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Alice Glass on referencing Crystal Castles on new album: “If I intentionally piss anyone off, then good”
Alice Glass has revealed that the title of her forthcoming album is a nod to her former band Crystal Castles. READ MORE: Alice Glass: “I never thought I would be talking openly like this… about anything” Glass was speaking to NME for last week’s Big Read and reflected on her time leaving Crystal Castles after the release of their third album ‘III’. Three years after that in 2014, Glass released a statement about bandmate Ethan Kath, alleging that she’d been physically, sexually, and psychologically abused by her former bandmate. Kath has consistently denied the allegations. “Leaving Crystal Castles was the single most...
Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo has built his own streaming platform, Weezify
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has built a streaming platform to host thousands of Weezer demos. The tracks were originally released in 2020 as part of Cuomo’s “web programming class”. READ MORE: Weezer: “’Ok Human’ is about feeling isolated, alienated and secluded – it’s perfect for now” Available to buy in era-bundles, the demos range from Cuomo’s musical ventures pre-Weezer all the way through to 2017’s ‘Pacific Daydream’. Now, he’s built an app to play those demos and called it Weezify. It’s available on the Apple Store and through Google Play. Advertisement “A Spotify-like player for all of Rivers Cuomo’s...
Arlo Parks announces new single ‘Softly’: “I’m very proud of this one”
Arlo Parks announced her new single ‘Softly’ will be arriving this week, which she describes as a “piece of absolute yearning”. READ MORE: Arlo Parks: “I’d like to just still be really enjoying what I do because I’m so happy right now” The Mercury Prize winner shared that her first single of 2022, and follow-up to last year’s critically-acclaimed debut ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams‘ will be released on Tuesday (February 1). She also shared a link to pre-save the song on streaming services, as well as the single artwork which features Parks sitting alone on the hood of a dimly...
Halsey announces Love And Power US tour
Halsey has announced their Love And Power tour in support of fourth album ‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’. Support for the tour comes from Beabadoobee, PinkPantheress, Wolf Alice, Abby Roberts and The Marías – check out dates below. READ MORE: Halsey: “I’ve always been driven to reinvent myself and reinvent my genre” Kicking off May 17 at the iThink Financial Amphitheatre in Palm Beach, FL, the twenty-two date tour will include shows at Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Governors Ball in New York, and the Hangout Music Festival alongside Doja Cat and Leon Bridges. Advertisement The...
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are expecting a child together
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are expecting a child together. READ MORE: Rihanna: every album ranked and rated New photographs captured the pair together in New York’s Harlem district last Friday (January 28). Rihanna unveiled her baby bump via an open coat accessorised with a chain as the pair walked around New York together. NME has reached out to representatives of Rihanna for comment. Advertisement You can see some of the images and reaction to the news here: OMFG RIHANNA IS WITH CHILD IM GOING TO BE AN AUNT THANK U GOD ?????????? Congrats sis I’m soooo happy!!!!! pic.twitter.com/rvw4RqUblc — BIA (@BIABIA)...
Black Country, New Road vocalist Isaac Wood announces departure from the band
Black Country, New Road have announced that frontman Isaac Wood has left the band with immediate effect. The band, whose second album ‘Ants From Up There’ is due out this week (February 4), will continue as a six-piece, but their upcoming shows are cancelled. The news comes after the band postponed a UK and Irish tour late last year due to illness. READ MORE: Black Country, New Road: sax and violins from Britain’s most prestigious new band In a message shared by Black Country, New Road on behalf of Wood, the vocalist said: “I have bad news which is that...
Paul McCartney still gets emotional listening to the John Lennon inspired ‘Dear Friend’
Paul McCartney has admitted he gets “very emotional” listening to ‘Dear Friend’ because he wrote it about John Lennon. READ MORE: ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ review: Peter Jackson’s long and winding but utterly unmissable epic The song was released in 1971 as part of McCartney’s post-The Beatles project Wings. To celebrate the 50th anniversary reissue of their debut album ‘Wild Life’, a Q&A about the record from 2018 has been shared on PaulMcCartney.com. Speaking about ‘Wild Life and the track ‘Dear Friend’, McCartney revealed that he finds it “very emotional when I listen to it now. I have to...
British folk legend Norma Waterson has died aged 82
Legendary British folk singer Norma Waterson has died at the age of 82, her family have revealed. The news was revealed by Waterson’s daughter Eliza Carthy, also a folk singer and part of the Carthy folk family alongside her mother and father, Martin Carthy. No cause of death has yet been revealed, but in a recent fundraiser attempt, Eliza revealed that her mother had been hospitalised with pneumonia. “Not much to say about such monumental sadness, but mam passed away yesterday afternoon, January 30th 2022,” Eliza wrote on Facebook. “Thinking of everyone who has supported and donated and just...
Sam Fender to perform at the BRIT Awards 2022
It’s been confirmed that Sam Fender will perform at The BRIT Awards 2022. He’ll be sharing the stage with previously announced artists Doja Cat, Dave, Ed Sheeran, Holly Humberstone, Liam Gallagher and Little Simz. READ MORE: Sam Fender: “This album is probably the best thing I’ve done in my life” Advertisement Fender won the Rising Star Award in 2019 and has been nominated for Artist Of The Year and Rock/Alternative Act Of The Year at the 2022 event while second album ‘Seventeen Going Under’ has been shortlisted for Album Of The Year. “It’s beyond a dream to be performing...Recent Posts
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