Global music sales grew 9.7% in 2018, reaching $19.1 billion in total revenue, making the 2018 fourth consecutive year of growth and the highest rate since the IFPI began tracking the market in 1997. Nearly half (47%) of all revenue came from streaming, which grew by 34% in 2018. By the end of last year, […]
The Los Angeles police have detained Eric Holder, the 29-year-old suspected of shooting the rapper Nipsey Hussle. Hussle, 33, whose real name is Ermias Asghedom, was shot multiple times in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon, in front on his store, and rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Holder had argued several times […]
A poll of more than 1,000 heads, teachers, music service managers and instrumental teachers in UK schools suggests that while music education has improved in some areas in the late 8 years, there is patchy provision nationwide. Some 97% of classroom music teachers lacked confidence in the government’s handling of it. The report by Musicians' […]
Saudi Arabian singer-producer MSYLMA takes in pre-Islamic and Quranic poetry and culture and melds them with industrial music, dubstep, techno, grime... MSYLMA’s voice drips with sadness, anger, despair and hope, each line delivered in a wash of reverb and echo to make matters all the more otherworldly - the Quietus recommends. Listen to his song […]
25 years after Kurt Cobain's death, Rolling Stone counts down the 50 greatest grunge albums, from multi-platinum classics to underground essentials.
The eccentric auteur has filmed a feature-length zombie comedy 'The Dead Don’t Die', which boasts one hell of a cast, including musicians Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, RZA and Selena Gomez, as well as actors Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevigny, Tilda Swinton, and Steve Buscemi. Brothers Coen-ish movie comes to theatres in june. Consequence of […]
At least 19 people suffered injuries at Monday's vigil for murdered rapper Nipsey Hussle, as crowds tried to rush away. Footage from the scene shows mourners suddenly breaking and running from the scene. It is unclear what triggered the incident. Police say reports that shots were fired appear not to be accurate (Hollywood Reporter). In […]
Scientist have found that Skrillex's music is effective in deterring mosquitoes, specifically his track 'Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites'. Sound is "crucial for reproduction, survival, and population maintenance of many animals," says a team of international scientists who subjected adults of the species Aedes aegypti, known as the yellow fever mosquito, to electronic music to […]
"His introspective, unhurried flows were taking him into rap’s elite, but it was his activism and community engagement that truly marked out the murdered rapper" - Guardian writes in their obituary to murdered rapper Nipsey Hussle, who was shot to death Sunday afternoon outside his LA Marathon Clothing store.
The Cure were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame at an induction ceremony at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on saturday night, and Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor gave an introduction speech about growing up in small-town America and hearing the Cure for the first time: "It was like this music was […]
Michael Jackson’s second child Paris and her boyfriend, Gabriel Glenn, played their first public show as the Soundflowers at The Mint in Los Angeles on Saturday night, but the songs were very different from what her father used to play. The Soundflowers deal in delicate, earnest folk-rock, they also dress the part, taking to the […]
George Clooney called for a boycott of hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei after the country passed a law that would allow stoning LGBTQ people to death. "On this particular April 3rd the nation of Brunei will begin stoning and whipping to death any of its citizens that are proved to be gay," Clooney […]
Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has established his own record label Emo G Records,, and dropped his first single. 'RIP Harambe' is the first single from Emo G, which Musk describes in a series of tweets by noting “This might be my finest work”. The rap single is about the 17-year-old, 440-pound gorilla known […]
Los Angeles rapper Nipsey Hussle has been shot dead outside his clothing shop Marathon Clothing in South Los Angeles. The 33-year-old was shot a number of times, two other people were wounded in the shooting outside. Nipsey Hussle's album 'Victory Lap' received a nomination for best rap album at this year's Grammy Awards (SOHH). Stars […]
Canadian rapper NAV debuted at the top of Billboard 200 chart with his album 'Bad Habits', which was sold in 82,000 equivalent album units in the week ending March 28. It's NAV's second album and the first one to top the American sales chart, Billboard reports. Listen to his song 'Price on my Head' here.
Today’s teens are discovering songs in the background of YouTube videos – creating a new breed of superstars unknown to adults, such as Clairo, Khai Dreams, Beabadoobee, Girl in Red, Oohyo, Mxmtoon, Eli, Sundial and Conan Gray. For want of a better name, you might call it underground bedroom pop, an alternate musical universe that […]
Dance music played out for the hundreds of fans who flocked to the town of Braintree, England for the funeral of Keith Flint, former frontman of the Prodigy, and the people danced - watch a short video here. Flint's bandmates called on fans to "raise the roof for Keef", so they made a one-off festival […]
Iceland government have charged Sigur Rós with tax evasion - four member of the rock band stand accused of misreporting figures on their returns between 2011 and 2014, with the group allegedly dodging a total of 151 million Icelandic Krona (or $1.2 million dollars) in taxes. The charges claim that frontman Jónsi Birgisson evaded around […]
Fans stayed up until midnight Friday waiting for Billie Eilish's debut album 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?' to come out. "They laughed, they mostly cried, and they spread the word with an array of memes and hilarious insights" Billboard reports. She just put out a new video as well - 'Bad […]
American DJ John Corbett has a book out, 'Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music' about a decade of pop music. Pop Matters took out two chapters, about Kraftwerk and The Clash: "Two unemotional men making sounds with machines. Clean, logical, workmanlike, mechanical, disinterested, mechanistisch, German: no sweat", "In the long run, to me […]
Beth Gibbons has released a collaborative album with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Henryk Górecki’s 1976 piece 'Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)'. Their original live performance took place in 2014 in Warsaw and was conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki, considered one of Poland’s greatest composers and pas collaborator of Aphex Twin and […]
Kikagaku Moyo are a Japanese psychedelic band from Tokyo and since 2015 they run a label Guruguru Brain, based in Amsterdam and dedicated to highlighting the best of the Asian underground. By now, they have published 19 releases spanning continents and styles, and will be publishing their 20th this year. "Their existing output has already […]
Stephen Fitzpatrick, 24, and Audun Laading, 25, of Liverpool band Her's, and their tour manager Trevor Engelbrektson, died while travelling to a gig in California on Wednesday. The label described them as "one of the UK's most loved up and coming bands". The duo had recently released their debut album (BBC). Listen to their song […]
American pop singer Billie Eilish published her first album 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go' today, so NME had her pick five of her favourite new artists. She chose british rapper Crooks, american r'n'b singers Tierra Whack and Kiah Victoria, Florida rapper Dominic Fike, and, khm, Billie Eilish (well, if she doesn't […]
The music that the Austin-based artist makes moves slow and circular, content to unfold incrementally... It glides along, guided by watery guitars and a pitter-patter of drums that sound like rain on a windowpane. It shifts from sunshine to twilight and back again - Stereogum says about Christelle Bofale's debut EP 'Swim Team'. Listen to […]
Italian singer and producer Giorgio Moroder goes on his first ever solo tour, so Guardian picked out 20 of The Father of Disco's songs, that either he wrote, or wrote and sang. It's a colourful mix - (Theme from) Midnight Express, Take My Breath Away by Berlin, Call Me by Blondie, Donna Summer's I Fell […]
The 1975 frontman Matty Healy took to Twitter this week to call out labels and artists who charge fans for meet-and-greets, accusing them of trying to “monetize... human connection”. “Who came up with payed meet and greets?” he wrote. “Did they think ‘Surely there must be something else we can monetise….OH! Human connection!! They’ll eat […]
"The greatest zombie cast ever disassembled" will star in Jim Jarmusch's zombie movie 'The Dead Don't Die'. So, in musicians-first order, it's: Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, RZA, Selena Gomez, Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Sara Driver and Carol Kane. The plot is not […]
Rap star 50 Cent famously invested in Vitaminwater before Coca-Cola bought it for a billion dollars, also has a sizable investment in mattress firm company, Casper and that company is approaching a billion dollar valuation thanks to its innovative mattresses. In October of 2018, it was announced 50's G-Unit Films struck a deal with Starz […]
Each week NME picks out stand-out songs from various genres, and this week their menu for hungry ears offers the following: indie-pop band Pronoun, rapper Little Simz, r'n'b singer Poppy Ajudha, noise-poppers The Ninth Wave, rapper Tierra Whack, indie rockers Amyl and the Sniffers, soul singer Asiatica, pop-rockers Body Type, tropical electronics artist Durante, and […]
