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Slipknot’s Corey Taylor set to head out on US “social-distanced” solo tour
Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor has announced that he’s planning a “social-distanced” solo tour. Read more: Corey Taylor: “If I can wear a mask for a two hour Slipknot show, people can wear one for five minutes in a grocery store” Speaking in a new interview, the frontman, who released his debut solo album ‘CMFT’ last October, revealed plans to hit the road in the US for three weeks around April and May. “ short tour – probably about three weeks,” he told Arizona radio station 98 KUPD. “Some of the places we’ll be doing two nights in...
Julien Baker brings ‘Little Oblivions’ songs to ‘CBS This Morning’
Julien Baker released her third album ‘Little Oblivions’ last week, and played three tracks from it with a full band on CBS This Morning – watch the performances below. READ MORE: Julien Baker on ‘Little Oblivions’: “I had to unlearn the idea of recovery being linear” For the TV show’s ‘Saturday Sessions’ segment yesterday (March 6), Baker played the album’s three singles, ‘Faith Healer’, ‘Hardline’ and ‘Heatwave’. Watch the performances below: Advertisement ‘Little Oblivions’ is Baker’s first album with a full band, and she spoke of the change in a recent interview with NME. “I’ve missed it so much,”...
Mumford & Sons’ Winston Marshall praises “brave” right-wing agitator Andy Ngo
Winston Marshall of Mumford & Sons has received criticism after praising notorious right-wing agitator Andy Ngo. Ngo, an American journalist and social media personality, has gained notoriety in right-wing circles for his reporting on left-wing groups, though has been criticised for painting left-wing activists as violent while not saying the same of right-wing protestors. The journalist, who has associated himself with the far-right group the Proud Boys in the past, has released a new book called Unmasked, which promises to take the reader “inside ANTIFA’s radical plan to destroy democracy”. In the book, Ngo calls the Proud Boys a...
Anna Calvi says she’s recorded “enough songs for an album” in lockdown
Anna Calvi has revealed that she’s recorded enough new songs in lockdown to make a new album. Read more: Anna Calvi on scoring Peaky Blinders season five: “I really felt like I was Tommy Shelby” The musician last released a solo album in 2018 with ‘Hunter’, her third studio LP. She reworked that record last year for the collaborative ‘Hunted’. Speaking in a new interview, Calvi said she’s in the early stages of recording what could be her next album but it depends on whether the songs she’s made in lockdown are “good enough”. Advertisement Asked what direction the...
Watch Tame Impala play two sold-out hometown shows in Australia
Tame Impala played two sold-out hometown show in Perth, Australia this weekend as the country begins to return to life as normal post-coronavirus. READ MORE: New Zealand pop-rockers Six60 on playing the world’s only stadium tour: “I felt pure elation” On Friday night (March 5), Kevin Parker took to the Metro City venue, performing to a packed, maskless crowd, returning the next evening for another show. With two members of the band’s touring setup stuck overseas due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, Parker played alongside Jay Watson and Dominic Simper under the Tame Impala Sound System moniker, swapping out their...
Xiu Xiu release music video for single ‘Rumpus Room’ featuring Angus Andrew of Liars
Xiu Xiu have released a new single, ‘Rumpus Room’, taken from the duo’s forthcoming album, ‘OH NO’. The track, which dropped last Thursday (March 4), features Angus Andrew of Liars. ‘Rumpus Room’ is the latest single from Xiu Xiu’s upcoming duets album, ‘OH NO’, set for release on March 26 via Polyvinyl. According to Xiu Xiu in a press release, ‘Rumpus Room’ picks up where January’s lead single ‘A Bottle Of Rum’ left off. Advertisement The accompanying DIY video was directed by Xiu Xiu’s own Angela Seo. In it, we see her parading around a living room, munching Cheetos...
Beyoncé honours late fan with tribute medley
Beyoncé has shared a brief tribute medley to her late fan, Lyric Chanel, who died from brain cancer last week. The medley ties together the singer’s tracks ‘Brown Skin Girl’, ‘Halo’ and ‘Love On Top’, overlaid with images and videos of Chanel. The video ends with Beyoncé saying, “I love you with all my heart.” Watch the clip below: Advertisement According to Billboard, Chanel died last Friday (March 5) after a two-year struggle with brain cancer and anaplastic ependymoma, aged 13. The teenager garnered a large following on Instagram, where she and her family documented her life. Back in...
Eminem hits back at cancel culture in animated ‘Tone Deaf’ video
Eminem has released an animated music video for his new track ‘Tone Deaf’ – watch it below. Read more: Eminem vs everyone: a massive list of every one of Slim Shady’s lyrical feuds Taken from the rapper’s latest album, ‘Music To Be Murdered By — Side B’, the Luis Resto and Eminem-produced track hears him take aim at cancel culture while putting his controversial past on full display. On the track’s chorus, Em raps: “I can’t understand a word you say (I’m tone-deaf)/ I think this way I prefer to stay (I’m tone-deaf)/ I won’t stop even when my hair turns...
Strawberries & Creem Festival postponed to September
This year’s Strawberries & Creem Festival has been postponed to September due to the coronavirus pandemic. Read more: European festivals on returning in 2021: “We are only more optimistic for the summer” The Cambridge festival, which will celebrate its sixth birthday this year, will now be spread across two days taking place at its new site at Childerley Orchard on September 18-19. Described as “Cambridgeshire’s biggest music festival celebrating youth culture”, the 2021 line-up will feature PARTYNEXTDOOR, Bugzy Malone, Sean Paul, Koffee, PA Salieu, Tiffany Calver and many more. Advertisement “We’re back,” the festival tweeted. “The #YearOfTheParty is LIVE”. All tickets...Recent Posts
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