D.C. singer-songwriter Bartees Strange has shared the music video for ‘Flagey God’, lifted from his 2020 album, ‘Live Forever’. READ MORE: Bartees Strange: The Washington, D.C. artist bending genres to build his own uncompromising world The haunting black and white video stitches together scenes of Strange performing in a number of locales with brief, grainy snippets of an unidentified figure, complementing the song’s dark bass and percussion lines. Watch the clip below: Advertisement Bartees Strange – real name Bartees Cox Jr – released the 11-track ‘Live Forever’ back in October, half a year after releasing ‘Say Goodbye to Pretty...
Coachella will officially return in April 2022. Next year’s edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will be its first since 2019. The festival announced June 1 that it will run on the weekends of April 15-17 and 22-24 in 2022 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. This confirms previous reports that the festival would sit out 2021 entirely. Fans are now able to register on the official Coachella website to access the 2022 advance sale, which begins Friday (June 4) at 10am PT. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Coachella (@coachella)...
Musician Fernando Ufret has gained viral fame for his covers of classic alternative tracks in the style of South Park character Eric Cartman. READ MORE: TikTok Sea shanty don Nathan Evans: “I get seasick so there’ll be no gigs on boats” The musician has gained over a million views, almost 275,000 likes and almost 50,000 followers on TikTok for his so-called ‘CARTMANCOUSTIC’ tracks, which boast a faultless impression of the cartoon character. They include covers of Red Hot Chilli Peppers‘ ‘Otherside’, Green Day‘s ‘Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)’ and Linkin Park‘s ‘In The End’, as well as the theme...
I Dont Know How But They Found Me (iDKHOW) have announced details of two UK headline shows set for this summer. READ MORE: iDKHOW debut ‘Razzmatazz’ video and tell us about their debut album: “A lot of artists treat art like a product” The gigs take place either side of the duo’s appearances at Reading And Leeds Festivals in August. The duo, the new project of former Panic! At The Disco member Dallon Weekes and drummer Ryan Seaman, will play Glasgow’s SWG3 on August 27 and London’s The Forum on August 31. Advertisement “We’re incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to...
Pete Doherty has announced an intimate headline show to take place in Camden next month. READ MORE: My wild night of stand-up comedy at the Libertines’ hotel as the world collapsed The Libertines frontman will return to his old stomping ground for a show at Powerhaus, formerly Dingwalls, on July 3. Tickets for the intimate, 500-capacity show go on sale tomorrow (June 2) at 10am. You can find them here, while they last. Tickets available on @seetickets from tomorrow at 10:00am x pic.twitter.com/FlKyPJsnph — Peter Doherty (@petedoherty) June 1, 2021 Advertisement It won’t be Doherty’s only intimate London...
Noel Gallagher has revealed he has received his first Covid-19 vaccine, while also criticising celebrities who have campaigned for other people to get the jab. The former Oasis guitarist told Radio Times that his doctor told him he would be a “fool” not to get the jab, after he initially turned it down. Noel originally claimed he wasn’t afraid of contracting the virus, which has claimed the lives of more than 3.5 million people globally, because he suffered worse symptoms after contracting food poisoning in Mexico. Advertisement He also reportedly claimed that he was worried about hair loss, but his doctor...
Jade Bird has announced a run of headline shows for 2022, in support of her forthcoming second album ‘Different Kinds Of Light‘. READ MORE: Jade Bird on the “community” of her new single ‘Headstart’ and making an album in a pandemic In addition to the tour, Bird has shared the video for the title track from her forthcoming album. You can watch it below. Bird will tour the UK in March 2022. Tickets will be available from Friday June 11 and available here. Advertisement MARCH Saturday 19 – London, O2 Kentish Town Forum Sunday 20 – Cardiff, The Great Hall...
Foo Fighters have announced their first full tour dates of 2021, with a run of US gigs booked for July and August. READ MORE: Foo Fighters: “Our connection is beyond music” The band will play six shows across the Midwest, Oklahoma and New Mexico, and have promised “many more to come”. You can see the full tour dates below, which will feature support from Missouri rock trio Radkey. Tickets go on sale this Friday (June 4) at 10am local time, and can be found here. Advertisement They’ll mark the first full-capacity gigs for the rock veterans since before the...
The Cure have released their acclaimed ‘CURÆTION-25’ performance at London’s Meltdown Festival in 2018 on streaming services for the first time. Previously released as a DVD, the ambitious performance saw The Cure playing songs from each of the band’s 13 studio albums in chronological order, spanning their catalog from 1979 to 2018, and then in reverse order from 2018 to 1979 as part of two symmetrical sets. The first was called ‘From There to Here’ and saw them play one song from each of their 13 studio albums in chronological order, before ending with the recent unreleased song ‘It Can...
Kate Nash has spoken to NME about new single ‘Misery’, as well as the future of hit show GLOW and how mental health shaped her new material. Watch our video interview with Nash above. Her first new material in 18 months, the bittersweet new single ‘Misery‘ comes as the first taster of the singer-songwriter and actor’s forthcoming collection of work coming later this year – the follow-up to 2018 album ‘Yesterday Was Forever‘. “It’s the least stressed I’ve felt putting out music,” Nash told NME, “because I think we all really know what real stress is now.” The new...