After ending her four-year absence from the scene with comeback single “Love Not Loving You“, Louisa Rose Allen aka Foxes has continued to build up her hype with “Woman“. The track is a complete left turn for the Southampton singer, as it showcases her raw vocal with a minimal piano production.

“If freedom is a gift, sing out / I wanna see the walls come down / If everybody breathes, then I know / That I’m a person, I’m human, I’m a woman,” sings Foxes.

The “Body Talk” singer also shared some info about the meaning behind the song with Dork: “There’s a lot of injustices in the world right now and I hope this single can be interpreted by any woman, in any situation, facing injustice, facing any situation that they know is wrong, and helps them to stand up and say no to what isn’t right.”

With two impressive singles on the plate so far, it seems like the 31-years-old’s upcoming third album is going to be as great as two previous records. Also, Foxes was recently welcomed to a new home at [PIAS] Recordings that will take care of her new era.

“Woman” is out now, and stay tuned for more of Foxes here.

After leaving fans speculate about the possibility of Lipa’s collaboration with the one and only queen of pop Madonna, today the “Don’t Start Now” hitmaker has confirmed that the rumour is true!

Lipa will release a re-imagined version of “Levitating“, the electropop fifth track on highly acclaimed ‘Future Nostalgia‘ dropped in March. The track is a follow-up to the fourth cut “Hallucinate” that was recently promoted with an animated treatment.

The “Levitating” remix will feature pop legend Madonna on the track, alongside hip-hop icon Missy Elliot, both of whom are Lipa’s idols, as she wrote on her Instagram post: “DREAM COME TRUE.” See the post below.

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LEVITATING REMIXED BY THE BLESSED MADONNA FEATURING MY IDOLS MADONNA & MISSY ELLIOTT – 14TH OF AUGUST – DREAM COME TRUE LETS GO!!!!!!

โพสต์ที่แชร์โดย DUA LIPA (@dualipa) เมื่อ ก.ค. 27, 2020 เวลา 11:10am PDT

To bring more excitement for the upcoming single, American DJ and musician Marea Stamper aka The Blessed Madonna will help create a new version for the tune. Recently, the DJ just changed her stage name from The Black Madonna due to the Change.org petition with 1,300 signatures requesting her to do so. Stamper has done a number of remixes for big names like Robyn (“Between the Lines“), Silk City & Dua Lipa (“Electricity“), Celeste (“Stop This Flame“), and Georgia (“About Work the Dancefloor“).

The track is set to drop on August 14 (via Warner Records). We hope the song will get a stunning, star-studded video like how this banger deserves!

Elsewhere, Lipa just achieved a life-time attainment with a nomination for The Mercury Prize. Her disco-driven ‘Future Nostalgia‘ is shortlisted for this prestigious award alongside pop fellow Charli XCX (‘how i’m feeling now‘), indie breakthrough Sports Team (‘Deep Down Happy‘), and grime hero Stormzy (‘Heavy Is the Head‘).

Last Friday, the world’s biggest pop star Taylor Swift did break the music scene once again with the surprise release of her eighth studio album ‘folklore‘. “Most of the things I had planned this summer didn’t end up happening, but there is something I hadn’t planned on that DID happen. And that thing is my 8th studio album, folklore,” Swift wrote on her social media.

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Most of the things I had planned this summer didn’t end up happening, but there is something I hadn’t planned on that DID happen. And that thing is my 8th studio album, folklore. Surprise Tonight at midnight I’ll be releasing my entire brand new album of songs I’ve poured all of my whims, dreams, fears, and musings into. I wrote and recorded this music in isolation but got to collaborate with some musical heroes of mine; @aarondessner (who has co-written or produced 11 of the 16 songs), @boniver (who co-wrote and was kind enough to sing on one with me), William Bowery (who co-wrote two with me) and @jackantonoff (who is basically musical family at this point). Engineered by Laura Sisk and Jon Low, mixed by Serban Ghenea & Jon Low. The album photos were shot by the amazing @bethgarrabrant. Before this year I probably would’ve overthought when to release this music at the ‘perfect’ time, but the times we’re living in keep reminding me that nothing is guaranteed. My gut is telling me that if you make something you love, you should just put it out into the world. That’s the side of uncertainty I can get on board with. Love you guys so much

โพสต์ที่แชร์โดย Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) เมื่อ ก.ค. 23, 2020 เวลา 5:00am PDT

Following 2019’s ‘Lover‘, the new record saw the 30-year-old took a complete left turn in her musical direction with stripped-down aesthetics influenced by folk and alternative music. The National’s Aaron Dessner is listed as the main producer of ‘folklore‘, alongside Swift’s frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff and Bon Iver as a guest appearance on the album. “cardigan” is selected to lead the album roll-out, with a music video directed by the singer herself.

Since the release, ‘folklore‘ received widespread rave reviews from music critics and fans, with an average score of 93 on Metacritic (at the time of writing). Pitchfork is the latest in the long list of reviewers; it gives the LP a solid 8, calling it “a sweater-weather record filled with cinematic love songs and rich fictional details“.

Apart from the critical acclaim, ‘folklore‘ has also achieved impressive commercial success. Since the drop, the album has sold more than 1.3 million copies globally, while the streaming platforms are dominated by the tracks, with 79.4 million streams on Spotify setting a new record by a female artist.

Regarding the UK, lead single “cardigan” is predicted to debut at number 4 on the Singles Chart. Meanwhile, opener “the 1” will land on number 5, as well as Bon Iver-assisted “exile” on number 7. If the prediction is precise, Swift will have 16 songs in total that reach the Top 10.

‘folklore‘ will surely earn the singer with another greatest achievement in her career. The album is available now.

After rocking out for the Brighton group since 2004, Hugh Harris has finally released his own work as a soloist. “Earth Like You” has been picked to introduce Harris’s attempt outside The Kooks, and yes, the track is so well crafted with an easy-breezy production, making it a perfect tune for this summertime.

About the song, the guitarist told Dork that it is the first chapter to his own music. “When I was young I used to get these crazy high temperatures and hear loud noises and feel like my limbs were larger than they were or I was sinking through the ground. That’s kind of continued into my adult life.”

He continued, “The way I deal with that is to imagine it’s some kind of communicative thing with another species and that, in a really strange way, helps to relieve the stress of it. That song came from that feeling, then I invented the story of someone falling in love with an alien, but they can’t be together because the alien doesn’t want to live on planet earth until we can learn to look after each other, feel love, and take care of our planet. So they have to travel to different worlds to settle.”

Harris is one of The Kooks’ two founding members left in the band alongside Luke Pritchard. Their most recent album is ‘Let’s Go Sunshine‘ released back in 2018.

It’s almost a month now since the “Wildest Moments” singer dropped ‘What’s Your Pleasure?‘. The record is Ware’s glorious venture into the sonic territory of disco music, and even since the album has received widespread criticism for its lush and exquisite production, marking it Ware’s best album to date.

After the series of dance videos of songs from the albums with the likes of “Step into My Life“, “The Kill“, “Soul Control“, and “In Your Eyes“, the title track now gets a video treatment with the songstress herself starring in it. Directed by Vicky Lawton, the clip features Ware and few other dancers flaunting sensual moves like it’s a good old time when disco ruled the music scene.

“I love this video, I love this song and I love how filthy you’re all gonna be in the comments,” Ware wrote on an Instagram post about the “What’s Your Pleasure?” video.

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WHAT’S.YOUR. PLEASHUUUUURRR Choreo – @icouldneverbeadancer Director – @vickylawton Prod : @blairurale Make up – @francescabrazzo Styling – @nellkalonji / @veritymaylane Hair – @patrickwilson Big thank you to my amazing dancers, @simonepowderly , @annaengerstrom , Barbara, @meshhenry, @Guillaumequeau and @prncejon – absolutely loved having you dancing, giving it everything being so up for it. I love this video, I love this song and I love how filthy you’re all gonna be in the comments.

โพสต์ที่แชร์โดย Jessie Ware (@jessieware) เมื่อ ก.ค. 24, 2020 เวลา 12:11am PDT

Ware is not the only artist in the scene right now who hopped on the disco genre. Dua Lipa’s ‘Future Nostalgia‘ is the first record of 2020 that slays hard with the disco element mixed with contemporary pop tunes. ‘Chromatica‘ by Lady Gaga is another impressive gigantic pop album based on dance and disco music. Meanwhile, pop legendary Kylie Minogue is the latest in the biz who recently jumpstarted a brand-new disco era with “Say Something” from upcoming fifteenth studio album ‘DISCO‘.

Back to Ware, in April 2021, the 35-year-old will go on tour in support of the latest LP all around the UK. The entire run comprises nine shows in total, two of which will take place at O2 Academy Brixton, London. Elsewhere, later this year, the “Save a Kiss” stunner also plans to launch a cookbook, inspired by her own podcast, Table Manner, run with her mother.

‘What’s Your Pleasure?‘ is available now on every streaming platform and as physical copies. Have a listen if you haven’t tried this pop excellency.

‘What’s Your Pleasure?‘ Live Tour 2021 dates
14/04/2021 — O2 Academy — Glasgow
15/04 — O2 Academy — Newcastle
16/04 — O2 Academy — Leeds
18/04 — Victoria Warehouse — Manchester
19/04 — Birmingham Academy — Birmingham
21/04 — Marble Factory — Bristol
22/04 — Guildhall — Southampton
24/04 — O2 Academy Brixton — London
25/04 — O2 Academy Brixton — London

“UK folks, with respect to and in line with the Covid guidelines we have had to push the tour dates back to next year. If you’ve bought a ticket, it will remain valid so keep a hold of it. Really missing playing live for you and can’t wait to get back out on the road to pick up where we left off! Love and miss y’all and hope you’re keeping safe,” said the 33-year-old singer.

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UK folks, with respect to and in line with the Covid guidelines we have had to push the tour dates back to next year. If you’ve bought a ticket, it will remain valid so keep a hold of it. Really missing playing live for you and can’t wait to get back out on the road to pick up where we left off! Love and miss y’all and hope you’re keeping safe.

โพสต์ที่แชร์โดย @ michaelkiwanuka เมื่อ ก.ค. 24, 2020 เวลา 4:38am PDT

It is another day, another unfortunate event in the music scene. This time, the “You Ain’t the Problem” crooner is the latest performer in the country to push back his shows. Kiwanuka is forced to do this one more time after previously announcing that the tour would be taking off this coming September.

However, the silver lining is the London-born artist has upgraded the Glasgow show to a bigger venue at O2 Academy, which is also the first gig to kick off the run. The rescheduled dates can be seen below.

Elsewhere, Kiwanuka recently snatched a huge achievement with a nomination for the Hyundai 2020 Mercury Prize. His eponymous third studio album made it to the shortlist of the prestigious award alongside other impressive acts, such as Charli XCX (‘how i’m feeling now‘), Dua Lipa (‘Future Nostalgia‘), Sports Team (‘Deep Down Happy‘), and Stormzy (‘Heavy Is the Head‘).

Let’s celebrate Kiwanuka’s success with one of his monumental works from the ‘KIWANUKA‘ album and be a little more patient for his show next year.

Rescheduled Dates for the 2021 UK Tour
26/03/2021 — O2 Academy — Glasgow
27/03 — Bonus Arena — Hull
29/03 — O2 Apollo — Manchester *sold out*
30/03 — Empress Ballroom — Blackpool
01/04 — De Montfort Hall — Leicester *sold out*
02/04 — Pavilions — Plymouth
03/04 — Centre — Brighton
05/04 — O2 Academy — Leeds *sold out*
06/04 — O2 Academy Brixton — London *sold out*
15/09 — O2 Academy — Newcastle *sold out*
16/09 — Corn Exchange — Cambridge *sold out*
17/09 — Alexandra Palace — London *sold out*

“We’re gutted we’ve had to reschedule again, although the new shows and upgrades are going to make this even more special!” The band broke the sad news on their social media, which can be seen below.

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Hi everyone,  UK TOUR UPDATE! Due to the nature of the current COVID-19 pandemic, we have been forced to reschedule our tour dates to April 2021. However, original tickets remain valid and we’re also so excited to announce some new dates in Birmingham, Oxford and Glasgow along with venue upgrades in London, Manchester, Newcastle and Leeds! We’re gutted we’ve had to reschedule again, although the new shows and upgrades are going to make this even more special! Pre-sale tickets for the new and upgraded shows will be available from 9am BST on Wednesday 22nd July. To gain access, sign up at the link in our bio. Tickets go on-sale 9am BST on Friday 24th July

โพสต์ที่แชร์โดย The Academic (@theacademic) เมื่อ ก.ค. 20, 2020 เวลา 9:00am PDT

Regardless of the unfortunate event, the Irish indie group just dropped a new body of work, ‘Acting My Age‘. The six-track EP is a follow up to their 2018’s breakout debut LP ‘Tales from the Backseat‘. The title track is the latest cut to showcase the four-piece’s artistic growth as one of the Irish acts to keep an eye on.

The track is about “being young and growing up, but perhaps more about the growing up side of things,” lead vocal Craig Fitzgerald told Dork. “It’s basically all about accepting that anybody can make a mistake, but it doesn’t make you a bad person. Accept the mistake for what it is.”

Our new EP #ActingMyAge is out everywhere now! We had so much fun making this, we’re so proud to finally bring it to you all. Share it with your friends, play it loud. Listen here: https://t.co/R0VD55Cb01

Love,

Craig, Matt, Stephen, Dean. pic.twitter.com/DreQPs6UDJ

— The Academic (@TheAcademic) July 9, 2020

The ‘Acting My Age‘ EP is out now. The “Bite My Tongue” group will come back on the road again next year, starting from April 2021, with the biggest UK tour to date. Already revealed were the rescheduled dates, while some were also upgraded to bigger venues. Check it out below, and visit their official site for ticket purchase.

New dates for the UK Tour 2021
10/04/2021 — Millennium Forum — Derry
13/04 — O2 Academy 2 — Oxford
14/04 — 14 Clwb Ifor Bach — Cardiff *sold out*
16/04 — O2 Institute 2 — Birmingham *new date*
17/04 — Stylus — Leeds *venue upgrade*
18/04 — Rescue Rooms — Nottingham
20/04 — Arts Club — Liverpool
22/04 — O2 Forum Kentish Town — London *venue upgrade*
24/04 — Riverside — Newcastle *venue upgrade*
25/04 — The Caves — Edinburgh *sold out*
27/04 — The Tunnels — Aberdeen
28/04 — SWG3 TV Studio — Glasgow *new date*
29/04 — O2 Ritz — Manchester *venue upgrade*

For the past years, independent record label headed by Jamie Oborne has introduced a horde of exciting new artists to the UK music scene with the likes of The 1975, Wolf Alice, and Pale Waves. This month, the label just welcomed a new member to their home, and he is the 21-year-old music prodigy who goes by his first name Beaux.

Beaux (full name Beaux South) is the latest Gen Z star in the making whose musical style is inspired by fellow artists such as Lorde, Troye Sivan, and the one and only queen of the generation Billie Eilish. His talent and prospect in the industry are proven in the breakout track, “Look How We Started”.

Despite its ridiculous brevity under two minutes, “Look How We Started” sounds brilliant and impressive with the atmospheric beat and lo-fi vocal, a hot trend of all Gen Z stars. “Heard you moved out of the city while back / Kept on having all your panic attacks / Said your parents really wanted you back / Looking back on it, I only feel sad,” Beaux reminisces the days when changes happened—again a songwriting cliche all Gen Zers pursue.

Regarding the upcoming debut EP, Beaux told NME that it would thematically entail loss and fear of failure. “The whole premise of it is: ‘what’s the point even of having any success?’ I feel like you spend a lot of your time going, ‘I want to be successful in whatever I do’ or ‘I want to have a good music career and I want to just do music’, but what’s the point if the people you like are not around to share your success with you.”

He continued, “The EP talks about losing loved ones, too. My father died when I was seven, and I’d just gone through a breakup when I wrote it. So it’s sort of just the idea of what was the point of everything if the people you love aren’t around. It’s quite fun stuff!”

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so exciting to finally have music out, you can stream it everywhere and there’s this visualiser up on youtube too, enjoy x

โพสต์ที่แชร์โดย beaux (@beauxsouth) เมื่อ ก.ค. 10, 2020 เวลา 10:10am PDT

The Surrey-born singer also mentioned Rex Orange County and Declan McKenna as the inspirations of his songwriting process. Meanwhile, the EP’s production is influenced by No Rome, The 1975, Tyler, the Creator, and Kanye West.

“Look How We Started” is available now on every streaming service, and follow Beaux’s Instagram to keep in touch with his new music.

After being forced to take a pause this year due to the horrific outbreak of coronavirus, the North Yorkshire festival has promised its return to give exuberance to all festival goers in 2021. The organisers have now unveiled the rescheduled dates, which will take place on July 30 – August 1 at the site of Topcliffe village.

Accompanying the announcement of new dates, the festival also shared the names of wide-ranging artists who will perform. Leading the bill, Manchester rock band James will make a comeback there. According to Harrogate Informer, festival director Oliver Jones expressed supreme excitement for booking the “Sit Down” hitmaker to play, which reads:

“There’s no doubt james are one of the biggest bands we’ve ever booked for deer shed. Their back catalogue is astonishing, with track after track of excellent guitar anthems, and their most recent album confirmed that they are still at the absolute top of their game. I’m not sure we’ve ever had a band that can pack out leeds first direct arena before!”

He continued, “Curating a line-up of artists that we personally love every year is always a source of much pride for our team, and James now sit on top of what we think is both the best and most star-studded music bill we’ve ever put together.”

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This show promises to go down in Deer Shed history as one of the most special performances Baldersby Park has ever seen! We are so excited to hear tunes old and new from your Saturday night Main Stage headliners @wearejames #DeerShed11

โพสต์ที่แชร์โดย Deer Shed Festival (@deershedfestival) เมื่อ ก.พ. 19, 2020 เวลา 6:54am PST

What’s more intriguing: Slowdrive’s Rachel Goswell and her husband Steve Clarke will bring their brand-new project The Soft Cavalry to the Lodge Stage on Saturday. Meanwhile, other indie icons like Dowdelin, Marthagunn, and Low Hummer will rock out on the In the Dock Stage.

Importantly, critic-beloved punk band Dream Wife appears in the bill. They will definitely slay the stage with songs from their second album ‘So When You Gonna…‘.

Deer Shed Festival started by the hands of couple Oliver Jones and Kate Webster, who intended to host a family-friendly festival. The first edition was held back in 2010 with 1,000 attendees in a one-day line-up, but now Deer Shed has been increasingly successful, expanding into a three-day festival that accommodates about 10,000 goers.

The festival also wholeheartedly welcomes camping enthusiasts and live-in vehicles, together with other highlights such as comedy shows, DJ sets, live podcasts, and many more. Visit here for more information and ticket purchase.

Back in the end of April, the dance music scene in the UK was blessed with “Body Pump”, the breakout solo single by the lady of electronic duo AlunaGeorge, Aluna Francis. The song is Francis’s initial introduction to her initial body of work after the duo has decided to take hiatus.

After dropping second cut “Warrior”, the singer has now unveiled that the promised solo record is called ‘Renaissance’ with a new song to build up more excitement, “Get Paid”.

According to Pitchfork, “Get Paid” is “an aspirational celebration about Black women and women of colour getting paid, in opposition of the reality that we are consistently undervalued for our work.”

Francis also added, “On the other hand, this is a song about believing we deserve to get paid because as society keeps telling us we are worthless, we internalize that notion, which is almost more damaging because it stops us from advocating for ourselves.”

And like she said, the track is filled with celebratory lyrics of black womanhood like “One more round for the ladies / Then we gon’ get loud, little crazy / ‘Cause we run this town, self made it.” When you think “Get Paid” could not get better, fierce lines from Princess Nokia and Jada Kingdom add the fun and zest to it even more.

In addition to the new song, the 30-year-old also revealed the release date, which is on August 28, and a 14-song tracklist that features musical cameos with the likes of SG Lewis, KAYTRANADA, and Rema. Accompanying the LP announcement, she wrote a note about ‘Renaissance’ on an Instagram post:

“I wrote this album as a fix for any type of dancing deficiencies you may have in your life – if you haven’t been twerking enough lately – I GOT you, if you haven’t been dutty winin’ on the bathroom floor or raving in your hallway I GOT you, if you haven’t been slinky slinking in front of the mirror or nodding your head like it’s heavy I GOOOT you, if you haven’t hit the gwara gwara in the kitchen or….ok you get it…I GOT you.”

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I wrote this album as a fix for any type of dancing deficiencies you may have in your life – if you haven’t been twerking enough lately – I GOT you, if you haven’t been dutty winin’ on the bathroom floor or raving in your hallway I GOT you, if you haven’t been slinky slinking in front of the mirror or nodding your head like it’s heavy I GOOOT you, if you haven’t hit the gwara gwara in the kitchen or….ok you get it…I GOT you. ‘RENAISSANCE’ out August 28 LINK IN BIO TO PRE-SAVE THE ALBUM

โพสต์ที่แชร์โดย Aluna (@alunaaa) เมื่อ ก.ค. 15, 2020 เวลา 2:01pm PDT

‘Renaissance’ is available for pre-order now, and it also offers a physical version as a gold double vinyl, which can be pre-ordered on Mad Decent’s official site here.

‘Renaissance’ tracklist
1. “I’ve Been Starting to Love All The Things I Hate”
2.“Warrior” (feat. SG Lewis)
3. “Sneak”
4. “Envious”
5. “Don’t Hit My Line”
6. “Get Paid” (with Princes Nokia & Jada Kingdom)
7. “The Recipe” (with KAYTRANADA) [feat. Rema]
8. “Body Pump”
9. “Ain’t My Business”
10. “Off Guard”
11. “Back Up”
12. “Pressure”
13. “Surrender”
14. “Whistle”