Author: Amanda Collins
Rising EDM and Hip Hop producer Winterfresh returns with his brand new single Drive Me Home, a highly infectious Speed House/Future Bass hybrid song that instantly got me in a good mood and ready to party! I am loving those House piano keys in the intro that infuse the song with a touch of emotion, beautifully joined by delicate and dreamy vocals that set the tone for a memorable listening experience. As the song continues, those gorgeous piano keys and vocals, are joined by a high-energy 144 BPM rhythms nicely intertwinerd with expansive synths, cinematic build-ups and euphoric drums that come…
The Last Dinner Party are among a group of artists to have boycotted Victorious Festival after The Mary Wallopers’ set was cut short for displaying a Palestinian flag. On Friday (August 22), the Irish band were halfway through their opening song at the Portsmouth festival when their sound was cut by festival organisers and the Palestine flag on stage with them was taken away. As the crowd started to boo, the band led a chant of “free, free Palestine”. The Mary Wallopers updated fans on Saturday with an Instagram post reading: “Yesterday, a famine was declared in Gaza, where at…
Coldplay referenced Oasis and oversaw a fan’s proposal during the first of their 10-date Wembley Stadium residency. On Friday night (August 22), the band played the first of a record-breaking 10 headline shows at the iconic venue that sees their epic, three-year ‘Music Of The Spheres’ world tour continue. Chris Martin repeatedly thanked the giant crowd for “letting us come home at last” during the set, and suggested that the shows would be the band’s last appearance in the city for a number of years. He incorporated a snippet of Oasis’ ‘Roll With It’ during the extended intro to ‘Paradise’ – a…
When Chappell Roan made her U.K. live debut in June 2023, she played the 600-cap London venue The Garage. Now, a little more than two years later, she’s headlining one of the country’s most beloved festivals. Roan’s ascent has been so stratospheric that when she stepped on stage at Reading Festival on Friday (Aug. 22), it wasn’t just her first time as a U.K. festival headliner, but her first-ever appearance at a British music festival. And it was no one off: she’ll also headline Reading’s sister fest in Leeds on Saturday (Aug. 23) and venture to Scotland for two huge…
Lisa MacIsaac, left, and Brenley MacEachern are in the midst of their final tour together, after a prolific creative career. – Contributed photo By Jim Barber A break-up of any sort of relationship is heart-rending, stressful and filled with emotional tumult. When that relationship was at one time romantic as well as creative, one that lasted for literally a quarter of a century – well, saying ‘it’s complicated,’ is not only trite, but an underwhelming understatement. The critically acclaimed and fan beloved musical group Madison Violet was a creative partnership for that extraordinary length of time, but enmeshed within that…
Angelique Francis. – Contributed photo Press release – You know you’re in the presence of a force when someone plays upright bass, harmonica, keys, and cigar box guitar and that’s *before* they open their mouth. Angelique Francis isn’t just the future of blues, roots, and soul; she’s the freight train pulling the whole genre into a new dimension. With her third studio album, Not Defeated, out now, the Ottawa-born powerhouse is delivering a rallying cry for resilience, packing soul anthems, gospel grooves, and barn-burning guitar solos into one of the most exciting Canadian releases of the year. Born in Ottawa and…
Seattle-based band Haus of Sound unveil a mixture of atmospheric mystique and melodic immediacy with new track “Madness,” melding dark electronic elements with catchy alt-pop amiability. “I’m dancing in this madness,” lead vocalist Gabrielle lets out during the track’s magnetic central hook, intertwining funky guitar licks and spacey synths amidst her fervent vocal chops. That more pop-minded hook moves seamlessly into the more foreboding, electro-forward verses, which admit “my years are running out” alongside explorations into the unknown and “mistakes on repeat.” The aforementioned “madness” refers thematically to a cycle of returning repeatedly to “something toxic, even when the world…
From career milestones to new music releases to major announcements and those little important moments, Billboard editors highlight uplifting moments in Latin music. Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week. Maria Becerra’s Acting Debut Argentine singer-songwriter Maria Becerra has made acting debut on Netflix’s new series En El Barro, the spin-off of the series El Marginal, produced by Netflix and Underground, a division of Telemundo Studios. Becerra, who also performs the series official song, “7 Vidas,” steps into the role of Cleo, “a young woman from the neighborhood who falls in love and faces motherhood while struggling to keep her…
Hotline TNT have become the latest artist to remove their music from Spotify, saying it “does not align with the band’s values”. In recent weeks, a number of names in the music industry have publicly withdrawn their material from the streaming service, including King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Xiu Xiu and Deerhoof. Xiu Xiu stated that their decision stemmed from Spotify CEO Daniel Ek’s “investment in AI war drones”, describing the streamer as a “garbage hole violent armageddon portal”. They urged fans to cancel their Spotify subscriptions, as did Deerhoof, who said: “We don’t want our music killing people.…
Attendees of All Points East 2025 have been complaining about high levels of dust at Victoria Park. The East London festival kicked off last week with headline slots from Cleo Sol and SAULT, who performed last Friday (August 15), and Chase & Status on Saturday (16). There was also a free community event headlined by legendary DJ Pete Tong on Sunday (17). Last night (August 22), Barry Can’t Swim headlined, and tonight (August 23) will see BRIT Award-winning singer and songwriter RAYE top the bill of an all-female line-up which includes Tyla, JADE, Nao, Cat Burns, Eliza Rose, former NME Cover star Chloe Qisha, NME 100 alumni Nia Smith, and more. FKA Twigs was…