Lupe Fiasco has shared a new freestyle that he made in a room on social media app Clubhouse. Read more: All that power: celebrating the genius of Kanye West’s ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, a tumultuous decade on Last night (December 4), the rapper hosted a Clubhouse room called ‘Rhymen Shop #2’, where he broke down his writing process and crafted a new record in real-time for those in attendance. Rapping over the beat for Beanie Sigel‘s 2001 track ‘Nothing Like It’, produced by Kanye West, Lupe named his freestyle after Queensbridge rap group Mobb Deep. Advertisement For those not...
NxWorries debuted a new track called ‘Where I Go’ at Double Happiness Festival on Wednesday night (December 2). Read more: NxWorries – ‘Yes Lawd!’ album review The duo made up of Anderson .Paak and producer Knxwledge played a set at the 88rising festival, a virtual version of a tour that the media company has booked in past years. The festival, which featured artists of Asian descent from around the world, saw NxWorries perform on a stage decorated with dry ice and computer graphics. Advertisement The pair, who released their debut album ‘Yes Lawd!’ in 2016, played a four-song set that...
Mariah Carey, Jennifer Hudson and Ariana Grande have debuted a new version of ‘Oh Santa’ – you can watch the video below. Read More: Mariah Carey – ‘The Rarities’ review: a fascinating complement to her delicious tell-all memoir The collaboration appeared on a new Christmas special show, which aired on AppleTV+ yesterday (December 4). The pop star had previously hinted that a collaboration was happening when back in October, Carey tweeted a photograph of three directors chairs on set, each brandishing a set of initials: AG, MC and JH. Advertisement You can listen to the track, an updated version of...
Black Eyed Peas have shared a video for their new track ‘Girl Like Me’ featuring Shakira – watch it below. Read more: Shakira on the movie of her ill-fated El Dorado tour: “I knew someday I’d lose my youth or my beauty, but I never thought I would lose my voice…” Taken from ‘Translation’, the recent album from the Will.i.am-fronted group, the song pays tribute to Latin Women. “La-La-Latinas/ I want a girl like Shakira/ Esa latina está rica/ I want a familia chica que sepa vivir y que viva la vida/ I need a bien bonita/ Elegante señorita/ Girl, I want you and...
The Anchoress has released a David-Lynch inspired video for new track, ‘Unravel’ – you can watch it below. Read More: In Defence of David Lynch’s ‘Dune’ Taken from her upcoming second album, ‘The Art Of Losing’ – which will be released on March 5, 2021 via Kscope – the latest single follows on from previous release, ‘Show Your Face’. Speaking about the new track to NME, The Anchoress – aka Catherine Anne Davies – said: “Unravel is about the age-old universal loss of love and the journey back to who we are when we are alone.” Advertisement Accompanied by a...
Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page has revealed he’s been playing his guitar every day during lockdown. Read More: Led Zeppelin – rank the albums Speaking to Total Guitar, Page said he’s been using his lockdown to spend more time playing. “Under the circumstances of having a lockdown and isolating, I picked up the guitar and made a point of playing the guitar every day,” the Led Zeppelin guitarist said. Advertisement “Whereas before the lockdown, it had gotten to the point where I was always complaining that I didn’t have enough time to play the guitar because there was all this other stuff...
Machine Gun Kelly has praised late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in a new interview. Read More: Machine Gun Kelly: “I’ve been jumping up and down on the table, believing in myself, for-fucking-ever” Speaking on the Rock This With Allison Hagendorf Spotify podcast, MGK opened up about the state of rock music in general before going on to praise Cobain’s fearlessness. Initially discussing books he’d read about rock – books which ultimately led him to move to LA – Kelly said: “The sheer disappointed of being like 23 and going to the Sunset Strip and being like, ‘This isn’t what was happening in...
Robbie Williams has announced that he’s forming a new band – but it won’t include any of his former Take That bandmates. Read more: “I’d fucking like to work with Liam Gallagher”: Robbie Williams on UFOs, ‘Rudebox’, legal highs, the ’90s and hand sanitiser The pop star, who started his career in 1990 as part of the hugely successful British boyband before famously leaving in 1995, has now revealed that he’s in the process of putting together a new group. Teaming up with a pair of Australian songwriters, Williams has said the yet-to-be-named group have already worked on a...
Goat Girl have released a dreamy new track, ‘The Crack’ – listen to it below. Read More: Goat Girl: the Brixton guitar gang on musicals, Britney Spears and the London sound The song is taken from their upcoming second album, ‘On All Fours’, which is set for release on January 29 via Rough Trade Records. It follows on from previously released single, ‘Space Cowboy.’ Speaking about the track, Goat Girl said: “‘The Crack’ emerged from an imagined post-apocalyptic world whereby people flee into space for a new life on an un-ruined planet, as the result of the pillaging of Planet...
Teyana Taylor has taken to Instagram to announce her retirement from the music industry. In a post made to her Instagram yesterday (December 4), Taylor shared her results from Spotify’s 2020 Artists Wrapped, which showed she has accumulated 162.8 million listens on the streaming platform this year. Alongside an image of her stats, Taylor wrote a lengthy caption in which she expressed satisfaction with her result, and that such success meant she was “retiring this chapter of my story” in the knowledge that she can “depart with peace of mind seeing that all the hard work & passion put...