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Grandma covers Blink-182 and challenges Travis Barker to drum battle

Drumming grandma Dorothea Taylor has shared her latest cover and challenged Travis Barker to a drum battle. READ MORE: jxdn  – “Working with Travis Barker is like winning the lottery” Taylor, a private drum instructor who’s been playing for 58 years, has covered Blink-182‘s 1999 single ‘What’s My Age Again?’, taking on Barker’s incorporation of drum “rudiments” in pop-punk music. “You’re never too old, and you’re never too young, to start playing drums,” Taylor says at the end of her performance in a recorded clip, which you can watch below. Advertisement “You probably never would have expected someone like...
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Vic Mensa arrested on drug charges over alleged possession of psychedelic mushrooms

Vic Mensa has been arrested in the US for alleged felony possession of narcotics, including suspected psychedelic mushrooms. The Chicago rapper – real name Victor Mensah – flew from Ghana to Dulles International Airport in Virginia on Saturday (January 15), where he was arrested by US Customs and Border Patrol charged with felony narcotics possession. Mensa underwent a secondary search at the airport, the US Customs and Border Patrol said in a statement, during which authorities allegedly discovered 41g worth of liquid LSD, about 124 grams of psilocybin capsules, 178 grams of psilocybin gummies and six grams of “psilocybin...
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Watch Robert Glasper’s powerful performance of ‘In Tune’ and ‘Black Superhero’

Robert Glasper delivered an all-star performance of ‘Black Superhero’ on last night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – watch below. READ MORE: Friends Like These – Denzel Curry x Robert Glasper The Grammy Award-winning musician appeared as the musical guest on the NBC chat show in support of his upcoming album ‘Black Radio III’, which is set for release on February 25 via Loma Vista. Poet Amir Sulaiman appeared alongside Glasper for a powerful live airing of the record’s spoken-word prelude, ‘In Tune’, before Rapsody, BJ The Chicago Kid and DJ Jazzy Jeff took to the stage...
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Watch Twenty One Pilots’ funky performance of ‘The Outside’ on ‘Jimmy Kimmel’

Twenty One Pilots performed their recent single ‘The Outside’ on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night (January 17) – check out the video below. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Twenty One Pilots: “We want to be the best – and keep everyone else at bay” The Ohio duo (Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun) appeared as the musical guests on the late night US chat show in support of their latest album ‘Scaled And Icy’, which came out last May. Donning a long black coat, Joseph sang next to a blue light shaped like the Twenty One Pilots logo as...
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The Ravensbourne Arms needs urgent crowdfunding to secure future as music venue

Campaigners who are seeking £500,000 to turn a shuttered pub into a community-owned live music venue have issued a fresh appeal for help, after learning that a private buyer has put in an offer of £700,000. The Sister Midnight collective, which has spearheaded a campaign to save The Ravensbourne Arms in Lewisham since last autumn, says it needs to raise a “significant” amount of money in the next fortnight if it’s to compete with the reported leaseholder bid. Members of the community have the opportunity to hold a stake in what would be a not-for-profit grassroots live music pub...
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Pharrell Williams calls on businesses to “channel their energy in the right direction” by supporting Black entrepeneurs

Pharrell Williams has given a keynote speech at the Urban League of Hampton Roads’ (ULHR) annual Martin Luther King, Jr. awards program, where he called upon American businesses to “do more” for people of colour (POC). The ULHR holds the awards program on the federal holiday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, which is held around mid-January each year to commemorate Dr. King’s birthday. Williams – who has been an entrepreneur and businessman for the last two decades of his career – noted in his speech that those in positions of power in corporate America should “channel their energy...
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Slash shares new single ‘Call Off the Dogs’ from upcoming album ‘4’

Slash has released his first new song of 2022, a single entitled ‘Call Off The Dogs’. The track is the Guns N’ Roses guitarist’s latest collaboration with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, who have featured on the last three Slash albums. It serves as the third single from the upcoming ‘4’, following on from ‘The River is Rising’ and ‘Fill My World’ in 2021. Advertisement In a press statement, Slash noted that the song was “written pretty much on the fly,” which he claims is emblematic of ‘4’ as a whole. “You can’t overthink something like this song, because...
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Watch Tool give ‘Culling Voices’ its live debut in Sacramento

Tool performed ‘Culling Voices’, from their 2019 album ‘Fear Inoculum’, for the first time over the weekend (January 15). The performance took place at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento. The band recently resumed touring in support of ‘Fear Inoculum’, following their world tour being cut short in March 2020. With the debut of ‘Culling Voices’, Tool have now performed all seven songs from the physical version of the album live. Advertisement In fan-shot footage from the show, the four members of Tool are all seated at the front of the stage. Drummer Danny Carey is seen playing guitar at...
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Son Na-eun unable to promote Apink’s upcoming album over scheduling issues

Apink’s Son Na-eun will not be participating in promotional activities for the group upcoming special album. READ MORE: Kep1er – ‘First Impact’ review: a spirited, at times unimaginative debut release Last December, IST Entertainment (formerly known as Play M Entertainment) announced that Apink would be making a comeback with all six members in February 2022. At the time, the agency assured fans that Apink would “continue promoting as a team, both together and separately” with their current lineup moving forward. Earlier this week, however, IST Entertainment issued a new statement to announce that promotions for Apink’s upcoming comeback will...
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Madonna and Earth, Wind & Fire songwriter Jon Lind has died aged 73

Veteran American songwriter Jon Lind passed away over the weekend (January 15), losing a two-year battle with cancer at the age of 73. Lind’s attorney, Jeremy Rosen, confirmed the songwriter’s passing to Variety. A statement from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) described Lind as “a great songwriter and a beautiful soul”. “ leaves a legacy of iconic songs both as a songwriter and supremely talented A&R man,” the group wrote. “The ASCAP family mourns his loss but his humor, his music and his wonderfully generous spirit live in our hearts.” As a songwriter, Lind’s best known compositions...
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