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Flavor Flav thinks Chappell Roan’s stance towards fans is “one of the biggest mistakes she can make”
Flavor Flav has weighed in on Chappell Roan‘s recent stance towards fans, stating that it’s “one of the biggest mistakes she can make”. The Public Enemy member and hip-hop figure appeared on TMZ‘s year-end television special, Merry Elfin’ Christmas, to discuss the 2024 headlines that most stood out. A TMZ reporter introduces Roan as “a celebrity that emerged this year that hates being a celebrity more than any celebrity we’ve seen in the history of celebrity-dom“. The former NME Cover star has previously spoken out against “weird” and “creepy” followers, and calling out the “predatory behaviour” of so-called “superfans” that includes “nonconsensual physical and social...
Gwenno and rEDOLENT announced as Independent Venue Week 2025 ambassadors
Gwenno and rEDOLENT have been announced as ambassadors for the 2025 edition of Independent Venue Week. The seven-day celebration of independent music and arts venues is returning, running from January 27 to February 2, with hundreds of live shows to take place across the UK. Singer-songwriter and Mercury Prize nominee Gwenno has been named as the ambassador for Wales, and will play a special solo show at Cardiff’s Acapela Studio on January 29. Edinburgh band rEDOLENT, meanwhile, who recently picked up the Scottish Album of the Year for their debut album ‘Dinny Greet’, will be the ambassadors for Scotland,...
GFRIEND announce reunion, tease upcoming 2025 album ‘Season of Memories’
GFRIEND have announced their upcoming reunion and teased their new 2025 album, titled ‘Season of Memories’. Today (December 2), GFRIEND and Source Music released a new logo animation video for the girl group, alongside details of the six-piece’s highly anticipated reunion project on social media. Touted as a “special album”, GFRIEND are slated to drop a pre-release track on January 6, 2025 before releasing the ‘Season of Memories’ album in full on January 13, 2025. The special album will arrive just a few days shy of their 10th anniversary on January 16. It will also mark the six-piece’s first...
The Cure to release ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ London launch show as live album
The Cure will release the live show they played on the night of the release of ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ as a live album this month. Titled ‘Songs Of A Live World Troxy London MMXXIV’, the album will be released in multiple physical formats on December 13 via Fiction/Polydor, with all of the band’s royalties being donated to the charity War Child. As well as a single CD and a single clear vinyl LP, there will a double CD version, single and double LP blood red vinyl editions and a double LP including an instrumental version of the...
Watch MUNA’s Katie Gavin play acoustic cover of Madonna’s ‘Like A Virgin’
MUNA’s Katie Gavin has played a stripped-back acoustic cover of Madonna’s ‘Like A Prayer’ – check it out below. The singer appeared on SiriusXM radio on Friday (November 29) to play the classic 1989 single, armed with just an acoustic guitar and microphone. Check out official footage of Gavin’s intimate performance of the song here: Advertisement Gavin is promoting her debut solo album ‘What A Relief’, which was released on October 25 via Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records. The album included the single ‘Aftertaste’ and the Mitski collaboration ‘As Good As It Gets’. “This record spans a...
Chappell Roan celebrates ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ reaching one billion Spotify streams
Chappell Roan has celebrated the fact that her song ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ has reached one billion streams on Spotify. The single was first released in April this year, written by Roan alongside Justin Tranter and Dan Nigro. It became Roan’s breakout hit, hitting Number Two in the UK and Number Four in the US, and has been nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the Grammys. Roan has reacted the news that it has crossed the milestone, writing on Instagram: “Good Luck Babe hitting a billion streams on Spotify is cuckoo loco. All I...
‘Harry Potter’ star Rupert Grint ordered to pay £1.8m after losing tax dispute
Harry Potter star Rupert Grint has been ordered to pay £1.8million in tax after losing a legal dispute with HM Revenue & Customs. The actor, who starred as Ron Weasley in all eight films, was originally told to pay the sum in 2019 after an HMRC investigation disputed one of his tax returns. Grint’s lawyers launched an appeal, arguing that money he received from a company had been correctly taxed as a capital asset, but HMRC said it should have been taxed as income at a higher rate. As reported by the BBC, Grint’s claim has been dismissed by...
Watch Bob Mortimer reveal if he had a ‘Brat’ summer
Bob Mortimer has revealed whether he had a ‘Brat’ summer in 2024 – check out his endearing response below. The comedian was appearing on Nick Grimshaw’s show on BBC Radio 6 Music on Friday (November 29), promoting his latest book The Hotel Avocado. In a moment captured on the station’s Instagram feed, Grimshaw asked Mortimer whether he had a ‘Brat’ summer, referencing the culture-straddling phenomenon of Charli XCX’s album of the same name and its associated movement that dominated the summer of 2024. “A what?” Mortimer replies. “What on earth does that mean?” Advertisement “I’m 66, Brat?! Like, aggressive?...
Cynthia Erivo weighs in on fans singing along to ‘Wicked’ in theatres: “We spent this long singing it ourselves”
Cynthia Erivo has weighed in on fans singing along to Wicked in theatres – and she’s given them the thumbs up. READ MORE: Everything we know about ‘Wicked Part Two’ During an interview on NBC’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast yesterday (November 28), the actress – who plays Elphaba alongside Ariana Grande‘s Galinda – was asked if she thinks it’s okay that fans have been singing along to screenings. “Good. I’m OK with it,” she responded emphatically. “We spent this long singing it ourselves — it’s time for everyone else to join in. It’s wonderful.” Watch the interview below (skip...Recent Posts
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