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Laura Lynch, one of the founding members of country group The Chicks, has died aged 65. According to a statement from the Texas public safety department that was reported by the TV news station KTSM, Lynch was killed in a crash while driving a pickup truck outside El Paso on Friday night (December 22). She was

Timothée Chalamet says he’s heard a wealth of unreleased Bob Dylan music in preparation to play the iconic artist in an upcoming biopic. In preparation for his role in the upcoming biopic Complete Unknown, Dylan’s longtime manager Jeff Rosen, who will also be serving as a producer on the film, gave Chalamet access to a 12-hour playlist

KISS have confirmed that their first shows using avatars will take place in 2027.   The band played their final show as humans at Madison Square Garden on December 2, bringing their ‘End Of The Road’ world tour to its conclusion. There, they announced that they will continue in the future as virtual avatars, reportedly becoming the first

Katherine Ryan has hit out at Justin Timberlake for his behaviour towards Britney Spears and Janet Jackson in the past, calling him a “grubby little eel face”. Timberlake has received considerable criticism over various revelations Spears made about him in her recent memoir The Woman In Me. The pair dated between 1998 and 2002 and Spears claimed

Beyoncé got fans at the Brazil premiere of the ‘Renaissance’ concert film to participate in the viral ‘mute’ challenge from the tour – and they failed spectacularly. The artist celebrated the release of Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé in Brazil by hosting a fan event and screening titled ‘Club Renaissance’ in Bahia, where she addressed fans from

Mötley Crüe have cancelled their ‘Crüe Year’s Eve’ 2023 concert that was due to take place in California on New Year’s Eve. The band issued a statement Thursday (December 21), confirming that their December 31 concert at Acrisure Arena in Palm Springs would not be going ahead. “It is with deep regret we must inform

Vended have announced a massive UK and European tour set to kick off in the spring of next year. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Slipknot: “I’m just going to tell you the facts: ‘We Are Not Your Kind is a masterpiece” The band, which includes Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor‘s son Griffin and Slipknot percussionist Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan’s son Simon

Morrissey has announced a 30th-anniversary reissue of ‘Interlude’, his duet with punk icon Siouxsie Sioux. READ MORE: Morrissey at Riot Fest review – pop’s problematic uncle wisely shuts up and plays the hits The duet is a cover of Timi Yuro’s track by the same name and was released back in 1994.  It was recorded during

AJ Tracey has returned with his first new solo music of the year in the form of ‘Wifey Riddim 4’. Check out the video below. The track is the latest instalment in the West London rapper’s ‘Wifey Riddim’ series, which began in 2015, and also arrives with a techno-futurist video shot in Tokyo. At the

Nick Cave has written a new obituary for the late Pogues frontman, Shane MacGowan.  As a contribution to The Observer’s Obituaries of 2023 series, Cave wrote a new tribute to his late friend, marking the second time the post-punk musician has written about MacGowan following his passing. The heartfelt piece traces the origins of their

Rufus & Martha Wainwright have covered Sufjan Stevens‘ ‘Justice Delivers Its Death’ while appearing on The Tonight Show. READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life: Rufus Wainwright The Canadian siblings and musicians appeared as the late-night show’s musical guests on Tuesday, December 19. This is not the first time that Rufus has tackled Stevens’ track from his

Slipknot‘s former singer Anders Colsefni will play his first show with his band Painface in almost a decade next year – and Corey Taylor is going. The band will be performing at the Patio Nightclub in Las Vegas on January 27 and Taylor is set to watch it. He replaced Colsefni as Slipknot’s frontman in

Santa Claus took a tumble on stage while receiving a lap dance from one of Madonna’s dancers during the pop icon’s show in Washington, DC this week (December 19) – check out the video below. During the singer’s latest show as part of her huge ‘Celebration’ greatest hits tour, Santa took to the stage to

Morgan Wallen joins Drake for dinner in Drake’s new video for ‘You Broke My Heart’, off the ‘Scary Hours Edition’ of his 2023 album, ‘For All The Dogs’. The six-minute video begins in a restaurant, where Wallen and Drake share a table over dinner, celebrating Wallen’s breakup with an unnamed girl. “I didn’t like her,”

Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett has revealed that the band snuck the Batman theme song into the riff of one of their tracks. The song ‘Shadow Follows’ which appears on Metallica’s 11th album ’72 Seasons’ features a riff that happens about four minutes and 20 seconds in, which refers to the theme of the 1960s Batman TV

It has been revealed that TikTok has given special status to certain high-profile accounts, with moderators in Europe encouraged to be lenient with the content they post. READ MORE: TikTok reveals most popular artists and tracks of 2023 Journalists Hibaq Farah and Dan Milmo from The Guardian have suggested that the social media platform created a

The SNP is “seriously considering” the introduction of a new tax on tickets for stadium and arena shows in a bid to support grassroots venues. First Minister Humza Yousaf’s proposed plans would require fans of major acts such as Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Harry Styles to pay a levy to help the nation’s small and

Wargasm have announced new UK tour dates in Spring 2024 in support of Poppy.  The electro-metal duo took to social media on Monday (December 18) to announce their first tour dates since their nine-date headlining UK and Ireland tour behind their debut album, ‘Venom’. Attached to the announcement was a caption which ominously read: “There’s

Former Mr. Bungle member Theo Brooks Lengyel has been named as a “person of interest” in a missing persons case. READ MORE: Faith No More are back. Here’s why you should care about the wild and witty progenitors of alt-metal Lengyel was one of the founding members of the American experimental rock band that was formed

The Rolling Stones have shared the official video for their latest single ‘Mess It Up’ – you can watch it below. The song appears on the legendary band’s 24th and most recent studio album, ‘Hackney Diamonds’, which was released in October. In a four-star review of the record, NME described the track as a “disco-flavoured