Noel Gallagher has been criticised for “belittling the experience of disabled music fans” after comments he made about his experience at Glastonbury Festival. After the Oasis man played the Pyramid Stage on the festival’s Saturday night (June 25), he remained at Worthy Farm to watch a number of sets, including Jamie T‘s headline slot on the John Peel Stage on Sunday night. On a new appearance on The Matt Morgan Podcast, Gallagher revealed that, unable to get a vantage point for the show at the front, he and his friends instead watched from the tent’s disabled platform, which he...
RBW Entertainment’s newest girl group PURPLE KISS are reportedly set to make a comeback later this month. READ MORE: PURPLE KISS on writing their own songs: “We didn’t know that we would end up being so deeply involved” Yesterday (July 4), South Korean news outlet Ten Asia shared that the seven member act – comprising members Park Ji-eun, Na Go-eun, Dosie, Ireh, Yuki, Chaein and Swan – are preparing to release new music. Citing a source within the music industry, the report claims that PURPLE KISS will be making their return at the end of July. If true, this...
Sparks have entered the studio to work on what will be their 27th studio album, as revealed on the band’s Instagram. READ MORE: Sparks and Edgar Wright’s ‘The Sparks Brothers’: “This is the totality of who we are” The post, shared yesterday (July 4), shows the Mael brothers in front of a home computer set up with recording software. Vocalist Ron Mael is sat at the computer, while keyboardist Russell Mael is standing and holding a note pad with chord progressions written on it. View the post below: View this post on Instagram A post shared by S P...
Kid Cudi has announced his debut 2008 mixtape, ‘A Kid Named Cudi’, will receive an official release on streaming services later this month. READ MORE: Kid Cudi – ‘Man On The Moon III: The Chosen’ review: an art piece of epic highs and honest lows In a series of tweets yesterday (July 4), the rapper revealed that a greatest-hits collection titled ‘The Boy Who Flew to the Moon’ would hit streaming platforms this Friday (July 8), while ‘A Kid Named Cudi’ would follow a week later on July 15, two days shy of its 14th anniversary. “I am so...
Day6 vocalist Young K has shared a stunning rendition of Oasis’ 1996 single ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’. READ MORE: Nayeon – ‘IM NAYEON’ review: TWICE’s oldest member steps into the solo spotlight Filmed in a garden, the video features Young K performing a stripped-down version of the song while accompanied by a guitarist. “And so, Sally can wait / She knows it’s too late as we’re walking on by / Her soul slides away / But don’t look back in anger, I heard you say,” he sings in the chorus. Young K’s rendition of ‘Don’t Look Back In...
SEVENTEEN are set to drop a new track titled ‘Cheers’ later this week, ahead of their upcoming repackaged album ‘Sector 17’. READ MORE: SEVENTEEN – ‘Face the Sun’ review: seven years in, the K-pop stars are determined not to flame out Today (July 5), the boyband announced on Twitter that they would be releasing a new track called ‘Cheers’, which will be performed by members Hoshi, S. Coups and Woozi. The trio, who are individually the leaders of the boyband’s three different teams, are collectively known as SVT Leaders. ‘Cheers’ is due out on July 7 at midnight KST...
Neil Young and Crazy Horse have shared a first preview of their upcoming album ‘Toast’ – listen to ‘Timberline’ below. The album was originally recorded by Young and the band in 2001 before being shelved. It was then finally announced for a July 8 release date earlier this year. READ MORE: Neil Young & Crazy Horse – ‘Barn’ review: rugged and rural beauty, with a sense of hope Young revealed his plans to drop ‘Toast’ – named for the San Francisco studio in which it was minted – in a post shared to his blog, the Neil Young Archives. Though that...
Self Esteem has been announced as the third and final headliner of the 2023 edition of Rockaway Beach Festival. READ MORE: Dressed as Meadowhall, Self Esteem’s Glastonbury performance was iconic – here’s why The festival will return to Bognor Regis in the first week of January next year, with headline sets already confirmed from Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) and Peter Hook + The Light. Others on the line-up for the Butlins festival, which will run from January 6-8, 2023, are The Futureheads, Big Joanie, The Anchoress, Billy Nomates, Panic Shack, SCALPING and Sinead O’Brien. Advertisement See the full...
Mandy Moore has announced that she’s cancelling her remaining 2022 tour dates due to her pregnancy. The singer is touring in support of new album ‘In Real Life’ which followed Moore’s March 2020 album ‘Silver Landings’, and arrived on May 13 via Verve Forecast. Taking to Instagram to announce the tour would be cancelled, she wrote: “Friends, It is with a heavy heart and much consideration that I have to let you all know that I am cancelling my remaining show dates in 2022. Advertisement It has been an honour and an absolute dream to return to the stage...
Sonny Barger, a founding member of the Hells Angels who provided security at a notorious and fatal Rolling Stones show in 1969, has died. According to a post on Facebook, which includes a message from Barger himself intended to be posted straight after his death, the Hells Angel “passed peacefully after a brief battle with cancer” aged 83. Born Ralph Hubert Barger, Jr. in 1938, Barger founded the Oakland, California branch of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in 1957, the most influential and arguably the original iteration of the legendary crew. “If you are reading this message, you’ll know...