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Benee Just Wants To Say Hey
“I’m a sad girl in this big world,” 20-year-old Benee sings on her breakout song, “Supalonely,” a bubblegum disco cut with funky musicality that belies its own melancholy. But just before the world shut down earlier this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the New Zealand pop chameleon was having the time of her life. “Literally in the week before we went into lockdown, I was at a techno festival,” she tells MTV News. “That was really fun.” As we navigate a recent intercontinental Zoom call, I mishear “techno” as “TikTok” — a slip, perhaps, due to the blazing star power...
Megan Thee Stallion Says Tory Lanez Offered Her Hush Money
Megan Thee Stallion won’t be silenced — that much she made clear in her empowered “Rapper of the Year” profile in GQ, published on Monday (November 16). In it, the Houston rapper shared new details about the incident this summer wherein she was shot in both feet after leaving a pool party and was, allegedly, offered money to cover it up. On the morning of July 12, rapper Tory Lanez was arrested in Los Angeles. As reported at the time, police were responding to a domestic disturbance call in the Hollywood Hills after witnesses reported an argument inside an SUV that ended...
System Of A Down’s Daron Malakian says in-fighting is preventing a new album
System Of A Down guitarist Daron Malakian has said it is a “shame” that the band are unable to put aside their differences to make a new record. All four members recently came together to record two new tracks protesting shell attacks in the Republic of Artsakh, ‘Protect The Land’ and ‘Genocidal Humanoidz’. READ MORE: System Of A Down’s new anthems of rebellion are arena-ready calls for justice The band have struggled to maintain any significant time in each other’s company, however, primarily due to perceived creative and commercial disputes between Malakian and Serj Tankian – though the guitarist...
Watch Foo Fighters play ‘Walk’ at THUNDERGONG! livestream to support amputees
Foo Fighters, Tom Morello and more played a THUNDERGONG! livestream last night (November 14) to support amputees in need of prosthetics – watch the whole thing below. It came on the same night that the band hosted their own paid livestreamed show from The Roxy in Los Angeles to support struggling musicians. READ MORE: Dave Grohl tells us about Foo Fighters’ ‘Medicine at Midnight’: “This is our Saturday night party album” For the THUNDERGONG! set, Foo Fighters performed their track ‘Walk’ live from the studio. Hosted by Jason Sudeikis, the concert benefitted the Steps of Faith Foundation. Advertisement Watch the...
Watch Matt Berninger perform tracks from his debut album in new mini-concert
The National frontman Matt Berninger has performed a remote mini-concert for European cultural TV network ARTE. Recorded in Los Angeles, the singer was joined by guitarists Sean O’Brien and Harrison Whitford for the concert, where he performed four tracks from his debut album: ‘Distant Axis’, ‘One More Second’, ‘Take Me Out Of Town’ and title track ‘Serpentine Prison’. Watch the performance below: Advertisement Berninger released his debut album, ‘Serpentine Prison’, back in October. In a four-star review, NME described the LP as a “deep, intimate listen to be filed next to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ ‘Boatman’s Call’...
Watch Kamasi Washington’s 50-minute Adult Swim Festival set
Kamasi Washington has performed a high-energy 50-minute set as part of this weekend’s Adult Swim Festival. The performance was live-streamed on YouTube last Friday (November 13) and features Washington backed by an eight-person band. Watch the set in full below: Advertisement Other artists who performed at the Adult Swim festival include Thundercat (joined by Ariana Grande), Run The Jewels, Kaytranada and Rico Nasty. Washington’s last studio album was 2018’s widely-acclaimed ‘Heaven and Earth’. Since then, the saxophonist has teamed up with Robert Glasper, Terrace Martin and 9th Wonder to release a self-titled seven-track EP as the supergroup Dinner Party....
Jeremih in hospital on a ventilator after contracting coronavirus
Def Jam-signed singer and rapper Jeremih has been hospitalised after contracting coronavirus, reports say. As TMZ reports, Jeremih is currently in an Intensive Care Unit on a breathing ventilator, though it’s not clear how long he’s been in hospital. Chance the Rapper, who collaborated with Jeremih on a 2014 song and shared a surprise mixtape with him two years later, is among those sending well-wishes to the singer on social media following the news. Advertisement “Please if you can take a second to pray for my friend Jeremih,” Chance tweeted. “He is like a brother to me and he’s...
Run The Jewels debut new ‘No Save Point’ video during Adult Swim festival
Run The Jewels have shared a new video for their single ‘No Save Point’ – you can watch it below. The track, which is the rap duo’s first new material together since the release earlier this year of ‘RTJ4’, arrived earlier this week (November 12). READ MORE: Run The Jewels: “The world’s gonna reset and then we’re gonna burn that motherfucker down” ‘No Save Point’ was shared as part of a new partnership between Run The Jewels and the upcoming video game Cyberpunk 2077, which is set for release on December 10, and Killer Mike and El-P debuted its futuristic...
The legendary Tower Records returns as online store
The legendary Tower Records chain has made a comeback as an online store. The chain has been out of action for over a decade, closing all its non-Japanese stores in 2006 after filing bankruptcy. READ MORE: How you can help your local independent record shop amid the coronavirus crisis A new Tower Records website is already up and running, with vinyl, CDs, merchandise and an online version of their Tower Pulse! magazine on sale now. Advertisement As Deadline report, the second coming of Tower Records was set to be unveiled at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, which was...Recent Posts
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