Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen has premiered a new song during a livestream performance – scroll down the page to watch it below. The musician performed on the Vote Ready livestream on Friday (August 14), an online event promoting voter registration ahead of the upcoming US Presidential election on November 3. During his short set, Rossen played his 2012 solo track ‘Saint Nothing’ and an untitled new song. It is unclear when a studio version of the track will be released or what project it is for. Advertisement “Nothing’s lost/There’s nothing/There’s nothing there,” he sang on the new song. “Whatever was/Whatever will/Well,...
Beyoncé had to revise her plans for Black Is King because of the coronavirus pandemic, it has been revealed. The star released the visual album last month (July 31), with it serving as a companion to ‘The Gift’, the album she made to tie-in with the remake of Disney’s The Lion King last year. Read more: Beyoncé’s new visual album Black Is King – the big talking points However, the film’s directors have now explained they were planning to go deeper into the story, but had their plans scuppered by the coronavirus pandemic. Travel restrictions stopped them travelling to South...
Metallica have said they have no regrets surrounding ‘Lulu’, their infamous collaborative album recorded with Lou Reed. The metal giants were speaking to Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show earlier this week (August 12), where they also performed ‘Wherever I May Roam’, ‘The Unforgiven’, and ‘All Within My Hands’. Read more: Lou Reed’s ‘Lulu’ is one of the worst reviewed albums ever – so why does David Bowie say it’s a masterpiece? Speaking about ‘Lulu’, the 2011 record which Reed once claimed was so unpopular that Metallica fans threatened to shoot him for making it, the band said that...
Cardi B appears to have endorsed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president in 2024, with the popular US politician referencing the rapper’s hit ‘WAP’ in return. Read more: How Cardi B squashed the concept of the female rap beef The rapper retweeted a clip of Ocasio-Cortez – often referred to by her initials, AOC – in which the congresswoman used Cardi’s ‘Bodak Yellow’ as the soundtrack to a message about healthcare. “She better run for president when she turns 35,” Cardi wrote, in reference to the US constitutional law which prohibits anyone under that age running for president. The ruling...
A one-armed drummer has uploaded an epic cover of Slipknot classic ‘Duality’ on YouTube – watch it below. The cover comes courtesy of Jack Thomas, who lost his right arm in a workplace accident aged 17. ‘”Sorry, your arm is gone’ is a life-changing phrase for anyone to hear, and a likely career-ending one for a drummer,” the video’s description reads. “But after just a few minutes of thinking he’d never play again, he realised that he could either let this overcome him, or he could do whatever he could to overcome it.” Advertisement “We all go through hardships,”...
AC/DC‘s touring drummer Chris Slade says that in his “absolutely honest” opinion, he is still the drummer of the band. Slade began touring with the hard rock legends on their 2014 ‘Rock Or Bust’ world tour after drummer Phil Rudd was arrested for drug possession. Read more: Every AC/DC song with “rock” in the title – ranked in order of how much they rock Speaking during a new interview with Rolling Stone, Slade was asked if he was still working with the band. “To my absolute knowledge, and this is me being absolutely honest, I am the current drummer in...
Kanye West has asked his fans to pick their favourite between two of rock music’s heavyweights – Guns N’ Roses and Nirvana. Read more: Celebrate 30 years of ‘Appetite For Destruction’ with these iconic pictures of Guns N’ Roses’ first ever UK show The rapper posed the condundrum on Twitter yesterday (August 15), sparking debate among his followers. “Guns n Roses or Nirvana,” he posted alongside a thinking emoji. “Both my favorite.” Guns n Roses or Nirvana ? both my favorite pic.twitter.com/PpUC6wbEu8 — ye (@kanyewest) August 15, 2020 Advertisement Although West appeared to sit on the fence, many fans made...
Corey Taylor has given some clues about when might be the right time for him to quit Slipknot. The singer is set to releases his first solo album on October 2, ‘CMFT’, and already confirmed earlier this week (August 10) that his older band Stone Sour are on “indefinite hiatus”, adding that the band has “kinda run its course for now.” Read more: NME meets Slipknot’s Clown and Tortilla Man: “There’s been a lot of blood on stage” Speaking to SiriusXM, Taylor responded to a question about when he might hang up the mask for good: “That’s a good question. The...
Fleet Foxes bandleader Robin Pecknold debuted a new song titled ‘Featherweight’ last night as part of Vote Ready, a livestream event that encouraged viewers to register to vote. He was backed during the three-song set by Angel Olsen drummer Joshua Jaeger along with Holy Hive’s Paul Spring. Pecknold performed the new song in between a pair of covers, giving his rendition of Arthur Russell’s ‘I Never Get Lonesome’ along with ‘Hammond Song’ by the Roches. Watch Pecknold’s full performance below: Advertisement In addition to Pecknold, the livestream event featured the likes of Grizzly Bear members Daniel Rossen and...
The former manager of disgraced pop singer Robert Kelly – aka R. Kelly – has been arrested on charges relating to a forced evacuation of a media screening of documentary series Surviving R. Kelly in 2018. Donnell Russell, 45, received a federal charge earlier this week of conspiracy and threatening physical harm by interstate communication. According to Variety, Russell made threats of gun violence if the screening of the Lifetime documentary, which chronicles multiple claims of alleged sexual abuse and misconduct by Kelly, was not cancelled. Russell allegedly placed a threatening phone call on December 4, 2018, to Manhattan’s NeueHouse...
