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Ellie Goulding reschedules upcoming UK and Ireland tour dates
Ellie Goulding has rescheduled her upcoming UK and Ireland tour dates to October 2021. The singer, who announced her pregnancy earlier this week, had been set to embark on a series of live dates from April 28 until May 12 in support of her July-released album ‘Brightest Blue’. Those gigs have now been pushed back to October, with the coronavirus-enforced shutdown of live music not expected to end in the UK until May at the very earliest. Advertisement Ellie Goulding (Picture: Getty) Goulding will now embark on her planned tour dates later this year, kicking off in Dublin on...
Watch the thrilling video for Tiggs Da Author and Nines’ collaboration ‘Fly ‘Em High’
Tiggs Da Author has shared the new video for his recent collaboration with Nines, ‘Fly ‘Em High’ – you can watch the video first on NME below. The track is taken from Tiggs’ upcoming debut album ‘Blame It On The Youts’, which is out on March 12 via Alacran Records. Read more: The NME 100: Essential emerging artists for 2021 The clip for ‘Fly ‘Em High’ was directed by Shan Phearon and features both Tiggs (as a storytelling preacher) and Nines, who is portrayed as a victim of two bloodthirsty teen vampires. Advertisement “The video is a...
Queen’s Roger Taylor responds to rumours that George Michael was considered as Freddie Mercury’s replacement
Queen drummer Roger Taylor has quashed long-established rumours that George Michael turned down the chance to become the band’s new frontman after Freddie Mercury‘s death. The late singer fronted the group for three songs during 1992’s Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium, leading to speculation that he would become the band’s full-time vocalist. While the prospect never materialised, Taylor has insisted that Michael was never offered the gig and wouldn’t have suited the group as a long-term replacement. Advertisement “I remember hearing the rumours but it wouldn’t have suited us,” he told Classic Rock. “George wasn’t really used...
Sunmi reveals the inspiration behind her latest comeback, ‘Tail’
Sunmi has shared what inspired her to write ‘Tail,’ the brand-new single she released yesterday (February 23). READ MORE: Sunmi unveils feisty video for new single, ‘Tail’ During a live-stream press conference for the song’s release, the former Wonder Girls member revealed that she drew inspiration from how “animals use their tails to express their emotions,” per The Korean Herald. “They’ll shake their tails gently when they’re in a good mood and flick it hard if frustrated. I liked the frankness of this instinctive behavior and the word ‘tail’ just left a huge impact in my mind,” she explained. Advertisement...
Travis Scott teases new album ‘Utopia’: “I’m trying to expand the sound”
Travis Scott has continued to tease his fourth album ‘Utopia’, ahead of its anticipated release later this year. The rapper, who seemingly revealed the album title last summer, opened up in a new interview with pioneering film director Robert Rodriguez for i-D Magazine. “I never tell people this, and I’m probably going to keep it a secret still, but I’m working with some new people and I’m just trying to expand the sound,” Scott said about his new album. Advertisement “I’ve been making beats again, rapping on my own beats, just putting everything together and trying to grow it...
Watch Iggy Pop recite Dylan Thomas in ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ video
Iggy Pop has shared a new video for his 2019 ‘Free’ track ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’, which sees Pop reading the famous Dylan Thomas poem over music composed by Noveller. READ MORE: The Big Read – Iggy Pop: “Punk has to have a sense of hopelessness about it” The simple but effective new visuals, directed by Simon Taylor, feature an intense close-up shot of Pop reciting the lyrics. Watch the clip below: Advertisement ‘Free’, Pop’s eighteenth studio album, arrived back in September of 2019. The largely ambient record featured significant songwriting and performance contributions from...
Listen to Fred The Godson’s first posthumous album ‘Ascension’
The first posthumous Fred The Godson album has been released to mark the late rapper’s birthday – listen to it below. Read more: The secret to a brilliant posthumous album? Get started while you can Fred, who was named as one of the XXL Freshman class in 2011 alongside the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Meek Mill and Mac Miller, died last April after contracting the coronavirus. A prominent figure on the New York rap scene, Fred made his breakthrough in 2010 thanks to his ‘Armageddon’ mixtape, which featured guest spots from Cam’ron, Busta Rhymes, Waka Flocka Flame, Styles P, and others. He...
Jade Bird shares first track of 2021, ‘Open Up The Heavens’
Jade Bird has shared her first new track of 2021, ‘Open Up The Heavens’ – listen to it below. Read more: “I’m going through my riot grrrl phase”: Jade Bird on cowboys, cancel culture and playing All Points East festival Taken from the singer-songwriter’s forthcoming second album, which is due to arrive this year, the singer-songwriter’s new track was produced by Dave Cobb and follows on from recent singles ‘Houdini’ and ‘Headstart’. “‘Open Up The Heavens’ was written and recorded two days before I had to fly home from recording in Nashville,” Bird explained in a statement. “I’d heard stories...
Killer Mike speaks out after shooting near his barbershop: “This one hurt”
Killer Mike has responded to a shooting that left one of his barbershops damaged. READ MORE: Run The Jewels – “The world’s gonna reset and then we’re gonna burn that motherfucker down” The incident, in which no one was injured, happened at approximately 10.30pm on Saturday (February 20) near the Run The Jewels rapper’s SWAG Shop barbershop in South Fulton, Georgia. Mike wrote in an Instagram post that he was in a recording booth at around 1am when he was told about stray bullets hitting his shop, which the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) reported was closed for renovations. Advertisement In the...Recent Posts
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