THE WEEKLY WRAP | 15/03/2024
The Weekly Wrap is a look at the biggest stories in music all collected in one place for your reading ease.
By Tobias Handke
Dua Lipa, Coldplay, SZA and Shania Twain Headline Glastonbury Festival 2024
One of the world's greatest musical festivals has just dropped another impressive lineup that has something for everyone (unless you’re a heavy music fan). Glastonbury Festival 2024 is headlined by pop superstar Dua Lipa, UK contemporary pop act Coldplay, R&B favourite SZA and country-turned-pop icon Shania Twain.Other highlights of this year’s lineup include The National, Jessie Ware, James Blake, King Krule, Cyndi Lauper, Danny Brown, LCD Soundsystem and The Streets. You can check out the full list of bands and artists playing at the festival here. As reported by NME, the organisers have stated that “so many more artists, stages and performance areas” will be announced in the coming weeks and months.Tickets for this year’s Festival are sold out like they are every year, but the festival is putting 20 pairs of tickets up for grabs. All you have to do is donate £10, £20, £50 or £100 to the emergency fundraiser supporting people affected by conflict to be in the draw. You can find all the details here. James Reyne Announces Two More Adelaide Dates as Part of His ‘Crawl File’ Tour
After wowing fans over the weekend with two shows at The Gov celebrating the 40th anniversary of Australian Crawl’s first greatest hits collection, James Reyne has revealed he’s coming back for more.Reyne will extend the ‘Crawl File’ tour, heading back to Adelaide for two more shows in October. Fans can expect to hear all the Aussie Crawl hits, including ‘Beautiful People’, ‘The Boys Light Up’, ‘Reckless’, ‘Errol’, ‘Oh No Not You Again’, ‘Lakeside’, ‘Downhearted’ and ‘Things Don’t Seem’.Tickets for the ‘Crawl File’ tour are on sale now via Oztix. 
Beyoncé Announces New Album Title, ‘Country Carter’
After hyping up the release of her new country album earlier this year, releasing the singles ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ and ‘16 Carriages’, Beyoncé has this week revealed more details about the record.Using the X account of her production, management and entertainment company Parkwood Entertainment, Bey posted an image of the album cover that included its title, Country Carter.The cover features a horse saddle with a red, white and blue sash that has the album name written across it. Along with the image, the post also gave the album’s release date, Friday 29 March. You can pre-order limited edition copies of the album here or pre-save it here.Rumours are also swirling that the album will include a cover of Dolly Parton’s classic ‘Jolene’, with the Queen of Country revealing in an interview with Knox News that she believes Bey has recorded a version of the song that may find its way onto Country Carter. Billie Eilish Wins Second Oscar for Best Song
Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell have become the youngest two-time Oscar winners after their track 'What Was I Made For?' won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Taken from the Barbie soundtrack, the song hit the top of the charts around the world, including taking out the #1 spot on the ARIA Charts. Eilish, 22, and O’Connell, 26, won their first Oscar for Best Original Song in 2022 with the James Bond theme ‘No Time to Die’.“I’m so grateful for this song and for this movie and the way it made me feel,” Eilish said during her acceptance speech. “This goes out to everyone who was affected by this movie.”In other Eilish news, her third album is currently being mastered and will hopefully be released later this year. Eskimo Joe Returns With New Single ‘The First Time’
Aussie stalwarts Eskimo Joe are back with new single ‘The First Time’. Harking back to their Black Fingernails, Red Wine days, this is a classic slice of indie rock sure to please fans of the band. The music video also conjures feelings of nostalgia, showing different moments throughout the band’s career, including footage of them playing on Recovery, winning an ARIA Award and acting up behind the scenes. “After an amazing 2023 of playing some huge festivals, there's this indescribable energy when a massive crowd is singing your songs back at you,” frontman Kevin Temperley said in a statement. “We wanted to capture that energy and infuse it into our recording. So, in the first week of January this year, over five days, we wrote and recorded ‘The First Time’ at my studio in Fremantle.”While no mention of an album, Eskimo Joe is hitting the road from April to July for more shows as part of their hugely successful acoustic tour, although Adelaide is not on the list of stops. *NSYNC Reunite and Perform Live for the First Time in Over a Decade
Late 90s boyband *NSYNC got the group back together last night at Justin Timberlake’s Los Angeles solo show. This is the first time all five - Justin Timberlake, Chris Kirkpatrick, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and J.C. Chasez - have performed live together since 2013. The reunited fivesome sang their iconic songs ‘Bye Bye Bye’, ‘Girlfriend’ and ‘It’s Gonna Be Me’, while also debuting new tune ‘Paradise’, which is part of Timberlake’s new album, Everything I Thought I Was, which comes out today. While fans are hoping this reunion will lead to more performances or even an album, there appears to be no plans for reviving *NSYNC, with Timberlake gearing up for a massive world tour in support of his new album.North West Announces Debut Album
North West, the 10-year-old daughter of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, has revealed she’s been working on her debut album. Joining her father at a listening party for Kanye and Ty Dolla $ign’s upcoming Vultures 2 album in Arizona last Sunday, West got on the microphone and told the cheering crowd, “Hi, it’s Northy and I’ve been working on an album and it’s called Elementary School Dropout.”North made her rap debut on Kanye’s Vultures record on the track ‘Talking’, where she rhymes “It's your bestie, Miss Miss Westie / Don't try to test me / It's gonna get messy.”The title of the album has already caused controversy online, with many people believing it sets a bad example for young children who might want to drop out of school.Friday Five
This week's Friday Five is inspired by the Splendour in the Grass lineup. Below are five albums from band's playing the festival we think are awesome. 1. Kylie Minogue - Fever
2. Viagra Boys - Cave World
3. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy
4. Future - DS2
5. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
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