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Lil Nas X shares blockbuster trailer for debut album ‘Montero’
Lil Nas X has shared a trailer for his forthcoming debut album ‘Montero’. The rapper and singer already confirmed the title of his first full-length record earlier this year and has now teased its release further. The trailer combines imagery and clips from his previous music videos, including ‘Call Me By Your Name (Montero)’ and ‘Old Town Road’. The camera zooms out as the visuals fly by to reveal them filling up the letters of ‘Montero’. Advertisement It closes with a Marvel-esque logo that reads “Montero The Album”, while a snippet of a new song called ‘Industry Baby’ plays...
Stormzy’s #Merky Books to publish first children’s title ‘Superheroes’
Stormzy‘s publishing imprint #Merky Books has announced its first children’s book, which will focus on a number of different real-life ‘Superheroes’. READ MORE: Stalk Ashley – Simmering R&B fusion and dancehall star with fans in Jorja Smith and Stormzy The comic book style Superheroes: Inspiring Stories of Secret Strength focuses on 50 different figures from communities that are underrepresented in children’s literature. They include authors such as Candice Carty-Williams and Reni Eddo-Lodge, actor Riz Ahmed, broadcaster Reggie Yates, former footballer Ian Wright, comedian Mo Gilligan and many more. Advertisement It was written by Sophia Thakur, illustrated by 21-year-old student...
Scottish festivals and stadiums could be full again in August, according to Professor Leitch
Scotland’s National Clinical Director has said the country’s stadiums and music festivals could be back to full capacity in August. While England is set to remove all of its coronavirus restrictions on July 19, lockdown easing won’t reach its final stages north of the border until a few weeks later. READ MORE: 10 brilliant UK festivals to look forward to this summer First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has earmarked August 9 as the date when restrictions will be lifted in Scotland, allowing three more weeks than their neighbours to vaccinate more people. Advertisement Speaking to BBC Scotland about the impact that...
Lido Pimienta says she was attacked outside her home
Lido Pimienta has said that she was attacked by a woman wielding a shopping cart as a weapon outside her home in Toronto. READ MORE: Lido Pimienta – ‘Miss Colombia’ review: experimentalist muses on national identity The Colombian-Canadian musician posted a series of tweets last Saturday (June 26), in which she said: “My children just witnessed a white woman hitting me with a shopping cart at a crosswalk… “She insists on calling the police even though all the neighbours saw what happened…..I don’t know what to do…..my face is all scratched my body all bruised, I hit her too...
JoBoxers announce first gigs in 35 years to take place in 2021
JoBoxers have announced their first gigs in 35 years, which will take place later this year, following their 2020 reunion. The new wave group formed in 1982 after the demise of Subway Sect. JoBoxers’ line-up includes that band’s guitarist Rob Marche, keyboardist Dave Collard, bassist Chris Bostock and drummer Sean McLusky, who were joined by American singer Dig Wayne. READ MORE: The 10 best gigs and tours to look forward to this autumn The band broke up in 1985 after releasing two albums, ‘Like Gangbusters’ and ‘Skin And Bone’. They announced their reunion last year, sharing plans to headline London’s...
2PM’s Comeback Was Never A Maybe — It Was A Must
By Lai Frances In June 2017, during a six-night concert following the release of their sixth album Gentleman’s Game, the pioneering South Korean boy band 2PM made a promise. As the group’s six members — Jun. K, Nichkhun, Taecyeon, Wooyoung, Junho, and Chansung — faced the reality of mandatory military enlistment, they vowed to reunite someday, somewhere, and to reignite the seething intensity that had set apart their catalog. During an emotional finale, Taecyeon’s thank-you message hinted at the group’s return. “We’ll be able to sing as six again soon, so don’t worry,” he said to a jam-packed stadium...
Damon Albarn on new “carnival-themed” Gorillaz music and talk of a Blur reunion
Damon Albarn has spoken to NME about how he’s not only been at work on new “carnival-themed” Gorillaz music, but has also been discussing “an idea” to reunite Blur once again. READ MORE: Damon Albarn interviewed: “I had to do something to lift me out of these storms” The frontman was talking to NME about the launch of his upcoming second solo album ‘The Nearer The Fountain, The More Pure The Stream Flows’, when revealed that he’d been quite busy on other projects since completing work on the record back in February. “Since then I’ve been working on carnival-themed...
Tyler, The Creator on why rap is his first love: “Don’t let the wig get it twisted”
Tyler, The Creator has opened up on why rap music will always be his first love, despite broadening the horizons of his sound in recent years. The rapper has won praise for constantly evolving since his Odd Future days, although NME hailed his latest album ‘Call Me If You Get Lost’ for offering a “love letter to the genre that made him”. READ MORE: Tyler, the Creator – ‘Call Me If You Get Lost’ review: a love letter to the genre that made him Speaking at the BET Awards on Sunday (June 27), Tyler said the genre will always remain...
Taylor Swift Will Reunite With Some Key Folklore Collaborators
Taylor Swift isn’t leaving her indie-folk phase anytime soon. Indie band Big Red Machine, made up of Swift’s Folklore and Evermore collaborators Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon, announced today (June 29) that their upcoming second studio album, How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?, will be released on August 27, and Swift will guest on two of the album’s tracks, “Birch” and “Renegade” https://twitter.com/BRMadjv/status/1409874520018767872?s=20 Swift previously partnered with Dessner for her pair of lockdown albums, which he produced and co-wrote. Several tracks originally began as unreleased Big Red Machine songs. The duo have also posted two short teaser...Recent Posts
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