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BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge Introducing returns for nationwide talent search

BBC Radio 1 and BBC Introducing have announced the return of their nationwide talent search ‘Live Lounge Introducing’. READ MORE: Clara Amfo on her favourite ever Live Lounge performances The winner of the search will be awarded the opportunity to perform in the Radio 1 Live Lounge, with their set broadcast live to millions of listeners on Rickie, Melvin and Charlie’s Radio 1 Live Lounge show “Undiscovered” artists can enter by submitting a track via the BBC Music Introducing Uploader. Submissions are open until 11.59pm on Saturday 12 March, after which the tracks will be reviewed by a panel of industry experts. Advertisement The panel will include Introducing alumni artists as well as Radio 1 and Introducing DJs and producers, who together will select the top five best tracks and the eventual winner. It will mark the second year the competition has been held. Last year’s edition saw 19 year-old Bonnie Kemplay from Edinburgh crowned the winner out of over 10,000 entrants. She went on to sign a record deal, play at Reading and Leeds Festivals off the back of the award. Rickie, Melvin and Charlie said of the launch: “We loved Radio 1 Live Lounge Introducing last year, and… Read More →

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Dizzee Rascal smashes paparazzi’s camera after guilty verdict in assault case

Dizzee Rascal was found guilty of assaulting his ex-fiancé in a London Magistrates court this afternoon (March 7). The 37-year-old rapper, whose real name is Dylan Mills, was found guilty of assault in relation to an incident that took place in Streatham on June 8, 2021. In newly surfaced footage, Mills, clearly upset with the verdict, was captured on film leaving the court and knocking a camera out of the hands of a photographer. He then proceeded to pick the camera up and throw it across the street. Advertisement You can see the incident below: Furious Dizzee Rascal throws camera across street after guilty verdict in assault case – more here https://t.co/l4Afs8CZqX pic.twitter.com/cv70D58OmH — ITV London (@itvlondon) March 7, 2022 Mills was originally arrested on June 8, 2021 on suspicion of common assault and was later released on bail. He was later charged on August 2. Metropolitan Police said at the time of the incident that “officers attended and a woman reported minor injuries. She did not require hospital treatment.” On September 3, Mills appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court and denied the charges made against him. At the hearing, Mills pleaded not guilty to “pushing his head into the complainant’s head and pushing… Read More →

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Britney Spears vows to continue seeking justice against “those who harmed me”

Britney Spears has vowed to continue her fight for justice over her conservatorship, saying that those responsible for it “got away with it.” READ MORE: Controlling Britney Spears review – toxic conservatorship back under the microscope The star was released from her 13-year court-ordered conservatorship last year and has been outspoken about her family’s treatment of her on social media since. In a since-deleted Instagram post, shared on Sunday (March 6), Spears said: “I was treated less than, demoralized and embarrassed … nobody should ever be treated the way I was …. The reason I bring this up is because ending the conservatorship is a huge deal but come on … THAT’S IT ???” Advertisement She added: “They all got away with it !!! If you’ve ever been in shock for 4 months … threatened for your life … you would be upset too … I’m not done … I want justice and won’t stop until something is done to those who harmed me … and YES I was harmed !!!! This is a message to all who have been threatened for their life … You are NOT ALONE !!!!” Britney Spears in 2018. CREDIT: Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for GLAAD Spears also… Read More →

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Sam Smith and Normani sued for “obvious” copyright infringement on collaboration

A new lawsuit alleges that Sam Smith and Normani copied elements of a song on their hit collaboration, ‘Dancing With A Stranger.’ READ MORE: Sam Smith – ‘Love Goes’ review: pop balladeer leans even further into heartbreak than before In a complaint filed in a Los Angeles federal court last week (March 4), songwriters Jordan Vincent, Christopher Miranda and Rosco Banlaoi allege that the pair’s song has the “same” title, chorus and composition as a song they wrote. The song in question was published on Vincent’s YouTube and Spotify channels back in 2017. The complaint, which was obtained by Rolling Stone, read: “The hook/chorus in both songs — the most significant part and artistic aspect of these works — contains the lyrics ‘dancing with a stranger’ being sung over a nearly identical melody and musical composition.” Advertisement The lawsuit goes on to show a side-by-side comparison of the two songs and further alleges that the track’s accompanying videos are also similar. It claims that “both videos consist of a girl performing interpretive dance alone in a minimalist studio, interspersed with shots of the male vocalist.” It adds: “A girl dancing alone is not an obvious visual theme for a music video… Read More →

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Watch STAYC perform moving cover of BTS’ ‘Mikrokosmos’

Rookie girl group STAYC have performed a heartfelt rendition of BTS‘s 2019 song, ‘Mikrokosmos’. READ MORE: STAYC – ‘YOUNG-LUV.COM’ review: a mature, ambitious return that ups the ante During their recent appearance on live music show Yoo Heeyeol’s Sketchbook to promote their latest mini-album ‘YOUNG-LUV.COM’, the six-member girl group took to the stage to perform a cover of ‘Mikrokosmos’. The track is notably one of the most well-loved among fans of the boyband, and is widely considered an unofficial fan song. STAYC performed their largely faithful rendition of the emotional song accompanied by a live band. “You got me, I dream while looking at you / I got you, inside those pitch black nights / The lights we saw in each other / Were saying the same thing,” they harmonise on the stirring final chorus. Advertisement Elsewhere during their appearance on the show, the girl group also performed their latest single ‘RUN2U’. The song, along with their mini-album ‘YOUNG-LUV.COM’ was released in late February with a glitzy new music video. The release came five months after STAYC’s first mini-album ‘Stereotype’, which was released in September 2021. Meanwhile, that project had been the follow-up to their viral breakout hit ‘ASAP’, which dropped… Read More →

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The Regrettes announce full details of new album ‘Further Joy’

The Regrettes have shared full details of their new album ‘Further Joy’ – listen to new track ‘That’s What Makes Me Love You’ below. READ MORE: The Regrettes’ Lydia Night on new single ‘Monday’: “Fuck yeah, it’s a pop song” The title of the four-piece band’s new album was revealed last year, and has so far been previewed by previous single ‘Monday’ and recent single ‘You’re So Fucking Pretty’. It will follow the band’s 2019 album ‘How Do You Love?’. According to vocalist Lydia Night, the title ‘Further Joy’ “summarised what it meant to be on the hamster wheel of constantly chasing happiness, but in turn, that’s what makes you unhappy. I was stuck in a loop of wanting to be better, wanting to be good, and therefore I couldn’t be here.” Advertisement ‘Further Joy’ will be released on April 8 via Warner. Check out ‘That’s What Makes Me Love You’ alongside the album’s artwork and tracklist below. 1. ‘Anxieties (Out of Time)’ 2. ‘Monday’ 3. ‘That’s What Makes Me Love You’ 4. ‘Barely on My Mind’ 5. ‘Subtleties (Never Giving Up On You)’ 6. ‘La Di Da’ 7. ‘Homesick’ 8. ‘Better Now’ 9. ‘Rosy’ 10. ‘You’re So Fucking Pretty’ 11. ‘Step… Read More →

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Listen to BADBADNOTGOOD’s new single ‘Open Channels’

BADBADNOTGOOD have shared a new single titled ‘Open Channels’, which was previously only available on physical copies of their 2021 LP. The track was uploaded to streaming services earlier in the week, arriving as a moody, ambling, jazz-fuelled journey across a four-and-a-half-minute runtime. It was accompanied by a Sylvain Chaussée-directed music video, shot almost entirely in black and white, with only the occasional splash of colour. Check it out below. Advertisement The track is lifted from the band’s most recent album ‘Talk Memory’, but was previously only available for those who had purchased hard copies. The record, which marked their first full-length release since 2016, comprises singles ‘Signal From The Noise’ and ‘Beside April’, among other cuts. Speaking of the album prior to its release, the band said: “It took a year or two of just living life to get to the place where the creative process was exciting again and once we actually went into the studio it was the most concise recording and writing process we’ve ever had.” NME gave the record three stars in a review, saying it lacked the “playful spirit and brash confidence the band carried themselves with in the early days”. “Without attitude or… Read More →

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Ed Sheeran’s court case into copyright of ‘Shape Of You’ begins

Ed Sheeran’s court case into the copyright of ‘Shape Of You’ has begun today (March 4). READ MORE: Ed Sheeran – ‘=’ review: the millennial Lionel Richie indulges his saccharine streak He appeared at the High Court this morning for the start of a three-week legal battle over the copyright of song ‘Shape Of You’. Sheeran is involved in a dispute with two musicians who claim his 2017 hit borrows parts of their song ‘Oh Why’, which was released in March 2015. Advertisement Sami Chokri (who performs under Sami Switch) and Ross O’Donoghue claim Sheeran’s song is similar to “particular lines and phrases” of their own song. Sheeran and his co-writers, Steven McCutcheon and John McDaid, were barred by music licensing body PRS for Music from collecting an estimated £20m in royalties from the performances or broadcasts of Shape of You after the songwriters of ‘Oh Why’ accused him of “appropriating” their music. They accused him of partaking “consciously or subconsciously in the habit of appropriating the compositional skill and labour of other songwriters”. Chokri claims that he sent the track to Sheeran’s close inner circle in a bid to work with the star, but later heard the chorus on… Read More →

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Madonna drops off new ‘Frozen’ remix with Sickick and Fireboy DML

Madonna and Canadian producer Sickick have added Nigerian singer Fireboy DML to a second version of their ‘Frozen’ remix. READ MORE: The Big Read – Madonna: ”People pick on me. That’s just the way it is” Madonna and Sickick first released a remix of the 1998 classic – taken from the queen of pop’s ‘Ray Of Light’ album – last December, which came after it went viral on TikTok. Today (March 3), the pair have shared another reworking, but this time they’ve brought onboard Fireboy DML, who recently earned acclaim for his ‘Peru’ collaboration with Ed Sheeran. Advertisement Madonna announced the remix earlier in the week when she took to Instagram to share a photo of herself and DML on the set of the song’s video, which she said is due soon after the release of the track. You can check out the new remix of ‘Frozen’ below: Earlier this week, Madonna weighed in on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, voicing her support for the latter. It comes after Ukraine severed diplomatic ties with Russia and declared martial law after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an attack on the neighbouring nation last Thursday (February 24). Advertisement “Russia’s Pointless and Greed Driven Invasion… Read More →

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The Bluetones’ Mark Morriss addresses abuse allegations made by ex-wife

The Bluetones’ Mark Morriss has posted a lengthy open letter responding to allegations of abuse made by his ex-wife. Last November, Morriss was accused of years of abuse by newspaper executive Anna Wharton. She accused Morriss of being a “pathological liar and serial predator,” detailing years of alleged gaslighting, abuse and cheating in a blog post titled ‘If I’m Lying, Come Sue Me’. When approached by NME about the claims, Morriss said: “I completely refute all the allegations of abuse which have been raised in this article,” and did not wish to comment. However when speaking to The Guardian, he said: “I may have been thoughtless and selfish in some of the dealings in my personal life of late, but these allegations of abuse and gaslighting are wholly untrue, and I refute them completely.” Now Morriss has posted a blog post of his own, simply titled ‘Statement’. I have a few things I need to get off my chest… thanks. https://t.co/E0Qif4AMO2 — Mark Morriss (@TheQuill) March 2, 2022 He starts by apologising “for the pain I caused with my infidelity and dishonesty. I acknowledge that I have caused emotional distress to people I love. But I believe that this is… Read More →

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Holly Humberstone on her “bizarre and cool” journey from buying NME CDs to the BandLab NME Awards 2022

Holly Humberstone has reflected on the “bizarre and really cool” experience of being nominated at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 several years after she first started collecting NME CDs with her family. The Grantham singer-songwriter went on to prevail in the Best Mixtape category at last night’s O2 Academy Brixton ceremony (March 2) for her 2021 release ‘The Walls Are Way Too Thin’. READ MORE: The BandLab NME Awards 2022: all the action in glorious photos Speaking to NME on the red carpet prior to her triumphant moment, Humberstone said that she was honoured to be in attendance at the BandLab NME Awards for the first time. Advertisement “It’s so cool, it’s such an honour,” she said. “My family used to collect the NME demo CDs when I was young, so I discovered loads of my favourite music through those CDs. So to be here, nominated for Best Mixtape, is bizarre and really, really cool. “I just feel really lucky. [‘The Walls Are Way Too Thin’] is a really special piece of work to me, and I’m glad you guys like it.” Holly Humberstone at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 (Picture: Eva Pentel / NME) Asked about the progress on… Read More →

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Jehnny Beth teases “fun” and “punk” new music at the BandLab NME Awards 2022

Jehnny Beth has told NME what to expect of her upcoming new music, teasing that it’s both “fun” and “punk”. READ MORE: BandLab NME Awards 2022 – full list of winners The Savages vocalist was speaking on the red carpet at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 at London’s O2 Academy Brixton last night (March 2), where she presented CHVRCHES and Robert Smith with the award for Best Song By A UK Artist. Discussing her plans for the rest of 2022 and beyond, Beth said: “I’ve been acting in a few movies in France, so that’s carrying on, and films are coming out.” Advertisement She added: “And then I’ve done some new music, and that will come out pretty soon, I hope.” Jehnny Beth on the red carpet at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 (Picture: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images) Asked what we can expect in terms of the stylistic direction of the new music, Beth said: “It’s fun, it’s punk, but electronic as well.” Beth’s last new music came in the summer of 2021 when she released a collaborative album with Primal Scream‘s Bobby Gillespie called ‘Utopian Ashes’. In a four-star review, NME said it was a “thoughtful collaboration that both surprises and delivers”. Hosted by… Read More →

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Patti Smith to headline one-day festival in London

It’s been announced that Patti Smith will headline a new one-day festival in London. READ MORE: Patti Smith live in London: punk’s poet laureate claims legend status Higher Ground Festival will take place on the slopes of Alexandra Palace on July 24. It will be headlined by Smith, with Nadine Shah, Connie Constance, Spelling, Nabihah Iqbal and Joviale also confirmed to be performing. Higher Ground Festival will also host DJ sets, workshops, talks and readings. Tickets start at £40 and are available here. Advertisement First poster for Higher Ground Festival. CREDIT: Press Late last year, Smith was awarded the keys to her adopted city, New York. “Some have called Patti Smith the godmother of punk,” Mayor Bill De Blasio said in a speech. “I think it’s a fair phrase because she inspired so many people, helped shape a whole artistic movement, and in many ways a political movement as well.” “I wish I could give New York City the key to me,” Smith joked while accepting the honour, “because that’s how I feel about our city. With all its challenges and difficulties, it remains – and I’m quite a traveler – the most diverse city, to me, in the world.” Last… Read More →

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Kanye West kidnaps and buries Pete Davidson in new video for ‘Eazy’

Kanye West has shared a music video for his recent collab with The Game, ‘Eazy’, in which he kidnaps and buries Pete Davidson alive, before seemingly decapitating him. READ MORE: On the scene at Kanye West’s ‘Donda 2’ event in Miami: “It felt like a cult convention” The video was shared to West’s Instagram page overnight (March 2). In it, a claymated caricature of the rapper stands on a bed of roses while holding a severed head. The video cuts back and forth between shots of West – clad in a leather jacket and black mask, an outfit he’s donned frequently in recent times – standing with the head, and clips of what seem to show the way he acquired it. Flanked by his two right-hand men, West kidnaps Davidson – who currently dating his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian – and buries the Saturday Night Live star in a bed of soil, leaving his head exposed. The rapper sprinkles seeds around, leading a bush of roses to grow from Davidson’s head. West then pulls out a pair of gardening shears and begins to trim the roses, cutting to a close-up shot of Davidson’s eyes suddenly going white. Advertisement According to a… Read More →

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Fontaines D.C. on winning Best Band In The World at the BandLab NME Awards 2022: “About time!”

Fontaines D.C. have reacted to winning Best Band In The World at the BandLab NME Awards 2022: “About time!” READ MORE: BandLab NME Awards 2022 – see full list of winners The Irish band beat out Amyl & The Sniffers, Ben&Ben, Bring Me The Horizon, CHVRCHES, Glass Animals, HAIM, Måneskin, Nova Twins and Wolf Alice for the trophy. In their acceptance speech, they gave props to CHVRCHES and Robert Smith for their performance of The Cure’s ‘Just Like Heaven’ earlier in the night, and poked fun at the government: “We’re gonna party like Number 10 tonight!” Speaking to NME in the winner’s room at the O2 Academy Brixton on March 2, frontman Grian Chatten had a succinct response to their win: “About time.” He added: “We’ve never really won an award before, so I don’t know, I’ve never seen people so elated in my whole life.” Carlos O’Connell quipped: “We had to keep telling ourselves we were the best band in the world from the moment we started. And now that someone else has said it, this might be the beginning of the end.” To which Chatten said: “This lad has the propensity to talk the most depressing shit every… Read More →

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Taylor Swift wins Best Reissue at the BandLab NME Awards 2022

Taylor Swift has won Best Reissue at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 for the re-imagining of her 2012 pivotal album, ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’. READ MORE: BandLab NME Awards 2022 – full list of winners She beat out OutKast (‘ATLiens)’, Nirvana (‘Nevermind’), Radiohead (‘Kid Amnesiae’), and The Beatles (‘Let It Be’) for the prize. In a four-star review, NME said the album’s production is “a little sharper” than the original 2012 release, “with instrumentation being brought further into focus”, adding that Swift’s voice had matured “significantly in the intervening decade” since she released ‘Red’. The new version also featured fresh additions like the poignant charity single ‘Ronan’, ‘Better Man’ as song that was originally written for Little Big Town in 2016, and ‘Babe’, which long-time collaborator, producer, and this year’s Songwriter Award winner Jack Antonoff adds brass and ‘1989’-style shine to. In 2020, Swift picked up the NME award for Best Solo Act In The World, sharing that she was “honoured and very excited” about the award. “I want to say thank you so much to anyone who writes about music, who blogs about music, who tweets about music, who cares about music,” she said. “But most of all, I want… Read More →

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Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar and Future to headline Rolling Loud Miami 2022

The organisers of Rolling Loud Miami have announced the line-up for the festival’s 2022 edition in July, with Kanye West (billed under his legal name, Ye), Future and Kendrick Lamar headlining across the three-day event. Set to run from July 22-24 at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, this year’s event will also feature appearances from the likes of Playboi Carti, Lil Durk, Three 6 Mafia, Lil Uzi Vert, Gucci Mane, Lil Baby, Kodak Black, Baby Keem, Trippie Redd and many more. See the full line-up for this year’s Rolling Loud Miami below. Tickets to Rolling Loud Miami 2022 go on sale at 12pm ET next Monday (March 7) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rolling Loud (@rollingloud) Advertisement This marks the second time in a row that Future has been announced to headline a US Rolling Loud event, after the rapper topped the bill for last year’s Rolling Loud California – where he brought Kanye West out for a surprise appearance during his set. Notably, this year’s iteration will also see DaBaby return to the Rolling Loud Miami stage, almost exactly a year since the rapper sparked backlash at the event for making homophobic comments and offensive remarks about people living… Read More →

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Listen to Haim’s “off the cuff” new song ‘Lost Track’

Haim have shared a new song called ‘Lost Track’ – you can listen to it below. The LA trio’s latest offering was previewed during select screenings of Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson’s new coming-of-age film that stars Alana Haim alongside Cooper Hoffman. READ MORE: Alana Haim on ‘Licorice Pizza’: “Working with Tom Waits was like being in the presence of a god” Anderson (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood) began working with Haim in 2017 on the accompanying visuals to their second album, ‘Something To Tell You’. He then created the artwork and videos for their latest record, 2020’s ‘Women In Music Pt. III’. Advertisement Yesterday (February 28) Haim teased the ‘Lost Track’ lyric “I’ll never get back what I lost track of“ while reflecting on how the song came to be. “We had that line written for the last year but could never figure out what to do with it,” they wrote in a statement on social media. “We kept writing it down, not knowing where it should live. “Cut to PTA shooting the director’s cut issue for [W magazine] with our baby sister [Alana] on the cover! An opportunity arose to do a quick music component while shooting the… Read More →

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Yard Act cancel tonight’s Newcastle show due to illness

Yard Act have cancelled their scheduled performance in Newcastle tonight (March 1) due to illness. The band are currently out on a headline tour of the UK in support of their debut studio album, ‘The Overload’, which was released on January 21. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Yard Act: “Life is really fucking messy with no right answers” In a statement posted on social media today, Yard Act frontman James Smith told fans that he’d been “battling a sickness bug since Sunday” after performing a homecoming show in Leeds the night before. Advertisement As a result, the group have been forced to scrap their gig at Newcastle venue The Cluny this evening. “Was hunkered down in the hopes I would’ve shaken it by now, but I still can’t move an inch without running to the toilet. I’m gutted,” Smith explained. I hate canceling shows, I'm so sorry. We are working on a reschedule if you hold tight or you can get a refund from point of purchase too. Hoping we will be able to be back on the road for Edinburgh tomorrow but right now I need to stay in bed shaking and depressed. x — Yard Act… Read More →

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Creeper announced for 2000 Trees: “It will be a big rock ‘n’ roll spectacular”

As part of the #7DaysOfTrees announcements, NME can exclusive confirm that Creeper are the latest band to be revealed for 2000 Trees Festival. Check out the line-up and an exclusive interview with singer Will Gould below. READ MORE: Creeper live in London: a pantomime of gothic spectacle Taking to the main stage before headliners Jimmy Eat World, Creeper will be joining the likes of IDLES, Thrice, Turnstile, The Regrettes, Rolo Tomassi and Bob Vylan at the Cheltenham rock festival this July. The latest line-up for 2000 Trees Festival. Credit: Press Advertisement “2000 Trees gave Creeper one of our first festival experiences and they’ve believed in us ever since,” Gould told NME, before describing the event as “an absolute mates-fest”. This summer will mark the band’s fourth time playing the event, and follows the release of last year’s ‘American Noir’ EP, which was a continuation of 2020’s ‘Sex, Death And The Infinite Void’. Despite starting the cycle back in 2019, the band have only played the new songs a handful of times live but already “they’ve given us some of our favourite live moments,” said Gould. “The new songs have allowed a much more dynamic, exciting and elaborate live show,” he… Read More →

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Watch Dave give a heartfelt speech in honour of the late Jamal Edwards

During the first of his two gigs at London’s O2 Arena last night (February 28), Dave paused to pay tribute to his late friend and mentor Jamal Edwards, who died earlier this month at the age of 31. READ MORE: RIP Jamal Edwards, an inspiration who turned SB.TV into a Black British cultural dynasty Though no specific cause of death has been formally confirmed, friends of Edwards have claimed (via Metro) that the influential British author, broadcaster, DJ and founder of SB.TV passed away from a heart attack. In a statement, his mother said Edwards had succumbed to a “sudden illness”. Dave was one of the many artists Edwards championed before his mainstream breakout, as he told fans at the O2: “Jamal Edwards is the reason I’m standing in front of you guys here today. There’s so many different emotions that all of us feel – all of us that were so connected to him in so many different ways. Advertisement “We all have a different experience to him, but we all have so many things in common with the experience. And he’s one person in the world that just wanted to help, that just wanted to see every single… Read More →