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Rina Sawayama has discussed how she was inspired by the “fake stories” on Taylor Swift‘s ‘Folklore’ for her new album ‘Hold The Girl’.The singer’s follow-up to 2020 debut album ‘SAWAYAMA’ is due out on September 2, via Dirty Hit, and was previewed last month with the single ‘This Hell’.In a new interview with Rolling Stone UK about the album, Sawayama spoke of being struck by the way Swift told stories of other people on her 2020 lockdown album, moving away from the autobiographical work of her past.“I remember when Taylor Swift released Folklore, I was like, ‘This bitch is writing about fake stories and she just wrote a whole album. If she can do it, I need to do it,’” Sawayama said, revealing that it was too painful to write songs about her own experiences while going through therapy.Discussing how she wants to keep her personal issues out of her songs for the time being, the singer added: “For me, it’s important that the listener is able to listen to it as a pop record first without that background, [and] make their own feelings about it.

Mitski has announced details of new UK and Irish tour dates for this summer, ahead of an imminent, sold-out run of dates.As announced last year, the singer-songwriter will tour new album ‘Laurel Hell’ in the UK and Europe later this month, ending on April 29 with a London gig at Brixton Academy.Mitski will touch down in the UK on April 21 for gigs in Bristol, Leeds and Glasgow before visiting Dublin, Manchester and London. You can find tickets here.

London Muslim Shopping Festival will once again host the popular cookery theatre and the Food court in association with London Halal Food Festival, will be serving up tasty dishes. Speaking to MyLondon, event director Waleed Jahangir said: "I myself come from an events background and I'm from the Muslim community, I grew up next to a mosque and at the same time everyone was thrown into a western environment so finding the balance was tricky.

Denzel Curry has shared a new single that features Slowthai – listen to ‘Zatoichi’ below.The song is the second release from his upcoming album ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’, which Curry announced earlier this month with a teaser video, revealing the record would feature contributions from T-Pain, Slowthai, Rico Nasty, Kenny Beats, JPEGMAFIA, Thundercat, Robert Glasper and more. A release date is yet to be confirmed.The latest song has been produced by Powers Pleasant and features Slowthai on the song’s chorus.The video for the song was filmed on location in Peru, ‘Zatoichi’ and follows on from the Sci-Fi Western visuals seen in the recently-released single ‘Walkin’.Watch the video here:Speaking about his upcoming album, Curry said: “I like traditional hip hop, I like drum and bass, I like trap, I like poetry, so a lot of that is going to be interwoven in this album including jazz and a lot of genres that I came up on as a kid and just being in my parents’ house.”The follow up to 2019’s ‘Zuu’, he added: “This album is made up of everything that I couldn’t give you on TA13OO or Imperial because I was going through depression anger issues.”Curry also announced details of North American, UK and European tour dates for 2022.

Clairo debuted a new song at the start of her US tour earlier this week – listen to ‘Nomad’ below.The singer-songwriter’s tour kicked off at The Fillmore in Charlotte on Wednesday (February 16), after which the soaring song was compared to the music of Carole King by fans at the venue and online.You can watch the performance of the new song here:Back in December, Clairo rescheduled her upcoming UK and European tour due to COVID-related concerns.The singer was set to tour her recently released second album ‘Sling’ across January and February, but worries around the rise of the Omicron variant means the shows will now take place in September and October.“I reeeeally hate to do this- but we have decided to reschedule the upcoming January Europe/UK tour,” Clairo told fans on Instagram while sharing new dates.She added: “as much as we want to get back on the road, everybody’s safety is far more important & i hope you understand.”See the new list of rescheduled dates below and purchase tickets here.SEPTEMBER 202219 – Dublin, Olympia Theatre20 – Dublin, Olympia Theatre22 – Paris, Le Bataclan23 – Brussels, La Madeleine27 – Amsterdam, Paradiso28 – Amsterdam, Paradiso29 – Birmingham, O2 Academy 30 – Bristol, O2 AcademyOCTOBER 20222 – Glasgow, O2 Academy3 – Manchester, O2 Academy4 – London, Brixton Academy Clairo recently told NME that she wouldn’t tour unless protocols were in place to protect her fans. “If I can’t provide this [security] on tour, then I won’t tour – that’s my mentality at the moment,” she said.“I really do feel in my heart of hearts that there’s going to be a wave of tours that are really stamped as the ‘safe tour’ and provide all this.

Alt-J have shared a dreamy new single today (February 7) – listen to ‘The Actor’.It’s the final song to be released from the band’s forthcoming album ‘The Dream’, which arrives this Friday (February 11) via Infectious Music/BMG. It’s available to pre-order now.Describing the inspiration behind ‘The Actor’, the group said: “Hollywood, 1982.

Jamie Webster has announced details of his biggest headline UK and Ireland tour this year.The musician will kick off his tour on November 5 in Bristol before embarking on dates in Leeds, Newcastle, Birmingham, London, Manchester, Belfast and Dublin. The tour will conclude with a hometown gig in Liverpool.Tickets for these new dates will go on general sale at 10am on January 28; a pre-sale will be available from January 26.

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music,” the rocker recounts how he got a call — after Cobain overdosed at a Rome hotel on March 3, 1994 — saying that his Nirvana bandmate had died.“My knees gave out and I dropped the phone as I fell to my bedroom floor, covering my face with my hands as I began to cry,” writes Grohl, 52, in his book, which was released on Tuesday. “He was gone.

Slowthai has shared details of a huge 2022 tour of the UK and Ireland – see the dates below.The ‘Hell is Home’ tour, taking place next March, will follow an intimate set of dates already announced for August and September this year.All shows come in support of the Northampton rapper’s second album ‘TYRON’, which hit Number One in the UK charts upon its release this month.The new tour dates will begin in Dublin on March 13 next year, wrapping up with two gigs at London’s Brixton Academy at the end of the same month.See the dates in full below.

There’s nothing better when you’re little than cuddling up with your favorite toy — and Serena Williams‘ three-year-old daughter knows that! In an adorable new post the 23-time Grand Slam champion, 39, shared to her Instagram, Olympia looked so sweet with her hair done-up in two top knots with fuzzy pink pompoms. The toddler also sported a pair of leggings and a T-shirt designed by Nike, all while holding on tightly to her favorite doll: Qai Qai!

In his new memoir, I’m Your Huckleberry, Val Kilmer reveals new details about his personal life and past romances with stars such as Cher, Daryl Hannah and  Angelina Jolie . In his book, Val admits that he wanted to kiss Angelina Jolie before they starred in the 2004 film Alexander, and he “couldn‘t wait to kiss her” when they were on set together. At the time, the Hollywood star had recently separated from her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton.

When a king falls for a queen. Val Kilmer admits in his new memoir, I’m Your Huckleberry, that he had feelings for his Alexander costar Angelina Jolie before they even started filming the 2004 epic.

Gerard Butler was bestowed with the honour of running with this year’s Olympic torch – moments before the Greece leg of the Japan 2020 relay was suspended.

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