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Logic announces new single ‘Vaccine’ coming this week
Logic has announced that he’s releasing a new single, ‘Vaccine’, which is set to be released on Friday (July 2). READ MORE: Logic – ‘No Pressure’ review: positive rapper bids farewell with an elegiac and heartfelt swan song Taking to social media this evening (June 30) to share the artwork for the new track, Logic accompanied the yellow, black and red image with a caption that simply read: “Friday”. ‘Vaccine’ is the latest in a series of releases as part of the rapper’s ongoing comeback after retiring from the music industry last year. He made his return earlier this month with the...
Shura on RAYE’s label drama: “Indie labels are just as capable of sucking big time”
Shura has responded to RAYE‘s recent record label drama, sharing her own experiences of indie labels “sucking big time” as well as majors. READ MORE: Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with RAYE Her comments come after RAYE took to Twitter earlier this week to say that she is “sick of being slept on” and that she’s eager to put out her first full-length LP. In the message, RAYE said she has been signed on a four-album deal since 2014, yet hasn’t been “allowed” to release her debut album. Advertisement “I’m so over it being...
Julie Adenuga plans to launch new festival with more space for women artists
Julie Adenuga has revealed that she’s planning on launching a new festival that will have more space on the line-up for women artists. READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life: Julie Adenuga The presenter, DJ, producer and curator recently stepped down from her show on Apple Music in order to focus on her new creative media platform, ‘Don’t Trust The Internet’. Speaking in a new interview, Adenuga said she also wants to make an impact in the live events industry, announcing plans for her own festival. Advertisement “Oh yeah, I’m not going to say too much on that because I think it...
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly signs new record deal, shares uplifting single ‘Drift’
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly has shared a brand new single – listen to ‘Drift’ below. The new track is Sam Duckworth’s first release on Southend-on-Sea-based label Cool Thing Records. Speaking about the new track, Duckworth said: “This is a song about taking time to anchor your feet and slow your mind. After a year or so indoors through screens, life is returning. I am often taken back to that hour of outdoors by the beach where a new appreciation for my surroundings was found. Advertisement “As a world, we are increasingly spending more time in this world within...
Amazon launches “golden era” vinyl subscription service
Amazon has launched a new subscription service that focuses on “the golden era of vinyl” from the 1960s and ’70s. READ MORE: Here’s the full list of Record Store Day 2021 releases The new ‘Vinyl Of The Month’ club offers music fans “must-haves” delivered to their door for $24.99 (£18.58) per month, handpicked by the Amazon Music team. “Start or grow an enviable collection with some of the greatest albums ever,” a statement reads, adding that the new Amazon service is “a great gift for anyone who’s just fallen in love with vinyl”. Advertisement The first two albums delivered as...
Listen to Inhaler’s anthemic new single ‘Totally’
Inhaler have shared a brand new single – listen to the anthemic, radio-ready ‘Totally’ below. READ MORE: Inhaler talk debut album and new single ‘Cheer Up Baby’: “It’s a love letter to all our fans who are feeling isolated” The track is the final preview of the Dublin band’s debut album ‘It Won’t Always Be Like This’, which is set to be released next week (July 9). So far, the album has been previewed by its title track and first single ‘Who’s Your Money On?’. Advertisement Speaking of their forthcoming debut album and their progression as a band, bassist Robert...
Iceland lifts all COVID-19 restrictions as 90% of population vaccinated
Iceland have lifted all COVID-19 restrictions this week as almost all of the country have received their vaccinations. 87 per cent of adults in the country, which has a population of 400,000, have received their first dose of a vaccine, with 60 per cent already having had both doses. READ MORE: European festivals on returning in 2021: “We are only more optimistic for the summer” After all adults have been offered the vaccine, the Icelandic government say that “plans for the vaccination programme and the lifting of restrictions on gatherings have therefore been completed.” Advertisement Health Minister Svandís Svavarsdóttir added:...
Green Day’s Mike Dirnt teases “new music and adventures”
Green Day‘s Mike Dirnt has teased that new music could be on the horizon. The NME Big Read: Green Day: “We live our lives as if we have nothing” The pop-punk trio – completed by Billie Joe Armstrong and Tré Cool – returned with the single ‘Pollyanna’ last month, which followed on from February’s ‘Here Comes The Shock’. Their latest album, ‘Father Of All Motherfuckers’, came out in early 2020. Speaking to the band’s own Oakland Coffee company for its ‘Morning Roast’ interview series, Dirnt was asked what he had coming up that he was most looking forward to....
Listen to Big Red Machine’s stripped-back new single ‘The Ghost Of Cincinnati’
Big Red Machine have shared a new track called ‘The Ghost Of Cincinnati’ – listen below. The NME Big Read: The National: ‘Sex, death and losing. What else is there?’ The collaborative project from The National’s Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon announced their second album ‘How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?’ yesterday (June 29) with the song ‘Latter Days’, which features Anaïs Mitchell. Today (June 30) the band dropped the second preview of the record, an acoustic solo number from Dessner, along with an artistic official lyric video. Advertisement “I park at this spot and stare at the...Recent Posts
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