Spice Girls have announced a new and expanded 25th anniversary edition of their 1997 album ‘Spiceworld’. Curated by the band themselves, ‘Spiceworld 25’ apparently brings together the original chart-topping record with some of their favourite bonus tracks and B-Sides, along with previously unreleased live recordings from the Virgin Records archive. “The ‘Spiceworld’ era was such a fun time for us,” said Spice Girls in a statement. “We’d just had a number one album with Spice, we were travelling all over the world and meeting our amazing fans, we released our second album AND we had our very own movie!...
Slipknot guitarist Jim Root has criticised the “backwards” message of Rage Against The Machine‘s classic protest song ‘Killing In The Name’. The explicit, politically-charged single was released back in 1992, and features on RATM’s self-titled debut album. It was written about the abuses of power and issues within US society. READ MORE: Slipknot: “I’m just going to tell you the facts: ‘We Are Not Your Kind’ is a masterpiece” Back in 2020, guitarist Tom Morello said that the track’s “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” chant remains a “universal sentiment” despite its simplicity. He also responded to...
Måneskin have announced a new single called ‘The Loneliest’ – check out the official artwork below. READ MORE: “The NME Big Read – Måneskin: “Nobody is keeping rock’n’roll alive – it’s just impossible to kill” The Italian band are due to release the track next Friday (October 7). You can pre-save/pre add it here. ‘The Loneliest’ will follow on from Måneskin’s latest single ‘Supermodel’, which came out in May, and the group’s recent ‘If I Can Dream’ cover from the new Elvis biopic. See the announcement tweet below. Down these hearts’ depth.THE LONELIEST out on October 7th. Pre-save /...
Frank Ocean has wiped his Instagram, leading fans to assume new music is on the way. READ MORE: 454: the Florida rap star being championed by Frank Ocean and Denzel Curry Ocean last released an album in 2016 with ‘Blonde’ and just a handful of singles including ‘DHL’ and ‘In My Room’ have being released since. Ocean also shared previously unreleased music to soundtrack his radio show celebrating the ten-year anniversary of 2012’s Channel Orange’ back in July and also dropped ‘Cayendo’ and ‘Dear April’ on streaming services earlier this year, with the tracks previously being vinyl exclusives. Advertisement Yesterday...
Hit The Lights guitarist Kyle Maite has died at the age of 37. The Ohio pop-punk band shared the news on their social media pages on Friday (September 23), writing: “It is with the heaviest hearts we at HTL have to announce the passing of our brother, friend and guitarist Kyle Maite. “He left us on Tuesday morning , and everything is different now. Our lives have lost a glow. He is survived by his amazing wife and two beautiful children, and it’s absolutely unbearable to think about life without him here.” The statement continued: “We’re all a...
Arctic Monkeys are set to appear on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this week. READ MORE: Arctic Monkeys live in Brooklyn: their next era has truly begun The band filmed the performance while in New York to play an intimate “phone-free” concert at the 3,000-capacity Kings Theatre in Brooklyn recently. It came after recent slots at Primavera Sound Los Angeles and Life Is Beautiful in Las Vegas. Davey Latter, AM’s percussionist and drum tech, confirmed the group’s Fallon appearance on his Instagram Stories feed last Tuesday (September 20). He shared a behind-the-scenes image from the set, writing: “Tomorrow night,...
Will.i.am has claimed he was the inspiration behind Beyoncé’s ‘Break My Soul’ remix EP. READ MORE: Beyoncé – ‘Renaissance’ review: a celebration of love and Black joy Earlier this year, Beyoncé released a four-track EP featuring remixes of the ‘Renaissance’ track from the likes of Honey Dijon, Terry Hunter and Nita Aviance. According to will.i.am though, the whole thing would never have happened without him. Speaking to Metro, he said: “I was in France and her song (‘Break My Soul’) came out and I’m like, ‘I wish the beat did this.’ So I called my collab partner and we...
BLACKPINK have become the first female K-pop act to debut at Number One on the Billboard 200 chart. READ MORE: BLACKPINK – ‘Born Pink’ review: K-pop titans consolidate their identity On September 25, Billboard revealed that the quartet’s sophomore studio album ‘Born Pink’ had debuted at the top of its weekly Billboard 200 albums chart for the week ending September 22. This makes BLACKPINK the first female K-pop act ever, as well as the first all-female group since 2008, to do so. The record reportedly earned 102,000 equivalent album units in its release week, of which 75,500 comprised album...
Primus figurehead Les Claypool has responded to Willow covering their 2022 song ‘Conspiranoia’. READ MORE: Willow: “Humans have never been good at accepting that people are different” Willow posted her take on the ‘Conspiranoid’ song to Instagram earlier this week alongside the caption “I fucking love Primus. If you haven’t listened to <Conspiranoid> … that’s a big issue.” Primus’ Claypool then responded, writing: “Fine guitar pickin’ there young fiery lass”. Advertisement Willow replied, saying “I’m shitting my pants with gratitude rn” and changed her Instagram name to Fiery Young Lass. View this post on Instagram A post shared by...
K-pop quartet MAMAMOO will be making their highly anticipated return in October. READ MORE: Hwasa: “I’m still in the phase of trying to find a balance and trying to feel alive” On September 27 at midnight KST, RBW Entertainment unveiled a teaser poster announcing the girl group’s forthcoming return. Titled ‘Mic ON’, MAMAMOO’s 12th mini-album will be released on October 11 at 6PM KST. “MAMAMOO has turned on its mics and is ready to make some noise,” the agency said of the record’s title, per Korea JoongAng Daily. Details such as the record’s tracklist are expected in the coming...