Duran Duran

Filmmaker Edgar Wright’s long-in-the-works documentary about Ron and Russell Mael and their band idiosyncratic group Sparks is manna from heaven for fans, and an invitation to join the party for everyone else.

Edgar Wright has just shared a 2-minute “Official Clip” of his three-years-in-the-works documentary on avant-garde pop duo Sparks which premieres at Sundance this weekend…

This week’s playlist includes David Bowie (happy birthday!), Jazmine Sullivan, The Weather Station, Calyx, The Sonder Bombs, slowthai, Vagabon/Courtney Barnett, The Hold Steady, Tigers Jaw, and more…

Today (1/8) would have been David Bowie’s 74th birthday, and Duran Duran are among the many artists taking part in the massive livestreamed tribute concert to him…

Additions to a virtual tribute celebrating what would have been David Bowie’s 74th birthday include Ground Control, the supergroup of Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins and Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro and Chris Chaney, and more.

The album was ”recorded at home using primitive electronic instruments in addition to heavily effected electric guitar, bass & voice” and it finds her doing drastically reworked covers of pop songs from her youth, intended as a ”mixtape” for her late brother Brian.

Tributes have also come in from Jean Michel Jarre, Midge Ure (Ultravox), the Safdie Brothers, Orbital, The Orb, Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet), Lloyd Cole, Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Kid Congo Powers, Junior Boys, JD Samson, and many more.

The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess has announced more interactive album listening parties, featuring Duran Duran, The Specials, Joy Division, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, The Cure, and more.

From Pavement to Pulp, from Oasis to R.E.M., from Frank Sidebottom to The Brian Jonestown Massacre, here are a dozen docs to stream right now.

”After a week or so of what I would describe as a ‘Turbo-charged Flu’, I came out of it feeling okay- although I must admit I didn’t mind the quarantine as it gave me the chance to really recover.”