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Swizz Beatz on DMX’s posthumous album: “I had to pull this through for him”
Swizz Beatz has opened up DMX’s posthumous album, which was released yesterday (May 28). READ MORE: 10 big talking points from the posthumous new DMX album ‘Exodus’ DMX, whose real name was Earl Simmons, was hospitalised following a heart attack as a result of reported overdose on April 3, where he remained in intensive care until his passing on April 9. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Swizz reminisced about the last year the two spent together in the studio working on the album, ‘Exodus’, recalling that DMX was “ready” to make the album but that he appeared “tired” at times. “We’d been...
Ed Sheeran says he was “third choice” for role in ‘Yesterday’
Ed Sheeran has said that he was “third choice” for the role in Richard Curtis’ Yesterday. READ MORE: ‘Yesterday’ movie: Richard Curtis, Danny Boyle, and Himesh Patel on teasing Ed Sheeran and imagining a world without The Beatles The musical played a version of himself in the 2019 film but has now revealed that both Harry Styles and Chris Martin were initially chosen ahead of him. Speaking on BBC Radio 1’s ‘Kids Ask Difficult Questions’ segment, Sheeran said: “They asked Chris Martin, he said no, they asked Harry Styles, he said no, and I was third choice.” Advertisement He continued:...
Olivia Rodrigo becomes youngest artist to land UK Number One double
Olivia Rodrigo has become the youngest solo act to go to Number One in the UK singles and albums chart in the same week. The NME Big Read: Olivia Rodrigo – “It’s important for me to be taken seriously as a songwriter” The California pop star, 18, last week (May 21) released her debut album ‘Sour’, which NME hailed in a four-star review as “an almost-masterpiece that’s equal parts confident, cool and exhilaratingly real”. Yesterday (May 28) saw the record land at Number One in the UK, with Rodrigo’s latest single ‘Good 4 U’ simultaneously topping the singles chart (via...
Billie Eilish’s next ‘Happier Than Ever’ single is coming “very soon”
Billie Eilish has teased the arrival of her next single – check out the posts below. READ MORE: Billie Eilish’s ‘Your Power’ is a quietly potent response to abuse of power The pop star is gearing up to release her highly anticipated second album ‘Happier Than Ever’ (out July 30), which has been previewed with the songs ‘My Future’, ‘Therefore I Am’ and ‘Your Power’. Taking to Instagram yesterday (May 28), Eilish posted a close-up clip of herself in what appears to be a forthcoming music video. In the caption, she wrote: “New song out next week.” Advertisement Meanwhile, her...
MPs demand urgent action to save music festivals from another “lost summer”
A group of MPs have demanded urgent action to save music festivals from another “lost summer”. READ MORE: UK Festivals on testing, vaccine passports, line-ups and what to expect from the summer: “Safety is all we think about” A cross-party committee of MPs has said, in a 42-page report that is due to be published today (May 29), that ministers must implement a government-backed insurance scheme for music festivals now, to avoid further cancellations this summer. The report, written by the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, said unless urgent action is taken by the government, many festivals risk...
Rufus Wainwright shares Judy Garland cover to celebrate Pride month
Rufus Wainwright has shared a cover of a classic Judy Garland song to mark Pride Month – scroll down the page to listen to it now. Pride Month will begin next week on June 1 and celebrates the LGBTQ+ community, with Pride Day taking place on June 28. READ MORE: Rufus Wainwright: “It’s impossible to minimise the ineptitude and pure evil of the Trump administration” Wainwright has shared his take on Garland’s 1939 song ‘Over The Rainbow’, which was featured on the soundtrack of the film The Wizard Of Oz. The new performance will also feature in the star’s upcoming...
Britney Spears musical to premiere in Washington D.C. this November
The musical based around Britney Spears’ songs will premiere in Washington D.C. in November, it has been confirmed. Once Upon A One More Time was originally scheduled to make its debut in Chicago in 2019, but was delayed to April 2020. Its shows were later cancelled completely because of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. READ MORE: Framing Britney Spears: what happens now in the pop star’s conservatorship fight? The jukebox musical will finally hit the stage on November 29 at D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company. Its run will be limited, with performances only taking place until January 2, 2022....
Faith No More’s Mike Patton explains why he urinated on Axl Rose’s teleprompter in 1992
Faith No More’s Mike Patton has explained why he urinated on Axl Rose’s teleprompter when the band supported Guns N’ Roses. READ MORE: Faith No More are back. Here’s why you should care about the wild and witty progenitors of alt-metal The Californian rock band headed out on the road with GN’R and Metallica as support on the pair’s co-headlining tour in 1992. Speaking to Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Sepultura’s Andreas Kisser, Patton said Guns N’ Roses had treated Faith No More poorly for the duration of the tour. “One day I was like, so bored. It was just such...
Frank Turner claims he was once mistaken for Ed Norton by Russian sex workers
Frank Turner says he was once mistaken for the actor Ed Norton by Russian sex workers. READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Frank Turner Speaking in this week’s Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, he told NME about the mix up during his early days of touring. “I did a bunch of super-DIY touring in Russia, sleeping on the floors of squats. The day after my final show there, we were having a drink in a bar and two women came over and started talking to my friend in Russian and pointing at me fluttering their...Recent Posts
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