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Jack White suggests that The Rolling Stones copied The Beatles

Jack White has suggested that The Rolling Stones copied The Beatles in a new interview. READ MORE: Jack White’s 10 most spectacular live performances caught on camera Speaking to MOJO, White praised frontman Mick Jagger saying that he was “smart” and was always “feeing whatever the hippest thing was” in the 1960s, including, he went on, “copying” The Beatles – their biggest rivals of the day. White explained: “People want The Rolling Stones to be cool, dirty, raucous. They don’t want to understand that The Rolling Stones were chasing a hit constantly and feeding off whatever the hippest thing was, copying whatever The...
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Ukrainian electronic artist Heinali plays livestream show from bomb shelter

Ukrainian electronic artist Heinali (real name Oleh Shpudeiko) recently performed a livestream show from a bomb shelter in Ukraine’s city of Lviv, raising money for the Ukrainian army and humanitarian aid. Heinali hosted the show earlier this month, playing a 30-minute set on a modular synth that he was able to save from his home while being evacuated. READ MORE: Ukrainian artists on the Russian crisis: “Now is the time to push for change” “Live from Ukraine team successfully managed to broadcast my fundraiser live set from a bomb shelter in Lviv yesterday, despite the air raid alarm two hours...
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Disturbed’s David Draiman defends Lil Nas X’s Grammys performance

Disturbed’s David Draiman has come to the defence of Lil Nas X after the rapper’s Grammys performance came under fire from a US TV host. READ MORE: Ukraine, Billie Eilish, Louis CK: the biggest talking points from the Grammy Awards 2022 Lil Nas X took to the Grammy stage at last weekend’s ceremony to perform a medley of songs including his hit collaboration with Jack Harlow, ‘Industry Baby’. However, not everyone enjoyed the rapper’s set, including conservative TV host Greg Kelly, who took to Twitter to share his thoughts. “‘Lil NAS has a BIG PROBLEM (And so does America),” Kelly wrote....
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Benny The Butcher’s UK shows cancelled due to “old FBI reports”

Benny The Butcher has announced that his planned UK tour dates have been cancelled due to “old FBI reports”. READ MORE: Benny The Butcher – ‘The Plugs I Met 2’ review: gifted rapper’s skippable sequel The Griselda rapper, who released his third studio album ‘Tana Talk 4’ last month, was due to hit the road later this month for a pair of shows at Manchester’s O2 Ritz on April 29 and London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on May 1. However, Benny has now informed fans that due to some “old FBI reports” and a recent felony charge his gigs...
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Watch Jack White perform US national anthem at Detroit Tigers game

Jack White took to the field at Comerica Park in Detroit yesterday (April 8) to perform the US national anthem – you can watch his performance below. READ MORE: Jack White – ‘Fear Of The Dawn’ review: guitar wizard meets the audience halfway The former White Stripes frontman played an instrumental version of the anthem before the Detroit Tigers’ baseball game against the Chicago White Sox. The performance coincided with the release of his fourth solo album, ‘Fear Of The Dawn’. For the performance, White was backed by bassist Dominic Davis, keyboardist Quincy McCrary, and drummer Daru Jones – the same...
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Taylor Swift on what she admires most about Phoebe Bridgers’ music

Taylor Swift has revealed what it is she admires most about Phoebe Bridgers’ music. READ MORE: Phoebe Bridgers: “I definitely feel a lot less apologetic than I did before” Last year, the pair collaborated on the song ‘Nothing New’, one of the “From The Vault” bonus tracks that appear on Swift’s re-recording of her 2012 fourth album, ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’. In a new profile on Bridgers for the Los Angeles Times, Swift shared a few words about the ‘Savior Complex’ singer-songwriter and what it is specifically she enjoys about her music. Advertisement “I think that the specificity of Phoebe’s lyrics, and...
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Watch Father John Misty’s ‘Chloë’ album release concert in full

Father John Misty performed at the Barbican in London this week to mark the release of his new album,  ‘Chloë And The Next 20th Century’. READ MORE: Father John Misty live in London: showman schmoozes with old-school Hollywood sparkle On Thursday (April 7), Misty (real name Joshua Tillman) took to the stage alongside Barbican Associate Ensemble Britten Sinfonia – and conductor Jules Buckley – to run through a mixed setlist that included a number of tracks taken from his latest LP. He gave live debuts to ‘Chloë’, ‘Kiss Me (I Loved You)’, ‘(Everything But) Her Love’, ‘Buddy’s Rendezvous’, ‘Olvidado (Otro Momento)’,...
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Listen to Sharon Van Etten’s mini cover of David Bowie’s ‘Starman’

Sharon Van Etten has shared a cover of David Bowie’s ‘Starman’ – you can listen to her rendition below. READ MORE: Sharon Van Etten live in Los Angeles: ten ‘Epic’ years and a timely celebration of resilience The US singer-songwriter’s short cover – clocking in a little over one minute – features in a new Netflix documentary, Return To Space, which arrived on the platform earlier this week. The film follows Elon Musk’s mission to send NASA astronauts back to the International Space Station through his SpaceX program in an effort to revolutionise the art of space travel, from filmmakers Elizabeth...
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Former PlayStation boss wishes Sony had backed the Vita more

Former PlayStation boss Jack Tretton has said he wishes Sony had backed the PlayStation Vita more. READ MORE: I’ll take Steam Deck over upgrading my gaming PC any day The handheld console was released in 2011 as a successor to the PSP. It is believed to have sold around 15million units before it was discontinued in 2019. However, following the success of the Nintendo Switch and the Steam Deck, Tretton has said that forward-thinking tech was “orphaned a little bit” by Sony in a new interview with Axios Gaming. “Being a successful part of a big corporation sometimes meant...
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Sheffield locals on The Leadmill eviction: “It’s the cultural heart of our city don’t rip it out”

Figures from the Sheffield music scene have spoken to NME about the local reaction to the proposed eviction of the current operators of The Leadmill. READ MORE: If Sheffield’s Leadmill – the venue that helped break Arctic Monkeys – closes, we all lose something Last week, the iconic Sheffield venue and club told music fans of the “devastating news that in one year’s time, our Landlord is trying to evict us, forcing us to close” – leading to an outpouring of upset and support from the music world. The current bosses of The Leadmill then responded to the owners, denying their intentions to close...
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