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RAYE announces new album, ‘This Music May Contain Hope’
RAYE has announced her hotly anticipated second studio album, ‘This Music May Contain Hope’. The South London musician’s debut record ‘My 21st Century Blues’ was a major breakthrough, winning the British Album of the Year prize at the BRITs and picking up Mercury and Mobo nominations. Advertisement Last September, she returned with the new single ‘Where Is My Husband!’, which was named as one of the best songs of 2025 by NME, and was described as a “jazzy, soul-pop bop” that “showed off her formidable vocal chops with the help of a larger-than-life brass band”. Now, RAYE has confirmed that the new album will be titled ‘This Music May Contain Hope’ and it...
Harry Styles announces seven-city residency tour, ‘Together, Together’, including Wembley Stadium and Madison Square Garden
Harry Styles has announced a huge comeback tour that will see him play residencies in seven major cities around the world. The ‘Together, Together’ tour will consist of six nights at London’s Wembley Stadium and a total of 30 shows in New York’s Madison Square Garden, as well as strings of concerts in Amsterdam, São Paulo, Mexico City, Melbourne and Sydney. Advertisement In total, Styles will play 50 dates from May to December, and he will be joined by names including Robyn, Shania Twain, Fcukers, Jorja Smith, Jamie xx, Fousheé and Skye Newman. The dates will follow the release of his fourth solo album ‘Kiss All The Time. Disco...
The Itch announce debut album ‘It’s The Hope That Kills You’ and share pulsing single ‘Aux Romanticiser’
The Itch have announced their debut album ‘It’s The Hope That Kills You’ and released a zany new single ‘Aux Romanticiser’. The Luton dance-punks’ debut record will be released on April 10 via Fiction/ I Oh You – you can pre-order it here. Its tracklist also contains the previously released singles ‘Space In The Cab’ and their first ever release, ‘Ursula’. Advertisement ‘Aux Romanticiser’ samples the viral webseries Subway Takes and Pearson Sound’s ‘WAD’ and finds vocalist Simon Tyrie singing about becoming an amateur DJ with an AUX cable – “Let’s get it started/You don’t even know how to...
BRIT Awards 2026: here are all the nominees
The full list of nominations for the 2026 BRIT Awards have been revealed, with Lola Young and Olivia Dean leading the pack. Check out the full list below. This year’s ceremony will see the prestigious awards head to Manchester for the first time in its nearly 50-year history. Taking place at the Co-op Live arena on Saturday February 28, Jack Whitehall will be returning to host for the sixth time. Advertisement It has already been confirmed that Scottish art-folk artist Jacob Alon has snagged the BRITs Critics’ Choice Award, beating off competition from Rose Gray and SIENNA SPIRO. The...
Radiohead share Thom Yorke’s 2025 European arena tour pre-mix playlist
Radiohead have shared Thom Yorke’s pre-mix playlist for the band’s European arena tour last year, featuring the likes of Leonard Cohen, Aphex Twin and David Byrne – check it out here. The frontman’s playlist begins with Radiohead themselves, the track listed as ‘Seattle Ambient Recordings (Minidisks)’, before appearances from Francois Bayle, Cohen, Faust, Bill Evans, The Corries and Syd Barrett. Advertisement Artists as varied as Moondog, Lee Hazlewood, Duke Ellington and Plastikman feature across the playlist, before it ends with Mark Pritchard, Byrne, and Gaelic Psalm Singers. “Experience (or relive) the ambience of a European arena while waiting for Radiohead...
Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock hits out at “weird” Trump supporting punks, praises Kneecap band respond
Glen Matlock has shared praise for Kneecap, and hit out at the “weird” members of the punk community who have embraced Donald Trump – including his former Sex Pistols bandmate John Lydon. The punk veteran shared the comments during a new appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Today show, where he looked back at the origins of the scene and how Sex Pistols were born out of being “fed up with what was going on musically at the time”. Advertisement “There was a lot going on, as is today”, he said, reflecting how the early days of the band...
Britney Spears: “I admire and look up to Madonna more than anyone”
Britney Spears has said she “admires” and “looks up” to Madonna more than anybody else. The ‘Toxic’ star posted a vintage 2003 photograph of the Queen of Pop under a warrior mask on her Instagram on Sunday (January 18), and in the caption, she singled out Madonna’s poise and independent attitude as traits that she particularly admires. Advertisement “This picture is clearly an understanding, ‘DO NOT PISS HER OFF’,” Spears wrote. “I admire and look up to Madonna more than anyone…wise, incredibly strong and has remained gentle and genius. Again…DO NOT PISS HER OFF!!!” Turning the lens on herself, Britney also said: “The beast...
Listen to Cardinals’ “cathartic” new single ‘I Like You’
Cardinals have shared a new single called ‘I Like You’ – you can listen to it below. The song is the latest preview of the Irish indie band and NME Cover stars‘ debut album, ‘Masquerade’, which is released on February 13 via So Young (pre-order/pre-save here). Advertisement Arriving today (Monday January 19), ‘I Like You’ is a romantic, accordion-led track that has already become a fan favourite at Cardinals’ recent live shows. “This is the first song we wrote with the album in mind,” explained frontman Euan Manning. “After a very long period of not working on anything, we...
Jack Osbourne speaks out on true amount raised for charity by ‘Back To The Beginning’ concert
Jack Osbourne has spoken out about the amount of charity money raised by Black Sabbath’s ‘Back To The Beginning’ concert. The star-studded show went down at Villa Park in Birmingham on July 5 last year, the final show in the career of the metal icons, and one that took on added poignancy when Ozzy Osbourne passed away less than three weeks later. Advertisement In the immediate aftermath of the concert, its musical director, the Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello, claimed on Instagram that it had raised “more than $190million”, which was to be split evenly between Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acorns Children’s Hospice. Ozzy’s...Recent Posts
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