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H.E.R. (aka Gabriella Wilson) has filed a lawsuit against her longtime record label, MBK Entertainment, pleading to be released from her contract with it. The label is owned by Wilson’s current manager, Jeff Robinson, with whom she signed in 2011 at age 14. According to court documents obtained by The Blast (via Variety), the singer claims that her long-held

Ukrainian Eurovision winners Kalush Orchestra have been announced to perform at Glastonbury 2022. The group won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Turin last month with the song ‘Stefania’. Now, they’ve been confirmed to appear at Glastonbury 2022, which will also mark their first ever UK performance. Kalush Orchestra will perform on the Truth Stage

J. Cole has shared his opinions on Drake‘s just-released seventh album, ‘Honestly, Nevermind’, calling the record “phenomenal”. Drake’s surprise seventh album dropped last Friday (June 17), just hours after the Canadian rapper announced it in an Instagram post. Coming as the follow-up to last year’s ‘Certified Lover Boy’, ‘Honestly, Nevermind’ saw Drake take a drastic

Music fans who are set to attend festivals across Europe this summer are facing the risk of travel disruption after news that EasyJet has cut thousands of flights. The European festival circuit is in full flow this year for the first time since 2019 following the wide-scale lifting of COVID-19 pandemic-enforced restrictions on live music

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched by the friends of a terminally ill man to help send him to this year’s Glastonbury festival. Nigel Stonehouse, 58, was diagnosed with kidney and lung cancer in May. He has been attending Glastonbury for the last 30 years, and was referred to by his friends as a “festival

Drake has previewed two new songs on the debut episode of his new Table For One radio show. On Friday (June 17), the rapper surprised fans with the release of his seventh studio album, ‘Honestly, Nevermind’. The 14-track record arrived on streaming platforms at midnight just hours after announced its arrival on Instagram. Right before

Aitch has announced a pool party that will take place at this year’s Ibiza Rocks. The Manchester rapper will hold the party, deemed ‘Aitch20’, on August 9 from 2-10pm. You can see the full details of the event, and view ticket packages, here: Advertisement Last month, Aitch shared his latest single ‘1989’, featuring Shaun Ryder. The

Various cities in the UK – including Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool – have already expressed an interest in hosting next year’s Eurovision, should the competition return to these shores for the ninth time. Elsewhere, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan took to Twitter to say that the capital “would welcome Eurovision with open arms”. “We’re

Titus Andronicus have made their return with a cover of Cock Sparrer’s ‘We’re Coming Back’ – listen to it below. The New Jersey indie rockers have been quiet for the past three years. Their last release was sixth studio album ‘An Obelisk’, released in June 2019 via Merge Records. Using Cock Sparrer’s 1982 anthem to announce

All three of Paul McCartney’s solo albums are to be released together for the first time. READ MORE: The Beatles: Get Back review: Peter Jackson’s long and winding but utterly unmissable epic The three albums, ‘McCartney’, ‘McCartney II’ and ‘McCartney III’ will be released as a limited edition boxset on August 5. The ‘McCartney I II

Drake has revealed he’s set to drop a new album at midnight EST tonight (June 17), titled ‘Honestly, Nevermind’. The rapper made the surprise announcement in an Instagram post earlier today, where he shared the album’s artwork, which features the record’s title in chrome lettering with pastel rainbow shadowing. Advertisement Drake has also since shared

Post Malone has admitted that he writes 60 per cent of his lyrics while sitting on the toilet. The rapper and singer said in a new interview that he considers the bathroom to be his “oasis” where he has also written around 30 per cent of his albums to date. “Shit literally comes to me

Robert Plant once turned down the opportunity to guest star on the HBO series Game Of Thrones, according to a new interview with the former Led Zeppelin frontman. Plant revealed the story during an interview with Canadian broadcaster George Stroumboulopoulos, following up a question about the fantasy series. The singer said that, although he didn’t watch

The Rolling Stones have announced that their recently postponed gig in Amsterdam will now take place next month. The band postponed their Johan Cruijff ArenA show in the Dutch capital city on Monday (June 13) after frontman Mick Jagger tested positive for COVID-19. READ MORE: The Rolling Stones live in Madrid: Celebrating six decades at the

Julia Jacklin has shared a new single titled ‘I Was Neon’, the second to be lifted from the singer-songwriter’s forthcoming album ‘Pre Pleasure’. In a statement, Jacklin explained that the new song was originally written for a short-lived side project, Rattlesnake, that she played drums for in 2019. “I rewrote it for my album in

Sports Team have announced their ‘Friendship tour’ dates in support of their forthcoming second album ‘Gulp‘. The indie rockers have an 11-date run scheduled across the UK and Ireland between October 11 and 25, 2022. Ahead of that, they play 17 shows in the US from mid September until early October, with dates kicking off

Lizzo has addressed the backlash she’s received over an ableist lyric in her new single, ‘Grrrls’, revealing that the line in question has now been altered on streaming services. In the opening verse of the song, as it appeared upon its initial release last Friday (June 10), Lizzo sang: “Hold my bag, bitch, hold my bag/Do

Glastonbury 2022 is almost here after a two-year delay following the coronavirus pandemic – see how the weather will fare below. READ MORE: We’re gonna need a bigger farm: why Glastonbury 2022 could be the best in history Those travelling to Worthy Farm from June 22-26 to see headliners Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar, as well as Little Simz, Róisín

Jennifer Lopez has called her co-headline Super Bowl show with Shakira the “worst idea in the world” in her new documentary Halftime. The forthcoming Netflix documentary made its premiere at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival last Wednesday (June 8), centred around Lopez’s performance preparation for the 2020 Super Bowl halftime show. It was the first

Sex Pistols‘ Steve Jones says he would be “down” for an ABBA-style hologram reunion for the punk idols. READ MORE: ‘Pistol’: the cast and crew pick apart punk’s “exhilarating” TV comeback The Swedish pop heroes are currently hosting an ‘ABBA Voyage’ residency in London, where ‘ABBAtars’ perform alongside a live band. It’s expected to run for