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UK Metal Merger launches huge charity prize draw for rare metal memorabilia
UK Metal Merger have launched a huge charity prize draw where fans can win rare items of metal memorabilia. READ MORE: The 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums With items donated by bands including Black Sabbath, Motörhead and Judas Priest, the #ILoveMetal prize draw aims to raise funds for Stagehand, a charity providing hardship funding and mental health support for workers in the live music industry. Via a £5 entry on this crowdfunder page, fans can enter the prize draw multiple times until the draw ends on June 11. All winners will be contacted on June 18. Advertisement Some of the items in the draw...
Listen to Chelsea Wolfe’s intense new song ‘Diana’
Chelsea Wolfe has shared a new track called ‘Diana’ – you can listen to it below. The California singer-songwriter wrote the dark and intense song for the soundtrack to DC Comics’ Dark Nights: Death Metal series, which also includes Mastadon’s ‘Forged By Neron’ and Rise Against‘s ‘Broken Dreams, Inc.’. It was co-produced by Wolfe alongside Tyler Bates and Ben Chisholm. Advertisement “I really love the story and artwork of this Dark Nights: Death Metal series, and felt really drawn to Diana’s part in the story – her strength and perspective,” Wolfe explained. “There’s this moment in the first comic...
Thurston Moore to headline London’s Grand Day Out 2021
Thurston Moore has been announced as the headliner for Rockaway Beach’s Grand Day Out – see the full line-up below. READ MORE: Thurston Moore on “killer” new music and the “high order nihilism” of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump The event will take place at The Clapham Grand in London on August 29 ahead of the three-day Rockaway being held at Butlins in Bognor Regis in January 2022. Grand Day Out, which is being put on in lieu of this year’s cancelled Rockaway, will also feature performances from The Orielles, I See Islands, Life, Sink Ya Teeth and Moderate...
Listen to Girli’s emotive new song ‘More Than A Friend’
Girli has released an emotive new song called ‘More Than A Friend’ – you can listen to it below. READ MORE: Girli interview: “There’s always going to be a place for a male indie band, but it’s harder if you’re female artist” The track, which was released yesterday (May 28), follows the story of a character who falls for her friend but the feelings aren’t reciprocated. Speaking about the song, Girli – aka Milly Toomey – said the single was autobiographical. “I wrote this song about crushing hard on a girl who didn’t want me back,” she explains. Advertisement...
Quincy Jones backs new environmentally friendly NFT platform
Quincy Jones has backed a new environmentally friendly platform for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). READ MORE: WTF is an NFT? Kings Of Leon’s weird non-fungible token thing – explained! Jones has partnered with a new platform which he describes as being “environmentally friendly, artist-friendly and fan friendly” in a new Instagram post. A report earlier this year by Wired explored the impact of selling NFTs on climate change, suggesting it to be hugely negative. According to the publication, the 10 seconds it took for cryptocurrency website Nifty Gateway used up 8.7 megawatts of energy – which is similar to how much...
Ed Sheeran talks “really different” new single and playing with a band for first time
Ed Sheeran has revealed that his “really different” new single was meant to be out in time for his appearance at Radio 1’s Big Weekend. The singer-songwriter, whose third record ‘Divide’ came out in 2017, gave a special performance on the banks of River Alde in Suffolk for a virtual edition of the station’s annual festival. READ MORE: 50 things you didn’t know about Ed Sheeran Having released the song ‘Afterglow’ last December, Sheeran told fans back in February that he’d return with his fourth album at some point “later this year”. Advertisement Speaking to Radio 1’s Jordan North...
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...Recent Posts
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