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Cat Power shares cover of The Rolling Stones’ ‘You Got The Silver’

Cat Power has shared a cover of The Rolling Stones’ classic hit, ‘You Got The Silver’ – listen to it below. READ MORE: Cat Power: “The music I’m drawn to is about either healing or abandon – one or the other” The song featured on The Stones’ 1969 album ‘Let It Bleed’ and was the band’s first song to feature Keith Richards on lead vocals. A Mick Jagger version was also recorded, but the band released Richards’ version on the album. Cat Power shared a new covers album earlier this year, but the Stones’ cover did not feature on that. Advertisement...
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Scorpions changed lyrics to ‘Wind Of Change’ because it “romanticised Russia”

Scorpions have revealed why they’ve changed the lyrics to their chart-topping hit ‘Wind Of Change’, explaining that they no longer wanted to “romanticise Russia”. In light of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the German hard rockers decided to change the song’s lyrics for their ongoing US and European tour, which opened in Las Vegas on March 26, a month after the start of the invasion. “To sing ‘Wind of Change’ as we have always sung it, that’s not something I could imagine any more,” Meine told Die Zeit. “It simply isn’t right to romanticise Russia with lyrics like:...
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Fontaines D.C. meet family of the late Margaret Keane, who inspired song ‘In ár gCroíthe go deo’

Fontaines D.C. have met the family of the late Margaret Keane who inspired their song ‘In ár gCroíthe go deo’. READ MORE: Fontaines D.C.: “People are looking to me for answers. What the fuck do I know?” Back in 2020, the band came across the story of Keane, who died in 2018, in The Irish Post. The family of the former dinner lady, who lived in Coventry for most of her life before passing at age 73, had originally planned to have the Irish epitaph “In ár gCroithe go deo” – which translates as “in our hearts forever” – engraved on...
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Måneskin share chaotic video for new single ‘Supermodel’

Måneskin have released a brand new video for their latest single, ‘Supermodel’ – you can check it out below. READ MORE: Måneskin: “Nobody is keeping rock’n’roll alive – it’s just impossible to kill” Produced by Max Martin, the Italian band’s first new music of 2022 is loosely based on characters they met during their time in LA. “We wrote ‘Supermodel’ after spending the best few months in LA,” Måneskin said in a statement about their new single. “At times we were surprised yet intrigued to find how people cared so much about the idea of ‘celebrity’ and status, obsessing over...
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Harry Styles makes chart history with ‘Harry’s House’ around the world

Harry Styles‘ hugely successful new album ‘Harry’s House’ has garnered a series of chart accolades and broken numerous records across the world. In addition to recording 2022’s fastest selling album in the UK, Styles achieved the rare feat of simultaneously holding the number one album and number one track (‘Harry’s House’ lead single ‘As It Was’) in a number of countries. READ MORE: The five most wholesome moments from Harry Styles’ One Night Only In London show The accomplishment was made in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, Italy, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Belgium. Additionally, ‘Harry’s House’...
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Avril Lavigne reflects on early career: “I didn’t want to be all bubblegum pop”

Avril Lavigne has reflected on her early career in a new interview and has spoken of the challenges of going against the pop norms of the day. READ MORE: Avril Lavigne – ‘Love Sux’ review: a modern update on early ’00s pop-punk Speaking to The Guardian, Lavigne discussed being a grungy, alternative musician in an early noughties landscape where “bubblegum pop” dominated. “I was getting out of high school and I just wanted to rock out,” Lavigne told the publication. “I want loud guitars, I want live drums … I want to write about the crazy stuff, the insane emotions,...
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Listen to Beth Orton’s soaring new single, ‘Weather Alive’

Beth Orton has released a new single today (May 31) called ‘Weather Alive’ – check it out below. It’s the title track from her new album, which is released on September 23 via Partisan Records – her first for the label. You can pre-order it here. A statement about the new album describes it as “a record that collates memories and experiences spanning a lifetime, with stories that touch on struggles, on healing and of beauty.” Advertisement Collaborators on the album include The Smile’s drummer Tom Skinner, Mancunian jazz star Alabaster dePlume, multi-instrumentalist/composed Shahzad Ismaily, and The Invisible’s bassist Tom...
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Kanye West features on new track from Vory, ‘Daylight’

Kanye West has teamed up with Vory on his new track, ‘Daylight’ – listen to it below. READ MORE: Divorce, Drake disses and problematic features: 10 talking points from Kanye West’s ‘DONDA’ Vory featured as a guest on West’s last two albums, ‘Donda’ and ‘Donda 2’. The new track ‘Daylight’ will feature on Vory’s upcoming album, ‘Lost Souls’, which is released this Friday (June 3) via Dream Chasers/Universal Music Group. West produced the track alongside collaborators 88-Keys, Ojivolta, and Ratatat’s Evan Mast, aka E*vax. The song was mixed by Mike Dean. Advertisement Vory and West last worked together on ‘Donda 2′ track ‘Lord Lift...
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Haçienda co-founder says club was nearly founded in a Castlefield warehouse

Alan Erasmus, co-founder of The Haçienda, has revealed that the iconic superclub was almost located in a warehouse in Manchester’s Castlefield area, rather than its now famous site. The club was started in 1982 by Erasmus and his Factory Records colleagues Tony Wilson, Rob Gretton, Martin Hannett and Peter Saville, and funded largely by the label and the band New Order. It was located in a former yacht builder’s shop on Whitworth Street West until its closure in 1997. Speaking to the Manchester Evening News to mark the club’s fortieth anniversary, Erasmus – who was already running The Russell Club in Hulme...
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Lil Uzi Vert says Jack Harlow “doesn’t have white privilege”

Lil Uzi Vert has said that Jack Harlow “doesn’t have white privilege”, after question marks surfaced around Harlow’s chart success in the face of some poor reviews of his new album. READ MORE: Jack Harlow – ‘Come Home The Kids Miss You’ review: storytelling charm and filler tracks Harlow’s ‘Come Home The Kids Miss You‘, which was released earlier this month, has in general received average or poor ratings by critics despite debuting at Number Three on the Billboard 200 chart. It peaked at Number Three in the UK. As suggested by TMZ, which filmed a short...
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