Daft Punk are splitting up after nearly three decades, the French dance duo's longtime publicist confirmed to CNN on Monday. Kathryn Frazier told CNN that reports the pair were retiring were true but gave no reason for the split. https://youtu.be/DuDX6wNfjqc The Grammy Award-winning act are known for using computerized vocals and wearing robot headgear in public and in all of their music videos. They started the week by sharing a […]
Foo Fighters swung by Jo Wiley’s BBC Radio 2 Sofa Session to perform a few songs from their new album Medicine at Midnight, as well as a cover of the Bee Gees‘ Saturday Night Fever disco classic “You Should Be Dancing.” You can hear the full 23-minute session here, with the Foos’ Bee Gees cover opening the show. https://twitter.com/foofighters/status/1362319921317769219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1362319921317769219%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fmusic%2Fmusic-news%2Ffoo-fighters-bee-gees-you-should-be-dancing-1129686%2F Later on the show, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl explained how the cover came about: “We’ve been going down to our studio every […]
Neil Young has announced the release of a new “lost” album from the 1980s called ‘Johnny’s Island’. The record will finally be release as part of the musician’s Archives project, which has seen him share a host of unreleased tracks and previously unheard albums. The latest instalment of this project is ‘Johnny’s Island’, which was recorded at the Commercial Recorders studio in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1982. The album was once called […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlZHgX96TCY&feature=emb_logo Duran Duran have dropped a futuristic new video for their recent cover of David Bowie’s “Five Years.” Directed Gavin Elder, the video features the band accompanied by Bowie’s longtime pianist Mike Garson surrounded by swirling colors as they tear through the track. Elder shot each band member individually across Los Angeles and London, enlisting artist Teek Mach to virtually bring it all together. The band released the cover earlier this month as part […]
Genesis have once again delayed the start of their The Last Domino? reunion tour, which was originally supposed to kick off in November 2020 and then was moved to April 2021 because of the pandemic. It is now slated to launch at Dublin’s 3Arena on September 15th and wrap up October 13th after a three-night run at London’s 02 Arena. As of now, there are only dates in the United Kingdom and Ireland, […]
Longtime Metallica producer Bob Rock has sold his rights to the Black Album, among other pieces of music he helmed in the studio. Hipgnosis Songs Fund, an investment and song management company, acquired a total of 43 songs from Rock, who produced Metallica’s ‘90s discography and 2003’s St. Anger. Bob Rock’s producing credits are amongst rock and metal’s most impressive. His first big gigs came in the late ‘80s with the Cult’s Sonic Temple and Motley Crue’s Dr. Feelgood, but the Black Album broke all […]
The Colombian singer Shakira has become the latest big name artist to cash in on her catalogue of hits, selling the publishing rights to the London-based music royalties investment firm Hipgnosis. The most successful female Latin singer of all-time, with more than 80m album sales to her name, Shakira has sold the rights to her 145-song catalogue for an undisclosed sum. The three-time Grammy award winner’s string of hits, which began with the release […]
Kings Of Leon have shared another snippet of a new song – listen to ‘I’m Going Nowhere’ below. The band, who haven’t released any official new material since 2016’s ‘Walls’, have been teasing the imminent release of two new songs called ‘Must Catch The Bandit’ and ‘Feel The Way You Do’, both of which are due out January 7. They also shared teasers for ‘Dancing In Your Head’ and ‘Spin It Like We […]
Searchlight Pictures has closed a deal with Ford v Ferrari helmer James Mangold to direct Timothée Chalamet as the young Bob Dylan, during the period when he was poised to become folk music’s most seminal figure. When Dylan instead embraced rock ‘n’ roll and traded his acoustic guitar for an amp and an electric guitar, it created a huge outcry. And it cemented the status of rock music. Jeff Rosen, his longtime manager, is working […]
