"We still haven’t earned a penny from it ['Bohemian Rhapsody' movie]. Isn’t that funny? How successful does a movie have to be before you make money?” - Queen's Brian May told BBC. The movie made 900 million dollars, making it the highest-grossing musical biopic of all time. He says he did like the movie, and […]
Breakbeat is having a comeback over the past couple of years, the Guardian writes, as a redress to a scene that remained stubbornly white, straight, male and stale. The new movement is spearheaded by a coalition of acts from the queer fringes - CCL, Ciel and LSDXOXO, two relative lifers, Chicago’s Eris Drew and Lisbon’s […]
The Strokes headlined this year's City of Angels, for their first live performance together in over two years, debuting also a brand new song 'The Adults Are Talking', their first new material since 2016’s 'Future Present Past EP'. CoA is a benefit concert raising proceeds for two homeless organizations in Los Angeles, Consequence of Sound […]
36 hours of hippie happiness is about to be let loose to the world through a box set with all the songs performed at the original Woodstock festival. ‘Woodstock 50 – Back To The Garden: The Definitive Anniversary’ will be released on August and collect 432 tracks across 38 CDs, including 276 songs that were […]
Every year 160 million vinyl records are being pressed, and the demand is getting higher. Production processes of those vinyls are largely stuck in the late 70s, and are decidedly anti-green. It involves toxic acids, huge amounts of energy including steaming and cooling, and the records themselves are typically PVC, a plastic thought to be […]
Vampire Weekend sold 138,000 equivalent album of their third LP 'Father Of The Bride' last week in the USA, which makes it the biggest selling album in the country, and brings VW to the top of the Billboard 200. The sum represent the largest for any rock album in 2019. 'FOTB' earned 20.29 million on-demand audio […]
Morrissey performed seven shows on Broadway, and for his last, Saturday night’s show the former Smiths frontman played the band’s 1987 song 'I Won’t Share You' live for the first time ever, Brooklyn Vegan reports. Taken from the band’s final album, 1987’s 'Strangeways, Here We Come', the song grew out of a series of tense […]
Forty-one nations are competing in Tel Aviv this week at Eurovision 2019, BBC had a listen to this year's selected songs and chosen 20 that stand out from the pack - from pop-opera to bondage techno. Listen to all the songs here.
Justin Timberlake and Missy Elliott received honorary degrees at Berklee College of Music on Saturday in Boston. Missy Elliott is the first hip-hop artist to receive this honor from Berklee, and broke down in tears before offering words of wisdom to Berklee's graduating class: "I just want y'all to know, there will be ups and downs. If […]
David Gilmour is streaming his entire concert 'Live at Pompeii' on YouTubeu (watch it here). He performed at the bottom of Pompeii volcano in Naples in 2016, full 45 years after Pink Floyd performed there in one of the best concerts of that era. Tone Deaf...
A John Lennon-owned copy of the Beatles’ infamous “butcher cover” version of 'Yesterday and Today', sold for $234,000 at a Beatles-themed auction this week. The vinyl copy – autographed by Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr - and featuring a back cover sketch drawn by Lennon is the third highest price paid for a vinyl. Highest price […]
Florence + The Machine have performed 'Jenny of Oldstones' live for the first time, at Arizona Arcosanti festival this weekend, Stereogum reports. Florence Welch dedicated their remake of Game of Thrones classic 'Jenny’s Song' to Arya Stark, "who saved us all”. The song was published on 'For The Throne', 'Game of Thrones' companion album including […]
Citizens of Denver voted for Initiative 301 which makes the possession, use and cultivation of psilocybin mushrooms among people aged 21 and over the lowest priority crime for law enforcement in the city. What it practically means is that it prohibits Denver from spending any resources to prosecute people with them. Rolling Stone analyzes symbolism […]
Mary Jane Leach's album 'Pipe Dreams' "became a soundtrack to the moments where I embraced the solitude of living somewhere quite secluded by myself", psychedelic Welsh singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon describes to the Guardian what she's listening to now. Why the 1980s classical album? "It has these beautiful drone sounds that interact with bass, and […]
"Vocals and music need to meet at the right cross section to bring in a listener and keep them there. Atlanta’s folk/R&B fusionist Faye Webster deftly combines those elements to create songs like 'Right Side of My Neck', which are able to lure listeners in and maintain an immediacy that keeps them from drifting away“ […]
A new Swedish study found that 73 percent of independent musicians reported suffering from mental illness symptoms in the past. The survey conducted among nearly 1,500 indie musicians showed that nearly three-quarters of indie musicians have experienced "stress, anxiety and/or depression" in relation to their work. The numbers were worse for younger artists: Among those aged […]
BBC's journalist had a challenge - to see 16 gigs in just 12 hours. He tried it at Brighton's Great Escape Festival, which hosts more than 400 bands in two dozen venues over three days, and - succeeded! Most of the 16 bands he saw (in 11 hours) are newcomers - "no-one was a total […]
Björk debuted her new stage show, ‘Cornucopia’ in New York City, which she describes as her “most elaborate stage concert yet, where the acoustic and digital will shake hands, encouraged by a bespoke team of collaborators”. The show was "100 minutes of a nearly overwhelming array of sounds and images, a true feast for the senses […]
Netflix has a news horror-series 'Chambers' and it revolves around Stone Roses line “I don’t have to sell my soul / He’s already in me”, from their classic ‘I Wanna Be Adored’, NME reports. It's about a teenager who has a heart transplant who develops a relationship with donor's parents. Along the way, in 'Chambers' we […]
More than 250,000 tents get left behind by festival-goers in UK, although they can, ofcourse, be used again. The Association of Independent Festivals (represents more than 60 independent festivals) are urging big shops to stop marketing them as "festival tents" which gives the impression they can be used only once, BBC reports. AIF says the […]
“The time was right for us to tell our own story for the first time in our own words” said John Paul Jones about the Led Zeppelin documentary, the first official one. The film is directed by British film-maker Bernard MacMahon, director of 'American Epic', a four-part documentary exploring roots music across the US. Led […]
Veronika Nikulshina of the Russian art activists Pussy Riot has been taken into police custody in Moscow. Police told Nikulshina she was being arrested because “a group of young people have damaged a piece of government property”, but the group described it as “yet another absurd claim by the police without any official accusations filed”, […]
Imagine Dragons are scheduled to perform at UEFA's Champions League final opening ceremony, one of the biggest sports events in the world. The stars of the finals are Liverpool and Tottenham, but Lasvegians are gonna try to steal part of the show from the Englishmen. The final takes place on Saturday, June 1, at the […]
Ed Sheeran has doubled his wealth in the last year to £160m, and he is now the 17th richest musician in the UK and Ireland, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. In 2018, Sheeran is thought to have earned more than any other musician in a single year in history, from a world tour […]
The most famous face of science on TV, Sir David Attenborough is seeking a DJ to remix a field recording he made in Bali 70 years ago. He's got a three-minute recording of sacred gamelan music taped in 1954 while searching for a Komodo dragon, and now wants a DJ to turn it into a […]
The direct-to-fan music crowdfunding platform PledgeMusic, which recently came under fire for withholding payments to artists, is heading for bankruptcy after plans to sell the company fell through. Zhe result of the unfulfilled payments left many musicians who had crowdfunded on the platform unable to deliver promised merchandise to those who had given them money. Now it appears […]
Accountant Andrew Munday, 38, has been jail for five years and eight months for defrauding Rita Ora out of almost £2.4 million over seven years. Munday used the money he took from the pop star to buy houses and Star Wars memorabilia, as well as membership at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Sky News...
Guardian's picks for songs of the month of May is AWE-SOME!!! Made with the summer in mind there's: FKA Twigs power-ballad 'Cellophane' about fame obsession; Carly Rae Jepsen's dancey number 'Julien'; Dorian Electra's 'Flamboyant' - imagine Elton John and Freddie Mercury's imaginary son going "all the way"; Bruce Springsteen's 'Hello Sunshine' - made for driving […]
‘Mercedes Marxist’ is Bristol punks' first new track of 2019, and their first original release since last year's critically acclaimed album 'Joy As An Act of Resistance'. 'MM' will be a part of Idles' third album, and singer Joe Talbot explains to NME, how now they want to "write more techno, we want to write […]
A reel-to-reel tape featuring three unreleased David Bowie demos will be auctioned later this month in England. Bowie recorded the demos for his debut album in 1967, but none of the songs made the final cut. The tape includes the 'Did You Ever Have a Dream' (which landed on Bowie’s 1981 compilation 'Another Face') and three unheard tracks - 'Funny Smile', 'Pussy […]
