London’s Barbican Centre has posted a music schedule that will see audiences return to the venue for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic forced concert cancellations. A concert series titled Live From The Barbican will run from October 4 until December 13, 2020 with a digital audience alongside a socially distanced live one. The full schedule can be viewed at the venue’s website. Read more: The world’s first socially distanced club night has been held in Germany – watch the bizarre footage here As The Guardian reports, less than a sixth of the seats in the hall –...
Janelle Monáe has released her first new music in two years with ‘Turntables’, a song featured on a forthcoming documentary about voter suppression. The musician, producer, actress and activist wrote ‘Turntables’ for Amazon Prime Video’s All In: The Fight for Democracy film, which lands next Friday (September 18). ‘Turntables’, the first material since Monáe’s 2018 album ‘Dirty Computer’, was written by Monáe, Nathaniel Irvin III and George A. Peters with production by Nate “Rocket” Wonder and Roman GianArthur. Advertisement A press release describes All In: The Fight for Democracy as examining “the often overlooked, yet insidious issue of voter...
Beabadoobee has shared a new single called ‘Worth It’ – you can listen to it below. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Beabadoobee: “I want to live in the ‘90s!” The Dirty Hit signee is currently gearing up to release her debut album ‘Fake It Flowers’ on October 16, and has so far previewed the project with ‘Care’ and ‘Sorry’. Tonight (September 8), Bea offered up another taste of her first album on BBC Radio 1. Advertisement “‘Worth It’ is simply about teenage infidelity and the mistakes one can make when they’re tempted to do things,” Beabadoobee said of the song....
Machine Gun Kelly has been forced to change the artwork for his forthcoming new album ‘Tickets To My Downfall’. READ MORE: Vomit! Broken bones! Oasis! Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly on wild nights out and working together The Ohio artist – real name Colson Baker – is due to release his fifth studio record on September 25, and revealed its tracklisting and cover last week. Shortly afterwards, fans pointed out that the artwork appeared to reference a photograph by Sen Mitsuji – and it has since emerged that this hadn’t been approved. i guess the artist used a reference? pic.twitter.com/IW9gBNDgBN...
Spotify are reportedly developing a new karaoke feature for the platform. READ MORE: Pet Sounds: Spotify is making playlists for your furry friends – but do they care? According to Music Business Worldwide, the streaming service are currently building ‘Spotify Karaoke Mode’ amid the recent news that Amazon’s Twitch Sings app will be closing in January. Yesterday (September 7), reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong tweeted that “Spotify is working on Karaoke Mode”, adding: “The vocal level is adjustable.” Advertisement She also attached a screenshot of what the add-on’s interface will look like on a mobile device. You can check out...
A TikTok user has delivered one of the year’s unlikeliest mash-ups – Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion‘s ‘WAP’ combined with Britney Spears‘ ‘Toxic’. In the latest take on the huge hit, TikTok user @adamusic_ creates an unexpectedly convincing take on the two tracks – with Cardi and Megan’s lyrics being successfully contrasted against an instrumental version of the Britney track. Commenting on the mash-up, one TikTok user wrote: “The WAP and toxic mash up is the best thing I have ever heard.” Advertisement The latest take on ‘WAP’ comes after Biffy Clyro delivered an unlikely cover of the...
Janelle Monáe is back, and she’s turning the tables. On Tuesday (September 8), the multi-hyphenate shared an empowering new song called “Turntables,” a rousing call to change that will feature on the soundtrack of new Amazon documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy. The film centers around voter suppression and prominently features Stacey Abrams; as a result, “Turntable,” too, goes all in, with Monáe using the song’s lyrics as a platform. “I’m kicking out the old regime / Liberation, elevation, education,” she says. “America, you a lie / But the whole world ’bout to testify.” https://youtu.be/A4U7k_5ML04 Over a soulful,...
The search for the ever-elusive “bop” is difficult. Playlists and streaming-service recommendations can only do so much. They often leave a lingering question: Are these songs really good, or are they just new? Enter Bop Shop, a hand-picked selection of songs from the MTV News team. This weekly collection doesn’t discriminate by genre and can include anything — it’s a snapshot of what’s on our minds and what sounds good. We’ll keep it fresh with the latest music, but expect a few oldies (but goodies) every once in a while, too. Get ready: The Bop Shop is now open...
Drake and Justin Bieber are perhaps the two most famous Canadians in the history of pop music. Right now, though — during a time of unprecedented travel restrictions due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there’s one key element that separates them: Drake’s been in Canada (which means he can’t travel to the United States), and Bieber’s already here, in Los Angeles. In the realm of music videos, this means Bieber is free to take Drake’s place at the center of the “Popstar” visual, helmed by Director X (Julien Christian Lutz), which dropped on Friday (September 4). In it, Bieber...
Way back in January, SZA revealed that we’d be hearing new music from her this year — and when her Trolls World Tour collab with Justin Timberlake dropped the following month, fans were hoping there was plenty more where that came from. Today (September 4), despite some previous (deleted) tweets where SZA had characterized the relationship between her and TDE label president Punch as “hostile,” a gorgeous new SZA song has arrived. It features Ty Dolla $ign, was produced by The Neptunes, and is called “Hit Different.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJlMkMtK7-8 While “The Other Side” stayed firmly in the pop realm, “Hit...
