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Glastonbury granted licence for limited festival in September
Glastonbury has been granted a licence to host a live music event on their festival site with an audience this year, paving the way for a potential limited festival in September. While the Worthy Farm festival’s usual five-day event was cancelled for the second year running back in January due to coronavirus concerns, Glastonbury’s organisers subsequently submitted an application for a premises licence to Mendip District Council to host two days of live shows in 2021. READ MORE: Emily Eavis on the Glastonbury livestream: “There might be subtle hints towards the future” As Somerset County Gazette reports, the council’s...
EDM producer and DJ i_o’s cause of death has been confirmed
DJ and producer i_o’s cause of death has been confirmed after his sudden passing last year. The musician, real name Garrett Lockhart, passed away in November at the age of 30. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has now confirmed that he died of natural causes related to Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis — an autoimmune disorder that often involves chronic thyroid inflammation. In a statement released to EDM.com, Lockhart’s family explained that he suffered a “sudden and fatal arrhythmia”. “After five months of testing, the conclusion is that, while Garrett did suffer from depression and anxiety, he did not take his own...
BTS’ RM opens up about how he found his musical identity
BTS member RM has revealed that he struggled with finding his personal identity at the beginning of his career as a rapper. READ MORE: BTS’ Jungkook says watching Ariana Grande perform live “really stayed” with him In celebration of BTS’ Rolling Stone cover feature, the magazine released several individual digital covers and breakout interviews with the boyband’s members. During RM’s interview, he shared that early in the group’s career he had trouble finding his “identity”, nothing that it took time to “developer and settle itself”. He revealed that, as a child, he has aspired to become “a writer of prose and poetry”...
Years & Years announce Kylie Minogue-featuring remix of ‘Starstruck’
Years & Years have announced that a new Kylie Minogue-featuring remix of their recent single ‘Starstruck’ will be released on Friday (May 21). The original version of the single, the first to be released by Years & Years since they became the solo project of frontman Olly Alexander, came out last month. READ MORE: Watch Olly Alexander gatecrash our interview with Adam Lambert at the BRITs Posting on Twitter this morning (May 19), Alexander confirmed that Minogue has provided guest vocals for a new remix of ‘Starstruck’ that is now set for release this Friday. Advertisement “I cannot believe...
Queen show their support for BTS’ upcoming single ‘Butter’
Queen have shown their support for BTS‘ upcoming single ‘Butter’ with a cryptic new tweet. READ MORE: BTS’ Jungkook says watching Ariana Grande perform live “really stayed” with him Yesterday (May 18), the K-pop boyband released a teaser for the forthcoming music video for ‘Butter’. The 20-second, black-and-white clip features the seven members dressed in suits and bopping their heads to a funky beat that’s reminiscent of Queen’s classic 1980 song ‘Another One Bites The Dust’. Advertisement Shortly after the South Korean group shared their teaser on social media platforms, the British rock band retweeted the video and gave...
Duran Duran announce new album ‘Future Past’, featuring collabs with Graham Coxon and Lykke Li
Duran Duran have announced ‘Future Past’, their first album in six years. Set for release on October 22, the latest LP is previewed by new single ‘Invisible’, which you can listen to in full below. According to the band’s official online store, the standard version of ‘Future Past’ has 12 tracks and features appearances from the likes of Blur’s Graham Coxon, long-time Bowie pianist Mike Garson and guest vocals from Lykke Li. Advertisement A deluxe edition of the record is set to contain three bonus tracks, while fans can access a series of bundles including coloured vinyl and artwork autographed by...
Sinead O’Connor says Prince attacked her at his Hollywood home
Sinead O’Connor has claimed that she faced a violent confrontation with Prince after securing her biggest hit with a cover of his song ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’. In a new interview with The New York Times, the Irish singer said the incident occurred when Prince invited her to his Hollywood mansion after the 1991 cover became a huge hit. According to O’Connor, Prince “chastised her for swearing in interviews, harangued his butler to serve her soup though she repeatedly refused it, and sweetly suggested a pillow fight only to thump her with something hard he’d slipped into his pillowcase.”...
Squid share “freaky” animated video for ‘Pamphlets’
Squid have shared a new music video for ‘Pamphlets’, the final single released from their debut studio album ‘Bright Green Field’. READ MORE: Squid: “I don’t think people take us seriously enough to think we’re ‘pretentious’” German illustrator and visual artist Raman Djafari directed the video, marking his first collaboration with the band. The clip follows a sinister devil-horned figure as it transcends into an alternate dimension via its washing machine. Watch the video for ‘Pamphlets’ below: Advertisement “When planning the music videos for this album, we wanted to make sure we covered a few different mediums,” the band...
Watch the trailer for St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein’s “bananas art film”, ‘The Nowhere Inn’
St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein‘s film The Nowhere Inn is coming to cinemas and on-demand later this year – check out the trailer below. Co-written, produced, and starring the two musicians, the collaborative project was first announced in April 2019 after the pair joined forces on a series of mock interview segments in promotion of St. Vincent’s 2017 album, ‘MASSEDUCTION’. The NME Big Read: St. Vincent: “I wanted to tell my story with humour and compassion” Having been premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2020, The Nowhere Inn – directed by Bill Benz – will be given a cinematic release on September 17, 2021,...Recent Posts
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