Hey Music Mag - Issue 4 - February 2019
Hey you! Welcome to the fourth issue of Hey Mag! Discover more about Ava Max, the super-fresh newcomer who’s slayed charts worldwide, how Jamiroquai have super-charged their kaleidoscopic funk grooves, and meet the Kurdish singer born in a Syrian refugee camp who wants to put diversity on the music industry’s agenda. World-renowned DJ and Detone boss Darren Emerson (ex-Underworld) offers his six tips to running a successful record label, while we've sussed out the best underground parties in Paris, and trawled the archives to bring you a selection of must-see music documentaries. From new artists you need to hear to music legends past and present, the February issue has it all. Enjoy the issue.
Hey you! Welcome to the fourth issue of Hey Mag!
Discover more about Ava Max, the super-fresh newcomer who’s slayed charts worldwide, how Jamiroquai have super-charged their kaleidoscopic funk grooves, and meet the Kurdish singer born in a Syrian refugee camp who wants to put diversity on the music industry’s agenda. World-renowned DJ and Detone boss Darren Emerson (ex-Underworld) offers his six tips to running a successful record label, while we've sussed out the best underground parties in Paris, and trawled the archives to bring you a selection of must-see music documentaries.
From new artists you need to hear to music legends past and present, the February issue has it all.
Enjoy the issue.
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No sooner had we got over BBC Four’s<br />
Bros: After The Screaming Stops<br />
than social media went into overdrive<br />
with reactions to Netflix documentary<br />
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never<br />
Happened, the story behind the car<br />
crash ‘luxury festival’ whose promoter<br />
landed in jail. Here are four other<br />
music docs worth watching<br />
Mistaken For Strangers<br />
Director: Tom Berninger<br />
Year: 2014<br />
The internationally<br />
successful rock band<br />
The National are about to<br />
embark on a major tour<br />
in support of their fourth<br />
album. Lead singer Matt<br />
Berninger and the rest<br />
of the band – two sets<br />
of brothers – have well<br />
and truly hit the big time.<br />
Matt’s younger brother Tom, by contrast,<br />
is floundering. He’s a lay-about metal fan<br />
who’s made a few shoestring independent<br />
horror movies and he’s living at home with<br />
his parents in Cincinatti. He’s not getting<br />
any younger and the shadow of his elder<br />
brother’s global success looms persistently<br />
over him.<br />
As any caring big brother would do, Matt<br />
wants to give him a leg up. He invites Tom to<br />
join the tour as a roadie, but after accepting<br />
the bone he’s been thrown, Tom takes it<br />
upon himself to document the tour. What<br />
unfolds then is a window into the intricate<br />
and capricious dynamics of a close-knit<br />
band of brothers on the road. Hundreds of<br />
hours of footage accrues as Tom captures<br />
not only concerts and backstage antics, but<br />
the actual process of himself making a film<br />
about his successful older brother.<br />
This is brotherly love, in all its myriad<br />
complexity and fragility, presented in<br />
original and honest fashion. Mistaken<br />
For Strangers is funny, meta, irreverent,<br />
surprising, heart-warming and, above<br />
all, authentic. It doesn’t matter whether<br />
you like the music of The National or not,<br />
the pleasure comes from relating to the<br />
characters in the film… they are good<br />
people doing their best with each other.<br />
Seek this out and see why the acclaimed<br />
documentarian Michael Moore described it<br />
as “one of the best documentaries about a<br />
band that I’ve ever seen”.<br />
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