Rihanna has reportedly been planning her musical comeback, looking to release new music and go on a world tour next year. The ‘Don’t Stop’ singer has been teasing her ninth studio album, dubbed ‘R9’ since 2018, first promising to release it in 2019. That year, she captioned a video of a dog dancing to House Of Pain’s ‘Jump Around’ with the message “Update: me listening to R9 by myself and refusing to release it.” Now, Entertainment Tonight has reported that the Bajan-born pop star is planning her musical return and has recently signed a deal with Live Nation. The publication...
Richard Roundtree, the actor who rose to fame as the iconic detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft and its sequels, has died at the age of 81. Roundtree passed away on Tuesday (October 24) in Los Angeles after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his longtime manager Patrick McMinn confirmed. “Richard’s work and career served as a turning point for African American leading men in film,” McMinn said in a statement to CNN. “The impact he had on the industry cannot be overstated.” Roundtree was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1942. He started his career as...
Keith Richards has not ruled out an AI-powered hologram concert of The Rolling Stones, saying that the spectacle is “bound to happen”. READ MORE: The Rolling Stones – ‘Hackney Diamonds’ review: they’ve still got it In a new interview with Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1, Richards addressed the topic of an AI-created hologram concert featuring himself and his bandmates, saying: “Well, I certainly wouldn’t rule it out. I’m pretty sure that it is bound to happen”. “Do I want it? Now, that’s another thing,” the guitarist added. “But I don’t know if I want to hang around that long...
Taylor Swift may be one of the biggest pop stars in the world, but she doesn’t act like one, according to Ed Kelce, the father of her boyfriend Travis Kelce. The elder Kelce, who made history as the first parent to have two sons play against each other in the Super Bowl, opened up about his impression of Swift in a recent interview with People Magazine. Recounting how Swift had begun clearing up discarded bottles, cans and plates in the suite at their first meeting, he said, “And I’m just thinking, I don’t think she got the diva memo”....
Old Dads, a new film on Netflix, has sharply divided viewers upon its release this week. With a 17 per cent critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has already received a wholly negative response from journalists, whereas viewers on social media are much more divided. The audience voted score on Rotten Tomatoes currently stands at 89 per cent. Old Dads is about a trio of late-middle-age fathers Bill Burr, Bobby Cannavale and Bokeem Woodbine, who “find themselves battling preschool principals, millennial CEOs and anything created after 1987,” according to the official synopsis. Burr co-wrote the film (with Ben...
Frances Bean Cobain has reportedly married Riley Hawk earlier this month. Cobain – the daughter of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Hole frontwoman Courtney Love – and Hawk – the son of skateboarding legend Tony Hawk – reportedly applied for a marriage license last month in San Diego county. Though very little is known about the ceremony, marriage documents obtained by TMZ, revealed that the ceremony reportedly took place on October 7 and was officiated by R.E.M frontman and Cobain’s godfather, Michael Stipe. Advertisement This marks the second time Cobain has been married. Back in 2014, she married Isaiah...
The Smashing Pumpkins have announced the departure of their longtime guitarist, Jeff Schroeder. In a statement posted to the band’s social media, Schroeder wrote: “It’s easy to say now that when I joined The Smashing Pumpkins in 2007 I had no idea what I was getting into. The opportunity seemed to have come out of nowhere. I was at UCLA working on my doctorate in comparative literature when a close friend messaged me and said The Smashing Pumpkins were looking for a guitar player. “Being a huge fan of the band, the audition was something I threw myself into,”...
Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis has spoken to NME about making his theatrical debut by penning the music for new play The Confessions, as well as his long-mooted project with the late Tony Allen. Having opened at London’s National Theatre last week before a press showing last night (October 23), The Confessions is an emotional, gut-wrenching and powerful play written and directed Alexander Zeldin – telling the story of his mother’s life across eight “tumultuous” decades across two continents and a series of complex relationships. Philippakis and Zeldin have known each other since their days at school, when they would sneak...
The Libertines have opened up about the possibility of a biopic, and shared that they have already “tried to sit down and write some screenplays”. While speaking to NME about their upcoming album ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ the band’s frontmen – Carl Barât and Pete Doherty – discussed if the band would ever create a biopic of their career. “We’ve talked about it, but then we always have a row about who’s playing who,” Barât said. Doherty added: “We even tried to sit down and write some screenplays for it, but it always turns into some farcical...
Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain has revealed that he is almost fully recovered after suffering a minor stroke in January that left him partially paralyzed on his right side. READ MORE: Iron Maiden – ‘Senjutsu’ review: an imaginative instant classic During an appearance on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation Power Trip Special, as transcribed by Blabbermouth, the 70-year-old musician said he is “85 to 90 percent back to strength”, but still has some difficulty with the speed and dexterity of his fingers. McBrain also discussed the band’s ongoing ‘Future Past’ World Tour, which marks their first live shows since the release of...