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We Are FSTVL announces 2021 line-up, features Carl Cox, The Blessed Madonna and more
We Are FSTVL has announced its 2021 line-up, which features the likes of Carl Cox, The Blessed Madonna and more. READ MORE: Dua Lipa & The Blessed Madonna – ‘Club Future Nostalgia’ review: exciting and eclectic The London event will move to brand new festival site Central Park in Dagenham between September 11 and 12, after the coronavirus forced the event’s 2020 cancellation. Headliners for the eighth edition of the dance music festival include Andy C, Camelphat, Carl Cox, Charlotte De Witte, Gorgon City, Jamie Jones, Joseph Capriati, Loco Dice, MK, Nina Kraviz, Pendulum Trinity, Marco Carola, Michael Bibi,...
The Lathums announce rescheduled UK tour dates and upgraded shows
The Lathums have announced details of their rescheduled UK tour later this year which will see them upgrading a selection of the venues they were already set to play. The Wigan band will play a homecoming show at Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse this October, as well as a headline date at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town – after previously selling out the Electric Ballroom. READ MORE: Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with The Lathums With a total of eight shows upgraded to bigger venues and four brand new dates, you can check the band’s...
For Those I Love announces first ever show later this year
For Those I Love has announced that his first ever live show will take place later this year. READ MORE: For Those I Love: Dublin artist tackles grief and politics with the respect they deserve The Dublin producer and songwriter (real name David Balfe), who released his self-titled debut album last week, will be performing at Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland on October 1. Taking to social media earlier today (March 29), For Those I Love wrote: “Performing on Jools and Other Voices gave me a taste of what playing live could do for me, a temporary escape, a...
New York launches vaccine passport app in bid to restart live events
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced the launch of a new digital vaccine passport in a bid to restart live events safely in the US state. READ MORE: UK Festivals on COVID testing and vaccination passports this summer: “Safety is all we think about” Designed in partnership with IBM, New York’s ‘Excelsior Pass’ is a free but voluntary platform that uses proven and secure technology to confirm if an individual has either been fully vaccinated against coronavirus or has recently tested negative for the virus. It’s hoped that the launch of the app, which will provide each user...
Lana Del Rey has two titles in mind for her new country covers album
Lana Del Rey has revealed she has two titles in mind for her upcoming album of country covers. READ MORE: Lana Del Rey – ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’ review: a sublime statement Last month the singer-songwriter, who recently released her seventh album ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’, announced that she’s recorded a cover album full of country songs. Insisting there’s always been a country tone running through her music, she said: “I went back and listened to ‘Ride’ and ‘Video Games’ and thought, you know they’re kind of country. I mean, they’re definitely not pop.” Advertisement She continued: “Maybe...
Lil Nas X Defends Himself Against The Culture Wars: ‘Y’all Are Not Gonna Win Bro’
If there was any doubt that Lil Nas X is one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, look to the sequence of events that’s taken place over the past 72 hours to alleviate it. On Friday, he dropped “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” a highly personal song about queer love that he wrote was “very scary” to release. “People will be angry, they will say I’m pushing an agenda,” he wrote in an accompanying note on social media. “But the truth is, I am. The agenda to make people stay the fuck out of other people’s...
Brian May teams up with Kerry Ellis for new track ‘Panic Attack 2021 (It’s Gonna Be All Right)’
Brian May has teamed up with his regular collaborator Kerry Ellis once again for a new track, ‘Panic Attack 2021 (It’s Gonna Be All Right)’ – you can hear their latest creation below. May and Ellis have worked together on music on a number of occasions over the years, such as their April 2017 joint album ‘Golden Days’. One of the tracks from that LP has now been reworked and given a very 2021 spin in a bid to offer some positivity during the coronavirus pandemic. ‘Panic Attack 2021’ is described as a “relentlessly positive new track” and a...
Fightback Lager offers fans chance to own a stake in “the beer that saves music venues”
Fightback Lager have launched a Crowdfunder to offer fans the chance to own a stake in “the beer that saves music venues”. READ MORE: NME readers can get £10 off Fightback Lager and help save UK music venues Launching their campaign back in August, the brand with the tagline “this beer saves music venues” began selling its beer and cider range online in support of the MVT #saveourvenues campaign with help from the likes of Frank Turner and Iron Maiden. Now the company, formed in 2018 by three friends over a lunchtime pint in Camden’s Hawley Arms, is offering music and beer lovers...
Rag‘n’Bone Man announces upcoming new collaboration with Pink, ‘Anywhere Away From Here’
Rag‘n’Bone Man has announced that he has collaborated with Pink on his forthcoming new single, ‘Anywhere Away From Here’. The track will feature on the singer’s upcoming new album ‘Life By Misadventure’, which is now set for release on May 7 via Columbia. READ MORE: The long, noble (and sometimes ignoble) history of indie bands writing songs for pop stars ‘Anywhere Away From Here’ will serve as the next preview of the LP when it is released as a single on April 9. Advertisement “This song is an honest reflection of wanting to disappear from uncomfortable situations – about...Recent Posts
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