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The Cover on NME, Ericdoa, has shared a playlist exclusively to accompany the story’s launch – listen below.The US artist is on this week’s (January 22) edition of The Cover, a renewal of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read Ericdoa’s profile here.The artist – real name Eric Lopez – has compiled ‘Intent’, a playlist with songs that he describes being about “someone’s intent or have inspired me to be more active within making intentional art.” Frank Ocean, Cocteau Twins, Jai Paul and more all feature.

Blur performed Saturday night on the Coachella main stage ahead of No Doubt, they found themselves in front of a relatively unresponsive crowd, especially during their 1994 hit “Girls & Boys.” “You’re never seeing us again, so you might as well fucking sing it,” a clearly frustrated frontman Damon Albarn said after the crowd’s uninspired response during multiple call and response attempts. Segments of the internet soon erupted with confused reactions — were they about to vacate the stage? Were they splitting up again? Were they so frustrated that they were pulling a Frank Ocean and not returning for weekend two? Or, more likely, was it a not-out-of-character act of spontaneous anger from a 56-year-old rock star who’d played two nights at London’s Wembley Stadium to 90,000 screaming fans last summer — who’d screamed the lyrics to “Girls & Boys” almost louder than Albarn could sing them — and apparently didn’t realize that much of the Coachella audience was half his age and did not grow up on such ’90s Britpop classics as “Popscene,” “Tender,” “Coffee & TV,” “The Universal,” “Country House” and “For Tomorrow” (although they probably knew the “Whoo-hoo!” of the group’s biggest hit, “Song 2”).

Cat Deeley has stunned fans as she slipped into an animal print bikini while enjoying her first break since joining This Morning last month. The presenter made her first appearance as the new permanent host of the ITV daytime show on March 11 alongside co-host Ben Shepherd.

Cat Deeley has shown off her stunning figure as she makes the most of her Easter break.The This Morning presenter, 47, enjoyed a relaxing swim in the sun as she donned a leopard print bikini. Cat looked sensational in her stylish swimwear and a diving mask. Sharing a video clip to her Instagram Story, she added the audio of Frank Ocean's song Pink + White.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Spotify is leaning into catalog programming with the launch of its first-ever catalog hub, Spotify Classics, curated by the streaming service’s editorial team. The program, which will be highlighted as a hub on the platform starting today, seeks to define more recent albums that the editorial team has deemed as streaming classics.

Coachella 2024 has seen the festival’s slowest ticket sales in a decade, new reports have revealed.The festival’s latest line-up was revealed earlier this month, with April’s two-weekend festival to be headlined by Lana Del Rey, Tyler, The Creator and Doja Cat, with a special performance by a reunited No Doubt.Other acts announced to perform include Blur, Peso Pluma, J Balvin, Ice Spice, Khruangbin, Jhené Aiko, Lil Uzi Vert, Justice, Deftones, Jungle, Dom Dolla, Bleachers, Peggy Gou, Grimes, a reunited Sublime and more.As SFGate report, the festival’s first weekend is still yet to sell out after six days on sale at the time of writing, the slowest ticket sales in a decade. In 2015, tickets went in less than an hour, while it took less than half a day for the festival to sell out in 2022.Coachella 2024 is set to run from April 12-14 and again on April 19-21.

Yungblud and Lil Yachty have teased that they’re working on an upcoming collaboration.The musicians were snapped together in a new photo which shows the pair situated somewhere in Atlanta, sitting in directors’ chairs in a wooded area.While it’s not clear exactly what they’re working on, neither is a stranger to collaborating with fellow artists.Most recently, Yungblud – real name Dominic Harrison – worked with Bring Me The Horizon‘s Oli Sykes on his October release ‘Happier‘, which followed his team-up with Avril Lavigne in 2022 on ‘I’m A Mess’.Meanwhile Lil Yachty, whose real name is Miles Parks McCollum, featured on Faye Webster‘s recent single ‘Lego Ring’. He’s also previously linked up with Drake, Flo Milli, Future, Playboi Carti and more.Last year, Lil Yachty dropped his new album ‘Let’s Start Here’, for which he strayed from his usual trap and rap stylings in favour of rock elements, which he said proves “I can do anything”.In an interview with Billboard, his non-rap inspirations ranged from Tame Impala‘s ‘Currents’, Pink Floyd‘s seminal ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ and Frank Ocean‘s ‘Blonde’.“Fuck any of the albums I dropped before this one,” he said, before clarifying: “I came into music in a time where rap was real hardcore, it was real street.

The Coachella 2024 line-up has officially been announced. Tyler, The Creator, Lana Del Rey, and Doja Cat will headline this year's event.

A post shared by Four Tet (@fourtetkieran)There is currently no release date for Four Tet’s upcoming album.Last year, he joined forces with Skrillex and Fred again.. and closed out weekend two of Coachella.

Frank Ocean has re-released ‘Blonde’ on Vinyl and has released new merch along with it.The lauded and long-awaited third album from the star came out in September 2016, with Ocean then selling vinyl copies of the album for just 24 hours two months later.The vinyl comes as a two-record gatefold packaging that features a 12” x 36” lyrics foldout and 12” x 24” foldout poster of Kendall Roy from the Emmy Award-winning HBO series Succession. It retails for $65 (£52) and is available for purchase on the blonded.co site.On the website, it reads that those who order the vinyl should allow for 4-8 weeks for fulfillment.

Frank Ocean has shared a snippet of an unreleased song. The track in question can be heard in a 24-second video uploaded to Ocean’s Instagram story Thursday afternoon (December 7), in which Frank can be seen dancing to it in a recording studio.

The trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI was released this week, arriving nearly a decade after the previous installment in the massively successful (and controversial) open-world action series. It wasn’t the first look at the game: a trove of in-game footage leaked in September 2022 revealed the game’s location (Vice City, a southern metropolis based on Miami) and its main characters, Lucia and Jason, among other key details.

EXCLUSIVE: Former Lionsgate UK & Europe chief and Marv Studios Group CEO Zygi Kamasa launched film and TV company True Brit Entertainment last month with backing from talent management and entertainment company Three Six Zero, which reps talent including Calvin Harris, Frank Ocean, FKA Twigs, Will Smith, Marcus Rashford and Kid Cudi. The company will focus exclusively on British feature films and TV.

Lil Wayne has said that hearing André 3000 say he had nothing to rap about in his 40s was “so depressing”. Last month, in an interview with GQ, the former OutKast rapper explained why his new album ‘New Blue Sun’ contains no bars. “Sometimes it feels inauthentic for me to rap because I don’t have anything to talk about in that way,” he said.

Tom Waits is set to join Iggy Pop for a rare interview, which will span two hours on BBC 6 Music.The discussion will mark one of the first new interviews the iconic American singer-songwriter has taken part in during recent years, and will see him co-host a special show with punk veteran Iggy Pop.Taking place on Sunday, December 3, the show will air on BBC Radio 6 Music between 4pm and 6pm. It will also see the two converse about their time in the music industry, share anecdotes from their personal lives and spin some of the famous tracks that have influenced them over the years.These songs include ‘Bangkok’ by Alex Chiltern, ‘Bye Bye Butterfly’ by Pauline Oliveros, ‘Moon River’ by Frank Ocean and ‘Colorado Kool-Aid’ by Johnny Paycheck, as well as the first spoken word song that Waits heard on the radio, and a couple of noteworthy TV theme tunes from the ‘60s.In between records, Waits will share stories with Iggy Pop, including how he hitched a ride towards Los Angeles with Eden Ahbez – the songwriter who composed ‘Nature Boy’, which became a hit for Nat King Cole.Iggy Pop is also set to share some anecdotes of his own too, such as the time he came across Captain Beefheart eating breakfast in L.A., but was wise enough not to disturb him.Waits has rarely stepped into the public eye to discuss his music career since he released his last studio album, ‘Bad As Me’ back in 2011.Since the release over a decade ago, Waits also celebrated the 50th anniversary of his 1973 debut LP ‘Closing Time’ buy sharing a new vinyl reissue.He played one of his last live shows back in 2008, taking place in a tent venue in Dublin named the Rat Cellar.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic When a record comes with a warning label, believe it. That’s the case behind André 3000’s solo album debut, 17 years after the close of the recorded catalog of his Atlanta-based hip hop behemoth, Outkast.

André 3000 has released his long-awaited new solo album New Blue Sun. Announced earlier this week, the project is a collection of woodwind flute compositions from the former Outkast rapper. New Blue Sun is co-produced by 3000 and Carlos Niño.

André 3000 will release a new solo album this Friday. The album is titled New Blue Sun and features eight tracks of him playing the flute. NPR, who spoke to the OutKast member ahead of the release, reveal that the album clocks in at 87 minutes and features a track titled "I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A 'Rap' Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time." In recent years André 3000 has been spotted playing the flute in public settings, something that has confused onlookers and making him regularly go viral.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Since Outkast released their last album in 2006, the Grammy-winning group’s Andre 3000 has released a small smattering of songs and memorably guested on tracks by artists ranging from Beyonce to Drake to Frank Ocean, but has kept fans waiting for his debut solo album. It’s finally dropping Friday, the artist suddenly announced out of a clear blue sky early on Tuesday morning, but “New Blue Sun” may not be what they were expecting: “an entirely instrumental album centered around woodwinds; a celebratory piece of work in the form of a living, breathing, aural organism,” according to the announcement.

André 3000 has shared details about his first solo album in 17 years, an 87-minute long album of experimental flute music.Announced today (November 14), the OutKast rapper revealed to fans that the album is not a rap record and even includes a label on the cover warning that the LP contains “no bars”.Titled ‘New Blue Sun’, the album is instead an 87-minute long record of both minimalist and experimental music, which hears André take on a variety of woodwind instruments including contrabass flute, Mayan flutes, bamboo flutes as well as other digital wind instruments. No bars, beats or vocals are included.“I’ve always kind of been analysing it or figuring out how I wanted to approach it… I have to feel happy about sharing it,” André 3000 told NPR about his approach to a new solo album.“That’s why ‘New Blue Sun’ was something that I realised, whoa, I really want people to hear it. I really want to share it.

Tyler, The Creator was joined by Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem last night (November 11) for the live debut of ‘The Hillbillies’.Earlier this year, Lamar and Baby Keem surprised their fans with ‘The Hillbillies’, a new drill-inspired song that sampled Bon Iver. The single was the pair’s tenth collaboration together, following the Grammy-winning ‘Family Ties’ and 2021’s ‘Range Brothers’ and ‘Vent’.In the video for the song, there was also a cameo from Tyler, The Creator, who flashes a button to the camera at one point that reads “Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival 2023” – the first unofficial announcement that Lamar and Keem would appear Tyler’s annual LA festival.That proved true last night when all three arrived on stage for a rendition of the track.

Instagram story. The Grammy winner treated fans to a solid minute of the unreleased track, offering a substantial preview for those eagerly awaiting his return. Aside from the unveiled snippet, details about Ocean’s track are still shrouded in mystery.

Frank Ocean is once again teasing new music – listen to his latest preview below.Today (November 9), Frank Ocean took to his Instagram Stories to post a minute-long snippet of a new, unreleased song. The Instagram Story is set to expire by tomorrow (November 10), but has been recorded and shared by Pop Base on X/Twitter – listen to it below.No other information has been shared by singer, who is known for being reclusive and very rarely puts out new music.Frank Ocean previews new music.

In what will be welcome news for the UK sector, former Lionsgate UK & Europe CEO and Marv Studios Group CEO Zygi Kamasa is launching a new UK theatrical distributor called True Brit Entertainment, which will focus exclusively on British feature films and TV.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Albums, mixtapes, singles, soundtrack songs, collaborations, features, one of the biggest concert tours of the year — it seems like there’s barely a moment of the day when Drake isn’t adding to his sprawling discography, which, with the release of “For All the Dogs” at 6 a.m. ET today, has grown to nine full-length albums since 2010 — four in just over two years — seven mixtapes since 2006, and so much more. They’re always long AF too, clocking in at an hour or much more, and with 23 songs spanning almost 85 minutes, “Dogs” is no exception.

Thania Garcia Blink-182 will release their new album “One More Time…” on Oct. 20 via Columbia Records, the trio announced Monday morning in a video trailer. The forthcoming record will mark the band’s first album with Tom DeLonge since he re-joined the band in 2022, nearly 10 years after the band released a record with original members Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker.

Thania Garcia Latin singer-songwriters Mau y Ricky have launched a new independent label venture called Why Club Records in partnership with Warner Music Latina. The duo are listed on the roster and will continue to be managed by Armando Lozano, who has supported the Venezuela-born and Miami-based Latin Grammy-nominated artists since their first placement and as fresh Warner Latina signees in the early 2010s. They’ve co-written plenty of radio hits for artists like Karol G, Ricky Martin, Maluma and Anitta, with one of their biggest being the Hot 100-charting “Sin Pijama” for Becky G and Natti Natasha.

RM of K-pop boyband BTS has addressed the controversy surrounding a post he made about Frank Ocean‘s 2012 song ‘Bad Religion’.Earlier this month, BTS’ RM received backlash after he shared Frank Ocean’s ‘Bad Religion’ on an Instagram Story post. According to Koreaboo, the K-pop idol was called out by some for sharing what they allege to be an “Islamophobic song”, due to a line which uses the Arabic expression “Allahu Akbar“.During a August 30 live stream on the fan community platform Weverse, RM spoke out about the backlash he has received. “I know what you’re talking about, you keep telling me that I insulted a religion, but I didn’t,” he said, as translated by Koreaboo.“There was no intention to insult a religion.

Zane Lowe has shut down the rumour that he hinted at a potential collaboration between Frank Ocean and Drake on the latter’s upcoming LP ‘For All The Dogs’.In a since-deleted tweet, a user falsely accused Lowe of saying that the Apple Music head and former BBC Radio 1 broadcaster said that one of the guest contributions on ‘For All The Dogs’ is “industry-shaking, never-done-before,” and the “feature of dreams.”The user also said that the broadcaster hinted at it being Ocean by playing the singer’s hit track ‘Nikes’ directly afterwards.Lowe then took to Twitter/X to clear the air, responding to the original tweet saying that it was “not true,” adding: “Haven’t said a word about the new Drake album, I hardly ever speak on Frank. Haven’t even been on the radio for the last few weeks.

Tyler, the Creator‘s Camp Flog Gnaw has been revealed, including headliners SZA and Tyler himself.The festival will return for the first time in four years on the weekend of November 11-12 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.Alongside SZA and Tyler, Camp Flog Gnaw 2023 will be headlined by The Hillbillies, who many are assuming to be Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem, given their recent single of the same name.The pair’s official video for ‘The Hillbillies’ also featured Tyler, the Creator and was set outside Dodger Stadium. They are yet to be officially linked with the festival slot though.Elsewhere at Camp Flog Gnaw are the likes of Turnstile, PinkPantheress, Clipse, Kevin Abstract and Paris Texas.See the full line-up below.A post shared by Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival (@campfloggnaw)Last year, it was announced that Camp Flog Gnaw festival would not return to Los Angeles in 2022.

Fred Again.. has shared a new song titled "adore u." The song samples Obongjayar's "I Wish It Was Me," a song taken from the Nigerian artist's 2022 album Some Nights I Dream Of Doors .

Thania Garcia Travis Scott’s long-awaited “Utopia” album has arrived, and out of all 19 songs on the set, only a small handful saw the Houston-born rapper flying solo. In total, “Utopia” features over 18 artists — and that’s not including the indomitable list of producers and songwriters that offered their hand on the album.

Sophia Scorziello editor Paramore’s Hayley Williams took a break from the band’s usual set list to channel her inner Sasha Fierce, covering Beyoncé’s “I Miss You” in the Texas-bred singer’s hometown of Houston on July 11. Most of the song was performed by Williams in a capella while the rest of the band took a back seat. In fan-captured videos, Williams’ silhouette stands out as she’s surrounded by dim red lighting. She can be heard belting out the bridge: “It is so simple a feeling, but it’s everything / No matter who you love, it is so simple a feeling, but it’s everything.” The song is somewhat of a deep cut from Beyoncé’s fourth studio album, 2011’s “4,” which featured mega-hits like “Who Run the World (Girls),” “Count Down,” “Love on Top” and “Dance for You.” “I Miss You” was penned by Frank Ocean and marked his and Beyoncé’s first collaboration together as artists. They again joined forces on the song “Superpower” from her self-titled album and Ocean’s “Pink & White,” from his album “Blond.” Like Williams, Ocean has performed his own rendition of the song during his rare live performances.

Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams performed a moving cover of Beyoncé’s ‘I Miss You’ during a recent live show. Find footage of the moment and the full setlist below.She broke out the cover during the band’s set in Houston last night (July 11), as part of their second leg of North American tour dates.The rendition of the track — which is taken from Beyoncé’s fourth studio album, co-written with Frank Ocean — arrived during the a cappella segment of the show, and was preceded by a performance of ‘Liar’.

Frank Ocean has cemented himself as one of the most popular and elusive artists in the game, dropping a number of iconic projects, like nostalgia, ULTRA. and Endless.

OutKast‘s André 3000 is working on a new album according to Killer Mike.While speaking to Sway for Sway’s Universe, Killer Mike spoke of his recent collaboration with André 3000 on the track ‘Scientists & Engineers’, which also features Future and appear’s on Killer Mike’s newly released solo album ‘Michael’.Killer Mike revealed that after showing André 3000 the track, the OutKast rapper “played like nine, 10 joints for us and he said, ‘Well, just pick what you like and do something with it'”.“Over the past decade, I’ve sent him records for me, Run The Jewels and stuff, and he’d come back like ‘Man, that shit’s hard. I’m just not into rapping right now,'” Killer Mike elaborated.