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Iron Maiden announce ‘Legacy Of The Beast’ 2022 North American tour
Iron Maiden have announced a new North American tour for 2022 and additional European dates. The ‘Legacy Of The Beast’ tour, which was halted last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will kick off September 7, 2022 in Mexico City. Tickets go on sale next Friday (December 10) at 10am local time here. Registration for first access to tickets is open now via Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan platform and will run through to December 5, with a pre-sale following on December 7. Advertisement Trivium will support Iron Maiden on the tour starting in El Paso, Texas on September 11 through to...
Spotify Wrapped 2021: here’s how you can see your most-streamed music
This year’s Spotify Wrapped is here, enabling users to look at their most-streamed artists, songs, albums, genres, playlists and podcasts over the course of 2021. READ MORE: From the archives – what your Spotify Wrapped says about your 2020 The feature, which launched today (December 1), has some new functions this year including ‘2021: The Movie’, which allows users to pair their top songs with classic scenes from a film “that’s all about you”, and ‘Your Audio Aura’, where an aura expert visualises a listener’s audio aura based on their top two music moods. Elsewhere, ‘Playing Cards’ is an interactive,...
Jacqueline Avant, wife of Motown Records’ Clarence Avant, killed in home invasion
Jacqueline Avant, the wife of music executive Clarence Avant, has been fatally shot during a home invasion in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. The 81-year-old philanthropist was killed in the early hours of today (December 1) by what is believed to be at least one unknown assailant who was no longer on-site when officers arrived at the scene, Variety has reported. It’s not known at this stage if Clarence – dubbed the ‘Godfather of Black Music’ – was injured in the incident (via TMZ). The Avants’ daughter Nicole is married to Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos and produced a 2019 documentary...
Trentemøller shares propulsive song ‘Dead Or Alive’ from new album ‘Memoria’
Trentemøller has shared ‘Dead Or Alive’, a new cut from his forthcoming sixth album ‘Memoria’. READ MORE: Trentemøller – ‘Into The Great Wide Yonder’ (In My Room) ‘Dead Or Alive’ follows previous singles ‘All Too Soon’ and ‘In The Gloaming’ and is accompanied by a Fryd Frydendahl-directed video – watch below. ‘Memoria’ is the follow-up to the Danish soloist’s 2019 album ‘Obverse’. It’s released via his own label In My Room on February 11, 2022, and is available to pre-order now. Advertisement Trentemøller said of earlier single ‘In The Gloaming’: “ a song about a difficult, ambiguous relationship. The...
Gorillaz, AJ Tracey, Girl In Red and more added to Øya Festival 2022 line-up
Gorillaz, AJ Tracey and Girl In Red are among a host of new names added to next year’s Øya Festival in Norway. READ MORE: Aurora talks single ‘Cure For Me’: “Why is it so difficult to let others be themselves?” They join First Aid Kit, Nubya Garcia, Margo Price, Sons Of Kemet, Kamaal Williams, Arif, Signe Marie Rusad, Myra, Karama, and Skarbø Skulekorps in the freshest set of additions. The festival, which runs between August 9 and 13, is so far set to be headlined by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on the Thursday (11) and Aurora on the...
Watch Wet Leg’s debut appearance on NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk’
Wet Leg delivered a four-song set for the latest edition of NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert series – watch below. READ MORE: Wet Leg: “We want to be recognised as guitar heroes” The Isle Of Wight duo (aka Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers) played ‘Wet Dream’, viral hit ‘Chaise Longue’ as well as their recent singles ‘Too Late Now’ and ‘Oh No’ in a laid-back living room set-up alongside their band. Per an official description, the performance intersperses VHS clips with footage captured on modern cameras as “a bit of a wink toward their sound, which has roots in the...
Raekwon says RZA rejected Leonardo DiCaprio-backed Wu-Tang Clan biopic
Raekwon has revealed that RZA had turned down a Wu-Tang Clan biopic deal that was backed by Leonardo DiCaprio. READ MORE: The best Leonardo DiCaprio memes the internet has to offer In the rapper’s new memoir From Staircase to Stage: The Story Of Raekwon And Wu-Tang Clan, he explained how he and RZA disagreed on the ultimate format of a biopic, with Raekwon pushing for a biopic like Straight Outta Compton while RZA wanted a multi-season TV series. Raekwon writes in the extract, obtained by Rolling Stone, that he met DiCaprio thanks to A Tribe Called Quest‘s Q-Tip, saying that the pair...
Nile Rodgers narrates new festive tale ‘Story For Sleep: A Peaceful Winter Night’
Nile Rodgers has shared a new spatial audio tale called Story For Sleep: A Peaceful Winter Night – listen below. READ MORE: “‘Let’s Dance’ was the easiest record I’ve ever made…” – Nile Rodgers remembers David Bowie The legendary Chic musician narrated the story for the latest instalment of ‘From Apple Music With Love’, an ongoing Christmas countdown series featuring exclusive releases from a host of big acts. Subscribers to the platform can access a new exclusive “gift” on a daily basis between November 26 and December 3. Yesterday’s edition (November 30) saw Elton John share Inside The Lockdown...
Bad Bunny beats Taylor Swift and Drake to be most-streamed artist on Spotify in 2021
Spotify has shared details of its most-streamed acts in the period January 1 to November 27, 2021, with Bad Bunny topping the list for the second year running. The Puerto Rican artist’s songs were streamed a total of 9.1billion times compared with 8.3billion in 2020. He is followed by Taylor Swift, Drake, Justin Bieber and BTS in the top five most-streamed acts. Elsewhere, Olivia Rodrigo had the most-streamed song (‘Drivers License‘, 1.1billion streams) and album (‘Sour‘) globally on the streaming platform. Her song ‘Good 4 U‘ landed as the UK’s top track of 2021. Advertisement Lil Nas X’s song ‘Montero...Recent Posts
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