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Sea Shanties Surge On Spotify Following Nathan Evans' Viral Wellerman Cover
Viral TikTok star Nathan Evans' cover of 'Wellerman' has led to the sea shanty being streamed over 7,000 per cent more on Spotify.On December 23, the video of the 26-year-old Scottish postman-and-singer's cover of The Longest Johns shanty went viral...
By Bang Showbiz on 19 January 2021
James Arthur Urges Everyone To Take 'responsibility' Of Their Mental Health And 'speak Up'
James Arthur says everyone has a "responsibility" to speak up when they are suffering with their mental health.The 'Say You Won't Let Go' hitmaker struggles with anxiety and depression and has been having CBT (Cognitive behavioural therapy) in lockdown.James struggled...
By Bang Showbiz on 19 January 2021
SZA Seemingly Heard A New Song By Lizzo
SZA has seemingly teased new music from Lizzo.The 'Good Days' hitmaker took to Twitter to share that the 'Truth Hurts' singer had played her "the best song" she's "ever heard", but she hasn't said whether it was new material from...
By Bang Showbiz on 19 January 2021
D12 Rapper Bizarre Suffers Mini Stroke
D12's Bizarre has suffered a mini stroke.The 44-year-old rapper - who is best known for his work in Eminem's Detroit hip-hop group - was hospitalised after he had a transient ischemic attack, his manager revealed.Alongside a picture of Bizarre -...
By Bang Showbiz on 19 January 2021
Gary Barlow: Take That Were Really Selling Sex
Gary Barlow says Take That were "really selling sex" as they appeared on magazine covers before they had hits.The 'Back For Good' hitmaker has reflected on his time in the boy band ahead of his 50th birthday on Wednesday (20.01.21).And...
By Bang Showbiz on 19 January 2021
Weezer Confirm New January Album
Weezer are to release a new album next week. The US rockers will drop their "piano-based" 14th studio album, 'OK Human', on January 29th, but beforehand the first single from the record, 'All My Favorite Songs', will be out on...
By Bang Showbiz on 19 January 2021
Sam Smith Is Working On Their Next Album
Sam Smith is already working on their fourth studio album.The 'Promises' hitmaker only released their latest record, 'Love Goes', in October, but Sam is already hard at work on the follow-up.Their longtime songwriting partner, Jimmy Napes, told the 'Straight Up'...
By Bang Showbiz on 19 January 2021
Twitter Reacts To Unforgivable Headlines Surrounding The Death Of Convicted Murderer Phil Spector
With the news that Phil Spector - convicted murderer of Lana Clarkson - has passed away at the age of 81 due to COVID-19 complications, many headlines have displayed shocking ignorance and insensitivity by choosing to focus on his music...
By Holly Mosley on 18 January 2021
Take That Prodcuer Sells Rights To Band's Early Hits
Take That producer Ian Levine has sold his rights to a string of the band’s early hits.Ian, 67, has made a deal with music publisher One Media iP Group to sell his stake in Take That hits from their 1992...
By Bang Showbiz on 18 January 2021
Apple And Shazam Reveal The Offical Shazam Predictions 2021 Playlist
Masked Wolf, Serena Isioma, and Tai Verdes are among the acts who have made it onto Shazam and Apple Music’s new ‘The Shazam Predictions 2021’ playlist.Shazam – which is an app owned by Apple that can identify music, movies, advertising,...
By Bang Showbiz on 18 January 2021
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Twitter reacts to unforgivable headlines surrounding the death of convicted murderer Phil Spector
Here's what the public had to say about the death of Phil Spector.
Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club Video
Lana Del Rey takes her 60s vintage aesthetic to the extreme with the video for new single 'Chemtrails Over The Country Club'.
Thom Yorke, Garbage and more react to disastrous visa negotiations
As negotiations continue, it's clear that the UK government doesn't have everyone's best interests at heart.
Racism or white fragility? We need to talk about Lana Del Rey
The singer awkwardly responded to potential backlash regarding her new album cover.
Album of the Week: The 5th anniversary of David Bowie's Blackstar
Five years ago, on the day of his 69th birthday and two days before his death, David Bowie released his 25th, and final studio album,...
The internet savagely reacts to Demi Lovato's new music announcement in the wake of Capitol seige
Nobody is impressed by Demi "coming to the rescue".
Are you an elitist? 10 annoying reasons you might be guilty of musical snobbery
Let's leave gatekeeping in 2020.
Upcoming Releases: The January albums ringing in 2021
These are the albums we're looking forward to most this month.
People are re-sharing a 1983 interview on race with David Bowie and it's beyond iconic
David Bowie poses difficult questions about lack of racial diversity on MTV.
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The KLF: The Return Of The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu
Nearly twenty nine years since they famously deleted their entire back catalogue The KLF have re-emerged to upload their songs onto streaming sites, including Spotify.
Wonder Women 1984: Musical Icons Of Their Age.
As Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman 1984 seems to be everywhere at the moment we thought we'd take a look back at the wonder women of...
The Pretty Reckless - 25 Video
Taylor Momsen radiates some seriously ethereal beauty in the video for The Pretty Reckless' latest single '25'.
From WAP to Say So: 10 pop songs that made our year
The 2020 pop masterpieces that we've had on repeat.
2020's Most Searched For Artists On Google
After a crazy year of CoVID19 enforced lockdowns this year's most searched for things on Google were likely to have been skewed somewhat by the...
The Year of the Woman: Our top 10 albums of 2020
From Fiona Apple to Laura Marling, women have come out on top this year.
The Long Goodbye: A Brexit inspired playlist.
As we reach the death throws of the protracted Brexit negotiations between The United Kingdom and Europe we thought we'd compile our own little playlist...
Why Lizzo's smoothie cleanse is dividing fans on social media (and why she deserves a break)
The singer came under fire for her 10-day detox.
U2 open up about their Vegas experiences in Brian Doogan's new boxing book 'The SuperFight'
Ringside seats to Hagler vs Leonard and buddying up with Frank Sinatra, U2 have fond memories of their time in Vegas.
Chris Short talks about the importance of that sense of "achievement" [Exclusive]
He's set to drop his new EP 'Somewhere' in 2021.
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