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Normani has teased the possibility of a new full-length album in 2025, saying she is working on a “whole new body of work”. READ MORE: Normani – ‘Dopamine’ review: belated, yes, but also brilliant The pop/R&B star and former Fifth Harmony singer released her debut solo album ‘Dopamine’ in June this year, including the singles ‘Wild Side’, ‘1:59’ and ‘Candy Paint’. Now, in a new interview with Rolling Stone, Normani has […]

Tom A. Smith’s father has launched a GoFundMe campaign to attempt to raise money to replace gear that was stolen from his son’s van. READ MORE: Inside the alarming rise of tour van thefts: “Why should new bands be more at threat of a robbery?” The Sunderland artist was travelling to London to play a live session with his band on Radio X with John Kennedy on Friday (December 20) when […]

Coheed And Cambria’s Claudio Sanchez has released a new covers album, including versions of songs by Taylor Swift and The Smiths. The frontman has surprise-released the record, titled ‘Claudio Covers’, onto streaming services, with the album being labelled under the name ‘Coheed And Cambria’, despite the rest of the acclaimed progressive rock band apparently not being involved. The eight-track release includes Sanchez’s renditions of Swift’s ‘Welcome To New York’ and […]

US president Joe Biden has officially pardoned Terry ‘Southwest T’ Flenory, the co-founder of the organisation Black Mafia Family (BMF). Flenory was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2008 after prosecutors argued that he and his brother Demetrius ‘Big Meech’ Flenory had made over $270million (£215million) from BMF’s nationwide crime ring that involved money laundering and drug trafficking. The Flenory brother pleaded guilty to running a continuing criminal enterprise, […]

Sheffield’s legendary venue The Leadmill has claimed that its future “hangs in the balance” after a court deferred its judgement over their potential eviction. READ MORE: If Sheffield’s Leadmill – the venue that helped break Arctic Monkeys – goes, we all lose something The institution has been under threat since its owners the Electric Group issued an eviction notice in March 2022, which sparked an outcry across the music industry and […]

The father of Kneecap’s Móglái Bap has passed away just ahead of the band’s biggest ever headline show in Belfast, with the band vowing to play the gig “for him”. READ MORE: ‘Kneecap’ review: ballsy, brave and one of the best music biopics ever made As confirmed by a post on the hip-hop trio’s social media, Gearóid Ó Cairealláin, 67, died on Friday (December 20), with the band writing: “He […]

The Swedish rapper Gaboro, real name Ninos Khouri, has reportedly been shot dead in a multi-storey car park. Local media reported that the incident occurred on Thursday night (December 19) in Norrköping, a city to the south-west of the Swedish capital Stockholm. In a statement released yesterday (December 20), local police said they were investigating the suspected murder of a man in his 20s, who died of his injuries following […]

Charli XCX and Post Malone have each received additional Grammy nods. READ MORE: It’s Charli XCX’s world and we’re just living in it: a timeline of ‘Brat’ summer so far The Recording Academy shared the additional nominations for the 2025 Grammys yesterday (December 20). The latest batch of adjustments to the nominee list saw both artists given Best Recording Package nods for serving as art directors on ‘Brat’ and ‘F-1 […]

Slipknot broke out some rarities and deep cuts in London last night (December 20) as part of their huge 25th anniversary tour. Check out footage and the full setlist below. READ MORE: Clown talks Slipknot’s 25th anniversary tour and future: “We probably have several albums in us right now” The iconic masked metallers kicked off the tour in the US back in August and have been making their way through […]