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Here’s the weather forecast for TRNSMT Festival 2021
TRNSMT Festival 2021 is set to take place this weekend, and the weather isn’t looking great. READ MORE: Liam Gallagher at Reading Festival 2021: he’s in brash, brother-baiting rockstar mode The Scottish festival was rescheduled from July following concerns around the coronavirus pandemic, and will be headlined by Liam Gallagher, Courteeners and The Chemical Brothers. The three-day event at Glasgow Green will also see performances from the likes of Sam Fender, AJ Tracey, Little Simz, Becky Hill and Declan McKenna – but not a whole lot of sunshine. Advertisement Apart from a brief spell on the Friday afternoon though (September...
Alicia Keys And Swae Lee Will Turn The 2021 VMAs Into ‘Lala’ Land
Alicia Keys is returning to the VMAs — and this time, she’s bringing Swae Lee. The pair’s new single, “Lala,” dropped today (September 9). For the iconic singer-songwriter’s first performance on the VMAs stage since she lit it up in 2012 for “Girl on Fire” with Nicki Minaj and Olympian Gabby Douglas, Keys will debut the song alongside her collaborator “with spectacular city views in celebration of the resilience of New York,” according to a release. https://twitter.com/vmas/status/1435996499687755788 Keys is a longtime VMAs mainstay, having won four awards, including her very first, in 2001, for Best New Artist in a...
Nick Cave responds to The Flaming Lips’ cover of ‘Girl In Amber’
Nick Cave has shared his thoughts on The Flaming Lips’ recent cover of the Bad Seeds track ‘Girl In Amber’, which they recorded with 13-year-old fan Nell Smith. READ MORE: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis live in London: Minimal elements for maximum impact The Flaming Lips’ version of ‘Girl In Amber’ emerged last week as part of a whole Nick Cave covers album, that the band recorded with Smith. Alerted to the cover by a fan, Cave took to his Q&A website The Red Hand Files to give the reworked version of the 2016 ‘Skeleton Tree‘ song from his...
Justin Timberlake celebrates the 15th anniversary of ‘FutureSex/LoveSounds’
Justin Timberlake has marked the 15th anniversary of his 2006 solo album ‘FutureSex/LoveSounds’ on social media. The record, which featured production from Rick Rubin and Timbaland, included such songs as ‘SexyBack’, ‘My Love’ and ‘What Goes Around… Comes Around’. READ MORE: Skylar Astin: “Rebel Wilson told me I was going to be a heartthrob” Timberlake looked back on ‘FutureSex/LoveSounds’ in an Instagram post overnight which featured images and clips from the album campaign. Advertisement “15 years ago today, I released my second album ‘FutureSex/LoveSounds’,” Timberlake wrote in the accompanying caption. “This album changed my life.” Timberlake added: “Every album...
T-Pain accuses Kanye West of stealing his lyrics for ‘Dark Fantasy’
T-Pain has accused Kanye West of stealing one of his “corny lines” for the ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ track ‘Dark Fantasy’. During a recent Twitch stream, T-Pain told viewers that West “stole one of my corny lines after he told me it was corny. I couldn’t believe it.” READ MORE: Divorce, Drake disses and problematic features: 10 talking points from Kanye West’s ‘DONDA’ The pair were working together on the collaborative West/Jay-Z album ‘Watch The Throne’ when T-Pain took the opportunity to show West his mixtape ‘prEVOLVEr’. Advertisement “I was so proud of my new mixtape that I...
IDLES announced as headliners for Creation Day Festival 2022
IDLES have been announced as one of the main headliners of Creation Day Festival 2022. The festival is being curated by Creation Records co-founder Alan McGee, and had been set to debut this year before coronavirus-enforced restrictions forced its cancellation. READ MORE: Creation Stories: inside Alan McGee’s biblical new biopic Creation Day Festival is now aiming to debut in Wolverhampton’s West Park from May 28-29, 2022. Advertisement “I’m very pleased to be asked again by the City of Wolverhampton Council and Toura Toura Festivals to curate the Utilita Creation Day Festival 2022,” McGee said in a statement. “It’s great...
HyunA and DAWN party in up in eccentric music video for ‘Ping Pong’
HyunA and DAWN have dropped their new joint mini-album ‘’, featuring title track ‘Ping Pong’. READ MORE: STAYC – ‘Stereotype’ review: K-pop’s most promising girl group prove they are anything but cliché Aside from ‘Ping Pong’, their new mini-album also includes three other tracks – ‘Deep Dive’, ‘XOXO’ and ‘I Know’ – all co-written by DAWN. The duo had also previously released the songs ‘Party, Feel, Love’ and ‘Purple’ together in 2021 and 2017, respectively. The four-track record was released alongside a music video for ‘Ping Pong’. In the clip, the duo showcase their energetic choreography on a brightly...
Travis Barker says Kourtney Kardashian gave him the “strength” to take a flight again
Travis Barker has opened up about how girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian helped the Blink-182 drummer to take a flight for the first time in 13 years. Last month, Barker and Kardashian flew from Los Angeles to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico on Kylie Jenner’s private jet, marking Barker’s first flight since he survived a deadly plane crash in 2008. The crash saw the plane’s two pilots and two of its four passengers killed instantly, with Barker and fellow passenger DJ AM suffering serious injuries. Barker then spent 11 weeks in a hospital, undergoing 26 surgeries and a number of skin...
Coldplay’s Chris Martin says taking mushrooms “confirmed my suspicions about the universe”
Coldplay‘s Chris Martin has discussed his experiences with magic mushrooms while appearing on a new episode of comedian Pete Holmes’ You Made It Weird podcast. READ MORE: On bright new song ‘Higher Power’, Coldplay reach for the stars like never before When asked by Holmes if he had ever taken psychedelics, Martin replied, “Only once, on mushrooms. “I loved it, and that was good… it sort of confirmed my suspicions about the universe. I was like, ‘Okay, yep, that seems to be true.’ Advertisement “I don’t do so well on drugs and alcohol; it messes with the music,” Martin added....Recent Posts
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