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Watch Pale Waves perform new song ‘Jealousy’ as they kick off UK tour

Pale Waves kicked off their UK last night (February 11) in Bristol and during the show, the band performed new song ‘Jealousy’ – check it out below. READ MORE: Pale Waves: “I’ve been hiding who I am for so long now. I don’t wanna do that any more” The UK tour was originally announced last year before the release of second album ‘Who Am I?’ and last night’s show was the first time Pale Waves had played a live gig since they supported Halsey at Manchester Arena in 2020. The seventeen song set pulled equally from ‘Who Am I?’ and debut album ‘My Mind Makes Noises’ while tracks from debut EP ‘All The Things I Never Said’ were also aired. Advertisement They also debuted new track ‘Jealousy’ – a ‘90s inspired alt rock track with plenty of attitude. Check out footage below: PALE WAVES NEW SONG pic.twitter.com/13ujLSW1MB — Pale Waves Updates (@PaleWavesUpdate) February 11, 2022 Pale Waves also gave us a first play of a new song “Jealousy” pic.twitter.com/XpJJwatGrO — Steve ? (@Nintendoubt815) February 12, 2022 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pale Waves / alex (@palewavesvideos) Vocalist Heather Baron-Gracie told fans a new song would… Read More →

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Mary J. Blige on not being paid to perform at the Super Bowl: “It’s an opportunity of a lifetime”

Mary J. Blige has shared her thoughts on not being paid to perform at this year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show. READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life: Mary J. Blige The Queen of hip-hop soul is set to perform alongside Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar during this Sunday’s (February 13) NFL showdown between the Cincinnati Bengals and L.A. Rams at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. In a new interview, Blige talked about the upcoming show and said that she isn’t bothered about being paid for the performance because it’s “an opportunity of a lifetime”. Advertisement “Listen, you’re gonna be paid for the rest of your life off of this,” she told The Cruz Show, confirming that her performance is unpaid. “People are gonna be knocking at your doors. They don’t have to pay me, but if they was paying it would be a lot of money.” Blige then reiterated that the Super Bowl Halftime Show is an opportunity of a lifetime, using a line from Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ to get her point across. You can see the interview below: View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Cruz Show (@thecruzshow) A dramatic trailer for the halftime show, titled The Call, was revealed… Read More →

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Dr. Dre jokes he’s had to talk Eminem and Snoop Dogg out of “pulling their penises out” during Super Bowl Halftime Show

Dr. Dre has joked that he’s had to talk Eminem and Snoop Dogg out of “pulling their penises out” during Sunday’s Super Bowl Halftime Show (February 13). Dre, Eminem and Snoop will perform live with Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige during halftime of the NFL championship game, which is being held at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. READ MORE: The biggest moments from The Weeknd’s Super Bowl half-time show During a press conference that took place yesterday (February 10) promoting the Halftime Show, Dre, Snoop and Blige were asked if fans could “look forward to any surprises” during the set. Advertisement While Dre said that there would be some surprises (“but I’m not going to talk about them”), Snoop added “there won’t be any wardrobe malfunctions, though” in reference to Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake’s 2004 Halftime Show. Dre then joked that he’s “had to talk Snoop and Eminem out of pulling their penises out” during the show, “especially Eminem”. You can watch the press conference in full in the above video. Snoop, who this week became the owner of Death Row Records, previously told the Associated Press that Sunday’s performance is a “dream come true”. “We’re all one…. Read More →

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Watch Halsey and Machine Gun Kelly perform ‘Forget Me Too’ live in LA

Halsey joined Machine Gun Kelly during his set in LA last night (February 10) to perform their 2020 collaboration ‘Forget Me Too’ – you can watch fan-shot footage of the performance below. Both artists co-headlined the opening night of the Super Bowl Music Fest yesterday, which is running at the Crypto.com Arena until tomorrow (February 12) to celebrate this year’s NFL championship game. READ MORE: Halsey: “I’ve always been driven to reinvent myself and reinvent my genre” Kelly’s set saw him perform with an array of special guests, including Blink-182‘s Travis Barker, Willow and Trippie Redd. He also covered Paramore‘s ‘Misery Business’ (via Billboard). Advertisement Towards the end of his set, Kelly invited Halsey on stage to perform their track ‘Forget Me Too’ from the former’s fifth studio album ‘Tickets To My Downfall’ – you can watch fan-shot footage of the performance below. When the whole gang gets together and plays your favorite song ? @machinegunkelly @halsey @travisbarker @SBMusicFest pic.twitter.com/7VpCl6iH1Y — CryptoArena (@CryptoArena) February 11, 2022 FINALLY! MGK AND HALSEY PERFORMS FORGET ME TOO TOGETHER! pic.twitter.com/zRDmHRdeVe — colsons cereal?? (@meganfoxyPH) February 11, 2022 finally saw forget me too with @machinegunkelly @halsey AND @travisbarker yeah perhaps i’m thriving pic.twitter.com/LRSN4Fi5q6 — sabrina… Read More →

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Charli XCX steps back from social media to focus on her mental health

Charli XCX has said that the criticism she’s received on social media lately has taken a toll on her mental health. The singer-songwriter, who releases her fifth album ‘Crash’ on March 18, issued a statement on Twitter yesterday (February 10) to explain that she’s temporarily stepping back from the platform due to the “negativity” surrounding her current campaign. READ MORE: ‘Am I depressed?’ – help and advice on mental health and what to do next “I’ve always had a pretty open dialogue with you guys and so I just wanna mention a few things that have been on my mind recently,” Charli began. “I have been feeling like I can’t do anything right at the moment. I know social media isn’t exactly a haven for kindness and positivity but generally speaking I always felt pretty safe with you guys on here.” She continued: “I’ve noticed lately that a few people seem quite angry at me – for the choices of songs I’ve chosen to release, for the way I’ve decided to roll out my campaign, for the things I need to do to fund what will be the greatest tour I’ve ever done, for things I say, things I do, etc…. Read More →

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The Delines – The Sea Drift

When Willy Vlautin told Amy Boone about his new batch of songs set on the Gulf Coast, the singer wasn’t quite sure whether he was referring to The Delines’ next record or a screenplay in progress. Her confusion is understandable: when he was at the helm of Richmond Fontaine, Vlautin wrote strong, deceptively simple narratives about the lonely and dislocated, the dispossessed and the perennially let-down, and he carried this literary style over into The Delines. There he developed richer, more soulful songs with Boone’s knockout voice in mind – equal parts Bobbie Gentry and Chrissie Hynde, it became the carrier of his songs’ blue-collar melancholy. ORDER NOW: Johnny Marr is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut The Sea Drift is the band’s third album and, like their debut Colfax and several Richmond Fontaine records before that, it occupies a specific geographical location. Boone lived in Austin for years and it seems that when the pair got to discussing their shared love of Texas and the Gulf Coast in the run up to the record, they talked about Tony Joe White too. Boone asked the guitarist to write her a “Rainy Night In Georgia” and so The… Read More →

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Thomas Leer And Robert Rental – The Bridge

The year 1979 was when synth-pop went overground. In May, Tubeway Army released their final single “Are ‘Friends’ Electric”, a Moog-powered track that propelled the band – and their pale cyborg of a lead singer Gary Numan – to the top of the charts and onto Top Of The Pops. That same month, another seminal synth-powered record hit shelves. That The Bridge is seeing its first vinyl reissue since 1979 would seem to indicate it’s more of a footnote in the history of electronic music than a foundation stone. But a listen from the vantage point of 2022 reveals it to be as striking as Numan’s music of the era. Eerie and unsettling, rough in a DIY way but buzzing with ambition, it’s imbued with the spirit of punk but pointing somewhere new. ORDER NOW: Johnny Marr is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut The Bridge is the sole album by Thomas Leer and Robert Rental – real names Thomas Wishart and Robert Donnachie, a pair of DIY electronic musicians from Port Glasgow. By the late ’70s, they had found their way to London, where their experiments with some rudimentary electronic equipment – Stylophone keyboard, homemade effects… Read More →

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Jack White shares the title track from forthcoming album ‘Fear Of The Dawn’

Jack White has shared the title track from his forthcoming album ‘Fear Of The Dawn’, one of two records he’ll release this year, alongside ‘Entering Heaven Alive’. READ MORE: 20 albums to get excited about in 2022 Following on from the similarly blistering ‘Taking Me Back’, White’s latest track is a freewheeling, fuzzed-out rocker that clocks in at just over two minutes, with the former White Stripes frontman howling over heavily distorted guitars. Listen to ‘Fear Of The Dawn’ below: Advertisement White announced both ‘Fear Of The Dawn’ and ‘Entering Heaven Alive’ back in November of last year. The former – White’s first solo album since 2018’s ‘Boarding House Reach’ – is set to arrive first on April 8, with its follow-up set for release on July 22. Both will be released via White’s own label, Third Man Records. At the time of the announcement, a press release said White’s creative process over the past few years had resulted in “two entirely different albums” which are “each defined by different inspirations, different themes [and] different moods”. Last month, White shared new single ‘Love Is Selfish’, a far more sparse and gentle acoustic ballad lifted from ‘Entering Heaven Alive’. The same… Read More →

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Pete Doherty to sign Glasgow prisoner to his record label

Pete Doherty has revealed that he’s planning to sign a prisoner he met at a Glasgow jail to his record label. READ MORE: Carl Barat on The Libertines’ new album progress and how ‘landfill indie’ is “a cruel term” The Libertines frontman met the prisoner while involved in a project that saw him playing to prisoners as part of a life-drawing class. Doherty would play guitar while the prisoners at Barlinnie Prison drew him. Speaking to Craig Charles on 6 Music, Doherty opened up about the experience saying: “It was nice, actually, to keep my clothes on. Because when they first said, ‘you’re going to do a still life at Barlinnie Prison for the still life class’, obviously the first thing you think of is a nude model. Advertisement “So I went there with a bit of trepidation, thinking, ‘well, I’m not going to be able to say no because I’ll just look like I’m bricking it’. But they wanted me fully clothed so that was a huge relief.” He then opened up to Charles about meeting a prisoner who played him some songs. Doherty was so impressed that he promised to sign him to his label. He explained: “They’re an… Read More →

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Listen to Luke Steele from Empire Of The Sun’s ‘Common Man’ from new solo album ‘Listen To The Water’

Luke Steele has shared his new single ‘Common Man’ from his upcoming debut solo album ‘Listen To The Water’. Check out the track below. The Empire Of The Sun and Sleepy Jackson musician announced the record last week, telling his fans: “It was a wild ride but I survived.” READ MORE: Empire Of The Sun – ‘Two Vines’ Review ‘Listen To The Water’ will be released on May 13, and is available for pre-order now. Advertisement “I’m taking you on a journey to myself”, Steele said of his forthcoming album. “This solo record was a chance for me to be naked, fearless and on my own. That was confronting. “There was salvation and sadness, dreams and nightmares, heroes and villains. Strange changes, epiphanies, miracles and madness.” The album’s first single, ‘Common Man’, has been released today (February 10), and is accompanied by a video that was directed by Jodi Steele, Luke’s longtime creative collaborator. “‘Common Man’ is about the underdog,” Luke Steele said in a statement about the track. “The working class, forever hustling but sometimes it gets too much. Finding a place of rest is unpredictable, it comes in waves. “But the triumph is born from that struggle and you’ll… Read More →

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Watch Sam Fender smash a Boris Johnson piñata with his new BRIT Award

Sam Fender returned to North Shields after picking up the award for Best Alternative/Rock Act at the BRITs 2022 and swiftly put it to good use. READ MORE: Sam Fender: “This album is probably the best thing I’ve done in my life” Before handing it over to his local pub, the Low Lights Tavern, Fender used the trophy to destroy a piñata made to look like Boris Johnson that he’d brought with him, while family and fans cheered him on. Watch footage below. In another clip, Fender is heard telling the crowd “let’s get fucking pissed” before admitting that he hadn’t slept since the awards, which took place on Tuesday evening (February 8). “I’m still awake (after) 40 hours,” he said before heading inside the pub for a pint. ? drunk sam fender almost kills a fan at his local pub in north shields pic.twitter.com/BQf1TeYuru — loshinoya (@parableofender) February 10, 2022 Advertisement sam fender at the low lights tavern! (c) xkatiegraham pic.twitter.com/ftm8rY2s9E — sam fender files (@samfenderfiles) February 10, 2022 sam fender at the low lights tavern! pic.twitter.com/guyTpQDoPC — sam fender files (@samfenderfiles) February 10, 2022 Fender used to work at the Low Lights Tavern in North Shields as a… Read More →

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Snoop Dogg sued for sexual assault by former backing dancer

Content warning: this article discusses allegations of sexual assault. Snoop Dogg has been sued for sexual assault by a woman who regularly worked on-stage with the rapper. The Jane Doe accuser filed the lawsuit in a Los Angeles federal court yesterday (February 9), claiming that Snoop (real name Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.) and his associate Bishop Don “Magic” Juan (Donald Campbell) assaulted her after she attended a Snoop Dogg concert at Club Heat Ultra Lounge in Anaheim, California on May 29, 2013. According to Rolling Stone, the woman alleges in the lawsuit that she was assaulted in back-to-back attacks after she accepted a ride home from Campbell and wound up at his residence against her wishes. She claims Campbell assaulted her at the residence when he “removed his penis from his pants” and “repeatedly shoved his penis into (her) mouth.” It’s then claimed that Campbell later demanded she accompany him to a recording studio where Broadus Jr. was purportedly filming his TV series, Snoop Dogg’s Double G News Network. She alleges Campbell told her Broadus Jr. wanted her there and might make her “his weather girl”. She complied “in hopes of advancing her career,” the filing claims. Snoop Dogg. CREDIT: Paras Griffin/Getty Images According… Read More →

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Billy Bragg welcomes new UEA protest song project

Billy Bragg has praised a new academic project to catalogue the history of the English protest song from 1600 to the present day, saying that songs “can’t change the world” but can “bring people together”. A website catalogue of about 750 songs in the Our Subversive Voice project has been produced, presented alongside interviews with key songwriters. READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Billy Bragg The University of East Anglia (UEA) project includes Royalist songs from the English Civil War up to modern entries like Grace Petrie‘s 2016 song ‘I Wish The Guardian Believed That I Exist’. Advertisement Bragg himself has two of his songs in the catalogue – ‘Between The Wars’ and ‘It Says Here’, among tracks the artist has previously covered including Florence Reece’s ‘Which Side Are You On?’ – and told the BBC that the project was important to show the political tradition of songs in England. “People think political pop music was something invented in the 1970s, but traditionally song has been used to get messages out, without them being edited by the government or establishment,” he said. “When I took part in the miners’ strike in the 1980s, I was a little punk… Read More →

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Halestorm share emotional song story from new album ‘Back From The Dead’

Halestorm have shared new single ‘The Steeple’ from their upcoming fifth album ‘Back From the Dead’, as well as explaining how a gay fan’s struggle with her family inspired one of their other new songs. READ MORE: How LGBTQ+ spaces are bouncing back from COVID During a recent conversation with Loudwire Nights, singer Lzzy Hale explained how a conversation with a young fan ended up being developed into one of the band’s new tracks. “There’s a song on the album that was actually inspired by this conversation I was having with a young girl,” Hale explained, saying she spent most of lockdown checking the band’s socials and fan comments. Advertisement “She’s a teenager, she’s still living with her parents. She came out as gay, and basically told me and everybody online that the parents’ response was, ‘Well, death would be better.’ We were all so angry about that, because how could you say that to your daughter no matter who she wants to kiss? It doesn’t matter.” Hale called the resulting song “an anthem for her” – without specifying which track on the new album the story referenced – and added: “We all have something. We all have something unique… Read More →

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Manchester Orchestra announce details of two 2022 UK shows

Manchester Orchestra have announced details of two UK shows, set for later this year – get all the details below. The full-band gigs replaced two acoustic shows originally set for January this year, which were cancelled due to COVID-related issues. READ MORE: Manchester Orchestra – ‘The Million Masks Of God’ review: indie’s grand architects settle into their stride The new shows, at London’s Kentish Town Forum and Manchester’s O2 Ritz, come in support of their sixth studio album ‘The Million Masks of God’, which came out back in April last year. Advertisement The band will play Manchester on September 15, before heading to London the following night. The short run of dates follow the band’s imminent next leg of North American dates behind the new album. Pick up tickets here, and watch a newly-released live video of the band playing ‘Angel Of Death’ live at a hometown show in Atlanta, Georgia last year below. Reviewing ‘The Million Masks Of God’ upon its release last year, NME wrote: “Manchester Orchestra have always been a band that would suit a Greatest Hits album, pulling highlights together from their somewhat disparate catalogue to get a greater picture of what they can do as a band…. Read More →

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New Kraftwerk remix compilation coming to CD and vinyl next month

Kraftwerk have announced details of a new remix compilation, coming to CD and vinyl formats next month. READ MORE: Kraftwerk: Every album ranked in order of greatness Hot Chip, Orbital and William Orbit have all contributed to ‘Kraftwerk Remixes’, among others, which features 19 tracks and is due out on March 25. The remixes feature Kraftwerk songs from the 1991-2021 period and see the band remixing themselves alongside a host of other contributors. Advertisement ‘Kraftwerk Remixes’ will be available on triple heavyweight black vinyl LP, double CD and triple coloured vinyl. Pre-order your copy here and see the tracklist below. @kraftwerk KRAFTWERK – REMIXES released on Friday 25th March on triple, heavyweight black vinyl and double CD. Limited, coloured vinyl edition, exclusive to the official Kling Klang webstore, pre-order now .https://t.co/BFDr7QzDIS pic.twitter.com/PIpcGN3KBa — Kraftwerk (@kraftwerk) February 2, 2022 Side A 1. ‘Non Stop’ 2. ‘Robotnik’ (Kling Klang Mix) 3. ‘Robotronik’ (Kling Klang Mix) Side B 1. ‘Home Computer’ (2021 Single Edit) 2. ‘Radioactivity’ (William Orbit Hardcore Remix – Kling Klang Edit) 3. ‘Radioactivity’ (François Kervorkian 12″ Remix) Advertisement Side C 1. ‘Expo 2000’ (Kling Klang Mix 2002) 2. ‘Expo 2000’ (Francois K and Rob Rives Mix) 3. ‘Expo 2000’ (Kling… Read More →

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New XXXTentacion documentary ‘Look At Me!’ set to premiere at SXSW 2022

A new documentary about late rapper XXXTentacion, titled Look At Me!, is set to make its premiere at this year’s SXSW festival. The film — directed by Sabaah Folayan and produced by FADER Films — was announced earlier this month. It follows the controversial career of XXXTentacion (AKA Jahseh Onfroy), a troubled teenager who left a lasting influence on the SoundCloud rap genre. READ MORE: “It’s hard to get right”: how posthumous rap albums became big business “Look at Me! explores how Florida teenager Jahseh Onfroy became SoundCloud rapper XXXTENTACION, one of the most streamed artists on the planet,” reads the film’s synopsis. Advertisement “Through frank commentary from family, friends and romantic partners, and unseen archival footage, director Sabaah Folayan offers a sensitive portrayal of an artist whose acts of violence, raw musical talent and open struggles with mental health left an indelible mark on his generation before his death at the age of 20.” The documentary will debut at the film festival segment of SXSW, which takes place in Austin, Texas, from March 11 to March 20. Other titles set to premiere at the event include Sheryl with Sheryl Crow, Anonymous Club featuring Courtney Barnett, the Tierra Whack-starring Cypher, and… Read More →

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Study finds 19% of Spotify users have unsubscribed or plan to over Joe Rogan controversy

A new study has found that 19 per cent of Spotify users have cancelled their subscriptions since the controversy around Joe Rogan’s podcast broke out. In January, hundreds of scientists and medical professionals asked Spotify to address COVID-19 misinformation on its platform, sparked by comments made on The Joe Rogan Experience. The 270-plus members of the science and medical community signed an open letter, which called Rogan’s actions “not only objectionable and offensive but also medically and culturally dangerous”. READ MORE: Swift vs Albarn, Morrissey vs Marr and Young vs Spotify: dissecting pop’s Beef Week Following the publishing of that letter, Neil Young demanded his music be “immediately” removed from the platform, with many high-profile artists like Joni Mitchell, David Crosby and Graham Nash following suit. Advertisement Now, as Variety reports, a consumer poll from Forrester Research has found that 19 per cent of the streaming service’s customers have since cancelled their subscriptions, or plan to in the near future. Although 54 per cent of responders said they have no intention of cancelling their plans, another 18.5 per cent said they would consider cancelling if more music was removed from the platform. Credit: Yu Chun Christopher Wong/S3studio/Getty Images. On Thursday (February… Read More →

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Listen to Tate McRae’s fiery new single ‘She’s All I Wanna Be’

Tate McRae has released a new single co-written by Greg Kurstin – listen to ‘She’s All I Wanna Be’ below. READ MORE: Tate McRae’s ‘Too Young To Be Sad’ livestream: a high energy spectacle with pop star ambition The track is the second song to be taken from her upcoming debut album, following on from 2021’s ‘Feel Like Shit’. As it stands, McRae’s debut doesn’t have a release date but there has been talk of a Spring release. The track echoes Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Jealousy, Jealousy’, with McRae singing “Stupid boy making me so sad, don’t think you could change this fast. She’s got everything that I don’t have, how could I ever compete with that” over electric guitar. Advertisement The official video will be released Friday February 11. Check out the track below. Speaking to NME about her debut album last year, McRae said “I like to try to analyse structures of different albums and see what kind mine might be similar to,” naming the labyrinthine structure on Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’ as a reference point, as well as Billie Eilish’s debut ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go’ and ‘After Hours’ by The Weeknd. “The cool thing about… Read More →

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PJ Harvey appears to be back in the studio working on new music

PJ Harvey looks like she might be back in the studio working on new music, if her latest social media post is any indication. READ MORE: PJ Harvey: The evolution of an icon Earlier today (February 4), the iconic singer-songwriter shared a series of black and white photos of herself in the studio, taken by Steve Gullick, seemingly teasing the arrival of new music. Dated 2022, the three pics show Harvey playing a guitar, fiddling with some guitar pedals, and sitting in front of a mic stand. No further information or context has been shared. Advertisement You can take a look at the shots below: View this post on Instagram A post shared by PJ Harvey (@pjharveyofficial) Harvey’s last solo full-length was 2016’s ‘The Hope Six Demolition Project’, which featured the tracks ‘The Wheel’, ‘The Community Of Hope’ and ‘The Orange Monkey’. In 2019, she composed the complete score for the stage play of All About Eve, directed by Ivo Van Hove and starring Lily James and Gillian Anderson. The celebrated artist’s discography has been the subject of a comprehensive reissue campaign by UMC/Island and Beggars over the last two years, who are aiming to “celebrate every aspect of Harvey’s recording career and… Read More →

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The Cure’s Robert Smith gives update on band’s upcoming new album

Robert Smith has given an update on The Cure‘s upcoming new album. READ MORE: On the cover: Exclusive – Robert Smith on 40 years and the future of The Cure Taking to Twitter, Smith said that the group will be performing songs from their new album the next time they play. He explained: “We will be performing songs from a new album when we next play…or we won’t be playing at all! And I really want to play…so that means…” Advertisement He continued: “It means my desire to release a new album is overwhelming!” WE WILL BE PERFORMING SONGS FROM A NEW ALBUM WHEN WE NEXT PLAY… OR WE WON’T BE PLAYING AT ALL! AND I REALLY WANT TO PLAY… SO THAT MEANS… X — ROBERT SMITH (@RobertSmith) February 4, 2022 …IT MEANS MY DESIRE TO RELEASE A NEW ALBUM IS OVERWHELMING! X — ROBERT SMITH (@RobertSmith) February 4, 2022 In 2020, keyboardist Roger O’Donnell described the long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s ‘4:13 Dream’ as the band’s “most intense, saddest and most emotional record” yet. Speaking to NME the previous year, frontman Smith said The Cure were looking to finish their “merciless” new album that year. He said the project had the… Read More →