An aspiring mathematician who was unable to afford university fees has thanked Taylor Swift after the singer donated £23,000 towards her university education. Vitoria Mario, who is Portuguese but has lived in the UK for four years, said she was ineligible to receive government funding and her family could not afford to finance her degree at Warwick University. Delivering a generous contribution of £23,373 via a GoFundMe page, Swift wrote: “Vitoria, I came across your story online and am so inspired by your drive and dedication to turning your dreams into reality. Advertisement “I want to gift you the...
League Of Legends’ virtual K-pop group, K/DA, is set to return with new music next week (August 27). Read more: Epic Games is right to take a stand against Apple and Google, but leave us out of it K/DA took to Twitter to announce a new song titled ‘The Baddest’, which will premiere on YouTube on August 27 at 12pm PT/8pm BST. The tweet, which has garnered over 29 thousand retweets and 49 thousand likes at time of writing, can be found below. YOUTUBE PREMIERE 8.27.2020 12 PM PT #KDA #CALLINGALLBLADES #KDAISBACK #COMEBACK #THEBADDEST pic.twitter.com/0bgJfKqyvS — K/DA (@KDA_MUSIC) August...
Nikki Sixx, Slash and Corey Taylor have teamed up under the moniker Artists For Recovery to release a new charity single, ‘Maybe It’s Time’. Per a press statement, Sixx conceived the idea for the track to campaign awareness of the opioid crisis in the US and to raise funds for The Global Recovery Initiatives Foundation (GRI). ‘Maybe It’s Time’ is described by the campaign as “the cornerstone of an industry-wide initiative to draw attention to the opioid crisis and raise funds to serve the recovery community and save lives”. Advertisement In a statement, Sixx, GRI board member and a recovered...
Vic Mensa has released a surprise new mixtape, entitled ‘V Tape’. The seven-track project features guest appearances from BJ The Chicago Kid, Eryn Allen Kane, Peter CottonTale, SAINt JHN and more. Mensa debuted the new project with a music video for the track ‘MACHIAVELLI’ featuring Eryn Allen Kane, set in Chicago’s South Side. Watch it below. Advertisement The video is set to be part of a forthcoming visual project from director Andre Muir, which a press release says will “evoke west African imagery and Gordon Parks-esque street photography to weave a complex narrative of redemption and rebirth”. The tape...
Troye Sivan has released his new, six-song concept EP ‘In a Dream’ today (August 21). The EP features lead single ‘Take Yourself Home’, which Sivan shared back in April, calling it one of his favourite songs he’s ever written. “The song is kind of a pep talk with yourself and the place you’re from. Grappling with your place in the world,” Sivan commented in a statement at the time. Advertisement Stream the EP below: ‘In A Dream’ also features singles ‘Easy’ and ‘Rager teenager!’. Both dropped with self-directed videos and were written and produced with Oscar Görres, aka OzGo....
Megan Thee Stallion has confirmed rumours that it was Tory Lanez who shot her in the foot last month. Taking to Instagram Live on August 21, Megan called out Lanez directly and claimed his publicist and team of pushing another story to the press. Watch snippets of the broadcast, posted to Twitter and YouTube, below. “Since y’all hoes so worried ’bout it,” Megan said, “yes, this n**** Tory shot me.” Advertisement She continued, “You shot me. And you got your publicist and your people going to these blogs lying and shit. Stop lying. Why lie? I don’t understand. I...
Four Tet has given his spin on a recent Tame Impala cut, remixing ‘Is It True’ from the band’s latest album ‘The Slow Rush’. READ MORE: Tame Impala – “This band is the fantasy of music. It’s The Lord Of The Rings” On his rendition, Four Tet – real name Kieran Hebden – strips Kevin Parker’s psych-pop original of its blissed-out groove. Instead, Hebden’s take on ‘Is It True’ is an ambient, ethereal and somewhat discordant mix. Listen below: Advertisement The remix arrives just a couple of weeks after Tame Impala shared a retro-styled video for the track. Last...
Rap kings Headie One, AJ Tracey and Stormzy have come together on a brand new single, ‘Ain’t It Different’. It’s the first official release from Headie’s forthcoming album, ‘EDNA’, due out later this year. The new track samples two iconic songs, the Red Hot Chili Pepper‘s ‘Pretty Little Ditty’ and M-Dubs’ ‘Bump and Grind’, and was produced by FRED and Toddla T. An official music video was released alongside the new track, directed by Taz Tron. The visual sees Headie, Tracey and Stormzy as members of an elite secret society and features cameos from RV and OFB. Advertisement Watch...
Moses Sumney has performed a rendition of Ariana Grande‘s 2018 hit ‘thank u, next’ exclusively for Amazon Music and the platform’s ‘The High End’ playlist. Transforming the pop mega-hit completely, Sumney’s take on the song is a woozy, delicate and soulful performance, complete with complex layers of Autotune. This is the first song Sumney has delivered since his rendition of the Olympic Hymn in one-off release ‘monumental’, released in collaboration with designer Thom Browne. Advertisement Sumney’s second studio album, ‘græ’ was released in two parts earlier this year, with the first half dropping in February and the second half...
Queen and Adam Lambert are to release their first live album together later this year. Read More: Queen – Rank the Albums The announcement follows a series of cryptic social media posts from the group’s Brian May after the guitarist teased an announcement in a new video earlier this week. Posting on Instagram on Wednesday (August 19), May shared a brief clip which saw him performing to thousands of fans, alongside drummer Roger Taylor and the band’s current vocalist, Lambert. The band had also been hinting at an incoming announcement in some recent interviews. Advertisement The new album, ‘Queen +...