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Matt Berry teases new track ‘Aboard’ from upcoming album ‘Blue Elephant’
Matt Berry has shared a brief teaser of his new track ‘Aboard’, which is taken from his forthcoming seventh studio album ‘Blue Elephant’. The latest LP from the singer and comedy star will arrive via Acid Jazz on May 14, marking his tenth year with the celebrated label. On ‘Aboard’, Berry offers a hint at the darkened and mysterious psychedelia within the record which, according to a press release, offers “a dizzying trip through an idiosyncratically British love of Psych, Freakbeat, Acid Rock and late ’60s pop”. Advertisement You can check out the tracklist in full below. Pre-order the...
Can TikTok Rule The 2021 Grammys?
By Emilee Lindner What determines a Grammy-winning tune? Is it how many weeks a ditty spent on the Billboard Hot 100, how much money it made, or how musically endearing an anonymous group of Recording Academy voters deems it to be? Consider them all. But when it comes to declaring last year’s cream of the crop, TikTok’s impact can’t be ignored. 2020 was the year of staying inside, adopting new hobbies, scrolling for hours, and TikTok taught us new ways to move our bodies as we limbered up to the latest dance trend. As screen time soared, so did...
BTS donate ‘Life Goes On’ outfits to Grammy auction for charity
BTS have donated a set of outfits worn in their ‘Life Goes On’ music video to the Grammy Week Auction. READ MORE: BTS renew commitment to ‘Love Myself’ campaign with UNICEF The first-time Grammy nominees contributed seven outfits, which will be auctioned online from March 8 to March 23 through Charitybuzz. The total value of the clothing is currently estimated to be around US$30,000 (~£21,600). Proceeds from successful bids will go towards the non-profit Grammy Museum Foundation, which supports music education initiatives. Other artists who have donated “items and experiences” for the auction include Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, H.E.R....
Rosé of BLACKPINK to appear on ‘The Tonight Show’ next week
Rosé of BLACKPINK will make a musical appearance on an upcoming episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. READ MORE: BLACKPINK named advocates for UN climate change conference According to Deadline, the K-pop star will guest on the American talk show next Tuesday (March 16), alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Riverdale actress Madelaine Petsch. Listed as a musical guest, Rosé is expected to perform songs from her forthcoming debut solo single album ‘R’, out this Friday (March 12). Rosé joins other celebrities and musicians who have been announced to appear on the Tonight show in the coming week. They...
Watch Doja Cat do the silhouette challenge in ‘Streets’ video
Doja Cat has released the music video for her track ‘Streets’, taken from 2019 album ‘Hot Pink’. READ MORE: Doja Cat – ‘Hot Pink’ review: the viral ‘Mooo!’ star proves she’s a mainstream rap contender The video opens with a driver causing a traffic jam as he gets mesmerised by Doja as a mannequin in the window. Then, she pulls off her own rendition of the silhouette challenge as seen on TikTok, where she dances against a deep red light. Advertisement She also dances in the on top of a car in front of zombie-like men and pulls the...
Rick Ross’ actual home served as the Zamundan palace in ‘Coming 2 America’
Rick Ross has secured a spot in cinema history, with the rapper revealing that his real-life home in Georgia served as the Zamundan palace in the recently-released Coming 2 America. READ MORE: ‘Coming 2 America’ review: long-awaited sequel can’t dethrone the original Speaking to Variety, the rapper said that he was very happy his 45,000 square-foot mansion in Fayetteville could serve as the set to the sequel of 1988’s Coming To America, which happens to be one of his favourite movies. “They changed the wallpaper in the dining room so I asked them to keep it up there,” Ross explained of...
Brittany Howard shares cover of ‘(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher’
Brittany Howard has released a cover of Jackie Wilson’s ‘(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher’. Howard’s cover remains fairly loyal to Wilson’s original version, which was released in the late ’60s. The new cover was recorded exclusively for Amazon Music and is only available through the streaming service. Listen to the cover below: Advertisement Howard’s cover of ‘Higher & Higher’ follows her rendition of Nina Simone’s ‘Revolution’, which she performed in November for Colbert. READ MORE: Brittany Howard on how her late sister Jaime inspired her powerful solo album: “I feel like we did it together” Howard...
‘Nomadland’ censored in China over director Chloé Zhao’s criticism of country
Chloé Zhao’s new film Nomadland has been censored in China due to comments the director made about the country in a past interview. In 2013, Zhao, who became the first Asian woman to win a Golden Globe for Best Director last month. Initially, the film’s upcoming release was promoted in China, with state media lauding Zhao as “the pride of China”. Advertisement On Friday (March 5) though, show times for the film were removed from ticketing websites and references to the film began to disappear. As the Guardian reports, a Nomadland-related hashtag on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo was...
Alice Cooper reveals the one rockstar who calls him by his birthname
Alice Cooper has revealed the identity of the only rockstar calls him by his birthname of Vincent Damon Furnier. READ MORE: Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with Alice Cooper ‘Alice Cooper’ was originally the name of a band in which he sung lead vocals. After the band broke up in 1975, he took it on as both his legal name and his stage name for that year’s ‘Welcome To My Nightmare’. In an interview with The Sun, Cooper revealed: “The only person who calls me Vince is Keith Richards.” Advertisement “He’ll say, ‘Vinnie, Vinnie, how...Recent Posts
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