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Check out Laufey’s festive cover of ‘Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town’
Laufey has shared a playful version of the perennial Christmas classic ‘Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town’ – check it out below. The Los Angeles-based, Icelandic-Chinese singer is a veteran of the holiday season, with her ongoing project ‘A Very Laufey Holiday’ having new songs added each Christmas. Advertisement Previous festive offerings from the former NME Cover star have included ‘Love To Keep Me Warm’ featuring dodie, ‘The Christmas Waltz’, ‘Christmas Dreaming’ and ‘Santa Baby’, with a video featuring Bill Murray. Last year, she even played an impromptu Christmas live show at London’s St. Pancras station. This year, she has recorded a cover of ‘Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town’, the 1934 song by J. Fred...
Todd Snider, influential alt-country singer-songwriter, dies aged 59
Todd Snider, the influential alt-country singer-songwriter behind hits such as ‘Alright Guy’, has died at the age of 59. The news was confirmed today (November 15) by a statement on Snider’s social media accounts. No cause of death has been given, but his family have said he had recently been hospitalised with pneumonia. “Aimless, Inc. Headquarters is heartbroken to share that our Founder, our Folk Hero, our Poet of the World, our Vice President of the Abrupt Change Dept., the Storyteller, our beloved Todd Daniel Snider has departed this world,” read the message on Instagram. “Where do we find the words...
Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon would be “very surprised” if he makes another album
Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon has said he would be “very surprised” if he ever makes another full-length album. The fifth Bon Iver record, ‘SABLE, fABLE’, was released in April via Jagjaguwar, which Vernon produced with Jim-E Stack at his own April Base Studio in Wisonsin, and it has gone on to pick up a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album. Advertisement Despite its success, Vernon has now strongly hinted that the LP may prove to be the final Bon Iver album, as he has stopped writing songs for the first time in his life. In an interview with The Times, he spoke about how his music...
Half-speed reissue of Talk Talk’s classic ‘Spirit Of Eden’ announced
Talk Talk have announced a new half-speed reissue of their classic 1988 album ‘Spirit Of Eden’. The band – made up at the time of singer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Hollis, bassist Paul Webb and drummer Lee Harris – made a radical departure from their early synthpop sound with ‘Spirit Of Eden’, with Hollis and producer Tim Friese-Greene recording for many hours at a time and editing the tracks down to fit the album format. Advertisement The record veered in an eerie, ambient-influenced direction, embracing jazz, dub and classical music. Its ethereal sound and experimental recording process would become highly influential, and is often credited as being an early landmark in the post-rock genre. Talk Talk...
Scissor Sisters announce huge UK outdoor shows for summer 2026
Scissor Sisters have announced some huge UK outdoor shows for next summer. Dubbed ‘The Kiki Continues’ tour, the shows will see the New York band perform live at London’s Brockwell Park on May 31, before continuing with a stop at Ludlow Castle in Shropshire on July 26. Advertisement The rest of the new dates all take place the following month, and include gigs in Saffron Walden, Scarborough and Halifax on August 6,8 and 9 respectively. They wrap up the shows with a final night at the Queens Park Recreation Ground in Glasgow on August 30. These new shows add...
AC/DC’s first Australian show in 10 years was so powerful that it set off earthquake detectors
AC/DC‘s first Australian concert in a decade was so powerful, it set off earthquake detection equipment. READ MORE: AC/DC – ‘Power Up’ review: Australian rock icons stick to their guns on rollicking 17th album Wednesday (November 12), saw AC/DC kick off their first hometown tour in 10 years, performing at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia. The show – which was a long time coming for fans – proved to be a thunderous performance in more ways than one, as reports now claim that the concert was so big, seismic vibrations were recorded on earthquake equipment. Advertisement Per the Australian...
The Osbournes hit back at Roger Waters as “a sad, irrelevant, old, miserable, ugly human being”
Ozzy Osbourne’s family have hit out at Roger Waters branding him “a sad, irrelevant, old, miserable, ugly human being”. It comes after the Pink Floyd bassist previously spoke out about The Prince Of Darkness’ death shortly after his passing. Advertisement “Ozzy Osbourne, who just died, bless him in his whatever state that he was in his whole life, we’ll never know. Although he was all over the TV for hundreds of years, with his idiocy and nonsense. The music, I have no idea. I couldn’t give a fuck,” Waters said at the time. Waters went on: “I don’t care about...
KATSEYE address receiving “thousands” of death threats: “It’s heavy”
KATSEYE have spoken about the challenges they’ve faced since rising to fame – see what they had to say below. READ MORE: KATSEYE: “If you don’t get it, then it’s not for you – and that’s OK” In a new interview with the BBC, the HYBE x Geffen global girl group have revealed the harrowing experiences they’ve faced since winning Dream Academy to officially form the group. Advertisement While the group have their fair share of loving and loyal fans – thanks in part to viral tracks like ‘Touch’, ‘Gnarly’ and ‘Gabriela’ – they’ve also received an equal amount of...
Adele to make acting debut in new Tom Ford movie with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Colin Firth, Nicholas Hoult and more
Adele is set to make an acting debut in a new film from fashion designer Tom Ford. The project will mark the third film from Ford, following on from 2009’s adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel A Single Man, and the 2016 crime thriller Nocturnal Animals, which starred Amy Adams. Advertisement According to reports from Deadline, the upcoming movie will be an adaptation of the 1982 Anne Rice novel, Cry to Heaven. It follows an unlikely duo – a castrated maestro and a Venetian noble – who work together in the hopes of leaving their mark on the opera world....Recent Posts
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