Four Tet has given his spin on a recent Tame Impala cut, remixing ‘Is It True’ from the band’s latest album ‘The Slow Rush’. READ MORE: Tame Impala – “This band is the fantasy of music. It’s The Lord Of The Rings” On his rendition, Four Tet – real name Kieran Hebden – strips Kevin Parker’s psych-pop original of its blissed-out groove. Instead, Hebden’s take on ‘Is It True’ is an ambient, ethereal and somewhat discordant mix. Listen below: Advertisement The remix arrives just a couple of weeks after Tame Impala shared a retro-styled video for the track. Last...
Rap kings Headie One, AJ Tracey and Stormzy have come together on a brand new single, ‘Ain’t It Different’. It’s the first official release from Headie’s forthcoming album, ‘EDNA’, due out later this year. The new track samples two iconic songs, the Red Hot Chili Pepper‘s ‘Pretty Little Ditty’ and M-Dubs’ ‘Bump and Grind’, and was produced by FRED and Toddla T. An official music video was released alongside the new track, directed by Taz Tron. The visual sees Headie, Tracey and Stormzy as members of an elite secret society and features cameos from RV and OFB. Advertisement Watch...
Moses Sumney has performed a rendition of Ariana Grande‘s 2018 hit ‘thank u, next’ exclusively for Amazon Music and the platform’s ‘The High End’ playlist. Transforming the pop mega-hit completely, Sumney’s take on the song is a woozy, delicate and soulful performance, complete with complex layers of Autotune. This is the first song Sumney has delivered since his rendition of the Olympic Hymn in one-off release ‘monumental’, released in collaboration with designer Thom Browne. Advertisement Sumney’s second studio album, ‘græ’ was released in two parts earlier this year, with the first half dropping in February and the second half...
Queen and Adam Lambert are to release their first live album together later this year. Read More: Queen – Rank the Albums The announcement follows a series of cryptic social media posts from the group’s Brian May after the guitarist teased an announcement in a new video earlier this week. Posting on Instagram on Wednesday (August 19), May shared a brief clip which saw him performing to thousands of fans, alongside drummer Roger Taylor and the band’s current vocalist, Lambert. The band had also been hinting at an incoming announcement in some recent interviews. Advertisement The new album, ‘Queen +...
Metallica have shared another preview of their upcoming ‘S&M2’ live album – hear their version of ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’ below. The forthcoming live album/concert, which lands later this month (August 28) was recorded at two shows that took place in 2019 to mark the 20th anniversary of the metal band’s seminal live album ‘S&M’. So far, the band have shared renditions of ‘Nothing Else Matters’, ‘All Within My Hands’ and ‘Moth Into Flame’ from the film. Watch the ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’ performance below. Advertisement The new film will be released in a variety of formats...
The CEO of the Beggars Group is set to swim the English Channel to raise money for musicians struggling because of the coronavirus. Paul Redding will embark on the challenge in September, and hopes to raise £200,000, which will be split between the PRS Foundation (UK) and the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund (USA). The fundraising page (which has already received nearly £30,000 in donations), says that Beggars themselves will donate £1,000 for every mile that Redding swims, and an extra £25,000 if he completes the challenge and makes it to France. Advertisement The Beggars Group encompasses the labels 4AD,...
The tracklisting, artwork and a single teaser from the Deftones upcoming new album, ‘Ohms’, has appeared on Apple Music. Read more: “This record embedded in our brains”: the endless power of Deftones’ ‘White Pony’ Last week (August 15), the group blacked out all their social media profile pictures, hinting that a new album announcement was on the way. Now, the title of the new album, ‘Ohms’, has been shared. The album will be ten-tracks long and released on September 25 via Reprise Records. It has been produced by Terry Date, who also produced some of the group’s previous albums including...
Music therapy charity Nordoff Robbins have announced details of their Big Busk event for 2020. The charity will hold two concurrent events in London and Glasgow on September 26, giving unsigned artists the chance to perform as well as raising money for the charity. The events will take place in London’s Camden Market and Glasgow’s Republic Bier Halle. Applications for artists are open now, and more details can be found here. Advertisement Sandy Trappitt of Nordoff Robbins says: “After a successful launch of the Big Busk at the O2 last year, we are delighted to be bringing it back...
The family of no-wave legend James Chance have launched a new GoFundMe page to help the musician through “personal health issues and the COVID situation”. According to the new fundraising page, Chance and his partner Judy Taylor are hoping to raise $50,000 (£40,000). The GoFundMe reads: “James and Judy currently live in New York and have both been severely affected by personal health issues and the COVID situation. James had to cut short his European tour last year due to a sudden health crisis, and Judy suffers from a long term debilitating illness that keeps her confined to home....
UK Music has renewed calls for the government to introduce a National Plan for Music Education, after GCSE results were published today (August 20). Tom Kiehl, the acting CEO of the trade body, said a major plan for music education was “more important than ever” and said it could help sustain the pipeline of future talent being developed in the UK. His comments came as the number of people taking GCSE Music took a slight drop by 0.2 percent from 34,740 in 2019 to 34,665 this year. This in turn followed a bigger decline in the number of students...
