Sunday, November 15, 2026

Billy Idol teases ‘electronica’ sound on next album

Billy Idol has teased that his next album will feature "a little bit more electronica" while staying true to the sound that...

Peter Hook joins Deftones and Lauren Mayberry for Joy Division and New Order Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute

Peter Hook performed with Deftones and Lauren Mayberry as Joy Division and New Order were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall...

Phil Collins cries during Hall of Fame induction

Phil Collins cried as he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist on Saturday (14.11.26).

Diplo launches music publisher

Diplo has launched his own independent music publisher. The Grammy-winning artist and producer has joined forces with former Downtown...

Ocean Colour Scene ready to record first new album in more than a decade

Ocean Colour Scene's Steve Cradock says the band want to release a new album - their first since 2013.

Latest Articles

LeAnn Rimes’ stepkids asked about affair


LeAnn Rimes' stepchildren have asked about her affair with their father.
The 'Can't Fight the Moonlight' singer embarked on a relationship with her 'Friday Night Lights' co-star Eddie Cibrian while they were both married to other people, and they tried to be as honest as possible with Mason, 11, and seven-year-old Jake - his kids with ex-wife Brandi Glanville -when they brought up the awkward subject.
LeAnn told 'Extra': "The kids actually came to us and asked, very nonchalantly over dinner, and Eddie was very honest with them in a way that you can be with a seven year old and 11 year old.
"[Eddie] is always the first person to say how much he loves me, and they see that in our house, and they feel that, so I think it's important not to lie to children. They understand way more."
The 31-year-old star thinks it is important to be "open" with the boys.
She added: "We both never want them to come back and say, 'You weren't honest with us about this.' They're very open with us, which is cool."
The couple have a new reality show, 'LeAnn & Eddie', and in the trailer for the series, the 41-year-old actor admits their relationship didn't have an ideal start.
He said: "We were both married when we fell in love. Was it the best way to start off? Of course not, but it happened."

Zoe Saldana expecting twins


Zoe Saldana is expecting twins.
The 'Guardians of the Galaxy' actress and her husband Marco Perego are said to be delighted they will welcome two children into the world later this year, several sources told E! News.
One insider added: "She's thrilled!"
The 36-year old actress is said to be around three months pregnant.
A source said recently: "Zoe is about three months pregnant. But she will only announce the news when she's ready.
"Zoe has always wanted a big family, and Marco's on board too!"
The 'Avatar' star - who was in a relationship with entrepreneur Keith Britton for 11 years until November 2011 and later dated actor Bradley Cooper until January 2013 - previously admitted she was in a "beautiful place" in her life when she met Marco last year and was ready to marry him shortly afterwards as she finally felt comfortable with herself.
She recently said: "I was finally able to spend time without being in a relationship and even though, it was a short period of time, it was beautiful.
"Where I lost that fear of being alone. It was bliss.
"I met my partner when I was in really a beautiful place in my life. When you are desired and you desire, so many things in your life start to make sense."

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth attends hockey match


Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip watched a hockey match at the Commonwealth Games in Scotland this afternoon (24.07.14).
The 88-year-old monarch and her husband sat amongst the crowd at the new Glasgow National Hockey Centre, where they watched the England women's team win their first match of the competition against Wales.
The team got off to the best possible start with the help of the royal couple's cheering, as they collected the maximum three points after goals from Alex Danson and Nicola White secured their victory.
The Queen's presence at the match came after she attended the 2014 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony at Glasgow's Celtic Park last night (23.07.14) to mark the beginning of the sporting event.
The ceremony featured a "journey around Scotland", which was taken by John Barrowman, Karen Dunbar and hundreds of enthusiastic volunteers.
Meanwhile, the Queen has also become the focus of a viral photo, as she was spotted "photo bombing" the Australian women's national field hockey team's Jayde Taylor and Brooke Peris' selfie as she snuck into the side of the snap while displaying an ear-to-ear smile.

Noel Fielding and Serge Pizzorno plan forest tour


Noel Fielding and Serge Pizzorno plan to do a forest tour.
The comedian and Kasabian rocker have teamed up again in their Loose Tapestries guise to soundtrack the new series of 'Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy' and they want to take their music on the road at some point.
Serge said: "We've promised each other that one day we'll do the most amazing eight or nine shows in forests or something.
"I can imagine it being like a medieval Wu-Tang Clan but with a weird British edge."
The duo were joined on one track on the album by 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom' star Idris Elba and were delighted by his efforts.
Serge told NME magazine: "We've got Idris Elba rapping on a Christmas song. He was doing the 'Mandela' film and the time and we were laughing, saying, 'Imagine doing that and then coming down and dropping a Christmas rap on a medieval psych-prog record."
Noel added: "We sent him the track and he loved it so we just let him do what he wanted."

Duran Duran sue fan club


Duran Duran are suing their own fan club.
The 'Girls on Film' hitmakers have filed a $40,000 lawsuit against Worldwide Fan Clubs (WFC) for failing to deliver on several agreements in a contract signed in 2010.
WFC agreed to create and manage the band's fan club, and reportedly also agreed to be responsible for the sales and inventory of Duran Duran's merchandise, collect membership fees and maintain accounting records, with profits to be split 75-25 in the band's favour.
Lawyers acting for the 'Rio' hitmakers argue the company failed to keep accurate financial records and have not handed over agreed payments, the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper reports.
The group's Nick Rhodes admitted last year the band were busier than ever, with a photography book, a new album and a stage show all in the pipeline.
Discussing his own photography exhibition, he said: ""The people who did the exhibition with me, the Vinyl Factory in London, would like to do a book because I have so much more than was even in the exhibition.
"We've started working on the new Duran album already too. I think it will be out sometime next year. And John Taylor and I are working on a musical together. That's something that we probably won't have finished for a year or more. We're keeping ourselves busy."

Charli XCX proves critics wrong


Charli XCX feels she's "proved people wrong" after scoring a huge hit with 'Fancy'.
The 21-year-old singer - who provides the chorus on the song - says she and rapper Iggy Azalea have had the last laugh against their critics after the track topped the US Billboard Hot 100 earlier this year.
Charli explained: "People give Iggy a hard time because she's Australian and white and female and apparently that's weird thing, which I don't get.
"People also view me as an underdog, so I think it's cool that we came together and had this girl power moment and were No.1 in the States for seven weeks. We really proved everyone wrong, which I think is really cool."
The British songstress, who also featured on Icona Pop's hit song 'I Love It', is happy to be riding high on the charts but she doesn't worry about falling out of fashion.
She told the Metro newspaper: "I would never change my style or my way of song-writing to fit in with what other people think is cool or commercial. It's cool people now think my s**t is cool - but I won't change if it becomes not cool either."
The 'Boom Clap' singer toured with Coldplay in 2012 and is hoping to secure a collaboration with frontman Chris Martin.
She enthused: "To collaborate would definitely be cool. I think Chris is one of the best, top-line writers around at the moment."

Kiefer Sutherland and Stephen Fry for Marked


Kiefer Sutherland and Stephen Fry are to star in 'Marked'.
The '24' star and the 56-year-old funnyman are to appear in the one-off drama, created by Sky Arts' popular comedy and drama strand 'Playhouse Presents'.
'Marked' will follow the story of James (Sutherland), a seemingly regular guy who's ground down by the pressures of work, family, money and life and - when he hits crisis point - agrees to an unlikely opportunity to make some easy money.
James' disgruntled neighbour - played by 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star Kevin McNally - asks him to do a "hit" on a man in return for a large pay-cheque, however, when he arrives at the victim's house he discovers things aren't as they seem, and comes face-to-face with the last person he expects to see (Fry).
The drama was written and directed by Greg Ellis and reunites Sutherland and Fry, who both starred in the recent '24' reboot '24: Live Another Day'.
'Playhouse Presents' is renowned for a number of acting, writing and directing debuts and the previous series of the 30-minute drama and comedies saw Cara Delevingne make her first television appearance in 'Timeless'.
Director of Sky Arts, Phil Edgar-Jones, said of the upcoming episode: "When Stephen and Kiefer agreed to do a 'Playhouse Presents' ... It was like all my Christmases rolled into one."
'Marked' will air on Sky Arts 1 in December this year.

Karen Gillan watched ‘a lot of TV’ for American role


Karen Gillan watched "a lot of American TV" to prepare for her new US sitcom.
The former 'Doctor Who' star is set to make a splash across the pond later this year in new comedy 'Selfie' and she prepared for her part as a vapid American girl by studying accents on TV.
She said: "It's a comedy about a really narcissistic, self-obsessed girl. I took lessons, dialogue lessons, and I listened to a lot of voices on American TV.
"I [also] went to this spinning class in LA and there were a lot of girls that sound like that so I was like, 'This is perfect, I'm just going to absorb this while getting fit.' "
The Scottish starlet, who played Matt Smith's companion Amy Pond on 'Doctor Who' from 2010 to 2012, is excited to watch the eighth series as a fan and thinks new Doctor Peter Capaldi will be "amazing".
Appearing on ITV's 'Lorraine' today (24.07.14), Karen, 26, said: "I've seen the trailers like everybody else. I'm hugely excited.
"I was actually there when he came on to set for the first time because I was there for Matt Smith's regeneration so it was really weird because it was literally one in, one out. Matt Smith left the studio and then Peter Capaldi walked in and I was like, 'It's him!'
"I think he's going to be really good, I mean, he's an amazing actor. I think he's going to do an amazing job."

Sir Bruce Forsyth to present one-off variety show


Sir Bruce Forsyth is to return to TV to present a one-off variety show on BBC One.
Sir Bruce - who quit his role as presenter of 'Strictly Come Dancing' earlier this year - says that his new show, 'Bruce Forsyth's Hall of Fame', will give comedians, singers and actors an opportunity to "emulate their heroes" by performing in front of a live audience.
News of Sir Bruce's return is sure to attract plenty of attention, and has certainly excited Jane Lush, the former commissioner of 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
She said: "I couldn't be more excited to be working again with Sir Bruce exactly 10 years since we first embarked on the 'Strictly Come Dancing' adventure together."
Jane - who is to make the show through her new company Ka looki Pictures - added that she hopes the show will become an established brand in the coming years.
Sir Bruce, meanwhile, admitted recently that leaving 'Strictly' left him "mentally and physically" exhausted.
However, it's clear that he retains an enthusiasm to work and will be reappearing on screens later this year.

Steven Seagal ‘open’ to appearing in The Expendables


Steven Seagal hasn't ruled out appearing in 'The Expendables'.
The 'Under Siege' actor has famously been involved in disagreements with Expendables star and creator Sylvester Stallone, but has now confirmed he'd be willing to join forces with his fellow action-hero.
He told ShortList magazine: "I'm open to anything and we'll see. Sly [Stallone] has called me a couple of times and talked about it, so let's see what happens. You never know."
The 62-year-old star - who's confessed in the past to playing with the idea of creating his own team of action heroes to compete with 'The Expendables' - also admitted that many of his films have been formulaic, but insisted he was merely a hired hand who had minimal influence on what appeared on screen.
He explained: "They were formulaic. But you have to keep in mind that we're hired actors and we show up, and there were some folks in the studio who were choosing the scripts and telling me what kind of movies to do.
"But that's the lot of hired actors. Why people keep coming back? Very good question... because there was nothing else out there."

Karen Gillan: Shaving my head was fun


Karen Gillan says shaving her head for 'Guardians of the Galaxy' was a "fun social experiment".
The former 'Doctor Who' actress stars as Nebula - a blue-skinned deadly assassin - in the sci-fi adventure film and she's confessed that although she had to shave her head for the role, she's glad she did because she found the experience "liberating".
Quizzed on how she'd found having a bald head, she told British TV's 'Lorraine': "That was a really weird experience, but also it was weirdly liberating and fun and interesting as a social experiment, just to see how differently people would treat me.
"I think people were pretty intimidated by me. I really ... I kind of liked it while I was playing the role."
The 26-year-old star - who appears alongside Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Dave Bautista in the Marvel Comics film directed by James Gunn - also admitted that she enjoyed playing the enemy for the first time.
She explained: "It was really fun. I've never played a sort of bad character who's gone to the dark side so that was really fun to be able to explore."
Karen also revealed that although she enjoyed the experience of shaving off all her hair, she found herself missing having something to hide behind.
She added: "I realised that I did that [used it as a shield] after it was gone and I was like, 'Ahh there's no hiding curtains'."

Kelsey Grammer is a dad again


Kelsey Grammer has become a father again.
The 'Frasier' actor's wife Kayte gave birth to their second child, a son, on Tuesday (22.07.14) and the little boy will be known as Gabriel, though it seems that is actually his middle name.
Kelsey - whose full name is Allen Kelsey Grammer - told 'Entertainment Tonight': "Our son will be called Gabriel as there is a tradition in our family of going by our middle names.
"We are blessed and excited to have this lovely young man join our family -- he is magnificent!"
The little boy was born at 8.28am in Los Angeles and weighed in at a healthy 8lbs 2oz.
Kelsey and Kayte are already parents to two-year-old Faith, while the 59-year-old actor has four other children from previous relationships.
The couple were left devastated when Kayte was carrying Faith as they were initially expecting twins, but sadly lost their baby boy.
However, Kelsey - who has been married four times - revealed last year he was keen to have more children with Kayte.
He said previously: "I think we'll have at least two more, if not three or four. I think it's a great way to live a life."