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Metallica are working on a new album over Zoom during lockdown

Lars Ulrich has revealed that Metallica have been working on a new album over Zoom during the coronavirus-enforced lockdown. Read More: The show must go online: inside the rise of virtual gigs during the coronavirus crisis The drummer said back in April that there was “a very good chance” the band would utilise their extra downtime to produce a “quarantine record”, which would follow on from 2016’s ‘Hardwired… To Self Destruct’. Speaking to Swedish talk show host Fredrik Skavlan, Ulrich has now explained that Metallica had been “exchanging some ideas” over Zoom of late. Advertisement “So far, at least...
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Beyonce and Jay-Z sued over ‘Black Effect’ vocal credit

Beyonce and Jay-Z are being sued by Jamaican dancer L’Antoinette Stines, who claims the pair didn’t give her due credit for her role in their song Black Effect. In papers filed on Tuesday and subsequently obtained by TMZ, Stines claims the couple contacted her in March 2018 to help them find the best dancers for a video promoting their ‘On The Run II’ tour. After helping them, Stines claims they asked her to record her opinions on love and was told it would be used in the video “for promotional purposes”. Advertisement Stines alleges she signed a contract on the...
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Cardi B says new music is on the way: “It’s going to hit, too!”

Cardi B has told her fans once again that she’ll be releasing new music soon, saying “it’s going to hit, too!” The Bronx rapper’s last solo single release was ‘Press’, which came out over a year ago. She told fans just last month that her next single would be arriving “very, very soon”. Read more: Do give up the day job — what New York’s biggest stars did before they were famous New music has yet to materialise, however. Addressing fan questions on Twitter yesterday (June 16), Cardi told one Twitter user “I’m coming” in response to a tweet...
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Paris Jackson’s band The Soundflowers announce debut EP

Paris Jackson has announced that she’ll team up with boyfriend Gabriel Glenn to release their debut EP as The Soundflowers. The five-track effort will arrive next week, featuring the tracks ‘Your Look (Glorious)’, ‘Geronimo’ and ‘Notes On A Ghost’. Paris, the daughter of the late Michael Jackson, formed the group with Gabriel after the pair met at Los Angeles’ Rainbow Bar and Grill where he was gigging with his band TrashDogs. Advertisement “I started writing around 13 when I bought myself a guitar but I didn’t really start sharing or recording it until I met Gabriel,” Paris said. View...
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Johnny Borrell responds to Matty Healy once calling him “a wanker”: “It seems like a strange thing to say”

Johnny Borrell has responded to the time Matty Healy called him “a wanker” in a 2013 interview, revealing that he has still never met Healy and saying “it seems like a strange thing to say!” Borrell was speaking to NME for the latest edition of ‘Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!’ in which the Razorlight frontman looked back over his career by answering questions on topics such as old song lyrics and appearing on the cover of Vogue. Read more: Johnny Borrell — “I wore all-white for every public appearance for a year” During the interview, Borrell was asked...
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Lucy Dacus on politics, protests and pandemics: “Trump is an intentionally evil, bigoted man”

“I’ve been finding it hard to put words to how I feel in lockdown,” Lucy Dacus tells NME from her home in Richmond, Virgina. “I think a lot of people are existing in a fog and that’s where I am too. At my best, I’m focusing on work, writing and doing some other projects. The most important work going on now is educating myself further about systemic racism, how to be a better anti-racist, and how to show up for my community more tangibly.” Dacus has been unable to attend any of the Black Lives Matter protests herself due...
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Listen to this El-P-approved Run The Jewels and Zack de la Rocha mash-up

A fan-made mash-up of Run The Jewels instrumentals with Zack de la Rocha’s classic Rage Against The Machine vocals has been given the thumbs-up by RTJ’s El-P — you can listen to the ‘Rage The Jewels’ mix below. The mash-up follows on from de la Rocha’s recent guest appearance on ‘JU$T’, which features on the duo’s ‘RTJ4’ album. It’s the latest collaboration between RTJ and the Rage frontman, who have worked together on ‘Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)’ on ‘Run The Jewels 2’ and ‘A Report to the Shareholders / Kill Your Masters’ on 2016’s ‘Run The...
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Steve Lacy shares photos of lucky escape after his car is hit head on by drunk driver

The Internet‘s Steve Lacy has shared photos of his lucky escape after he was recently hit by a drunk driver, completely destroying his car. Lacy, a solo artist and guitarist with The Internet, said he was lucky to be alive after his car was hit head on by the driver last week. Sharing photos of his damaged car, he wrote on Instagram: “That i’m still alive glow hit different. Advertisement “Please don’t drink n drive people. this drunk fuck hit me head on and ran,” he added. “Def accepted my fate, but we still here. black lives matter tho...
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Watch Machine Head’s gritty new video for powerful Jesse Leach collaboration ‘Stop The Bleeding’

Machine Head have released two new songs that were finished in response to the killings of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery in the US — you can watch the gritty video for ‘Stop The Bleeding’, a collaboration with Killswitch Engage‘s Jesse Leach, below. ‘Stop The Bleeding’ is the A-side of the two-song digital release ‘Civil Unrest’, while ‘Bulletproof’ serves as the B-side. A significant portion of the proceeds from streams of ‘Stop The Bleeding’ will go to the Grassroots Law Project, the organisation representing Floyd, Arbery and Breonna Taylor and their families. Explaining more about their decision to release...
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Manic Street Preachers share trailer for “raw” ‘Gold Against The Soul’ live film ‘Pieces Of Sleep’

Manic Street Preachers have shared the trailer for their new concert film ‘Pieces Of Sleep’. See it first on NME below, along with our interview with director Kieran Evans. To celebrate the recent reissue of their second album ‘Gold Against The Soul’, the band will soon be releasing a concert movie from the era filmed on their 1993 tour of Japan. The film will be released on Youtube tomorrow, and is the latest to be made with the band’s longtime collaborator and BAFTA-winning director Kieran Evans – who also directed their acclaimed Be Pure, Be Vigilant Behave capturing of...
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