Investigation launched after sheriff’s deputy appears to pepper spray Turnstile fan in Richmond
An investigation has been launched after a sheriff’s deputy appeared to pepper spray a Turnstile fan during a show in Richmond. The Baltimore band played at the Virginia city’s Brown’s Island venue on Wednesday (September 24), and as is customary at their shows, they...
Björk joins No Music For Genocide campaign and removes catalogue from streaming in Israel
Björk has joined the ‘No Music For Genocide’ campaign, making her back catalogue unavailable on streaming services in Israel. The new campaign is a cultural boycott initiative encouraging artists and rights-holders to pull their music from streaming platforms in Israel in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza....
Watch Sleep Token cover Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing In The Dark’
Sleep Token played a haunted version of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing In The Dark’ in Philadelphia this week – watch footage below. The London masked metallers are currently midway through a US arena tour and they stopped off at Philadelphia’s Xfinity Mobile Arena on Wednesday...
Nashville treasure celebrating 100 years of country music institution, the Grand Ole Opry
When James Brown came to Nashville in 1979 to record vocals for “It’s Too Funky In Here”, he received an unexpected invitation. Country star Porter Waggoner asked him to stop by the Grand Ole Opry – not as an audience member, but as a...
Jeff Tweedy’s Twilight Override reviewed: Wilco frontman’s triple album is a gentle salve in stormy times
A 30-song triple album of mostly mellow consolation It was novelist and critic John Berger who first posited that “calm is a form of resistance”. Who knows if Jeff Tweedy was channelling that sentiment while creating the gentle behemoth that is Twilight Override, but...
Spain’s Josh Haden: “The entire band was smoking weed every day!”
Though Spain are known for their lethargic pace, this wasn’t always Josh Haden’s style. He’d previously been singer and bassist for Treacherous Jaywalkers, a punk act signed in the late ’80s to SST that he now describes as “boundlessly energetic, in a negative way.”...
Mulatu Astatke Mulatu Plays Mulatu
His journey was meteoric Somewhere around the close of the 1950s, a 16-year-old Ethiopian boy arrived at Lindisfarne College, a boarding school in the Wrexham countryside. The young Mulutu Astatke had come to North Wales to earn a qualification in aeronautical engineering. But around...
Dutch independent radio stations announce 15-hour broadcast in to raise money for Palestine
Ten independent Dutch radio stations are joining forces for a special 15-hour broadcast to raise money for Palestine. Find all the details below. The live-stream, dubbed ‘Transmission For Palestine’, is set to air between 10am local time on Sunday (September 28) and 1am on...
Robert Plant & Saving Grace reviewed: a new fellowship and a new quest for the Zeppelin frontman
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