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Watch Lizzo’s emotional acceptance speech at the 2022 Emmy Awards

Lizzo delivered one of the most emotional moments at tonight’s Emmy Awards. The singer’s Prime Video reality series Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, which follows 13 women as they compete to join her troupe of backing dancers, won the Outstanding Competition Prize – ahead of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the winner in each of the four previous years. Accepting her trophy in tears, Lizzo gave a sweet shout-out to the show’s contestants, saying: “The trophy is nice, but my emotion is for these people who are on the stage with me. The stories that they shared, they’re not...
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Nick Cave on playing live being part of his grieving process: “The care from the audience saved me”

Nick Cave has discussed finding comfort throughout the grieving process in his audience when performing live, following the deaths of two of his sons in the past seven years. READ MORE: EXIT Festival 2022 day two review – Nick Cave delivers an unforgettable emotional release Cave’s son Arthur died in 2015 after falling from a cliff in Ovingdean, near Brighton. In May of this year, Cave’s son Jethro Lazenby also died, at the age of 31. The musician later thanked fans for sending their “condolences and kind words”, adding that they were “a great source of comfort”. In a new,...
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Kanye West and Drake lead nominations for the 2022 BET Hip Hop Awards

Nominations for the BET Hip Hop Awards have been announced, with Kanye West and Drake leading with 14 and 10 nods respectively. Both West and Drake have been nominated for Hip Hop Album Of The Year for last year’s ‘Donda’ and ‘Certified Lover Boy’ respectively, and are up against Future (‘I Never Liked You’), Pusha T (‘It’s Almost Dry’), Nas (‘King’s Disease II’) and Kendrick Lamar (‘Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers’). Me ?? classic Hip Hop albums The #HipHopAwards nominations for Hip Hop Album of the Year are: @Latto@Drake@KanyeWest@1Future@Pusha_T@Nas@KendrickLamar#BET pic.twitter.com/SPu7nCyVgk — BET (@BET) September 12, 2022 Advertisement Notably,...
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Metallica’s Kirk Hammett launches new project writing and soundtracking his own horror story

Metallica guitarist and passionate horror enthusiast Kirk Hammett has launched a new project, in which he soundtracks an eerie story he has penned comprised of fictional journal entries. READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Metallica’s Kirk Hammett On September 11, Hammett shared a link on social media to a TikTok video that pairs footage of a winding road with moody, fingerpicked acoustic guitar. Alongside that, he linked to his Kirk Hammett Horrors Reddit page, in which he shares the first chapter of a story he’s called I Have to Get Rid of This Guitar I Found....
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Yungblud announces North American tour dates

Yungblud has announced tour dates in North America for 2023 – find full details below and get your tickets here. READ MORE: Yungblud: “This album is about reclaiming my name and humanising the caricature” The musician released his third album, titled ‘Yungblud’ earlier this month (September 2), following his 2020 album ‘Weird!’. His upcoming ‘Yungblud The World Tour’ is due to begin in Mexico City on October 10, before continuing next February in the UK. Advertisement The UK leg of the tour will begin in Cardiff on February 16 at the Motorpoint Arena, with shows in Birmingham, Manchester and more...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs announce surprise show at Chicago’s The Metro

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced a surprise show at Chicago’s The Metro. View ticket details below. READ MORE: Yeah Yeah Yeahs live in Manchester – indie sleaze icons triumphantly kick off ‘Cool It Down’ era The announcement comes ahead of the band’s fifth album, ‘Cool It Down’, which is set for release later this month. “They don’t love you like we do Chicago!” the band shared on Twitter. Tickets will be on sale September 13 at 11am local time here. They don't love you like we do Chicago! Surprise show at @MetroChicago Sept 19th. Tickets on sale Sept 13th at...
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Suede announce UK headline tour for 2023

Suede have announced headline UK tour dates for March 2023 – see full dates below and find tickets here. READ MORE: Suede perform new single ‘She Still Leads Me On’ and talk “raw, angry, nasty” new album The tour will support the band’s ninth studio album ‘Autofiction’, which is due for release on September 16 via BMG (pre-order/pre-save here). The forthcoming album – the follow-up to 2018’s ‘The Blue Hour’ – has been previewed by the recent singles ‘That Boy On The Stage’, ‘She Still Leads Me On’ and ’15 Again’. Advertisement Suede are set to embark on a UK record shop tour...
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Lewis Capaldi recreates Wham!’s ‘Club Tropicana’ video for new single ‘Forget Me’

Lewis Capaldi has shared the video for his new single ‘Forget Me’, in which he recreates Wham!‘s ‘Club Tropicana’ – watch below. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Lewis Capaldi: “I make jokes because I’m comfortable with who I am” ‘Forget Me’ is the Scottish singer-songwriter’s first new original material since the release of the extended edition of his 2019 debut album ‘Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent’. The single’s video, filmed at Pikes Hotel by award-winning director Louis Bhose, sees Capaldi duplicate the 1983 Wham! video ‘Club Tropicana’, shot for shot. Advertisement “‘Forget Me’ is a song that’s so dear...
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Sam Fender cancels upcoming US tour dates to “look after my own mental health”

Sam Fender has cancelled his remaining 2022 US tour dates to look after his mental health. Read his statement below. READ MORE: Sam Fender announces huge 2023 stadium show at Newcastle’s St. James’ Park: “It’s a really, really big thing for us” Fender was set to perform in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver later this month, along with supporting Florence And The Machine at New York City’s Madison Square Garden and a festival set at Las Vegas’ Life Is Beautiful. “It seems completely hypocritical of me to advocate discussion on mental health and write songs about it if I don’t take...
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Weyes Blood announces new album ‘And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow’, shares first single

Weyes Blood has announced details of her new album ‘And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow’ and shared its first single, ‘It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody’. READ MORE: Weyes Blood on ‘Titanic Rising’, her vital climate change wake-up call: “It’s not music that’s going to save us – it’s activism” The California artist, real name Natalie Mering, will release the follow-up to ‘Titanic Rising’ on November 18 via Sub Pop. ‘Titanic Rising’ was the first album of three in a special trilogy, which placed emphasis on the doom to come. ‘And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow’, meanwhile, is described as...
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