Rock

The Last Dinner Party have said they are “trying to ignore the words ‘hype’ and ‘buzzy band’” while reflecting on becoming the most talked-about rock group of the year. The London outfit and NME 100 alumni are due to release their debut album ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’ on February 2 via Island (pre-order here). It’ll feature the

Slowdive have announced a US tour scheduled for Spring 2024 – see the full list of dates below. The shoegaze veterans made the announcement over X today (December 6). The US spring leg of their 2024 tour engagements will commence in Ventura, California on April 25, continuing through the remainder of April and May in

Pete Tong has announced new details of his ‘Ibiza Classics’ UK arena tour for 2024. The BBC Radio 1 DJ released the ‘Ibiza Classics’ compilation album back in 2017, where iconic dance songs were covered by Jules Buckley and The Heritage Orchestra. The album features renditions of The Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, and Armand Van

Screaming Females have called it a day after 18 years as a band. The band broke the news in an extended statement posted to their social media accounts, but didn’t go into any particular detail about the circumstances that caused the band to break up. “After 18 years we have decided that Screaming Females is

Victorious Festival has revealed who will be headlining next year’s event. The UK’s biggest city festival will return to the Southsea seafront in Portsmouth on the August Bank Holiday weekend (August 23-25) next year. Fatboy Slim and Snow Patrol will be co-headlining the Friday night of the festival, with Jamie T and Biffy Clyro topping

Duran Duran, Blondie and Interpol have been announced as the headliners of Cruel World Festival 2024.  The festival revealed its 2024 line-up yesterday (December 4), which will also feature ‘80s and ‘80s post-punk, new wave and alternative rock veterans, including Simple Minds, Placebo, Soft Cell, Adam Ant, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Ministry, who

Funeral For a Friend have announced that their singer Matthew Davies-Kreye has decided to leave the band. In a lengthy post on Facebook, the band have said that the decision was made amicably, and that the remaining members intend to carry on and create new music. “Hey folks, it’s with a heavy heart that we

KISS have performed their last ever show as humans at Madison Square Garden – here’s how the night went. The band embarked on the final show of their ‘End of the Road’ farewell tour, where they unveiled that it would be their last outing as a band in human form. KISS instead announced that they

Dolly Parton has spoken out about the political background of her new song, ‘World on Fire’. In a new interview with Vulture, the country legend was responding to superlatives, and named ‘World On Fire’ as the song that “best embodies your own mythology”. ‘World On Fire’ appears on her new album ‘Rockstar’, which became her highest-charting album

Nadine Shah has released ‘Twenty Things’, the second single from her upcoming full-length, ‘Filthy Underneath’.  Upon a hypnotic groove, dramatic piano stabs and a gloomy sonic atmosphere, Shah recounts various colourful characters who appear to hide darker secrets. In the second verse, she sings: “They’re laying flowers by the bus stop / Some poor old

Ahead of the release of their new album in January, Future Islands have shared their latest new single, ‘The Fight’. Listen to the track below. The Baltimore band’s seventh album ‘People Who Aren’t There Anymore’ is due to be released on January 26 via 4AD, and frontman Samuel T. Herring explained to NME recently that

Kiss have unveiled their ‘new era’ as a virtual band at the last show of their farewell tour. The band have seemingly bowed out of live performing at their huge Madison Square Garden show last night (December 2). They will reportedly be the first US band to become virtual. In the encore, the band’s remaining

Power Trip surprised fans on Friday night (December 1) for a surprise gig in Austin, Texas. It’s the first performance from the thrash metal band since the unexpected death of frontman Riley Gale in 2020. Aged 34, Gale was later confirmed to have died from fentanyl. My Chemical Romance and Trivium are among the bands

SZA has revealed that she once had to allow her song ‘Consideration’ to be used on Rihanna’s 2016 album ‘ANTI’, and she was not happy about it.  The song had been recorded, ready to be included on SZA’s 2017 debut album ‘Ctrl’, but days before the music video was released, she heard that Rihanna’s team

The Pogues‘ Christmas hit ‘Fairytale of New York’ has re-entered the Top 40 following the news of frontman Shane MacGowan‘s death. READ MORE: Shane MacGowan, 1957-2023: an uncompromising, chaotic one of a kind On November 30, it was announced that MacGowan passed away peacefully surrounded by his family and friends. Since the news, fans have begun rallying

Julianna Margulies has apologised for her various insensitive claims about Black and queer support of Palestine. The ‘Good Wife’ actress faced severe backlash after saying that  “the entire Black community” may have been “brainwashed to hate Jews”. Margulies also claimed that Black and queer communities were not supportive enough of Israel following the October 7

Bruce Springsteen has written a touching tribute to Shane MacGowan following the news of his death. READ MORE: Shane MacGowan, 1957-2023: an uncompromising, chaotic one of a kind On November 30, it was announced that MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family and friends. So far, the likes of Pete Doherty and

The UK government have made a push for a Las Vegas-style Sphere to be created in London, following initial plans being scrapped by Mayor Sadiq Khan. Plans for the venue – which would have a capacity of 21,500 – were first announced back in 2018 by the Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp (MSG), the team

DaBaby has said that losing $200million (£160,780,000) after a homophobic rant he made in 2021 was “a blessing in disguise”. Back in February 2021, DaBaby got on stage and made homophobic comments and misleading statements about HIV/AIDS. “If you didn’t show up today with HIV/AIDS, or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make

Chicago bands Horsegirl and Lifeguard have teamed up to perform a version of The Stone Roses’ ‘I Wanna Be Adored’ – watch the video below. Horsegirl guitarist and vocalist Penelope Lowenstein is the sister of Lifeguard drummer Isaac Lowenstein, and the two bands combined for the cover version for the online music show Unacceptable Color.