Pusha T has added a new London gig at Brixton Academy to his UK and Ireland tour later this year behind new album ‘It’s Almost Dry’. READ MORE: Pusha T: “I’ve won the wars. I have withstood everything” The rapper performed in the capital yesterday (August 19) in support of Gorillaz for their huge show as part of the All Points East festival, and will return in December. Earlier this year, Pusha announced gigs that will begin in Manchester on December 14, then going on to visit Birmingham (December 15) and Bristol (December 18) before wrapping up in Dublin on...
Cassyette has shared a new video for her single ‘Sad Girl Summer’, which sees her hosting a goth beach party – watch it below. READ MORE: Cassyette: “Touring with Frank Carter was huge… it became a big learning curve” The new video comes ahead of festival performances at Reading & Leeds next weekend and a UK headline tour next month. In a statement, she said of the new video: “’Sad Girl Summer’ was so much fun to film. I got to smash up a whole table of stuff…I had a baseball bat and whacked the shit out of everything....
Tonight (August 20), The 1975 made their live return in Japan, playing the first of two gigs as part of the Summer Sonic Festival – watch them debut a new song called ‘I’m In Love With You’ below. READ MORE: New song ‘Part Of The Band’ finds The 1975 ripping up their own rule book The gigs mark the band’s first live shows since they performed in Dublin in March 2020, and come ahead of a last-minute pair of headline gigs at Reading & Leeds (August 26-28), where they’ve replaced Rage Against The Machine, who were forced to pull out...
Låpsley has announced details of her third album, ‘Cautionary Tales Of Youth’, and shared a new single called ‘Dial Two Seven’ – listen to that below. The new album follows the singer’s 2020 LP ‘Through Water’ and is set to be released on January 20, 2023. According to a statement, the new single looks back on the singer’s time locked down in South Africa after being invited there in early 2020. Advertisement She says that the aim of the track is “to celebrate those experiences I had in South Africa over lockdown. It came together so quickly with one...
The National‘s Aaron Dessner says he has “picked up a focus” in his songwriting and production since working with Taylor Swift. READ MORE: The National on new music: “It’s the whole history of the band, but with a new exploration” Dessner co-produced and wrote on Swift’s 2020 albums ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’, and also worked on numerous “From the Vault” tracks that appear on Swift’s re-recorded versions of ‘Fearless’ and ‘Red’ that arrived last year. Last March, after ‘Folklore’ won a Grammy for Album of the Year, Dessner credited Swift with “restoring faith in music,” and has opened up again on the influence she has...
The Struts have returned with a new single called ‘Fallin’ With Me’ – check it out below. The new track is the Derby band’s first new music since signing to the Big Machine label earlier this year. READ MORE: The Struts are Dave Grohl’s favourite support band, so why are they ignored in the UK? Discussing the new track, frontman Luke Spiller said: “The song’s lyrics were written down whilst on numerous nights out with someone that I was seeing at the time. We always kept meeting at the same place on the Sunset Strip and after a while I...
Gorillaz headlined London’s All Points East last night (August 19) and debuted a new collaboration with Tame Impala and Bootie Brown – watch them play ‘New Gold’ below. The band played the Victoria Park festival to kick off the second part of their 2022 European tour, and were supported by IDLES, Turnstile, Yves Tumor, Self Esteem, Femi Kuti, Obongjayar, NewDad, Remi Wolf, Gabriels, Ibeyi, Nia Archives and Willow Kayne. During their headline set, they brought out a bounty of special guests including De La Soul, Happy Mondays‘ Shaun Ryder, Popcaan, Moonchild Sanelly and Mos Def. Advertisement Half way through the set, they then debuted a brand new song called ‘New...
Robert Plant has discussed playing Led Zeppelin songs live and the idea of reuniting the band, saying it wouldn’t “satisfy my need to be stimulated”. READ MORE: Led Zeppelin – rank the albums The legendary band split up in 1980 following the death of drummer John Bonham. They have since reunited several times, most recently in 2007, but only for one-off gigs. At his solo shows, Plant often performs Zeppelin songs though. Speaking to The Los Angeles Times in a new interview, Plant, who released a new collaborative album with Alison Krauss this year, discussed revisiting the songs and one...
A stark warning has been released that the impending energy crisis could pose a greater threat to UK grassroots music venues than the COVID pandemic unless the government takes immediate action. Earlier this week, five organisations representing the UK hospitality sector penned an open letter to the UK government, highlighting “rocketing energy prices” that are forecast to become “a matter of existential emergency” later this year – and demanding that the government act soon to prevent a catastrophe to UK culture. In the hospitality sector, operators are facing average annual bill increases in the region of at least 300...
Loyle Carner has announced his third album is on its way, sharing a release date and tracklist for the forthcoming ‘Hugo’. READ MORE: Loyle Carner: “All the best things about me come from my ADHD” The English-Guyanese rapper shared the news yesterday (August 19) with a teaser video, in which he spraypaints the release date — October 21, 2022 — on a ‘Hugo’ poster. Advertisement The ten-track record will feature his recently released singles ‘Hate’ and ‘Georgetown’, the latter of which was produced by Madlib and samples a performance by the Guyanese poet John Agard of his acclaimed poem Half-caste. “John...