London Independent Market announces dates and line-up for summer event
Indie Lable Market: London has shared dates for its summer event – view the full line-up details below.
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Started at Soho’s Berwick Street market in 2011, ILM has hosted 70 events all over the world and has partnered with more than 600 independent record labels throughout the UK as well as in Paris, Berlin, Rome, LA, Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles.
This year’s market will take place at Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross on July 16, with labels including [PIAS], 4AD, BBE, Bella Union, Big Dada, Brownswood, Dirty Hit, Erased Tapes, Ghostly, Heavenly, Rough Trade and many more set to attend.
For the first time this year, ILM will be introducing stalls from artists and makers including Colourbox Studio, Dan Jamieson, East London Printmakers, Hand Jazz and Kam Creates.
London Brewers’ Market is also set to return, with independent brewers Grain Cider, Brick Brewery, Five Points Brewing Co, Friendship Adventure, Gosnells Mead, London Beer Lab, Old Street Brewery, Standard Brew Co and more.
The celebratory event will be soundtracked by ILM curated DJ sets and a special after party at Spiritland will follow.
Full Indie Label: London line-up:
[PIAS]
4AD
ATA
AD 93
Airbag
Apron
BBE Music
Blitzcat
Because
Bella Union
Big Dada
Brace Yourself
Brownswood
Burning Witches
Cherry Red
Chess Club
Clap Trap
Clay Pipe
Cold Blow
Counter Intuitive
Dead Oceans
Dirty Hit
Do Your Best
Drag City
Dynamite Cuts
Earth
Erased Tapes
Everything Sucks
Far Out
Fat Possum
Fika
Fire
First Word
Gare du Nord
Ghostly
Hand In Hive
Heavenly
Independent Musicians Collective
Jagjaguwar
Kit
Late Night Tales
LTR
London Recordings
Matador
Material Music
Mexican Summer
Mukatsuku
Mute
Music Declares Emergency
Neolithic
Ninja Tune
Numero Group
nonclassical
OTOROKU
Partisan
Precious Recordings of London
Psyché Tropes
Riddim Chango
Rough Trade
SA Recording
Sad Club
Secretly Canadian
Scratchy
Skep Wax
Slowdance
Slowfoot
Sonic Cathedral
Spinout Nuggets
Spiritmuse
State51
Sunday Best
TOT TAYLOR / TheCAMPUS
Time Capsule
Touchin Bass
Tru Thoughts
untitled (recs)
Upset The Rhythm
Wah Wah 45s
Wallen Bink
WIAIWYA
Last year, ILM has announced its first ever market in Manchester which took place on December 5 as part of Tim Burgess’ Vinyl Adventures Record Fair.
The festive event included live performances, interviews and talks taking place across the city. Record shops involved in the festivities included Piccadilly Records, Mars Tapes, Vinyl Resting Place, Clampdown Records, Eastern Bloc Records Vinyl Revival, and Wax and Beans in Bury.
Rico Nasty says a new “intrusive” single is “coming out very soon”
Rico Nasty has confirmed that she’s about to release a new single – hear a snippet of the track below.
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In multiple social media posts made Sunday (May 15) the rapper teased new music, tweeting to fans: “I have a new song coming out very soon”. Rico also told fans that the vibe of the track would be “intrusive”.
This morning (May 17) she dropped a video clip of the song, with the caption ‘Black Punk’. The heavy and abrasive sounding track features the rapper confidently sharing lines like “life is a movie but I never act” before a chorus where the lyrics “Black punk” are repeated.
In the clip, Rico can be seen wearing black lipstick and sunglasses as she blows out smoke rings cut between shots of a city.
Black punk pic.twitter.com/Fosuo4kQcN
— TACOBELLA (@Rico_nastyy) May 16, 2022
This new music follows the release of her single ‘Vaderz’ featuring Bktherula back in April. Last year, the rapper teased that she’d be releasing a new project called ‘Rx’ but it’s not clear if this yet-to-be released track will appear on the project.
Rico also teamed up with Doja Cat at Coachella this year, to perform the track ‘Tia Tamera’, a single taken from the deluxe version of Doja Cat’s debut album ‘Amala’.
Earlier this year, Nasty spoke out about fans encouraging her to twerk on stage.
“This is probably the worst thing that you could put up while a female rapper is performing, even if she is gonna twerk, even if that’s what she does,” she said, before adding “this is so disrespectful.”
She continued: “It’s pointing to this ever being why I’m on stage or pertaining to anything I’ve ever done in my career. That’s not what I do. You go on my Instagram right now. Do I have videos doing this? There’s people that do and they look great doing it but I don’t do this.
“And for all my young girls…I mean, you do what you want to do and it’s all lit and fun… I’m just trying to make art and perform my songs and go. I’m not trying to be something that I’m not. You shouldn’t try to make somebody something that they’re not.”
In a four-star review of her most recent full-length release, NME said ‘Nightmare Vacation’ was full of “energetic rap for the club and the moshpit”.
Florence Welch on “trying to embody” Nick Cave and Iggy Pop on new album
Florence Welch has revealed that Nick Cave and Iggy Pop influenced the vocals on her new album ‘Dance Fever’. Watch a clip from the interview below.
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During a conversation with Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1, the Florence + The Machine frontwoman discussed embodying her favourite male vocalists like Leonard Cohen, Iggy Pop and Cave for album opener, ‘King‘.
“I was like, ‘I’ll never write a song again, I can’t do anything,'” Welch said of writing the record’s lead single. “It came from a real conversation in a real kitchen, and then it went into this metaphysical archetypes world, and I think I was thinking about these male performers that I have idolized for so… I was thinking about Nick Cave, I was thinking about Leonard Cohen.”
She continued: “I was thinking about how, in some ways, although everyone undergoes huge changes, their physical bodies, especially moving through touring, have been allowed to remain unchanged… and they can commit their body entirely to the stage. These people that I had tried to follow in their exact footsteps, I was like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t do that. I’m not going to be able to do that. I’m going to have to make choices.'”
Welch previously shared that the track is about “thinking about being a woman in my 30s and the future” and realising “that to be a performer, but also to want a family, might not be as simple for me as it is for my male counterparts.”
The formidable singer went on to tell Lowe that although she had the realisation that physically she’s different from the male musicians she idolizes, her vocals were still influenced by them in ‘King’.
“It’s so funny because in the singing, I’m trying to still embody them,” she said. “In the lower baritones, I’m trying to do a Leonard or a Nick, or an Iggy Pop was a really big reference, so it’s this, ‘I can do it.’ It’s this desperation of trying to hold onto this idea that I had about myself, all the while it is even being undercut by the song itself.”
Florence + The Machine’s ‘Dance Fever’ is currently battling for the UK Number One album spot against Kendrick Lamar‘s recent release, ‘Mr Morale & The Big Steppers’ after clocking up over 26,000 char sales so far in the midweek album chart, according to Official Charts Company.
If the London group does make it to Number One it’ll be their fourth chart topper after 2009 debut ‘Lungs’ follow up ‘Ceremonials’ and 2015’s ‘How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful’.
Reviewing the band’s most recent record, NME awarded it four stars and described it as “the triumphant sound of a singer reborn”.
If Lamar scores this week’s Number One album, it will be his first since 2015’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’. ‘Mr Morale & The Big Steppers’ is his first in five years. In a five-star review, NME described it as a “cathartic, soul-bearing autobiography”.
Welch received a writing credit for Lamar’s record, since the track ‘We Cry Together’ uses a Florence + The Machine sample.
Sunny Day Real Estate announce North American reunion tour
Sunny Day Real Estate have confirmed a headline tour of North America across September, October and December of 2022.
The tour, announced yesterday (May 16), will serve as the band’s first headlining tour since 2010. Three of the band’s four founding members – frontman Jeremy Enigk, guitarist Dan Hoerner and drummer William Goldsmith – were all confirmed to be part of the band’s 2022 reunion earlier this year.
Prior to the tour’s announcement, the band had announced two festival dates – Chicago’s Riot Fest and Furnace Fest in Birmingham, Alabama. The band will be joined by The Appleseed Cast for every date on the tour, apart from the aforementioned Riot Fest.
Founding bassist Nate Mendel will not be involved in the tour. He was originally set to be on the road throughout 2022 as part of Foo Fighters‘ world tour, but all dates were cancelled in March following the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins – who replaced Goldsmith in the band back in 1997.
It is currently not known whether the band will tour with a fill-in bassist or whether Enigk will play bass himself – as he did on the band’s final album, 2000’s ‘The Rising Tide’.
Sunny Day Real Estate’s last show was in May 2010 at the HMV Forum in London. It concluded an eight-month reunion of the band’s original line-up, which included dates in North America, Australia and Europe.
The tour marked that line-up’s first shows together in 11 years. The band’s third break-up was not confirmed until 2014, however, when a split seven-inch with Circa Survive was released featuring a previously-unreleased song.
Tickets for all of the band’s upcoming tour dates will go on sale here, with pre-sales beginning Tuesday (May 17) at 10am local time. General sales begin this Friday at 10am local time. View the full list of dates below.
Sunny Day Real Estate’s 2022 North American tour dates are:
SEPTEMBER
13 – Lawrence, Liberty Hall
14 – Omaha, The Admiral
17 – Chicago, Riot Fest
20 – Asheville, The Orange Peel
22 – Orlando, House of Blues
23 – Atlanta, The Masquerade
24 – Birmingham, Furnace Fest
26 – Silver Spring, The Filmore
27 – Cleveland, House of Blues
29 – Brooklyn, Brooklyn Steel
OCTOBER
1 – Philadelphia, The Filmore
3 – Boston, House of Blues
DECEMBER
4 – Denver, Ogden Theater
6 – Austin, Emo’s
7 – Houston, Warehouse Live
8 – Dallas, The Factory
10 – Phoenix, The Van Buren
11 – San Diego, The Observatory
12 – Los Angeles, The Wiltern
14 – San Francisco, Regency Ballroom
16 – Portland, Rosland Theater
18 – Seattle, Moore Theater
Rina Sawayama announces new album ‘Hold The Girl’ and shares cinematic trailer
Rina Sawayama has announced plans to release a new album and teased the record with a short trailer – you can view it below.
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Entitled ‘Hold The Girl’ the follow up to her debut, 2020’s ‘SAWAYAMA’, is set to drop on September 2.
It comes after she shared a series of banners and leaflets to fans featuring the words “Rina Is Going To Hell” before wiping and updating her Instagram page last week.
She also closed her final ‘Dynasty Tour’ show last Friday (13 May) at New York’s Terminal 5 by teasing a new song.
Now, she has shared a dramatic trailer which features snippets from her forthcoming record.
Hold The Girl
The new album
September 2 2022https://t.co/1r1X9PKSmk pic.twitter.com/nw59Im5ra4— RINA SAWAYAMA (@rinasawayama) May 16, 2022
Reviewing her debut, NME awarded the record five stars and said it was a “deeply personal self-portrait that lays waste to genre constraints.”
Sawayama, meanwhile, performed as part of the BandLab NME Awards 2022 earlier in March, where she was also awarded the iconic middle finger for Best Live Act Supported By Grolsch.
In her acceptance speech, Sawayama spoke of how she posted an ad in the back of NME trying to get some bandmates when she was 15 years old. “Those bandmates didn’t exactly work out,” NME‘s Will Richards noted in his review of Sawayama’s performance, “but those joining her on stage tonight are a perfect fit.
“Everything revolves around Sawayama though, a genre-fusing, always surprising, boundary-breaking star of the future.”
She also recently teamed up with Brazilian singer-songwriter and world-renowned drag queen Pabllo Vittar on the single ‘Follow Me’.
Jarvis Cocker is on a quest to find woman who inspired Pulp’s ‘Common People’
Jarvis Cocker says it’s still a “mystery” who he wrote Pulp hit ‘Common People’ about, but is determined to find out.
In the iconic 1995 song’s opening lines, Cocker sings of a woman who “came from Greece [and] had a thirst for knowledge,” studying sculpture at London’s St. Martin’s College.
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Despite the song’s success – it was named NME‘s Best Song Of The ’90s – Cocker has revealed that he has no memory of the identity of the person who inspired the song.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s This Cultural Life (via The Mirror), Cocker addressed claims that the inspiration was Danae Stratou, a Greek woman who attended St Martin’s at the same time as Jarvis, but confirmed that “it wasn’t her because she had blonde hair and the girl had dark hair.”
Of the origin of the song, Cocker said: “We went to the pub and she just came out with that she wanted to live in Hackney with common people.
“In 2011 we played at St Martin’s and someone showed me a picture on their phone and said, ‘Is that the girl you wrote the song about?’ I went, ‘Yeah, I think it is’” he remembered.
“Unfortunately, I didn’t ask them for the picture and I can’t remember who showed it to me so it’s still a mystery.”
Back in 2015, Deborah Bone, the inspiration behind Pulp‘s 1995 hit ‘Disco 2000’, died at the age of 51. The mental health worker had been battling multiple myeloma – a type of bone marrow cancer.
Born in Sheffield, Bone and Cocker were close growing up and their friendship inspired the band’s famous track, which begins with the lyric: “Well we were born within an hour of each other. Our mothers said we could be sister and brother. Your name was Deborah. Deborah. It never suited ya.”
Bone moved to Letchworth at aged 10 and went on to become a nurse, later setting up the Step2 health service for the Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust in Stevenage. She won various awards for her work in mental health and, just hours after her death, it was announced that she was to receive an MBE in recognition of her services to children and young people as part of the 2015 New Year’s Honours List.
Later this year, Cocker will release new memoir Good Pop, Bad Pop. Set to arrive on May 26 through Vintage Publishing, Cocker describes the book as an “inventory”. It’s centred around the former Pulp frontman coming across “a jumble of objects that catalogue his story” while clearing out his loft, with the various ephemera used as a jumping off point to reflect on Cocker’s life and career. Pre-orders are available here.
His band JARV IS… recently composed the score for new BBC comedy drama This Is Going To Hurt and the full soundtrack was shared back in March.
Listen to Chance The Rapper and Vic Mensa’s new song ‘Writing Exercise #3: Wraith’
Chance The Rapper and Vic Mensa have teamed up for a new song and video – watch ‘Writing Exercise #3: Wraith’ below.
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The pair – both members of the Savemoney hip-hop collective – have previously worked together on the track ‘Cocoa Butter Kisses’ from Chance’s breakout 2013 mixtape ‘Acid Rap’, and on Mensa’s song ‘Tweakin”. Last year, they collaborated on a track called ‘Shelter’ with Wyclef Jean.
To mark the release of ‘Writing Exercise #3: Wraith’, Mensa also teased that more new music from the pair would be coming soon, telling Complex: “Me and Chano have been working on a lot of music for a while now, there’s much more to come.
“This was produced by the homie Smoko Ono and Beat Butcha,” he added of ‘Wraith’. Watch the video for that below.
Last year Chance also shared the solo single ‘The Heart & The Tongue’, and released a concert film called Magnificent Coloring World.
He also appeared on the soundtrack for Space Jam: A New Legacy, linking up with John Legend and Symba for the track ‘See Me Fly’, and on Smoko Ono’s afrobeat-inspired ‘Winners’. His long-awaited team-up with R&B legend Dionne Warwick, ‘Nothing’s Impossible’, was also finally released last year.
Back in March, he shared the single ‘Child Of God’, which features Moses Sumney on vocals and was performed on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last month.
At the start of the year, Mensa was arrested at a US airport for the alleged possession of psychedelic mushrooms.
The Chicago rapper (real name Victor Mensah) flew from Ghana to Dulles International Airport in Virginia on January 15. Undergoing a secondary search at the airport, Mensa was alleged to have been found by authorities to be in possession of a range of narcotics, including LSD, psilocybin capsules and gummies.
He was arrested by US Customs and Border Patrol and charged with felony narcotics possession. He had been retuning from a promotional trip to Africa with Chance The Rapper.
Britney Spears reveals she’s suffered a miscarriage
Britney Spears has announced that she has suffered a miscarriage.
Last month, the pop icon revealed that she and fiancé Sam Asghari were expecting their first child together. It would have been the singer’s third overall, following her two sons, Sean and Jayden, both from her former husband Kevin Federline.
Today (May 14), Spears took to social media to share the tragic news that she had lost her “miracle baby” in an announcement signed by both her and Asghari.
“It is with our deepest sadness we have to announce that we lost our miracle baby early in the pregnancy,” Spears wrote. “This is a devastating time for any parent. Perhaps we should have waited to announce until we were further along. However we were overly excited to share the good news.”
“Our love for each other is our strength,” Spears’ post continues. “We will continue trying to expand our beautiful family. We are grateful for all the support. We kindly ask for privacy during this difficult moment.”
View this post on InstagramSpears’ pregnancy arrived after it was claimed that the ‘Toxic’ hitmaker was forced onto birth control while she was under her 13-year-long conservatorship, which was officially terminated in November after 13 years.
Last month, Spears vowed to continue her fight for justice over her conservatorship, saying that those responsible for it “got away with it”.
Meanwhile, Britney Spears has said that writing her memoir is “healing and therapeutic”.
In a since-deleted Instagram post to fans, the pop star said that addressing her past is “hard” but suggested that her efforts will be worth it.
“I’m writing a book at the moment and as it’s actually healing and therapeutic…it’s also hard bringing up past events in my life…I’ve never been able to express openly,” she wrote. The book is scheduled to arrive at the end of this year.
The pop star signed a deal with publishers reportedly worth $15million (£12.2m) in February 2022, following her conservatorship being terminated.
Tate McRae shares new pop banging single ‘What Would You Do?’
Tate McRae has shared another new single from her forthcoming debut album ‘I Used To Think I Could Fly’.
‘What Would You Do?, which you can listen to below, follows previous releases ‘She’s All I Wanna Be’, ‘Chaotic’, and ‘Feel Like Shit’ and her EP ‘Too Young To Be Sad’, which was released last year.
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The track was co-written by Tate, Blake Slatkin (Lil Nas X, The Kid Laroi), Alexander Glantz aka Alexander 23 (Olivia Rodrigo, Selena Gomez), Charlie Puth (Ava Max) and produced by Slatkin, Glantz and Puth.
AdvertisementHer new album is set to drop later this month on May 27 via Ministry Of Sound Records.
McRae is also set to kick off a tour in the UK and Ireland on June 12 at Manchester’s O2 Ritz. The singer will also be a special guest on Shawn Mendes’ 2022 tour. Check out ticket details, here.
Before that, she will perform a Roblox concert next Friday (May 20) with fans being able to watch replays of the performance throughout the duration of the weekend.
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 ‘Blonde’ is that I don’t think I’ve heard one song that sounds anything the same to him and, you know, the cool part is it kind of just makes you want to push yourself,” she said
AdvertisementMcRae also spoke about the expectations she’s faced since releasing her first song ‘One Day’ in 2017.
“I just want to work as hard as I can to live up to my own expectations and everyone else’s,” she told NME. “I guess it’s a bit of pressure but if you put your head down and work at it, you can kind of ignore those outside feelings of anxiety and stress. It’s just about indulging in your work and making sure that you’re doing the best that you can at all times.”
Watch Dave bring out Drake to perform at his Toronto show
Dave surprised his fans at his show in Toronto, Canada last night (May 12) by bringing Drake out on-stage – check out the footage below.
The south London rapper and musician performed at the History venue in Drake’s home city as part of his 2022 North American headline tour. Dave is out on the road in support of ‘We’re All Alone In This Together’, which came out last July.
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According to The Line Of Best Fit, Dave and Drake delivered a live rendition of their 2016 collaboration ‘Wanna Know’ as well as a joint version of Drake’s ‘Certified Lover Boy’ track ‘Knife Talk’.
AdvertisementSpeaking to the audience, Drake hailed Dave as a “once-in-a-generation talent”. The latter artist appeared in season one of Top Boy – the hit show Drake brought back in 2019 following a six-year hiatus.
“Toronto, please. Like I said, this guy right here is a once-in-a-generation talent,” Drake told the crowd.
“I was sitting up there on the balcony and I was watching [Dave] perform. And I was like, ‘I can’t not be a part of this shit’.
“Look… whether he’s rapping, pouring out his heart, whether he’s turning all the way up, whether he’s playing the piano, whether he’s acting in our show Top Boy, I promise you, this guy right here is a one of one. Make some motherfuckin’ noise for Dave.”
Drake made a guest appearance at Dave Toronto show ?? pic.twitter.com/6Z9uUVBTRy
— Neesh (@YerdMeCMB) May 13, 2022
AdvertisementDave brought out Drake in Toronto pic.twitter.com/3jBm5QJrLJ
— Olu (@urgyalsmcm) May 13, 2022
Drake says OVO FEST is back while on stage with Santan Dave tonight in Toronto. pic.twitter.com/wjcLVCkv4h
— Word On Road (@WordOnRd) May 13, 2022
The Canadian artist also confirmed the return of his OVO Fest while on-stage with Dave last night.
Dave recently performed at Coachella 2022 and is due to return to the UK this summer for headline slots at Reading & Leeds and the new Birmingham leg of Wireless Festival.
The rapper finished a UK and Ireland arena tour in March. In a five-star review of his show at The O2 in London, NME wrote: “Treating his fans like family, the energy or engagement doesn’t subside at all for the two-hour set. It feels like a landmark night for both Dave and the UK rap scene as a whole.”
It was reported earlier this month that Drake has signed a huge new deal with Universal Music Group. He’s believed to be currently working on material in the studio.
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