Escapade Music Festival persistently delivers what many to think about to be among the best lineups yearly, and 2025 is proving to be no completely different. The pageant celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this yr with a lineup that includes headliners like The Chainsmokers, Chris Lake, Disclosure, Kaskade, Kygo, RL Grime, and extra.
Stage hosts embody Subtronics’ Cyclops Recordings, with the label boss himself closing out the stage. Above & Past’s Anjunabeats celebrates 25 years of the label with a particular Anjuna25 takeover that includes newly minted Dancing Astronaut Artist to Watch in 2024 Amy Wiles alongside different label favorites like Jason Ross, Oliver Smith, Mat Zo B2B Alpha 9 and naturally Above & Past themselves.
The pageant returns to its dwelling of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from June 20 – 22, however heads to a brand new location within the RA Centre Grounds. Three-day basic admission passes begin at $240 and three-day VIP passes begin at $333. Tickets are on sale now and might be bought here.
Deftones have introduced three model new European exhibits as a part of their upcoming summer time tour plans. Try all the main points under.
Chino Moreno and co will now be taking up Milan’s Carroponte on June 17, Zurich’s Halle 622 on June 18 and Frankfurt’s Jahrhunderthalle on June 20. A ticket pre-sale might be accessible for many who enroll through their official web site here. Basic ticket gross sales will begin on Friday (February 7) at 10am native time. Go to here to buy tickets.
The brand new dates observe the beforehand added large summer time gigs Deftones have introduced again in December. They are going to play at The Piece Corridor in Halifax on June 24 as a part of the historic venue’s summer time live performance sequence and are scheduled to play on the Eden Undertaking in Cornwall on June 26 for the 2025 Eden Periods. In addition they beforehand introduced an enormous gig at Crystal Palace Park in London on June 29.
The complete listing of releases for File Retailer Day 2025 has been revealed – with unique vinyl set to drop from the likes of Oasis, Charli XCX, Fred.. Once more, The Treatment, Gorillaz, Taylor Swift and plenty of extra. See the total listing and among the most stunning releases under.
The annual occasion will return for its 18th version on April 12, with lots of of unique releases made obtainable on a first-come-first-served foundation at over 270 unbiased file outlets throughout the UK and in addition to hundreds extra globally.
With Sam Fender confirmed as an RSD ambassador within the UK and Publish Malone Stateside, the total listing of releases has now been shared – additionally that includes the likes of Beabadoobee, Rachel Chinouriri, Confidence Man, English Trainer, Lil Uzi Vert, Megan Thee Stallion, MJ Lenderman and Publish Malone, alongside legends together with Public Picture Ltd, Lou Reed, The Jesus and Mary Chain and plenty of extra.
File Retailer Day 2025. Credit score: Press
Oasis are one other large identify on the listing, warming up for his or her big reunion 12 months with the perfect of assortment ‘Time Flies… (1994-2009)’ obtainable on vinyl for the primary time with remastered audio and utterly new packaging, with the field set is numbered and consists of 4 colored LPs.
“File outlets have been actually necessary once I was rising up,” stated Noel Gallagher. “It’s one thing that’s in my DNA. I feel if we will hold file outlets open for so long as potential, we owe it to the younger folks of this nation.”
Saying the discharge of the ‘Precise Life’ piano stay classes on vinyl for the primary time for RSD 2025, Fred.. Once more stated: “This vinyl collection is at all times gonna be restricted pressings of stay moments that felt notably particular and these are a few of my favorite issues we’ve carried out.
“However we solely ever made the piano lives for ‘AL2’ and ‘AL3’ and so lots of you have been asking for AL1, so 4 years after the unique ‘Precise Life’ album got here out on File Retailer Day in 2021, I’ve recorded the Precise Life 1′ piano stay just a few weeks in the past. We’re working wit Vinyl Manufacturing facility (who did all the opposite IRL vinyl) to provide one thing actually particular.”
File Retailer Day 2025. Credit score: Press
Different highlights from the listing embrace Taylor Swift’s unique 7″ white vinyl of ‘Fortnight’, Gorillaz double pink vinyl LP of ‘Demon Days Reside From the Apollo Theatre’, The Treatment’s image disc of ‘Head On The Door’, Charli XCX’s silver image disc of ‘Quantity One Angel’, a double silver LP of Lou Reed’s basic ‘Steel Machine Music’, The Hives’ Tyrannosaurus Hives’ on gold and white vinyl, and 12″ of the demos and stay tracks from Air’s seminal ‘Moon Safari’.
RSD returns after 2024 noticed vinyl and bodily file gross sales hit a 20 12 months excessive, regardless of the very fact “beneath the floor, most UK artists earn far under common salaries” (because the FAC report).
Nonetheless, a latest Digital Leisure and Retail Affiliation report confirmed that the marketplace for vinyl data grew by 10.5 per cent final 12 months, with 6.7million discs bought final 12 months, producing £196million. File Retailer Day mixed with the discharge of Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Division’ noticed the very best weekly vinyl gross sales for 30 years again in 2024.
“Yearly, I’m requested, ‘What’s File Retailer Day?’” stated Mark Thorne of Thorne Data in Edinburgh. “My reply is at all times, ‘It’s like Mom’s Day for file outlets’ – however as an alternative of candies and flowers, we indie file retailers get a queue of fantastic clients
“It’s been a lift to our a part of the business for practically 20 years, and lengthy might it proceed.”
File Retailer Day 2025. Credit score: Press
Try the total listing of File Retailer Day 2025 releases introduced to date under, and visit here for extra info on RSD or to search out your nearest collaborating retailer.
The complete listing of File Retailer Date 2025 releases is:
thirteenth Flooring Elevators, The Public Picture – First Subject 2LP Black
A Day To Keep in mind Assault Of The Killer B-Sides 10″
A Tribe Known as Quest The Low Finish Principle 2xLP
a-ha Searching Excessive and Low – The 1984 demos LP
Adam Ant Prince Charming LP
Adicts, The Rockers into Orbit 2xLP
Air MOON SAFARI – LIVE & DEMOS 12″
File Retailer Day 2025. Credit score: Press
Alan Parsons Challenge, The I Robotic (Work In Progress) LP
Alberto Baldan Bembo OST:Nuda per Satana OST LP
Alcatrazz All Evening Lengthy In Japan 2019 2XLP
Alessandroni E Il Suo Complesso L’Ora Del Cocktail LP
Alex Chilton Set 12″
Alison Moyet Hometime 1LP (Gold Vinyl, Numbered)
Anderson .Paak Come Down – Single 12″
Antony Szmierek Service Station At The Finish Of The Universe LP
Archie Shepp and The Full Moon Ensemble The Full Reside in Antibes 2XLP
Archive Present Me Heaven EP 10”
Artwork of Noise Impressions of Endlessly—Within the studio with Moments in Love UMR/ZTT 1LP Pink
Artwork Pepper An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Live performance 2LP
Avicii Ryu / Strutnut 12″
Barbara Moore A Little Moore Barbara LP
Bartley, Charlene Weekend Of A Personal Secretary, The LP
Beabadoobee Reside & Acoustic In London 12”
Stomach King (thirtieth Anniversary Version) LP (Inexperienced Vinyl)
Invoice Evans Additional Forward: Reside in Finland 1964-1969 2LP
Black Roots Roots LP
Black Sabbath The Everlasting Idol LP
Black Spiders Quantity 2 LP
Black Stone Cherry That is Black Stone Cherry’s RSD album. The band actually likes it. LP
Black Stone Cherry That is Black Stone Cherry’s RSD album. The band actually likes it. CD
Fruit Bats / Anaïs Mitchell As I Rise b/w Grace Cathedral Hill 7″
Fugs, The First Album 2XLP
Future Sound of London, The Alice In Ultraland 2XLP
Futureheads, The RANT (RSD 2025 COLOURED VINYL REPRESS) Customary weight black + orange splatter vinyl + bonus 7”
Gato Barbieri Requirements Misplaced and Discovered 2 2LP
Gazelle Twin Shadow Canine LP
Gazelle Twin Black Cab (Unique Soundtrack) LP
Geddy Lee The Misplaced Demos LP
George Harrison All Issues Should Move 3XLP
File Retailer Day 2025. Credit score: Press
Gerry Mulligan Nocturne 2XLP
Gerry Mulligan and Thelonious Monk Mulligan Meets Monk (MONO) LP
Gil Scott-Heron The First Minute Of A New Day LP
Gilad Atzmon, Maja Babyszka & Nikos Sidirokastritis In Reminiscence Of That Track LP
Girlschool Hit and Run – Revisited 12″
Gloria Jones Vixen LP
Gloria Jones Tainted Love / My Dangerous Boy’s Comin’ Dwelling 7″
Goat & Graveyard a ship of fools/mild as a feather Rocket Recordings 7”
Goblin OST:L’altro Inferno/The opposite Hell LP
Golden Daybreak, The Energy Plant LP
Golden Earring The N.E.W.S. Periods 2LP
Good Neighbours Reside on the Village Underground 1LP
Gorillaz Demon Days Reside From the Apollo Theatre 2XLP
File Retailer Day 2025. Credit score: Press
Gotan Challenge INSPIRACIÓN ESPIRACIÓN (20TH ANNIVERSARY) Black LP
Gracie Abrams Reside From Radio Metropolis Music Corridor 2LP
Grand Slam Whiskey In The Jar / TBC 7″ or 12″ / Image Disc
Grateful Lifeless On A Porch – Vol 1 LP
Grateful Lifeless Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 6/14/76 5xLP
Griff Reside At Alexander Palace 140g LP colored vinyl
Gunna Wunna 2xLP
Half Japanese Fireplace within the Sky LP
Harvey Mandel The Snake LP
Heads, The Nonetheless Underneath Sided 2XLP
Heronimus Fin This Place Has Modified LP
Excessive Anxiousness OST Excessive Anxiousness – Unique Soundtrack / Mel Brooks’ Best Hits That includes The Fabulous Movie Scores Of John Morris LP yellow in Pink Vinyl
Excessive Fade Life’s Too Quick LP
Hindu Love Gods Hindu Love Gods LP
Hives, The Tyrannosaurus Hives 1LP (Gold & White)
File Retailer Day 2025. Credit score: Press
Holly Johnson HOLLELUJAH Restricted version yellow (Golden Bathe) vinyl.
Home of Love The Home Of Love 12″
Howe Gelb The Listener LP
Ian North / John Howard All The Younger Droids: Junk Store Sampler 7″
Ice – T Energy Rarities LP
Idris Ackamoor, Rhodessa Jones, Danny Glover ARTISTIC BEING 2XLP
Indian Ocean College Bell / Tree Home 12″
Inn Home Crew, The Afrodiziac LP
Islandman Bahar LL + Bonus Tracks Black 180g LP
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan Maintain Me In Thoughts Sweetheart EP (180g Black Vinyl)
Ist Ist Reside from New Century 12″
Jackie DeShannon Love Endlessly — Demo Recordings 1966-1967 LP
James Blunt Again To Bedlam: The Demo’s 1LP
James Moody Working the Gamut LP
Jamie T Carry On The Grudge 1LP
File Retailer Day 2025. Credit score: Press
Jamiroquai Funk Odyssey 2xLP
Jane Weaver Univers (French Model/MEMORIALS Remix) 7″
Jayhawks, The Blue Earth Rhino LP + 7″
Jeff Bridges Gradual Magic, 1977-1978 LP
Jesus & The Mary Chain, The > 45s > 84 > 85 < LP
Jesus Lizard, The Flux 12″
Jethro Tull Songs From The Vault LP
Jim Fry and Luke Haines Take a look at Driving The New Prius LP
JJ Gray and Mofro Orange Blossoms 2XLP
Joe Clean Promised Land LP
Joey Valence & Brae Good Songs by JVB (RSD25 EX) LP
John & Yoko, The Plastic Ono Band, Elephant’s Reminiscence Energy To The Individuals – Reside on the One To One Live performance, New York Metropolis, 1972 12″ Yellow
John Legend Get Lifted LP
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers Performs John Mayall (Reside)-Sixtieth Anniversary Version LP Pink & Black Marble
John Williams Harry Potter And The Thinker’s Stone (OST) 2XLP
John Williams Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets and techniques (OST) 2XLP
John Williams Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (OST) 2XLP
Johnny Marr Look Out! Reside In London LP
File Retailer Day 2025. Credit score: Press
Joni Mitchell US Tour Reside 1976 3XLP Blue Jay Color Vinyl
Jose James / Ben Westbeech Brownswood Recordings Remix Version 005 12″
Judas Priest Reside in Atlanta ’82 2XLP
Okay. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas Okay. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas LP
Kaleo All The Fairly Ladies EP 12″ Raspberry Marble Vinyl
Kasabian Kasabian 2xLP
Katherine Priddy Reside at Union Chapel 2LP (Purple vinyl with etching on facet D)
Keane Reside From Mexico Metropolis 2024 1LP (Inexperienced and White splatter vinyl)
Keith Richards & The X-Pensive Winos Reside 3.10.22 LP
Kelela In The Blue Gentle LP
Kenny Dorham Blue Bossa within the Bronx: Reside from the Blue Morocco 2XLP
Kim Wilde Nearer – The Unique RSD Mixes 12″
Kinky Roland & Boy George You’re Not the One 12”
Kitty Winter Gipsy Nova Really feel It LP
Klaus Doldinger & Giorgio Moroder By no means Ending Story OST LP Starlight Vinyl
Laufey A Evening At The Symphony: Hollywood Bowl 2XLP
Laura Nyro Angel In The Darkish LP
Laurence Jones Feat. Rory Gallagher Laurence Jones Feat. Rory Gallagher 12″
Lemonheads, The Lemonheads in Dreamland LP
Levitation Room Minds Of Our Personal 12″
Liam Gallagher Acoustic Periods LP Silver & Blue Vinyl
Lianne La Havas Is Your Love Large Sufficient LP Pink & Blue Vinyl
Life With out Buildings Reside on the Annandale Lodge LP (Pink Vinyl)
File Retailer Day 2025. Credit score: Press
Lil Uzi Vert Everlasting Atake (Deluxe) / LUV vs. The World 2 (fifth Anniversary Version) 3XLP
Liminanas, The Further Light LP
Liminanas, The & David Menke Les règles de l’artwork (OST) LP
Linda Waterfall My Coronary heart Sings LP
Lipstick Killers Reside In Adelaide LP
Lisa Germano Geek The Woman (thirtieth Anniversary Particular Version) 2LP (Crystal Clear Vinyl)
Logic / Quentin Harris Strictly Tuff Jam 12″
Los Jaivas Alturas de Macchu Picchu LP
Lou Reed Steel Machine Music 2XLP
File Retailer Day 2025. Credit score: Press
Insanity Take Cowl! LP – Pink Translucent
Magma Slag tanz 12″
MaL Primal Dub 2 LP
Mark Knopfler One Take Radio Periods 1LP Black
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives House Junk 2XLP
Matching Mole Matching Mole’s Little Pink File 2LP
Mayhem Reside In Ski 12″
Megan Thee Stallion Traumazine 2XLP
Melanie C Cause LP
Melys Second Wind LP
MEMORIALS One other Waterslide/ Memorial Bells 7″
Males They Couldn’t Grasp, The The Cherry Pink Jukebox LP
Michael Chapman Who’s This Yorkshire Man? (Reside In Brighton, 2015) LP
Michael Kiwanuka Floating Parade 7″
Mike Bloomfield Guitar King! (The Norman Dayron Periods) LP
Miles Davis Quintet At The Kurhaus LP
Mission, The Neverland (thirtieth Anniversary Version) (140g Translucent Pink and Translucent Yellow vinyl) (RSD 2025) 2XLP
Mitch & Ira Yuspeth 7 DOORS OF DEATH – unique movement image soundtrack LP
MJ Lenderman And The Wind (Reside and Unfastened!) Clear Sea Blue 2LP
Fashionable Eon B+ B Sides + Further Tracks LP Clear
Mojo Males, The Dance With Me: The Autumn Singles – produced by Sly Stone LP
Monaco I’ve Obtained A Feeling 12″
Moody Blues Boulevard de Madeleine – The Denny Cordell classes 1966 Esoteric Recordings 12″
Morbid Angel Domination LP
Morcheeba WE LIVE AND DIE / PEACE OF ME 7″
Morphine Bootleg Detroit LP
Motley Crue Smokin’ In The Boys Room / Dwelling Candy Dwelling – fortieth Anniversary LP
Motorhead The Misplaced Tapes Vol.6 (Reside In Berlin 1992) 2XLP
My Wreck Converse & Destroy Madfish 2XLP
Nationwide Well being Nationwide Well being LP
Neil Finn Periods at West 54th Road 2XLP
Nektar Keep in mind the Future (fiftieth anniversary remix) 12″
Nemmzzz DND LP
Neurotic Outsiders Neurotic Outsiders 2XLP
Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets Out of doors Safari LP
Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets and techniques Echoes (Reside) 12″
Oasis Time Flies… 1994 – 2009 LP
Olivia Dean With love 10″
Omar Apollo, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Te Maldigo (From Queer) 7″
OMD Peel Periods 1979-1983 1LP Black
File Retailer Day 2025. Credit score: Press
One Self Visions 12″
OST / London Music Works OST: Stranger Issues 7″
File Retailer Day 2025. Credit score: Press
OST / London Music Works OST: Succession 7″
OST / Mark Klein & Finn Keane OST: Ludwig LP
Pa Salieu African Alien LP
Pale Saints Gradual Buildings (thirtieth Anniversary Re:Masters) 2LP (Petrol Blue Vinyl)
Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Devo and extra have been introduced as contributors featured on the ‘Los Angeles Rising’ wildfire reduction profit compilation album.
The Los Angeles wildfires, which started on January 7, have left 28 individuals lifeless, greater than 12,000 constructions destroyed and noticed the evacuation of greater than 150,000 residents.
Created by Kevin Haskins (Love and Rockets, Bauhaus) and producer Nick Launay (Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, IDLES), all proceeds from ‘Los Angeles Rising’ will go to Sweet Relief – a musicians fund that helps present monetary help to musicians and music trade staff. You should purchase the album solely from Bandcamp.
The LP options 16 beforehand unreleased tracks from the likes of Cave, Harvey, Gary Numan, Primal Scream and extra. ‘Los Angeles Rising’ additionally contains another tackle Yeah Yeah Yeah’s 2006 launch ‘Flip Into Redux’ in addition to a stripped-back rendition of The Mamas and The Papa’s iconic monitor ‘California Dreamin’ by Jarvis Cocker which was recorded again in 2020. You possibly can take a look at Cocker’s cowl beneath.
Talking concerning the creation of the compilation album in a press launch, Haskins stated: “Because the wildfires had been raging and destroying 1000’s of houses round Los Angeles, each my neighbourhood and Nick’s had been instructed to evacuate. However we had been the fortunate ones. The hearth threatening our houses and recording studios was fortunately extinguished by firefighters simply minutes away, however numerous musicians and mates misplaced all the pieces.”
Launay added: “This harrowing expertise and witnessing the monumental destruction of complete communities, impressed Nick and I to workforce as much as create a compilation album to lift cash for the much less lucky. We reached out to our musician mates for unreleased recorded gems and the response was unimaginable! PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Primal Scream, Gary Numan and Devo are simply a number of the artists that rushed in to assist”.
‘Los Angeles Rising’ album art work. Credit score: PRESS
‘Misplaced Angeles Rising’ tracklist is:
1. PJ Harvey with Danni Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans – ‘The Crimson River’ 2. Grinderman – ‘Worm Tamer’ – LaunayVauz Remix 3. Gary Numan and Titan – ‘Darkish Rain’ 4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – ‘Flip Into Redux’ 5. Band Of Skulls – ‘Chilly Chilly Sweat’ – LaunayVauz Remix 6. Jarvis Cocker – ‘California Dreamin’’ 7. Primal Scream – ‘False Flags’ – Orchestral model 8. Nick Cave and The Unhealthy Seeds – ‘Michelangelo’ 9. Haskins, Vandermolen and Lohner – ‘All We Ever Needed Was All the things’ 10. Danny Elfman – ‘Monkeys On The Unfastened’ – LA Rising model 11. Devo – ‘Shoulda Mentioned Sure’ 12. Siobhan Fahey and Titan – ‘Deep In LA’ 13. CRX – ‘Blip On The Radar’ 14. David J – ‘No New Story To Inform’ – Unique demo model 15. Flea, Frusciante, Haskins and DeAngelis – ‘A System For Shutting All the things Out’ 16. U.S. Ladies – ‘4 American {Dollars}’ – Demo model
Elsewhere, a research lately shared by World Weather Attribution, claimed that the LA wildfires had been made “extra probably” by human-caused local weather change. The research stated that the new, dry and windy situations that drove fires within the Californian metropolis had been “35 per cent extra probably as a consequence of warming triggered primarily by the burning of oil, fuel and coal.”
In different information, Large Thief have lately introduced their new charity EP ‘Ardour Relation’ which can assist increase funds for many who had been affected by the LA Wildfires.
Neil Younger has shared a promising new replace on The Chrome Hearts’ debut album – see what the people icon needed to say beneath.
READ MORE: Who may headline Glastonbury 2025: The highest runners and riders up to now
Final month (January 17), Neil Younger and The Chrome Hearts shared the one, ‘Huge Change Is Coming’. It marked their first launch from the band that sees Younger enjoying alongside Micah Nelson on guitar, Corey McCormick on bass, Anthony Logerfo on drums and Spooner Oldham on Farfisa organ.
Now, Younger has taken to his weblog, the Neil Young Archives, to supply followers with a constructive replace on the band’s upcoming releases. Writing on Tuesday (February 4), Younger shared that he had completed recording their debut album with producers Lou Adler (who can also be his brother-in-law) and John Hanlon at Rick Rubin‘s Shangri-La studio in Malibu.
Neil Younger. CREDIT: Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Photos
Younger wrote: “It’s in mastering now to make the vinyl, CD and digital copies. I’m very comfortable and relieved to have this carried out within the brief time it took. The album artwork has been accomplished and handed in with Jenice Heo. I’m engaged on the lyric sheets now, hoping to hand-write the phrases and get them in, in time…”
The legendary musician continued: “It’s a comfortable feeling I’ve immediately, realizing I’ve made an album I believe individuals will get pleasure from. I hope it’s out in April. That might be fairly quick. Enjoying with the Chrome Hearts was a pleasure as we recorded track after track at Shangrila in Malibu. I wrote these songs in November and December.”
Neil then shared that he hopes to convey these songs on the street with him quickly: “They really feel contemporary to me and I’m very comfortable to have this all prepared for you. It received’t be lengthy now and will probably be nice to have new songs to play on the street this summer season in Europe, the USA and Canada. We’re wanting ahead to that!”
Actual dates for The Chrome Hearts’ European tour have but to be introduced, as Younger wrote on his blog in November that they were under review: “The tour submitted didn’t keep inside the requested venues and is being re-done to omit any indoor exhibits. Indoor exhibits could also be too dangerous on a well being stage and we don’t need to need to cancel any exhibits due to well being considerations this coming summer season”.
Neil Younger. CREDIT: Gary Miller/Getty Photos
One date that has been confirmed is Neil Younger and The Chrome Hearts’ Glastonbury headlining slot in June.
The singer introduced that he had been booked for the competition earlier this yr, however was backing out as he felt prefer it was “a company turn-off”. Simply days after making the publish, he shared one other replace saying that he had overturned his choice and would the truth is be showing on the 2025 instalment as one of many three headliners.
Up to now, the one different confirmed artist is Rod Stewart, who will play the coveted Sunday afternoon Legends Slot, though Nile Rodgers & Stylish are additionally identified to be acting at Glastonbury 2025. This comes because the singer shared accidentally that they’d even be returning to the Worthy Farm website whereas accepting an award final yr.
Glastonbury Competition (Photograph by Harry Durrant/Getty Photos)
Different rumoured headliners embody Olivia Rodrigo, Sam Fender, The 1975, Taylor Swift and Stevie Surprise. The complete line-up for the competition is normally shared in March.
As for different Neil Younger information, the people icon not too long ago introduced that he’s set to launch his “misplaced” album ‘Oceanside Countryside’ from the ‘70s, and shared his reward for the “nice” new Bob Dylan biopic, A Full Unknown.
Gracie Abrams has declared that no man has “come near defining popular culture” like Taylor Swift has.
READ MORE: Gracie Abrams – ‘The Secret of Us’ overview: a brand new sort of intimacy
Talking to Cosmopolitan for a brand new cowl story, Abrams was requested in regards to the similarities and variations between herself and her mentor-figure Taylor Swift – who took her out on her record-breaking ‘Eras’ tour on a number of events.
Gracie Abrams – daughter of J.J. Abrams – informed the publication: “I couldn’t be extra completely different from Taylor. We’re completely different in all of the ways in which my buddies and I are completely different or that you just and I are completely different. Taylor is an athlete, an excellent businessperson, and a genius author. She’s a grounded human being who makes time for everybody in her life. It’s been actually cool to be within the orbit of an individual like her.”
Taylor Swift and Gracie Abrams carry out on stage throughout ‘The Eras Tour’. CREDIT: Gareth Cattermole/TAS24/Getty Pictures
Abrams continued: “There’s additionally nothing that comes near what she has accomplished. Individuals will nonetheless gaslight her and her capabilities and all this shit. However please level me to at least one man who has come near defining popular culture on this manner. There may be nothing! However persons are not prepared for that dialog.”
Taylor Swift and Abrams have since turn into shut buddies, with Abrams revealing in December that the top of the ‘Eras’ tour had everybody “crying all day”: “It felt just like the final day of college backstage. Everybody was strolling round with their [tour] books, signing one another’s books. We had been all strolling round with Sharpies.”
Abrams’ ‘The Secret Of Us’ scored a four-star overview from NME upon its launch in June: “It’s a second of pure pop catharsis that leans into the nice, dangerous and messy of infatuation. That is the enjoyment of ‘The Secret of Us’: it doesn’t draw back from the advanced or contradictory. Right here Gracie Abrams embraces her rising pains and celebrates enduring the tough moments. She’s by no means sounded higher.”
Gracie Abrams. Credit score: Gilbert Flores/Billboard through Getty Pictures
In December, Abrams carried out with Swift throughout her closing leg of the latter’s blockbuster ‘Eras Tour’, with the two delivering a mash-up of ‘I Love You, I’m Sorry’ and Swift’s ‘Final Kiss’, taken from her 2010 album ‘Communicate Now’.
That they had beforehand teamed up on ‘Us’, taken from Abrams’ newest album. In November, the music was nominated on the Grammys for Finest Pop Duo/Group Efficiency, however finally misplaced out to Woman Gaga and Bruno Mars for ‘Die With A Smile’.
Elsewhere, Abrams not too long ago introduced her 2025 ‘The Secret Of Us’ Asia tour, which can see her embark on dates throughout Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Japan and Thailand. Her Asia tour will happen after performing in UK and Europe, set to start in March 2025. Try the full checklist of dates right here.
A person charged in reference to the deadly taking pictures of the late rapper Pop Smoke is dealing with as much as 29 years in jail after accepting a plea deal.
Corey Walker, 24, pleaded responsible to voluntary manslaughter in court docket as we speak (February 5) and two counts of home-invasion theft for his function within the 2020 killing of the New York-based rapper.
Walker had initially been charged with homicide and will have confronted as much as life in jail with out the potential of parole. He now faces as much as 29 years in state jail when he’s sentenced on February 21, in response to CBS News.
He was one in all 4 individuals charged in reference to the killing which occurred at a rented Hollywood Hills residence throughout a home-invasion theft in February 2020. Pop Smoke – actual title Bashar Jackson – was 20-years-old.
The group allegedly invaded the rapper’s Airbnb rental in Los Angeles with the intention of stealing his diamond-studded Rolex watch and Cuban hyperlink chain. They ended up stealing the watch, which they’re alleged to have resold for $2,000 (£1,405).
Pop Smoke performing reside in 2019 CREDIT: Scott Dudelson/Getty Photographs
Walker was 19 on the time of the killing whereas one other defendant within the case, Keandre Rodgers, was 22. The opposite two remaining defendants have been underage.
Rodgers had additionally initially been charged with homicide, and each he and Walker first confronted prices with particular allegations that made them eligible for the loss of life penalty.
A yr late, Los Angeles prosecutors mentioned they might not search the loss of life penalty in opposition to Walker.
The 2 youngsters linked to the killing, who have been 17 and 15 when prosecutors filed prices in July 2020, have each since admitted their roles. The latter admitted to first-degree homicide in a juvenile court docket in Might 2023 and is predicted to stay at a juvenile facility till he’s 25.
The previous pleaded responsible to voluntary manslaughter in April 2023. As he was a 17-year-old minor on the time of the 2020 taking pictures, the person additionally confronted juvenile court docket in Inglewood, and was sentenced to 4 years and two months in a juvenile facility.
There was an outpouring of tributes from the hip-hop neighborhood following Jackson’s loss of life, with Joey Bada$$, Pusha T, 50 Cent, Fivio Overseas and extra paying their respects. Jackson’s debut album, ‘Shoot for the Stars, Purpose for the Moon’, was launched posthumously in 2020. A second posthumous album, ‘Religion’, arrived the next yr, that includes appearances from Rick Ross, 21 Savage, Takeoff, Future, Dua Lipa, Pharrell, Child Cudi, Quavo and extra.
Kanye West has claimed that he and his spouse Bianca Censori “beat the Grammys” following the latter’s bare costume stunt at this yr’s ceremony.
Through the purple carpet for the 67th Grammy Awards – which was held in Los Angeles this previous weekend (February 2) – Censori arrived with Ye and turned up in a fur coat, which she then dropped to disclose an nearly fully see-through costume with no undergarments beneath.
The couple left the occasion shortly afterwards, with West later confirming that they had finished so of their very own volition and hadn’t been escorted out.
It was mentioned that this was designed to duplicate the album cowl of ‘Vultures 1’, Ye’s collaborative album with Ty Dolla $ign, and unsurprisingly was met with shock on social media and a few expressing concern for Censori’s welfare.
Now, whereas making his solution to a recording studio in Los Angeles on Tuesday (February 4), the ‘All Of The Lights’ hitmaker advised paparazzi to “Ask me the way it was to beat the Grammys.”
The photographer repeated the query with Ye responding “We beat the Grammys,” whereas Censori laughed.
Ye heading to a recording studio in Los Angeles as we speak.
A paparazzi additionally requested him “How’s the tour coming?”, to which he replied: “It’s coming”.
Ye had beforehand taken to his Instagram Tales to share a screenshot of Google search analytics which allegedly confirmed that Censori’s identify was trending on-line world wide.
“WE BEAT THE GRAMMIES (sic),” Ye wrote (through Music News). “FOR CLARITY FEBRUARY 4TH 2025 MY WIFE IS THE MOST GOOGLED PERSON ON THE PLANET CALLED EARTH,” he added.
Lately, a producer for the Grammys spoke out about Censori’s controversial costume. Chatting with People, govt producer Raj Kapoor mentioned that whereas there’s an “creative black-tie” costume code that company should adhere to, there might have been a loophole as, “within the music trade, I suppose that’s up for interpretation.”
Kanye West and Bianca Censori attend the 67th GRAMMY Awards on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Picture by Jon Kopaloff/WireImage)
Kapoor continued: “Clearly there’s a costume code for anyone really acting on the present that we have now to stick to requirements and practices. However so far as folks attending and nominees attending, that may be one thing the [Recording] Academy [presents the Grammys] must reply.”
On the evening, Ye was nominated for Greatest Rap Tune (‘Carnival’ with Ty Dolla $ign and Wealthy The Child feat. Playboi Carti) at this yr’s occasion however misplaced out to Kendrick Lamar‘s ‘Not Like Us’.
The stunt wasn’t the primary time that the couple have made headlines collectively, as again in 2023 police in Venice investigated an “indecent” public incident on a ship involving the pair.
It has since been reported that Censori wouldn’t be going through any authorized motion for sporting a see-through outfit to the Grammys. It had been urged that Censori’s outfit might rely as indecent publicity however in line with TMZ, LAPD sources confirmed that there might be no authorized penalties from the stunt. It’s because the Grammy Awards is a personal occasion and nobody from the present made a criticism to the police.
Pheonix stays a hotbed for a few of the premiere lineups in dance and digital music behind the dedication of promoter Relentless Beats. One in all its flagship festivals, PHXLIGHTS, simply introduced the lineup for its 2025 version, Photo voltaic Sound System.
That includes headliners like Rezz, Louis The Youngster, NGHTMRE, Mentioned The Sky and extra, PHXLIGHTS is shaping as much as be the place to be within the Valley of the Solar on April 4 – 5. The lineup is as deep as one might hop,e with Of The Bushes, Netsky, Kaivon, It’s Murph, Hybrid Minds, J.Worra, Jon Casey and Zero rounding out the headliners.
PHXLIGHTS as soon as once more returns to its house at Phoenix Raceway. Normal on-sale for the competition is ongoing with two-day tickets beginning at $139.50 and single-day tickets beginning at $65. Go to its website to purchase tickets and for more information.
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MTV has introduced a brand new feature-length Eric Clapton particular, titled Eric Clapton Unplugged… Over 30 Years Later. Discover all the main points beneath.
Clapton’s episode of MTV Unplugged was filmed at Bray Studios in Windsor, Berkshire in 1992. He subsequently launched a reside album of the session, ‘Unplugged’, which bought over 26million copies. It might additionally go on to change into the best-selling reside album of all time.
An all-new prolonged, remixed and remastered version of the enduring session, Eric Clapton Unplugged… Over 30 Years Later, shall be accessible to stream globally on Paramount+ from subsequent Wednesday (February 12).
It’ll embody unique content material of Clapton discussing the inspiration behind particular songs and performances with the crew simply earlier than he took the stage, seamlessly built-in with the efficiency footage.
Throughout the intimate efficiency, Clapton reimagined his catalogue with first-time acoustic preparations of hits corresponding to ‘Layla’ and ‘Tears In Heaven’. The singer-songwriter additionally paid homage to the blues music that influenced him, taking part in classics like ‘Earlier than You Accuse Me’ (initially recorded by Bo Diddley) and ‘No person Is aware of You When You’re Down And Out’ (by Bessie Smith).
The brand new 90-minute movie premiered in choose UK and US cinemas final month. You may watch the official trailer above.
Eric Clapton is because of head out on the street within the UK this Might, in help of his twenty second and newest album ‘In the meantime’. He’ll play three headline reveals on the historic Royal Albert Corridor in London, and carry out on the Motorpoint Area in Nottingham.
The forthcoming dates are set to be Clapton’s solely UK gigs of 2025. His cease in Nottingham will mark his first go to to the town since 2008.
In different information, a draft copy of John Lennon’s well-known 1971 letter to Clapton suggesting they type a brand new band just lately went to public sale.
Final yr, Clapton hit out on the Rock & Roll Corridor Of Fame – regardless of him being a three-time inductee. “I consider it as a frat boys membership that occurred to lure [me] in,” he defined. “It’s not a spot for rebels. It’s institution stuff.”
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