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London Grammar tease another song from upcoming third album: “Gone are the shadows and the past”
London Grammar have teased a brand new song on their social media accounts with a photo from the studio. The band have released two songs so far this year – ‘Baby It’s You’ and ‘Californian Soil’. Read more: London Grammar – ‘Truth Is A Beautiful Thing’ Review In a tweet posted yesterday (December 22), London Grammar shared a photo of a page of lyrics laying on top of a recording studio mixing desk. “Gone are the shadows and the past,” they captioned the post. Advertisement Some of the lyrics in the photo include the lines: “Are you happy now?/ Are...
Sam Fender shares letter to his 10-year-old self: “Don’t feel ashamed for being sensitive and empathetic”
Sam Fender has shared a letter he wrote to his 10-year-old self, in which he told himself to not “feel ashamed for being sensitive and empathetic”. The musician read the message to his younger self during an appearance on Scott Mills’ show on BBC Radio 1. Read more: Sam Fender live in Newcastle: hometown hero lifts gloom with life-affirming, groundbreaking show “Hey Sam, I can picture you now – a chubby little thing, lightsaber in hand,” it began. “I wonder how many lampshades you’ve broke this year. Don’t worry about it though – your dad’s a jack-of-all-trades, he can...
Kirk Hammett remembers going to see Metallica live for the first time: “These guys are pretty goddamn good”
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has remembered going to see the band live for the first time before he joined. Hammett joined the metal titans in 1983, and prior to that he played in the band Exodus. READ MORE: Metallica’s new album – everything we know so far about the band’s 11th In a lengthy new interview for Gibson’s ‘Icons’ series, Hammett remembered being dragged to a Metallica show by Exodus vocalist Paul Baloff. Advertisement “I remember we were just sitting around one day, and the singer of Exodus, a guy named Paul Baloff, who was an absolute maniac, he...
Producer shares heartwarming story behind David Bowie’s ‘The Snowman’ scarf
The producer of David Bowie‘s famous introduction to the 1982 adaptation of The Snowman has shared the heartwarming story behind the iconic scarf from the scene. Channel 4’s 1982 adaptation of the Raymond Briggs story opens with Bowie introducing viewers to the surreal story in which a snowman comes to life. READ MORE: Let’s all remember David Bowie’s forgotten intro for ‘The Snowman’ The story of the scarf was told after Bowie’s son Duncan Jones tweeted a photo of himself wearing the legendary piece of memorabilia today (December 23) after finding it in storage. Went looking for sock monkeys...
This AI bot will rip your Spotify listening habits to shreds
A new app has been developed that judges your taste in music by interrogating your Spotify account. ‘How Bad Is Your Spotify’ has been created by digital publication The Pudding, and mercilessly rips your listening habits to shreds. READ MORE: What your Spotify Wrapped says about your 2020 “Hi, I’m an A.I. trained to evaluate musical taste,” the bot tells you as you visit the website. “To get started, I’ll need to see your Spotify.” Advertisement Promising to judge “your awful taste in music,” the bot proceeds to ask you to choose in a “fuck, marry, kill” scenario with...
At-Home Livestreams Are So 2020. Bigger, Bolder Concert Experiences Are The Future
By Deepa Lakshmin Lightning strikes. There’s a web of tangled branches, a flash of sequins; Misterwives frontwoman Mandy Lee emerges from the darkness of a blank computer screen, mic in hand, and a booming thunder in her voice as she launches into “Over the Rainbow.” Even for a virtual concert during a pandemic, the performance’s stage design had to measure up to the band’s bigger ambitions. “We wouldn’t be able to bring like 30 trees on tour, you know?” Lee tells MTV News over a video call about the various theater sets the band and their crew built over...
The Kunts’ ‘Boris Johnson Is A Fucking C**t’ enters Top 10 in race for Christmas Number One
The Kunts’ song ‘Boris Johnson Is A Fucking Cunt’ has entered the Top 10 of the UK’s singles chart as the race for this year’s Christmas Number One continues. Released earlier this year as part of the cult comedy band’s July album ‘Kunts Punk In Your Face’, the song has already received the backing of Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker. Read more: The best (and worst) new Christmas songs of 2020 Brooker noted on Sunday (December 20) that ‘Boris Johnson Is A Fucking Cunt’ had risen to number two on iTunes’ UK songs chart, a likely response from the...
New Nipsey Hussle album is on the way featuring Dave East and Trae Tha Truth
A new Nipsey Hussle album is in the works, according to one of the late rapper’s producers. Read more: “Conspiracies come from a place of pain”: director Ben Zand on The Mysterious Murder Of Nipsey Hussle Mr. Lee, the Grammy Award-winning Houston producer who produced both Nipsey’s 2010 track ‘Blue Laces’ and its 2018 follow-up ‘Blue Laces 2’, has revealed that a third track in the series is on the way. Speaking to The Ritz Herald, Mr. Lee said he and Nipsey recorded ‘Blue Laces 3’ before the rapper was shot and killed in front of his Marathon Clothing...
Unreleased footage of Pop Smoke shared in new ‘What You Know Bout Love’ video
A new video has been shared for Pop Smoke‘s ‘What You Know Bout Love’ – watch it below. Read more: Pay tribute to the late, great Pop Smoke with his 10 best tracks The new visual features unreleased footage of the late Brooklyn star, who was killed back in February aged 20. The ‘What You Know Bout Love’ video features footage of Pop Smoke recording the track, as well as video of him out and about in London and beyond. Advertisement Watch the video below: Last week, Pop Smoke was named as SoundCloud’s most-streamed artist of 2020. The platform said that...Recent Posts
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