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Danny Elfman pays tribute to David Lynch in emotional post: “I’m still in complete shock”

Danny Elfman has paid tribute to David Lynch in an emotional social media post, following the filmmaker’s death at the age of 78 last week. READ MORE: David Lynch – 1946-2025: a true visionary who reinvented cinema Film composer and former Oingo Boingo frontman Elfman shared a photo of Lynch on Instagram earlier today (January 21) – which would have been the day after Lynch’s 79th birthday – describing him […]

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Trivium’s Matt Heafy on how Muse inspired song from ‘Ascendancy’

Trivium‘s Matt Heafy has opened up about the creation of the band’s 2005 album ‘Ascendancy’ and how Muse inspired one of the tracks. READ MORE: Trivium’s Matt Heafy talks loving ‘Call Of Duty’ and ‘Final Fantasy’ in ‘Playback’ In a recent interview as part of the latest issue of Metal Hammer, The frontman reflected on the creation of the band’s second album which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. “Recording […]

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Garth Hudson, the final surviving founding member of The Band, dies aged 87

Garth Hudson, the co-founder and last remaining member of The Band, has died at the age of 87. The Canadian virtuoso multi-instrumentalist who was best known for his distinctive organ and saxophone work passed away today (January 21) at the Ten Broeck Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in upstate New York. According to the executor of his estate (as per The Guardian), Hudson died peacefully in his sleep in the […]

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Flavor Flav teams up with GoFundMe to launch fundraiser for black families displaced by LA wildfires

Flavor Flav has partnered with GoFundMe to create a fundraiser focused on helping black families who have been displaced by the LA wildfires. READ MORE: LA music community tell us about “tragic” impact of wildfires: “This will be felt for years” Since the devastating wildfires began on January 7, over 180,000 residents of Los Angeles were forced to evacuate their homes. To date, 27 confirmed deaths have been reported, with over […]

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Self Esteem declares “I deserve to be here” on ‘Focus Is Power’ from new album ‘A Complicated Woman’

Self Esteem has announced a new album called ‘A Complicated Woman’, and today shares the first track ‘Focus Is Power’. The singer – real name Rebecca Lucy Taylor – has announced ‘A Complicated Woman’ on social media today, which is set for release on April 25 via Polydor. With news of the album she has shared her new track ‘Focus Is Power’, a goosebump-inducing ballad, featuring a choir of mainly […]

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Listen to The Horrors “driving and direct” new single ‘More Than Life’

The Horrors have shared an anthemic new single called ‘More Than Life’ – check it out below. READ MORE: NME’s most anticipated album releases of 2025 The track marks the fourth and latest single to be taken from the group’s upcoming album ‘Night Life’. Set for release on March 21 via Fiction, it will mark their sixth LP and come as they approach their 20th anniversary. Visit here to pre-order. […]

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Louis Walsh admits making up press stories in Boyzone doc trailer

Boyzone’s former manager, Louis Walsh, has admitted to fabricating stories about the band for press attention in a new trailer for the documentary Boyzone: No Matter What. READ MORE: ‘The X Factor’ bows out after 17 years: here’s what really killed the singing reality show In the clip for the show, beginning February 2 on Sky Documentaries, Walsh is described as “the master puppeteer of the press” before the man […]

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Kai Cenat reacts to being named in Drake’s UMG lawsuit: “Why am I in this shit?”

Kai Cenat has reacted to Drake name-checking him in his most recent lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG). READ MORE: Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s feud: the full timeline Last spring, Drake and Kendrick Lamar went back and forth in a historic rap feud. Across various diss tracks aimed at one another, the duo send scathing shots at one another. The most successful song from the battle was Lamar’s fourth Number […]

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Joey Bada$$ appears to diss J. Cole on new track ‘Sorry Not Sorry’

Joey Bada$$ is seemingly reigniting his jabs at West Coast hip-hop on his latest single ‘Sorry Not Sorry’. Check it out below. READ MORE: Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s feud: the full timeline Featuring production from Mario Luciano and Conductor Williams, the track’s first verse sees the Pro Era member appear to take aim at J.Cole. “Might deletе later, I know damn sure that Joey won’t / Fuck it, I want […]

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Kele Okereke teases new Bloc Party album will be “very personal and confessional” at end of “a relationship with someone that wasn’t honest”

Kele Okereke has opened up about a new Bloc Party album and teased that it will be “very personal and confessional”. READ MORE:  Bloc Party on ‘Alpha Games’: “We’re not the same band now. The chemistry is different” In a new interview with Billboard, the musician opened up about his recently released solo album ‘The Singing Winds Pt. 3’ which marked the third instalment in Okereke’s series called ‘The Elements’, […]

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