The government have been issued with a stark warning to “act now” to save the UK’s festival scene after today’s cancellation of Glastonbury. READ MORE: When and how could festivals and gigs return in 2021? Industry insiders and medical experts speak out After the coronavirus pandemic proved devastating for last year’s festival, it is feared that a similar run of cancellations could have a much more longterm impact on the circuit. At the start of January, The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee heard from organisers of Parklife and Boomtown that many summer festivals could be cancelled as soon as...
Last April, Rosalía was waiting for Billie Eilish to send her vocal contributions for their much-teased collaboration. “I feel like the production, the sound design, is almost done,” she told Variety at the time, “so I just need that Billie maybe sends the vocals and they send me the ideas that they want to add because we are there.” It might’ve taken a while to finalize, but the vocals were sent. The ideas were added. And now, the finished product is out, complete with a gauzy, skeletal video that matches the mood of the song itself. That song is...
By Jack Irvin Maggie Lindemann has always considered herself a paranoid person. As a kid, it was the reason she’d ask her mom to stay in her room until she fell asleep. As an adult, it’s why she began sleeping with a switchblade under her pillow. “It just gave me bad vibes, which is weird because it was a brand new house,” the 22-year-old singer-songwriter tells MTV News about her then-home in a Los Angeles neighborhood. Combined with the copious amount of horror films Lindemann watched at the time, nights when her roommate wasn’t home left her scared, to say...
Bob Dylan is being sued by the wife of his late collaborator Jacques Levy after Levy’s estate alleged that they had not been sufficiently compensated for his songwriting credits. Dylan sold the rights to his entire songwriting catalogue to Universal Music Group for $300 million (£225 million) last month. However, according to court documents obtained by the New York Post, Levy’s wife Claudia is now suing both Dylan and Universal for $7.25 million (£5.25 million) after the estate was allegedly not compensated for their songwriting contribution to Dylan’s catalogue. Jacques was a prominent collaborator on Dylan’s 1976 album ‘Desire’,...
Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander has revealed that he scrapped an entire album’s worth of songs for the band when the coronavirus pandemic hit last spring. Speaking to NME this week about his starring role in Russell T Davies’ new Channel 4 drama It’s A Sin, Alexander said that appearing on the show influenced how the new album will sound. READ MORE: Olly Alexander on ‘It’s A Sin’: “There’s not been a British Aids drama on this scale ever” “The pandemic happened and I went back to square one and just wanted to make a lot of upbeat,...
After the swearing in of both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on January 20, the new administration got to work. Biden immediately signed over a dozen executive orders, reversing some of the previous administration’s, and implemented a mask mandate for federal employees, recommitted the United States to the Paris climate agreement, paused student loan repayments until September 30, and more. But even though he was already set up behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, the inauguration celebration was far from over. On Wednesday night, Tom Hanks hosted a star-studded, post-parade nighttime special called Celebrating...
Arlo Parks has shared the trailer for her forthcoming live special Tonight With Arlo Parks – check out the preview clip below. The south London artist is accompanying the release of her debut album ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’ on January 29 with the show, which will premiere on Amazon Music on release day. Read more: Arlo Parks: “I feel like I’m 10 and 100 at once” Tonight With Arlo Parks, which will be available to watch subsequently on Prime Video from February 1, is being billed as a “‘Variety Hour Special’ emulating the spirit of classic, artist-fronted TV formats from...
Joe Biden‘s inauguration speech yesterday (January 20) has been dubbed over with another iconic speech of our time: Alex Turner‘s 2014 proclamation, ‘That Rock N’ Roll, Eh?’. Turner’s speech, from the 2014 BRIT Awards when Arctic Monkeys picked up Album Of The Year for ‘A.M’, fits remarkably well when played over edited clips from Biden’s plea for unity which he made after becoming the 46th President of the United States. READ MORE: Fireworks, Foo Fighters and faith: Joe Biden marks a new day in America with hope-filled inauguration party “That rock ‘n’roll, eh?” Turner famously said seven years ago....
System Of A Down‘s Serj Tankian has hit out at Donald Trump for a last-minute order he gave while he was still US President, saying he’s “never seen a president suck so much cock”. Trump left office yesterday (January 20) as Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th US President. As Tankian revealed in a Facebook post, one of Trump’s last acts as president was to grant Turkey legal rights over indigenous property in the region, which includes the singer’s native Armenia. Advertisement The post from the Armenian National Committee of America revealed that “the Trump Administration signed a...
Former AC/DC bassist Mark Evans has spoken in a new interview of past tensions between the Aussie rock legends and Black Sabbath. The musician — who was played bass on hits such as ‘T.N.T.’, ‘High Voltage’, ‘Dirty Deeds Done Cheap’ and ‘Let There Be Rock’ during his stint with the band from 1975 to 1977 — featured on the latest episode of Let There Be Talk on January 17. During the episode, he dished the dirt on the ancient feud and other topics. Evans — who is currently the bassist for Australian classic rock band Rose Tattoo — discussed...
