Rock

Babymetal have announced a new collaboration with Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello titled ‘METALI!!’. The track marks the first new song by the newly reborn group which now consists of Su-Metal, Moametal and Momometal. According to a press release, the track is very up-tempo and was created with the idea of a summer festival

Depeche Mode have announced the acts joining them as support on the North American leg of their ‘Memento Mori’ tour. Announced today (August 11), the band – which is comprised of Martin Gore and Dave Gahan – shared the three acts that will be joining them for their string of tour dates across North America starting next

YouTube has announced that they will celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop this year by launching the FIFTY DEEP campaign. This month marks 50 years since DJ Kool Herc performed at a party in the Bronx and showed off his DJing invention of scratching records to extend the instrumental breaks in the song. This revelation

KARA member Heo Young Ji has announced plans for an official solo debut. News that the South Korean star would be launching her career as a solo artist arrived earlier today (August 11), in an update from DSP Media. In the announcement, the record label, talent agency, and music production company revealed that the singer

Tory Lanez has issued a statement following his prison sentencing for shooting Megan Thee Stallion. Today (August 11), Lanez took to social media to share a statement after the rapper was sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in both feet in 2020. Lanez – real name Daystar Peterson – was

Florence + The Machine have unveiled a new career-spanning compilation playlist titled ‘Under Heaven Over Hell’. READ MORE: Florence + The Machine live in Manchester: a cathartic and euphoric outbreak of dance fever Personally curated by frontwoman Florence Welch, the playlist features 39 tracks from all five of the band’s studio albums including 2009’s ‘Lungs’, 2011’s

The Struts have announced their fourth studio album ‘Pretty Vicious’ – find all the details below. The Derby rock band – comprising Luke Spiller, Adam Slack, Jed Elliott and Gethin Davies – are due to release the 11-track collection on November 3 via Big Machine. You can pre-order/pre-save it here. Following on from 2020’s ‘Strange

Jeon Somi’s agency will remove an animated character from the music video of one of her latest songs after viewers accused it of plagiarism. The video in question comes from the visual accompaniment for the South Korean singer’s single ‘Fast Forward’ – the lead track of her new EP ‘Game Plan’. The track and music

The Band guitarist and singer-songwriter Robbie Robertson has died. He was 80. The news was confirmed on Wednesday night (August 9) via The Band’s management on social media. The statement, which originally came from Robertson’s family, reads: “Robbie was surrounded by his family at the time of his death, including his wife, Janet, his ex-wife,

Coach Party have shared their latest and heaviest track, ‘Parasite’, from their forthcoming debut album ‘KILLJOY’. Check out the video below. According to a press release, ‘Parasite’ is described as “a destroyer; a maximalist punk track that incinerates in under two minutes and eviscerates the people in life who feed off of the goodness of

The Murder Capital have shared footage of them playing one of Sinead O’Connor’s tracks at a live show to mark the funeral of the late singer. News of O’Connor’s passing broke two weeks ago (July 26), after the Irish singer and activist was found unresponsive in her London home. She was pronounced dead at the

Jay-Z‘s Made In America festival has been cancelled for 2023 due to “severe circumstances”. The annual festival was due to be held next month (September 2-3) in Philadelphia and headlined by SZA and Lizzo. In their statement announcing the cancellation, festival organisers said the decision was made “due to severe circumstances outside of production control.”

Travis Scott has announced a run of North American shows for later this year. The ‘Utopia Tour Presents Circus Maximus’ tour kicks off in Chicago on September 25 and includes shows in Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville, and DC before finishing in Miami on November 27. Notably, this is Scott’s first tour since the Astroworld

The full list of nominations for this year’s MTV Video Music Awards has been announced, with Taylor Swift, Doja Cat and SZA leading the list. Swift is leading the way with eight nominations, SZA earned six and Doja Cat, Kim Petras, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Olivia Rodrigo, and Sam Smith have all earned five each.

BBC Radio 1 presenter Arielle Free has returned to the radio station following her temporary suspension last week . Free made a brief appearance on Charlie Hedges’ Dance Anthems Ibiza show on Sunday (July 30) but was cut off for expressing her dislike of a song that was playing. After being introduced on Hedges’s show, Free

Ed Sheeran has shared his thoughts on the use of artificial intelligence in music, calling the technology “weird”. The ‘Subtract’ singer-songwriter spoke about AI during a recent interview with Audacy, which took place at the Hard Rock Hotel in New York City. READ MORE: I used Grimes’ AI vocals to make a hit – here’s how

BTS member V has officially announced his debut solo album, which is being titled ‘Layover’. READ MORE: Suga of BTS: “You have to find what makes you happy, what brings you joy” Announced today (August 8), Big Hit Music took to social media to confirm the album, which is due for release in September. In the

Grimes has reignited her years-old feud with Poppy, accusing the singer of “spreading false information for personal gain”. Back in 2018, Poppy spoke out against Grimes and her team regarding their collaboration, ‘Play Destroy’, saying that she “could have gone without” the trouble that was allegedly caused by her collaborator. “I was kind of bullied

Hot Chip have returned with their first new music of 2023 – listen to ‘Fire Of Mercy’, featuring Yunè Pinku, below. The band’s new track is their first since the release of their most recent full-length album, ‘Freakout/Release’, which came out last August. Discussing the new track, the band’s Joe Goddard said: “Fire of Mercy’

South Korean police have reportedly confirmed that screams from passengers who were watching a livestream by BTS‘s Suga were the cause of a recent commotion on a Seoul subway train. Yesterday evening (August 6), South Korean police received several reports from passengers on the Seoul Subway Line 9 express train to Gimpo airport. This included