Billie Eilish, Coldplay, Weezer and Dua Lipa are among the acts set to play this year’s iHeartRadio Festival. The two-day event is coming to Las Vegas in September, and will also feature Olivia Rodrigo, DaBaby, Maroon 5, Khalid and more. On September 17-18 at the T-Mobile Arena, acts will perform across two stages. On the second day of the festival, a special Daytime Stage will be held at the AREA15 venue, featuring Saweetie, All Time Low, 24kGoldn, and more alongside DaBaby and Rodrigo. Advertisement Tickets go on sale on June 25 here, while the event will also be streamed live online....
Sault have announced details of a new album – ‘Nine’ is set to come out next week and will only be available online for 99 days. The new album, which follows their pair of 2019 records, ‘5’ and ‘7’, was teased by the mysterious collective on Instagram earlier this week. Taking to the same platform today (June 16), Sault have confirmed that ‘Nine’ is indeed a new album, and gave details about its release. Advertisement “Nine will only exist for ninety nine days,” they wrote. “You can download from sault.global. Available on vinyl and all streaming platforms.” Upon visiting...
The tracklist for the official soundtrack to Space Jam: A New Legacy has been revealed. READ MORE: ‘Space Jam’: how it became a cult classic for ’90s kids Lil Wayne, Chance the Rapper, John Legend, Salt-N-Pepa, Leon Bridges, Brockhampton, Lil Uzi Vert and Big Freedia are among the all-star cast of musicians joining the musical additions on the sequel to the 1996 animated classic film. SAINt JHN and SZA unveiled their new song ‘Just For Me’, also written for the film, on Friday (June 11). Their collab follows Lil Baby and Kirk Franklin’s contribution ‘We Win’, which arrived at the end...
Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy has shared a new song as Scott Tanner, his character from his Parks and Recreation cameo. In the show, Tanner was the frontman of local band Land Ho! which Chris Pratt’s character Andy Dwyer successfully reunited for a benefit concert. Tweedy (as Tanner) has now released ‘Cold Water’, a track written for ‘The Awesome Album’, the recently-announced debut album from Dwyer’s fictional band in the show, Mouse Rat. Advertisement Featuring on the song is Duke Silver, the saxophone-wielding alter-ego of the show’s character Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) – watch its surreal video below. ‘The Awesome Album’...
Bob Dylan has announced details of a special live-streamed concert next month called Shadow Kingdom. The event, set to take place on July 18, will be the legend’s first live appearance since the release of his lauded 2020 album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’. READ MORE: Bob Dylan – ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ review: arguably his grandest poetic statement yet Per a statement from the show’s organisers, Shadow Kingdom will see the legendary singer and songwriter “in an intimate setting as he presents renditions of songs from his extensive and renowned body of work created especially for this event.” Advertisement Tickets...
BANKS has returned with a brand new single called ‘The Devil’, alongside its stunning video. The track, written and co-produced by the singer, is the first taster of an as-yet-unannounced upcoming project. The video for ‘The Devil’ was created by BANKS alongside director Jenna Marsh, and is said to be inspired by Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula and black comedy Death Becomes Her. Advertisement Of the visual, BANKS said in a statement: “This video represents the twisted, surreal, and playful world that I exist in as the devil. No demon can touch me as I am not tempted by their charm....
The first ever David Bowie World Fan Convention is due to take place across multiple venues in Liverpool next summer. Scheduled for June 17-19, 2022, the inaugural event will see a host of Bowie collaborators and affiliates presenting panels, live performances, and a “Bowie Ball” to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the artist’s classic album ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’. READ MORE: An oral history of David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ – five years on from his death Former band members and musical collaborators including Carlos Alomar, Robin Clark, Gail Ann Dorsey, Donny McCaslin,...
Chubby and The Gang have announced details of their second album – listen to new track ‘Coming Up Tough’ below. The London punks will release new album ‘The Mutt’s Nuts’ on August 27 via Partisan Records. It has previously been previewed by singles ‘Life’s Lemons’ and ‘Lightning Don’t Strike Twice’. READ MORE: Chubby and The Gang: west London hardcore punks’ thrilling debut captures lightning in a bottle Of the new single, frontman Charlie Manning Walker said: “‘Coming Up Tough’ is about a family member of mine who ended up going to prison at a very young age for over...
Former Maccabees frontman Orlando Weeks has shared the first taster of new material from his upcoming second solo album. Check out ‘Big Skies, Silly Faces’ below and our video interview with Weeks above. Having only released his solo debut ‘A Quickening‘ last June, Weeks felt inspired during his downtime from not touring due to the pandemic while also wanting to show the happier side of fatherhood that he didn’t fully explore on his last album. “The record is my attempt to fill in some of the blanks left by ‘A Quickening’, and to that end I wanted everything to...
Noel Gallagher has shared a track-by-track video talking through each and every song from his new High Flying Birds Greatest Hits, ‘Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021)’. Watch it first on NME below. The collection gathers songs from the former Oasis man’s three solo albums through to his latest trilogy of EPs – ‘Black Star Dancing‘, ‘This Is The Place‘ and ‘Blue Moon Rising‘ – as well as new singles ‘We’re On Our Way Now‘ and ‘Flying On The Ground‘. In the new video, Gallagher goes into a deep-dive into the writing of each of the tracks,...