Celine Dion's new album 'Courage' earned 113,000 equivalent album units last week in the USA, enough to climb the summit of Billboard 200. 'Courage' is her fifth No. 1 album, and her first chart-topper in over 17 years (last was 2002’s 'A New Day Has Come'). Billboard...
Acapop! KIDS are known for covering the hottest hits, and their latest addition to the series is 'Shallow' by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper from the movie 'The Star is Born', Billboard reports. Previously, the nine kids covered songs such as Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody', Amy Winehouse's 'Valerie', Post Malone's 'Sunflower'...
South Korean pop star Goo Hara was found dead at her home in Seoul on Sunday. Goo made her debut in 2008 as a member of the girl group Kara, which had big followings in South Korea, Japan and other Asian countries. She later worked as a solo artist and appeared on many TV shows. […]
Cult London label Blackest Ever Black has announced it is shutting down, after 10 years and more than 100 records from artists such as Carla dal Forno, Prurient, Raime, Silvia Kastel, Tropic Of Cancer, and more. Its final release is the ten-track low-key, melancholic compilation 'A short illness from which he never recovered', Fact Magazine […]
Coldplay will not be touring to promote their new album 'Everyday Life' because they are concerned over their concerts' environmental impact. The band last travelled the world with their 'A Head Full of Dreams Tour' in 2016 and 2017, and, as Chris Martin told the BBC, "our next tour will be the best possible version […]
“I feel like we’re in the end of art, human art. Once there’s actually AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), they’re gonna be so much better at making art than us" Grimes said in her recent appearance on astrophysicist Sean Carroll’s 'Mindscape' podcast, No good news from Grimes to concerts either - “I think live music is going to be […]
American rapper is donating clothes to inmates in the same Kronoberg prison in Sweden where he served time this year. Rocky’s attorney sent Kronoberg pictures of a uniform that appeared to be a “green tracksuit” with “PROMENVD” printed on the front. The rapper has an upcoming concert in Sweden on December 11 at the Ericsson […]
The make-up loving rockers played a concert for sharks in Australia last weekend - the band set up their show on a small boat in an Australian harbour. The concert had been billed as proof that sharks can be attracted to tour boats without the use of blood or bait. Eight people had bought tickets […]
Emma Banks, co-founder of the UK arm of one of the world's biggest music tour agents, has said musicians "have to be proactive" about the impact tours like that have on the environment, BBC reports. She says some artist's tours - Banks' roster at the Creative Artists Agency includes Katy Perry, Lorde, Kylie, Arcade Fire, […]
Stormzy has announced his second album - 'Heavy Is The Head' will be released on 13 December, featuring Ed Sheeran, Burna Boy, Yebba, H.E.R. and Aitch, Independent reports. The album's cover image sees bare-chested Stormzy wearing a crown and looking down at the Banksy-designed stab vest from his headlining show at Glastonbury.
All Music chose 200 best albums from 2010 to 2019, listed somewhat differently. They picked the best albums, but unlike others, listed them chronologically, attached to the year they were published. Every year does not have the same number of albums, suggesting some years were better. A good list - check it out here.
Listening to 78 minutes of music each day is recommended for maintaining good mental health, five minutes is enough to feel happier, and 11 minutes per day can deliver therapeutic benefits, a new study by the British Academy of Sound Therapy suggests. BAST concluded, based on a study on 7,500 people globally, that a “balanced diet” of […]
“I grew up fairly lonely, feeling pretty outcast and alienated. So my translation of that into a country and western star was to be this lone cowboy figure” - new country singer Orville Peck told the Guardian. He is finishing his European tour, in his regular outfit - cowboy clothes and a mask (there's information […]
Motley Crue are to reform for a stadium tour of the United States, five years after they played what they said would be their final ever show, Billboard reports. Before their supposed farewell tour in 2014-2015, the band had signed what they said was a "cessation of touring agreement". But on Monday they posted a video of […]
Taylor Swift's old publisher Big Machine Records issued a statement saying it had agreed "to grant all licences of their artists' performances" for "the upcoming American Music Awards", in reaction to Swift's claim that her old record label had forbidden it. However, in the second half of their statement, Big Machine said "that recording artists […]
Parisian band En Attendant Ana released a new song 'Woods', "accessible jangly indie-pop, just a little winsome, just a little motorik, and super catchy" - Brooklyn Vegan describes them quite correctly. It's coming out in January on their second album 'Juillet'; their debut 'Lost and Found' came out last year, listen to it here. 'Woods' - below. […]
Each month, Fact Magazine makes a selection of best underground dance music from across the world, and this time around they feature legends and new faces in equal measure - TAYHANA, Ari Lennox, Static-X, Nazar, etc.
Disney+ has removed 'The Simpsons' episode 'Stark Raving Dad', which appeared in the show's third season. The now-notorious episode does not appear on the service as part of its removal, which also extends to Blu-ray DVD box sets and syndication. In the wake of pulling the episode, executive producer James L. Brooks told the Wall Street Journal, "It […]
Twenty One Pilots finished on top of Billboards list of albums of last ten years with 'Blurryface' - their 2015 album sold over 6.5 million copies worldwide. Their mash-up of hip-hop, pop, reggae, and indie rock brought hits like 'Ride' and 'Stressed Out'. After 'Blurryface', the top selling rock albums of the last decade are […]
British photographer Terry O'Neill, whose work captured iconic images of London's Swinging Sixties, has died. He photographed celebrities - including The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Elton John, Amy Winehouse - and received a CBE last month for services to photography. BBC...
'Dance Monkey' cruises to a 16th week at No. 1 on the Australian singles chart, breaking the all-time record for longest stint at the summit. Tones And I's second single eclipses the previous mark set by Ed Sheeran’s 'Shape of You' which spent 15 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the chart. The Industry Observer...
Kanye West has announced his first opera, 'Nebuchadnezzar' - it opens on November 24th at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. It is about the longest-reigning monarch of the Neo-Babylonian Empire and a ruler who West relates to. The opera is directed by Italian performance artist Vanessa Beecroft and will feature music by Kanye’s Sunday […]
In 1958 Patricia “Miss Pat” Chin and her husband Vincent “Randy” Chin set up a stall selling off old 45s, and, as new Jamaican styles of mento, ska, rock-steady, then reggae emerged, opened a shop, a distribution company and then a studio. In the 1970s, political violence in Kingston got out of hand, and the […]
American country singer Luke Combs has climbed the summit of Billboard 200 chart with his newest release 'What You See Is What You Get'. The album had 172,000 equivalent album units in the United States, with 74 million on-demand audio streams, which made for the largest week for a country album in over a year […]
Brilliant new disco single 'Anna (Flowers Don't Grow)' is the banging follow up to the 'Combustion', the single so good, we assumed that it couldn't be repeated - the Quietus says enthusiastically about Pregoblin's new song. Band's members have artistic background - songwriter and multidisciplinary artist Alex Sebley is a former member of Saudis and […]
"It’s the diary of a young girl going through heartbreak, loss, betrayal, fame, insecurities, doubt, boundaries, self-care, and more than anything, healing. Healing as a young girl at the start of womanhood. Healing and being honest with everything that I’m feeling and experiencing, and bringing it into poetic light and making it very powerful" - […]
Drums & electronic duo Broken English Club made a "banging" remix of 'No Walls, No Air' by Gum Takes Tooth, adding "vocals and lyrics, essentially building a new track, albeit one with the same nerve-shredding build". The song is taken from Gum Takes Tooth's 'Arrow', an album the Quietus hears as "one of the LPs […]
Since it's Loudwire the list was made from a specific position, so it's narrowed down to, more or less, alt-rock. It goes from Dorothy at No. 66 to Stone Sour at No. 1, with expected names on the list - Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Deftones, Marilyn Manson, etc. - and quite a few lesser-known in between. […]
Danger Mouse shared a previously unreleased track that he recorded with Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous, before Linkous' death in 2010. 'Ninjarous' features the rapper MF Doom. “Mark and I worked on a lot of music together,” Danger Mouse said in a statement - “but the song we did with MF DOOM was always one of Mark’s […]
In the western countries, festivals were cancelled this summer due to money issues, in Asia - it's peace, well, actually lack thereof. Organizers of Clockenflap in Hong Kong, one of the most high-profile festivals in Asia, cancelled it because of the continuing protests and unrest in the city. The 60,000-capacity festival was due to run […]
