New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced the launch of a new digital vaccine passport in a bid to restart live events safely in the US state. READ MORE: UK Festivals on COVID testing and vaccination passports this summer: “Safety is all we think about” Designed in partnership with IBM, New York’s ‘Excelsior Pass’ is a free but voluntary platform that uses proven and secure technology to confirm if an individual has either been fully vaccinated against coronavirus or has recently tested negative for the virus. It’s hoped that the launch of the app, which will provide each user...
Lana Del Rey has revealed she has two titles in mind for her upcoming album of country covers. READ MORE: Lana Del Rey – ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’ review: a sublime statement Last month the singer-songwriter, who recently released her seventh album ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’, announced that she’s recorded a cover album full of country songs. Insisting there’s always been a country tone running through her music, she said: “I went back and listened to ‘Ride’ and ‘Video Games’ and thought, you know they’re kind of country. I mean, they’re definitely not pop.” Advertisement She continued: “Maybe...
If there was any doubt that Lil Nas X is one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, look to the sequence of events that’s taken place over the past 72 hours to alleviate it. On Friday, he dropped “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” a highly personal song about queer love that he wrote was “very scary” to release. “People will be angry, they will say I’m pushing an agenda,” he wrote in an accompanying note on social media. “But the truth is, I am. The agenda to make people stay the fuck out of other people’s...
Brian May has teamed up with his regular collaborator Kerry Ellis once again for a new track, ‘Panic Attack 2021 (It’s Gonna Be All Right)’ – you can hear their latest creation below. May and Ellis have worked together on music on a number of occasions over the years, such as their April 2017 joint album ‘Golden Days’. One of the tracks from that LP has now been reworked and given a very 2021 spin in a bid to offer some positivity during the coronavirus pandemic. ‘Panic Attack 2021’ is described as a “relentlessly positive new track” and a...
Fightback Lager have launched a Crowdfunder to offer fans the chance to own a stake in “the beer that saves music venues”. READ MORE: NME readers can get £10 off Fightback Lager and help save UK music venues Launching their campaign back in August, the brand with the tagline “this beer saves music venues” began selling its beer and cider range online in support of the MVT #saveourvenues campaign with help from the likes of Frank Turner and Iron Maiden. Now the company, formed in 2018 by three friends over a lunchtime pint in Camden’s Hawley Arms, is offering music and beer lovers...
Rag‘n’Bone Man has announced that he has collaborated with Pink on his forthcoming new single, ‘Anywhere Away From Here’. The track will feature on the singer’s upcoming new album ‘Life By Misadventure’, which is now set for release on May 7 via Columbia. READ MORE: The long, noble (and sometimes ignoble) history of indie bands writing songs for pop stars ‘Anywhere Away From Here’ will serve as the next preview of the LP when it is released as a single on April 9. Advertisement “This song is an honest reflection of wanting to disappear from uncomfortable situations – about...
Beartooth have announced a number of UK and European live dates for next year. This morning’s tour news (March 29) follows on from last week’s announcement of the five-piece’s upcoming new album ‘Below’, which is set for release on June 25 via Red Bull Records. Beartooth will be joined by Motionless In White and Stray From The Path on ‘The Below Tour’, which includes dates in Birmingham, Manchester and London. Advertisement Beartooth (Picture: Press) “I’ve never been more excited for a tour in my life,” Beartooth frontman Caleb Shomo said. “This is my favourite album I’ve ever made and...
Pete Davidson and Jack Harlow teamed up on Saturday Night Live over the weekend to deliver a not-so-serious explainer behind the current trend of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Davidson is seen in the video donning a Batman & Robin-style costume as he parodies Eminem‘s song ‘Without Me’ to explain the trend, with Harlow also appearing in the clip as a caretaker. “Here’s the thing about NFTs, it’s a non-fungible token you see,” Harlow raps in the clip. “Non-fungible means that it’s unique, there can only be one – like you or me.” Advertisement NFTs have regularly been in the news...
The likes of Davido, Kehlani and Pa Salieu have all been announced to play the first-ever Yam Carnival, which will make its debut in London this summer. Billed as “an unmissable celebration of Black culture from around the world,” the carnival will take place on Clapham Common on Saturday August 28. Other major acts heading to the inaugural Yam Carnival include the likes of Femi Kuti, IAMDDB, Ms Banks, Princess Nokia and Honey Dijon. Advertisement Tickets go on sale from Thursday (April 1) at 12PM and you can buy them here. Davido’s performance at the event will follow on...
Pete Doherty has revealed that he’s developed a love of French cheese on toast after ditching his hellraiser days for a slower pace of life in Normandy. The hard-living Libertines frontman opened up on his relocation to France after recent photos showed him enjoying a leisurely walk in the seaside town of Étretat with girlfriend Katia De Vidas, who is also his bandmate in The Puta Madres. He told The Sun: “I like Comté, Comté on toast. My guilty pleasure is sleeping. ‘For years and years, I would stay up for five or six days and then I would...
