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Strawberries & Creem Festival postponed to September
This year’s Strawberries & Creem Festival has been postponed to September due to the coronavirus pandemic. Read more: European festivals on returning in 2021: “We are only more optimistic for the summer” The Cambridge festival, which will celebrate its sixth birthday this year, will now be spread across two days taking place at its new site at Childerley Orchard on September 18-19. Described as “Cambridgeshire’s biggest music festival celebrating youth culture”, the 2021 line-up will feature PARTYNEXTDOOR, Bugzy Malone, Sean Paul, Koffee, PA Salieu, Tiffany Calver and many more. Advertisement “We’re back,” the festival tweeted. “The #YearOfTheParty is LIVE”. All tickets...
Chad Ochocinco claims Drake and Rick Ross joint album is on the way
Former NFL player Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson has claimed that Drake and Rick Ross are currently working on a joint album. Read more: Drake – ‘Scary Hours 2’ EP review: title defender sounds ready to challenge himself again Yesterday (March 5), Drake released his new EP, ‘Scary Hours 2’. The final song on the three-track project hears the Canadian rapper team up with Rick Ross on the Quadron-sampling ‘Lemon Pepper Freestyle’. The track has since garnered a lot of attention on social media, with many fans discussing the potential for a joint album between the longtime friends. Advertisement Among those...
Fabric announces 42-hour reopening weekend in June
Fabric has announced that it will be hosting a 42-hour reopening weekend in June. Read more: How you can do your bit to help save the future of live music The London nightclub is set to reopen on June 25, with its Friday session running from 10pm-10am and its Saturday (June 26) session running from 10pm right through until 4am the following Monday (June 28). “As the world unlocks from the covid restrictions we are looking forward to welcoming artists and clubbers back at EC1 with a weekend-long celebration,” Fabric said on Twitter. “We are also announcing the following...
Listen to Saxon’s roaring cover of The Beatles’ ‘Paperback Writer’
Saxon have shared a roaring cover of The Beatles‘ ‘Paperback Writer’ – listen to it below. Read more: The Beatles’ split 50 years on: the best songs from the solo careers The British heavy metal legends are gearing up to release a covers album called ‘Inspirations’, due out on March 19 via Silver Lining Music. Recorded at Brockfield Hall, near York, the album will hear Saxon cover songs by Jimi Hendrix, Motörhead, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Toto and more. Advertisement Speaking on the band’s decision to cover ‘Paperback Writer’, frontman Biff Byford said: “I saw...
Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell has finished recording his new solo album
Alice In Chains‘ Jerry Cantrell has revealed he’s finished recording his long-awaited third solo album. Read more: Alice In Chains interview: “I can see resistance happening all over the world” The Seattle band’s guitarist-vocalist announced last year that he was recording the follow-up to his previous solo albums: 1998’s ‘Boggy Depot’ and 2002’s ‘Degradation Trip’. “It’s time to make the Raawwwkkk !!!,” he captioned a series of studio snaps on Instagram, confirming his first LP in almost 20 years. Advertisement On Thursday (March 4), Cantrell returned to social media to share that he’s now finished the album. He accompanied...
The Lemonheads’ Evan Dando performs in local supermarket that found his lost wallet
Evan Dando of The Lemonheads recently lost his wallet and after it was handed in at a local supermarket he returned to give a free in-store performance. Read more: The most beautiful lockdown performances, from churches and gardens to Glasto Last month, the singer-songwriter took to Twitter to ask for help in finding his wallet which he misplaced somewhere in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. “I dropped my wallet with my drivers license and two debit cards in it,” he wrote. “I was walking from the mariner hotel to the palmer lot.” He added in a separate tweet: “Please have a look...
Richard Ashcroft and Supergrass to headline Nottingham’s Splendour Festival
Richard Ashcroft and Supergrass have been announced as the headliners for the 2021 edition of Nottingham’s Splendour Festival. The festival, held on Saturday July 24, is the latest UK festival to announce its intention to go ahead following the unveiling of the UK’s road map out of lockdown. READ MORE: UK Festivals on what to expect from the summer: “Safety is all we think about” Alongside Ashcroft and Supergrass, the likes of Becky Hill and The Vamps will also perform at Splendour, with the full line-up still to be revealed. Advertisement See the current list of artists for the...
The Cure’s Robert Smith is selling special artwork for charity
The Cure’s Robert Smith is selling a piece of special artwork for the Heart Research UK charity. The piece of artwork, entitled ‘I WILL KISS YOU FOREVER…’, was originally created last year for the charity’s annual anonymous heART project, which invites a number of artists and celebrities to create original art on an A5 postcard anonymously, with buyers only discovering the identity of the creator upon purchasing. Now, Smith’s artwork created for the project, which sold for over £5,000 at the one-off event, is being reproduced and sold on eBay, with all proceeds again going to Heart Research UK....
Mitski shares new track ‘The Baddy Man’ from graphic novel soundtrack
Mitski has shared a new song, taken from her soundtrack to a new graphic novel – listen to ‘The Baddy Man’. As revealed last year, the singer-songwriter was hired by Z2 Comics to create the score, which will accompany writer Chris Miskiewicz and artist Vincent King’s forthcoming novel, called This Is Where We Fall. READ MORE: Mitski stuns in Central Park as she bows out of the live arena (for now) with artful and emotional farewell The soundtrack is set to arrive on May 5, and a synopsis for the novel describes it as “an innovative new science-fiction series…...Recent Posts
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