ABBA are currently outselling the rest of the UK Top 40 combined in the midweek charts, with their new album ‘Voyage‘ set to clinch this week’s top spot. READ MORE: ABBA – ‘Voyage’ review: a pop nostalgia trip that’s worth taking ‘Voyage’ saw 118,000 chart sales over the weekend and is already scooping the fastest-selling physical release and biggest first-week pure sales (physical and digital) of 2021 so far. If it tops the chart this Friday (November 12), it will become the Swedish pop legends’ 10th UK Number One album and their first studio album to top the UK...
Foals have added three new dates to their forthcoming 2022 UK tour. READ MORE: Check out Foals’ ravey new single ‘Wake Me Up’ as they tell us about their party-ready new album The Oxford band, who made their return with comeback single ‘Wake Me Up‘, last week have added shows in Hull, Newcastle and Brighton to the jaunt which kicks off at Edinburgh Usher Hall on April 22. Tickets for the new shows which will take place on April 25, 26 and 27 will go on sale from 9am this Friday (November 12). You can purchase tickets here. Advertisement...
Foo Fighters will star in a new horror-comedy film called Studio 666, which is due for release next year, it has been confirmed. READ MORE: Foo Fighters: “Our connection is beyond music” Alongside the full band – Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett and Rami Jaffee – the film will also star Whitney Cummings, Leslie Grossman, Jenna Ortega and more. According to a press release, the movie will follow Foo Fighters as they move into a mansion in Encino, California that is “steeped in grisly rock and roll history” to record a new album. Once they’ve...
Johnny Marr has announced a ‘Fever Dreams Pt 2’ EP and shared two singles ‘Tenement Time’ and ‘Sensory Street’. READ MORE: Johnny Marr on what to expect from his “expansive” new album and his hopes to rejoin Modest Mouse Due for release on December 17, the EP will preview four brand new tracks that make up the second quarter of his forthcoming double album, ‘Fever Dreams Pts 1-4’. You can watch the official music video for ‘Tenement Time’ and the new lyric video for ‘Sensory Street’ below. Completing the EP are ‘Lightning People’ and ‘Hideaway Girl’. Advertisement Speaking about the...
Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp have covered Iggy Pop’s ‘The Passenger’ in the latest of their Sunday Lunch video series. The video specials began during the first coronavirus lockdown in the UK last year and quickly went viral as the couple put their spin on songs by David Bowie, Metallica, Britney Spears, Soft Cell and more. “Welcome to Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch and here we are rocking out with T on the kitchen table,” Fripp introduced this week’s instalment. “Mercy!” Willcox performed from on top of the table in an orange and beige headpiece, while a split-screen showed...
Yungblud is set to release his first short film – Mars “an uncensored, unfiltered portrayal of youth” based upon the singer’s 2020 song of the same name. The story for the film, which is a collaboration between Mercury Studios and Interscope Films, is based around Charlie Acaster, a young fan Yungblud met on tour who was struggling to convince her parents that she was transgender. READ MORE: Yungblud: “I wanted to write my ‘Urban Hymns’ or ‘Back To Black’” Speaking of the film, which is set to come out in spring 2022, Yungblud said: “This story is an uncensored, unfiltered...
Dave Gahan & Soulsavers have announced an intimate live performance of their new covers album ‘Imposter’ in London next month. READ MORE: Dave Gahan covers Cat Power and tells us about his “liberating” new album and the future of Depeche Mode The Depeche Mode frontman and longtime collaborator Rich Machin will make an appearance for an intimate show at the Coliseum venue on December 5. Tickets, which you can purchase here, go on sale at 9am this Friday (November 12), the same day the record is released. “To get to play this special album on a stage in front...
George Harrison‘s childhood home in Liverpool, where he, John Lennon and Paul McCartney rehearsed as teenagers, is set to be auctioned off. The late Beatles guitarist moved with his family to 25 Upton Green in the Speke area of the city in 1949 when he was six years old. READ MORE: Why George Harrison is the coolest Beatle The house was the site of many rehearsals for the Beatles members’ former band The Quarrymen, which they formed when they were teenagers. It was also where Harrison learned to play the guitar, before he and his family left the house in...
Dave Grohl has opened up about being diagnosed with a curved spine when he was a child. READ MORE: The 10 most ripping yarns from Dave Grohl’s new book ‘The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music’ The Foo Fighters frontman said he was diagnosed with the condition at the age of seven. He told The Sun’s Bizarre column via Contact Music: “I’ve always felt like a bit of an alien, which obviously I learned to embrace over time. When diagnosed with a crooked spine at the age of seven, I had to begin wearing a small lift on my...
GOT7 member and soloist JAY B has revealed what H1GHR MUSIC CEO Jay Park had told him during their first meeting. READ MORE: JAY B on finding his voice: “I can’t stop doubting myself until I’m fully satisfied” In an interview with HIPHOPPLAYA, the singer discussed his journey to making his solo debut as well as meeting label head Jay Park for the first time. “He wanted to see me right away,” recounted JAY B, who shared that they had an impromptu meeting outside H1GHR MUSIC’s studios. The GOT7 leader added that he played Park a mixtape that he...