Ten Tonnes is currently at SXSW in Texas playing his first ever live shows in America, and he’s now also released a brand new song titled 'Silver Heat', which is the first track to drop from his forthcoming second EP, 'Born To Lose'.
Surprising even Feist herself, news of her forthcoming new album, 'Pleasure', found its way out into the world today, with April 28th announced as the record's official release date.
About the news, Feist said:
"Much to my surprise, I woke up this morning to see the word is out for
???? P l e a s u r e ????
But as Leonard Cohen once said "the devil laughs at those who make plans."
In exciting news for those who pine after traditional square polaroid photos, Fujifilm have announced that they’ve created an Instax Square camera (and square instant film), that is supposedly launching in North America during their Spring - so hopefully within the next few months for us in New Zealand too!
"Fujifilm is currently concentrating its efforts on developing the instax SQUARE camera to be used for the company’s Square Format film.
Mini Mansions have been mostly keeping to themselves in 2017 so far, but they’ve just resurfaced to be announced as part of the backing-band for Sparks’ upcoming performance at BBC Radio 6 Music Festival 2017 - in support of the forthcoming new Sparks album, 'Hippopotamus'.
"Meet the band that will be accompanying Ron and Russell at the upcoming gig at BBC Radio 6 Music Festival in Glasgow next week!"
In the new issue of Q magazine, The 1975’s Matty Healy has revealed that their third album is (indeed) titled 'Music For Cars' and it will be released next year sometime in 2018, and that "my love for the girl I’ve been with has definitely informed a big period of the [next] record."
Read an excerpt from the interview below...
In a new revealing cover-story with Complex, Chance The Rapper spoke about being an independent artist, being the best Dad ever, and more.
When asked about what record labels have done to try to bring him down, he says they’ve: “Push[ed] me out of headline positions so that their artist could be a headliner, or not cleared songs, and you know, it works on both sides, so samples on certain songs didn't get cleared."
Little Mix recently played a game with Billboard called Kazoo Karaoke, in which the girls were split into teams, where they had to guess songs being played by their opponents on kazoo.
Watch the game below…
Khalid’s debut album ‘American Teen’ debuted at #9 in the American Charts last week - not bad for the nineteen-year-old singer-songwriter from El Paso, Texas.
The album saw him collaborate with New Zealander Joel Little as a co-writer and producer (on songs ‘Young Dumb & Broke’, ‘8TEEN’, and ‘Therapy’), and he has also been teasing an upcoming collaboration with Zedd.
Kevin Abstract’s new music video ‘Runner’ debuts two reworked versions of ‘Runner’ and ‘Blink’ from his sophomore album ‘American Boyfriend’.
The video is a continuation of a story that began with ‘Empty’ - which you can watch first below:
Julia Michaels recently performed a stunning rendition of her single ‘Issues’ live for Vevo dscvr in a Brooklyn warehouse.
She’s! So!! Good!!!
Watch the performance below…
P.S. Read our interview with Julia Michaels as part of our 2017 Must-Knows here.