Rock

Bring Me The Horizon gave an expletive-filled acceptance speech after winning Best Alternative/Rock Act at tonight’s BRIT Awards.  The Sheffield band beat out The Rolling Stones, Blur, Young Fathers and Yussef Dayes to win the prize, their first ever BRIT Award.  The live ITV1 broadcast of the show censored the early part of the band’s

Rihanna played her first full live show in almost eight years last night (March 1) at a pre-wedding ceremony in India – watch footage and see the setlist below. The singer was reportedly paid $6million (£4.7million) to perform a private concert celebrating the marriage of Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Indian billionaire industrialist Mukesh

Suede‘s Brett Anderson has released a cover of the Echo & the Bunnymen’s classic ‘The Killing Moon’ as part of a new project. Anderson has worked with Paraorchestra and their founder and artistic director Charles Hazlewood on ‘The Death Songbook’, a collaborative 12-track album featuring original compositions and “re-imagining iconic songs exploring love, loss and

Kid Kapichi and Suggs have spoken to NME about their collaboration on the politically-motivated new single ‘Zombie Nation’, memories of late Specials frontman Terry Hall, and the struggles faced by new artists. Watch the music video first on NME below. The track is the latest taster of Kid Kapichi’s new album ‘There Goes The Neighbourhood’

Metallica have announced that they will be among the artists who will perform in honour of Elton John and Bernie Taupin at the 2024 Gershwin Prize. READ MORE: Metallica live in Amsterdam: still the greatest heavy metal band around The metal icons took to their official X/Twitter account to share that they will be in attendance

The first wave of artists set to perform at Brighton and Hove’s Pride Fabuloso have been announced, with Girls Aloud and Mika leading the line-up. The 2024 edition of the festival is set to be held at Preston Park in Brighton and will span across two days, Sautrday August 3 and Sunday August 4. It

Godspeed You! Black Emperor have debuted three brand new tracks while kicking off their 2024 world tour. READ MORE: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘G_d’s Pee AT STATE’s END’ review: music for tumultuous times The group kicked off their massive 2024 tour on Saturday, February 26 at the Knockdown Center in Queens, New York. While hitting

NCT WISH have made their official debut with the release of their new single, ‘Wish’, released in both Japanese and Korean. The six-member NCT sub-group released the song as part of their debut single album of the same name. The project also includes one other B-side track, titled ‘Sail Away’. Both songs are available in

It has been revealed that Apple rejected Bing as the default search engine in its Safari browser after providing the wrong answer to a question about Annie Lennox. Incorrect search results for the query “Annie Lennox first band” was among the reasons why Apple ended up going with Google as their default search engine. The

Liam Gallagher has once again taken aim at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and this year’s nominees, telling those behind the honour to “fuck off”. The comments about the Hall of Fame come after Oasis, for the first time ever, were listed as one of the acts revealed as this year’s nominees earlier

Drake has publicly called for Tory Lanez‘s freedom after he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in both feet in 2020. Lanez was found guilty in December 2022 of three felonies related to the shooting and began serving his 10-year sentence the following August. However, it was reported that he may be

Ahead of the BRIT Awards 2024 this weekend, Chase & Status have been announced as the winners of Producer Of The Year. The BRITs are set to take place on Saturday (March 2) at the O2 in London, where Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding, Dua Lipa, Jungle, Kylie Minogue, RAYE, Rema and Tate McRae are

Tributes have been paid to former Queens Park Rangers player Stan Bowles, who has died at the age of 75. The news was confirmed by his daughter Tracey yesterday (February 24) on Facebook, who said he “was with all the family and went peacefully”. He had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2015 and had

The organisers of Scotland’s Connect Festival have said that the event will not be held in 2024 now while they try to build the “next edition” of the festival. The festival first ran between 2007 and 2008 at Inveraray Castle in Argyll before later being re-launched in 2022 at the Royal Highland Centre near Edinburgh.

Bristol’s Simple Things festival has removed dance duo Giant Swan from it’s line-up today (February 24) “in light of recent details made public” about one of the members. Simple Things, which is taking place at various locations around Bristol today, announced on social media yesterday (February 23) that it had removed Giant Swan from its

SZA has shared a new single called ‘Saturn’ – you can listen to it below. The song was first premiered as part of a Mastercard advert during the 2024 Grammys where the singer-songwriter won three awards: Best Progressive R&B Album (‘SOS’), Best R&B Song (‘Snooze’) and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (‘Ghost In The Machine’ feat.

The Jesus & Mary Chain have released their latest single ‘Girl 71’ from their forthcoming LP ‘Glasgow Eyes‘. The upbeat, retro-sounding track features buzzing instruments and a steady drum beat along with angsty lyrics sung by Jim Reid such as: “But that wouldn’t last a day / Well, nothing does, so that’s okay / Piss

South Korean music producer Shinsadong Tiger, known for his work with EXID, Apink and more, has died. He was 41 years old. The noted K-pop producer’s passing was reported today (February 23) by Yonhap News, as well as other South Korean media outlets, including TenAsia and Star News. He was reportedly found dead after an

IDLES has opened up about some key life – and coffee – lessons learnt from LCD Soundsystem. In NME‘s most recent In Conversation series, we sat down with frontman Joe Talbot to discuss his experiences touring and working with LCD Soundsystem. James Murphy and Nancy Whang of the band recently teamed up with Talbot to feature