Watch Depeche Mode’s stripped-back performance with BBC Concert Orchestra

Empire State Bastard have shared a new video for the debut single ‘Harvest’. Check out the footage below.The video arrives following the band’s recent debut headline tour — which featured three dates across the UK and sold out almost instantly.The band was founded by Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil and their touring guitarist Mike Vennart, and also enlists Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo and Bitch Falcon’s Naomi Macleod.

Amanda Holden looks like she is having the time of her life during a risqué Britain’s Got Talent audition on Saturday night's episode, which features a group of topless hunks. The 52 year old, who is reportedly considering a potential move to the US following meetings with America’s Got Talent, excitedly accompanies the group of dancers on stage as they endeavour to impress her fellow BGT judges with their steamy routine.

Gorillaz‘ set at Coachella 2023’s second weekend, the band brought out a star-studded list of guests that included appearances from Bad Bunny, Little Simz and more.The band brought out the Puerto Rican reggaeton star – who will close out this weekend’s first night with a headline set – to perform ‘Tormenta’. Bad Bunny features on the studio version of the song, which is from Gorillaz’ latest album, ‘Cracker Island’.

Coronation Street star Sally Dynevor has shown that she has barely changed in more than two decades as she shared a birthday tribute to her eldest daughter. The actress, who is famed for playing Sally Metcalfe in the ITV soap, paid an emotional tribute to Phoebe as she celebrated her 28th birthday.

Rosalía is putting on one incredible show in the desert!

Janet Jackson kicked off her ‘Together Again’ tour in Florida on Friday (April 14), showcasing a host of hits and rarities.The show at the Hard Rock Live venue, was the singer’s first in four years and is the start of a 34 date run in the US. The tour will celebrate her 50-year career and focus on 1997’s ‘The Velvet Rope’ and 1993’s ‘Janet’ alongside her greatest hits.The 40-song set saw the singer play a host of hits from her back catalogue including ‘Control’ and ‘Nasty’ along with live debuts for the likes of ‘Damita Jo’, ‘Enjoy’, ‘Girlfriend/Boyfriend’, ‘Like You Don’t Love Me’, and ‘Do It 2 Me’.

Depeche Mode have announced the acts that will be joining them as support on their upcoming ‘Memento Mori’ tour.Announced today (April 12), the band – which is comprised of Martin Gore and Dave Gahan – shared the five acts that will be joining them for their string of tour dates across the continent and the UK later this year.The update was shared on Instagram, where the iconic duo announced that Cold Cave and Young Fathers would be among the names joining them throughout their 34 upcoming shows.Other newly-announced artists joining them include Berlin-based band Hope, former Savages singer turned solo star Jehnny Beth and British trip-hop band Haelos.The European leg of the tour kicks off next month with two performances in the Netherlands, taking place on May 16 and May 18. From there, Depeche Mode will play a series of performances in countries including Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, the UK and Austria, before ending in Norway on August 11.A post shared by Depeche Mode (@depechemode)A performance at London’s Twickenham Stadium on June 17 is also featured in the upcoming shows.

K.J. Yossman Elon Musk has called his take-over of Twitter “quite painful” in an unexpected late-night interview with the BBC. The tech billionaire sat down with BBC North America tech reporter James Clayton at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco on Tuesday evening local time. Asked about his previous comments regarding Twitter being “painful,” Musk acknowledged that was still the case but added, “I wasn’t stabbed, like some people around here.” The comment is understood to refer to the murder of Cash app founder Bob Lee, who was stabbed to death in San Francisco last week.

Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix both hit the town this weekend with dueling events!

Depeche Mode appeared on BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room, where they performed three songs accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra, and spoke to presenter Gary Davies.Performing at BBC’s Maida Vale studios for the first time, the duo – Dave Gahan and Martin Gore – shared versions of ‘Walking In My Shoes’, ‘Ghosts Again’ and a reworking of Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘Sundown’.During the show, Davies played some listener questions, one of which was: “I’m really interested to know if you have your own idol, musically or otherwise?”Gahan replied: “Yeah, I mean straight away, even when you’re saying that sentence, it’s always been and always will be Bowie. I got to know him a little bit as well in the last few years of his life just because our daughters’ went to the same school in New York.

Depeche Mode launched their 2023 tour a couple weeks ago and they’ll be on the road for the rest of the year!

EXCLUSIVE: The headline-grabbing abduction of British model Chloe Ayling is to be dramatized for the BBC by Killing Eve writer Georgia Lester.

Speaking out. Brittany Aldean responded to a fan who asked for her opinion on the 2023 CMT Awards, which featured host Kelsea Ballerini performing with drag queens to spite increasing anti-trans legislation in America.

Making a statement — or two. Kelsea Ballerini did more than just host the 2023 CMT Music Awards on Sunday, April 2.

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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic During the opening monolog at Sunday night’s CMT Music Awards, broadcast from Austin on CBS, there was a comedic bit in which Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown exchanged anniversary presents to celebrate their cohosting of the show for the third consecutive time. Brown gave Ballerini a cowboy hat, and she reciprocated by giving him a pink hat to put on in return. At least a few audience members shared a joke about the exchange: By wearing pink, would Brown be breaking Tennessee’s recently passed law that some believe would ban most drag performances in the state, if they were back home? Viewers whose minds went there during that silly opening were just kidding — but Ballerini really went there later in the three-hour telecast, when she chose four “RuPaul’s Drag Race” queens to perform with her as she sang “If You Go Down (I’m Goin’ Down Too).” That song, off her 2022 album “Subject to Change,” is Ballerini’s anthem of female friendship — and, with the way the CMT Awards routine played out, she very much seemed to be counting drag performers as among those friends. The performance was playful and ostensibly non-political, and in a different year might not have raised very many shaved or unshaved eyebrows. In spring 2023, it was hard to read it as anything other than a statement of: If drag queens are brought down, the rest of us will be dragged down with them.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large One of my best friends in high school used to say she preferred the music of “post modern” (as the genre was dubbed at the time) groups like Depeche Mode because their sound was timeless, vs. the era’s disposable top 40 radio tracks, which were destined to sound dated in just a few years. And she was right, kind of: A Depeche Mode concert manages to straddle that line between digging deep into its four-decade catalog and not feeling like a legacy act. That was mostly on display Tuesday night at the Kia Forum, where Depeche Mode played the third date of its brand new “Momento Mori” tour. (They’ll be back at the Forum in December for two more shows.)

Eurythmics‘ Dave Stewart has joined his daughter Kaya Stewart for her American Idol audition, where he backed her up on guitar.The pair – who were greeted with astonishment from judges Lionel Richie and Katy Perry – performed an original song, ‘This Tattoo’. Prior to the performance, Richie pointed out that he had been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last year with Dave Stewart and Eurythmics, while Perry called Dave Stewart’s presence a “blast from the past”.Perry then went on to ask Kaya why she had chosen to audition for American Idol “with all the different opportunities and connections and stuff” that she has through her father, while Richie said he thought it was a great feeling to know that “[American Idol] is now a creative destination for artists”.Watch Kaya and Dave Stewart perform ‘This Tattoo’ on American Idol below.Kaya Stewart went on to pass her audition and will compete on the ongoing 21st season of American Idol.In January this year, the Eurythmics – the duo of singer-songwriter Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart – celebrated the 40th anniversary of their hit song ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)’.Lennox said of the track’s milestone anniversary on Instagram: “It’s almost impossible to believe that ‘Sweet Dreams are Made of This’ was released forty years ago! It has continued to travel the world and the seven seas ever since, which is a wonderful and miraculous story all to itself!”Eurthymics also reunited for a rare live performance at last year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, coinciding with the duo’s induction.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic BMI has prevailed in a New York court in a dispute with Live Nation and AEG over collections of songwriting revenue from live concerts, earning a judgment the performing rights organization said would earn its affiliates 138% higher than the historical rate. Louis L. Stanton of the Southern District of New York issued the ruling giving songwriters and publishers the raise on live revenue. BMI said that as a result of the judgment, that extra money will also come from tickets sold on the secondary market, service fees and VIP packages. BMI president-CEO Mike O’Neill expressed the org’s delight with the court victory, while still throwing shade at the two concert promoters and the North American Concert Promoters Association (NACPA) for years of opposition to carving out a boost in songwriter revenue.

Lana Del Rey is currently beating Depeche Mode in the race for this week’s UK Number One album.The singer-songwriter released her ninth studio record, ‘Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd’, last Friday (March 24). That same day saw the arrival of Depeche Mode’s 15th full-length effort, ‘Memento Mori’.According to the latest Official Charts update, Del Rey is on course to bag her sixth UK Number One album with ‘…Ocean Blvd’.