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Japanese Breakfast, Black Midi and more for Austin’s Levitation Fest
Japanese Breakfast, Black Midi, The Hives, Thundercat and more are among the artists set to play Austin’s Levitation Fest later this year – see the full line-up below. The festival will come to Texas across Halloween weekend (October 28-31) later this year. Taking place across a number of venues in the city including Mohawk, Stubb’s, Cheer Up Charlies, Hotel Vegas and more, the four-day festival will also welcome Connan Mockasin, Yves Tumor, Crumb, Cloud Nothings and more. Advertisement See the full Levitation line-up below: OCT 28-31, 2021. Halloween weekend in Austin, Texas! 4 Day Passes and single show tickets...
Katy Perry launches new range of NFTs around Las Vegas residency
Katy Perry has announced her first range of NFTs (non-fungible tokens), based around her forthcoming Las Vegas residency. The singer will begin her ‘Play’ residency at the new Resorts World casino in Vegas, which contains a 5,000-seater venue, this December. READ MORE: WTF is an NFT? Kings Of Leon’s weird non-fungible token thing – explained! The NFTs come in conjunction with Theta Network, a company that Perry has also acquired a minority stake in. There are no details yet of what specific form the NFTs will take, but fans can register to be notified of the first sale here....
Logic announces new single ‘Vaccine’ coming this week
Logic has announced that he’s releasing a new single, ‘Vaccine’, which is set to be released on Friday (July 2). READ MORE: Logic – ‘No Pressure’ review: positive rapper bids farewell with an elegiac and heartfelt swan song Taking to social media this evening (June 30) to share the artwork for the new track, Logic accompanied the yellow, black and red image with a caption that simply read: “Friday”. ‘Vaccine’ is the latest in a series of releases as part of the rapper’s ongoing comeback after retiring from the music industry last year. He made his return earlier this month with the...
Shura on RAYE’s label drama: “Indie labels are just as capable of sucking big time”
Shura has responded to RAYE‘s recent record label drama, sharing her own experiences of indie labels “sucking big time” as well as majors. READ MORE: Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with RAYE Her comments come after RAYE took to Twitter earlier this week to say that she is “sick of being slept on” and that she’s eager to put out her first full-length LP. In the message, RAYE said she has been signed on a four-album deal since 2014, yet hasn’t been “allowed” to release her debut album. Advertisement “I’m so over it being...
Julie Adenuga plans to launch new festival with more space for women artists
Julie Adenuga has revealed that she’s planning on launching a new festival that will have more space on the line-up for women artists. READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life: Julie Adenuga The presenter, DJ, producer and curator recently stepped down from her show on Apple Music in order to focus on her new creative media platform, ‘Don’t Trust The Internet’. Speaking in a new interview, Adenuga said she also wants to make an impact in the live events industry, announcing plans for her own festival. Advertisement “Oh yeah, I’m not going to say too much on that because I think it...
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly signs new record deal, shares uplifting single ‘Drift’
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly has shared a brand new single – listen to ‘Drift’ below. The new track is Sam Duckworth’s first release on Southend-on-Sea-based label Cool Thing Records. Speaking about the new track, Duckworth said: “This is a song about taking time to anchor your feet and slow your mind. After a year or so indoors through screens, life is returning. I am often taken back to that hour of outdoors by the beach where a new appreciation for my surroundings was found. Advertisement “As a world, we are increasingly spending more time in this world within...
Amazon launches “golden era” vinyl subscription service
Amazon has launched a new subscription service that focuses on “the golden era of vinyl” from the 1960s and ’70s. READ MORE: Here’s the full list of Record Store Day 2021 releases The new ‘Vinyl Of The Month’ club offers music fans “must-haves” delivered to their door for $24.99 (£18.58) per month, handpicked by the Amazon Music team. “Start or grow an enviable collection with some of the greatest albums ever,” a statement reads, adding that the new Amazon service is “a great gift for anyone who’s just fallen in love with vinyl”. Advertisement The first two albums delivered as...
Listen to Inhaler’s anthemic new single ‘Totally’
Inhaler have shared a brand new single – listen to the anthemic, radio-ready ‘Totally’ below. READ MORE: Inhaler talk debut album and new single ‘Cheer Up Baby’: “It’s a love letter to all our fans who are feeling isolated” The track is the final preview of the Dublin band’s debut album ‘It Won’t Always Be Like This’, which is set to be released next week (July 9). So far, the album has been previewed by its title track and first single ‘Who’s Your Money On?’. Advertisement Speaking of their forthcoming debut album and their progression as a band, bassist Robert...
Iceland lifts all COVID-19 restrictions as 90% of population vaccinated
Iceland have lifted all COVID-19 restrictions this week as almost all of the country have received their vaccinations. 87 per cent of adults in the country, which has a population of 400,000, have received their first dose of a vaccine, with 60 per cent already having had both doses. READ MORE: European festivals on returning in 2021: “We are only more optimistic for the summer” After all adults have been offered the vaccine, the Icelandic government say that “plans for the vaccination programme and the lifting of restrictions on gatherings have therefore been completed.” Advertisement Health Minister Svandís Svavarsdóttir added:...Recent Posts
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