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Iggy Pop donates ‘Free’ to PETA video on cruel monkey experiments
Iggy Pop has donated his track ‘Free’ to PETA in an effort to help end cruel experiments on monkeys. The NME Big Read – Iggy Pop: “Punk has to have a sense of hopelessness about it” The song, which opens the singer’s 2019 album of the same name, soundtracks a new video highlighting the psychological and physical suffering monkeys endure while being kept in laboratory cages for testing. The clip is made up of footage from PETA US’ investigations into a National Institutes of Health (NIH) experimenter’s painful, invasive, and deadly “monkey fright” tests, in which they inflict permanent...
Justin Bieber to release new single ‘Holy’ this Friday
Justin Bieber has confirmed that he’ll release his new single ‘Holy’ this Friday, marking the first new music from the singer since his fifth album ‘Changes’ arrived earlier this year. Posting on Twitter, Bieber wrote “FOUR DAYS”, alongside a link to a website titled jbsoon.com. When fans click through to the site, the track title appears in large white lettering, set against a background photo of barren farmland. Advertisement Bieber also shared a photo from the song’s video shoot, which sees him wearing dungarees and covered in mud while sitting next to director Colin Tilley – who most recently...
‘No Time To Die’: Watch Rami Malek talk about his “unsettling” Bond villain
Rami Malek has given James Bond fans an insight into his No Time To Die character Safin in a new video – you can watch it below. READ MORE: Billie Eilish takes the stealth approach on Bond theme ‘No Time to Die’ Uploaded yesterday (September 14), the Meet Safin featurette sees Malek talk about how he approached the role of the revengeful 007 villain. “What I really wanted from Safin was to make him unsettling,” the actor explained. “Thinking of himself as being heroic.” Advertisement No Time To Die director Cary Joji Fukunaga said: “What he wants and what he’s willing...
Listen to Eddie Vedder’s stirring new instrumental track ‘Cartography’
Eddie Vedder has shared a new instrumental track titled ‘Cartography’ via Sub Pop’s Singles Club series. The song is lifted from the Pearl Jam frontman’s score for the Robert F. Kennedy documentary Return to Mount Kennedy. It arrives alongside a remix by Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner that includes audio of Kennedy responding to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Listen to both versions below – Zinner’s remix is accompanied by an official video. Advertisement “Listening to the speech delivered by Bobby Kennedy in regards to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years ago,...
Watch members of Mastodon, Megadeth, Baroness and Lucifer cover Fleetwood Mac’s ‘You Make Loving Fun’
Members of Mastodon, Megadeth, Baroness and Mutoid Man have joined forces for a rousing rendition of Fleetwood Mac‘s ‘You Make Loving Fun’. The video features former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman, Bill Kelliher of Mastodon, Johanna Sadonis and Nicke Anderson of Lucifer, Nick Jost of Baroness and Stephen Brodsky of Mutoid Man. It also features appearances from Gwarsenio Hall and Hard Melissa, the alter-egos of comedians Jordan Olds and Emily Panic, respectively. The collaboration was organised by Olds as part of his Two Minutes To Late Night video series. Watch the epic performance below: Advertisement “ooh ooh witchy womxn! We...
New Billie Eilish album won’t be released during the pandemic, Finneas says
Billie Eilish‘s new album will not be released until she can safely tour, her brother and producer Finneas has said. In a new interview with Australian newspaper The Herald Sun, Finneas said he didn’t want his or Eilish’s new albums to “be a bummer COVID record”. “I have a desperate desire not to release them during COVID-19. It’s the vaccine record! I want it to be the album everyone’s out dancing in the streets to,” he said. READ MORE: Every single Billie Eilish song ranked in order of greatness Advertisement Elsewhere in the interview, Finneas provided a brief update on...
The Mountain Goats share soulful new single ‘Get Famous’
The Mountain Goats have shared ‘Get Famous’, the second single from their forthcoming 19th album ‘Getting Into Knives’. The new “anti-fame” song is a soulful turn, fleshed out by horns and vintage organ, and references the late Chicago outsider musician Wesley Willis (“Wesley Willis told me how to write about you“). In a press statement, frontman John Darnielle said, “If I told you all how much fun we had making this one you wouldn’t even believe me, but we hope it comes through.” Advertisement Listen to ‘Get Famous’ below. ‘Get Famous’ follows the upcoming album’s more brooding first single,...
50 Cent working on new series that looks at past beef with The Game
50 Cent is working on a new series for cable network Starz that will look at his highly publicised past beef with fellow rapper The Game. Read more: The Big Read – The Game: “Me and 50 Cent should have died in that beef” With a working title of Moment in Time: The Massacre, the seasonal anthology “will explore the true stories in which iconic hip-hop moments collided with the sensational and sometimes criminal events behind-the-scenes.” Season 1 will look at how “tension between 50 Cent and The Game led to an all-out street war, pitting G-Unit against music impresario Jimmy...
Big Sean scores third consecutive Billboard Number One album with ‘Detroit 2’
Big Sean has scored his third consecutive Billboard Number One album with the recently released ‘Detroit 2’. Read more: Big Sean – ‘Detroit 2’ review: unreserved passion from a generational rap talent with an upbeat message Released last week (September 4), the sequel to Sean’s acclaimed 2012 mixtape features guest appearances from Anderson .Paak, Post Malone, Nipsey Hussle, Travis Scott, Stevie Wonder and more. The rapper’s sixth studio album ended Taylor Swift’s six-week run at the top of the Billboard 200 with her eighth album ‘Folklore’, selling the equivalent of 103,000 units. Advertisement Celebrating the achievement on Instagram, Sean wrote:...Recent Posts
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