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Slipknot’s Corey Taylor says new solo album is “a hybrid of different genres”
Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor has given fans an idea of what to expect from his forthcoming debut solo album. Read more: The Big Read – Slipknot: “I’m just going to tell you the facts: this album is a masterpiece” The record was announced last year when Taylor said he was “putting a band together” to make his first solo work. In a new interview on Knotfest’s ‘Mosh Talks’, the singer said the record will draw on influences including Slade, Johnny Cash and Alice In Chains. Advertisement “The way I’ve been looking at it is it’s like a futuristic...
J. Cole responds to backlash following new track ‘Snow On Tha Bluff’, which appears to criticise Noname
J. Cole has responded to backlash sparked by his new single ‘Snow On Tha Bluff’, a surprise release which appeared yesterday, doubling down on the track’s lyrics which appear to criticise Noname. Much of the track saw the North Carolina artist rapping about an unnamed woman who is spending her time criticising a number of targets including capitalists, the police and celebrities, with Cole saying “I’m assuming she talking ’bout me“. Advertisement He continues: “Just ’cause you woke and I’m not, that shit ain’t no reason to talk like you better than me/ How you gon’ lead, when you...
R.A.E wins Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent Competition 2020
Glastonbury have announced R.A.E as the winner of this year’s Emerging Talent Competition. Read More: A love letter to Glastonbury – and why next year’s festival will be sweeter than ever The annual contest offers rising acts the chance to win a slot on one of the festival’s main stages, as well as a £5000 Talent Development prize from the PRS Foundation. Despite their 2020 event being cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak, Glasto organisers decided to go ahead with the competition as planned. Advertisement Over the course of this evening (June 17), the top three acts from the previously-announced eight finalists...
Fiona Apple and Blake Mills to appear on Bob Dylan’s new album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’
Fiona Apple and Blake Mills are set to appear on Bob Dylan‘s new album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’. Read More: ‘False Prophet’, the new song from Bob Dylan, suggests his upcoming album will be a late-career high point The legendary singer-songwriter will release his first original album in eight years on Friday (June 19), following up on 2012’s ‘Tempest’. Ahead of the LP’s arrival, a representative for Dylan has confirmed to Pitchfork that Apple and Mills contributed to the project in some capacity. The pair are credited among the album’s recording personnel, though specific details of their appearances are not yet...
Arca drops glitchy and blissful new single ‘Mequetrefe’ from forthcoming album ‘KiCk i’
Arca has shared the latest taste of her forthcoming album ‘KiCk i’ in the form of the glitchy and blissful single ‘Mequetrefe’. You can take a listen to the track below. The title comes from a word colloquially used in Spanish as a derogatory term for a man, which Arca, who is from Venezuela, has reclaimed for her new track. She said: “‘Mequetrefe’ invokes the tenderness behind expressing who you are without shame, and the confidence and bravery it requires, because expression of gender-nonconforming self-states in a public space can often result in static within your environment.” Advertisement It’s...
Metallica are working on a new album over Zoom during lockdown
Lars Ulrich has revealed that Metallica have been working on a new album over Zoom during the coronavirus-enforced lockdown. Read More: The show must go online: inside the rise of virtual gigs during the coronavirus crisis The drummer said back in April that there was “a very good chance” the band would utilise their extra downtime to produce a “quarantine record”, which would follow on from 2016’s ‘Hardwired… To Self Destruct’. Speaking to Swedish talk show host Fredrik Skavlan, Ulrich has now explained that Metallica had been “exchanging some ideas” over Zoom of late. Advertisement “So far, at least...
Beyonce and Jay-Z sued over ‘Black Effect’ vocal credit
Beyonce and Jay-Z are being sued by Jamaican dancer L’Antoinette Stines, who claims the pair didn’t give her due credit for her role in their song Black Effect. In papers filed on Tuesday and subsequently obtained by TMZ, Stines claims the couple contacted her in March 2018 to help them find the best dancers for a video promoting their ‘On The Run II’ tour. After helping them, Stines claims they asked her to record her opinions on love and was told it would be used in the video “for promotional purposes”. Advertisement Stines alleges she signed a contract on the...
Cardi B says new music is on the way: “It’s going to hit, too!”
Cardi B has told her fans once again that she’ll be releasing new music soon, saying “it’s going to hit, too!” The Bronx rapper’s last solo single release was ‘Press’, which came out over a year ago. She told fans just last month that her next single would be arriving “very, very soon”. Read more: Do give up the day job — what New York’s biggest stars did before they were famous New music has yet to materialise, however. Addressing fan questions on Twitter yesterday (June 16), Cardi told one Twitter user “I’m coming” in response to a tweet...
Paris Jackson’s band The Soundflowers announce debut EP
Paris Jackson has announced that she’ll team up with boyfriend Gabriel Glenn to release their debut EP as The Soundflowers. The five-track effort will arrive next week, featuring the tracks ‘Your Look (Glorious)’, ‘Geronimo’ and ‘Notes On A Ghost’. Paris, the daughter of the late Michael Jackson, formed the group with Gabriel after the pair met at Los Angeles’ Rainbow Bar and Grill where he was gigging with his band TrashDogs. Advertisement “I started writing around 13 when I bought myself a guitar but I didn’t really start sharing or recording it until I met Gabriel,” Paris said. View...Recent Posts
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