Third Man Records, the label founded by Jack White of The White Stripes, has announced that it will be releasing a newly unearthed Johnny Cash live album. Read more: Go behind the scenes in the childhood home where Johnny Cash grew up Recorded in 1973 as part of ‘A Week To Remember’ – a week of concerts put on by Columbia Records and record executive Clive Davis – the man in black’s performance at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles will be made available for the first time ever on July 31. Entitled ‘A Night To Remember’, the 2 LP set...
Gerard Way has shared a new poster teasing the second series of The Umbrella Academy, the Netflix series based on the My Chemical Romance frontman’s graphic novels. Read More: The Umbrella Academy season two, everything we know so far Way shared an image of the series’ central cast wearing sunglasses in front of a black and white spiral, with the caption: “Let’s do the Time Warp again…” The new episodes are due to arrive on Netflix on July 31. Umbrella Academy focuses on a dysfunctional family of adopted sibling superheroes who reunite to solve the mystery of their father’s death and...
Tekashi 6ix9ine recent track ‘Trollz’ has landed the biggest chart fall in history for a single debuting at Number One on Billboard. Read more: The troubling rise of Tekashi 6ix9ine Last week, the controversial rapper’s collaboration with Nicki Minaj debuted on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart after selling 116,000 equivalent units. Of that sum, 36 million were streams while it earned 1.2 million radio airplay audience impressions. It marked 6ix9ine’s first Number One, and is only the 40th song ever to debut at Number One on the Hot 100 in the chart’s history. He celebrated the achievement by posting a video on Instagram...
Serj Tankian has revealed that his System Of A Down bandmates mean more to him than the music they make together. Read more: Daron Malakian talks Scars On Broadway, Chester Bennington, and the rumoured System Of A Down album Speaking in a new interview, the frontman talked about why the band continue to tour together even though they can’t agree on the creation of new material. “I think we all see eye to eye and we respect each other as friends and band members, which is why we tour, which is why we have fun together, we rehearse together,...
Yungblud has announced the rescheduled dates for his UK tour after it was postponed earlier in the year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Read more: Yungblud talks “optimistic” new era for second album: “It’s like an episode of ‘Skins’!” The NME Award-winning Doncaster rocker revealed details of a UK tour in January, with shows kicking off on May 22 in Glasgow at Barrowland. He was also due to play five shows in London at the O2 Forum Kentish Town on May 26-28 and June 3-4. Today (June 29), Yungblud took to social media to announce that the tour will now take place...
Jarvis Cocker has said that he finds it “embarrassing” to be English after Britain’s decision to leave the EU. Read more: JARV IS… live in London: Pulp legend Jarvis Cocker puts on a rave reinvention for the end of days The former Pulp frontman spoke to filmmaker Jeanie Finlay for The Quietus, in which she asked him what he made of being referred to as an “unconventional national treasure.” “Obviously it’s meant as a compliment,” he said, “but sometimes… well especially when people said it in the last couple of years… I’m talking about Brexit basically.” Advertisement “Because I was very vocally...
Imagine a world full of color and wonder. No overcast of social media. Just clear blue skies, smelling flowers and having face to face conversations with your neighbors and loved ones. That is the world the President of Pop, also known as P.o.P, has created with his new song, ‘Google-ized by Google’s Eyes (The No Internet Song).’ ‘Google-ized by Google’s Eyes (The No Internet Song)’ is a brilliant new track that you haven’t heard anything similar to before. The song takes listeners on a wonderful journey where social media does not exist and people are exceptionally happy with what...
The Dalai Lama is set to release his first album of music and teachings next week, and has today (June 29) shared another new song from it. ‘Inner Life’ will come out on July 6, which is the 14th Dalai Lama’s 85th birthday, via Hitco Entertainment/Khandro Music, and new song ‘One Of My Favourite Prayers’ is out now. Upon the announcement of the album earlier this month, the Dalai Lama shared the first song ‘Compassion’, which saw him reciting the mantra of the Buddha of Compassion. Advertisement Listen to ‘One Of My Favourite Prayers’, which sees the Dalai Lama...
Aluna has penned an open letter calling for there to be more inclusivity in the dance community. The AlunaGeorge frontwoman’s statement challenges the dance music industry’s “long standing racial inequalities” and the way in which the music is labelled on digital service platforms, as well as educating people on the genre’s history. Read more: NME Recommends: the best mixes and dance albums for your big lockdown night in “As a member of the Black Music Action Coalition and a Black woman in dance music, I need to challenge the ‘dance music industry’ on its long standing racial inequalities,” the...
Spoon have announced that they are reissuing much of their back catalogue as part of their new ‘Slay On Cue’ retrospective series. A number of the band’s classic records are set to be released worldwide on both vinyl and CD for the very first time as part of the campaign. Read more: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Britt Daniel, Spoon ‘Slay On Cue’ will see the reissue of eight of Spoon’s first records in their original editions, starting with 1996’s ‘Telephono’ and the ‘Soft Effects’ EP before continuing with ‘A Series Of Sneaks’ (1998), ‘Girls Can Tell’...