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Taylor Swift becomes first act to claim entire Top 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100 song chart
Taylor Swift has become the first act in history to land 10 tracks in Billboard‘s Hot 100 song chart. READ MORE: Taylor Swift – ‘Midnights’ review: a shimmering return to pure pop The pop star has scored one of the most historic weeks in the 64-year history of the US song chart with the feat, surpassing Drake who logged nine of the Hot 100’s Top 10 songs for a week in September 2021 . All 10 songs in the US chart feature on Swift’s 10th album ‘Midnights‘, which was released on October 21 and has since gone on to break...
Check out footage from the ‘Meet Me In The Bathroom’ New York City premiere
Last night (October 30), Meet Me In The Bathroom premiered at New York City’s Webster Hall with performances from Adam Green and Wah Together as well as a conversation with the people behind the documentary. View footage and check out moments from the film discussion below. READ MORE: The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem and the New Golden Age of New York music: an interview with Lizzy Goodman Meet Me In The Bathroom, Lizzy Goodman’s 600-page oral history detailing the ’00s New York music scene was released in 2017. The film version of the book, directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace...
Rihanna made her return to music “for Chadwick Boseman”
Rihanna has said that she wanted to return to music to honour the late Chadwick Boseman READ MORE: Rihanna’s Super Bowl show will be an exhilarating reminder of her all-round brilliance The pop star, who released ‘Lift Me Up’ last week, was enlisted for a soundtrack contribution to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the upcoming 2022 sequel to Black Panther (2018) which saw Boseman star as T’Challa, the king of Wakanda. Director Ryan Coogler said at a recent press event that Rihanna wanted to contribute to the soundtrack “for Chad”. Advertisement Coogler said: “Look, Rihanna has given us a...
Watch Kelly Clarkson perform Soundgarden’s ‘Black Hole Sun’ on ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’
Kelly Clarkson has turned her attention to Soundgarden on her ‘Kellyoke’ segment for The Kelly Clarkson Show, performing the band’s signature song ‘Black Hole Sun’. The cover took place on Friday’s episode (October 28), for which she was joined by actors Josh Duhamel and Sosie Bacon. Clarkson donned a flannelette shirt for the performance, nodding to the fashion of the grunge movement in the early ’90s that Soundgarden were a part of. Watch the performance below: Advertisement ‘Black Hole Sun’ was originally released by Soundgarden in 1994, as the third single from their fourth studio album ‘Superunknown’. The song topped...
Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox celebrate Halloween with Black Sabbath cover
King Crimson‘s Robert Fripp and wife Toyah Willcox have returned with a special Halloween edition of their Sunday Lunch series, taking on Black Sabbath’s ‘Children Of The Grave’. READ MORE: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp’s 10 best lockdown covers – ranked! In typical Sunday Lunch fashion, Fripp played lead guitar with a menacing expression on his face, while Willcox handled lead vocals and an interpretive dance routine. Both were clad in Halloween costumes, with Fripp dressed as a mummy with giant black spiders all over his body, and Willcox with a spider of her own clasped around her bust. In the...
Alvvays dress up as ZZ Top for Halloween show, cover ‘La Grange’
Alvvays performed a Halloween show dressed as ZZ Top over the weekend, covering their song ‘La Grange’ during the set. READ MORE: Alvvays: “The only thing I know is to put my head down and keep swinging” The band took to the stage at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre on Saturday night (October 29), donned in black suits and fake long beards to replicate ZZ Top’s signature look. They then covered ‘La Grange’ – one of the band’s best-known songs, which is taken from their 1973 album ‘Tres Hombres’. Watch fan-shot footage of the cover below: .@alvvaysband covered ZZ Top dressed...
Kanye West apologises for George Floyd comments: “I know what it feels to have a knee on my neck right now”
Kanye West has once again spoken out about his current string of controversies, offering somewhat of an apology for his incendiary comments on the death of George Floyd while continuing to defend his recent displays of antisemitism. READ MORE: With his “White Lives Matter” stunt, has Kanye West finally hit the point of no return? On Friday night (October 28), West was approached by a group of paparazzi, one of whom noted to the rapper that “antisemitic statements are never really good for anybody”. Addressing that statement, West responded: “I didn’t realise that I could be considered antisemitic until I read...
Listen to Bob Vylan’s thundering new single ‘The Delicate Nature’
Bob Vylan have shared a thundering new single called ‘The Delicate Nature’ – listen to it below. READ MORE: Bob Vylan: “Resistance is expected when you’re talking about the things we talk about” The single is a collaboration between the band and Laurie Vincent of Slaves, who produced it. Speaking about the single, vocalist Bobby Vylan said ‘”The Delicate Nature’ came about when me and Laurie were bouncing ideas back and forth and he sent over a rough draft of the beat and something just clicked. Advertisement “This idea of life being a fleeting moment that can end or change at any moment is...
Green Day side project The Coverups pay tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis
Green Day side project The Coverups have paid tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis during a special gig this weekend. READ MORE: Jerry Lee Lewis, 1935-2022: an original rock’n’roller and the last of the gang to die The side project, made up of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt, began in 2018 as a covers band. The group also features Green Day touring musician Jason White. On Friday (October 28), the band performed a gig at Los Angeles’ Moroccan Lounge. Advertisement Of the 36 songs the band played, one included a rendition of “Great Balls Of Fire’ as...Recent Posts
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