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Post Malone admits 60 per cent of his lyrics are written on the toilet
Post Malone has admitted that he writes 60 per cent of his lyrics while sitting on the toilet. READ MORE: Post Malone – ‘Twelve Carat Toothache’ review: his sobering comedown The rapper and singer said in a new interview that he considers the bathroom to be his “oasis” where he has also written around 30 per cent of his albums to date. “Shit literally comes to me because I write all my songs on the can,” he told The Howard Stern Show. “I’d say about 30 per cent of all my albums have been written on the shitter, and I’d...
Listen to Black Midi’s new song ‘Eat Men Eat’ about a disturbing desert adventure
Black Midi have released ‘Eat Men Eat’, another cut from their third album ‘Hellfire’. READ MORE: Black Midi – ‘Cavalcade’ review: sonic scientists continue to confound The song is accompanied by a Maxim Kelly-directed video, which you can watch below. It’s the second song taken from their forthcoming album after last month’s ‘Welcome To Hell’. ‘Hellfire’ follows last year’s ‘Cavalcade’ and the London experimental rock band’s 2019 debut, ‘Schlagenheim’. Advertisement ‘Eat Men Eat’ was written by Black Midi bassist/vocalist Cameron Picton and tells the tale of a disturbing desert quest. “The story starts in the desert with two men engaged...
Black Flag announce 2023 UK and Ireland winter tour
Black Flag have announced that they’ll be hitting the road next year for a series of UK and Ireland winter shows – get tickets here. The Los Angeles punks will kick off the tour on January 20 at the Limelight in Belfast, followed by shows in Dublin, Sheffield, Wolverhampton, Glasgow and Manchester. They’ll wrap the tour at the O2 Forum Kentish Town on January 28. Black Flag, comprising Greg Ginn on guitar, Mike Vallely on vocals, Joseph Noval on bass, and Isaias Gil on drums, will be joined by California hardcore band Total Chaos who will provide support on...
Glastonbury fans advised to avoid train travel as biggest rail strike in 30 years set to cause chaos
Glastonbury 2022 ticketholders who are planning to travel by train are being advised to make alternative arrangements as Great Britain faces its biggest rail strike since 1989. READ MORE: We’re gonna need a bigger farm: why Glastonbury 2022 could be the best in history The Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Union (RMT) and National Rail’s nationwide strike was confirmed last week for the following days next week: Tuesday (June 21), Thursday (June 23) and Saturday (June 25). It means that those travelling to Pilton, Somerset for Glastonbury on its warm-up day on Wednesday (June 22) and its final day on...
A Beyoncé Renaissance Is Coming
Be ready, Beyhive: A revival is coming. Beyoncé will be experiencing a Renaissance with her seventh studio album — and Act I will be dropping extremely soon. It’s been six years since Queen B released the universally acclaimed Lemonade, and four since Everything Is Love, her joint album released with her husband Jay-Z as The Carters. On Thursday (June 16), the Tidal streaming service and Columbia Records announced that she is finally returning for her new solo studio album, called Renaissance, this summer. Her social media bios have also changed to coincide with the announcement and list the date...
Listen to a previously unreleased version of David Bowie’s ‘Starman’
A new version of David Bowie‘s classic single ‘Starman’ has been shared to mark the 50th anniversary of the late icon’s fifth studio album, ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’. READ MORE: On Ziggy Stardust’s 50th birthday, we could all learn something from David Bowie’s risk-taking The seminal record, which also features the tracks ‘Five Years’, ‘Suffragette City’ and ‘Ziggy Stardust’, arrived on this date (June 16) in 1972. In celebration of its half century birthday, Parlophone Records has released ‘Starman (Top Of The Pops Version, 2022 Mix)’ ahead of a limited-edition, half-speed...
Festival Republic to bring renewable power to UK festivals under new project
Festival Republic – the music promotor behind Reading & Leeds, Latitude and more – has teamed up with Music Declares Emergency in an effort to bring renewable power to UK festival sites. READ MORE: Download bosses talk festival improvements and tease 2023 headliners The project aims to drive grid connections to festivals nationwide and begin the transition of the UK outdoor live sector to grid power, per a press release. It will ultimately reduce carbon emissions for the sector in relation to temporary power generation. Funded by Festival Republic, the collaboration falls under the ongoing No Music On A...
Tynemouth festival fails to find replacement following Lighthouse Family split
Organisers of the Mouth of the Tyne Festival have failed to find a last-minute replacement headliner after Lighthouse Family split. The Newcastle-formed duo announced last Tuesday (June 7) that they had “reached the end”, with singer Tunde Baiyewu now wanting to “focus on his solo career”. Bandmember Paul Tucker apologised for the break-up, telling fans: “I was really looking forward to this hometown show and playing our songs in this amazing place close to the lighthouses that gave us our name. I am as disappointed as you are. It breaks my heart to let you down.” Advertisement North Tyneside...
Flasher’s Utopian Joy Is For Everyone
In December 2021, Taylor Mulitz, one-half of the arty and infectious indie duo Flasher, left a digital marketing job he’d held for a year. “Finally, I’m free!” he thought after he gave notice. The timing fit: Flasher’s expansive second album, Love Is Yours, which he’d recorded with bandmate Emma Baker in mid-2020 as a pandemic summer raged, was nearly ready for release. (It’s out June 17 via Domino.) It had been almost four years since Flasher’s debut, and Mulitz felt ready to jump back in. For fun, he made a few goofy TikToks to plug the first single drop...Recent Posts
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