Author: Joe Taysom Archives: 06/2020

Coachella Festival 2020 set to be cancelled

The event had been postponed in March

Jun 10, 2020

Manchester music venues Deaf Institute and Gorilla to close

90% of independent music venues could shut down due to pandemic

Shocking

Jun 10, 2020

Revisit Janis Joplin’s epic cover of jazz standard ‘Summertime’ from back in 1969

Remembering when Janis Joplin made her debut with Big Brother and the Holding Company

54 years ago today…

Jun 10, 2020

Read Prince’s handwritten note condemning racial intolerance

Poignant

Jun 9, 2020

Chris Cornell’s daughter launches mental health awareness podcast in memory of her father

Remembering when Chris Cornell mashed up U2 song ‘One’ with Metallica’s ‘One’

A moment of pure genius

Jun 8, 2020

The Strokes to perform at Bernie Sanders Rally

Revisiting The Strokes’ electric performance of anti-police brutality anthem ‘New York City Cops’, 2001

It was written in response to the 1999 shooting of Amadou Diallo

Jun 8, 2020

New Prince live album and streaming event announced

Prince’s estate shares moving ‘Baltimore’ video

Sadly as relevant now as it was upon it’s release

Jun 8, 2020

Relive David Bowie’s rocketing performance of ‘Space Oddity’ in 1974

Decades ahead of it’s time

Jun 8, 2020

Sony Music Group announces new $100million social justice fund for Black Lives Matter

Sony Music Group announces new $100million social justice fund

Sony show solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter movement

Jun 8, 2020

Gorillaz are _enraged_ by police brutality and the death of George Floyd

Gorillaz tease new collaboration with Octavian

It’s coming very soon…

Jun 8, 2020

Ibiza nightclubs to remained closed this summer

Ibiza nightclubs to remain closed despite Spanish businesses reopening

They don’t look to open anytime soon

Jun 8, 2020

Revisit Nirvana perform ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ in a sweaty bar just days after releasing ‘Nevermind’

Just two days after releasing ‘Nevermind’

Jun 8, 2020