2 d. ago My Chemical Romance add two London dates to Long Live The Black Parade stadium tour

My Chemical Romance add two London dates to Long Live The Black Parade stadium tour  Music-News.com

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4 d. ago The Black Keys on their music industry nightmare: ‘We were angry. We wanted vengeance’

From botched tours to monopolised ticketing and vanishing payouts, The Black Keys are speaking out against a music industry they say is rigged. Ahead of the release of their 13th album, ‘No Rain, No Flowers’, the band speaks to Mark Beaumont about why they’re not backing down

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5 d. ago Rod Stewart’s AI Ozzy Osbourne tribute shows that just because you can, doesn’t mean you should

Stewart’s tacky video shows the late Black Sabbath frontman taking selfies in heaven with other music legends who have passed away, writes Micha Frazer-Carroll. Is that really what the Prince of Darkness would have wanted?

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5 d. ago Man charged in connection with theft of flowers from Ozzy Osbourne tribute

Parviz Jafari, 45, is accused of stealing flowers from Broad Street in Birmingham following the death of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne.

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5 d. ago Flowers laid at Ozzy Osbourne memorial to be composted for singer’s final resting place

Thousands of tributes left during late singer’s funeral procession have been ‘carefully preserved’

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6 d. ago Album reviews: The Black Keys – No Rain, No Flowers, and Memory of Jane – Unsinking the Cypress

The Black Keys sound surprisingly muted after experiencing one of their most tumultuous periods as a band, while Memory of Jane finds clarity on his delightful debut

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6 d. ago Amaarae: Black Star review – glamour, glitz and lust from a pop star who should be a supernova

(Golden Angel/Interscope)With a sleek dancefloor-facing sound, the Ghanaian American singer is deliriously in thrall to wealth and celebrity – but most of all loveFountain Baby, the second album by Amaarae, was a revelation – a sensual, funny, frank and musically dense record released in 2023 that established the 31-year-old Ghanaian American pop musician as a cultural force to match contemporaries such as Rosalía and Charli xcx. Although the songs are hedonistic – largely oscillating between wry flexes of wealth and lyrics about trifling with, and being trifled by, women in her orbit – she is also a realist: actions have consequences in Amaarae’s world, such as on Reckless & Sweet, as she wonders whether her lovers desire her or merely her money.Despite the ingenuity and complexity of her music, Amaarae has struggled to break into the mainstream, in the UK at least. A recent Glastonbury set felt sparsely attended and, aside from 2020’s Sad Girlz Luv Money, one of the most ...

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7 d. ago Jack Osbourne expresses ‘sorrow and gratitude’ after death of father Ozzy

The Osbourne family joined fans in laying flowers at the Black Sabbath bench in Ozzy’s home city of Birmingham last week.

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9 d. ago The 35 greatest debut albums of all time, from Joy Division to Oasis

These records serve as statements of intent and have the power to change or reshape the industry, inspire fellow musicians, and drive essential conversation about our understanding of music. Roisin O'Connor picks the best of the bunch

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3 w. ago Jim Legxacy: Black British Music review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(XL Recordings)The rapper and producer doubles down on his vaulting style, lurching from alt-rock to distortion and chipmunk soul on an astonishingly coherent and melodic third recordOn Father, the first single to be taken from Jim Legxacy’s third mixtape, the listener is offered a vivid image from the author’s past. The teenage James Olaloye, as he was then, is on the streets of Lewisham, the south-east London borough where he grew up. He is “rolling up a blunt, scheming for the funds trying to come up off the roads on my own two / I never had a father”. Inevitably, this means he’s up to no good: “Making money off a phone a key’s what they want.”It’s a familiar scenario in the world of UK rap, a genre in which you seldom want for bleak descriptions of the life its stars have left behind on often deprived council estates. But in the case of Father, it comes with a small, but striking detail. “On the block,” he attests, “I was listening to Mitski.” Continue reading...

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