Danny Elfman's in the midst of releasing a new song on the 11th day of every month this year, and while we wait for April's he has just shared a remix of March's single, "Kick Me," by Death Grips' Zach Hill...
“I was feeling particularly mellow one day last summer,“ says Danny about his near-metal new single. “I decided to write this very chill song for everyone who wants to put something on that will really help them zone out and relax.“
The new song was written especially for the composer and former Oingo Boingo frontman's 2020 Coachella performance, that ended up not happening due to the pandemic, and the video was made by Bjork and Arca collaborator Jesse Kanda.
"I originally wrote “Happy” to perform at Coachella 2020. It was written to be an absurd anti-pop song, designed to begin as a very simple pop tune that degrades into something more subversive. The cynical nature of the lyrics echo how I feel about living in a semi-dystopian world…
Two Minutes to Late Nightcontinue the month-long, Halloween-friendly edition of their quarantine covers series with an Iron Maiden-style rework of ”Dead Man's Party.”
"I said, 'wait a minute there’s a way to do this,' that’s mixing everything for my last 40 years together bits of film, bits of songs, probably maybe Oingo Boingo songs, and at that same time I’ve been working on this new stuff that I had in my mind and I thought …
"This is NOT my new single or for a new album that I'm working on. Just a little something that was fun to record and relaxed me, and maybe it will do the same for you? Totally home-made!" - Danny Elfman.
Today's picks for amazing live videos to watch while there are no actual shows to attend include At the Drive In at Big Day Out 2001, PJ Harvey at Roskilde 1995, B-52s in 1980, Oingo Boingo in 1985, and more...