News Round-Up: Wet Leg, Wu-Tang Clan


Photo of Wet Leg performing at Neighbourhood Weekender 2022 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Wet Leg performing at Neighbourhood Weekender 2022 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)




Our round-up of the main stories featured during the past week includes Grammy triumph for Wet Leg and a festival headline for Wu-Tang Clan.

Wet Leg went home with two prizes from last week’s Grammy Awards, while Beyonce became the most decorated artist in the ceremony’s history after winning Best Dance/Electronic Album for Renaissance.

At the other end of the career scale, Wet Leg’s self-titled maiden LP was named Best Alternative Album, and its smash-hit breakthrough single Chaise Longue won Best Alternative Performance.

It marks another landmark for the duo who’ve enjoyed a rapid rise since the release of that debut track.


Songwriters including Brian Wilson and Noel Gallagher have been leading the tributes to Burt Bacharach after the celebrated pop composer’s death was announced by his publicist last week.

“RIP Maestro,” Gallagher wrote on social media. “It was a pleasure to have known you.”

Dionne Warwick, who produced arguably the definitive versions of Walk On By and I’ll Never Fall In Love Again, described the news as like, ‘losing a family member’.


Squid will release their new album O Monolith on June 9th and have picked Swing (In A Dream) as its first preview.

The band began work on the follow-up to 2021’s debut album Bright Green Field just a short time after its release, working on new material whilst out on tour: “Without that tour we wouldn’t have any of these tracks,” Judge remembered.

“People were so looking forward to seeing live music that we thought we could just play anything, even if it was unfinished. In some form or another we played about 80% of O Monolith, mostly without lyrics.”

Press photo of Wu-Tang Clan

Wu-Tang Clan have been revealed as headliners for this year’s EXIT Festival in Serbia as part of the celebrations surrounding half a century of hip-hop.

“We are so proud that Wu-Tang Clan, the biggest rap group of all time and The Prodigy, who defined the electro-punk genre, are part of this year’s EXIT Festival lineup,” the event’s founder and CEO Dušan Kovačević said.

“Along with Skrillex, Keinemusic, CamelPhat, Indira Paganotto, and many more surprises yet to come, EXIT Festival will be one of the main festival hotspots this summer.”


Dream Wife have unveiled their new album Social Lubrication.

It’s described as, ‘Hyper lusty rock and roll with a political punch, exploring the alchemy of attraction, the lust for life, embracing community and calling out the patriarchy with a healthy dose of playfulness and fun thrown in’, by the band, and is being previewed with Hot (Don’t Date A Musician).

“Dating musicians is a nightmare,” vocalist Rakel Mjöll said. “Evoking imagery of late night make-outs with fuckboy/girl/ambiguously-gendered musicians on their mattress after being seduced by song-writing chat.”


slowthai will build-up to the release of his new album UGLY with a short run of low-key UK tour dates from the end of this month.

Before the album hits the shelves on March 3rd, the six-date pub tour will begin in Sunderland on February 23rd, concluding in Tyron Frampton’s hometown Northampton on the day of release. Tickets cost just £1.

“The first album was the sound of where I’m from and everything I thought I knew,” Frampton has said of the LP.


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