News
Neil Young condemns use of his music by Donald Trump
Neil Young has condemned the use of his music by US President Donald Trump ahead of his Fourth of July speech at Mount Rushmore. Before Trump’s speech, three of Young’s songs were heard blasting from the speakers – ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’, ‘Like a Hurricane’, and ‘Cowgirl in the Sand’. Young took to Twitter to voice his disapproval. This is NOT ok with me… https://t.co/Q9j9NRPMhi — Neil Young Archives (@NeilYoungNYA) July 4, 2020 Advertisement Young continued with a subsequent tweet, voicing his support with the native Lakota Sioux people. I stand in solidarity with the Lakota Sioux &...
Jason Isbell shares his demo of ‘Maybe It’s Time’ from ‘A Star is Born’
Jason Isbell has shared a demo version of ‘Maybe It’s Time’, the song he wrote for the 2018 film version of A Star is Born. In the film, Bradley Cooper plays Jackson Maine, an alcoholic rockstar partly inspired by Eddie Vedder. Maine plays ‘Maybe It’s Time’ at several points throughout the film as his own song. His version of the song peaked at #93 on the Billboard charts, his first placing as a musical artist. The new release is the first time Isbell’s version of the song has been made available. It’s out on Bandcamp today as an acoustic demo,...
Prince’s sound engineer details how she created his infamous vault and saved his masters from the Universal Music Fires
Prince sound engineer Susan Rogers has revealed how she created the artist’s infamous vault and saved his masters from the 2008 Universal Music Fires. Rogers worked with Prince as an audio technician from 1983 to 1988. In an interview for Double J’s Take 5 podcast, Rogers revealed that she began to collate Prince’s vault as a “practical matter” when the artist would demand old reference tapes. “When I first started working for him, he would sometimes say to me at 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning ‘bring me this tape or that tape’. I realised I have to...
PVRIS delay album release to “make room and hold space for” Black Lives Matter
PVRIS have delayed the release of their new album ‘Use Me’ to “make room and hold space for” Black Lives Matter. Read more: How to support Black Lives Matter and anti-racist organisations if you can’t protest The band were initially due to release the album on May 1, but postponed it to July 10 due to “circumstances beyond control”. Now, the group have confirmed the record will come out on August 28. “I do not want to take up the space in promoting ‘USE ME’ at this moment in time therefore will be pushing the album release back...
Slash gives update on new Guns N’ Roses material
Slash has given an update on Guns N’ Roses’ new music, confirming that the band have been working on material while on enforced downtime due to the coronavirus pandemic. Read more: Sublime, meet ridiculous: Guns N’ Roses’ Download headline set reviewed The band were meant to be touring until September 2020 but were forced to cancel their dates because of the disease outbreak. During an interview with music store Sweetwater, the guitarist was asked if he’d finished any music projects while in lockdown. “I’ve been pretty much a homebody, but I’ve been back and forth between my studio in the...
Tyler Joseph says Twenty One Pilots could make “two very different records” next
Tyler Joseph has spoken about Twenty One Pilots’ next album, saying they could write “two very different records next”. Read more: The Skeleton Clique’s best fan theories about Twenty One Pilots’ next album The band are currently working on the follow-up to their 2018 release ‘Trench’, which marked their fifth studio album. Speaking to AltPress, Joseph said he wasn’t interested in reacting to current events, but admitted he wasn’t “really sure which direction we’re gonna go yet”. “There are two very different records, in my opinion, to be written,” he said. Advertisement Twenty One Pilots, Tyler Joseph CREDIT: Daniel...
The Front Bottoms announce new album ‘In Sickness & In Flames’ with new single ‘Montgomery Forever’
The Front Bottoms have announced their new album ‘In Sickness & In Flames’, and a new single and video titled ‘Montgomery Forever’. The New Jersey duo’s seventh studio album will be released on August 21 via Atlantic Records, with the video for their new single streaming below. Advertisement The band’s two previous singles, ‘Camouflage’ and ‘Everyone Blooms’ were released in December 2019 and April 2020 respectively, and will both feature on the new record. The full tracklisting is as follows. 01. Everyone Blooms 02. Camouflage 03. Jerk 04. The Truth 05. Montgomery Forever 06. The Hard Way 07. Leaf...
Lil Wayne releases reworked ‘Free Weezy Album’ to mark project’s fifth anniversary
Lil Wayne has shared a new version of his ‘Free Weezy Album’ on streaming services, in celebration of the project’s fifth anniversary. Read more: Lil Wayne, ‘Funeral’ review: the big kid refuses to grow up on this fitfully inspired surprise release Originally released in 2015, the new version that has appeared on streaming services features 12 of the record’s original 16 tracks, as well as a new song entitled ‘We Livin’ Like That’. A number of the 2015 songs are missing from the new version, however. They are ‘I Feel Good’, ‘Thinking About You’, ‘He’s Dead’ and ‘Without You’....
Go behind the scenes on Bring Me The Horizon’s socially-distanced ‘Parasite Eve’ video shoot
Bring Me The Horizon have shared a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the video for ‘Parasite Eve’. Read more: Bring Me The Horizon tell us about their new “survival horror song” ‘Parasite Eve’ and ambitious ‘Post Human’ project The music video was filmed during the coronavirus pandemic, which meant the band had to stick to social distancing regulations. In the five-minute making-of video, frontman Oli Sykes takes fans through the process of making the video. “Obviously cos we’ve all got to keep six-foot distance, that makes a music video hard,” he said. “Obviously performance element of us all...Recent Posts
Hayley Williams Announces 2027 UK and European Tour
The Opener: bronclair’s Intuitive Raps Find Beauty in the Mundane
Amyl & The Sniffers Join Viagra Boys for Live ‘In Spite Of Ourselves’ Debut
Tyler, The Creator Calls Out ‘Dead’ Crowd at All Points East
Maisie Peters Pays Tribute to Dolly Parton at Reading Festival 2026