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Billie Holiday documentary set for UK cinema release next month

Billie, a new documentary about the life of Billie Holiday, is set to be released in UK cinema’s next month. The film, which originally premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September 2019, is directed by James Erksine and will screen at the London Jazz...

Muse release limited edition t-shirt in aid of Exeter venue The Cavern Club

Muse have announced the release of a limited edition t-shirt which will see its proceeds donated to Exeter’s The Cavern Club. Read more: Matt Bellamy tells us about going solo, Muse’s next move and “embracing the simple life” of lockdown The band’s gesture comes...

Music industry celebrates as over 1,000 venues, festivals and arts spaces are awarded CRF funding to survive until April

Hundreds of music venues, festivals, arts spaces and culture organisations in England are celebrating after being awarded part of a £257million grant in the first wave of funding from the government’s Cultural Recovery Fund. Over 1,385 theatres, museums and cultural organisations across England have...

Uncut – December 2020

CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW UNCUT DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell, Fleet Foxes, Songhoy Blues, Paul Weller, The Doors, Drive-By Truckers, Kim Gordon, Metallica, Grandaddy, Todd Rundgren and Gwenifer Raymond all feature in the new Uncut, dated December 2020 and in...

Ava Max Powered Through Heaven And Hell With Pasta And Late-Night Dancing

What is Ava Max going as for Halloween this year? “Something hellish. I feel hellish, as you can tell,” she said to MTV News on a recent Zoom call. “I’m wearing all black. I’ve been wearing all black the last two weeks a lot.”...

The Wanted’s Tom Parker Reveals He’s Been Diagnosed With A Brain Tumor

Tom Parker, one of the five members of the early-2010s boy band The Wanted, has revealed he’s been diagnosed with a brain tumor and that he’s been undergoing treatment. In an emotional Instagram post on Monday (October 12), the British singer wrote that instead...

Cillian Murphy announces new BBC Radio 6 Music series

Cillian Murphy has announced a new 12-part audio series for BBC Radio 6 Music titled Cillian Murphy’s Limited Edition. The series, which will also be available on BBC Sounds, will comprise of a dozen two-hour programmes which will air weekly from 12am-2am on 6...

Elton John shares unreleased track ‘Regimental Sgt. Zippo’

Elton John has unveiled a previously unreleased song, ‘Regimental Sgt. Zippo’. The psychedelic track was recorded in 1968 and penned alongside his longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin. It was originally set to be released as the title track for the singer’s debut LP, but it...

IDLES, Foals and DMA’s announced for Leeds’ ‘Sounds Of The City’ gig series

IDLES, Foals and DMA’s have been announced as the 2021 headliners for Leeds’ outdoor gig series ‘Sounds Of The City’. The shows will be hosted at Millennium Square in the city from July 8-10 2021, with the Manchester-originating gig series aiming to expand into...

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes to play virtual reality gig from O2 Academy Brixton

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes will play a special virtual reality gig at London’s O2 Academy Brixton next month. It’s set to be the latest gig in an upcoming series by MelodyVR, who recently hosted the Wireless Connect festival, a replacement for this year’s cancelled Wireless...