FLO have shared details of their debut EP dropping this week. READ MORE: FLO – radiant London trio leading the next generation of girl groups ‘The Lead’ arrives this Friday (July 8) and marks the R&B trio’s debut collection of songs. “Surpriseee! We’re so excited to announce The Lead EP is dropping THIS FRIDAY 08/07/2022! ? We hope you love it as much as we do ❤️? Can’t wait to give you more ? pre-save pre-save pre-save,” the band wrote on Twitter yesterday (July 6). Advertisement Included on the five-song EP are the songs ‘Cardboard Box’, ‘Immature’, ‘Summertime’, ‘Feature...
Eurovision winners Kalush Orchestra have announced a North American headline tour for later in the year. READ MORE: Ukrainian Eurovision entry Kalush Orchestra: “This is the highest responsibility possible” There’s a total of 13 dates on the itinerary, with the run set to kick off at Seattle’s Club SUR on Thursday, October 20. The Ukrainian act chase it up with back-to-back shows in San Francisco, Denver and LA before rolling on to Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia and New York. The US dates will wrap up over the first week of November, with shows locked in for Washington DC, Miami and...
Lizzo has unveiled the tracklist for her upcoming fourth album ‘Special’ before it’s officially released next week. READ MORE: The Big Read – Lizzo: “If I feel worthy, then everyone gonna want to eat my pussy” As expected, the album will feature Lizzo’s most recent single ‘Grrrls’, which landed last month (and was subsequently altered to remove an ableist lyric). It’ll also feature April’s ‘About Damn Time’, however ‘Rumors’ – Lizzo’s collaboration with Cardi B, which they released last August – is absent from the tracklist. The full album will sport 12 songs, including one apparently named after Coldplay. As was the...
Blondie have shared a previously unheard demo version of ‘Go Through It’, formerly known as ‘I Love You Honey, Give Me A Beer’. READ MORE: Blondie live in Manchester: legends refuse to rest on their legacy with a blockbuster set The demo, which features on the band’s upcoming box set ‘Against the Odds: 1974 – 1982‘, hears frontperson Debbie Harry singing different lyrics to the version (‘Go Through It’) that was released on the band’s fifth album ‘Autoamerican’ (1980). ‘Go Through It’ also features mariachi horns, unlike the demo, and as Rolling Stone notes, ‘I Love You Honey…’ was possibly...
An LA judge has sentenced Nicki Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, to one year of home detention and three years of probation after he failed to register as a sex offender. Californian law states that Petty – who was convicted of first-degree attempted rape in 1995 – would have been required to register as a sex offender within five business days of moving to the state. According to federal court documents, Petty moved from New York to California in July of 2019 but failed to update his status. New York’s sex offender registry demands that a convicted offender must notify...
Calvin Harris has announced that his next single, ‘Stay With Me’, will arrive next week with guest spots by Justin Timberlake, Halsey and Pharrell. READ MORE: Calvin Harris live at Glastonbury 2022: Fans amplify the hit-fuelled Arcadia set The superstar DJ is readying the release of ‘Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2’, his first album in five years, next month and will treat fans with another advanced preview in ‘Stay With Me’. Harris shared the news with a photo of himself posing with the single’s collaborators in a sunny spot. He wrote in the caption that the song is dropping “next...
Disney once attempted to sign Dr. Dre, according to the rap giant’s attorney. READ MORE: Dr. Dre’s ‘The Chronic’: A 4/20 deep dive into the album that changed hip-hop forever During the latest edition of the Connection Is Magic podcast, Peter Paterno – who has also represented Pharrell, Metallica and Guns N’ Roses – recalled the period following the release of Dre’s seminal debut album, 1992’s ‘The Chronic’. “The first album that I was actually involved in was ‘2001’,” Paterno told host Samson Shulman. “So I was working with Dre, and came out and it blew...
Courtney Barnett has shared details of a new UK and Europe tour later this year. READ MORE: Courtney Barnett – “I was trying to retrain my brain to not get hung up on certain things and to see the beauty in those moments” The Australian singer-songwriter will play 14 shows in support of her latest album, ‘Things Take Time, Take Time’, kicking things off at Munich’s Neue Theaterfabrik on October 28 before wrapping at London’s Roundhouse on November 13 for Pitchfork Music Festival. Earlier this month Barnett supported The Rolling Stones for their 60th anniversary show at BST in...
Harry Styles and Ed Sheeran have scored the biggest singles and albums in the UK in 2022 so far. READ MORE: Harry Styles – ‘Harry’s House’ review: grounded star finds home is where the heart is Styles’ long running Number One hit ‘As It Was’ is the biggest single of the year beating Sheeran and Fireboy DML’s single ‘Peru’ into second place. The track, which has topped the charts for 10 weeks, racked up 95 million streams and was also the most physically purchased (11,000 units) and digitally downloaded (33,000 units) song of the year so far in the UK,...
Olivia Rodrigo has been pulling out a lot of surprises for her North American-European Sour tour, and on Wednesday (July 6), she invited Natalie Imbruglia to have a duet performance on the Australian singer’s 1997 hit “Torn” at the Eventim Apollo venue in London. A fan recorded a video of the two singers taking turns singing different parts of the song, with Imbruglia kicking off the first verse before joining in harmony for the chorus. The audience also vocalized along with them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veKMKvTwnUQ Upon concluding the duet, Rodrigo bowed at Imbruglia’s feet and embraced her. Imbruglia later took to...