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With the live events industry shuttered over the last year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, one positive aspect has been the influx in collaborative rock and metal projects. Porcupine Tree mastermind and prog rock icon Steven Wilson has recently suggested a second Storm Corrosion album with Opeths Mikael Åkerfeldt could come to fruition. The holdup? The pandemic, naturally. Wilson, who just released his first solo album in four years,  The Future Bites, spoke with Prog Magazine about ...

NEWS 05 February 2021 Share with: Congratulations to Celeste, who enters straight in at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with her debut album Not Your Muse. Not Your Muse fights off competition from three other big new releases to claim this week’s top spot, making her the first British female artist to top the chart with their debut album in just over five years, since Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh in November 2015. Celebrating the news, Celeste told OfficialCharts.com: “I just w...

at 7:04AM After a pandemic-induced delay, Steven Wilson’s sixth studio is finally out this week, and is vying for position in the Top 5 alongside Celeste, Arlo Parks and Fredo. It’s safe to say that the former Porcupine Tree man pulled out all the stops for The Future Bites, an album for which the term hardly suffices. Together with his team, the four-time Grammy nominee conceived an entire brand with which to launch the record – or as they put it a “fully imagined consumer universe”...

Coldplay set to release new studio album almost two years after Everyday Life Exclusive Updated: 5 Feb 2021, 20:43 COLDPLAY appear to be preparing to release their ninth studio album, called Music Of The Spheres. I can reveal the group, made up of Chris Martin, Jon Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion, have been working on a new project for months — hinting a new album is just around the corner. And official records show they have formally registered the name as a trademark ahead of any n...

Celeste celebrates chart success with debut album Not Your Muse February 5 2021, 6.01pm Celeste with her Official Charts Company award after Not Your Muse went to number one (Official Charts Company/PA) Celeste has made good on her many accolades and topped the charts with her debut album, Not Your Muse. The 26-year-old soul singer was announced as the winner of the Rising Star Award at the Brits in December 2019, and a month later she was crowned the winner of BBC Music’s Sound Of 2020. Onl...

Celeste, the hotly-tipped British soul singer, is just days away from converting the hype into silverware.

Steven Wilson Posts Deepfake Video For Self Tuesday, 02 February 2021 Steven Wilson has unveiled a video for Self. The unnerving black and white clip was directed by longtime visual collaborator Miles Skarin and utilises deepfake technology to transform Wilson into various celebrities, including Donald Trump, President Joe Biden, David Bowie, Robert Downey Jr., Paul McCartney and Mark Zuckerberg. The track, meanwhile, appears on his sixth album, The Future Bites, which was released...

While defending Wilson from what he deemed a "clickbait-y" headline, Wolfgang tried to explain what a strange feeling it is to have a musical hero express ambivalence about his dad. Wilson, whos latest album, Future Bites, came out on Friday, was asked by FaceCulture about how Eddies death affected him this past fall. "Honestly, it didnt, because I was never a fan," Wilson replied. "I know hes an extraordinary musician, and its always sad when an extraordinary artist dies, but I was never a ...

Last modified on Fri 29 Jan 2021 05.18 EST Much to the chagrin of hardcore elements of his fanbase, the one-time “king of progressive rock” is exploring dance, electronica and contemporary pop these days. Wilson has rebuffed their cries that it’s “not prog” by emphasising an artist’s prerogative to develop and challenge audience expectations. The 51-year old’s sixth solo album is the one-time guitar virtuoso’s least guitar-oriented collection yet. A gener...

Former Porcupine Tree man Steven Wilson excels his ambitions on solo album number six… Words: James Hickie If you want an insight into why The Future Bites sounds the way it does, look no further than the album’s fourth track, 12 THINGS I FORGOT, and the lyric, ​‘ I just sit in the corner complaining / Making out things were best in the eighties’. We can’t attest to Steven Wilson​’s status as a curmudgeon – he’s always seemed a jolly nice bloke to us – but he’s cert...