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The call for climate action is coming from the inside the House. More than a dozen congressional staffers occupied the Washington D.C. office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer today, in a protest demanding that Congress pass policy to combat climate change. Less than an hour after the demonstration began, Capitol police arrived and arrested many of the staffers, according to a series of tweets and photos from New Yorker journalist, Andrew Marantz.In an emailed statement to Gizmodo, U.S. Capitol Police said the…

Kate Bush’s song Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) was featured in Stranger Things season 4 and since then its popularity has seen a new landmark. Kate Bush has reportedly earned £1.9million from her hit song. The singer’s 1985 track broke records and reached the top of the UK charts last month after its appearance in the fourth series of the Netflix supernatural thriller. The song, written by Bush from her iconic Hounds of Love album, also soared to the top of the Australian charts and hit number one on the…

Sharon Van Etten: ‘I hadn’t heard a melody that complex before’Sharon Van Etten. Photograph: Michael SchmellingI was a late bloomer when it came to hearing Kate’s music. As a teenager I had moved to Tennessee and tried to do college but ended up coming back home to my parents with my tail between my legs. The first adult friend I made after moving back was a painter’s assistant named Alison, and she played me Wuthering Heights on a car ride through New Jersey. I hadn’t heard a melody that complex and in that high range…

Christian Bale is making his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut with the upcoming film Thor: Love and Thunder. The actor plays the newest Marvel villain Gorr the God Butcher and fans have praised his terrifying look. But the actor recently revealed that if he and director Taika Waititi had their way, the film would have featured a sequence of Gorr dancing to Kate Bush songs. Also read: Thor: Love and Thunder trailer introduces a terrifying Christian BaleAt the recent global press conference for Thor: Love and Thunder on…

Thanks to the popularity of Stranger Things’ music-heavy fourth season and social media, Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” has climbed up to the very top of music charts around the world 37 years after the song initially released. A number of Bush’s longtime (and generally older) fans have felt a type of way about younger people discovering her music for themselves by way of a sci-fi love letter to the ’80s. But Bush — herself a longtime Stranger Things fan — sees the sudden resurgence of interest in “Running Up That…

Kate Bush has discussed the remarkable resurgent success of her 1985 song Running Up That Hill in her first interview since the song’s return to the charts.Speaking to Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Bush said the situation was “just extraordinary … quite shocking really, isn’t it? I mean, the whole world’s gone mad.”Running Up That Hill is at No 1 in the UK charts and could spend a second week at the top on Friday despite high-profile new releases from Drake and Beyoncé. It is at No 5 in the US, down from a…

To the extent that the story of popular music in the past half-century has also been, in considerable part, a story of women gaining evermore control of it, 1985’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” was bigger than a hit. It was a landmark and a genesis, an anthemic fount of agency and illumination.The first song from the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Kate Bush, its opening weave of vanguard Fairlight synthesizer and booming Linn drum signified a cloud-parting rupture in her career and in music…

Image via Marvel Studios Actor Christian Bale is set to return to comic book filmmaking with his coming turn in Thor: Love and Thunder, and now the acclaimed actor is sharing his influences for his portrayal of the villain, one of whom is Kate Bush, the legendary English musician brought to renewed public attention by the use of her classic song “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” in season 4 of Stranger Things. “Mostly hearing Taika’s thoughts on it. There’s obviously sort of a Nosferatu slight attitude.…

In an increasingly bland pop world, it’s great to see Kate Bush back at No 1 with Running Up That Hill (Report, 17 June). Not just known for her haunting melodies and poetic lyrics and sensual dance routines, Kate was an innovator. The “manual reset” of streaming ratios means classic tracks will get their due share of success and compete with new material if all record companies vie for it to become normal practice. A new generation of pop fans will be introduced to the great music and artists that they’ve been missing…

Kate Bush has run a U.K. chart race like no other artist, as “Running Up That Hill” (via Fish People) completes its coronation 37 years after release. The veteran English singer’s 1985 hit lifts 2-1, powered by its use in season four of Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things. “I’m overwhelmed by the scale of affection and support the song is receiving and it’s all happening really fast, as if it’s being driven along by a kind of elemental force,” Bush wrote on her official website. “I have to admit I feel…