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Jay-Z sells Tidal platform to Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is to buy Jay-Z’s streaming platform Tidal in a $297million (£213million) deal. Dorsey, who is also the CEO of Square, has acquired a majority stake in the service in a bid to expand his mobile payment company’s tools to emerging and established artists. Tidal will now operate independently within Square. READ MORE: Jay-Z’s Tidal streaming service has split the music industry apart – Who is for? Who is against? Having launched Tidal in 2015, Jay-Z will join Square’s board of directors under the new deal. Last month, Dorsey and the rapper launched a fund to “make...
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Watch Suede’s Brett Anderson and Nadine Shah perform a powerful cover of Mercury Rev’s ‘Holes’

Suede‘s Brett Anderson and Nadine Shah have teamed up with the Paraorchestra for a one off concert of covers including David Bowie, Echo & The Bunnymen and Mercury Rev. The nine-track gig, dubbed ‘Death Songbook’, which will be streamed by BBC Cymru as part of GŴYL 2021 this weekend, also features Portishead‘s Adrian Utley on guitar and Seb Rochford from Sons of Kemet on drums. The acoustic/electric set was recorded in a COVID-safe environment in January on the largest of Wales Millennium Centre’s stages and featured tracks by Suede along with Bowie’s cover of Jacques Brel’s ‘My Death’ and...
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Brian May says he regrets losing cassette Freddie Mercury made of Queen’s guitar solos

Brian May has revealed that late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury once made a cassette of all the band’s guitar solos. Speaking to Total Guitar, the guitarist opened up about the tale and how he’s frustrated that he can’t track the tape down. “One day Freddie had a big smile on his face when I came into the studio and he popped a cassette into the player and said, ‘Listen to this, darling. This is going to surprise you.’ And what he’d done was spend the whole morning putting together all the guitar solos that he could find in the work...
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Fyre Festival’s Billy MacFarland admits he lied to investors for first time

Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland has admitted that he lied to investors who pumped millions of dollars into the infamous Bahamas event. McFarland made the bold admission in an unauthorised interview from behind bars with radio host Jordan Harbinger for the Dumpster Fyre podcast – which has landed him in solitary confinement. McFarland is currently serving a six-year sentence at the Federal Correction Institution in Elkton, Ohio after pleading guilty to multiple counts of fraud, including for the disastrous festival in April 2017. Advertisement “I knowingly lied to them to raise money for the festival. Yes. And that’s what the...
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Blossoms reschedule their UK tour to August and September 2021

Blossoms have rescheduled their forthcoming UK tour to August and September 2021. The band’s live dates were originally set to take place in March 2020, but the coronavirus outbreak in the UK forced those shows to initially be moved to August. The subsequent live music shutdown, however, prompted the second postponement of those dates in July as the gigs were then moved to this month and April. Read more: Blossoms: “We might be uncool, but so are ABBA and everyone loves them” Following the UK government’s announcement last week of its ‘roadmap’ out of lockdown – which could see...
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Justice’s record label respond to logo comparisons with Justin Bieber’s new album

Justice‘s record label have responded after it was seemingly suggested that Justin Bieber ripped off the French duo’s recognisable logo for his latest album. Bieber unveiled the artwork for his new album ‘Justice’ last week, which includes a nod to the singer’s Christian faith by using a cross for the “t” in the title. The logo reveal soon saw fans comparing it to the logo that the electronic duo Justice have used since forming in 2003 – and it seems their management are only too aware of that. Advertisement In fact, it turns out that Bieber’s team previously contacted Justice’s...
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Sharon Van Etten announces double LP anniversary edition of her ‘Epic’ album

Sharon Van Etten has announced a new anniversary edition of her 2010 album ‘Epic’, with the double LP set to include covers by the likes of IDLES, Courtney Barnett and Fiona Apple. ‘Epic Ten’ will be released digitally on April 16 before a physical release follows on June 11 via Ba Da Bing. Read more: Watch our Sharon Van Etten interview: “I don’t think I’d be a good wrestler, but I really love Glow” Celebrating the recent 10th anniversary of the original release of ‘Epic’ (which came out in September 2010), ‘Epic Ten’ will include the original album and...
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Britney Offered Pop Superstardom — But It Also Sent a Message We Ignored

By Ilana Kaplan An eponymous album marks a major moment in an artist’s career. For women, owning one’s work, body, and artistry can be especially powerful, even political. Throughout Women’s History Month, MTV News is highlighting some of these iconic statements from some of the biggest artists on the globe. This is Self-Titled. Several images have defined Britney Spears throughout her career: debuting distressed in a (then) controversial, edgy Catholic school-girl outfit about how her loneliness is killing her; steamy in white, kissing Madonna at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards; distraught and battling her mental health and tabloid...
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Drake’s New EP, Not Certified Lover Boy, Will Be Here Tonight

The good news: Drake’s got a new release lined up for tonight at midnight (March 5). The bad news: It’s not Certified Lover Boy, the rapper’s long-delayed sixth studio album he first announced would be dropping in the summer of 2020. The LP is still on ice (for now), but in the meantime, he’s giving us another installment of Scary Hours, likely similar to the EP of the same name he released in 2018. On Instagram, Drake teased the artwork, including two blue diamonds in the center, possibly suggesting the latest Scary Hours release may be a two-pack, as...
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Machine Gun Kelly’s drummer hospitalised after being “robbed and hit by car”

Machine Gun Kelly’s drummer has been hospitalised after he was reportedly attacked, robbed and run over by a car in Los Angeles. Rook, whose real name is JP Cappelletty, is believed to have been walking in Hollywood Hills on Tuesday night (March 2) when he was attacked by two men who jumped out of a car. Reports from TMZ suggest that thousands of dollars of property was stolen from Cappelletty, while he also suffered injuries to his foot and arm after he was hit by a car. Rook’s got a broken arm and leg and Colson’s there visiting/hanging out...
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