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Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker asks fans to stop talking during support acts’ sets
Big Thief frontwoman Adrianne Lenker has asked fans in a video message to stop talking through their support acts’ sets. The Brooklyn band are currently out on a North American headline tour in support of their fifth studio album, ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You’, which came out in February via 4AD. READ MORE: Big Thief – ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You’ review: a new chapter Canadian musician and producer Kara-Lis Coverdale is currently opening for Big Thief at the ongoing concerts, per Stereogum. Advertisement Earlier this week, Lenker took to Instagram to share a video...
Green Man Festival adds Tune-Yards, Sofia Kourtesis, Nia Archives and more to 2022 line-up
Green Man Festival has announced the second wave of artists for their 2022 line-up. The Brecon Beacons, Wales festival will return for its 20th anniversary event from August 18-21. READ MORE: Green Man festival 2021: there’s magic in the mountains, and a sense of renewal With Kraftwerk, Michael Kiwanuka, Beach House, Metronomy and Bicep already set to headline this year’s festival, Green Man has now announced another wave of acts for their 2022 event. Advertisement Tune-Yards, Sofia Kourtesis and Nia Archives lead the latest additions to the line-up, with Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul, Mary Lattimore, Donny Benét, Carwyn...
Pooh Shiesty sentenced to five years in prison over Florida shooting
Pooh Shiesty has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to a single firearms conspiracy charge. The rapper – whose real name is Lontrell Donell Williams Jr. – was charged over his involvement in an October 2020 shooting at a hotel in Bay Harbor Islands in Florida. He is said to have shot a 28-year-old man in the buttocks. After Williams pleaded guilty to a single firearms conspiracy charge earlier this year, federal prosecutors dropped three additional charges that could have resulted in a lifetime prison sentence. The most serious of these charges alleged that Shiesty...
Phoebe Bridgers says she might release more new music this year
Phoebe Bridgers has suggested she may release more new music this year, saying that she always “tries to do things that are exciting”. Last week saw the Los Angeles singer-songwriter return with ‘Sidelines’, a standalone song that was recorded for the upcoming TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel Conversations With Friends. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Phoebe Bridgers: “I definitely feel a lot less apologetic than I did before” Bridgers wrote the track with bandmate and collaborator Marshall Vore and Ruby Rain Henley. According to a press release, ‘Sidelines’ will be her only original new song of the...
Smashing Pumpkins have completed their “big” and “epic” 12th album, says Jeff Schroeder
According to Smashing Pumpkins’ longstanding guitarist Jeff Schroeder, the band have finished working on their “big” and “epic” 12th studio album. READ MORE: The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan on being a reformed control freak: “I drove myself with my insecurities” Word of the LP first came before the release of 2020’s ‘CYR’, when frontman Billy Corgan said it would be a sequel to both their 1995 album ‘Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness’ and 2000’s ‘Machina’ records. He described it at the time as “kind of a rock opera”, and confirmed last March that he and the rest of...
Bartees Strange announces second album ‘Farm To Table’ and shares new single
Bartees Strange has announced that his second album, ‘Farm To Table’, will arrive in June, sharing new single ‘Cosigns’ along with the news. READ MORE: Bartees Strange: The Washington, D.C. artist bending genres to build his own uncompromising world Set to arrive on June 17, the follow-up to 2020 debut ‘Live Forever’ was previewed last month with lead single ‘Heavy Heart’. That song’s release came with the news that Strange had signed to his “dream label”, 4AD, who will release ‘Farm To Table’. ‘Cosigns’ is a characteristically diverse cut from Strange, melding trappy, auto-tuned verses that shout out Phoebe...
Astroworld task force finds inadequate training and inconsistent regulations may have added to safety failures
A Texas state task force has outlined several recommendations aimed at improving safety at large events like music festivals, some five months after the crowd crush tragedy at Travis Scott‘s Astroworld left 10 people dead and many more injured last year. The Texas Task Force on Concert Safety was established by Texas Governor Greg Abbott following the Astroworld tragedy, with the aim being to find ways to help prevent such an incident from occurring at large-scale events in the future. Music industry representatives, law enforcement and event safety experts were among its members. The task force’s report, which was...
Sam Smith announces brand new single ‘Love Me More’
Sam Smith has announced a new single called ‘Love Me More’. READ MORE: Sam Smith – ‘Love Goes’ review: pop balladeer leans even further into heartbreak than before The London singer-songwriter will release the track next Thursday (April 28) at 11pm BST – you can pre-save/pre-add it here. Smith shared the news on social media yesterday (April 20) alongside the official black-and-white artwork for the upcoming track. Check out the post below. Advertisement ‘Love Me More’ will follow on from the star’s 2020 single ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’, a festive number that was produced and co-written by Labrinth. Smith’s most recent...
Viagra Boys announce new album ‘Cave World’ and share video for single ‘Ain’t No Thief’
Viagra Boys have announced a new album, ‘Cave World’, and shared the first taster from the record, ‘Ain’t No Thief’. READ MORE: Viagra Boys: “A lot of our output is a celebration of being a fuck-up” The follow-up to 2021’s ‘Welfare Jazz’, which has been produced by Pelle Gunnerfeldt and DJ Haydn, is released on July 8 via Year0001. You can view the full tracklisting below. According to a press release, the album is “inspired by current events”, and “aims to tear through the insanity and confusion the world currently finds itself in.” Advertisement “I just wrote down, ‘Who is...Recent Posts
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