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The 1975’s Matty Healy on his Rage Against The Machine comments at Leeds Festival: “We fucking love Rage so much”
The 1975‘s Matty Healy has looked back on the on-stage comments he made at Leeds Festival about replacing Rage Against The Machine as Reading & Leeds 2022 headliners, clarifying that he and his bandmates “fucking love Rage so much”. READ MORE: The 1975 on the cover: “I’d rather be a pretend supervillain than some pretend hero” The 1975 were called up to replace RATM as headliners just two weeks before the twin festivals took place in August, with the latter pulling out due to frontman Zack de la Rocha’s ongoing leg injury. Speaking on stage at Leeds Festival on August...
John Cale announces first new album in a decade ‘Mercy’ and shares Weyes Blood collaboration ‘Story Of Blood’
John Cale has announced details of his first new album in a decade, ‘Mercy’ – listen to his new track ‘Story Of Blood’, a collaboration with Weyes Blood, below. The founding Velvet Underground member will release the new album on January 20, 2023 via Domino. READ MORE: The Velvet Underground review: revisionist doc reworks narrative of New York rock and rollers The collaboration-heavy album also features turns from Animal Collective, Fat White Family, Sylvan Esso, Laurel Halo, Tei Shi, Actress and more. Advertisement Discussing his love of Weyes Blood, Cale said in a statement: “I’d been listening to Weyes...
Is Nicki Minaj dropping a new album this year?
Nicki Minaj has teased that she may release a new album by the end of the year following her recent record-breaking success. Back in August, the rapper debuted at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 with her latest single, ‘Super Freaky Girl’, making her the first solo female rapper to achieve the feat in almost a quarter of a century. READ MORE: Nicki Minaj: every album ranked and rated It’s one of two major feats Minaj accomplished with her first solo track in more than two years, as ‘Super Freaky Girl’ also became her first Number One hit as a...
Apink’s Jung Eun-ji shares tracklist for upcoming solo remake album ‘log’
Apink singer Jung Eun-ji has unveiled the tracklist for her forthcoming remake album ‘log’, due out November 2. READ MORE: Apink reflect on over a decade in the K-pop industry: “We are still standing strong” An official tracklist for the K-pop idol’s solo effort, set to be a remake album, was shared on Apink’s official Twitter page on October 18 at 10pm KST. ‘log’ is set to feature five remade tracks: ‘Blue Whale’ originally by YB, ‘Dream’ originally by Cho Yong-pil, ‘For Love’ originally by Kim Jong-hwan and ‘Around Thirty’ originally by Kim Kwang-seok. The record will be led...
Liam Gallagher says there’ll be no Oasis songs in ‘Knebworth 22’ because “angry squirt” Noel Gallagher “blocked them”
Liam Gallagher has claimed that there will be no Oasis songs in his upcoming Knebworth 22 documentary because Noel Gallagher “blocked them”. Announced earlier this week, Knebworth 22 will document Liam’s return earlier this summer to Knebworth, where he performed 26 years on from Oasis’ pair of 1996 shows at the Hertfordshire site. READ MORE: Liam Gallagher live in Knebworth: rock’n’roll star takes a leap of faith – and somehow pulls it off Asked by a fan on Twitter earlier this morning (October 19) whether Knebworth 22 will feature any Oasis songs, Liam claimed that his “angry squirt” brother Noel...
Music Venue Trust offer grants to grassroots venues with new Pipeline Investment Fund
The Music Venue Trust has launched a new grant scheme for small venues, offering them funding to help with purchases and staff training. Unveiled today (October 19), the Pipeline Investment Fund will offer grants of up to £5,000 to grassroots venues across the UK. These grants can be used to help with “small scale capital applications” including the purchasing of lighting and sound equipment and logistical alterations to their venue, as well as staff training and the diversification of workforces. Advertisement Details of the scheme and what constitutes a grassroots music venue can be found here, with applications to...
Listen to Jimmy Eat World’s hypnotic new single ‘Place Your Debts’
Jimmy Eat World have shared their new single ‘Place Your Debts’ – you can listen to the track below. Self-produced by the band, the song follows on from the four-piece’s June single ‘Something Loud’ and its subsequent acoustic rearrangement, which arrived in September. READ MORE: Jimmy Eat World – ‘Surviving’ review: an exorcism of depression and self-doubt ‘Place Your Debts’ was written by Jimmy Eat World in collaboration with Clark Baechle (The Faint) and Denver Dalley (Desaparecidos). “The ‘debt’ you rack up is the time you spend avoiding doing the work to know yourself,” frontman Jim Adkins explained in...
DMA’S announce 2023 UK tour behind new album ‘How Many Dreams?’
Fresh from announcing their fourth album, ‘How Many Dreams?’, DMA’S have shared details of a UK tour booked to go down next April. READ MORE: DMA’S on their new album ‘How Many Dreams?’: “It’s a bloody feel-good record” The run will kick off in Cambridge on Wednesday April 5, with shows in Exeter and Bournemouth to follow in quick succession. They’ll round that week out with a gig in Aylesbury on Sunday April 9, before rolling on to Wolverhampton, Lincoln, Bradford, Middlesbrough and Dundee over the following week. From there, the Australian indie rockers will play in Aberdeen, Glasgow...
George Floyd’s family preparing $250million defamation lawsuit against Kanye West
The family of George Floyd are preparing a defamation lawsuit against Kanye West, after the rapper made false, inflammatory comments about Floyd’s death in an interview. READ MORE: With his “White Lives Matter” stunt, has Kanye West finally hit the point of no return? In May of 2020, Floyd – a Black man who at the time was living in Minneapolis – was killed following an altercation with a white police officer. Emerging shortly after his death, distressing footage showed Floyd being restrained on a sidewalk by officer Derek Chauvin, who placed his knee on Floyd’s neck for over...Recent Posts
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