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Courting, Pom Poko and more lead new names for Sound City line-up
More names have been added to the line-up for the Sound City festival in Liverpool, including Courting and Pom Poko. Sound City 2021 is set to take place next month after being pushed back from May due to coronavirus-related delays. Sound City 2021 will take place between October 1-3, 2021, with a line-up that includes the already-announced Rejjie Snow, The Murder Capital, The Snuts, The Lathums and Lanterns On The Lake. Advertisement A virtual edition, Sound City Digital, preceded the full festival across the week of April 26-May 1. See the full list of new names announced for Sound City below: Courting / SPINN / Pom...
Listen to Feeder’s storming new track ‘Magpie’
Feeder have shared a second preview of forthcoming album ‘Torpedo’ – listen to ‘Magpie’ below. The band’s 11th studio album, announced last month, follows 2019 record ‘Tallulah’ and lands on March 18, 2022 via Big Teeth Music, with the band heading out on a UK tour the following month. READ MORE: Feeder’s Grant Nicholas talks to NME about their 25 years as a band Discussing ‘Magpie’, frontman Grant Nicholas said: “I first wrote the riff to ‘Magpie’ at home during lockdown on my Gibson J45 acoustic. I had an almost heavy dance groove idea in my head when writing it and also...
Rufus Wainwright announces new live album with Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Rufus Wainwright has announced details of a new live album recorded in 2017 with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Rufus Wainwright ‘Rufus Wainwright and Amsterdam Sinfonietta Live’ will come out on November 26 via BMG/Modern Recordings on vinyl, CD and digitally. It is being previewed by a version of ‘Gay Messiah’ recorded at the show – listen to that below. Discussing the shows, Wainwright said: “These were some of the most challenging and most fulfilling shows I have done in my life. Never have I sung so many songs from such different styles...
Garbage among those paying tribute to booking agent Steve Strange, who has died aged 53
Garbage, Frank Turner and The Brian Jonestown Massacre are among those across the music industry paying tribute to beloved booking agent Steve Strange, who has died aged 53 following a short illness. Strange co-founded the X-Ray Touring booking agency in 2005, and worked as the booking agent for international acts including but not limited to Queens Of The Stone Age, Coldplay, Eminem, Snow Patrol, Jimmy Eat World and more. In a statement posted to social media, X-Ray announced the sad news of Strange’s death, writing: “X-ray Touring are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Strange, one of the founding...
Matt Maltese shares new track ‘Good Morning’ and 2022 tour dates
Matt Maltese has shared a new song and revealed 2022 UK and European tour dates – listen to new track ‘Good Morning’ below. READ MORE: Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with Matt Maltese The track appears on the London-based singer-songwriter’s upcoming third album ‘Good Morning It’s Now Tomorrow’, which is set to land on October 8 via Nettwerk. As Maltese explains, new track ‘Good Morning’ is “a song about small acts of normalcy. Even in the face of the unfaceable, this planet spins wildly on and there’s always someone ready to say ‘good morning’...
Amber Mark announces debut album ‘Three Dimensions Deep’ and world tour dates
Amber Mark has announced details of her debut album ‘Three Dimensions Deep’ – listen to first single ‘What It Is’ below. The New York-based singer, songwriter and producer will share her first full-length on January 28 next year via EMI/PMR Records. READ MORE: Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with Amber Mark Speaking of the creation of the album in a statement, Mark said: “’Three Dimensions Deep’ is a musical journey of what questions you begin to ask yourself when you start looking to the universe for answers. Advertisement “I can only go as deep...
Listen to Paris Texas’ punchy new single ‘Girls Like Drugs’
Los Angeles rap-rock duo Paris Texas (aka Louie Pastel and Felix) have shared a grungy new single titled ‘Girls Like Drugs’, coming hot on the heels of their debut EP from earlier in the year. Contrasting the vocalists’ sharp, swagger-inflected bars, the track rages on with barbed electric guitars and cymbal-heavy drums. In the track’s drowsy, effects-drenched pre-chorus, the pair sing: “Hoes like drugs / You know they’ll fuck your brain up / Baby please come over / Give me wings / Don’t keep all these n****s entertained / Break my heart baby / Girl show me pain.” The...
Angry fans crash car into venue after being booted from P.O.D. show
Two disgruntled attendees of a P.O.D. show allegedly crashed a car into the venue they were playing in, after being ejected earlier in the evening. The show – which took place at the Zydeco Bar in Birmingham, Alabama on Tuesday (September 21) – was cut short when the two suspects allegedly drove a car into the front of the bar before fleeing the scene. According to Blabbermouth, several attendees of the show reported the driver having been ejected from the club earlier in the evening. Advertisement Matt Brandyberry – frontman of From Ashes To New, who opened for P.O.D. – later...
Eminem to open diner named after “Mom’s spaghetti” lyric in ‘Lose Yourself’
Eminem will re-open his Mom’s Spaghetti pop-up diner next week, serving up a range of pasta-based dishes in homage to an iconic line from his 2002 hit ‘Lose Yourself’. READ MORE: Eminem vs everyone: a massive list of every one of Slim Shady’s lyrical feuds On the song – which first appeared on the soundtrack to his film 8 Mile – Eminem raps: “His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy / There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s spaghetti.” The restaurant will open next Wednesday (September 29) in Eminem’s native Detroit. It’ll serve a range of dishes...Recent Posts
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