Author: Alex Rigotti

The Withington festival, 2000trees, has announced a new wave of bands to perform at the event in 2024.  The Chats from Australia will be headlining their first-ever UK festival slot. Other acts that have been confirmed to join the lineup include Nova Twins, Hot Milk, Death From Above 1979, Spanish Love Songs, and Cassyette. The festival… Continue reading Death From Above 1979, The Chats, Nova Twins added to 2000trees Festival 2024 line-up

British popstar Charli XCX is set to make her return to Boiler Room, announcing a line-up that includes A.G. Cook, George Daniel (from The 1975) and Easyfun, with more special guests to be unveiled in the future. The Boiler Room rave is set to take place on 22 February, although tickets have yet to be… Continue reading Charli XCX announces stacked line-up in return to Boiler Room

Apple Music has announced that artists will be paid higher royalties for music made available in spatial audio, with the new rate starting in January. ‘Spatial audio’ is defined as virtual surround sound and was made available in June 2021 at no additional cost. The move comes after it was reported that the company was planning… Continue reading Apple Music announces higher royalties for music in spatial audio

Singer Kelly Clarkson has performed a rendition of U2’s ‘Mysterious Ways’ as part of her ‘Kellyoke’ series on her talk show, The Kelly Clarkson Show. The song was originally released on U2’s 1991 album ‘Achtung Baby’, which the band is currently performing at their residency in Las Vegas. Clarkson has been hosting her show since 2019… Continue reading Watch Kelly Clarkson cover U2’s ‘Mysterious Ways’

Nicki Minaj has announced that her new song ‘Bigfoot’ will soon be released. The rapper gave fans a preview of the tune on Instagram Live where she referenced Megan Thee Stallion’s unfortunate incident where she was shot in the foot. Minaj took a shot at Megan Thee Stallion in her lyrics, but it’s unclear whether the… Continue reading Nicki Minaj announces new song ‘Bigfoot’

U2 has performed a cover of Crowded House’s ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ at their first show of 2024 at the Sphere, their residency in Las Vegas that began back in October. The band has extended their residency at the mega-venue due to high demand from fans. U2 paid tribute to Neil Finn, the frontman of… Continue reading Watch U2 cover Crowded House’s ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ at first Sphere show of 2024

TikTok is exploring the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate songs based on prompts. According to TechCrunch, the social media giant has made the experimental feature available to a select few users, but it remains unknown when it will be fully released. The platform has teamed up with Bloom, a large language model, to… Continue reading TikTok testing an ‘AI Song’ feature for creating music based on prompts

Abbey Road Studios is opening up applications for its diversity scholarship programme for 2024. The programme will finance tuition fees and living expenses for two undergraduates from underrepresented groups to study for an Advanced Diploma in Music Production and Sound Engineering, for a year. Abbey Road defined underrepresented groups as Black, Asian or minority ethnic… Continue reading Abbey Road Studios announces 2024 diversity scholarship programme

Nicki Minaj has responded to Megan Thee Stallion’s new track with a diss track over Instagram Live. In her preview, the rapper called Megan “Big Foot” and accused her of “using ghost writers & still SUCK[ed]”. The feud centres around a line in Megan’s new track where she references Megan’s Law, which makes information about… Continue reading Here’s a rundown of all the beef Nicki Minaj has with Megan Thee Stallion

Rapper Ice Spice has released a new song titled “Think U The Sh*t (Fart)” for her first release of 2024. The song, which is available on YouTube, taunts, “Think you the shit, bitch? / You not even the fart.” This full version has extended the previous viral snippet on TikTok where numerous users created over… Continue reading Listen to Ice Spice’s new single ‘Think U The Sh*t (Fart)’