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Tom Petty’s ‘Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions)’ is now available to stream
Tom Petty’s ‘Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions)’ has now been added to streaming platforms – listen below. Tom Petty – ‘Wildflowers & All The Rest’ review: 10 ‘new’ songs honour the wishes of an all-time great The collection of alternative versions of some of Petty’s most beloved songs first appeared on the 2020 collection ‘Wildflowers & All The Rest’, an expansive retrospective of 1994’s ‘Wildflowers’, which was produced by Rick Rubin. Made up of 16 alternate takes, long cuts, and jam versions that didn’t make it on the original LP, ‘Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions)’ also includes the 1992 track ‘You Saw Me Comin”, which...
Trivium’s Matt Heafy shares ‘What The Dead Men Say’ acoustic EP
Trivium’s Matt Heafy has released a new acoustic EP that features reworked songs from the band’s 2020 album ‘What The Dead Men Say’ – listen to it below. READ MORE: The anthropology of heavy metal – meet the academic challenging the metalhead stereotype with actual hard research The frontman, who shared the new project yesterday (April 16) on YouTube, has already released an acoustic EP for each of Trivium’s previous LP’s, including ‘The Crusade’, ‘Ascendency’ and ‘Shogun’. The ‘What The Dead Men Say’ acoustic EP tracklist is as follows: Advertisement 01. ‘What The Dead Man Say’ 02. ‘Catastrophist’ 03....
Blossoms interview Aitch for their ‘Pubcast’ podcast
Blossoms have interviewed Aitch for the latest episode of their ‘Pubcast’ podcast – listen to it below. READ MORE: Meet Aitch – the Stormzy-approved rising star putting Manchester rap on the map As part of the episode, the rapper chose his top 5 songs from Manchester, which have been collated into a Spotify playlist. The episode, titled The Incredible Look, sees Aitch picking Manchester classics from Oasis, The Stone Roses, and his own track ‘Taste (Make It Shake)’ for his top 5 tracks from the legendary musical city. Advertisement Listen to the new episode below. Catch-up on the latest episode...
Burna Boy has been added to Strawberries & Creem Festival line-up
This year’s Strawberries & Creem Festival has announced its second wave of acts, with Burna Boy leading the additions. READ MORE: European festivals on returning in 2021: “We are only more optimistic for the summer” Other acts announced yesterday (April 16) included Shy FX and Wilkinson. You can see the full line-up below. The Cambridge festival, which will celebrate its sixth birthday this year, will take place across two days taking place at its new site at Childerley Orchard on September 18-19. Advertisement You can buy tickets for Strawberries & Creem here. Our 2021 Line-Up is served ?? RT for your chance...
AJ Tracey says the grime scene is “not what it used to be”
AJ Tracey has opened up about grime in a new interview. READ MORE: AJ Tracey: “I’ve gone through so much. It’s been so hard, and I’m still here” Speaking to The Guardian, rapper Tracey said he’s unlikely to ever return to the genre unless he was asked to do so by grime veterans such as P Money or D Double E. Reflecting on his grime roots, Tracey said: “It was a long time ago,” before adding: “Grime is not really lit any more. It’s not what it used to be, and it’s their fault because ...
ABBA tease forthcoming avatar tour: “It still sounds very much ABBA”
ABBA‘s Björn Ulvaeus has teased the band’s forthcoming avatar tour, promising that it “still sounds very much ABBA.” READ MORE: ABBA are the best band in the world – no contest Back in 2017, it was announced that the band would reunite in digital form in 2019, performing as “Abbatars” for the first time since they split in 1982. When the reunion tour was then delayed, the Swedish pop icons announced back in 2018 that they would be sharing two new tracks: ‘I Still Have Faith In You’ and ‘Don’t Shut Me Down’, which was then expanded to five new...
Listen to Caroline Polachek’s new remix of A. G. Cook’s ‘Oh Yeah’
Caroline Polachek has remixed A.G. Cook’s ‘Oh Yeah ‘ – you can listen to it below. READ MORE: Caroline Polachek – ‘Pang’ review: years of experiments pay off Her reworking of the track sees Polachek adding her add her own vocals, harmonies and bagpipes to the track which was the opening track on his last album, Apple. Speaking about the remix, Polachek said: “Sometimes when autotuned vocals make those flickery clusters of missed-notes, it reminds me of bagpipe ornamentation. Advertisement “And that place where the brutally casual and the technically virtuosic meet…well it feels very A. G. Cook. “So I transcribed...
Listen to Sufjan Stevens’ ‘Lamentations’, the second part of his five-part album
Sufjan Stevens has shared the second part of his upcoming five-part album – listen to ‘Lamentations’ below. The track is included on the second part of Stevens’ new 49-track album ‘Convocations’, which is due out next month. READ MORE: Sufjan Stevens – ‘The Ascension’ review: a sprawling and powerful dissection of modern humanity Each of the five parts of the album are being released one-by-one in the run-up to the album’s full release. Earlier this month, Stevens shared the album’s first part, ‘Meditations’, before the ‘Lamentations’ release was previewed earlier this week by new track ‘Lamentation II’. Advertisement Following them will...
Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus says songwriters are “last in line for streaming royalties”
ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus has said a fairer payment model needs to be in place for songwriters. READ MORE: ABBA are the best band in the world – no contest Writing in The Guardian, Ulvaeus said a new royalties model is needed if the industry is to see any kind of “risk-taking” or “creativity” from artists whose writing, he says, is being affected by the pressures of the “dysfunctional” current model. Ulvaeus said: “The dominant currency in streaming is individual songs; data shows that when people use a streaming platform such as Spotify, they search more for songs than they do for...Recent Posts
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