21 Boston, MA – Boch Center
09-24 Washington, DC – The Anthem
09-26 New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall
09-27 New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall

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Massive Attack Would Rather Be “Unpredictable” Than Have A Nostalgia Tour https://hotpoptoday.com/massive-attack-would-rather-be-unpredictable-than-have-a-nostalgia-tour/ Fri, 22 Feb 2019 06:34:13 +0000 https://hotpoptoday.com/?p=4035 Massive Attack aren’t in it for the nostalgia. Their latest tour would rather be “unpredictable” than “formulaic”. Massive Attack is taking their iconic album Mezzanine on tour over 21 years after its release in 2019. Their tour is taking the album round the world but in a superb interview with The Guardian, Robert Del Naja […]

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Massive Attack aren’t in it for the nostalgia. Their latest tour would rather be “unpredictable” than “formulaic”.

Massive Attack is taking their iconic album Mezzanine on tour over 21 years after its release in 2019. Their tour is taking the album round the world but in a superb interview with The Guardian, Robert Del Naja has admitted that it will not be a nostalgia tour.

Del Naja confessed: “I don’t think I’ve got a problem with nostalgia, because a lot of the time things are self-referential…I stopped feeling nostalgia for the moment because I imagine myself looking back on it from the future, which really freaks me out. I get this vertigo where I’m not thinking about the past, I’m thinking about how I’m going to feel in 10 years’ time.”

“I’m happy for it to be unpredictable,” he added later in the interview. “That’s the point. There’s no sort of bants, no chatting because you kind of felt… Well, you wouldn’t go to a play and the actors turn around and say: ‘Are you all right?’ And there has to be some personal creative risk attached where you don’t know what’s going to happen. It should be disorienting for us and the audience otherwise…”

Adam Curtis interjects; “Gigs have become very formulaic these days. Not just gigs but all of culture – and that’s the challenge. The way you make people look again is by finding a different sort of image. And so the overall aim is to show how over the past 20 years, we’ve gone into a very static, repetitive world that surrounds us with the same images that keep us from really looking.”

Massive Attack will play at the 02 in London on Friday 22nd Feb before heading to Montreal, Canada March 11.

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