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California band Slaves announce they are changing their name due to its perceived ties to racism
California post-hardcore band Slaves have announced that they are changing their name due to its perceived ties to racism. Read more: The stories behind 25 band names Taking to Instagram yesterday (June 26), the band released a statement regarding their name change. As individuals, as well as a collective, we hold certain virtues close to our hearts – honesty and transparency with our fans being some of the most important,” the statement began. Advertisement “The name ‘Slaves’ was conceived as a reference to the band’s battle with substance abuse in the past, to the idea that we become enslaved by...
Björk to live-stream three orchestral performances in aid of women’s charity
Björk will live-stream three gigs next month in partnership with Iceland Airwaves Festival, to raise money for Icelandic women’s charity Kvennaathvarfið. Read more: Björk’s ‘Cornucopia’ live in London: an audacious, expectation-disrupting spectacular from an artist unbothered with people-pleasing The musician will perform shows at Reykjavík’s Harpa Hall August 9, 15 and 23. They will be played to a live audience, which will be permitted under Iceland’s loosening lockdown laws. The first show will see Björk peform with the Hamrahlíð Choir, the second with strings from the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, and the third with the orchestra’s brass section and flute septet...
Kid Cudi shares teaser trailer for Kids See Ghosts animated show with Kanye West
Kid Cudi has shared a teaser trailer for a Kids See Ghosts animated show with Kanye West – watch it below. Read more: Kids See Ghosts – ‘Kids See Ghosts’ review The new CGI animated series is based upon ‘Kids See Ghosts’, the 2018 collaborative album that paired Cudi and West together. It featured the songs ‘Fire’ and the Pusha T-featuring ‘Feel The Love’. A new trailer, directed by Takashi Murakami, features the iconic Kanye West bear he used to promote his first three albums – ‘The College Dropout’, ‘Late Registration’, and ‘Graduation’. Advertisement The show’s bear is voiced...
Watch Incubus perform new lockdown version of ‘Agoraphobia’
Incubus have shared a new live version of ‘Agoraphobia’ – listen to it below. Read more: What’s the best acoustic song ever? Originally released in 2004, the song appeared on Incubus’ fifth studio album ‘A Crow Left of the Murder’. Now, the band have shared an acoustic rendition of the song with an accompanying video that brings new meaning to the lyrics “I wanna stay inside.” In the quarantine-style clip, frontman Brandon Boyd and guitarist Mike Einziger perform the song as black-and-white visuals of Jacques Drouin’s 1975 animation Mindscape flash on the screen. Advertisement According to Boyd, Incubus originally penned the track...
Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament shares surprise new solo EP ‘American Death Squad’
Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament has announced the surprise release of a new solo EP called ‘American Death Squad’ – you can take a listen below. Read More: Pearl Jam – ‘Gigaton’ review: one of the biggest rock bands in the world return to semi-brilliance Ament said that the EP, consisting of five short songs, was composed during lockdown after Pearl Jam’s planned 2020 tour dates were postponed due to the coronavirus. “In the days following the postponement of our tour, I found it necessary to find an outlet for the energy we had created going into the tour,”...
Listen to unearthed Tom Petty demo for ‘You Don’t Know How It Feels’
A newly unearthed demo of Tom Petty‘s ‘You Don’t Know How It Feels’ has been released – listen to it below. Read more: The Tom Petty NME obituary: 1950 – 2017: One of America’s greatest songwriters Discovered by Petty’s daughter, Adria Petty, after sorting through the music her father left behind following his death in 2017, she took a particular liking to the homemade demo from his 1994 album ‘Wildflowers’. “I thought, ‘What a weird song to pick as the single, of all those songs,’” she told Rolling Stone. “They had an album of amazing songs. But there’s something about...
Primus reschedule their Rush tribute tour for 2021
Primus have rescheduled their planned Rush tribute tour to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Read more: Neil Peart obituary, 1952-2020: The Professor of drums who weaved fantasy into rock This is the third time the California funk metal band have had to reschedule the tour that will see them perform Rush’s 1977 album ‘A Farewell To Kings’ in its entirety. You can find the new dates here. They were originally supposed to head out in 2019 but pushed it back in order to support Slayer on the final leg of their farewell tour. They then planned to hit the...
Watch Mac DeMarco debut new song ‘Fooled By Love’ on Colbert
Mac DeMarco has debuted a new song, entitled ‘Fooled By Love’, for a remote performance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Read More: Mac DeMarco: “I would love to make my own fucked up version of a Michael Bublé album” Colbert has taken a two week hiatus, but the late show continues to share remote performances from musical guests as part of the #PlayAtHome series. DeMarco’s performance features the show’s bandleader Jon Batiste on piano, as he plays poolside while a mannequin pig head rotates beside him. Watch it below: Advertisement DeMarco released his last studio album ‘Here Comes The Cowboy’...
Watch Haim launch ‘Women in Music Pt. III’ from a Los Angeles deli
Haim have shared the video of their livestream album launch for their new album ‘Women in Music Pt. III’ from the Los Angeles Deli Canter’s. The deli is the very same in which director Paul Thomas Anderson shot the album’s cover. During the performance, the band reveal it was also the site of their very first show as a young family band. The 30-minute set sees them run through six songs from the new album, including ‘Gasoline’, ‘I’ve Been Down’, ‘Summer Girl’ and more. Haim released ‘Women In Music Pt. III’ yesterday (June 26) via Polydor. The band’s livestream...Recent Posts
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