While You Were Away: Eminem Gets Emotional, The Hives Show Off Their Sick Moves, ‘The Crow’ 2024 Soundtrack Revealed, And More
It’s Monday again. Time to wake up, brew some coffee, and check out this week’s edition of While You Were Away. What’s the scoop this week? We’re talking about Eminem’s emotional new video, The Hives showing off their dancing skills, The Crow 2024 soundtrack, and more.
The Hives show off their dancing skills in ‘Rigor Mortis Radio’
The Hives have shared their new music video for “Rigor Mortis Radio” taken from their latest album, The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons.
The Filip Nilsson-directed clip sees the band casually going about their day, eventually meeting up to perform a Bob Fosse-inspired dance routine that would make NSYNC jealous. In actuality, digital face swapping was used to turn The Hives into dancing machines.
“This should have come out over a year ago but didn’t,” say the band. “At the time we told you the VHS was stolen by a leprechaun but, lo and behold, this was not true! We just had to wait for technology to catch up with our ideas because The Hives are future!
“It took us a long time to learn those steps but we finally got it right so shut your face about execution and poise as we are not professional dancers. Filmed in ye old London Town and directed by Filip Nilsson from an original screenplay, idea and script by The Hives. Czech it out!”
Watch the video below.
Ho99o9 And The Armed Cancel Co-headlining North American Tour
Ho99o9 and The Armed have cancelled the North American co-headline tour.
The tour was scrapped due to various reasons. In their statement, Ho9oo9 cites the reason for the cancellation on making their live shows “a better experience” for people, not to mention “currently finalizing and focused on our third album”.
The Armed, meanwhile, lists personal emergencies and things “beyond our control” as the causes for the cancellation: “the domino effect of some cancellations beyond our control (weather, health, etc) in combination with some personal emergencies had forced costly, drastic pivots over the summer. This led to a financial situation that we were hoping to quietly out maneuver in the background over the last couple of months. However, as the tour moving into pre-production has called for resources we simply do not have, we’ve had to face facts that our current scenario is simply untenable. We cannot, at this moment, bring you the show.”
Read the full statements below.
The Armed and Ho99o9 will still appear at After Shock, Louder Than Life, and other scheduled festivals this fall.
Joy Divison, Gary Numan, and Foals appear on ‘The Crow’ 2024 soundtrack
The soundtrack for the 1994 film The Crow has been one of the best movie soundtracks for the past 30 years. Music has always been an integral part of the franchise and the 2024 remake upholds this tradition with its own appropriately gothic soundtrack.
The A.V. Club reports the soundtrack for the new film, starring Bill Skarsgård and FKA twigs, features music spanning several decades from the likes of Joy Division, Foals, Enya, Gary Numan, The Veils, Traitrs, and even Claude Debussy.
In an interview with USA Today, director Rupert Sanders wanted to capture the dark, moody vibe of the movie and looked to some of his favorite bands growing up, which include Joy Division (“Disorder”), Enya (“Boadicea”), and Gary Numan (“M.E.”).
See the full tracklist below.
The Crow starring Bill Skarsgård and FKA twigs is in theaters now.
The Crow 2024 soundtrack:
Debussy – Des Pas Sur La Neige
Joy Division – Disorder
The Bug Ft. Inga Copeland – Fall
Traitrs – Thin Flesh
Phil Kieran and Aaron Thomas – The Killer
Gary Numan – M.E.
The Veils – Total Depravity
Enya – Boadicea
Cascadeur – Meaning
Foals – What Went Down
Eminem shares emotional new video for ‘Somebody Save Me’
Eminem has shared his new video for “Somebody Save Me” from his latest album The Death of Slim Shady.
The clip, directed by Emil Nava, shows the rapper watching his children replay milestones from their lives he missed out on due to his career and struggle with addiction. The video features home movie footage of Hailie Jade playing the guitar at a recital, walking across the stage for graduation and blowing out birthday candles; Alaina’s graduation; and Stevie opening presents. Eminem is so overcome with emotion, he collapses to his knees to seek forgiveness. The video ends with extended footage of Hallie Jade’s guitar recital.
Watch the video below.
Tours on sale this week
In This Moment will head out on the North American leg of “The Godmode Tour Part 2” with special guests Kim Dracula, Nathan James, and Mike’s Dead. The tour starts on November 8th in Asheville, North Carolina, and wraps up on December 6th in Manchester, New Hampshire. Find all the details here.
Janet Jackson is returning to Las Vegas for another residency at Resorts World Theater. Following Jackson’s “Together Again Tour,” the new dates start on December 30th, 2024, and conclude on February 15th, 2025. Find tickets here.
Jane’s Addiction have expanded their North American tour with Love and Rockets with seven new shows in Dever, Seattle, Portland, Reno, San Francisco, and Sandy, Utah. See all their dates here.
The Black Crowes have mapped out a fall North American tour to make up for the canceled run with Aerosmith. The tour kicks off on September 27th in Northfield, Ohio, and runs through a two-night stand in Port Chester, New York on December 21st and 22nd. Tickets on sale now.
