Joey DeFrancesco has died, his wife and manager Gloria DeFrancesco has confirmed. READ MORE: 20 of the best jazz songs The renowned jazz organist, composer and bandleader who worked with acts including Ray Charles, Van Morrison and Bette Midler was 51 years old. “The love of my life is now in peace with the angels,” wrote Gloria on Instagram on Friday (August 26). “Right now I have very few words. Thank you for the outpouring of love and support coming in from everywhere. Joey loved you all.” A cause of death was not provided. View this post on Instagram...
Latto has teamed up with Planned Parenthood to make a public service announcement about abortion rights in the wake of Roe vs Wade. READ MORE: Latto – “For female rappers, this stuff doesn’t happen overnight. Period” The rapper, who has previously advocated for pro-choice, has urged viewers to join the fight for abortion rights and access after the US Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe vs Wade, allowing states to individually set their own laws on abortion. “We already know who’s going to be hurt the most by these ridiculous abortion bans: Black women, Brown women, the LGBTQ+ community,...
Asif Kapadia, the Oscar-winning director of Amy Winehouse film Amy, is to create a new docuseries about Camden’s musical history. READ MORE: Asif Kapadia on his new ’70s music doc: “It was such a drug-infused time” The four-part series, titled Camden, is being created for Disney+, and its reveal comes as part of the announcement of a handful of new projects for the streaming service, including a Keanu Reeves-starring documentary about a Formula 1 team, a show on the recent ‘Wagatha Christie’ trial and another documenting fashion in the ’90s. A synopsis for the new show reads: “Camden is...
Lawyers for Megan Thee Stallion are trying to force Warner Music Group (WMG) to share information that they think would reveal who leaked her latest album ‘Traumazine‘. READ MORE: Megan Thee Stallion live at Reading Festival 2022 – A joyful dose of ‘real hot girl shit’ WMG owns the rapper’s distributor, 300 Entertainment, and according to Stallion’s legal filing is “one of the few companies that received a copy of ‘Traumazine’ in advance of its formal release”. Her legal team, however, is not accusing WMG itself of the leak. Stallion, whose real name is Megan Pete, asked her lawyers...
Jennifer Lopez performed a new and unreleased song of hers for her new husband Ben Affleck during their wedding this month. The pair got married in Georgia earlier in August, and new footage obtained by TMZ shows Lopez performing a fully choreographed routine during the festivities. The song, seemingly titled ‘Can’t Get Enough’, includes the lyrics: “All night / I can feel the passion / in your eyes / I’m still in love with you.” Advertisement The Georgia ceremony came after the pair officially tied the knot at an intimate ceremony in Las Vegas last month. An Instagram post shared...
Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has revealed that he composed the soundtrack for the second season of BBC drama The Capture. READ MORE: Dave Rowntree tells us about debut solo single ‘London Bridge’ – and what’s next for Blur The first episode of the six-part season aired last night (August 28) with the second coming tonight (August 29), following on from a first season in 2019. Sharing the news of his score, Rowntree tweeted: “Watching the new series of The Capture tonight with friends. Hope you are too! Score by lil ol me and .” Advertisement A synopsis of the new...
Ed Sheeran was joined at his Poland gig last week (August 26) by Ukrainian band Antytila – watch them give a live debut of their collaborative remix of ‘2step’. READ MORE: Ukrainian band Antytila talk to us from the frontline: “We try to show people some light” Earlier this year Antytila reached out to Sheeran asking if they could perform remotely at the ‘Concert For Ukraine’ fundraiser event in Birmingham. Organisers refused because the event is “only able to focus on the humanitarian situation” and the band are currently fighting the Russians in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, but Sheeran did...
K-pop girl group Billlie have released a music video teaser for their upcoming single ‘RING ma Bell (what a wonderful world)’. READ MORE: New generations: SNSD, NewJeans and the evolution of K-pop girl groups Earlier today (August 29), the seven-member act uploaded a sneak peek of ‘RING ma Bell (what a wonderful world)’, the lead single of their upcoming mini-album ‘the Billage of perception: chapter two’. The music video and mini-album will drop on August 31 at 6PM KST. In the new clip, Billlie sit in a dilapidated classroom as member Tsuki runs to pick up an electric guitar....
The National played a surprise, secret acoustic set at Edinburgh’s Connect Festival in memory of Frightened Rabbit‘s Scott Hutchison – see footage below. READ MORE: The National on new music: “It’s the whole history of the band, but with a new exploration” Yesterday (August 28) festival-goers were alerted to the message, “Secret set added – 7.45pm at the Tiny Changes x Gardeners Cottage”, and soon discovered that The National’s Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner were performing at the Scottish festival’s new stage to pay tribute to their late friend. The band, who were headlining the festival, played ‘Sorrow’...
HYBE subsidiary ADOR has released a lengthy statement addressing the controversy surrounding the lyrics of ‘Cookie’, a single by the label’s artist and rookie girl group NewJeans. On August 27, the label uploaded a statement to its official website in Korean and English addressing concerns surrounding the lyrical content of ‘Cookie’, which is part of the group’s debut EP ‘New Jeans’. After its release on August 1, the song came under fire by listeners criticising the lyrics as “sexual” and inappropriate due to the ages of NewJeans’ members, which range from 14 to 18 (15 to 19 years in...
