Taylor Swift has beaten The Beatles to the top of the UK charts, scoring the chart double for a second week in a row. READ MORE: Taylor Swift – ‘Midnights’ review: a shimmering return to pure pop The US artist held off the challenge of Arctic Monkeys last Friday (October 28) to reach the top spot, with new album ‘Midnights’ becoming the fastest-selling album of the year so far in the UK. In the US meanwhile, she became the first act in history to land 10 tracks in Billboard‘s Hot 100 song chart. Earlier this week, it was reported that Swift...
Jack White is reportedly set to appear in Martin Scorsese‘s new film Killers Of The Flower Moon. READ MORE: Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’: release date, plot details, cast and everything we know so far Killers of the Flower Moon, which stars Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, is based on a book of the same name. The western – Scorsese’s first – will investigate the murders of the native Osage people in 1920s Oklahoma, where oil deposits were discovered. The film has a reported budget of over $200million (£141,840), making it Scorsese’s most expensive project to date. Despite previous speculation...
Vault Comics have announced a new graphic novel imprint called Headshell, for which they’ve teamed up with a stable of iconic bands and artists – including Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz, Metallica and The Beach Boys – to create books based on their catalogues and backstories. READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Metallica’s Kirk Hammett The initial rollout will feature five books, with titles by Redman and Def Leppard rounding out the roster. So reads a description on the Headshell website: “Great musicians are storytellers. But some stories need to be told on the page. Headshell works...
European K-pop festival K.FLEX has announced that it will cancel its event in London later this month due to the Itaewon tragedy. In a statement released yesterday (November 4), the music festival’s organisers announced that K.FLEX’s November 20 event at The O2 in London will no longer be pushing through out of respect for the victims of the Itaewon crowd crush tragedy and South Korea’s national mourning period. “It just doesn’t feel right celebrating at a time like this,” the statement read. K.FLEX’s November 20 show was scheduled to feature performances by AB6IX, PENTAGON and WINNER. Other acts in...
NCT 127’s concert in Jakarta, Indonesia yesterday (November 4) was ended early after 30 fans fainted amid a pushing crowd. The concert at the Indonesia Convention Exhibition (ICE) in BSD City had gone ahead with heightened security after police investigated a bomb threat made before the show. A bomb squad and K9 unit deployed to the venue detected no threat of explosives or explosive devices. The Jakarta Metro Police also said they had identified and were pursuing a suspect alleged to have made the bomb threat. The concert – the first of two dates at the venue as part...
According to Slipknot percussionist Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan, the iconic nu-metallers may look to abandon their traditional album-based release patterns. READ MORE: The Big Read – Slipknot: “Nobody created us except us – we have always drawn our own map” During a new interview with NME – where Clown detailed Knotfest’s upcoming debut in Australia – the artist (who doubles as Slipknot’s de facto “creative director”) opened up about the band’s newfound independence; after signing to Roadrunner Records in July of 1998, their contract was officially completed with the release of their seventh album, ‘The End, So Far’, back in...
Jarvis Cocker has said that Pulp will “probably play” more shows worldwide, following the announcement of their UK and Ireland reunion tour. READ MORE: Pulp’s 10 best songs – as voted by you Over the summer, Cocker confirmed that the Sheffield band would be hitting the road next year for their first gigs together since 2012. He then teased last week that “big” news was coming, before Pulp detailed a run of UK and Ireland shows for summer ’23. When asked how extensive their touring plans were by BBC Radio 6 Music‘s Lauren Laverne, Cocker said, “This country is the country that...
New York City-based transatlantic four-piece The Backfires have shared a new video for their single, ‘Reflections On My TV’. They’ve also announced new tour dates opening for Courteeners. Watch the video and check out the tour itinerary below. READ MORE: Courteeners: “The band is my life. When it’s not going great, my life’s not going great” “‘Reflections On My TV’ deals with how a former lover or friend can haunt you, reflecting in all aspects of your life,” the band said. “It’s got the uncomplicated glamour of a guitar song that feels true to the live sound we’ve been developing...
Liam Gallagher has responded to Robbie Williams’ recent comments that Oasis were “bullies” during their heydey. Williams was speaking to Apple Music‘s Zane Lowe as part of a new interview about his recent Number One album ‘XXV’ and his music career. Asked about his relationship with Gallagher and Oasis, Williams said: “Ultimately, I’m a huge fan of Oasis and was. I was there and I was part of it, and it was fucking unbelievable: incredible hedonism, reckless abandon and rock’n’roll, and ‘let’s turn it to 11, 12 and let’s see where this goes’. It’s part of that competitive...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 150 people in the US die from fentanyl-related overdoses every day. This Must Be The Place, a non-profit that distributes free Naloxone, a medicine that rapidly reverses opioid overdose, is working to reduce fentanyl-related deaths at music festivals. The organisation, which started earlier this year is built on the idea that drug treatment, not punishment and judgement, is the way forward. Co-founders Ingela Travers-Hayward and William Perry spoke with NME about the importance of Naloxone in treating overdoses, why they started their non-profit, and how they hope to...