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Foals’ Yannis Philippakis has shared a new video from his project with the late Tony Allen, Yannis & The Yaw. The clip, which you can view below, soundtracks the song ‘Clementine’ which featured on their recent EP ‘Lagos Paris London’. According to a press release, “it is a video postcard” of their recent tour “its grainy photography

Henry Rollins has explained why he’ll never make music again, saying he’s “smart enough to not come back for the encore”. READ MORE: ‘Backbeat’ at 30: The Fifth Beatle, John Lennon’s bisexuality and Macca’s “jealousy” After briefly fronting hardcore band State of Alert, Rollins went on to front Californian hardcore band Black Flag from 1981

Luke Bryan has weighed in on Beyoncé’s lack of nominations for the 2024 Country Music Association (CMA) Awards, the most prestigious award ceremony in country music. READ MORE: Beyoncé – ‘Cowboy Carter’ review: country reinvention strikes gold The singer’s March album ‘Cowboy Carter’ qualified for a number of the awards, but missed out on any nominations

Sabrina Carpenter has spoken out against accusations of lip syncing, telling fans that she always sings live during her shows. The accusations against the ‘Espresso’ singer come as she has kicked off the first dates of her huge ‘Short n’ Sweet’ world tour with a number of live shows across the US. However, while the

Kaiser Chiefs have announced a homecoming ‘Employment’ 20th anniversary show with Razorlight, The Cribs and more celebrating their own anniversaries on the stacked lineup. The Leeds indie legends will play their biggest show in their hometown to date at Temple Newsam Park on May 31, 2025, where they will celebrate 20 years of their debut

Julian Casablancas has shared that he feels no strong affinity to either party in the upcoming US election, referring to the candidates as “both sides of the same corporate coin”. In 2020, along with the rest of The Strokes, Casablancas backed Bernie Sanders, who lost to Joe Biden in the race to become the Democratic

Bring Me The Horizon are celebrating one billion streams, and are on course to top the UK album charts. The Sheffield rockers were confirmed as having hit the first milestone yesterday (October 1), when they revealed that they had surpassed one billion streams in the UK. To mark the occasion, frontman Oli Sykes was presented

Jack Antonoff has confirmed his involvement in Lana Del Rey‘s upcoming country album, ‘Lasso’. READ MORE: Lana Del Rey tells us about ‘Lasso’, the world going country and wild plans for Reading & Leeds Earlier this year, Lana Del Rey announced her 10th studio album, ‘Lasso’, which she teased will see her venture into country music, and

Morgan Wallen has donated $500,000 to the American Red Cross as a way to support the relief effort in Hurricane Helene’s wake. On September 27, Hurricane Helene delivered more than 76 cm of rain to parts of North Carolina and has claimed the lives of roughly 107 people in six states (as per the Associated Press).

AURORA and Jacob Collier have teamed up to perform a mashup of their songs ‘A Rock Somewhere’ and ‘The Seed’ on an iceberg in order to raise awareness of the climate crisis. READ MORE: AURORA at Glastonbury 2024 on Bring Me The Horizon and Wembley plans The two pop stars played in front of glaciers in

The Music Venue Trust have spoken to NME about how “Coldplay are providing a lifeline for new talent” in their effort to donate 10 per cent of all profits from their 2025 UK stadium shows to save the grassroots. This Friday (October 4) will see the release of Coldplay’s 10th album ‘Moon Music‘. As part of

Circa Waves have shared new single ‘We Made It’ to announce their sixth album ‘Death & Love, Part 1’ – inspired by frontman Kieran Shuddall undergoing emergency heart surgery that saved his life. Check it out below along with our interview with the singer. The Liverpool indie stars were forced to cancel several shows in

George Takei appears to have criticised Chappell Roan for refusing to endorse a candidate in the upcoming US election. READ MORE: Chappell Roan live in London: a joyous celebration of queerness, community and fun Roan made headlines last week after she said she wasn’t going to throw her undivided support behind any one candidate in the

Green Day have been banned from two Las Vegas radio station’s playlists after Billie Joe Armstrong declared the city “a shithole”. READ MORE: Green Day – ‘Saviors’ review: their best work since ‘American Idiot’ The frontman was performing a show at San Francisco’s Oracle Park earlier in the month (September 20), when he expressed his disapproval

Gene Simmons has said he’s fine with being called an “asshole”, even suggesting he’s “reclaimed” the word. The KISS vocalist attempted to compare it in an interview to “black people taking possession of the ‘n’ word”. “I would say there are some, could be a large number, could not, who think I’m an asshole. In

The Last Dinner Party has postponed their show in Cardiff tonight (September 29) due to illness. The 2024 Mercury Prize-nominated band are currently on a sold-out UK and Ireland headline tour in support of their debut album ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’, which was the biggest UK Number One debut album in nine years. They are set to

Kanye West revealed that he has a new album called ‘Bully’ coming while performing a new song, ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ live at his listening event in China. Check it out below. READ MORE: Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign – ‘Vultures 1’ review: mired in misogyny The moment took place at China’s Wuyuan River Stadium

The oldest nightclub in Europe, Barcelona’s La Paloma, has announced it has permanently re-opened after several years of closure. The historic baroque ballroom, which first opened as far back as 1903, has been operating a phased re-opening in recent months after closing its doors in 2007. Now, it has confirmed the 1000-capacity venue will boast

Hozier and Pantera are among the artists proving popular with gardeners. According to a new study by First Saturday Lime Study which dug into the intersection of music and gardening, both the Irish singer-songwriter and US heavy metal band dominate Spotify gardening playlists as the most featured artists. The study analysed over 76,000 songs from

Björk previewed her new ‘Cornucopia’ film at Climate Week yesterday (September 27), outlining its core environmental message. The Icelandic music icon is the creative director of the film, which is currently in post-production, according to Deadline. Filmed live in Lisbon, Portugal from the European leg of her ‘Cornucopia’ world tour, the movie captures Björk’s climate

Suge Knight has slammed Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and more for being silent and not “stepping up” after Diddy‘s recent arrest. Earlier this month, Diddy – real name Sean Combs – was arrested and charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has since been detained

Queen‘s Brian May has announced that he has made the “painful decision” to resign from his role as RSPCA vice president. The legendary guitarist and Queen bandmember had been serving as the vice president of The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) since 2012 and yesterday (September 27), May took to

Julien Baker has performed two new songs at recent concerts in Chicago – watch fan-shot footage of the songs’ debuts below. READ MORE: Boygenius on the enduring power of ‘The Record’: “We feel as good as we ever hoped to” On Monday (September 23), Baker kicked off her ongoing at the Thalia Hall in Chicago, where

Maya Neelakantan – the 11-year-old guitar prodigy and sensation – recently joined Testament on stage at their show in Las Vegas. On Friday (September 13), Neelakantan was invited by the heavy metal band to join them on stage to perform a rendition of ‘Curse of the Legions of Death (C.O.T.L.O.D.)’ from their seminal album ‘The

Printworks looks set to return after receiving planning consent for a redevelopment. The iconic London music venue closed its doors back in May following an announcement in 2022 that Southwark Council had approved plans to turn it into an office block. Now, according to the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA), Printworks is one step closer

Katy Perry has claimed every female artist “needs to say thank you” to Madonna. The pop star made the remarks in an interview with Australian programme The Project ahead of her AFL Grand Final performance next Monday (September 28). Speaking with The Project, Perry explained her friendship with Madonna, saying: “Madonna was really nice to me, well

The Lumineers are set to return to the UK and Europe next spring. Check out all the tour dates below. The folk band will embark on their “biggest European and UK tour”, per a press release, to date, in support of their upcoming fifth studio album. ‘Dualtone’ is set to be released next year. They’ll

Riley Keough has said she hopes she can “give [a] voice to my mother” after finishing Lisa Marie Presley‘s memoir. The memoir, which is due for release on October 8, was partially written by Presley and later finished by her daughter Keough. You can pre-order your copy here. Keough was asked by her mother to