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Demi Lovato explains using both she/her and they/them pronouns

Demi Lovato says she has begun using both she/her and they/them pronouns, after the singer and actor came out as non-binary last year and started going by the latter terms. In a recent interview on the Spout podcast, Lovato told host Tamara Dhia how she had recently started to use feminine pronouns in addition to neutral ones as time had progressed. “For me, I’m such a fluid person when it comes to my gender, my sexuality, my music,” she said. “Especially last year, my energy was balanced in my masculine and feminine energy. “When I was faced with the choice...
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Listen to Life’s introspective new track, ‘Duck Egg Blue’

Life have released an introspective new track today (August 2) – check out ‘Duck Egg Blue’ below. READ MORE: LIFE launched their new album in a kebab shop in Camden, so we went down and asked, “Why?” The single is the latest taken from their upcoming new third album, ‘North East Coastal Town’, which arrives on August 19. A statement describes the song as “more introspective than any of the band’s material to-date.” Advertisement Speaking about the new release, the band’s Mez Green says: “‘Duck Egg Blue’ is a realist’s love song. The journey of trying to navigate through each...
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Prince family and advisors settle estate, six years after his death

The family of Prince have reached an agreement over the division of his $156million (£128million) estate. Prince died aged 57 in April 2016 following a fentanyl overdose. The musician did not have a will at the time of his death and with no spouse or children, all of Prince’s estate passed to his six half-siblings. READ MORE: 10 deep nuggets of info we learned at the playback of Prince’s new album, ‘Originals’ Half of those inheriting the estate sold their shares to a company, Primary Wave, that bought the rights to Prince’s back catalogue last year. The other three...
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Deftones announce third annual Dia De Los Deftones

Deftones have announced their third annual Dia De Los Deftones event. READ MORE: Deftones: “Even in our worst moments, we persevere” It’s back after a two-year hiatus following the pandemic and will take place November 5 at Gallagher Square at Petco Park in San Diego. The line-up will see the Deftones perform alongside Turnstile, Phantogram, Freddie Gibbs, Audrey Nuna, Destroy Boys, Provoker, and Cold Gawd. Advertisement Tickets for the event go on sale August 5 at 10am PST. Speaking about the event, Deftones’ singer Chino Moreno said: “We’re hyped to be bringing back Dia de Los Deftones this year. “We...
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Carly Rae Jepsen unveils details of new album, ‘The Loneliest Time’

Carly Rae Jepsen has unveiled details of her upcoming new album, ‘The Loneliest Time’. READ MORE: Carly Rae Jepsen: “My relationship with ‘Call Me Maybe’ was a rollercoaster” The album will arrive on October 21 via 604/Schoolboy/Interscope and collaborators on the new project include include Tavish Crowe, Rostam Batmanglij, Bullion, Captain Cuts, John Hill, Kyle Shearer, and Alex Hope. Announcing the album on social media, Jepsen wrote: “I’m quite fascinated by loneliness. It can be really beautiful when you turn it over and look at it. Just like love, it can cause some extreme human reactions.” Advertisement You can pre-order the new album here. Check out the tweet and...
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Listen to Hot Chip’s glitchy new single, ‘Freakout/Release’

Hot Chip have shared the latest single from their upcoming new album today (August 2) – check out the glitchy ‘Freakout/Release’ below. READ MORE: Alexis Taylor – ‘Silence’ review: the Hot Chip frontman shows his sensitive side The latest single follows on from the previously released ‘Eleanor‘ and ‘Down‘ and is the title track from their upcoming album, which is due on August 19. A statement about the song says: “Freakout/Release is more akin to their brilliant cover of Beastie Boys’ Sabotage which is what kickstarted the writing process of the new album.” Advertisement Talking about the song, singer Alexis...
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Frank Turner on playing 50 US states in 50 days: “It was brutal”

Frank Turner has spoken to NME about the “brutal” experience of playing shows in 50 US states in 50 dates. The punk troubadour told us how he became the third artist ever (and first non-American) to complete the challenge of playing 50 states in the space of 50 days, after George Thorogood did so in 1981 and The Melvins in 2012. Speaking to NME from an airport in Hawaii after he and his band The Sleeping Souls finished the trek this week, Turner described his mood as “shell-shocked”. Advertisement “I had the idea of playing 50 states in 50 days...
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The 1975 share a clip of their new song and video for ‘Happiness’

The 1975 have shared a short clip of their new song and video for their upcoming release, ‘Happiness’. Check it out below. READ MORE: New song ‘Part Of The Band’ finds The 1975 ripping up their own rule book The band shared the clip on Twitter and confirmed that the new song would be arriving tomorrow (August 3) at 5:30pm. The Manchester group returned earlier this month with the track ‘Part Of The Band’, which served as the first taste of their fifth album ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’ (out October 14 via Dirty Hit). Advertisement The latest...
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ABBA and Elton John work together on new TikTok song mashup

ABBA’s Benny Anderson and Elton John have worked together on a new song mash-up for TikTok. READ MORE: Elton John: “I’m not interested in the past – not even Elton John’s past” The pair remotely performed a live rendition of each of their songs before they were blended in the TikTok audio app. Anderson played ABBA’s 1979 hit ‘Chiquitita’ while John played his 1973 smash, ‘Bennie And The Jets’. Advertisement Anderson can be seen sat at his piano playing the opening bars to ‘Chiquitita’ before it later pans to John who is sat at his piano playing ‘Benny And The...
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Jamal Edwards died of cardiac arrest after using cocaine, coroner concludes

Jamal Edwards died of a cardiac arrest after taking cocaine, a coroner has ruled. The DJ and founder of SBTV passed away on in Acton, west London on February 20. He was 31 years old. READ MORE: RIP Jamal Edwards, an inspiration who turned SB.TV into a Black British cultural dynasty Back in June, his mother Brenda Edwards said that her son’s death was the result of him taking recreational drugs. “I wanted to address this myself to everyone who loved, admired and respected my son,” she wrote on social media. A coroner has now confirmed that there was evidence...