A Diversity Taskforce led by the trade body UK Music has called on the music industry to dump the acronym BAME – describing it as an “outdated and offensive term”. The term, which refers to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnics, is set to be ditched as part of a new ten-point plan to boost diversity and inclusion in the music industry. The move follows focus groups and wide-ranging discussions across the music industry, and has received backing from UK Music – which is considered to be the collective voice of the UK music industry. Advertisement It is hoped that...
Trent Reznor has shared a first glimpse of the score for David Fincher’s Mank. The Nine Inch Nails musician has composed the music for the upcoming Netflix film alongside his longtime collaborator Atticus Ross, after scoring several of Fincher’s previous films. Read more: Nine Inch Nails – ‘Ghosts: V-VI’ review: a timely two-part dip into daydreams and nightmares Reznor pointed fans in the direction of a website titled ‘The White Wine Came Up With The Fish’, which contains a 210-page slide show of images from Mank while a preview of the score plays in the background. Advertisement “Here’s a ‘secret site where...
Easy Life have released their new single ‘Daydreams’ — check out the song below. The track, which was first announced last week on social media, is the first preview of the Leicester band’s forthcoming debut album, which will follow on from their acclaimed January mixtape ‘Junk Food’. Read more: Easy Life – On the road with the carnage-creating Leicester gang: “It’s like we’re in Metallica!” ‘Daydreams’ re-imagines the 1972 Aretha Franklin song ‘Day Dreaming’ “into a soundtrack of modern-day escapism”, according to a press release. Advertisement You can hear Easy Life’s new song ‘Daydreams’ below. Frontman Murray Matravers said...
Bring Me The Horizon have teased the arrival of their new track ‘Tear Drops’, which is set to arrive later tonight (October 22). A mysterious 13-second teaser posted on the band’s social media pages yesterday (October 21) shows a clip from a dark and mysterious music video, with singer Oli Sykes remarking at the end: “Tear drops.” The teaser comes after ‘Tear Drops’ was confirmed as the third track on the metalcore band’s upcoming ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’ EP. tomorrow? pic.twitter.com/xj4vOwQOGI — Bring Me The Horizon (@bmthofficial) October 21, 2020 Advertisement It follows their collaboration with Yungblud on ‘Obey’...
By Gabriel Aikins When it comes to how the human brain works, nostalgia is one of the most powerful forces. The movies and shows we watch, the video games we play, and the music we listen to in youth will always hold a special place in our minds, and inevitably spring back up in pop culture. Think Billie Eilish sampling The Office on When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? or Ariana Grande recreating iconic early 2000 rom-coms for the “Thank U, Next” video. Nostalgia isn’t just a backward-facing experience, though. Those memories and works of art...
Linkin Park co-founder Mike Shinoda believes that metal felt “too white” until the popularisation of nu metal, pointing the finger primarily at the hair metal subgenre. Shinoda, who is of Japanese descent through his father, made the revelation in a recent interview with Metal Hammer. Early in Linkin Park’s career, Shinoda said he would “look at a lot of rock bands and I’d be like, ‘There’s something too white’ ”. Advertisement “That was one of the things that turned me off, especially hair metal,” he said. “It wasn’t just about race. I don’t mean the colour of skin....
Aspiring US President Kanye West is polling at just 2 per cent nationally, according to a report released by Reuters last week. In swing states such as Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina, he is reportedly polling below this dismal national figure, allegedly registering 0 per cent of voter interest in the latter of these states. National GE:Biden 48% (+10)Trump 38%West 2%Jorgensen 2%Hawkins 1%@Reuters/@Ipsos, RV, 10/13-15https://t.co/CrYRaqh1Us — Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) October 18, 2020 Advertisement The rapper is fighting an uphill battle with his presidential campaign; West’s name is currently set to appear on the ballot in only 11 of the...
Yaeji has released ‘When In Summer, I Forget About The Winter’, a bonus track from her recent 2020 mixtape, ‘WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던’. ‘When In Summer, I Forget About The Winter’ originally featured on the CD formats of ‘WHAT WE DREW’, available exclusively in Korea and Japan. Listen to the track below: Advertisement On Twitter, the producer said the track was written years before the mixtape came together. “‘When In Summer, I Forget About The Winter’ is a track I wrote close to 3 years ago,” she said. “I was a different person back then, but the song...
FINNEAS has returned with a bleakly-titled single,’Can’t Wait To Be Dead’, following a steady string of tracks released by the songwriter throughout 2020. A music video for the song, directed by Lady Gaga and Lana Del Rey collaborator Constellation Jones, is set to premiere on Friday, 23 October. Listen to ‘Can’t Wait To Be Dead’ below: Advertisement “I’m happy for this song to mean anything to anyone who listens to it but to me, it’s a song about my relationship with the Internet,” FINNEAS said in a press statement. “Especially in an election year. Especially during a pandemic. Sometimes,...
SZA has revealed that the unreleased song that plays at the end of the music video for ‘Hit Different’ is currently in clearance and will be receiving an official release. The song, which is reportedly titled ‘Good Days’ and features Jacob Collier, closes out the music video for SZA’s latest single, stretching just under 2 minutes in length. Twitter user @TheSweetenerE told SZA on the website that they need her album while posting a snippet of the video, which SZA then retweeted, saying “This song is in clearance as we speak”. This song is in clearance as we speak...