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Betty Boo announces first new solo single in 30 years
Betty Boo has announced plans to release her first solo single in 30 years. READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Betty Boo The ‘Doin The Do’ singer is set to release ‘Get Me To The Weekend’ – her first solo release since 1992’s ‘GRRR! It’s Betty Boo’ this Saturday, (January 22). It will premiere on Rylan’s show on BBC Radio 2 before being made available online, immediately after the broadcast. Advertisement The pop singer scored Top 10 hits with 90s singles ‘Doin The Do’ and ‘Where Are You’ Baby’. She made her breakthrough as guest vocalist...
Holly Humberstone shares snippet of new song about moving to London
Holly Humberstone has teased a new song about her recent move to London. READ MORE: Holly Humberstone: haunting synth-pop to soundtrack coming-of-age anxiety The as-yet-untitled song – a melancholic ballad carried by clean, radiant grand piano chords – shows Humberstone musing on her dour feelings over the change in scenery. Addressing who appears to be a lover, Humberstone sings: “Started feeling like I’m living in the Upside Down / I haven’t seen you in forever and I don’t know how / And I’ve been smoking / And staying out too late / But you know I’ve got / Good...
The Weeknd says ‘Dawn FM’ is part of “a new trilogy”
The Weeknd has suggested that his new album ‘Dawn FM‘ is part of “a new trilogy”. READ MORE: The Weeknd – ‘Dawn FM’ review: soulful star meets a new day with hope and hindsight Abel Tesfaye’s fifth LP was released last Friday (January 7), and follows last year’s ‘After Hours‘. Taking to Twitter tonight (January 10), he wrote: “I wonder… did you know you’re experiencing a new trilogy?” alongside picture of his older self that features on the front cover of his new record. Advertisement Many fans are speculating that a third album is in the pipeline, and is...
Aldous Harding to return this week with new single ‘Lawn’
Aldous Harding is set to drop a new single this week. Her record label, 4AD, confirmed the new song ‘Lawn’ in a Tweet earlier today (January 10), announcing that Harding will release it at 2pm GMT on Wednesday (January 12). READ MORE: Aldous Harding – ‘Designer’ review Paired with its release will be an official music video, which is currently being teased with an black-and-white clip of Harding staring blankly at the viewer in an oversized, chequered coat. Advertisement Harding’s last release was the standalone single ‘Old Peel’, which was released last June and was her first new material to...
Miles Kane announces pop-up chicken shop in London
Miles Kane has announced plans to open a pop-up chicken shop in London. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Miles Kane: “I don’t feel like, ‘Oh, I’ve made it, ma!” The shop – dubbed Kane’s Crispy Chicken Wings – will open for business on January 21, to celebrate release of the Last Shadow Puppets frontman’s new solo album ‘Change The Show’. It’ll see Kane take over Randy’s Wing Bar in Hackney, with tickets (which include entry, food and a live performance from Kane) priced at £15. You can pre-order them from the singer-songwriter’s website here. Advertisement In a press release, Kane...
Watch Tool rehearse ahead of their 2022 world tour
Ahead of their first run of live shows in almost two years, Tool have livestreamed themselves rehearsing with a setlist spanning their entire back catalogue. READ MORE: Tool – ‘Fear Inoculum’ review Notably absent from the jam, streamed on Instagram by guitarist Adam Jones, was frontman Maynard James Keenan. The band performed instrumentally in his absence, running through a list of songs drawing heavily from 2001’s ‘Lateralus’ and 2019’s ‘Fear Inoculum’. Check out a snippet of footage from the livestream – featuring ‘The Patient’ and ‘The Pot’ – below: Advertisement Tool are set to kick off their 38-date run of...
Watch ‘Wolf Alice’ perform ‘Smile’ live at The Pool studio in London
Wolf Alice have shared a live video of the band performing ‘Smile’ at London’s The Pool studio. READ MORE: Wolf Alice live in London: spellbinding small venue show from snarling rock superstars The intimate performance, which you can view below, features on the band’s recent ‘Tour Deluxe’ edition of their five-star 2021 album ‘Blue Weekend’. The expanded LP also features three other live versions from the record and a cover of Alex G‘s 2017 track ‘Bobby’. Advertisement It follows a recent live video of the band performing ‘Delicious Things’ with an orchestra and choir at London’s Abbey Road studios. Meanwhile,...
Elvis Costello says radio stations would be “doing him a favour” if they stopped playing ‘Oliver’s Army’
Elvis Costello has called on radio stations to stop playing his controversial 1979 single ‘Oliver’s Army’. READ MORE: Mark, My Words: my weird weekend of gigging on the edge of lockdown The track, which is taken from his third studio album ‘Armed Forces’, has attracted criticism over the years for using the N-word, in the lyrics. Now, he has insisted he doesn’t want radio stations to play the track at all. Advertisement “On the last tour, I wrote a new verse about censorship, but what’s the point of that? So I’ve decided I’m not going to play it. [Bleeping...
Listen to Johnny Marr’s rousing new single ‘Night And Day’
Johnny Marr has shared rousing new single ‘Night And Day’, from his forthcoming ‘Fever Dreams Pt 3’ EP. READ MORE: Johnny Marr on what to expect from his “expansive” new album and his hopes to rejoin Modest Mouse The track, which you can listen to below, features Primal Scream’s Simone Marie on bass and vocals. “I need songs after all the news, news, news. It gets too real in the hotspots,” said Marr of the track. Advertisement “I’m trying to be positive, for me and my audience, really. My personality is such that it occurs to me to think that...Recent Posts
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