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Listen to Aimee Mann’s haunting cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Avalanche’
Aimee Mann has shared a cover of Leonard Cohen’s 1971 song ‘Avalanche’ – listen t it below. Read more: How posthumous albums, such as Leonard Cohen’s upcoming ‘Thanks For The Dance’, become hot property The haunting cover serves as the theme song for HBO’s true-crime docu-series I’ll Be Gone In The Dark, which is inspired by the book, I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search For The Golden State Killer, written and researched by the late Michelle McNamara. Mann was a friend of McNamara’s, so her being involved in the show which premiered in June is particularly poignant. Advertisement...
Asian Dub Foundation sample Stewart Lee Ukip routine in new track
Asian Dub Foundation have released a new track that uses part of a stand-up routine by UK comedian Stewart Lee. Read more: Asian Dub Foundation – ‘More Signal More Noise’ The political Hackney group’s latest track, ‘Comin’ Over Here’, samples the comic’s sarcastic takedown of Ukip’s anti-immigration stance, as performed on his BBC show Comedy Vehicle in 2014. It also includes lines from the Anglo-Saxon poem ‘The Wanderer’, which Lee learned while a student in Oxford. Advertisement The track is taken from Asian Dub Foundation’s new album, ‘Access Denied’, which was released on Friday (September 18). It’s their first since 2015’s...
Machine Gun Kelly shares ‘Tickets To My Downfall’ cover shoot video
Machine Gun Kelly has shared a behind-the-scenes video for the cover shoot for his upcoming new album ‘Tickets To My Downfall’ – you can watch it below. Read more: From Machine Gun Kelly to Lil Uzi Vert, rap-rock is back. And this time, it doesn’t suck The rapper, whose real name is Colson Baker, was forced to change the artwork for his new album after fans pointed out that it appeared to reference a photograph by Sen Mitsuji – and it emerged that this hadn’t been approved. “Found out that the album cover I released was essentially copied from a photo we...
Listen to Bully’s quarantine cover of Billy Bragg’s ‘A New England’
Bully continues to keep fans entertained during lockdown by sharing a cover of Billy Bragg‘s ‘A New England’ – you can watch it below. Read more: Bully on weathering a rough patch to make killer new album ‘SUGAREGG’: “Things really plummeted for a while” The cover is the latest in a series of re-workings by Alicia Bognanno’s solo project. In May, she took on on Nirvana classic ‘About A Girl’ and Orville Peck‘s ‘Turn To Hate’. She also shared a cover of Mazzy Star’s ‘Fade Into You’ during a home livestream. Bully’s stripped-backed rendition of Bragg’s 1983 song, which...
Taylor Swift sends 40 signed copies of ‘Folklore’ to Edinburgh record store
An Edinburgh record store received a helping hand from Taylor Swift this week after a box of signed CDs showed up at their shop. Read more: Taylor Swift – ‘Folklore’ review: pop superstar undergoes an extraordinary indie-folk makeover Assai Records, which has shops in Dundee and Edinburgh, received 40 signed copies of the singer’s new album ‘Folklore’, which NME called “fresh, forward-thinking and, most of all, honest” in a four-star review. Believed to be a show of support for independent record stores, Resident record shop in Brighton also received a delivery of the signed sleeves. Advertisement Assai owner Keith Ingram said...
Alicia Keys’ ‘If I Ain’t Got You’ was almost a Christina Aguilera song
Alicia Keys has revealed she almost gave her song ‘If I Ain’t Got You’ to Christina Aguilera before it became one of her signature records. Read more: Alicia Keys – ‘ALICIA’ review: an enriching blend of empathy, positivity and self-knowledge Speaking in a new interview, the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter discussed her time working with Aguilera on the pop star’s 2002 album ‘Stripped’. “She reached out and was like, ‘Would you write something for me?’ And then it came through so many emails. What a voice! I know I could write something fire for her,” Keys told Stereogum. Advertisement “So time passed...
Uriah Heep and Ozzy Osbourne drummer Lee Kerslake has died
Lee Kerslake, best known as the drummer for Uriah Heep and Ozzy Osbourne, has died aged 73. His death was confirmed by former Uriah Heep bandmate Ken Hensley, who said Kerslake died in the early hours of this morning (September 19) after succumbing to prostate cancer following a long battle with the illness. “It’s with the heaviest of hearts that I share with you that Lee Kerslake, my friend of 55 years and the best drummer I ever played with, lost his battle with cancer at 03:30 this morning,” a post on Hensley’s Facebook fan page read. Advertisement “He died...
Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Killer Mike and more pay tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez and Killer Mike are among those who have paid tribute to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The legal and feminist icon died on Friday (September 18) at her home in Washington, of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. She was 87. Following her death, many artists took to social media to remember Ginsburg, amid a crucial time for the judicial system in the United States. Advertisement “I am heartbroken to hear of the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She was a true champion of gender equality and was a strong woman for me and all the little girls of the world...
Steve Miller unearths 1970 live tribute to Jimi Hendrix on 50th anniversary of his death
Steve Miller has unearthed his tribute to Jimi Hendrix – a rendition of his band’s ‘Peppa Sauce’ recorded live on September 18, 1970, the day the legendary guitarist died. Read more: Inside Jimi Hendrix’s blood-spattered record collection Shared yesterday (September 18) to mark the 50th anniversary of Hendrix’s death, Miller’s tribute was recorded at San Rafael, California’s Pepperland. “The next song is in memory of Jimi Hendrix,” Miller told the crowd before before launching into an epic seven-minute long rendition of ‘Peppa Sauce’ filled with guitar licks inspired by the late rock God. Advertisement You can listen to the...Recent Posts
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