2017 – Ed Sheeran has beaten Drake to take the title of the most streamed song on Spotify with his track Shape of You. Drake’s One Dance was the first track to ever hit the one billion mark on the streaming site, and the Canadian rapper had even more to celebrate in March (17) when […]
2017 – Foo Fighters’ new album Concrete and Gold is shining brightly at the top of today’s Official Albums Chart Update. The rock group’s ninth studio album has generated 43,000 combined chart sales so far this week, and is currently outselling the rest of the Top 10 combined. The album is all but certain to […]
2017 – Morrissey is proud to announce the first single to be taken from his first studio album in three years. Spent The Day In Bed sees Morrissey in fine form with typically assertive lyrics sung over joyful melodies, pleading ‘Stop…Watching the news, because the news contrives to frighten you’, juxtaposing with a final refrain, […]
2017 – Bono is “deeply saddened” over the violence in St. Louis, Missouri that forced his band U2 to cancel their Saturday night (16Sep17) concert. Marchers took to the streets on Friday (15Sep17) to protest the murder acquittal of Jason Stockley, a white St. Louis police officer who shot and killed African-American citizen Anthony Lamar […]
2017 – Brazilian musician and producer Laudir de Oliveira died of a heart attack at the age of 77 while performing onstage in his native Rio de Janeiro. He is mostly renowned for his time as percussionist with the band Chicago from 1973 until 1982. As a session musician he worked for other musicians like […]
2017 – Ozzy Osbourne has stalled his plans to retire because he doesn’t want to die like his father. The rocker’s manager wife Sharon wants a commitment from the former Black Sabbath star to announce his plans to give up performing live next year (18) after he turns 70, but Ozzy insists she’ll have to […]
2017 – Noel Gallagher’s felt nervous on stage for the first time at the concert marking Manchester Arena’s reopening after May’s (17) terror attack. The former Oasis rocker’s current band Noel Gallagher and The High Flying Birds headlined the star-studded gig on Saturday (09Sep17). The concert was the first at the Manchester, England venue since […]
2017 – U2, Justin Timberlake, and Lin-Manuel Miranda led the stars of a live U.S. TV special on Friday evening (08Sep17) which stressed the importance of rethinking high school education. The programme, titled XQ Super School Live, aired live on every major American network and took place at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. […]
2017 – Grace Jones and Friends Live (one night only event October 25) promises to be a thrilling and enlightening evening with the inimitable icon, as she discusses her life and work with some of her closest collaborators, from the worlds of music, fashion, art and film, following an exclusive preview of Sophie Fiennes’ highly […]
2017 – Troubled singer Sinead O’Connor has opened up about the alleged abuse her mother subjected her to as a child and her mental health struggles in an explosive new TV interview. The Nothing Compares 2 U hitmaker sat down with TV self-help guru Dr. Phil McGraw for a chat and thanked him for taking […]
2017 – Q Magazine, the UK’s greatest music magazine, tonight unveiled the nominations for the Q Awards in association with Absolute Radio. The Q Awards, now in their 27th year, is one of the most prestigious and anticipated nights on the music calendar. For the first time in the awards’ history the public chose the […]
2017 – Justin Timberlake will feature on the new Foo Fighters album after a chance studio run-in in Los Angeles. The SexyBack singer was working at EastWest studios while Dave Grohl and his bandmates were recording Concrete and Gold, and decided to say hi. During the chat, Justin asked the rockers if he could sit […]
