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John Mayer has contracted COVID-19 for a second time
John Mayer has tested positive for COVID-19 a second time, leading to the next four shows on his ‘Sob Rock’ tour being pushed back to May. READ MORE: John Mayer – ‘Sob Rock’ review: guitar hero mines nostalgic gold The songster shared his diagnosis overnight (February 25), confirming that alongside himself, several members in his band have also wound up with the virus. It comes just days after Mayer’s touring drummer tested positive, with Questlove stepping in to fill his role at the band’s New York City gig. Whelp. More members of the band tested positive for Covid today,...
Code Orange release immersive ‘Back Inside The Glass’ concert film
Code Orange have dropped a visually stunning concert film titled Back Inside The Glass, which the hardcore outfit initially premiered as a ticketed livestream event. READ MORE: The show must go online: inside the rise of virtual gigs during the coronavirus crisis The one-off gig went down in October of 2020, streamed live – in VR, no less – from the Preserving Underground Church in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. It was particularly notable for its immersive and cinematic visuals, with the band performing to a fave-camera setup on an entirely projection-mapped stage. The show saw Code Orange perform over half...
Watch John Mulaney and LCD Soundsystem in ‘Saturday Night Live’ promo
LCD Soundsystem will be the musical guests on this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live. READ MORE: From The NME Archive – Celebrate 15 years of LCD Soundsystem’s debut with this classic interview: “Most live bands today are horrible” Set to air tomorrow night (February 26), the episode will be hosted by John Mulaney, marking his fifth time presenting the late night sketch show. It’s the second time James Murphy and co. have played SNL, the first time being back in 2017 when they were promoting their last album, ‘American Dream’. Advertisement With each episode of the show, the hosts...
Ukrainian metal band Jinjer condemn Putin’s invasion
Ukrainian metal band Jinjer have weighed in on the conflict between Russia and their “sovereign and independent” country. It comes after Ukraine severed diplomatic ties with Russia and declared martial law after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an attack on the neighbouring nation yesterday (February 24). The band, who released their fourth album, ‘Wallflowers’, back in August, took to Facebook last night to report that they are currently safe while also calling for the war to come to a end. Advertisement “Dear all, as we write this text, for the moment, each member of JINJER and our families are safe and...
Snoop Dogg asks court to dismiss “implausible” sexual assault lawsuit
Content warning: this article discusses allegations of sexual assault. Snoop Dogg has asked a federal judge to dismiss a sexual assault lawsuit brought against him earlier this month, claiming the allegations are “implausible and false”. In a new 17-page dismissal filed on Thursday (February 24) and obtained by Rolling Stone, the rapper (real name Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.) has denied that he cornered an unidentified woman in a recording studio bathroom nearly nine years ago and forced her into a sex act. Snoop also claims that the allegations are too “threadbare” to support a claim under the federal sex trafficking statute listed in the...
Breakdancer Asia One trying to raise $80,000 to rescue Afghan hip-hop dancers from Taliban
Nancy Wu – a visionary breakdancer and activist better known as Asia One – has set out to help rescue a group of Afghan dancers hiding from the Taliban. Her relationship with them began in 2019, The Guardian reports, when a member of the group (labelled as Moshtagh, his actual name redacted for safety) reached out to Wu in hopes of strengthening their international presence. But when the Taliban launched an offensive on Afghanistan in 2021, Moshtagh’s group made the snap decision to flee the nation’s capital of Kabul. Wu told The Guardian that such a decision was “based...
Robbie Williams secretly lent vocals to Lufthaus dance track ‘Sway’
Robbie Williams has revealed his involvement in Lufthaus, the (formerly) mysterious Armada Music signing that launched earlier this month. READ MORE: ‘Better Man’: eight classic stories the Robbie Williams biopic should include The group released their debut single – a club-ready house banger titled ‘Sway’ – on February 11, but although it’s unmistakably Williams’ voice on the track, his identity was kept secret until today. The revelation comes via The Sun (as reported by Yahoo), which printed a statement from Lufthaus in its Bizarre column. “This project has been keeping us busy in the studio throughout the pandemic, so...
Banks announces new album ‘Serpentina’, shares anthemic single ‘Holding Back’
Banks has announced the release of her fourth album, ‘Serpentina’, and shared a brand new single – listen to ‘Holding Back’ below. READ MORE: Banks – ‘iii’ review The musician (real name Jillian Rose Banks) released her last album, ‘iii’, back in 2019. It featured the singles ‘Gimme’, ‘Look What You’re Doing To Me’ and ‘Contaminated’. Today (February 25), Banks took to Twitter to share that the follow-up to ‘iii’ will arrive on April 8. “Beyond excited to announce my next album Serpentina is coming out April 8th,” she wrote, sharing a clip of ‘Holding Back’. Advertisement The anthemic new...
James Arthur links up with You Me At Six’s Josh Franceschi for new single ‘Lose My Mind’
James Arthur has dropped a punchy new single titled ‘Lose My Mind’, for which he’s teamed up with You Me At Six frontman Josh Franceschi. READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life: You Me At Six’s Josh Franceschi In a Tweet announcing the guitar-driven pop tune – the first shared from a deluxe edition of his recent fourth album, ‘It’ll All Make Sense In The End’ – Arthur said he was “so excited” to release it as he’s been a longtime fan of rock acts like You Me At Six. “As I grew up listening to rock bands, this song...Recent Posts
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