Taylor Swift is leading this week’s chart battle for Number One ahead of the Arctic Monkeys. READ MORE: Arctic Monkeys: “We know more tricks now, but we’re still rolling on that same instinct” Swift’s latest album, ‘Midnights‘ has taken the lead against the Sheffield four piece’s seventh album, ‘The Car‘. Both have sold well over 100,000 copies according to data from The Official Charts Company. The only other album to have broken that threshold earlier this year was Harry Styles’ ‘Harry’s House’, which sold 113,000 units in its opening week. Advertisement ‘Midnights’ is already the UK’s fastest selling album of...
The Reytons have announced details of a huge homecoming show next year. The band will play will play the Sheffield Arena in September 2023 and tickets go on general sale from 10am on October 28. You can buy tickets for the show here. The band’s last South Yorkshire show saw them play the 4500-strong Magna in May, which sold out in just 10 hours. All of the other dates on their upcoming tour, the dates of which you can see below, have already sold out. Advertisement The band have released all their work so far independently with no label...
Arctic Monkeys have reflected on the lasting impact of ‘A Certain Romance’, describing it as the song that showed the band they had ambitions “beyond what we once thought we were capable of”. READ MORE: Arctic Monkeys: “We know more tricks now, but we’re still rolling on that same instinct” Speaking to NME in their recent Big Read cover interview, frontman Alex Turner likened the emotional depth across ‘The Car’ to the two-minute guitar breakdown that wraps up ‘A Certain Romance’, the final track on the band’s 2006 debut album ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’....
Several anti-fascist groups have spoken out after antisemitic groups hung a “Kanye is right about the Jews” banner over a freeway. The demonstration took place in Los Angeles over the weekend and saw protestors give Nazi salutes behind the banner. READ MORE: With his “White Lives Matter” stunt, has Kanye West finally hit the point of no return? West has made several antisemitic outbursts in recent weeks, blaming “Jewish media” and “Jewish Zionists” for alleged wrongdoings while on the Drink Champs podcast, saying “Jewish people have owned the black voice” and that “the Jewish community, especially in the music...
Harry Styles’ My Policeman co-star Linus Roache has praised Styles’ performance in his latest role as PC Tom Burgess. The drama, based on the novel of the same name by Bethan Roberts, is set in the 1950s and tells the story of Burgess, a married policeman who is in a secret relationship with museum curator Patrick Hazlewood. Roache plays Burgess 40 years later in his life. Roache had only praise for Harry’s performance in the film when he spoke to NME at the BFI London Film Festival earlier this month, commenting on the depth of emotion in his performance....
Hollywood Vampires have announced a UK tour with Johnny Depp for summer 2023 – check out the full list of tour dates and ticket details below. The rock supergroup – comprising Depp, Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and Tommy Henriksen – will perform six UK dates next July in Scarborough, Swansea, Manchester, London, Birmingham and Glasgow. The band were forced to cancel their planned 2020 tour due to the pandemic, but will return for a string of European dates in June 2023, before continuing on to the UK throughout July. Advertisement Pre-sale for Glasgow, Manchester and London starts Wednesday, October 26...
Elton John has confirmed he’s moving two of his ‘Farewell Yellow Brick Road’ headline shows to avoid preparations for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. READ MORE: Elton John: “I’m not interested in the past – not even Elton John’s past” John was set to play at Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena on April 22 and 23 2023 but following the news that the venue will be hosting Eurovision 2023, the shows have been shifted forwards to March 23 and 24. Original tickets remain valid. Advertisement In a statement, the venue said: “Following the exciting news that Liverpool will host the...
A 23-year-old hacker has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, after stealing unreleased material from Kanye West, Frank Ocean, Post Malone, Ed Sheeran and more. As reported by the Associated Press, Adrian Kwiatkowski – from Ipswich in eastern England – illegally accessed cloud-based accounts owned by a number of artists, and subsequently made electronic copies of their unfinished songs. He then sold the material for cryptocurrency, raking in an estimated USD$147,000 (£131,000). Kwiatkowski was caught after Frank Ocean’s representatives launched a complaint with the New York District Attorney’s office in 2019. They claimed that someone online, who went as...
Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck are suing a professor and folklorist, Bruce Jackson, over his allegations the pair’s song ‘Sad Motherfuckin’ Parade’ plagiarises an old poem titled Hobo Ben. Per Rolling Stone, Jackson accused Depp and Beck of pulling lines from the poem back in August, which he references in his 1974 book about toasts, Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me. The lyrics to ‘Sad Motherfucking’ Parade’ and ‘Hobo Ben’ overlap a number of times, with the lines “I’m raggedy, I know, but I have no stink / God bless the lady that’ll buy me a drink,” and...
Paramore opened their headline set at When We Were Young Festival by giving ‘All I Wanted’ its live debut – check out footage and the complete setlist below. READ MORE: Paramore’s ‘This Is Why’ is a snarling, defiant middle finger to the haters The emotional track featured on Paramore’s third album, 2009’s ‘Brand New Eyes’ but has never been performed live before. Elsewhere during Paramore’s closing set at When We Were Young, the band played ‘Here We Go Again’ from their 2005 debut ‘All I Know Is Falling’ and ‘Paramore’ track ‘Last Hope’, both for the first time in...
