India Jordan has revealed that they’re working with their agent to help make live events more inclusive. READ MORE: India Jordan – ‘Watch Out!’ EP review: rave rockets to blow clubbing cobwebs away Speaking to NME as part of this week’s Big Read interview, Jordan said they’ve been using these past 12 months in lockdown to consider their role in tackling structural racism and gender inequality at festivals. As clubs and festivals look slightly nearer to returning in some capacity, Jordan, who also works in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at King’s College London university, is working with their agent draw up...
Mariah Carey has has taken to social media to respond to a rapper who has reworked her song ‘Shake It Off’ into a record about shooting a gun. READ MORE: Mariah Carey – ‘The Rarities’ review: a fascinating complement to her delicious tell-all memoir On Friday (May 7), Baltimore rapper YTK released a new track called ‘Let It Off’ which samples Carey’s 2005 hit single, taken from her 10th album ‘The Emancipation Of Mimi’. Keeping the original melody but switching the lyrics, YTK raps on the hook: “I’m bout to let it off/ Bitch, I’m posted with the gang/ Then I...
Julie E. “Tawny” Kitaen, the ’80s music video star and Bachelor Party actor, has died aged 59. Kitaen’s death was confirmed by the Orange County, California coroner’s office (per Variety), which revealed that she died at her home in Newport Beach on Friday morning (May 7). A cause of death has not yet been revealed. Born on August 5, 1961, in San Diego, California, Kitaen’s first dealings with the world of rock was when she appeared on the covers of RATT’s self-titled 1983 debut album and 1984’s ‘Out Of The Cellar’. Kitaen was dating the band’s guitarist Robbin Crosby at...
Saweetie has shared a new sports-themed video for ‘Fast (Motion)’ – check it out below. In the entertaining new visual, the rapper plays on-on-one against WNBA star A’ja Wilson, as well as ruling the roost in games of American football, athletics and more. ‘Fast (Motion)’ is the latest preview of Saweetie’s upcoming new album ‘Pretty Bitch Music’, which is due out on June 25 via Warner. Advertisement Watch the new video below. The new track and video come after Saweetie recently teamed up with K-pop singer Jamie and Japanese rapper Chanmina on a new remix of ‘Best Friend’, also...
One of Miles Davis‘ final live performances is set to be released as a new live album next month. READ MORE: 20 of the best jazz songs ‘MERCI MILES! LIVE AT VIENNE’ is a documentation of the legend’s 1991 performance at the Vienne Jazz Festival in France, just three months before his death. The record will come out on June 25 via Rhino Records, and comes as part of the label’s Black Music Month series. Over the past year, they’ve also released rare material from Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Ray Charles and more. Advertisement In a statement discussing the...
Lindsey Buckingham has said he never got “closure” with former Fleetwood Mac bandmate and ex-parter Stevie Nicks following their much-publicised breakup. READ MORE: Why Fleetwood Mac’s ’70s pop hit ‘Dreams’ keeps resurfacing almost every decade Speaking in a new interview, Buckingham, who was fired from the band in April 2018, discussed his relationship with Nicks and reflected on not getting any closure after their fallout. “And really, again, that was part of the deal with Stevie and me was that we had to spend an awful lot of time together without ever having gotten closure from each other,” he told Nile...
Pearl Jam have launched a massive new bootleg series, featuring over 5,000 tracks from nearly 200 live performances. READ MORE: Pearl Jam – ‘Gigaton’ review: one of the biggest rock bands in the world return to semi-brilliance The series, which is available on all streaming services and the band’s new members-only website Deep, encompasses shows from across the 2000s and early 2010s. The band describe Deep as “an interactive experience featuring official bootleg recordings from nearly 200 live Pearl Jam shows,” where fans can personalise their own Pearl Jam setlist based on the city they live in and more....
Previously unreleased footage from Prince‘s last European tour in 2014 has been unearthed – you can watch it below. READ MORE: 10 deep nuggets of info we learned at the playback of Prince’s new album, ‘Originals’ Shared in celebration of the exclusive partnership announced yesterday (May 7) between The Prince Estate and Paris Saint-Germain football club, the footage was recorded at Le Zénith in Paris on June 1, 2014. The 21-minute clip sees Prince perform a medley called ‘CRAZY2COOL’ as part of his ‘Hit And Run Part II’ European tour which marked his final gig in the French capital. It...
The family and friends of Mac Miller have condemned a new unauthorised book on the late rapper, and urged fans not to purchase it. Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life of Mac Miller, a new book by author Paul Cantor, is set to be released on January 18, 2022. In a statement shared by the late rapper’s team, close friends and family, they wrote: “This book is not authorised or endorsed by Malcolm’s family and has been written by a writer with whom Malcolm did not have a relationship. “Furthermore, the writer had no meaningful access to those that were...
The FBI have released their records relating to the death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, including letters from conspiracy theorists. The 10-page file contains correspondence between the FBI and letter writers, informing them of the investigation around Cobain’s death by suicide in 1994. As reported by Rolling Stone, two letters are featured in the file, with one of these stating that the police involved in the case “were never very serious in investigating it as a murder.” Advertisement The other letter, written in 2003, said: “I believe a great injustice might have been committed in the case of Kurt Cobain. I’m...
