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Yungblud announces new short film based on his song ‘Mars’
Yungblud is set to release his first short film – Mars “an uncensored, unfiltered portrayal of youth” based upon the singer’s 2020 song of the same name. The story for the film, which is a collaboration between Mercury Studios and Interscope Films, is based around Charlie Acaster, a young fan Yungblud met on tour who was struggling to convince her parents that she was transgender. READ MORE: Yungblud: “I wanted to write my ‘Urban Hymns’ or ‘Back To Black’” Speaking of the film, which is set to come out in spring 2022, Yungblud said: “This story is an uncensored, unfiltered...
Dave Gahan announces intimate London performance of new album ‘Imposter’ with Soulsavers
Dave Gahan & Soulsavers have announced an intimate live performance of their new covers album ‘Imposter’ in London next month. READ MORE: Dave Gahan covers Cat Power and tells us about his “liberating” new album and the future of Depeche Mode The Depeche Mode frontman and longtime collaborator Rich Machin will make an appearance for an intimate show at the Coliseum venue on December 5. Tickets, which you can purchase here, go on sale at 9am this Friday (November 12), the same day the record is released. “To get to play this special album on a stage in front...
George Harrison’s childhood home in Liverpool goes up for auction
George Harrison‘s childhood home in Liverpool, where he, John Lennon and Paul McCartney rehearsed as teenagers, is set to be auctioned off. The late Beatles guitarist moved with his family to 25 Upton Green in the Speke area of the city in 1949 when he was six years old. READ MORE: Why George Harrison is the coolest Beatle The house was the site of many rehearsals for the Beatles members’ former band The Quarrymen, which they formed when they were teenagers. It was also where Harrison learned to play the guitar, before he and his family left the house in...
Dave Grohl opens about curved spine diagnosis: “I was different and I liked it”
Dave Grohl has opened up about being diagnosed with a curved spine when he was a child. READ MORE: The 10 most ripping yarns from Dave Grohl’s new book ‘The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music’ The Foo Fighters frontman said he was diagnosed with the condition at the age of seven. He told The Sun’s Bizarre column via Contact Music: “I’ve always felt like a bit of an alien, which obviously I learned to embrace over time. When diagnosed with a crooked spine at the age of seven, I had to begin wearing a small lift on my...
JAY B on meeting Jay Park: “He said, ‘You’re a more skilled singer than I am’”
GOT7 member and soloist JAY B has revealed what H1GHR MUSIC CEO Jay Park had told him during their first meeting. READ MORE: JAY B on finding his voice: “I can’t stop doubting myself until I’m fully satisfied” In an interview with HIPHOPPLAYA, the singer discussed his journey to making his solo debut as well as meeting label head Jay Park for the first time. “He wanted to see me right away,” recounted JAY B, who shared that they had an impromptu meeting outside H1GHR MUSIC’s studios. The GOT7 leader added that he played Park a mixtape that he...
Listen to a preview of TWICE’s upcoming album ‘Formula Of Love: O+T=<3’
TWICE have released a sneak peek for their upcoming album ‘Formula Of Love: O+T=<3’. READ MORE: TWICE talk new mini-album ‘Taste Of Love’, its tough recording process and their favourite songs to perform At midnight KST on November 8, the nine-member K-pop girl group unveiled an “album sneak peek” video that features 20-second snippets of all 17 songs from their forthcoming record, including lead single ‘Scientist’. Their third studio album, ’Formula Of Love: O+T=<3’, is set to arrive on November 12 at 2pm KST/12am EST. Each preview is accompanied by a short visual of the members, alongside the writing...
Roddy Ricch to donate his Astroworld fee to victims’ families
Roddy Ricch has announced that he will donate his compensation for playing Travis Scott‘s Astroworld to the victims of the festival’s tragic crowd crush. Ricch played a 30-minute set at the festival on Friday night (November 5), shortly before eight people died – and hundreds more were reportedly injured – in a “mass-casualty” stampede during Scott’s headlining set. In a post on his Instagram story, Ricch – real name Rodrick Moore, Jr. – wrote, “Please have the families of those who we lost yesterday reach out. “I’ll be donating my net compensation to the families of this incident #Pray4Houston.”...
Travis Scott, Drake and Live Nation named in lawsuit filed over Astroworld festival tragedy
Travis Scott has been hit with three lawsuits – one naming Drake as a co-defendant – relating to the crowd crush at his festival Astroworld over the weekend, which resulted in eight deaths and hundreds of injuries. The crush occurred during Scott’s headline performance on Friday night (November 5) at Houston’s NRG Park, when the audience began to compress towards the front of the stage, causing injuries, shortness of breath and, for some, cardiac arrest. The eight people who died at Astroworld were between the ages of 14 and 27, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said at a press conference...
Jeon Somi on the creation of ‘XOXO’: “Fuck it, I just did it”
Jeon Somi has opened up on the creative and musical process behind the creation of her debut full-length album ‘XOXO’. READ MORE: Jeon Somi – ‘XOXO’ review: an anti-climactic debut album that fails to flesh out her identity In a recent interview with Teen Vogue, the Canadian-Korean idol shared that she had spearheaded the management over the conception and production of her latest record ‘XOXO’, which dropped last month alongside its lead single of the same name. “Fuck it, I just did it,” said Somi, when asked about taking creative control over her debut studio album. “This is all...Recent Posts
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