Liam Gallagher has expressed his remorse following a tweet he sent directed at Atletico Madrid footballer Stefan Savic. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Liam Gallagher: “I sound good. I look cool. I talk from the heart” Atletico Madrid played Manchester City in a Champions League match on Wednesday (April 13), and the game included a number of tense moments. Towards the end of the match, Savic appeared to headbutt City player Raheem Sterling, though the game ended in a 0-0 draw that knocked Atletico Madrid out of the league. Advertisement Gallagher, a supporter of Manchester City, in a now-deleted tweet...
The Lathums have today (April 15) shared a soaring new single called ‘Sad Face Baby’ – check it out below. READ MORE: The Lathums live in Manchester: the latest landmark in an incredible year Performed for the first time last summer, the track is the first new music release for the band this year and features the work of their new producer, Jim Abbiss (Adele, Arctic Monkeys, Bombay Bicycle Club). Reflecting on ‘Sad Face Baby’ and the last two years of the band, frontman Alex Moore said: “The Lathums has been a world of opportunity for us, but things still...
Alexander Skarsgård has discussed his experience collaborating with Björk in The Northman. The actor plays lead character Amleth in the third feature film from director Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse, The Witch), starring alongside Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe. READ MORE: Anya Taylor-Joy asked to play ‘The Lighthouse’ mermaid but the director said no The most unique cast addition is Björk, who plays a seeress, whose last feature film acting credit was in 2005’s Drawing Restraint 9 from director Matthew Barney. Advertisement Speaking to NME about acting alongside the musician, Skarsgård said: “I felt...
Grey Daze, the band fronted by Chester Bennington before he went on to form Linkin Park, have announced their return with new album ‘The Phoenix’. READ MORE: Grey Daze – ‘Amends’ review: lost album from Chester Bennington’s former band is a reminder of his singular talent Bennington left the band in 1998, but had reunited with them and was in the middle of re-recording music for a new album when he died in 2017. In 2020, Grey Daze released ‘Amends’, an album of reworked tracks from their back catalogue, built around Bennington’s original vocal takes. NME called it “a great modern rock record fronted by...
IDLES performed their latest single ‘Crawl!’ on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert – watch below. READ MORE: IDLES live in London: Bristol rockers gaze into the broken mirror that is modern Britain The band appeared on the show ahead of their performance at Coachella today (April 15), playing a pre-recorded version of ‘Crawl!’ at what appears to be Glasgow’s Barrowlands. In February, IDLES shared a video for the single, which comes from their fourth studio album, ‘CRAWLER’. The video features a claymation version of frontman Joe Talbot riding a motorcycle while singing the lyrics to the gritty track. Advertisement...
By Ural Garrett The Atlanta-born singer-songwriter Tanerélle’s creative output is so vast that it seems to stretch beyond the cosmos. She’s modeled her out-of-this-world Afrofuturist style in the likes of Playboy and lent her surreal sounds to co-score Nikyatu Jusu’s buzzy horror film Nanny, which received the coveted Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in January, about a child’s caretaker with a mysterious background. Between these projects, it’s almost easy to forget the huge strides she’s made as an R&B artist and instrumentalist. In the nearly seven years since she released her debut single “Siren,” the 28-year-old singer, born Tanerélle Stephens, has...
Lizzo has announced her fourth album, ‘Special’, with the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Cuz I Love You’ set to arrive on July 15 via Nice Life and Aquatic. MORE: The Big Read – Lizzo: “If I feel worthy, then everyone gonna want to eat my pussy” To coincide, the singer has shared new single ‘About Damn Time’ – a funk-tinged, classically Lizzo cut that comes replete with a groove-heavy bassline, an instantly memorable flute melody and lyrical gems like “It’s bad bitch o’clock / Yeah, it’s thick-thirty.” ‘About Damn Time’ arrives alongside a Christian Breslauer–directed video that sees Lizzo escape...
Phoebe Bridgers just dropped a bright and bold new love song called ‘Sidelines’. Listen to the track below. READ MORE: Phoebe Bridgers: “I definitely feel a lot less apologetic than I did before” Released via Dead Oceans, the song will appear in Hulu’s Conversations With Friends, the TV adaption of the popular Sally Rooney novel, when it premiers on May 15. Bridgers, a longtime fan of Rooney, was tapped to write the track by Hulu. She penned ‘Sidelines’ with bandmate and collaborator Marshall Vore and Ruby Rain Henley. According to a release, this will be the songwriter’s only original new...
Former CLC member Sorn has returned with a new solo single titled ‘Scorpio’. READ MORE: Dreamcatcher – ‘Apocalypse: Save Us’ review: a refreshing, albeit naive take on the world The single – and its accompanying music video – was released on Friday (April 15). The video sees Sorn singing along to the track in multiple settings backed by the addictive mid-tempo electro pop beats of the song. ‘Scorpio’ bears witness to the singer discovering her inner beauty and choosing herself amidst a period of confusion. “I got me / I’ve got nothing to lose,” she sings on the chorus of the English-language...
Architects frontman Sam Carter has revealed that he and his fiancé Abby Kirk have written a children’s book about their fox dog Sophia. READ MORE: Architects: “People will recoil in horror at this record – and then find they actually like it” Sophia Fox Dog Gets Adopted aims to educate children on what foster dogs go through before they find their forever homes, while also giving a voice to young people who may have been through adoption and foster care themselves. “I’m so extremely excited to announce that myself and my fiancé have written a children’s book starring none other than...