Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Annie Lennox, Cat Stevens, The Clash and Hans Zimmer are among 1,000 artists featured on a new collaborative album surprise released on Tuesday, but you won’t hear any of their music. Instead, their new record is merely 47 minutes and 17 seconds of relative silence and …
Read More »Kate Bush 'Very Keen to Start Working on a New Album,' She Reveals in Rare Interview
It’s been over a dozen years since Kate Bush last released a new album, butas she revealed in a rare interview Friday, the Rock Hall-inducted singer may finally be readying her return to music. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s The Today Podcast to promote the new animated short film “Little …
Read More »Why Kate Bush Still Sounds Ahead of Her Time With "Running Up That Hill"
Kate Bush has always been a fiercely original art-pop icon. But with “Running Up That Hill,” she achieved a new kind of feat. “Running Up That Hill” was a massive Top Ten, dominating U.S. radio all over the summer of 2022 — even though it was a song she released …
Read More »Big Boi, St. Vincent Usher Kate Bush Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Kate Bush didn’t attend the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony on Friday, but some of her biggest admirers celebrated her induction and her decades-long career: OutKast’s Big Boi, one of Bush’s most vocal (and unlikeliest) fans delivered her induction speech while St. Vincent performed the British singer’s resurgent …
Read More »Missy Elliott, Rage Against the Machine Storm the Rock Hall at Wild Brooklyn Ceremony
It was a few minutes past midnight when Missy Elliott stepped up to the podium at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and cemented her place in history as the first female hip-hop artist to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She’d spent the past four hours witnessing speeches and performances …
Read More »Watch Kate Bush Perform 'Running Up That Hill' Over a Pulpit in 1985
Kate Bush is being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a long overdue honor for the experimental and forward-thinking singer-songwriter. Because she’s rarely performed live over the course of her career (she has only toured once, in 1979), most of Bush’s fans have only been able to …
Read More »Elton John, Missy Elliott, New Edition to Perform at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be streamed live on Disney+ from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on November 3, and an edited version will broadcast on January 1, 2024, on ABC. This follows several years where HBO was the home of the ceremony. The Hall of Fame …
Read More »Zeke Manyika, Pop's Citizen of the World
B y the time Kate Bush called Zeke Manyika to ask if he would drum on her new record, he had already helped reinvent one great band of the Eighties and launch two more. There was Orange Juice, Scottish indie’s consummate cosmopolitans. There was his playing on the first singles …
Read More »Kate Bush Thanks Fans as 'Running Up That Hill' Hits One Billion Streams
Kate Bush‘s “Running Up That Hill” has continued its ascent, now reaching one billion streams. The song, originally released in 1985, saw a resurgence of interest after being prominently featured in the latest season of Stranger Things last summer. “A billion streams!” Bush wrote on her website. “I have an …
Read More »Willie Nelson, Missy Elliott, Kate Bush, George Michael Lead Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 Class
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced this year’s inductees: Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine, and the Spinners will join the class of 2023 in the Performer category. Chaka Khan, Al Kooper, and Bernie Taupin will receive the …
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