In the western countries, festivals were cancelled this summer due to money issues, in Asia - it's peace, well, actually lack thereof. Organizers of Clockenflap in Hong Kong, one of the most high-profile festivals in Asia, cancelled it because of the continuing protests and unrest in the city. The 60,000-capacity festival was due to run […]
Caspian stay on the well-known post-rock path 'Flowers Of Light', but it's stilly just pleasing music; Moses Sumney is something totally different on 'Virile' - modern take on folk-soul, he directed the video himself (watch below); Trail of Dead decided to make pop-song music - 'Don't Look Down' is such; Modest Mouse seem young and […]
US pop-singer Mike Posner, best known for the song 'I Took A Pill In Ibiza', spent six months walking across US, from Asbury Park, New Jersey, to Venice Beach, California. He stopped smoking and taking drugs beforehand, and decided to walk to "become someone I'm actually proud of", he told the BBC. Posner's 4,588km-journey (2,851 […]
Lauryn Hill released her new song 'Guarding the Gates', for the 'Queen & Slim' soundtrack, Crack Magazine reports. The song has been a part of Hill’s live show for a while, it’s a six-minute soul track with a divine lyric “What a tragedy, you can laugh at me, but I’m in love”. The movie is […]
Chilean singer Mon Laferte bared her breasts in a red carpet protest at the Latin Grammy awards in the US yesterday - she walked the red carpet and uncovered her chest emblazoned with the words "In Chile they torture, rape and kill" ("En Chile torturan violan y matan"), USA Today reports. Laferte was one of […]
Of the ones already published, The Vice's list of 100 best albums of the 2010s is the broadest - going from Drake to Deafheaven, and a whole lot of it in between. It's still pop music, an anglo-centric list, with a few lesser-known albums. Worth a check.
Matt Healy of the 1975 urged band's fans to plant trees in the band’s honor and commitment to climate change, NME reports. The project was about to star at a special event in New Orleans on November 26, and, in a message to fans, Healy wrote: "People are starting to set these up and it’s […]
“I had a dream/I got everything I wanted/But when I wake up I see/You with me” - Billie Eilish sings in her new song, her first new music after ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’. The lyrics make it seems like a message to lover, but it was written with her older […]
Listening to relaxing music for 45 minutes before going to sleep has been scientifically proven to reduce noradrenaline levels. A 2008 study by a psychologist called Laszlo Harmat found that music “significantly improved sleep quality”, and also reduced depressive symptoms significantly. So, NME has, with help from its readers, made a list of 50 songs […]
Like any other list, it's purpose is to check out the ones listed and start exploring them, and to get to know the ones who made the list. The same applies to Loudwire's list of best metal albums of the last ten years (2010 up to 2019). It goes from Opeth's 'In Cauda Venenum' released […]
BBC 2's presenter Rylan Clark-Neal has raised £928,000 for Children In Need by singing non-stop karaoke for 24 hours. He sang 231 songs, with help of more than 90 celebrity guests, including Rick Astley, Nicole Scherzinger, and Craig David. He ate spoonfuls of honey every hour to keep his vocal cords coated. "I am in […]
London experimental beatmaking duo TNGHT have this week released their first EP in seven years and second overall, 'TNGHT II'. It's eight songs are avant-guard and serious, as well as entertaining and funny. Listen to it below. II by TNGHT
Lijadu Sisters were active from the mid-60s to the 80s at a time when it was rare to find frontwomen in Nigeria’s pop music scene, making idiosyncratic warped funk tunes that still sound unlike anything else. Twins Kehinde and Taiwo Lijadu were cousins of Fela Kuti, and between 1969 and 1979, they released four albums […]
The only Saudi Arabian grind-core band Creative Waste last month played a show at the Bohemian Art Cafe in Khobar, the first public metal show in Saudi Arabia. Band's frontman Fawaz Al Shawaf told Metal Injection that "the ones who organized the show are actually basically newcomers and young. They didn’t even know what grindcore […]
American queer rapper Zebra Katz is back with dark ballroom anthem 'IN IN IN', his first music since collaborating with Gorillaz on their 2017 album 'Humanz'. It's the first track to be shared from the rapper’s forthcoming project 'MOOR'. Listen to the song below.
Stoner metal trio Sleep have announced a period of “hypersleep” coming Jan. 1, 2020. They will finish off 2019 with a trio of gigs in Chicago, and those will be their last for an undetermined amount of time - “prep hypersleep facil for indef duration”, they announced od Facebook. Guitarist Matt Pike is currently touring […]
“I haven’t owned a phone since 2006. I’m always on my computer, I’ve always got Wi-Fi … I got rid of [my phone] because I just don’t like them” - Robbie Williams said. It's similar to his stance on social media apps - “I don’t have my password to anything otherwise my career would be […]
"I previously had said to Sharon I should be doing an album, but in the back of my mind I was going ‘I haven’t got the fucking strength…’ but Andrew [Watt, producer and guitarst] pulled it out of me... I put my heart and soul into this album” - Ozzy Osbourne said about 'Ordinary Man', […]
BBC has an interesting social article about what happened to the music and people in Berlin after the two sides of the city reunified. "It was not people from East Berlin dancing to music that was already around or going to spaces that were West Berlin spaces, but it was really that people from the […]
American alt-blues-rock band The Black Crowes will reunite in 2020 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their debut album, 'Shake Your Money Maker'. So far, dates have been revealed New Jersey and New York, with each show featuring a full performance of 'Shake Your Money Maker' along with a second set of greatest hits, Relix reports. The […]
Tones And I’s 'Dance Monkey' this week bags a 15th successive week in the top spot on the Australian singles chart, drawing equal with the record set by Ed Sheeran's 'Shape of You'. It's the first time an Australian artist has held the record since records began in 1983, The Music Network reports. Tones And I's […]
Neil Young has been living in the US for most of his life, has been trying to become an American for some time now, but he is still only a Canadian citizen, Stereogum reports. The latest occasion when he applied for US citizenship there was a delay in the process because his use of marijuana may […]
Post Malone comes back to the top of Billboard 200 chart with his album 'Hollywood's Bleeding', for a fifth nonconsecutive week, a feat that hasn't been accomplished in over a year. 'Scorpion' by Drake was the last album to land at No. 1 for five weeks, however, it was all consecutive. 'Hollywood's Bleeding' earned 78,000 […]
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany analysed 80,000 different chord progressions from 745 songs, using machine learning to give a score to each chord based on how “surprising” it was compared to the chord preceding it, Newsweek reports. Chord sequences were then played to 39 volunteers, stripped of lyrics and melody to make […]
Ticketholders for Tool’s recent Cleveland, OH show received a pre-show email warning them against taking pictures with their phones - "Please watch and listen to the show, not your phone. You will be ejected... if you violate this simple request". But, there's a catch - the band gave the okay for security to stand down […]
Artists and songwriters that have been nominated for induction to the annual Songwriters Hall of Fame 2020 include Outkast, the Neptunes, Eurythmics, R.E.M., Patti Smith, the Isley Brothers, Vince Gill, Journey, Beach Boys’ Mike Love, Mariah Carey, Gloria Estefan, Steve Miller, Motown legend William "Mickey" Stevenson, songwriting duo L. Russell Brown and Irwin Levine, and […]
London rapper Dave has released a new song ‘Paper Cuts’, which sees him explore drill for the first time. The song is produced by Ghosty, one of the central architects of the sound, Complex reports. It’s Dave's first song since winning the Mercury Prize in September for his debut album ‘Psychodrama‘.
Gold discs, a custom-made bed, a late 20th Century two handed sword, record collection, motorcycle leather, jewellery - all personal items belonging to The Prodigy‘s Keith Flint were sold at auction last night. His possessions were divided into 171 lots at Cheffins' auction, which was 20 minutes late after their website crashed due to the high number of […]
Tracks from Kanye West’s new album, ‘Jesus Is King’, currently hold all Top 10 song spots on Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs and Hot Gospel Songs charts. Apart from that, the album itself holds the all-genre Billboard 200, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Top Rap Albums charts, Top Christian Albums and Top Gospel Albums chart. With it West […]
‘I’m The Man’ was first heard, a snippet of it at least, in UK crime show 'Peaky Blinders', and it will come out on the upcoming 'Peaky Blinders' soundtrack album, as well as on Beth's solo album, NME reports. 'I'm the Man' is an industrial song, with emphasis on guitars, and some piano to finish […]
