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Listen to Ladyhawke’s powerful new single ‘Guilty Love’
Ladyhawke has shared her new single ‘Guilty Love’, which features BROODS’ Georgia Nott – you can hear the track below. The song follows on from December’s ‘River’ collaboration between Ladyhawke (AKA Pip Brown) and PNAU, and is a preview of the New Zealand artist’s forthcoming new album, which is due later this year. Speaking about ‘Guilty Love’, Ladyhawke explained: “‘Guilty Love’ came about after some writing sessions with Tommy English in Los Angeles. Georgia Nott from BROODS came along to one of our sessions, and after we were talking a while, we realised we had all grown up Catholic. We...
Olivia Rodrigo calls Taylor Swift “the kindest individual in the whole world” after being gifted ‘Red’ ring
Olivia Rodrigo has revealed that Taylor Swift sent her a ring matching the one she wore around the time of her 2012 album ‘Red’, along with numerous other gifts. READ MORE: Olivia Rodrigo: inside the Taylor-endorsed mega-hit ‘Drivers License’ Rodrigo, whose hit ‘Drivers License’ is approaching its eighth week at the summit of the UK Singles Chart, spoke about her admiration for Swift during an appearance on SiriusXM on Wednesday (March 3). “She is absolutely the kindest individual in the whole world,” Rodrigo said. “Actually last night, like literally 12 hours ago, I got a package from her with this...
Listen to a hypnotic new track from SOPHIE and Jlin, ‘JSLOIPNHIE’
A collaboration between the critically acclaimed producer Jlin and the late SOPHIE has been released as part of a new compilation from the left-field music festival Unsound. The two producers teamed up for the hypnotic track ‘JSLOIPNHIE’ as their contribution to Unsound’s new simultaneous book and album release ‘Intermission’. READ MORE: 15 essential songs from SOPHIE, the artist and producer who changed the course of pop With the festival forced to cancel its in-person event last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, ‘Intermission’ was initially conceived as part of last year’s online edition, but has since evolved into a...
Rock In Rio’s 2021 Lisbon and Brazil festivals have been cancelled
Rock In Rio‘s 2021 Lisbon and Brazil festivals have both been cancelled. After the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of both events last year, the global health crisis has once again prompted Rock In Rio’s organisers to act. Read more: European festivals on returning in 2021: “We are only more optimistic for the summer” In a statement the organisers of the 2021 Lisbon edition of Rock In Rio explained that despite studying various scenarios, setting up task forces and rigorously discussing health and safety measures over the past 11 months, there are “no guarantees that in June the restrictions...
European festivals on returning in 2021: “We are only more optimistic for the summer”
Despite a spate of European festival cancellations already this summer, a number of other European festival organisers have now spoken about their hopes of going ahead with their events this year and what safety measures might be involved. After festival season was essentially wiped out last summer due to the coronavirus pandemic, it is hoped that full-capacity gigs can return in around five months’ time as the global vaccination program gathers pace. READ MORE: UK Festivals on what to expect from the summer: “Safety is all we think about” While Boris Johnson unveiled the UK Government’s “roadmap” out of lockdown...
Listen to The Streets’ celebratory new song ‘Who’s Got The Bag (21st June)’
The Streets have shared a new end-of-lockdown song ‘Who’s Got The Bag (21st June)’ – you can hear the celebratory track below. Mike Skinner’s latest Streets offering is an ode to the potential lifting of coronavirus-enforced restrictions in the UK on June 21 – the earliest possible point when all limits on social contact will be removed by the government. Read more: The Streets live in London: the finest and most fun livestream gig we’ve seen so far Billed as an “end of lockdown celebratory track”, ‘Who’s Got The Bag (21st June)’ was first previewed by Skinner on his...
Zara Larsson Is Pop’s Poster Girl For Love
By Erica Russell Love is the “röd tråd” — literally, “red thread,” a Swedish expression meaning throughline — on Zara Larsson’s new album. Whether it’s toxic infatuation, heartache, self-love, or the bliss of burgeoning romance, love serves as the thematic connective tissue at the heart of Poster Girl, the Swedish singer’s sophomore full-length record, out today (March 5). “Love is this universal thing that people want to listen to and talk about and just surround themselves with, which is completely understandable,” Larsson, 23, tells MTV News. “It’s something most people can relate to emotionally. That’s what music does; it’s...
Jay-Z speaks out on Tidal sale in rare set of tweets
Jay-Z has spoken out on the sale this week of his majority stake in the Tidal streaming service. Earlier this week, it was revealed that the rapper has sold his controlling stake in Tidal to Square, the mobile payments firm run by the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, for $297 million (£215 million). Read more: Jay-Z’s Tidal streaming service has split the music industry apart – Who is for? Who is against? The deal will see Tidal’s artist co-owners, including Beyoncé, Madonna and Rihanna, retain their stakes and become the second largest group of stakeholders after Square. Jay-Z has also...
Brave Girls to perform viral hit ‘Rollin’’ on music shows
Brave Girls will return to music shows to perform their 2017 song ‘Rollin” after the song went viral earlier this month. READ MORE: Brave Girls react to ‘Rollin’’ hitting number one four years after release On March 5, their agency Brave Entertainment confirmed that the group will promote the song four years after its release due to fan demand. “In response to fans’ requests, Brave Girls is currently in the process of preparing to take the stage at music shows, and their preparations are in full swing,” announced the agency, according to Soompi. The members are also set to appear...Recent Posts
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