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Timbaland teases Missy Elliott’s first album in over 15 years
Timbaland has taken to Twitter to tease a new studio album for Missy Elliott, which he will produce. The long-time Missy Elliott collaborator tweeted earlier today (December 2), asking his followers if they were “ready” for a new record from Elliott. The veteran rapper retweeted it, seemingly confirming the two had been working together again. View the tweet below: Who ready for that @MissyElliott Timbo album?????????? — Timbaland (@Timbaland) December 1, 2021 Advertisement The album would be Elliott’s seventh, and first since 2005’s ‘The Cookbook’. Following the release of her 2006 greatest-hits album ‘Respect M.E.’, Elliott’s public presence has...
Miley Cyrus on just making the cut for Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List: “It was now or never”
Miley Cyrus has spoken about squeezing onto Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 List after recently turning 29 years old. READ MORE: Miley Cyrus – her best rock cover songs, from Blondie to Nine Inch Nails The pop star said online that she will “never forget how lucky I am” to write songs as a career and thanked Forbes for the inclusion. “FORBES 30 UNDER 30,” she captioned a video from her 30 Under 30 shoot. “I turned 29 last week. It was now or never. Thank you for the honour. @Forbes @happyhippiefdn @gucci. Advertisement “Songwriting is the greatest joy...
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...Recent Posts
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