Moby: Celebs Rumors

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Moby has announced his first European tour in over 10 years to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his fifth album ‘Play’. Find all the details below.Released in 1999, the acclaimed record contains the classic songs ‘Porcelain’, ‘Natural Blues’ and ‘Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?’.

Moby is not actually a relative of author Herman Melville.The producer has said for years he was distantly related to the famed Moby Dick writer, and that he was nicknamed Moby by his parents at a young age in reference to his purported great-great-great-uncle.However, The Genealogy Detective seems to believe the contrary. In a new three-part series, hosts Mary Duffy and Adam Mellion brought the claim into question, studying both Moby’s relatives and Melville’s and looking into their family trees.They claim they found no definitive link to the famous author, they did find an apparent genealogical connection to inventor David Melville, who filed a patent for the first gas lighting system in America.Stereogum approached Moby for comment, to which he replied: “Ha, no idea if it’s true or not, but it’s flattering that people I’ve never met would spend time looking into my genealogy.”Meanwhile, the producer also revealed earlier this year that he has previously tried to start metal bands with Björk, Tommy Lee and Dimebag Darrell.The group he almost started with Lee and Dimebag was supposedly called The Sober Fucks.

Moby has revealed that he has previously tried to start metal bands with Björk, Tommy Lee and Dimebag Darrell.The New York-born singer-songwriter/producer recently participated in NME‘s ‘Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!’ quiz following the release of his new documentary film Punk Rock Vegan Movie.To kick off the Q&A interview, NME asked Moby if he could remember the name of the supergroup he almost formed with Mötley Crüe drummer Lee, and Pantera‘s Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul.“[Laughs] The Sober Fucks,” he responded. “I’ve been sober for a while now, but this was a late-night, alcohol-fuelled idea between Pantera’s guitarist Dimebag Darrell, drummer Vinnie Paul, Tommy Lee and I.”Moby continued: “I regret not starting this chaotic metal band with them, which would have sounded like a cross between Pantera and my old punk group Flipper.”NME then pressed the musician on whether he had ever approached any other artists to start an extracurricular band with.“In the early ’90s, I was having brunch with Björk and said: ‘We should start a heavy metal band together’,” Moby recalled.

Featuring one of the more eye-rolling puns in recent memory, Liz Marshall’s clean-meat documentary “Meat the Future’‘ plays out both as a swift introduction to the growing industry of cultivated meat and a feature-length advertisement for Upside Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) and its founder/CEO Dr. Uma Valeti.

Moby has called on world leaders at this month’s COP26 to negotiate a treaty that will help shift the international community onto a plant-based diet.The electronic artist, who is vegan, has posted a video message urging world leaders to prioritise the move amid the “methane emergency”, which is a major component of climate change.COP26, the UN’s climate change conference that’s being held in Glasgow, Scotland this November, will see leaders come together to set new targets for tackling rising global temperatures.

Moby Doc has just been released – you can watch it exclusively below.The extract, taken from the forthcoming surrealist biographical documentary about and narrated by Moby, sees the artist reflect on his professional relationship and friendship with David Bowie.“Bowie was my favourite musician of all-time,” Moby can be heard saying in the clip. “Maybe 2000 or 2001, he moved across the street from me and I couldn’t believe it.

In 2019, Moby's memoir Then It Fell Apart created controversy on account of one of its excerpts where the musician claimed to have dated Natalie Portman. The book mentioned Moby taking the actor for a drink and also kissing her while visiting her at Harvard.

Moby has discussed the controversy behind his claims that he once dated Natalie Portman  in a new interview.Back in 2019, an excerpt from Moby’s book, Then It Fell Apart, heard the musician recount taking the actor for a drink and, later, kissing her while visiting her at Harvard.Soon after, Portman refuted the musician’s claims that she was involved in a romantic relationship with him, saying she found it “disturbing” that false stories were being used to promote the book.After days of criticism and reflection, Moby apologised “to Natalie, as well as the other people I wrote about in Then It Fell Apart without telling them beforehand”.Asked about the scandal in a new interview with The Guardian, Moby said: “You know, you’re asking me to

When you think of electronic artist Moby, the name probably conjures his days as an electronica DJ, a big pop star singing along the likes of Gwen Stefani in the late 90s with his ubiquitous 1999 album Play, and his arguably push animal rights activism and veganism, all of which are founded in sound ideology, but often came across in a way that annoyed mainstream audiences (he recently did it all over again, claiming there would be no pandemics if the entire globe were vegan, which sorry, simply isn’t true).

Moby has announced a new album featuring reworkings of hits from his back catalogue.Entitled ‘Reprise’, the record will see the dance artist team up with with the Budapest Art Orchestra and a host of guest artists including Kris Kristofferson, Mark Lanegan, Gregory Porter and Skylar Grey.As a taster, Moby has shared a new version of his classic hit ‘Porcelain’, which sees him sharing vocals with Jim James from My Morning Jacket. You can listen to the reworking below.“Sorry if this seems self-evident, but for me the main purpose of music is to communicate emotion,” Moby said.