Drake and 21 Savage have announced the release date of their joint album, “Her Loss,” which will be on Friday, October 28.
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Duval Timothy, the pianist and producer who contributed to four tracks on Kendrick Lamar's Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, has announced details of a new solo album.
Meeting With a Judas Tree is due on November 11 via Carrying Colour and features "Mutate," which you can hear below. Meeting With a Judas Tree was recorded between the Carrying Colour studio in Freetown in Sierra Leone, during an artist residency in the village of Spoleto in Perugia in Italy, and his home studio in south London.
Read Next: 10 songs you need in your life this week It features contributions from fellow musicians Yu Su, Fauzia and Lamin Fofana. During Duval’s reidency at Mahler LeWitt’ Song Of The Earth in Italy he was creating work in response to her husband Gustav Mahler’s "Das Lied Von Der Erde (The Song of the Earth)" that ended up on the album.
The album follows Timothy’s 2020 solo album Help. Last year he released Son, a collaborative project made with Rosie Lowe.
.Drake and 21 Savage have announced the release date of their joint album, “Her Loss,” which will be on Friday, October 28.
Drain Gang member Thaiboy Digital has announced details of a new album. Back 2 Life, the Stockholm-born artist's third solo effort and his first since 2020's My Fantasy World, is due out November 18 on YEAR0001.
DEALSJess Glynne has signed to booking agency UTA for worldwide representation.Sony Music Middle East and Kuwait-based music company Ghmza have announced a new partnership to produce music and promote emerging Khaleeji pop artists across the Middle East. “We are incredibly excited to partner with the talented team at Ghmza”, says Mike Fairburn, General Manager at Sony Music Middle East.
DMA’S have announced their fourth album ‘How Many Dreams?’ and shared new single ‘Everybody’s Saying Thursday’s The Weekend’. Check out all the details below alongside a chat with the band and exclusive photos from the album’s studio sessions.Out March 31, 2023 and now available for pre-order here, ‘How Many Dreams?’ will see DMA’S continue to branch out from the guitar-driven Britpop anthems of their first two records. “We were finding our feet with a more modern sound on [2019’s] ‘The Glow’,” Johnny Took told NME at Reading & Leeds, where they absolutely owned their main stage slot ahead of performances from Bastille and Halsey.“With ‘How Many Dreams’, we really nailed that down and experiments with a lot of different sounds and different genres.
Kendrick Lamar is set to livestream a full concert from his ‘The Big Steppers Tour’ in Paris this weekend.The rapper has teamed up with Amazon Music for the show at the Accor Arena on October 22, which also marks the 10th anniversary of his debut album ‘Good Kid, MAAd City’.The show will be broadcast at 2pm Eastern Time (7pm BST) and will be available via Amazon Prime Video, the Amazon Music app and Twitch.Tim Hinshaw, head of R&B and hip-hop for Amazon Music, said in a press statement via The Fader: “As a kid from the west side of Compton, hearing good kid, m.A.A.d city for the first time and seeing Kendrick’s journey from neighborhood hero to global superstar ignited a fire in me that I’m forever grateful for. It showed me that no matter where you start in life, hard work and dedication will put you where you hope and dream to be.live from paris this saturday 10.22 8pm cest / 11am pt / 2pm et pic.twitter.com/6j2mCiAhZf— Kendrick Lamar (@kendricklamar) October 18, 2022“Now, 10 years later, it’s almost poetic that two kids from the same city with similar, but different dreams have landed in Paris to celebrate not just that record but Kendrick’s latest revolutionary album, ‘Mr.
Lewis Capaldi has announced full details of his new album ‘Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent’.The follow up to his 2019 debut, ‘Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent’, will be released on May 19 2023 on EMI Records and can be pre-ordered/pre-saved here.It follows the release of his comeback single ‘Forget Me’, which was released last month and came complete with a music video that recreated Wham!’s ‘Club Tropicana’ video shot-for-shot.To celebrate the release of his new album, Capaldi has now shared an acoustic version of the Number One hit, which you can listen to below.The singer-songwriter said of the new record: “I felt like I was sounding better because I was just chilled out in my own gaff. Also, a lot of this record was made with most of the same people who I worked with on the first one: TMS, Phil Plested, Nick Atkinson and Edd Holloway.
Amazon Music will stream Kendrick Lamar's Paris stop on the Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers tour this Saturday, October 22 at 2 p.m. EST.
Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Kendrick Lamar’s sold-out show at the Accor Arena in Paris on Saturday will be livestreamed exclusively through Amazon Music and Prime Video, the company announced today. The event will mark the 10-year anniversary of the release of Lamar’s monumentally influential album, “Good Kid, m.A.A.d City” and will give fans with a special look at Lamar’s 65-date world tour in support of his latest release, “Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.” Airing live on October 22 at 2 p.m. ET, fans will be able to watch the livestream for free exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide, the Amazon Music channel on Twitch, and on the Amazon Music app. The stream will also feature sets from pgLang’s Tanna Leone and Grammy Award-winning recording artist, Baby Keem. Lamar’s performance will be available to view on-demand on Prime Video following the livestream event.
Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Grammy and Oscar winning singer-songwriter Sam Smith has announced their fourth studio album, “Gloria,” will be released on January 27, 2023 via Capitol Records. Made with longtime collaborators Jimmy Napes, Stargate and Max Martin stablemate Ilya, the album is described in the announcement as “not only a creative revelation but something of a personal revolution for the celebrated artist. Lyrically, the subjects dive deep and wide, into contemporary narratives around sex, lies, passion, self-expression and imperfection.” Smith says, “It feels like emotional, sexual and spiritual liberation. It was beautiful, with this album, to sing freely again. Oddly, it feels like my first-ever record. And it feels like a coming of age.”
Mount Westmore have announced a new album called ‘Snoop, Cube, 40, $hort’.The West Coast rap supergroup comprising Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, E-40 and Too $hort will release their record on December 9 via Mount Westmore/MNRK Music Group.To build excitement the group have shared a teaser of the album’s upcoming single ‘Too Big’ featuring rapper P-Lo, which you can watch further below.Mount Westmore were expected to drop their debut album in 2021 after several hints. However, the group instead shared their debut collection of recordings ‘Bad MFs‘ as an NFT in June of this year via the blockchain platform Gala Music.‘Snoop, Cube, 40, $hort’ is a 16-track album that will be available across all digital platforms.To date, Mount Westmore have shared the singles ‘Big Subwoofer‘ and ‘Bad MF’s’, the latter of which arrived as a music video in March.Watch Mount Westmore’s teaser for ‘Too Big’ below.https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjlPt2OpNu4/In an interview with HotNewHipHop last year, Snoop said of the project: “You bring the legends of the West Coast together, something great will always happen.“Cube, 40, Short, and I have been running the game for years.
Stormzy, the U.K. rapper who began in the grime underground and became a global hip-hop star, has announced his third studio album, This Is What I Mean. The project is due out November 25 via 0207 Def Jam/Interscope Records.
Stormzy has announced that he will release his third album, ‘This Is What I Mean’, next bloody month. It’s happening, guys.Like many a musician before him, to make the album the rapper retreated to the remote Osea Island in Essex, where he camped out with a variety of yet to be revealed musicians and producers and took in the ‘Wicker Man’ vibes.“When you hear about music camps they always sound intense and sombre”, he says. “People saying: ‘We need to make an album’, [or] ‘We need to make some hit records’.
Kendrick Lamar‘s fans have his children to thank for the gift of new music.
Stormzy has shared details of his highly anticipated third album, ‘This Is What I Mean’, set for global release next month.Returning to social media after almost three years, Stormzy shared the new album’s artwork on Instagram today (October 12), depicting a letter sat on a doorstep with the album title printed on it.Described as “an intimate love letter to music” in a press statement and largely created at a “Stormzy music camp” in Osea Island, Stormzy spoke about praying every morning during the genesis of the new record.“When you hear about music camps they always sound intense and sombre,” Stormzy explained of how the new album came together. “People saying: ‘We need to make an album.’ ‘We need to make some hit records.’ But this felt beautifully free. We’re all musicians but we weren’t always doing music.
Story Of The Year have announced details of their new album ‘Tear Me To Pieces’. Check out the title track below.Taken from the new album due out on March 10, ‘Tear Me To Pieces’ is a hard-hitting and catchy track that guitarist Ryan Phillips described as ‘definitive’ of the band. “Perhaps more than any song on the record, ‘Tear Me To Pieces’ checks all of the boxes in regards to what best defines Story Of The Year – anthemic pop choruses balanced with guttural screams, high energy punk rock inspired drums, dark-ish lyrics, and aggressive guitar riffs,” said Phillips. “This one song runs the gamut.”‘Tear Me To Pieces’ follows on from previous single ‘Real Life’as a taster of the next record.“When our fans hear it, they’ll be like, ‘Oh, shit, these dudes are ready to go!’” said Phillips of the album.
Kendrick Lamar has discussed the personal nature of the lyrics on his latest album ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’, and the “tough” process of writing them.Lamar’s fifth studio record was released back in May, and the rapper is currently beginning a European arena tour behind the project.In a new and rare interview, he told W Magazine about writing candidly on the album about experiences with his family, and how he didn’t tell them about the lyrics before the album’s release.“I’m a private person; it was tough for me,” the rapper said, before explaining his reasoning: “The reason why I had to make that decision, whether they was for or against it, I just didn’t want the influence.
Jeezy has announced Snofall, the Atlanta trap icon’s first new project in two years. It’s out on October 21. The album, a collaboration with DJ Drama, was announced last night with a post on Instagram. Watch the teaser below:
Olly Murs has announced that he will release his seventh studio album, ‘Marry Me’, later this year – his first since 2018’s ‘You Know I Know’. The first single from it, ‘Die Of A Broken Heart’, is out now.“It has that steel drum at the intro, which just gets in your head straight away”, he says of the new track. “It has a very Gotye ‘Somebody I Used to Know’ feel to it, with a touch of The Police – and just a coolness to it.
Richard Dawson has shared details of a new album. The Ruby Cord will be released on November 18 via Weird World and is the third part in a trilogy of albums that began with 2017's Peasant and 2020, released two years later. The Ruby Cord moves Dawson's story-telling into a near-future setting and features "The Hermit," which clocks in at an epic 40 minutes long.
Depeche Mode have announced that they will release a new album, called ‘Memento Mori’, early next year, and embark of their first live shows for five years.The news follows the death of founder member Andy Fletcher, who passed away during the making of the album earlier this year.“We started work on this project early in the pandemic, and its themes were directly inspired by that time”, says the band’s Martin Gore. “After Fletch’s passing, we decided to continue as we’re sure this is what he would have wanted, and that has really given the project an extra level of meaning”.Dave Gahan adds: “Fletch would have loved this album.