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Robbie Williams announces 25th anniversary reissue of ‘Life Thru A Lens’
Robbie Williams has announced a special 25th anniversary reissue of his 1997 debut album ‘Life Thru A Lens’. The singer originally released his first solo LP in September 1997, which featured such songs as ‘Angels’, ‘Let Me Entertain You’ and ‘Old Before I Die’. READ MORE: Robbie Williams on Damon Albarn, Morrissey and the dark side of Take That: “I have a cannon-full of quotes” Williams will now release a deluxe edition of ‘Life Thru A Lens’ via UMC/Island Records on December 2 to celebrate the record’s 25th anniversary. Pre-order is available now from here, with the reissue set...
M.I.A. says she’s “not really” an anti-vaxxer after Sandy Hook comments
M.I.A. has clarified her stance on COVID vaccines, saying she’s “not really” an anti-vaxxer after she was criticised earlier this week. Yesterday (October 13), the singer faced a backlash for a tweet which compared alt-right figure Alex Jones’ falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting to celebrities “pushing” vaccines. Jones was this week ordered to pay nearly $1billion in damages after falsely claiming for years that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School never happened. Advertisement “If Alex Jones pays for lying shouldn’t every celebrity pushing vaccines pay too?” M.I.A. wrote, before comparing Jones’ misinformation to “Pfizer lying” in a...
Matty Healy on The 1975 being a “post-Arctic Monkeys” band
The 1975 frontman Matty Healy has spoken to NME about his group being “post-Arctic Monkeys” – and how they could “still be the most important band” of the decade ahead. READ MORE: The 1975 on the cover: “I’d rather be a pretend supervillain than some pretend hero” Speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story to mark the release of their fifth album, ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, Healy discussed the legacy and future of The 1975, as well as how he feels about being labelled as a ‘band’. Speaking in 2018, Healy hailed Arctic Monkeys...
Criss Angel almost killed Ginuwine in magic stunt gone wrong
R&B star Ginuwine was almost killed by magician Criss Angel while partaking in a stunt for an upcoming TV show. For a segment on Magic With The Stars, Ginuwine was asked to hold his breath underwater while submerged in a glass cube. A video obtained by the Daily Mail sees the singer hitting the side of the cube with his hand to attract the attention of staff on the show, who eventually brought him out of the cube and laid him on the ground after Ginuwine passed out. Advertisement According to the report, the singer was taken away from...
Billy Bragg responds after J.K. Rowling accuses him of “misogyny” over trans comments
Billy Bragg has responded to J.K. Rowling after the Harry Potter author accused the musician of “misogyny” for voicing his support of Graham Norton’s views on transgender rights. READ MORE: Billy Bragg – ‘The Million Things That Never Happened’ review: an ode to common ground Yesterday (October 13), Bragg shared a clip of Norton discussing ‘cancel culture’ and trans rights at the recent Cheltenham Literature Festival. “Norton really good here on John Cleese, telling him that ‘cancel culture’ is just accountability, and JK Rowling, suggesting that the media talk directly to trans teens and their parents rather than merely...
Yard Act announce new UK and Ireland shows for 2023
Yard Act have announced four UK and Ireland shows for 2023 which will bring the curtain down on the band’s tour behind their debut album, ‘The Overload’. Released back in January, ‘The Overload’ has been nominated for next week’s 2022 Mercury Prize. READ MORE: Yard Act on humour, social unrest and making “prog, honky tonk” with Elton John Having toured extensively this year in support of the record – the band were named as this summer’s most-booked new act at European festivals – Yard Act will now “put ‘The Overload’ tour schedule to bed” with four of their biggest...
Louis Tomlinson shares new track ‘Out Of My System’ and 2023 UK and European tour dates
Louis Tomlinson has shared a new track called ‘Out Of My System’ and announced a 2023 UK and European tour – listen to the track below and buy tickets for the tour here. ‘Out Of My System’ is the latest preview of the singer’s second solo album ‘Faith In The Future’, which follows his debut full-length effort, 2020’s ‘Walls’, and will be released on November 11. You can pre-order/pre-save the record here. READ MORE: Louis Tomlinson on finding his artistic identity: “It’ll be an ever-evolving process” Tomlinson’s forthcoming album was produced by Mike Crossey, who’s previously worked with the likes...
SM Entertainment to terminate contract with chief producer Lee Soo-man
SM Entertainment is set to terminate its production contract with founder and chief producer Lee Soo-man at the end of the year. According to a report by Yonhap News Agency, SM Entertainment’s board of directors have decided to terminate their production contract with Like Planning, a music production company run by Lee, by December 31 – a year earlier than initially planned. SM Entertainment has been outsourcing music production to Like Planning for over 20 years. The early termination of Lee’s contract with the agency comes off the heels of investors from Align Partners Capital Management – which owns...
Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s new cover of Commodores’ ‘Nightshift’
Bruce Springsteen has released ‘Nightshift’, a cover of the Commodores original, lifted from the singer’s forthcoming album. READ MORE: Every single Bruce Springsteen album ranked in order of greatness ‘Nightshift’ first appeared on the tracklist of Commodores’ titular 1985 album, and was written as a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson (both of whom died the year prior). For his part, Springsteen stays true to the original, carrying the soulful tune atop a supporting band of brass, strings and backing vocalists. The track is accompanied by a music video directed by longtime Springsteen collaborator Thom Zimny. The director...Recent Posts
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