Megan Thee Stallion has dropped her new dance video for ‘Body’ – you can watch the clip, which was directed by the ‘WAP’ video director Colin Tilley, below. The track is one of the stand-outs on the Houston rapper’s debut studio album ‘Good News’, which was released back in November. The original video for ‘Body’
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According to Alex Van Halen, the only people who truly understood the creative mechanics of Van Halen were he and his brother, Eddie. “All these people are writing books about the band and they know nothing about the inner workings of this band,” Alex explained in an interview with Modern Drummer, conducted in August 2020
Billie Eilish has addressed her new album, saying that it’s shaping up to be exactly how she intended. The artist, whose fly-on-the-wall Apple TV+ documentary The World’s A Little Blurry is released next month, suggested that the follow-up to 2019’s ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?‘ is more honed than her debut.
It is a line AC/DC are obviously pleased with: they’ve wheeled it out more than once. The gag runs that, during some or other promotional campaign, some upstart critic accused them of having made the same album 11 times. AC/DC retort to the effect that this is an outrageous, ignorant and insupportable calumny: they have,
A rare Marvin Gaye instrumental album has been made available as a standalone LP for the very first time – listen to it below. Recorded during the summer of 1971, ‘Funky Nation: The Detroit Instrumentals’ is the result of some downtime Gaye had after refusing to tour in support of his game-changing classic album, ‘What’s
Alex Van Halen celebrated the “strange chemistry” Van Halen had with David Lee Roth and compared the strengths of the original singer with his replacement, Sammy Hagar. In an interview with Modern Drummer, newly published but conducted before the death of Eddie Van Halen, Alex was asked how important it was to have a producer in the
If, after suffering hardship, you’ve become particularly attuned to the everyday miracles of earth and sky, awed by the wonder of existence, then you’re already intimate with the hopeful air of We Will Always Love You. Drenched in mechanised shimmer and kinetic beats, The Avalanches’ third studio effort is at its core a beatific vision
Ben Howard has teased a return to music with a showing on BBC Radio 1 tomorrow (January 26). The singer-songwriter, whose last album was 2018’s ‘Noonday Dream’, posted a looping clip of him jumping between screens on Instagram today (January 25) with the caption: “What A Day. tomorrow 6pm. BBC Radio 1.” Some fans could
The rock community has seen several significant losses in 2021. We take a look at the musicians, actors, producers and others who have died below. The year started with the death of Merseybeat pioneer Gerry Marsden on Jan. 3. Gerry and the Pacemakers were widely considered the Beatles‘ top local rivals in the early days. Another artist from the
Janelle Monáe’s upcoming horror film Antebellum has confirmed its UK release date. Read More: Janelle Monáe – ‘Dirty Computer’ Review Lionsgate, the company behind the film release, last year revealed that the upcoming horror movie will by-pass cinemas and head straight to digital release as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues. The film had a US release
It wasn’t until 25 years after its release, and subsequent worldwide sales in excess of five million, that the writers of “Islands In The Stream” revealed that the song was originally written with Marvin Gaye in mind. Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton ultimately gave the Gibb brothers’ their biggest country-related success, but the track’s origins
The cover of Kiss‘ third record,1975’s Dressed to Kill, features the band wearing suits instead of their customary costumes. It all started with an idea for Creem magazine where the members were superheroes. As Creem‘s Jaan Uhleszki noted in Nothin’ to Lose: The Making of Kiss (1972-1975), she approached Gene Simmons after a Kiss concert at the
You could get a contact high off “Cave Walls”, the first proper song on the self-titled debut by Farmer Dave & The Wizards Of The West. It opens in a cloud of rumbling guitars, hallucinatory synths and drums mixed to sound thick and gummy. The band flirt with the beat, coming down on either side
Emily Eavis has denied that Glastonbury could go bankrupt after the recent announcement that the festival has been cancelled for a second year in a row. Last Thursday (January 21), organisers Michael and Emily Eavis announced that Glastonbury 2021 has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The festival will take an enforced fallow year for
Nickelback have collaborated with a British group that made the Canadian band’s song ‘Rockstar’ into a sea shanty – and it has since gone viral. The group, Lottery Winners, posted their sea shanty version of the Nickelback’s 2005 single last Monday (January 18). Nickelback spotted the cover a couple of days later, and by Friday
By 1970, Cat Stevens had been absent from the charts for three years. Rendered hors de combat by a life-threatening bout of tuberculosis, the time out also offered an opportunity for a major reset. The likes of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor were ushering in the age of the sensitive acoustic troubadour, and
Jon Bon Jovi “never listened to” Judas Priest before touring with the heavy metal giants in the ‘80s. The Bon Jovi frontman made his admission during a conversation with U.K.’s The Guardian. Recalling his band’s early years, Bon Jovi admitted he’d originally wanted to tour with more pop-minded acts, rather than heavy rockers. “I said: ‘I want