SZA surprise releases three new songs, ‘Nightbird’, ‘I Hate You’ and ‘Joni’

Sounds like Donald Trump is about to catch some serious heat from somewhere he probably hadn’t been expecting!

Rico Nasty has surprised fans this week by dropping five brand new songs without warning on SoundCloud.Announcing the release of the songs on Instagram, Rico – real name Maria Kelly – posted a photo of a close-up of her face, and wrote “secrets on Soundcloud”.She linked to a playlist titled ‘Rico’s Archives’ containing five songs, including ‘Switch Places’, ‘Grow Up’, ‘Cotton Candy’, ‘Show Me Your Love’, produced by Take a Daytrip, and ‘How Ya Feel’, produced by Jetsonmade.Listen to the playlist

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James Blake has delayed the release of his new album – ‘Friends That Break Your Heart’ will now come out in October.The singer’s fifth album was originally due to arrive on September 10, but has been delayed for a month due to COVID-19-related delays at vinyl pressing plants.“The release of ‘Friends That Break Your Heart’ will unfortunately be pushed back to October 8 as a result of vinyl factory delays caused by COVID,” a statement on Blake’s Instagram read.“It was super important to me to have

They’re back! Forty years after going their separate ways, ABBA, the  Swedish supergroup who became a worldwide phenomenon, has reunited to release new music and to promote a long-planned virtual  concert. The band, which has sold over 400 million albums, released two new  songs on September 3 – I Still Have Faith in You, and Don’t Shut Me  Down – both of which appear on their upcoming album Voyage, set for  release on November 5. Band members Bjorn Ulvaeus, 76, Benny Andersson, 74, Anni-Frid 

ABBA has new music coming! The pop group announced on Thursday that they're releasing Voyage, their first album in 40 years, on Nov.

Bring Me The Horizon have announced the next chapter of their ‘Post Human’ era with the release of new single ‘DiE4u’.Having teased fans with new lyrics and snippets of new music, now the Sheffield alt-metal pioneers have announced that ‘DiE4u’ will arrive on Thursday September 16, and can be pre-saved for listening here.The announcement came with the message ‘club hellhole opens September 16’, leading fans to speculate whether that refers to new lyrics or a record title.CLub H3LLh0Le OpeNS

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterThere’s a lot riding on “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” the Marvel movie that opens in theaters this weekend, and not because it’s the first installment in the premier film franchise to feature an Asian star and predominately Asian cast.Though it marks an important step in onscreen representation, “Shang-Chi” will also prove vital in determining the way Disney releases its movies, at least while a pandemic is still raging.

The Specials have pushed back the release of their forthcoming protest song covers album by a week.‘Protest Songs – 1924 -2012’, which was originally due to hit shelves on September 24, will now be released on October 1 to allow for the vinyl format to reach fans on the same day.The band confirmed the move in a statement posted to their Twitter: “In order to get everyone their vinyl on [the] release date we’ve had to move the release of ‘Protest Songs 1924-2012’ back a week to October

William Shatner’s iconic recording career is still going strong.

Johnny Marr has shared a snippet of new music, hinting that new material is on the way very soon – watch the teaser below.The former Smiths guitarist last released a solo album with 2018’s ‘Call The Comet’, following on from 2013’s ‘The Messenger’ and the following year’s ‘Playland’.Earlier this month, Marr announced that he’d signed a new worldwide album deal with the music publisher BMG, and has now teased new music seemingly from that forthcoming album.I’m back… we’re back. New music.

Allen’s is celebrating its 130th birthday with the launch of two new party-inspired treats, with Allen’s Party Faves and Allen’s Piñata Party.

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Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, has today (August 23) lost his legal battle against his former bandmates.Lydon was being sued by two former bandmembers after refusing to license the group’s music for inclusion in Danny Boyle’s upcoming biopic series, Pistols.Guitarist Steve Jones – whose 2016 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol serves as the basis for the show – and drummer Paul Cook legally challenged Lydon’s veto, with their lawyer Edmund Cullen appearing in the High

Manuel Turizo and Tini just released the music video to “Maldita Foto,” their new song.

SZA has shared three new songs via an anonymous SoundCloud account. As Stereogum points out, three new songs — titled "I Hate You", "Nightbird" and "Joni" — were posted on Soundcloud and then tweeted out from SZA's official Twitter account.

Manuel Turizo and Tini just released the music video to “Maldita Foto,” their new song.