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Apple Music introduces program to showcase African musicians
Apple Music has launched the ‘Africa Rising’ talent discovery program to showcase African musicians on its platforms. The initiative sees emerging African artists promoted by the Apple Music editorial team on a bi-monthly basis. Selected artists will have their work showcased across the platform and feature on the Africa Rising companion playlist. To coincide with the program launch, Apple Music has announced Nigerian singer-songwriter Omah Lay as the first Africa Rising feature artist. Advertisement “I have always used Apple Music, seeing my favorite artists on playlist covers and features but here I am looking pretty as Apple Music’s first...
Yungblud teases that something new is coming tomorrow
Yungblud has taken to social media to tease something new that is due to arrive tomorrow. Read more: Yungblud talks “optimistic” new era for second album: “It’s like an episode of ‘Skins’!” In a pair of tweets shared earlier this evening (July 6), the ’11 Minutes’ singer told fans he would see them tomorrow, but for what we don’t yet know. “see you july 7th. tell ya mates. goodnight till then. look after each other. i love you,” he wrote, sharing a pair of photographs of himself with his hair dyed red. His message also included a strawberry and...
Usher shares emotional self-directed music video for ‘I Cry’
Usher has shared a new self-directed visual for his latest single, ‘I Cry’. The video was dropped on America’s Independence Day (July 4), featuring an emotional Usher singing directly into the camera, superimposed with Black Lives Matter protest footage. Watch it below: Advertisement According to an Instagram post, Usher will donate all proceeds from the song to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a non-profit community development organisation. Usher’s donation will benefit Black-owned small businesses and Black-led community organisations. Read more: “It’s a cry out for justice”: on the scene at London’s Black Lives Matter protest The song originally premiered...
Rivers Cuomo recalls the time he tried to start a metal band before forming Weezer
Rivers Cuomo has recalled the time he tried to start a metal band before finding fame with Weezer. Read more: Weezer’s 10 best songs Speaking in a recent interview, the frontman revisited his pre-Weezer band Sixty Wrong Sausages and how his initial vision was to form a metal band. “I was always in bands growing up, when I was in school and when I first moved to LA,” he told Kerrang. “In those days I was almost anti-punk: I did not like punk music, or the whole punk aesthetic. My attitude was pretty much exclusively metal: practice your scales, your arpeggios,...
Listen to Juice WRLD and Halsey team up on posthumous song ‘Life’s A Mess’
A new Juice WRLD song featuring Halsey has been released alongside news that the rapper’s first posthumous album, ‘Legends Never Die’, will arrive later this week. Read more: Juice WRLD, 1998-2019 – the NME obituary The new song, titled ‘Life’s A Mess’, hears Juice WRLD and Halsey sing about lost love, life’s trials and tribulations, and how one person can change everything. “Have you ever fallen head over heels for somebody/ That made promises to give you the world?” Juice WRLD opens the track. “I really hope they held you down/ I really hope it was no lying/ ‘Cause when heart breaks it feel like...
Georgia announces spring 2021 UK and Ireland tour
Georgia has announced that she will be heading out on the road next year for a UK and Ireland tour – see a fill list of dates below. Read more: Georgia live in London – An unlikely pop hero emerges with rave-ready energy Following the release of her new album ‘Seeking Thrills’, the synth-pop maven will kick off her ‘Re-Seeking Thrills Tour’ on April 14, 2021 in Cardiff, with stops in Brighton, London, Dublin, Leeds, and Manchester. Sharing the news on Instagram, Georgia said: “Can’t believe I’m saying this but… Back on the road for 2021. It’s gonna be...
Watch metal band Destruction play their first socially-distanced shows in Switzerland
With coronavirus lockdown restrictions gradually easing across much of Europe, German thrash metal outfit Destruction have performed their first two shows to a socially-distanced audience. Read more: A campaign to save hundreds of UK venues from “closing forever” is working, but still needs support The band played to 250 fans on Friday (July 3) and to an audience of 300 the following night at the Z7 club in Pratteln, Switzerland, a venue which can usually accommodate 1,600 people. The band live-streamed a part of the show on Facebook, which you can see below, along with other pieces of fan footage....
Drake says his next album is 80% complete
Drake has shared an update with fans, revealing that his next studio album, the follow-up to 2018’s ‘Scorpion‘, is 80% complete. Read more: Drake: every single album and mixtape ranked and rated Posting an update on his Instagram Stories from his studio, the Canadian rapper seems well on the way with his next full-length project. Drake, who released his demos project ‘Dark Lane Demo Tapes’ back in May, shared a photo with the simple caption “80%” relating to progress on his next album. Album 80% done ovo fam pic.twitter.com/7EFDL2sqXO — Drake Fan ? (@TheDrakeLife) July 6, 2020 Advertisement Reviewing...
Mandy Moore calls Ryan Adams’ public apology “curious” being he hasn’t apologised privately
Mandy Moore has spoken out about her ex-husband Ryan Adams‘ recent public apology, calling it “curious” because he hasn’t yet apologised in private. Back in February 2019, Adams denied claims from several women – including one who was underage at the time – of emotional and psychological abuse, harassment, inappropriate and manipulative behaviour. In a letter penned to the Daily Mail and published on Friday (July 4), Adams apologised for how he has “mistreated people” and claims he now seeking professional help following the allegations after a period of “isolation.” Advertisement “All I can say is that I’m sorry. It’s that simple,” he...Recent Posts
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