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London Independent Label Market returns for winter 2021
Independent Label Market is returning to London this winter to round off its 10th anniversary celebrations. READ MORE: Here’s why the Independent Label Market’s all-female Soho takeover is so vital Started at Soho’s Berwick Street market in 2011, ILM has hosted 70 events all over the world and has partnered with more than 600 independent record labels throughout the UK as well as in Paris, Berlin, Rome, LA, Toronto, New York, LA and elsewhere. The 2021 ILM winter event will take place on November 27 at London’s Coal Drops Yard in King’s Cross, hosting a celebration of music and vinyl culture...
Young Thug debuts new ‘Punk’ songs at Givenchy show soundtrack
Young Thug premiered new songs from his forthcoming album ‘Punk’ during a recent show by luxury fashion brand Givenchy. READ MORE: How Young Thug become one of the most influential moguls in modern rap The rapper provided the soundtrack for the brand’s Spring 2022 ready-to-wear collection show at the La Défense Arena in Paris, which included as-yet-unreleased music from his next album. According to Vogue, the show’s creative director Matthew M Williams said that it was Young Thug’s idea for the show to take place on a large scale. The music was written especially for the 40,000 capacity venue. View this...
Tributes to famed hairdresser Lyndell Mansfield who styled The Gossip and more
Lyndell Mansfield, the Australian hairdresser who styled acts including The Gossip, has died. The stylist died last week after suffering a heart attack and a brain aneurysm. She was diagnosed with Covid last month . A crowdfunder had been set up to raise money for Mansfield’s family to fly over to the UK after she had been placed on life support. Mansfield was a celebrated stylist in music industry and, as Clash writes, was the hairdresser for a number of its magazine stars including a cover shoot with The Gossip’s Beth Ditto. Ditto, meanwhile, had written a heartfelt...
Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan on covering Metallica: “There’s a dark side to both our bands”
Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode has reflected on his experience coving Metallica for the latter’s recent ‘Blacklist’ album. READ MORE: Various Artists – ‘The Metallica Blacklist’ review: a sprawling tribute to ‘The Black Album’ Gahan was among the 53 artists who contributed covers of tracks from Metallica’s 1991 classic ‘The Black Album’ to celebrate its 30th anniversary. He was one of fourteen artists who delivered interpretations of ‘Nothing Else Matters’. A recent edition of The Metallica Podcast featured a number of different artists who were included on the release. They discussed their approach to the process and their relationship with...
Rapper Nines jailed for importing cannabis
Nines has been jailed for importing 28kg of cannabis into the UK from Spain and Poland. The British rapper, 31, whose real name is Courtney Freckleton, has been imprisoned alongside Jason Thompson, 35, for 28 months. They pleaded guilty to drugs and money laundering charges. Freckleton and Thompson were involved in a successful bid to import the class B drug and had made another attempt to import it. Some of the cannabis was smuggled into the UK from Poland inside boilers. Advertisement BBC News reports that during their sentencing at Harrow Crown Court, Judge Rosa Dean said: “What a waste...
Courtney Barnett shares online stem mixer for fans to “play around” with songs from new album
Courtney Barnett has launched an interactive stem mixer on her website that allows fans to adjust songs from her forthcoming album ‘Things Take Time, Take Time‘. READ MORE: How ‘Anonymous Club’, the intimate new documentary about Courtney Barnett, was made The player, which operates similarly to Kanye West‘s previously announced DONDA stem player, enables users to “listen & play around” with tracks from Barnett’s third album. So far the player, which was built and designed by Raphael Ong and Sean Lim, allows for people to alter ‘Rae Street‘, ‘Before You Gotta Go‘ and ‘Write A List Of Things To Look...
aespa unveil fierce and futuristic teaser for ‘Savage’ music video
K-pop girl group aespa have dropped a powerful teaser for the music video of their upcoming single ‘Savage’. READ MORE: SHINee’s Key on new solo mini-album ‘Bad Love’: “I finally became ‘me’” On October 4 at Midnight KST, the SM Entertainment quartet shared a sneak peek of the forthcoming visual, alongside a new set of concept images. Their new single ‘Savage’ arrives tomorrow (October 5) at 6pm KST, alongside their first mini-album of the same name. In the 30-second clip, aespa discover a large reptilian eye attached to a metal structure in a sci-fi-inspired wasteland. The girl group then...
Billie Eilish condemns Texas anti-abortion laws during performance: “My body, my fucking choice”
Billie Eilish has spoken out against Texas’ newly implemented abortion laws during her headline set at Austin City Limits 2021. At one point during the show, Eilish admitted: “When they made that shit a law, I almost didn’t want to do the show because I wanted to punish this fucking place for allowing that to happen here. “But then I remembered that it’s you guys that are the fuckin’ victims, and you deserve everything in the world,” she continued. “And we need to tell them to shut the fuck up.” Advertisement She then raised her middle finger, encouraging the crowd...
YoungBoy Never Broke Again says a collaboration with Drake is “in the works”
Rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again has revealed that a collaboration with Drake is “in the works” during a recent interview. The artist, who is currently awaiting trial for gun and drug charges, shared the news last week on streaming platform Stationhead. “Me and Drake was really talkin’ ’bout ‘Top’, going ahead and getting the deal sealed with me and him linking up,” he said, referencing his 2020 album. Advertisement “That’s the whole collab we workin’ on as we speak,” he continued. “Yes, that is in the works.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by DJ Akademiks (@akademiks)...Recent Posts
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