Cro-Mags were synonymous with 1990s hardcore, having released their last music in 2000, but now they're back with three new songs - 'Don’t Give In', 'Drag You Under' and 'No One’s Victim'. "All three songs find Cro-Mags at their punishing and ruthless best" Rolling Stone says, and frontman Harley Flanagan tells the tracks are “all in […]
A luxury festival VestiVille - with Ja Rule! - was supposed to take place last this weekend, in Kristalpark, Lommel, Belgium, but it was cancelled. The bill boasted appearances from Ashanti, Cardi B, Future, A$AP Rocky, Migos, Meek Mill, and a promotional video for the fest, featuring a terrible Cardi B impersonator, promised guests luxury […]
No need to get into that Swift-Braun feud, there's a broader picture about music ownership that BBC paints. They write about Hipgnosis Songs Fund, that has steadily been buying hit songs and inviting big institutional investors to share in the proceeds. The man who founded it, Merck Mercuriadis, who managed artists including Beyoncé, Elton John, […]
Lil Nas X has opened up about his sexuality on World Pride Day, revealing to his followers on Twitter that he is a member of the LGBTQ community. He posted the video for his song 'C7osure' and urged fans to listen closely to the lyrics - "deadass thought i made it obvious" (well, maybe not that obvious). […]
Cave likes Morrissey's music, doesn't like his political views, but he should still have the right to express those. Just separate the two, in order not to ruin the music. "He has written a vast and extraordinary catalogue... original and distinctive works of unparalleled beauty", Nick Cave writes in a new blog post at The […]
Metallica's Kirk Hammett and Rob Trujillo played a cover of Iron Maiden's classic 'Killers' at a recent London show, Loudwire reports. It's a rare occasion to hear Hammett sing, and he can't really sing, neither can Trujillo. Which is exactly why this is so cool - they had the guts to do something they most […]
BBC chooses highlights of this year's Glasto: Sign-language interpretation of Stormzy, horses dancing to Anne-Marie, Lewis Capaldi's entrance with Noel Gallagher saying "Who's this Capaldi fella" on loop, George Ezra's confetti sabotaging Stormzy, Lizzo saying "I love you, you are beautiful, and you can do anything!", Billie Eilish's phone-advice: "If you want to film me, […]
The University of Newcastle in Australia is offering a PhD in heavy metal, including a scholarship to undertake the program. The degree will be in the study of the social geography of heavy metal culture. The University will host the two fully-funded PhD scholarships (or one international PhD scholarship, it boasts a living allowance of $27,596 AUS) to study either […]
Around 2,000 festival-goers have joined climate change campaigners Extinction Rebellion in a procession across the Glastonbury festival site, paying tribute to indigenous people who have led the fight against global heating. Dr Gail Bradbrook from ER said it is "not a protest. It is not a campaign. It is a rebellion. We are in active […]
“I don’t want to just be Stuart up there with my everyday issues. I want to forget myself, to put on clothes and get that other Stuart out the way!” - says poet Stuart McKenzie, the guitar player in the Wild Daughter, performance art rock’n’roll trio, in an interview with the Guardian. Band's frontman James Jeanette, […]
The latest guest in Fact Magazine's segment Against The Clock is Birmingham’s grime and garage producer Preditah. In ATC a musician, or a band, needs to make a song in no more than 10 minutes. Preditah has been making beats for MCs since he was a teenager, so he was done really fast, and the […]
Post metal Chicagoan Russian Circles keep the fire burning - they still do it with passion and heart, so in their case, keeping up with the genre makes very much sence. Their new song 'Milano' in an example of sticking to the old with fresh energy (listen to it below). They have an album, 'Blood […]
With an endless sea of aftermarket components and apps, as well as extra space and faster processors, the tablet has truly become the modern musician’s multi-tool, Rolling Stone writes, and chooses five best tablets for music production.
Metallica members Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo, Ugly Kid Joe singer Whitfield Crane and former Queens of the Stone Age/Danzig drummer Joey Castillo are forming a one-off group called the Wedding Band. They will be playing classic rock covers of songs by Black Sabbath, Billy Idol... The group will be hosting a special event at […]
Asteroid's full name, just as the singer's, is "Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno”, but it's "Eno" for friends (of music and space), and much prettier than it's original name “81948 (2000 OM69)”. Apart from being honored by the Southwest Research Institute, the International Astronomical Union and the Minor Planet […]
Stormzy is on Friday night, at the Pyramid Stage, as a headliner, although he has only only released one album. He is seen as a representative of black Britain and working class Britain, so the expectations are high, as BBC reports. BBC also will be bringing over 100 performances from this year's Glasto.
Hundredth started at the beginning of this decade as a melodic hardcore band, on 2017’s 'RARE' they went in a more dreamlike, atmospheric direction, and this year they’re going in direction of atmospheric guitar heroism of early U2 or The Cure, as Brooklyn Vegan reports. Their newest single 'Cauterize' goes in that shoegazy direction (listen below), similar […]
Breakdancing now is one step closer to being included in the 2024 Olympics - it’s been provisionally approved, along with skateboarding, surfing, and sport climbing, to be included in Paris 2024, with skateboarding and surfing already set to debut at the 2020 Tokyo Games. “The four sports that Paris has proposed are all totally in […]
Fact Magazine has an hour-and-a-half long mix by Bristol-born bass explorer Laksa, known for hypnotic, dancefloor-ready constructions. Laksa’s FACT mix is a cross-genre, tempo-hopping journey through dance music’s past, present and future, blending drum & bass classics, big room techno belters, bass experiments and cuts from Bristol’s next wave, as it explores the push and […]
"We were trying to make fun tunes in the studio. I wasn't even aware right away that I was channelling my divorce, either — I just kind of had this overwhelming sense of melancholy that seemed to seep into this music" - producer and songwriter Mark Ronson tells Exclaim in an interview about his latest […]
Hardware and software music production company Ableton launched Learning Synths, an interactive set of lessons that teach the principles of synthesis - lessons cover everything from amplitude to envelopes, filters and LFOs. The interactive site can be used in desktop and mobile browsers, and is easy enough for non-musicians and anyone without experience of synthesis […]
The Quietus went outside Moscow and St Petersburg looking for "weird" Russian music. What did they find? - Viking metal from Stavropol, goggle-eyed punks from satellite towns, delicate folk, psych post-punk, poetic electro-punk, righteous raving from Nizhniy Novgorod, a band with a controversial name etc. TQ has audios of those bands as well, maybe not […]
Soundgarden, Hole and Steve Earle, as well as the estates of Tom Petty and 2Pac, have filed a class action lawsuit against Universal Music Group over a fire at Universal Studios Hollywood in 2008 that destroyed 500,000 irreplaceable master recordings. The suit accuses Universal Music of negligence when it came to preventing the fire, in […]
Tengger Cavalry frontman and multi-instrumentalist Nature Ganganbaigal has died - authorities informed the band that the musician’s body was found on June 13th. In leading Tengger Cavalry, Ganganbaigal pioneered a unique sound described as Mongolian folk metal (watch their latest video 'Lone wolf' below). The band had been based in New York City, but recently […]
The PRS Foundation announced an extension of its Keychange pledge, in which music festivals have committed to a 50/50 gender balance by 2022. More than 180 festivals across the world have signed up since last year, Guardian reports.
Michael Jackson's estate released a statement where they remember "a gifted artist and extraordinary humanitarian”, whereas BBC remembers the day of June 25, 2009 and the days after when all circumstances about Jackson's death, and troubles, came to light.
A shocking picture has emerged of Gangnam in recent months - the BBC has heard allegations that in its glitzy nightclubs, women have been drugged to order by powerful men and raped, and that underage girls are being sexually exploited for profit. Elite clients, known as VIPs - and the richest VVIPs - were prepared […]
Folk-pop Californian singer-songwriter Boy Scouts has a new song, 'Get Well Soon' where "dreamlike melodies meet crisp, straight-shooting production to develop a classic vibe throughout" (watch the video below). Boy Scouts signed to ANTI-, and has a new album due on 30 August , 'Free Company', recorded and produced entirely by minimalist pop maestro Stephen Steinbrink, […]
Alice Cooper says that he and wife Sheryl Goddard have agreed that there is no way they can live without each other (married for 43 years). “I couldn’t live without her. We always said there will never be a time when one of us will be mourning the other. Whenever it does happen, we are […]
Last weekend NTS Radio and Warp Records celebrated three decades of great electro label, with some of the Warp's biggest names debuting new music - Autechre revealed two hours of unreleased material from ’89-93, Boards of Canada contributed a two-hour mix of new and unreleased material, Kelela sang over various retro Warp productions, Death Grips […]
