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Kid Cudi teams up with Nigo for euphoric new track ‘Want It Bad’

Kid Cudi has teamed up with DJ and Bape founder Nigo for a brand new single called ‘Want It Bad’ – listen to it below. READ MORE: Kid Cudi – ‘Man On The Moon III: The Chosen’ review: an art piece of epic highs and honest lows Produced by Pharrell, it’s the second preview of Nigo’s upcoming album, ‘I Know Nigo’. The first track to be released from the project was last month’s A$AP Rocky-featured ‘Ayra’. On the euphoric ‘Want It Bad’, Cudi celebrates his successes and the grind it took to get to this point: “Lives fast, with high hopes/ Story of a kid who was feelin’ low/ To the life of me, lemme set the scene/ On my grind, I work hard/ Lord hit me, woah, tell ’em it’s a new mould/ Walk into a different zone, doin’ the impossible/ Too incredible.” Advertisement Arriving with a flashy video shot in Paris, you can check out the Harrison Boyce-directed clip below: Nigo first announced the forthcoming album back in December, revealing that the project was on the way and that he’d signed to Steven Victor’s Victor Victor Worldwide label, a joint venture between Victor and Universal Music Group. Guest appearances will include Pharrell, Kid Cudi, A$AP… Read More →

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Dave Grohl is hoping to release a thrash metal album by next week

Dave Grohl has said that he hopes to release a full album of new thrash metal music by next week. The Foo Fighters frontman was speaking ahead of the release of the band’s supernatural horror comedy film Studio 666, which is set to arrive on February 25. READ MORE: Foo Fighters: “Our connection is beyond music” Earlier this week a track by the fictional band Dream Widow, which features on the Studio 666 soundtrack, was released, and Grohl has now revealed that more new music is on the way. Advertisement Speaking on The Howard Stern Show this week, Grohl explained more about how the film’s soundtrack connects with its premise, which sees the Foos setting up to record their tenth album in a haunted mansion. “I wind up finding this creepy basement. And I go into the basement, I find this tape by a band [Dream Widow] from 25 years ago that recorded there,” Grohl said. “And there’s this song that, if recorded and completed, the fucking demon in the house is unleashed, and then, whatever, all hell breaks loose.” Speaking in another new interview with Rolling Stone, Grohl said that he now hopes to release a full Dream Widow album by… Read More →

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Beach House – Once Twice Melody

There are moments in Beach House’s eighth album so full of texture and detail, the effect can be overwhelming. In “Pink Funeral” – one of many songs on Once Twice Melody in which the Baltimore duo make startling use of arrangements by Beck and Adele collaborator David Campbell – that phenomenon begins to happen even before the strings kick in, adding scope and drama to music that may already seem improbably huge. “How sweet the sound,” Victoria Legrand coos ever so aptly as her voice enters the song and adds a further layer of sumptuousness. ORDER NOW: Kate Bush is on the cover in the latest issue of Uncut The first of Beach House’s albums to incorporate a live string ensemble as well as the first produced by themselves, Once Twice Melody is their biggest effort in more ways than one. Yet it’s not as if the band were ever hesitant about granting their music a degree of grandeur. Even in the earliest songs of Legrand and Alex Scally’s fruitful partnership, there was the sense that what they were creating was fuller and stranger than the constituent parts would normally allow. Of course, as any practitioner of dreampop’s dark arts… Read More →

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Foals on no longer feeling competitive with other bands like Arctic Monkeys

Foals have spoken about how they now feel comfortable being “in a lane of one”, adding that they no longer feel competitive with other bands. READ MORE: Foals on the cover: “Life is something to be cherished and enjoyed” The Oxford band were speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story to launch their upcoming new album, ‘Life Is Yours’. While this upcoming record will be Foals’ seventh album, frontman Yannis Philippakis “balked” at the suggestion that the band were now “indie statesmen”. “I mean, I don’t agree with the ‘indie’ bit, I guess, weirdly – or the statesmen bit,” Yannis told NME. “I don’t agree with any of that, really! I balk at that a little bit. But I definitely feel that we’ve endured.” Advertisement Drummer Jack Bevan went on to describe the band’s current standing: “Say you have a house party: it’s that feeling that you’re in the middle of it and you haven’t got to the early hours of the morning where people start leaving, and it gets a bit grim. The fact that we’re still in the prime time bit of the party feels good. Inevitably with a lot of bands, you sense a trajectory in decline. It… Read More →

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Gojira reschedule UK and European tour due to COVID-19

Gojira have rescheduled their upcoming UK and European tour due to COVID-19 restrictions. READ MORE: Gojira – ‘Fortitude’ review: seismic metal ragers that push heavy rock forwards The French metal titans were supposed to hit the road last month, beginning in Helsinki, with stop-offs in Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Prague, Budapest and other cities throughout January into February and March. However, they’ve announced that they will now kick off their European tour on July 5 in Brussels and conclude it in Milan on July 31 at Carroponte. Advertisement The UK and Ireland leg of the tour, meanwhile, has moved to 2023 and will begin on February 11 in Dublin and conclude at London’s Alexandra Palace on February 22. Gojira will then play rescheduled shows in Bordeaux, Paris, Luxembourg and Lyon between February 24 and 28, 2023. “We cannot express how much we appreciate your continued patience and support while we worked through last month’s postponement,” the band said in a social media post. “Despite our best efforts to resume touring this month, the continued uncertainty in various territories has left us with no other choice but to reschedule the remaining dates of the tour as well. “In light of this unfortunate news we are pleased… Read More →

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TV Priest soundtrack a knight’s last dance in ‘One Easy Thing’ video

TV Priest have shared a bleakly humorous video for their new single ‘One Easy Thing’, in which they soundtrack a knight’s final dance. The London band’s new track is the latest to be taken from their upcoming album, which will be released by Sub Pop later this year. READ MORE: TV Priest – ‘Uppers’ review: tried and tested post-punk fused with swirling psych The black-and-white ‘One Easy Thing’ video shows a 15th-century knight – played by singer Charlie Drinkwater – coming home from battle on his horse and noticing he’s bleeding. Before he succumbs to his injury, though, he embarks on one final “danse macabre”. Advertisement “Writing ‘One Easy Thing’ was key to unlocking a more direct and personal approach to our songwriting,” Drinkwater said in a press release. “It’s about dealing with the small things of everyday life; the anxiety, pressures, and battles inside your own headspace – and not being afraid to show this in our songs.” Watch the ‘One Easy Thing’ video, directed by Joe Wheatley, below now. A press release for the track also states that TV Priest will be announcing new tour dates and further details of their second album “in the near future”. The quartet… Read More →

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Swedish House Mafia’s new album ‘Paradise Again’ is “done”

Swedish House Mafia have shared an update on their forthcoming new album, ‘Paradise Again’, revealing the long-awaited comeback LP is “done”. READ MORE: Swedish House Mafia: “Dance music is freedom – that’s our language” After disbanding almost a decade ago, the EDM supergroup – comprised of Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso – announced in 2018 they would be reuniting for a homecoming show in Stockholm, Sweden. They followed this up last year with ‘It Gets Better’, their first new music since the release of their last album, September 2012’s ‘Until Now’. They have since put out a further two tracks, ‘Lifetime’ featuring Ty Dolla $ign and 070 Shake, and ‘Moth To A Flame’ with The Weeknd. Advertisement These three tracks are set to appear on Swedish House Mafia’s upcoming album, ‘Paradise Again’, which the group have now revealed is completed. “ALBUM IS DONE,” the trio tweeted last week. ALBUM IS DONE — Swedish House Mafia (@swedishousemfia) February 10, 2022 In a follow-up tweet, SHM teased the album’s tracklisting, sharing what looks like a text containing the line-up – but covered up by a gigantic ‘SOS’ emoji. ??? pic.twitter.com/XagosOdhm9 — Swedish House Mafia (@swedishousemfia) February 11, 2022 Advertisement Speaking to NME… Read More →

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Watch Foals’ elaborate new video for their latest single ‘2AM’

Foals have shared the video for their latest single ‘2am’, which opens with frontman Yannis Philippakis out drinking before he’s then dragged into wild – and elaborately choreographed – hedonism. The clip was directed by Tanu Muiño, best known for her work on pop megahits like Lil Nas X‘s ‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name)’ and Cardi B‘s ‘Up‘. It was filmed in Muiño’s home city of Kiev, and features an entirely Ukrainian crew. READ MORE: The Big Read With Foals: “Life is something to be cherished and enjoyed” “We love Tanu’s work. It wasn’t a collaboration we would’ve predicted, but I met up with Tanu in London, we hit it off and decided to work together,” said Philippakis. Advertisement “The moment I spoke to Tanu she was interested in the repetition of the lyrics, which is symbolic of being stuck in repeated patterns of bad behaviour. She wanted to visualise that with labyrinths and maze-like loops.” Muiño added: “Foals are one of my favourite bands, so this project was a dream to work on with Yannis. The labyrinth idea came from playing the track on repeat and the visuals came together when I met with Yannis. We connected on… Read More →

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Uncut – April 2022

HAVE A COPY SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR HOME Kate Bush, Nick Drake, Ronnie Spector, Fontaines D.C., Television’s Tom Verlaine, John McLaughlin, Slint, Aldous Harding, Cowboy Junkies, The Coral and all feature in the new Uncut, dated April 2022 and in UK shops from February 17 or available to buy online now. This issue comes with an exclusive free CD, comprising 15 tracks of the month’s best new music. KATE BUSH: Donkeys and didgeridoos. Celtic ballads and ethno-pop. Harry Houdini and the Star Wars Cantina theme. Heady experimentation and creative freedom. Welcome to The Dreaming: Kate Bush’s “she’s gone mad” album – and the record that ushered in her imperial phase. “‘Wuthering Heights’ gave Kate licence to do what she wanted,” one eyewitness tells Peter Watts. “With The Dreaming, she took it as far as she could possibly go.” OUR FREE CD! BLACKWATERSIDE: SOUNDS OF THE WEIRD NEW ALBION: 15 tracks from the 15 best new folk visionaries, including songs by Michael Tanner, The Left Outsides, Cath & Phil Tyler, Henry Parker, Rob St John, Burd Ellen, Waterless Hills and more. This issue of Uncut is available to buy by clicking here – with FREE delivery to the UK and reduced… Read More →

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Listen to Giant Party’s emotive new single ‘Loving Arms’

Giant Party have shared a new single – listen to ‘Loving Arms’ below. The track, released last week (February 11), is a further taste of the band’s upcoming new album that’s set for release this summer. The album is described in a statement as “an emotionally-charged reaction to a wave of tragedies experienced by brothers Al (vocals/guitars) and Tim Harrod (keyboards/vocals)”. Advertisement It continues: “The death of three family members, in particular their estranged father who they hadn’t seen in twenty years, left a void: suddenly they were forced to confront the insecurities his departure had caused head-on, while a succession of funerals forced the atheist brothers to revisit their religious upbringing.” You can listen to the new song below: Speaking about the album and its themes of grief, Al said: “I always thought I’d understood this early on, but it turns out I really hadn’t. “It happened to me when I saw my Grandmother’s embalmed body at the funeral home. It was the first time that I truly stopped believing in the childhood-taught belief that we were all going to meet again.” The album is also described in a statement as being “full of moments which are joyous, energising… Read More →

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50 Cent makes surprise appearance during Super Bowl Halftime Show

50 Cent made a surprise appearance at tonight’s (February 13) Super Bowl Halftime Show, joining Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige at the event. All but 50 Cent from the aforementioned artists had been announced to be performing at the annual sporting event, which took place at LA’s SoFi Stadium. The show began with appearances from Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, who performed from on top of a set of white buildings. After they delivered a version of ‘California Love’, the camera panned to the lower floor of one of the buildings, where 50 Cent was hanging upside down – a reference to the video for his hit single ‘In Da Club’, which he then launched into a rendition of. Advertisement Once his section of the performance – which he finished standing the right way up amongst a group of dancers – was complete, the show moved on with appearances from Blige, Lamar and Eminem. 50 Cent’s entrance quickly became a much-talked-about moment from the halftime show on Twitter, with fans sharing memes riffing on his upside-down performance. See some reactions to the moment below. 50 cent waiting for his part the whole time #HalfTimeShow… Read More →

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Kanye West hits out at Machine Gun Kelly in latest string of Instagram rants

Kanye West has continued his string of all-caps rants on Instagram, adding Machine Gun Kelly to his current list of feuds alongside Kid Cudi and Pete Davidson. READ MORE: First look: jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy review – the awakening of Mr West It’s been a busy weekend for West. Yesterday (February 12), he broke the news that Cudi would not be appearing on his forthcoming ‘Donda 2’ album, citing his Kids See Ghosts collaborator’s friendship with Davidson (who is currently dating West’s estranged wife, Kim Kardashian). The pair became embroiled in a feud after Cudi responded to West – calling him a “fuckin dinosaur” – leading to an onslaught of since-deleted Instagram posts. Though the first batch of those posts – which included a riff on the poster for Captain America: Civil War, with the characters changed to include himself, Davidson, Kardashian, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Drake and more – have been scrubbed from the web, a new batch was posted today (February 13), with West opening up about his feelings that Cudi had betrayed him. Advertisement “I’m very community oriented,” West said in the first of 15 posts shared over the past five hours – all of which are written entirely in… Read More →

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Watch Cardi B and Offset tattoo each other for Valentine’s Day

Cardi B and Offset have tattooed each other to mark Valentine’s Day – watch the video of the occasion below. The pair, who welcomed their second child in 2021, got the needles out for an episode of Cardi’s ‘Watch Together’ TV series, Cardi Tries. “Who does Valentines Day better than us??” Cardi wrote on Twitter to tease the episode. In the clip, Offset tells his wife: “Hell nah, you ain’t tatting me, bro,” before joking to Offset that his effort on her “looks like prison numbers”. Advertisement The tattoos the pair got were a marker of their wedding date, 9/20/17. “This tattoo, to us, it means love,” Cardi says of the process in the video, which you can watch below. The couple announced that they were expecting their second baby last June, when Cardi joined Offset’s group Migos for a special performance at the 2021 BET Awards. Their daughter Kulture Kiari Cephus was born in 2018. Cardi then took to Instagram to share an image of herself, Offest and their new arrival in a hospital bed. Revealing the date of birth, she captioned the photograph “9/4/21” (Saturday, September 4) and signed off with a blue heart emoji. Back in 2020, Cardi reportedly filed for divorce from… Read More →

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Brandon Boyd shares epic, Gorillaz-style animated video for new single ‘A Better Universe’

Brandon Boyd has shared a new animated video for his latest single, ‘A Better Universe’ – you can watch it below. READ MORE: Incubus’ Brandon Boyd on 20 years of ‘Morning View’: “We wanted to change our environment dramatically” Produced by John Congleton, the rousing new track is the fourth to be lifted from the Incubus frontman’s upcoming new solo album, ‘Echoes And Cocoons’. In a statement explaining the inspiration behind ‘A Better Universe’, Boyd said: “Did you ever encounter someone so far gone in their malignant narcissism and self aggrandizing, self assured egomania that all you could do was take a deep breath and walk away? Of course you have, you see a potential ‘them’ in the mirror each day. Advertisement “Have you ever wished that that ‘someone’ would die? Would that even solve the problem? For if they found an audience so eager and ready to glutton themselves on the message, could it not be argued that there will be yet another wolf in wolf’s clothing waiting in the wings to rush in and fill that void? I found myself in the teeth of this dilemma recently and I struggled with the ethical problem that was clinging to its… Read More →

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Snoop Dogg responds to sexual assault allegations

Snoop Dogg has issued a response to recent allegations of sexual assault made against him by a woman who regularly worked on-stage with the rapper. The Jane Doe accuser filed the lawsuit in a Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday (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 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 accepting 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 Snoop was purportedly filming his TV series, Snoop Dogg’s Double G News Network. She alleges Campbell told her Snoop wanted her there and might make her “his weather girl”. She complied “in hopes of advancing her career,” the filing claims. According to the complaint, the Jane Doe plaintiff felt sick… Read More →

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Kanye West says Kid Cudi won’t be on ‘Donda 2’ over Pete Davidson friendship

Kanye West has said Kid Cudi will not appear on ‘Donda 2’ over his friendship with SNL comedian Pete Davidson. The rapper is currently working on the follow-up to his latest album, which was released last August. READ MORE: First look: jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy review – the awakening of Mr West West posted a handwritten note to Instagram earlier today (February 12) sharing the news with his fans. “Just so everyone knows Cudi will not be on Donda because he’s friends with you know who,” it read. “You know who” appears to refer to Davidson, who is in a relationship with West’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian. Advertisement “We all speak in Billie language now,” the note also said – seemingly a reference to Billie Eilish, who West recently called on to apologise to Travis Scott after he thought she had dissed the Houston rapper onstage. View this post on Instagram A post shared by ye (@kanyewest) Cudi has responded to West on Twitter, saying the pair had “talked weeks ago about this”. “You’re whack for flipping the script and posting this lie just for a look on the internet,” he tweeted. “You ain’t no friend. BYE.” We talked weeks ago… Read More →

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Kodak Black reportedly shot outside Justin Bieber Super Bowl party

A shooting outside of Justin Bieber’s Super Bowl party last night (February 11) has left four people injured, including rapper Kodak Black, according to reports. The pop star performed at Los Angeles venue Pacific Design Center last night before moving onto club The Nice Guy, ahead of the Super Bowl taking place at SoFi Stadium on Sunday (February 13). According to TMZ, Black, Lil Baby and Gunna were standing on the corner of the street outside The Nice Guy talking when a fight started near them. It is claimed that Black was involved in the fight, during which a total of 10 shots were fired around 2:45am. Four people were thought to have been either hit by the bullets or suffered superficial injuries indirectly from the incident. Advertisement The LAPD told The Daily Beast that three male victims aged 19, 24 and 60 were among those injured. All injured parties were taken to hospital and have been confirmed to be in a stable condition. No suspects have been arrested in relation to the shooting at the time of writing. NBC News later cited “four law enforcement sources familiar with [the] investigation” as confirming Black was the 24-year-old male who had… Read More →

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Slowdive confirm they’re working on a new album

Slowdive have confirmed that they’re working on their first new album in five years. READ MORE: The 10 best shoegaze albums ever The shoegaze band took to social media last night (February 10) to reveal that the follow-up to their self-titled 2017 album is on its way. “Studio vibes,” the band’s official Twitter account wrote, captioning a picture of Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell. Advertisement Goswell quote tweeted the photo on her personal Twitter account, writing: “LP5.” LP5 https://t.co/gtDt1OZF3N — Rachel Goswell ? (@RachelAGoswell) February 10, 2022 The outfit have been teasing the arrival of their fifth album for a couple of years. Back in 2020, they shared a series of photos from in the studio, both on their official Instagram and that of Goswell, captioning them with the hashtag “#slowdivelp5”. The first photo originally appeared on Goswell’s socials, featuring the band’s drum kit. It was followed by an image of Nick Chaplin on his bass, and then Halstead playing guitar. Slowdive formed in the late 1980s, releasing three albums, ‘Just For A Day’, ‘Souvlaki’ and ‘Pygmalion’, before the band’s members fractured into different groups to pursue other projects. In 2014, the band announced they would be reforming to perform at… Read More →

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Eminem says Kendrick Lamar is one of the “top-tier lyricists” of all time

Eminem has praised Kendrick Lamar in a new interview, describing the Compton rapper as one of the “top-tier lyricists” of all time. The two artists will perform along with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Mary J. Blige during Sunday’s Super Bowl Halftime Show (February 13), which is being held at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. READ MORE: 20 albums to get excited about in 2022 Speaking earlier this week ahead of the joint performance, Eminem was asked by Sway Calloway on SiriusXM’s Shade 45 if he agreed that Lamar was “the most electrifying vocalist of his generation”. Advertisement “I absolutely would agree with that,” Eminem replied. “Kendrick is at the very top, top tier of lyricists. Not just of his generation, but of all time.” Elsewhere during the interview with Sway, Eminem admitted that he was feeling nervous about Sunday’s star-studded performance. “It’s fucking nerve-racking,” the rapper said. “This is like, to me, there’s nothing more final than live TV. You know what I’m saying? So, if you fuck up, your fuck-up is there forever. “When Dre first asked, when the whole thing started going down and we were like, ‘OK, this might be actually serious’, I was trying to envision… Read More →

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Watch Adele guest-judge G-A-Y’s ‘Porn Idol’ at London’s Heaven

Adele made a surprise appearance during G-A-Y at London’s Heaven nightclub last night (February 10) – check out the footage below. The singer-songwriter is in the capital after attending this week’s BRIT Awards 2022, where she won Artist Of The Year, Song Of The Year (‘Easy On Me’) and Mastercard Album Of The Year (’30’). READ MORE: Adele – ‘30’ album review: dependable pop titan finally mixes things up Today (February 11) videos and images have emerged of Adele attending G-A-Y’s ‘Porn Idol’ event. One clip sees the star being tasked with picking the winner of the competition by Drag Race UK‘s Cheryl Hole. Advertisement “It’s your decision, Adele!” Hole said as the pair stood on stage together. Making her decision, the singer replied: “Yes, I pick her. 100 per cent. She’s sexy, fucking beautiful, fucking lovely.” “We love being females, don’t we?” Adele asked the winner. Later, Hole had a proposal for Adele: “Next time you do a special, can I sing a song instead of Alan Carr please?” The singer responded: “100 per cent.” The star then said that Hole was “invited to Vegas”, referring to her postponed 12-week residency in Sin City. In another clip, Adele is… Read More →

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BTS’ Jungkook and Suga drop ‘Stay Alive’ for ‘7Fates: CHAKHO’ soundtrack

BTS have finally released ‘Stay Alive’, the much-anticipated song for the soundtrack of their webtoon 7Fates: CHAKHO. READ MORE: BTS live in LA: a euphoric return to live performance for the K-pop juggernauts ‘Stay Alive’, performed by vocalist Jungkook and produced by rapper Suga, dropped alongside a dramatic promotional video, which mixes animation from the webtoon and live-action scenes featuring the boyband. Despite being performed solely by Jungkook, the video for ‘Stay Alive’ features in-person appearances from all seven members of BTS. The video also notably uses a truncated, two-and-a-half minute version of the song. Listen to the full version here. Advertisement 7Fates: CHAKHO is set in the near-future with fantasy elements drawn from the tiger hunters, or chakhogapsa, of Korea’s Joseon Dynasty. Together, the main characters, based on the members of BTS, whose fates are destined to intertwine face trials and tribulations as they attempt to track down the elusive tiger. 7 Fates: CHAKHO is part of a previously announced agreement between HYBE and Naver Webtoon to produce original stories starring artists under the entertainment company. Stories inspired by ENHYPEN and TXT, titled Dark Moon and The Star Seekers respectively, have also since been released. Last week on February 3, Jungkook shared a stripped-back cover of GSoul’s ‘Hate… Read More →