Bullet For My Valentine have announced details of their self-titled seventh album – listen to its first single ‘Knives’ below. The Welsh band’s new album, which vocalist Matt Tuck previously teased as “brutal, heavy, and technical,” will come out on October 22 via Spinefarm/Search...
From 1991’s intoxicatingly strange debut Yerself Is Steam and the gorgeously whacked-out single “Car Wash Hair”, to 2019’s reimagining of Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete, Mercury Rev have pursued their unique vision of fantastical, psychedelic Americana. Pianos have been dismantled, “wave accumulators” have been...
The search for the ever-elusive “bop” is difficult. Playlists and streaming-service recommendations can only do so much. They often leave a lingering question: Are these songs really good, or are they just new? Enter Bop Shop, a hand-picked selection of songs from the MTV News team. This...
IDLES have shared a brand new song – listen to ‘Sodium’ below. The new track appears on the soundtrack for DC‘s Dark Nights: Death Metal, released by DC Comics as a tie in for the comic book series of the same name. READ MORE:...
By Virginia Lowman Music has always been a vehicle for truth-telling for H.E.R. When she reemerged on the music scene in 2016 under the enigmatic three-letter moniker, standing for “Having Everything Revealed,” she did so as a means to exemplify her belief that her “responsibility...
Bands like BLK JKS don’t come along often, especially in places like Johannesburg. There was no South African indie rock scene to speak of when the group emerged from the city’s Spruitview district in the mid-2000s, and their distinctive sound – a blend of...
Take a map and find Gampo Abbey, a Buddhist monastery situated on a rugged finger of Nova Scotia, Canada, and you might notice that it sits at the end of a long track called Red River Road. David Morris, singer and songwriter in England’s...
If, at any point during the recent crisis, you found yourself thinking, ‘What would Billy Gibbons do?’ – and there are probably worse role models – you might have pictured the ZZ Top frontman lighting out for some cactus-pocked desert redoubt in one of...
BLACKPINK’s Lisa is reportedly set to release new music next month. READ MORE: Watch iKON cover BLACKPINK’s ‘Pretty Savage’, featuring Lisa During a recent episode of the MBC reality show Hangout with Yoo, host Yoo Jae-suk brought up Lisa, as well as girl group...
Logic has returned today with new song ‘Intro’, the first song he’s dropped since he officially ended his retirement. The arrival of ‘Intro’ comes just a day after the rapper posted a brief statement on social media: “I’m back.” The post appeared to pay...