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N-Dubz to play five open air gigs next summer including London’s Gunnersbury Park

N-Dubz have announced five outdoor gigs for next summer. The London trio will perform in Brighton, Margate and Scarborough on July 7, 8 and 20 respectively before playing their only hometown show of 2023 in London’s Gunnersbury Park on August 11. They will also perform in Cardiff on September 8. Special guests are to be announced in due course. Tickets go on general sale on Friday November 25 – buy yours here. Advertisement Bandmembers Dappy, Tulisa and Fazer are currently in the middle of an arena tour after reuniting earlier this year. The band’s first shows for 11 years were met with huge demand, with many dates completely selling out and six new dates being added. The trio’s reunion was accompanied by a new single, ‘Charmer’, which was released in May. There has been no official word yet as to whether more music will come. N-Dubz broke out in the late 2000s and released three studio albums, ‘Uncle B’ (2008), ‘Against All Odds’ (2009) and ‘Love.Live.Life’ (2010) before splitting up in 2011. At the time both Tulisa and Dappy said that the break was only supposed to last for a couple of years, during which all three members carved out… Read More →

17NOVNews

Listen to Phoebe Bridgers’ festive cover of ‘So Much Wine’

Phoebe Bridgers has shared a cover of The Handsome Family’s ‘So Much Wine’ – you can listen to it below. The LA singer-songwriter’s rendition of the festive song serves as the latest entry to her growing Christmas catalogue. READ MORE: Phoebe Bridgers – ‘Punisher’ review: atmospheric indie with an undercurrent of anxiety Proceeds from the single will go to the Los Angeles LGBT Center, which is one of the few federally qualified health centres with providers who specialise in substance abuse treatment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and people living with HIV. Advertisement Additionally, the centre is the world’s biggest LGBT nonprofit, assisting tens of thousands of LGBTQ+ people each month with vital and life-saving services, including youth and senior housing, legal assistance, and affirming, life-saving healthcare. ‘So Much Wine’ was produced by Bridgers along with her longtime collaborators Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska. The cover also features contributions from Bridgers’ fiancé Paul Mescal (Normal People), as well as Marshall Vore, Harrison Whitford and Sebastian Steinberg. Andrew Bird, meanwhile, provided vocals, violin and whistling. Bridgers has previously released covers of festive classics such as ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’, Merle Haggard’s ‘If We Make It Through December’ and… Read More →

17NOVNews

ABBA ‘Voyage’ residency to be extended to November 2023

The ABBA ‘Voyage’ concert residency has been extended to November 2023 due to demand. READ MORE: ABBA Voyage live in London: an epic avatar mega-mix from a brave new world The revolutionary show at Queen Elizabeth’s Olympic Park, which features avatar versions of the pop icons, will now be running until November 2023 – you can buy tickets here. The journey continues. New tickets released for 2023. Get them now at https://t.co/gcGSOrYEre. pic.twitter.com/Phxf4cZavl — ABBA Voyage (@ABBAVoyage) November 17, 2022 Advertisement The show, which has been widely praised for its game-changing technology, premiered in May of this year, and was described by NME as an “epic avatar mega-mix from a brave new world”. It added that “digital sorcery meets pure pop bangers for a feel-good sensory overload, as not-holograms smash through gold-plated hits”. The review concluded that while “ageing rockers and poppers are bound to imitate the idea” it would be a a struggle to “come close to the experience of ABBA Voyage”. Speaking to NME on the red carpet during the opening night of the residency – the first time in 36 years Benny Andersson, Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Björn Ulvaeus were seen as a group together in public… Read More →

17NOVNews

Watch Kendrick Lamar’s new video for ‘Rich Spirit’

Kendrick Lamar has shared the third visual accompaniment to ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’, linking up with director Calmatic to mint a music video for ‘Rich Spirit’. READ MORE: Inside Kendrick Lamar’s ‘The Big Steppers Tour’ Amazon livestream: “He is a global superstar” Following the videos for ‘N95’ and ‘We Cry Together’ – which arrived back in May and September, respectively – the new drop is another intimate affair, starring Lamar unaccompanied as he vibes out to ‘Rich Spirit’ in a range of eye-catching outfits. Have a look at the clip below: Advertisement The release comes a day after it was announced that Lamar has been nominated for eight of the 2023 Grammy Awards. Most of them come at the hand of his standalone single ‘The Heart Part 5’, which has grabbed nods for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song and Best Music Video. ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’, meanwhile, has been nominated for Album Of The Year and Best Rap Album, while the Blxst and Amanda Reifer-assisted ‘Die Hard’ has been nominated for Best Melodic Rap Performance. ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ arrived back in May as Lamar’s… Read More →

16NOVNews

Taylor Swift says she could “scream for 10 minutes straight” following Grammys 2023 nomination

Taylor Swift has said she could “scream for 10 minutes straight” following her Grammy nomination for Song Of The Year. The singer-songwriter’s 10 minute re-recorded version of ‘All Too Well’ appears in the aforementioned category along with the likes of Adele (‘Easy On Me’), Beyoncé (‘Break My Soul’) and Harry Styles (‘As It Was’). READ MORE: Taylor Swift’s ‘All Too Well’ short film highlights the emotional power of her storytelling Despite having achieved 11 Grammy wins over the course of her career, Swift hasn’t yet bagged the Song Of The Year award. Advertisement Last night (November 15), the star took to Instagram Stories to react to the nod after the full list of nominees for next year’s ceremony was announced. “So many reasons to lose my damn mind today but… All Too Well 10 is the song I’m the most proud of, out of anything I’ve written,” Swift began. “The fact that it’s nominated for Song of the Year at the Grammys, an award I’ve never won, that honours the songwriting… it’s momentous and surreal.” She continued: “Just got off the phone with [Liz Rose], my co writer on ATW, and reminisced about how we started writing together when I… Read More →

15NOVNews

Offset pays tribute to Migos bandmate Takeoff: “My heart is shattered”

Offset has shared a lengthy emotional tribute to his late Migos bandmate Takeoff. READ MORE: How the understated Takeoff became the real superstar of Migos Takeoff, real name Kirsnick Khari Ball, was shot and killed at a bowling alley in Houston, Texas in the early hours of November 1. He was 28 years old. Last week, the late rapper’s uncle Quavo paid his respects to Takeoff for the first time since his death. Advertisement Now, fellow bandmate Offset has done the same in a lengthy Instagram post. “The pain you have left me with is unbearable. My heart is shattered and I have so many things to say, but I can’t find the words. I’ve been going to sleep and waking up hoping that all of this is a dream, but it’s reality, and reality feels like a nightmare,” he wrote. View this post on Instagram A post shared by OFFSET (@offsetyrn) He continued: “Every time you would see me, you didn’t give me a dap you gave me a hug. I wish I could hug you one last time. Laugh one last time. Smoke one last time. Perform one last time. I know someone with a soul like yours is in heaven… Read More →

15NOVNews

The Walkmen to reunite for first shows in nearly a decade

The Walkmen have announced they will reunite next year for their first performances since 2014. The New York indie rockers – one of several bands that spearheaded the so-called “post-punk revival” of the early 2000s – will play a pair of concerts at Webster Hall in New York City, on April 26 and 27. Tickets for the shows will go on sale this Friday (November 18), with a pre-sale beginning on Wednesday (November 16) at 10am EST. You can sign for pre-sale access here. In a statement shared on social media announcing the shows, frontman Hamilton Leithauser referenced bassist Peter Bauer telling the Washington Post the band were going on an “extreme hiatus” in 2013. Advertisement “I assumed that meant there would be a lot of Monster energy drinks and maybe that red-headed snowboarder guy would be hanging around a lot… but none of that actually happened,” Leithauser joked. “Instead, in the ensuing years we’ve all worked on a ton of different projects in a ton of different places. Recently, someone sent us a clip of us playing at Irving Plaza from 2003, and it just looked very exciting. So, we’ve decided we’d like to play together again.” The Walkmen teased… Read More →

15NOVNews

Kang Daniel announces European and North American dates for ‘First Parade’ world tour

K-pop soloist Kang Daniel has announced European and North American stops for his ongoing ‘First Parade’ world tour in 2023. READ MORE: Kang Daniel talks ‘The Story’: “I came to love myself more than anything else” On November 14, Kang shared a poster detailing the upcoming dates of his ‘First Parade’ world tour in Europe and North America next year. The singer-songwriter will kick-off with two UK shows in Manchester and London on January 26 and 27 before heading to Paris, followed by concerts in Madrid, Utrecht, Cologne and Berlin. The North American leg is set to begin in Atlanta on March 2, spanning ten cities across the US and Canada. These include New York, Toronto, Houston, Los Angeles and more. Ticketing details and venues have yet to be announced, but are likely to be released in the coming weeks. [?]KANGDANIEL <FIRST PARADE> WORLD TOURUK & EUROPE / NORTH AMERICA IN 2023#강다니엘 #KANGDANIEL #다니티 #DANITY pic.twitter.com/61jaYtWWdC — 강다니엘 KANGDANIEL (@konnect_danielk) November 14, 2022 Advertisement The dates for Kang Daniel’s ‘First Parade’ tour in Europe and North America are as follows: JANUARY 2023 26 – Manchester, UK 27 – London, UK 28 – Paris, France 31 – Madrid, Spain FEBRUARY 2023… Read More →

15NOVNews

Smashing Pumpkins cancel show after Billy Corgan comes down with laryngitis

Smashing Pumpkins had to cancel one of their recent shows after frontman Billy Corgan came down with laryngitis. The band were scheduled to perform at the Moda Center arena in Portland, Oregon on Sunday night (November 13) as part of their current North American tour with Jane’s Addiction. READ MORE: Jane’s Addiction and Smashing Pumpkins live in New York City: ’90s legends stage a hit-filled fiery rock show However, the Pumpkins confirmed that the concert had been shelved in a statement on social media that day. “It is with great disappointment that tonight’s show in Portland, OR has been cancelled due to laryngitis,” it began. Advertisement “William, Jimmy, James and Jeff are deeply saddened but this decision was not made easily and was far beyond their control. They look forward to returning to you all next summer. Refunds will be available at your point of purchase.” A rescheduled date has not yet been confirmed. Later, Corgan shared an update on his personal Instagram account. “At the voice doctor,” he captioned an image of himself giving a thumbs-up. “Lots of love.” On Instagram Stories last night (November 14), the singer said: “I got some help today at the doc again. Sending… Read More →

14NOVNews

Sting announces ‘My Songs’ 2023 UK tour dates

Sting has announced new UK dates for his ‘My Songs’ world tour – see full details below and buy tickets here. READ MORE: From Sting to Lil Nas X: how musicians have found a home in ‘League of Legends’ The singer will begin the run on June 24 in Bedford as part of the Bedford Park Concerts series, going on to play shows in Scarborough, Cardiff and Halifax as well as a slot at the Lytham Festival on June 30. Others playing at the Lytham Festival – taking place from June 28-July 2 in Lancashire – will be Jamiroquai, George Ezra and a show as part of Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe‘s joint UK and Ireland tour. Advertisement Tickets for Sting’s new UK dates go on sale at 9am GMT on Friday, November 18. See the full list of dates below and buy your tickets here. JUNE 2023 24 – Bedford, Bedford Park Concerts 25 – Scarborough, Open Air Theatre 30 – Lancashire, Lytham Festival JULY 2023 2 – Cardiff, Cardiff Castle 4 – Halifax, The Piece Hall Sting. CREDIT: Robin Little/Redferns Earlier this year, Sting sold his entire songwriting to Universal Music Publishing Group in a deal rumoured to be worth over… Read More →

13NOVNews

Blaenavon announce breakup: “I want it to be a nice thing, not a sad thing”

Blaenavon have announced that they’re breaking up – read their full statement below. READ MORE: Blaenavon – ‘Everything That Makes You Happy’ review: next-gen indie heroes come out swinging on album two The indie trio – vocalist and guitarist Ben Gregory, bassist Frank Wright and drummer Harris McMillan – formed in Hampshire in 2013 and released debut album ‘That’s Your Lot’ via Transgressive in 2017. A follow-up, ‘Everything That Makes You Happy’, arrived in 2019. In a statement posted to social media, Gregory wrote: “This news has been coming for a long time but I want it to be a nice thing and not a sad thing. Advertisement “We three aren’t making music as (world famous rockband) ‘Blaenavon’ anymore. The band was the best thing ever and I will cherish the absurd memories, but we’ve all got cool new stuff to do.” The frontman went on to reveal that Wright and McMillan are now playing folk-pop with the band Organ Morgan, while Gregory himself has finished his debut solo album. “The music industry is a sickening stain on the underbelly of the arts,” he concluded, “and, with that said, I can’t wait to get back on the grind.” message from… Read More →

13NOVNews

Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan says Slipknot biopic is “most definitely going to happen”, but not with Hollywood studio

In a new interview with NME, Slipknot percussionist Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan discussed the possibility of the band’s story being turned into a biopic, revealing that he has several ideas for a serial project of his own. READ MORE: The Big Read – Slipknot: “Nobody created us except us – we have always drawn our own map” The topic came up when Clown filled us in on the forthcoming debut of Knotfest Australia, which he said was one of the many new projects that Slipknot have been working on. Having just fulfilled the terms of their contract with Roadrunner Records, the band will be fully independent at the end of next March – which, Clown told NME, means they’ll be able to experiment with new creative avenues (like a standalone single-based release model). Some of the band’s future endeavours will include visual projects helmed by Clown – he’s long been involved in filmmaking both in and outside of Slipknot, directing 17 of the band’s music videos and three of their documentaries, as well as narrative films like Officer Downe. When asked if he’d ever consider helming a Slipknot biopic in the vein of Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman, Clown revealed: “It wasn’t… Read More →

12NOVNews

Public Image Ltd and The Clash guitarist Keith Levene has died aged 65

Public Image Ltd and The Clash guitarist Keith Levene has died aged 65. The news was broken by author and writer Adam Hammond, who revealed that Levene died on Friday (November 11). “It is with great sadness I report that my close friend and legendary Public Image Limited guitarist Keith Levene passed away on Friday 11th November,” Hammond wrote. Advertisement “There is no doubt that Keith was one of the most innovative, audacious and influential guitarists of all time.” The tribute continued: “Keith sought to create a new paradigm in music and with willing collaborators John Lydon and Jah Wobble succeeded in doing just that. His guitar work over the nine minutes of ‘Theme’, the first track on the first PiL album, defined what alternative music should be. “As well as helping to make PiL the most important band of the age, Keith also founded The Clash with Mick Jones and had a major influence on their early sound. So much of what we listen to today owes much to Keith’s work, some of it acknowledged, most of it not.” Hammond concluded: “Our thoughts and love go out to his partner Kate, sister Jill and all of Keith’s family and… Read More →

12NOVNews

Quavo pays tribute to cousin and Migos bandmate Takeoff: “You are our angel”

Quavo has penned a lengthy tribute to his cousin and Migos bandmate Takeoff following his death this month. READ MORE: How the understated Takeoff became the real superstar of Migos Takeoff, real name Kirsnick Khari Ball, was shot and killed at a bowling alley in Houston, Texas in the early hours of November 1. He was 28 years old. After Takeoff’s funeral took place yesterday (November 11) at the 21,000-capacity State Farm Arena in his home city of Atlanta, Georgia, Quavo has taken to Instagram to pay tribute to the rapper. Advertisement “It’s so hard to tell you Ima miss you because you always with me and we did everything together,” the message began. “Since we were kids you been by my side, lookin up at me, them eyes waiting on me to make the next move.. then you followed up right behind me.” “Nothing ever bothered Take and he didn’t bother anybody,” Quavo wrote later in the tribute, going on to call his cousin “by far the funniest person in [the] room”. He added: “This whole time I’ve been trying to figure out what you really are to me because nephew wasn’t it. We hated that word “nephew” or when they said “Unc and… Read More →

11NOVNews

Paul Cook on if Sex Pistols might ever reunite again

Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook has shot down any hopes that the band could reunite, saying “there’s absolutely no chance of that happening.” “I wouldn’t want to do it anyway, especially after the Pistol court case last year, which was a shitshow. Being in the High Court was the last place I wanted to be, with guys in wigs grilling you,” Cook told NME in an interview as part of the ‘Does Rock N’Roll Kill Brain Cells?‘ series. “It was a horrible experience.” READ MORE: ‘Pistol’ review: fast-paced biopic captures the Sex Pistols story “I would have preferred to have worked it out down the pub with a couple of pints. I think we’re too old to be singing ‘Anarchy In The UK’ at our age anyway. It wouldn’t feel right!” Advertisement Cook and the Pistols’ guitarist, Steve Jones, took the band’s frontman, John Lydon, to court last year after he refused to license the group’s music for use in Danny Boyle’s biopic series Pistol. Cook and Jones won the lawsuit, which is said to have left Lydon in “financial ruin”. The drummer admitted that he’s only just been able to watch the Disney+ series, in which he is played by Wunderhorse‘s… Read More →

11NOVNews

Smashing Pumpkins initially met Billy Corgan’s triple album idea with “a big shrug”

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has admitted that his idea for a new triple album was initially met with “a big shrug” from his bandmates. READ MORE: Smashing Pumpkins release new single ‘Beguiled’ and tell us about their three-part “rock opera”, ‘ATUM’ The band are set to release the first instalment of a new three-part “rock opera” album, ‘ATUM’, next week (November 15). Following on from 2020’s ‘CYR’, the forthcoming 33-song album serves as a sequel to the band’s classic double records ‘Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness’ (1995) and ‘Machina/The Machines Of God’ (2000). In a new interview with The Guardian, Corgan said that the initial idea for the record was met coldly by his bandmates, with Corgan himself describing his own “sentimentality” with regards to nodding to the band’s older albums as “unbearable”. Advertisement Describing how the band met the idea for the triple album with “a big shrug,” Corgan added: “Some of my own sentimentalism, I find it unbearable – like: ‘Oh, jeez, get off the hearts and stars’. But sometimes I find myself grappling for something that gives me the same je ne sais quoi feeling as when I watch the old silent movies.” Elsewhere in the interview,… Read More →

11NOVNews

Dance Gavin Dance welcome back Tilian Pearson following sexual assault allegations

Dance Gavin Dance have welcomed Tilian Pearson back to the band after the vocalist departed this summer amid sexual assault allegations. The first allegations against Pearson emerged in early June, when a woman claimed on Reddit that she’d been “preyed upon” by the singer across several interactions. Pearson responded to her allegations directly, writing in a statement of his own that “every sexual act was purely consensual”. Another Reddit user, however, claimed shortly afterwards that Pearson had forced her into sex. He subsequently stated that he felt their encounter to be “a consensual experience” and claimed he would “be entering an intensive therapy program to address this issue head on”. Numerous other allegations came to light on social media around that time, with Dance Gavin Dance sharing a statement on June 3 in which they confirmed Pearson would be “stepping away from the band”. Later, the group were removed from the Coheed And Cambria tour where they were due to appear as the support act. Now, as Consequence reports, Dance Gavin Dance have posted a statement online to announce that Pearson has returned to the fold. They began the message by alluding to the death of their bassist, Tim Feerick,… Read More →

11NOVNews

Watch The 1975 play ‘I’m In Love With You’ on ‘Jimmy Fallon’

The 1975 performed their recent single ‘I’m In Love With You’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon yesterday (November 10) – watch below. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – The 1975: “I’d rather be a pretend supervillain than some pretend hero” The Manchester band, who are currently on their North American ‘At Their Very Best’ tour, appeared as the musical guests on last night’s episode of the US chat show. Donning sharp suits, Matty Healy and co. played ‘I’m In Love With You’ on an understated studio set featuring a vintage rug and old fashioned lights. The song appears on the ’75’s fifth album ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, which came out last month. Advertisement Tune in here: The group kicked off their current headline tour in Uncasville, Connecticut last Thursday (November 3), where they debuted an ambitious and dazzling new stage design. During a gig at Madison Square Garden in New York this week, frontman Healy ate raw meat, did push-ups and then crawled into a hollowed-out TV set as part of the ‘Consumption’ interlude. In a five-star review of that same show, NME wrote: “It’s the kind of night that only The 1975 could host,… Read More →

11NOVNews

JYP Entertainment issues statement addressing invasion of Stray Kids’ privacy

JYP Entertainment, the agency behind Stray Kids, has announced plans to take “civil and criminal measures” against individuals invading the group’s privacy. In a statement posted to the group’s fancafe earlier today (November 11), the management agency explained that members of Stray Kids have continued to face repeated situations of privacy invasion, despite “several previous announcements” issued by JYP Entertainment regarding this issue. 아티스트 사생활 침해 행위 관련 안내https://t.co/zu3CMXqLhY — Stray Kids (@Stray_Kids) November 11, 2022 Advertisement “[S]erious mental and physical distress is being experienced not only by the artist, but also their neighbours who live in the same building,” JYP Entertainment said of the effect the privacy invasion cases have had on the group. To avoid future incidents, JYP Entertainment announced that CCTV footage of people following the group’s members to their dorm room has been gathered and forwarded to the police, and that “all possible civil and criminal measures available” will be taken against individuals caught stalking the group’s members in the future, citing South Korea’s stalking-related laws. The statement added that anyone caught stalking Stray Kids will also be blacklisted from the group’s fanclub activities. “We notify you that we continue to have no intention of reaching… Read More →

10NOVNews

Phoebe Bridgers has $3.8million defamation lawsuit dismissed

The defamation lawsuit against Phoebe Bridgers has been dismissed, it has been reported. The ‘Punisher’ singer-songwriter was sued by producer Chris Nelson in September 2021. It came about after Bridgers directed her Instagram followers to a thread written by her friend Emily Bannon, which Nelson claimed was defamatory. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Phoebe Bridgers: “I definitely feel a lot less apologetic than I did before” Nelson sought $3.8million (£2.8million) in damages, claiming Bridgers “intentionally used her high-profile public platform on Instagram to publish false and defamatory statements” about him “in order to destroy his reputation”. Advertisement Responding to the allegations in a sworn declaration this February, Bridgers said: “I believe that the statements I made in my Instagram story are true. My statements were made based on my personal knowledge, including statements I personally heard Mr. Nelson make.” Bridgers sought to end the lawsuit during that court appearance, citing California’s anti-SLAPP law (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). The motion filed said that Nelson was enough of a public person that he must prove that Bridgers “acted with actual malice”. Nelson subsequently demanded the right to depose Bridgers, saying it was the only way to prove that the… Read More →

09NOVNews

Esports organisation Fnatic debuts new music label with a lofi album

Esports organisation Fnatic has announced the launch of music label Fnatic Music, and released the label’s first album today (November 9). READ MORE: Best Nintendo Switch games: What are the best Switch games in 2022? In a statement, Fnatic shared that the album “has been curated as the perfect accompaniment for gaming” and is available on streaming services from today (November 9). Titled ‘Fnatic Island Vol. 1’, the 31-track album features over 40 lofi artists including No Spirit, Louk, Cassio and Hoogway. Advertisement “We chose the lofi genre for our debut album because of its already intertwined relationship within gaming esports, from its anime roots to the way it is already consumed en-masse by Gen Z and millenial gamers,” explained Joshua Brill, head of marketing at Fnatic. “Every track title on the album is inspired directly by our esports history, our players, our community and the wider gaming world,” added Brill. Fnatic isn’t the first esports organisation to found a music label – back in January, G2 Esports debuted its own record label with a power metal anthem titled ‘Our Way’. For last week’s Boss Level feature, NME spoke to Jake ‘Boaster’ Howlett, a professional Valorant player who is currently… Read More →