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Watch Killer Mike perform summer hit ‘Run’ on ‘Fallon’
Killer Mike performed his summer hit ‘Run‘ on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon yesterday (October 7). Check out footage of the moment below. READ MORE: Run the Jewels – ‘Run the Jewels 4’ review: a modern protest classic and their best work yet The Run The Jewels star also sat down with host Jimmy Fallon to talk about the track and reflect on his recent cameo in Ozark. ‘Run’ was Killer Mike’s first solo song since his 2012 album, ‘R.A.P. Music’. Both Dave Chapelle and Young Thug appear as guests on the track. Advertisement Watch the moment Killer Mike performed on Fallon here:...
The Who surprise fans with rare song during Long Island gig
The Who have surprised fans in Long Island with a song that’s only been played a handful of times by the band in the last 40 years. READ MORE: Roger Daltrey on the Teenage Cancer Trust, lockdown and performing live During the gig, which took place on October 7, Roger Daltrey and co played ‘Young Man’s Blues’ as an extra encore. The band haven’t played the song since a one-off in 2014, and it’s only been played six times in the last 40 years of the band’s touring history (via Rolling Stone). Advertisement The song, which was written by jazz pianist...
Low cancel all 2022 tour dates as Mimi Parker continues cancer treatment
Low have cancelled the remainder of their 2022 tour dates as the band’s Mimi Parker continues treatment for ovarian cancer. Parker, who formed the band with her husband Alan Sparhawk in 1993, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in late 2020. She first spoke about her health condition during an appearance on the SHEROES Radio podcast this January. In August, the band cancelled a string of shows due to “recent developments and changes” in Parker’s treatment. “Our hope is that she will respond to new treatments and be able to play the shows we have scheduled for the fall,” Low...
Maya Hawke turned father Ethan into a Taylor Swift fan: “It made me feel so confident”
Stranger Things star and singer-songwriter Maya Hawke has remembered turning her actor father Ethan into a Taylor Swift fan. Hawke, who released second studio album ‘Moss’ last month, was talking to The Line Of Best Fit for their ‘Nine Songs’ feature, about formative tracks in musicians’ lives. READ MORE: Maya Hawke: “I’m enjoying becoming more myself, less afraid” Choosing Taylor Swift’s 2010 track ‘Ours’, Hawke explained: “I remember that song very distinctly. My dad was such a powerful creative influence on me musically, he showed me so many songs and artists that I still listen to, and love and...
Cat Burns shares new songs ‘People Pleaser’ and ‘Sleep At Night’
Cat Burns has returned with two brand new songs – listen to ‘People Pleaser’ and ‘Sleep At Night’ below. READ MORE: Cat Burns: uplifting songwriter that wants to “help Black queer artists” tell their story The singer and NME 100 alumni released debut EP ‘Emotionally Unavailable’ earlier this year, and followed that up with ‘Go’, a collaboration with Sam Smith. Discussing the first of the new songs, ‘People Pleaser’, Burns said: “‘People Pleaser’ is what it says on the tin, my struggles with being a people pleaser and why I am one.” Advertisement Of ‘Sleep At Night’, she added: “’Sleep...
Check out this AI-generated video for Soundgarden’s ‘Black Hole Sun’
An AI has created a music video for Soundgarden‘s legendary 1994 hit ‘Black Hole Sun’ – check it out below. The new video was created by Midjourney, which describes itself as an “independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species”. Ahead of the Soundgarden video, the same bot was used last year for an equally stunning AI-generated video for Metallica hit ‘Enter Sandman’. Advertisement For the new ‘Black Hole Sun’ video, they instructed the bot to turn each of the lyrics in Chris Cornell‘s powerful song into a representative image....
Coachella sues Ghana’s Afrochella for trademark infringement
Coachella and its organisers Goldenvoice have filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Ghana-based festival Afrochella. According to the suit, which was filed in a California federal court on October 5, Goldenvoice claim that Afrochella (via Pitchfork) is “intentionally trading on the goodwill of well-known Coachella and Chella festivals and trademarks by actively promoting music events in the United States and in Ghana using the confusingly similar mark Afrochella” The suit continued: “Not simply content to imitate and attempt to trade on the goodwill of Coachella, Defendants even went so far as to apply in Ghana to register Coachella as...
Caroline Polachek shares track written for Kurt Cobain opera
Caroline Polachek has shared a new track written for Kurt Cobain-inspired opera Last Days. READ MORE: All the action from Coachella 2022 weekend one – in stunning photos Oliver Leith’s Last Days opera is based on Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film of the same name, which was inspired by the missing five days between Cobain absconding from a rehab facility in Los Angeles and killing himself in an outbuilding of his Seattle home. It is currently being performed at London’s Royal Opera House until October 11. Polachek’s aria, ‘Non Voglio Mai Vedere Il Sole Tramontare’, was produced by Danny...
Fiona Apple shares new song for ‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power’
Fiona Apple has shared a new song inspired by a J.R.R. Tolkien poem and released it to mark the season finale of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. READ MORE: Fiona Apple – ‘Fetch The Bolt Cutters’ review: an intoxicating and excoriating listen that will cut deep ‘Where The Shadows Lie’ arrived yesterday (October 7) to mark the end of the first season of the hit Amazon Prime Video show which, following the release of the first two episodes on September 2, earned 25million viewers in the first 24 hours and became the biggest opening premiere in...Recent Posts
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