BBC – Music – Review of Flats

“Every song we write, we are trying to write a hit,” Flats vocalist Daniel Devine has previously claimed. If this is the case – and Devine does seem to have graduated from that early

Singer Luke Combs weds – Music News

Country star Luke Combs has become a married man. The Beautiful Crazy hitmaker exchanged vows with fiancee Nicole Hocking in a small ceremony in Florida on Saturday, as tropical storm Isaias loomed. “Despite the threat of…

BBC – Music – Review of George Frideric Handel

After a century of neglect, many of Handel’s once sensationally popular operas are now an established part of the operatic mainstream. But here is something of a rarity: the incomplete ‘incidental music’ for Alceste. Conceived as…

Post Malone claims to have seen several UFOs – Music News

The ‘Circles’ hitmaker recalled the first time he allegedly saw an unexplained aerial phenomenon in New York, when he was 16, during a four-hour interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. He said: “I’ve seen one. I…

BBC – Music – Review of Gallon Drunk

We’re pretty sure that out of the millions of people taken by The Black Keys’ slick revivalism, most would be terrified by Gallon Drunk’s indignant, ragged take on the rawer edges of the…

Madonna was fined $1 million by Russian government over LGBTQ+ rights speech – Music News

Madonna has claimed she was fined $1 million (£800,000) by the Russian government for publicly supporting LGBTQ+ rights during a concert in the country in 2012. The Vogue singer delivered a moving speech, praising love and freedom…

BBC – Music – Review of Karin Krog and Bengt Hallberg

The venerable Swedish pianist Bengt Hallberg will be 80 in September 2012, but he has been the doyen of Scandinavian pianists since the 1950s, when he was the accompanist of choice for visiting Americans

Emma Bunton torn over having another baby – Music News

Emma Bunton is toying with the idea of having another child. The Wannabe hitmaker and her longtime boyfriend, Damage singer Jade Jones, have two sons – 12-year-old Beau and nine-year-old Tate – and the boys are desperate…

BBC – Music – Review of Hollie Cook

In a blindfold test, this dub collection could pass for a 1970s original, or at least a 1980s Adrian Sherwood production-warping of Jamaican experimentations. Instead, the reality is that modern-day producer Prince Fatty…

Spice Girls reunite with Victoria Beckham for socially-distanced walk in the woods – Music News

The Spice Girls reunited with Victoria Beckham last week to enjoy a post-lockdown walk in the woods. According to Emma Bunton, she met up with Victoria, Mel C, Geri Horner, and Mel B for the hike, revealing…