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Caroline Polachek Dances Away From A Minotaur In ‘Bunny Is A Rider’ Video
Caroline Polachek premiered the music video of her latest single “Bunny Is a Rider,” which is available to watch on Facebook. The music video, co-directed with frequent collaborator Matt Copson, is set in a dimly lit labyrinth of boxes, with Caroline beginning the song with her whistling. We see her bust into groovy moves and lead the camera towards different sections of the maze. If you look closely, each box contains taped labels of different words like “rocket science,” “geese,” and “dark crystals.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CRy3Y2IB4pg/ “‘Bunny Is a Rider’ takes place in the storage facility of my mind,” Polachek said...
BBC Radio 6 Music announces 6 Music Stage at All Points East 2021
BBC Radio 6 Music has partnered with All Points East Festival, with the former hosting the 6 Music Stage at this year’s festival. All Points East is set to return from August 27-30 at Victoria Park in London, with the likes of Foals, Jamie xx and Jorja Smith headlining. READ MORE: 10 brilliant UK festivals to look forward to this summer The 6 Music Stage will operate across the festival weekend, with highlights from the stage set to be broadcast on 6 Music and BBC Sounds. Advertisement 6 Music presenters Tom Ravenscroft, Gilles Peterson and Mary Anne Hobbs will...
Ed Sheeran considered retirement from music following his daughter’s birth
Ed Sheeran has revealed that he almost retired from music following the birth of his daughter. The singer took a lengthy career break in 2019 and considered making it permanent when his wife Cherry Seaborn gave birth to the couple’s first child, a daughter called Lyra, last September. Sheeran has now told SiriusXM: “I stopped playing music for a bit. And music is entirely me as a person. Then I had my daughter and I was like: ‘Right, that’s it. This is me. I am probably just going to be a dad. I am not going to play music...
Pop Smoke’s posthumous ‘Faith’ album debuts at number one in the US
Pop Smoke‘s second posthumous studio album ‘Faith’ has debuted at number one in the US. The record, released on July 16, follows on from the late rapper’s 2020 posthumous debut ‘Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon’, which also clinched the top spot in the US last year. READ MORE: A year after his death, Pop Smoke’s influence lives on in drill scenes across the globe ‘Faith’ has now debuted at number one on the latest Billboard 200 Chart after shifting 88,000 equivalent album units in the US in the week ending July 22, according to MRC Data....
BLACKPINK’s Lisa teases solo debut with cryptic Instagram posts
BLACKPINK’s Lisa has given fans a possible sneak peek into the making of her upcoming debut solo release. READ MORE: Somi unveils intriguing teasers for upcoming single ‘Dumb Dumb’ On the evening of July 25 KST, the Thai-born K-pop idol uploaded two images from her in a recording studio onto her Instagram stories, likely hinting at her highly-anticipated solo debut. In the first image, two people are seen hunched over a computer screen while working on music. Both are wearing merchandise from The Black Label, a subsidiary of Lisa’s agency YG Entertainment suggesting that the new track might be...
Billie Eilish announces BBC TV special ‘Up Close’
Billie Eilish has announced details of her new BBC special, Billie Eilish: Up Close. The programme will be broadcast in support of the singer’s second album ‘Happier Than Ever’, which is set for release on Friday (July 30). READ MORE: Every single Billie Eilish song ranked in order of greatness After the special was previously hinted at last month, Billie Eilish: Up Close has now been confirmed and is set to be broadcast on Saturday (July 31) on BBC One at 10:30pm. Advertisement “In this 45-minute entertainment special filmed in Billie’s home town of Los Angeles, BBC Radio 1...
BLACKPINK’s Jennie and Grimes share their trip to SpaceX, sparking collaboration rumours
BLACKPINK‘s Jennie and Grimes have shared pictures of their recent outing to the SpaceX facility, sparking collaboration rumours. READ MORE: BLACKPINK’s Rosé shares behind-the-scenes videos from ‘On The Ground’ MV On July 26, the two singers posted a series of photos from their “rocket day” hangout. Grimes is the latest in the string of musicians the BLACKPINK member met up with during her recent trip to California, following pop star Dua Lipa. “Rocket day with my fairy princess,” Jennie wrote on Instagram, alongside pictures of them posing in front of a SpaceX rocket. The pictures appear to be taken...
Manic Street Preachers’ Nicky Wire “deeply regrets” controversial Michael Stipe comments
Manic Street Preachers‘ Nicky Wire has said he “deeply regrets” saying he wished that R.E.M‘s Michael Stipe would die of AIDS. The Manic Street Preachers bassist was previously blasted for his 1993 comments, in which he said he hoped that that Stipe would “go the same way as Freddie Mercury”, but claimed alcohol often “altered” his personality. Admitting there was “no excuse” for his comments, Stipe told MOJO magazine: “It is strange, because I’m not lying when I talk about my shyness when I was young. Advertisement “I’m always dubious about people who say they have no regrets. I...
Ian Broudie reportedly earned just £6,000 from ‘Three Lions’ when it topped the charts
The Lightning Seeds’ Ian Broudie has said ‘Three Lions’ only earned £6,000 when it topped the charts during the 2018 World Cup. Speaking to The Mirror, Gomez frontman Tom Gray recalled a conversation he had with Broudie back in 2019. READ MORE: Why ‘Three Lions’ is still the ultimate football anthem “I was playing at a festival in 2019 with the Lightning Seeds,” Gray told The Mirror. Advertisement “And I said ‘Hey, you know that song of yours. How much money did you make from it during the world cup?’… He said about six grand. And it took me...Recent Posts
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