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Eminem shares newly remastered ‘The Eminem Show’ videos

Eminem has shared a host of newly remastered music videos for the songs which supported his 2002 album ‘The Eminem Show’ – you can watch the clips below. The Detroit rapper’s fourth studio album was released in May 2002 and featured such singles as ‘Without Me’, ‘Cleanin’ Out My Closet’ and ‘Superman’. READ MORE: Eminem: Rank The Albums – will the best Slim Shady album please stand up? In a tweet posted yesterday (February 18), Eminem announced the series of remastered videos by sharing a clip which showed the side-by-side comparisons between the standard definition videos and the newly...
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Listen to Slowthai’s cover of Elliott Smith’s ‘Needle In The Hay’

Slowthai has delivered his own take on Elliott Smith’s ‘Needle in the Hay’. A largely faithful take on the late musician’s 1995 track, the Apple Music Home Session cover sees the Northampton rapper ditching his typically explosive delivery to instead offer a stripped-back vocal – in keeping with the spirit of Smith’s original. Describing his choice of cover, as well as his performance of his own track ‘adhd’, Slowthai said: “The lyrics to both tracks mean a lot to me. Advertisement “‘adhd’ because I feel it’s inward-facing and ‘Needle in the Hay’ because that song got me through a...
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Dawn Richard’s “Bussifame,” Wizkid’s “Longtime,” And More Songs We Love

The search for the ever-elusive “bop” is difficult. Playlists and streaming-service recommendations can only do so much. They often leave a lingering question: Are these songs really good, or are they just new? Enter Bop Shop, a hand-picked selection of songs from the MTV News team. This weekly collection doesn’t discriminate by genre and can include anything — it’s a snapshot of what’s on our minds and what sounds good. And all February long, in honor of Black History Month, we shine the spotlight on Black musicians making art that feels vital to this moment. Get ready: The Bop Shop is now...
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Sean Paul denies saying that Jay-Z was “jealous” of Beyoncé collaboration ‘Baby Boy’

Sean Paul has claimed that recent comments he made on a Jamaican radio station about Jay-Z and Beyoncé were taken out of context. The Jamaican rapper appeared on the Too Live Crew, Action & The Burgerman radio show last month where he seemingly backed up the host’s claims that Jay-Z wasn’t a fan of ‘Baby Boy’ – Paul’s 2003 collaboration with Beyoncé – because he was jealous of the pair spending time together. Paul told the hosts that he had to use a degree of “diplomacy” while recording the track, and went on to say it was “apparent at the time”...
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Creative Industries Federation warns of “crippling inequalities” unless government supports UK’s creative sector

The Creative Industries Federation (CIF) has urged the UK Government to act now in order to prevent “crippling inequalities” from spreading across the country’s creative sector. CIF, who are the membership body for the UK’s creative sector, has surveyed over 800 creative practitioners and organisations to uncover the devastating consequences that the coronavirus pandemic has had for those whose livelihoods have been directly impacted by the live music and events shutdown. READ MORE: Restarting live music in 2021: Gig and festival bosses on what to expect 63 per cent of the respondents to the survey said that their turnover...
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The View’s Kyle Falconer shares video for new solo single ‘Stress Ball’

The View frontman Kyle Falconer has shared the video of his new single ‘Stress Ball’. See it first on NME below. Following on from his 2018 solo debut ‘No Thank You’ (an album named by Liam Gallagher while holidaying together), Falconer now shares the first material from his upcoming Frankie Siragusa-produced new record ‘No Love Songs For Laura’. “I wrote ‘Stress Ball’ in a taxi on the way to a session,” said Falconer. “It came to me straight away – I turned up to the session with Justin Stanley and we just instantly knew he had something there. For...
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Conan Gray returns with cinematic new single ‘Overdrive’ and tells us about his “nostalgic” new album

Conan Gray has made his return with cinematic new single ‘Overdrive’ – check it out below, as well as the LA-based musician giving us a progress report on his second album. The track is Gray’s first new solo material since the release of his debut album ‘Kid Krow’ last year and follows October 2020 single ‘Fake’, his collaborative release with Lauv. “With ‘Overdrive’, all I wanted to do was give people just a form of escapism,” he told NME. “The song is about losing your inhibitions and just doing exactly what you want to do in a given moment, even...
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James Newman reselected as UK’s Eurovision Song Contest entry for 2021

James Newman has been reselected as the UK’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 after the coronavirus pandemic previously dashed his hopes of taking part. The singer-songwriter was chosen as the UK’s entry last year, but the pandemic forced the event to be cancelled for the first time in its 64-year history. Newman will now get another chance to secure victory when the song contest returns at Rotterdam’s Ahoy! venue from May 18-22. Advertisement He said: “I’m so excited and honoured to be getting a second chance at representing my country in the Eurovision Song Contest. I haven’t stopped making...
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GOT7’s Jackson Wang says JYP didn’t allow him to promote his solo career in Korea

GOT7 member Jackson Wang has revealed that he was not allowed to promote his solo material in South Korea while under his former label JYP Entertainment. READ MORE: BTS – ‘BE (Deluxe Edition)’ review: a sensitive, stunning document of pandemic life Back in 2017, while still under JYP, Wang started his own label called Team Wang, through which he released a slew of solo material. Including his debut solo album ‘Mirrors’ in 2019, and singles such as ‘100 Ways’ and ‘Fendiman’. However, he was not permitted to promote nor release his solo music in South Korea while signed under...
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Kacey Musgraves is selling a Ted Cruz diss shirt for Texan charities

Texas-born songwriter Kacey Musgraves has begun selling a new T-shirt design that takes a swing at Texas senator Ted Cruz. It comes after news broke of Cruz fleeing the state to fly to Cancun with his family for a vacation, amid a devastating winter storm crisis in Texas that has left millions of residents without access to electricity or clean water. The ringer tees read “Cruzin’ for a Bruzin’”, and are available now via Musgraves’ webstore. Profits from the shirt’s sale will “directly support Texans affected by the storm and also to homeless immigrants seeking shelter and food,” Musgraves...
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