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Mad Cool Festival adds Jack White, Stormzy, London Grammar and more to 2022 line-up
Mad Cool Festival have added 11 more acts to their 2022 line-up, including Jack White, Stormzy, London Grammar and more. READ MORE: London Grammar: “I always end up being the only female in the room” The Madrid event – which is celebrating its fifth anniversary – has also confirmed that it is expanding to become a five-day festival next year, running from July 6-10, 2022. Mad Cool, which was cancelled in both 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, had already announced the likes of Muse, The Killers, Metallica, Florence + The Machine, Queens Of The Stone Age...
Watch Gang Of Youths perform ‘The Angel Of 8th Ave.’ on ‘Colbert’
Gang Of Youths brought recent single ‘The Angel Of 8th Ave.’ to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert this week – watch their performance below. READ MORE: Gang Of Youths on ‘The Angel Of 8th Ave.’: “It’s a reflection of love in a new city” The single will feature on the band’s recently announced new album ‘Angel In Realtime’. Due out on February 25, the new LP will be the band’s first full-length project in almost five years, following 2017’s ‘Go Farther In Lightness’. Speaking to NME about ‘The Angel Of 8th Ave.’, frontman Dave Le’aupepe said: “It’s about falling...
Eminem’s daughter reveals she’s one of her dad’s biggest fans
Eminem‘s daughter Hailie Jade Scott Mathers has shared a post on TikTok revealing that her dad is among her most listened to music of the year. See the video below. In the TikTok, the 25-year-old lip-synched to The Real Housewives of Potomac star Wendy Osefo talking about being a Nicki Minaj fan, with the text “What??? Do I listen to my dad’s music?”, followed by a caption reading: “I think my dad’s gone crazy”. READ MORE: Eminem: Rank The Albums – will the best Slim Shady album please stand up? She then shared a screenshot of her Spotify Wrapped, which...
Riton and Jarvis Cocker share video for climate action “banger” ‘Let’s Stick Around’
Jarvis Cocker has joined forces with Gucci Soundsystem – the collaborative project between Riton and Ben Rhymer – on a new track called ‘Let’s Stick Around’. READ MORE: The music world on the aftermath of COP26: “The future needs reinforcements” Released last month to coincide with the conclusion of COP26, the song was described by the Pulp frontman as “the world’s first sustainable banger”. The group has now shared its official video, which was directed by Tim and Barry. It includes footage from the recent Glasgow conference as well as a characteristically flamboyant performance from Cocker, who was playing...
HIV/AIDs organisations say DaBaby “ghosted” them and has not donated any money
DaBaby has received criticism following reports that the rapper hasn’t made any financial donations to three HIV/AIDS organisations he met over summer. According to a report in The Daily Beast, three organisations – Black AIDS Institute, The Normal Anomaly Initiative and Positive Women’s Network – have said that there have been no updates following their off-the-record meeting in August. The meet-up was scheduled after DaBaby faced backlash over comments made during his appearance at Rolling Loud Miami. “If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two...
Flight Of The Conchords once had a jam session with Haim
Flight Of The Conchords comedian Jemaine Clement has revealed the group once had a jam session with Haim. READ MORE: Haim: “I think women make the best rock music” Clement, who forms one half of the New Zealand musical comedy duo with Bret McKenzie, recalled the “jam/singalong” in response to a fan calling for a collaboration in a Spotify Wrapped post. Writing in response to a potential Flight Of The Conchords and Haim team-up, Clement recalled: “We actually did have a jam/singalong once. Advertisement “We only knew about three songs the whole way through and they know all songs...
Watch LCD Soundsystem perform ‘Other Voices’ for the first time
LCD Soundsystem performed their track ‘Other Voices’ for the first time at a show in New York this week. READ MORE: LCD Soundsystem – ‘American Dream’ review The James Murphy-led group were playing at Brooklyn Steel on Tuesday night (November 30) as part of their month-long residency at the venue. Early in the 18-song set, LCD treated fans to the live debut of ‘Other Voices’ from their most recent studio album, 2017’s ‘American Dream’. You can check out fan-shot footage of the performance below. Advertisement View this post on Instagram A post shared by Michael Mitchell (@therewillbeboogienights) Elsewhere, Murphy and...
Shawn Mendes Finds Closure And Grace In Moving-On Anthem ‘It’ll Be Okay’
Shawn Mendes is single — or at least, he is no longer dating Camila Cabello, with whom he had been romantically involved since July 2019. The pair announced their split on Instagram last month and said in a joint statement that they “started our relationship as best friends and will continue to be best friends.” Mendes also has a new single out this week called “It’ll Be Okay,” and while his relationship status shouldn’t necessarily be a factor in discussing it, in this case, it kind of is. It’s hard to hear “It’ll Be Okay” as anything but a...
MONSTA X’s Kihyun says recording in English is “easier” than in Korean
Kihyun of K-pop boyband MONSTA X has opened up about how its like to record music in English. READ MORE: MONSTA X – ‘No Limit’ review: the boyband unleash the fire burning within In a recent interview with Forbes, the singer discussed the process of recording a full-length album completely in English, in light of their upcoming sophomore English album ‘The Dreaming’, which arrives on December 10. “It was very easy,” he said, when asked about the difficulty of performing in a third language, compared to Korean and Japanese. “It was easier than recording in Korean because the English is surprisingly...Recent Posts
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