Music has been center stage this week at CES 2019
Music has been center stage this week at CES 2019, the latest edition of Las Vegas’s international annual consumer electronics bacchanal. As smart speakers and smart home devices become ubiquitous in households around the world, audio-tech companies new and old are now fighting to show off fresh-off-the-line premium technology at the show, an event that usually serves as a good indictor of trends - or at least fads - to come in the year ahead. Here are a few of the innovations in music that caught our eye this time around.
The new format will be available on a special new Sony speaker, but the idea is that music fans will also be able to hear 360 Reality Audio music with any speaker system that can project sound in a number of directions, as well as audiophile-grade headphones. Stay tuned for more details out of the Japanese tech company in the next few weeks. Sony says it’s currently working with streaming services that already offer high-res listening tiers, like Tidal and Deezer, to bring the format to the mass market.
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Post Malone and Swae Lee with new video
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Post Malone and Swae Lee have unveiled a new video for their Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack hit, “Sunflower.” The black-and-white visual follows a previously released video for the song, which features clips from the Golden Globe-winning animated film.
The new visual offers behind-the-scenes footage in the studio while the artists are cutting the track, interspersed with scenes of the pair performing onstage and also from the red carpet film premiere. “Me and this guy right here, he’s the genius behind everything and we’re just making trouble,” Post Malone says of Swae Lee while on the red carpet.
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Vampire Weekend at New LP Details
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Ezra Koenig served up some fuzzy details about Vampire Weekend’s upcoming fourth album, as well as an explanation about why it took them so long to make it, in an Instagram post Thursday. He’s not ready yet to share the record’s title, but he did offer up its initials: FOTB. The record, due out this year, will contain 18 songs and clock in at 59 minutes; the vinyl edition will come out on two LPs. They’ll serve up a first taste of the record next week, with the group unveiling three two-song posts monthly until its release (which suggests a spring release date).
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RS Daily News: New Beatles Movie, and more
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In our daily news show, Rolling Stone’s Charles Holmes checks in on a few of the headlines everyone is discussing. For today’s episode, watch the video to get a quick take on:
- Ariana Grande’s unfortunate tattoo fiasco
- A new Beatles movie is being made by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson
- James Ingram, R&B Singer-Songwriter and ‘P.Y.T.’ Co-Writer, Dead at 66
- El Chapo trial is coming to an end
- Kanye West Sounds Revitalized on YNW Melly Song ‘Mixed Personalities’
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Grammys 2019: Alicia Keys
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Midway into the 2019 Grammy Awards, the show’s host, Alicia Keys, sang a medley of songs that she wished she’d written. She kicked it off by playing “The Entertainer” on two grand pianos, one black, one white, sitting between them on a stool. “I wanna welcome you to Club Keys,” she said.
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