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Lizzo says she was bullied at school for being “different” and listening to Radiohead

Lizzo has recalled in a new interview how she was bullied at school for being “different” and listening to Radiohead. The artist has spoken about her experiences in a new profile with Vanity Fair, which explores her upbringing in both Detroit and Houston. READ MORE: Lizzo – ‘Special’ review: joyful superstar uplifts with self-assured, self-empowering bops Recalling how she always felt “different” (“although she isn’t sure if it was ‘good different’ or ‘bad different’”, the profile notes), Lizzo said that while her fellow students were getting into rap music (“which she loved, especially Houston rap”) she was also listening to...
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Bruno Mars confirms Silk Sonic will not be submitting their album for Grammys consideration

Bruno Mars has confirmed that Silk Sonic will not be submitting their debut album for consideration at next year’s Grammys. Mars and Anderson .Paak released ‘An Evening With Silk Sonic’ in November 2021, featuring the singles ‘Leave The Door Open’, ‘Skate’ and ‘Smokin Out The Window’. READ MORE: Silk Sonic – ‘An Evening With Silk Sonic’ review: an unashamedly retro delight While Silk Sonic picked up four Grammys – with ‘Leave The Door Open’ winning in the Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song categories – at the 2022 ceremony back...
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Arctic Monkeys say their new song ‘Sculptures Of Anything Goes’ is reminiscent of the ‘AM’ sound

Arctic Monkeys have shared some new details on their upcoming track ‘Sculptures Of Anything Goes’, likening it to the sound of their hit 2013 album ‘AM’. The song will appear on the Sheffield band’s seventh studio record ‘The Car’, which is due for release on October 21 via Domino (pre-order here). READ MORE: Arctic Monkeys live in Brooklyn: their next era has truly begun During a recent interview with the Dutch radio station NPO 3FM, frontman Alex Turner said that ‘Sculptures…’ finds the Monkeys in a “different” musical landscape. “We haven’t really been to that place I don’t think, sonically,”...
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Spice Girls share new version of ‘Spice Up Your Life’ video with unseen footage

Spice Girls have shared a new version of their 1997 video for ‘Spice Up Your Life’, featuring previously unseen footage. The video release comes as part of the celebrations around the forthcoming reissue of the girl group’s second album ‘Spiceworld’, which will honour its 25th anniversary next month. READ MORE: Spice Girls’ ‘Wannabe’ at 25: what we’ve learned from the iconic girl group since The new clip has been created entirely from unseen footage from the original video shoot for ‘Spice Up Your Life’, with the Spice Girls’ team, UMR and Bring It All Back’s Chris Fox all collaborating...
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Kanye West allegedly praised “Hitler and the Nazis” in past interview

Kanye West once praised “Hitler and the Nazis” during an interview with TMZ, an ex-staffer at the site has claimed. Van Lathan, who’s now the host of the Higher Learning podcast, said he wasn’t surprised by West’s recent antisemitic comments while recalling the time TMZ sat down with the rapper in 2018. READ MORE: With his “White Lives Matter” stunt, has Kanye West finally hit the point of no return? It was in that same conversation that Ye expressed controversial views on slavery, which resulted in a backlash. Advertisement “I’ve already heard him say that stuff before,” Lathan explained...
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Breakthrough for indie labels as Secretly Group Union sign contract with management

Members of the Secretly Group Union have secured a contract with the company for its employees. The union – which represents staff at indie labels such as Secretly Canadian, Dead Oceans and Jagjaguwar – shared the news yesterday (October 12). READ MORE: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – ‘Cool It Down’ review: a triumphant, rewarding return In a statement on social media, the SGU wrote: “We are ecstatic to announce that contract negotiations have concluded and our membership has voted to ratify the contract! Advertisement “This was a long and very difficult fight, but we could not be prouder to be...
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Watch Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson physically remove a fan from the stage

Iron Maiden‘s Bruce Dickinson physically removed a fan from the stage during the band’s recent show in Anaheim, California. The long-running group are currently in North America as part of their ‘Legacy Of The Beast World Tour’, which will conclude on October 27 in Tampa, Florida. READ MORE: Horns up! What’s driving film and TV’s metal revival? As Blabbermouth reports, Iron Maiden were closing their set at their September 22 show at Anaheim’s Honda Center with ‘Aces High’ when they were unexpectedly joined on-stage by a fan. Advertisement Dickinson, who initially appeared to beckon the fan on-stage, then proceeded...
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First look: Róisín Murphy’s acting debut in Netflix fantasy ‘The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself’

Róisín Murphy is set to make her acting debut as Mercury, a powerful witch in Netflix’s forthcoming series The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself, set to premiere on October 28. The fantasy drama series, based on Sally Green’s acclaimed 2014 young adult novel Half Bad, is set in a world in which factions of witches are in conflict and follows the story of Nathan Byrn, the son of a dangerous Blood Witch called Marcus Edge. “It’s about this young feller who wants to find himself,” Murphy explained to NME. “Doesn’t know his father. His father turns out to...
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Queen share rediscovered track featuring Freddie Mercury, ‘Face It Alone’

Queen have shared a rediscovered track featuring Freddie Mercury – listen to ‘Face It Alone’ below. Over the summer, Roger Taylor and Brian May revealed that they had unearthed a previously unreleased song by the band that had been sung by their late frontman. READ MORE: Queen’s Freddie Mercury: the maddest stories about rock’s best-loved hellraiser “And it’s wonderful,” Taylor told Zoe Ball during an interview on BBC Radio 2. “Actually, it was a real discovery. It’s from the ‘Miracle’ sessions.” May described the tune as “beautiful” and “touching”, adding: “It was kind of hiding in plain sight.” Advertisement Today (October...
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Kep1er drop eccentric music video for comeback single ‘We Fresh’

Kep1er have dropped their new comeback single ‘We Fresh’, the title track lifted from their new mini-album ‘Troubleshooter’. READ MORE: Kep1er: K-pop’s latest monster rookies are determined to become “the best girl group” of the next generation The K-pop girl group’s new EP dropped on October 13 at 6pm KST, alongside an accompanying music video for its lead single ‘We Fresh’. In the visual, the members of Kep1er are spotted having breakfast together in an otherwise empty diner, before the scene cuts to a futuristic, cyberpunk setting. “Roaring, we fresh / Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go / We...
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