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Thousands attend post-lockdown Chinese festival at Wuhan waterpark
Thousands of music fans attended a festival held at a waterpark in the Chinese province of Wuhan over the weekend – check out footage below. Wuhan was where the coronavirus originated late last year, and the province had been under a strict lockdown for most of 2020. Read more: What will 2020’s “pandemic-proof” music festival season look like? The festival, held at the Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park, saw fans enjoy DJ sets and more, with many watching while in the water and sitting on inflatables. Advertisement The waterpark has had its capacity capped to 50% since it reopened...
Frank Zappa’s Los Angeles ‘Zappawood’ plot is up for sale
Zappawood, once the site of Frank Zappa‘s legendary log cabin home, is currently up for sale. Located in the heart of the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, California, the 2.4-acre plot is listed at $999,000 (£755,000) on the US real estate site Redfin. The property went on the market back in June. The vacant space is described as being “rich in history and development potential”, while boasting “sprawling park-like grounds and three separate entrances”. Advertisement It’s said that the property was the premier gathering place of LA rock ‘n’ roll legends back in the 1960s and ’70s, owing to...
In Conversation with Biffy Clyro: “We’ve already got a sprawling new sister record coming”
A lot has been written about how Biffy Clyro‘s opulent ninth album ‘A Celebration Of Endings‘, with its theme of everyone having a thorough word with themselves and starting anew after centuries of calamitous shithousery, has proven to be oddly prescient. “I’m still thinking through an awful lot,” says frontman Simon Neil. “We’re coming to terms with the reality of our lives changing, this virus that’s trying to kill us all. It’s impossible to be unaffected. If you were to try, you’re probably psychotic. If you deny that it has changed your outlook, you’re probably psychotic. “There’s no way...
Sun Kil Moon’s Mark Kozelek “unconditionally denies” sexual assault allegations
Sun Kil Moon frontman Mark Kozelek has spoken out to “unconditionally” deny a series of sexual assault allegations made against him. Three women made claims of sexual incidents in an article published by Pitchfork last week. The publication said Kozelek had failed to respond after he was contacted for comment over a space of several months. Advertisement Discussing the allegations for the first time, Kozelek said in a statement: “It is important that I publicly and unconditionally deny that I engaged in the inappropriate and disturbing incidents falsely depicted in the media. “While I support the important work of...
TikTok user mashes up M83’s ‘Midnight City’ with Nelson Muntz’s laugh from ‘The Simpsons’
A TikTok user has mashed up M83‘s hit ‘Midnight City’ with the trademark laugh of The Simpsons character Nelson Muntz — check out the end product below. The band’s 2011 single — which gained prominence in the UK as the theme music for Made In The Chelsea — was given an unusual upgrade by Canadian TikTok user Teo Domani, who describes themselves as the “CEO of mash-ups”, earlier this week. Domani’s original creation, subtitled “I don’t know why I made this”, took audio of Nelson laughing at Bart in The Simpsons Movie, pitched it up and then applied it...
‘Tiger King”s Carole Baskin hits back at Cardi B for claiming she killed her own husband
Tiger King‘s Carole Baskin has responded to Cardi B again after she initially criticised the use of big cats in latter’s video for ‘WAP’. Baskin, who rose to fame on the Netflix show, criticised the rapper for using the animals in her recent video alongside Megan Thee Stallion. While it is unclear if the animals were real or the result of CGI, Baskin speculated the video had made use of “one of the big cat pimps, who makes a living from beating, shocking and starving cats to make them stand on cue in front of a green screen in...
The Cribs thank fans for support after revealing they were “seriously questioning our future as a band”
The Cribs have thanked their fans for their continued support in a message which also reveals that they were “seriously questioning our future as a band” late last year. The Wakefield three-piece announced their return last week by sharing their new single ‘Running Into You’, taken from their forthcoming new album ‘Night Network’. The LP, which is out on November 13, is the Cribs’ first new album since August 2017’s ’24-7 Rock Star Shit’. Writing to fans on their social media this morning (August 18) about their return, The Cribs said they “wanted to send a message to try...
Pom Poko announce second album ‘Cheater’ and share first single ‘Andrew’
Pom Poko have debuted their new single ‘Andrew’, the first track to arrive from their anticipated second album ‘Cheater’. Check out the track out first on NME. The new record from the Norwegian group follows 2019’s ‘Birthday’, with the first single providing a glimpse of the band’s spikier new direction. Describing ‘Andrew’, the band said: “’Andrew’ is a cool example of how our collective songwriting process allows us come up with stuff we’d never be able to come up with if we were just writing individually. Advertisement “The song started with an idea Ola had for some...
Bruce Springsteen debuts new ‘The Rising’ video during Democratic National Convention
Bruce Springsteen has used his seminal track ‘The Rising’ to soundtrack a new advert supporting Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. The clip debuted during the first night of the Democratic National Convention yesterday (August 17), and features stirring images of health care workers, empty US streets and everyday people wearing masks to reflect the coronavirus pandemic. It then goes on to draw a parallel between the pandemic and the pain of 9/11 – which initially inspired Springsteen to write the 2002 song. Advertisement Springsteen and his wife Patty Scialfa are also seen briefly in the clip, which ends with footage...Recent Posts
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