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Record Store Day UK’s official beer, ‘Meantime 33:45’, launches today
Record Store Day UK has today (June 4) launched a new beer, ‘Meantime 33:45’. READ MORE: Here’s the full list of Record Store Day 2021 releases The annual celebration of independent record stores across the UK is due to take place on June 12 and July 17 this year. To mark the occasion, Record Store Day has launched the new beer in collaboration with the Meantime Brewing Company. Advertisement The Greenwich-based brewery will become RSD’s “official beer partner” for the event, which celebrates over 200 independent record shops across the UK. Proceeds from the sale of ‘Meantime 33:45 beer’ will...
Lorde and Taylor Swift songwriter Joel Little sells back catalogue to Hipgnosis
Joel Little, who has written hits for artists including Lorde and Taylor Swift, has become the latest songwriter to sell his back catalogue to the Hipgnosis Song Fund. The London-listed songs investment fund has purchased his entire back catalogue of hits, which includes Lorde’s ‘Royals’ and Swifts ‘Me’. The songwriter’s works have already been streamed more than 15 billion times. Merck Mercuriadis, CEO and founder of Hipgnosis, said: “Joel is one of the most important songwriters in the world today. His songs are amongst the most streamed songs of the last 10 years amassing more than 15 billion streams...
Wolf Alice’s new album ‘Blue Weekend’ is 2021’s highest-rated album on Metacritic so far
Wolf Alice’s new album ‘Blue Weekend’ is currently 2021’s highest-rated album on Metacritic. READ MORE: Wolf Alice: “We’re a tiny bit more comfortable in the world” The London band’s third studio album, their first since 2017’s ‘Visions Of A Life’, was released today (June 4), featuring the singles ‘How Can I Make It OK?’, ‘No Hard Feelings’, ‘The Last Man On Earth’ and ‘Smile’. ‘Blue Weekend’ has been met with acclaim by music critics, and review aggregator Metacritic — which “distils the opinions of the most respected critics writing online and in print to a single number” — has now ranked the album...
Listen to Orville Peck’s ‘Country Road’ version of Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’
Orville Peck has shared his ‘Country Road’ cover of Lady Gaga‘s ‘Born This Way’ – you can listen to it below. READ MORE: Orville Peck: “Female rappers like Doja Cat have a lot of cowboy energy” Peck’s cover is the second record to be taken from a special 10th anniversary edition of Gaga’s second album ‘Born This Way’, following Big Freedia’s reimagining of ‘Judas’. The album, which features six new takes on the album’s tracks by artists who are representative of the LGBTQIA+ community, will be released on June 18. Advertisement “My official country road cover of ‘Born This...
Olivia Rodrigo scores second UK Number One double for ‘Sour’ and ‘Good 4 U’
Olivia Rodrigo has claimed her second week at Number One on the official UK albums chart for ‘Sour‘ alongside ‘Good 4 U‘ in the singles chart. The NME Big Read: Olivia Rodrigo – “It’s important for me to be taken seriously as a songwriter” The US singer-songwriter first scored the chart double last week (May 28), and became the youngest ever artist to do so, beating top-spot album competition in the midweeks from Easy Life and Texas. As OfficialCharts.com reports, Rodrigo closed out the week today (June 4) with 17,000 chart sales ahead of her closest competitor, which was Easy Life...
Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker teases SZA and Mark Ronson collaboration could be coming soon
Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker has teased that a track he and Mark Ronson worked on with SZA could be getting a release soon. READ MORE: Every Tame Impala song ranked in order of greatness Parker and Ronson debuted the untitled track during a DJ battle at New York’s Governors Ball festival back in 2017, but it’s yet to be released in full. Appearing as a guest on the latest episode of Ronson’s Fader Uncovered podcast, Parker confirmed that he’s been in talks with SZA to release the collaboration. Advertisement “Once a month someone just writes: ‘Release the Tame Impala and...
Watch Dua Lipa become a cowgirl in new video for ‘Love Again’
Dua Lipa has shared the music video for ‘Love Again’, the latest single from her 2020 album ‘Future Nostalgia‘. READ MORE: Dua Lipa – “If somebody told me not to discuss issues I’m passionate about? I wouldn’t listen” In the Elderkin-directed video Lipa is seen donning rodeo gear, riding a mechanical bull and gyrating with clown-faced cowboys. Watch it below. ‘Love Again’ is the sixth single taken from Lipa’s chart-topping second album, for which she won the Best Pop Vocal Album award at this year’s Grammys. Advertisement Her newest song is ‘Can They Hear Us?’, a track written for...
Chvrches on the “stabilising” power of writing a new album when “the whole world was on fire”
Chvrches have spoken about the grounding experience of writing their fourth album ‘Screen Violence’ during the coronavirus pandemic. READ MORE: Chvrches on the cover of NME – “Are the machines evil, or are we?” The Scottish trio spoke to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story interview, in which bandmember Martin Doherty described the writing and recording process as “stabilising” in an otherwise uncertain year. “Making this record was really good for finding something to centre you when it felt like the whole world was on fire,” said Doherty. He, along with frontwoman Lauren Mayberry and fellow multi-instrumentalist...
Art Brut’s Eddie Argos looks back on past scuffles with Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party and The Bravery
Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos has shared tales of the band’s previous indie scuffles in the ’00s with the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, The Bravery and The Magic Numbers. Argos was speaking to NME for this week’s edition of Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, when the frontman spoke of how he “used to be quite grumpy, like the indie Witchfinder General”. However, one particularly notable fracas was caused by guitarist Ian Catskilkin. “We were at a festival together with the Arctic Monkeys once and were really tired,” Argos remembered. “Our guitar player Ian was trying to...Recent Posts
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