Music

Yesterday, Alex G uploaded two new songs to his personal YouTube channel. That wouldn’t be a big deal if it hadn’t been six years since he last posted on it, or if he wasn’t signed to a major label. But apparently RCA is cool with his DIY instincts, because “Good Green Friend” and “In the

The Last Dinner Party marked their two-show run at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom with a cover of LCD Soundsystem’s ‘New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down’. The 2007 classic came as the first of a three-song encore from the English rock outfit, witnessed by the Hammerstein crowd on Saturday (April 25).

Cornelius, the project of Japanese composer Keigo Oyamada, is launching a new phase. Off the back of a burst of TikTok virality, Oyamada has signed to Eat Your Own Ears and released a cover of a Japanese Balearic classic: Yosui Inoue’s 1990 song “Yumenemi” (or “Yume Ne Mi”). Check it out below. The new music

Vince Staples has announced a new album, ‘Cry Baby’, and dropped the powerful lead single ‘Blackberry Marmalade’. Check it out below. The new record marks the seventh record from the Long Beach rapper, singer, and actor, following on from his 2024 release ‘Dark Times’. It is set for release on June 5 via Loma Vista,

A 52-year-old man has pleaded guilty for his role in orchestrating the murder of Jam Master Jay. In 2023, prosecutors charged Bryant for conspiring in the killing after his DNA was found near the scene of the crime. He was accused of opening a locked door that allowed his co-conspirators to easily ambush and murder

KoRn broke out their new track ‘Reward The Scars’ live for the first time to a 50,000-strong crowd at Sick New World at the weekend. Check out footage below. The American nu-metal icons surprise released the song last week (Friday April 24), marking their first new music in four years and written for the Diablo

Lizzo has shared details for her upcoming third album, Bitch. The 12-song LP is set to drop June 5 and will include her previously released disco romp “Don’t Make Me Love U.” The record’s title track is out May 1. Check out the full track list—which includes some very Lizzo song titles like “That GRRRL”

DMA’s have announced their new self-titled album and shared the “feral energy” of single ‘Heatin’ Park’. The Aussie rockers are set to release their new album on August 7 viaWonderlick Entertainment/Sony Music Australia/RCA UK (preorder/presave here). So far, they’ve shared the nostalgic lead single ‘My Baby’s Place‘ – their first entirely self-produced and recorded song. Now,

Lady Gaga and Doechii have followed up the release of their Devil Wears Prada 2 single “Runway” with a predictably extravagant music video directed by Parris Goebel, featuring bedazzled bondage suits, Gaga dressed as a teapot, and an enormous high-heeled shoe. You can watch the full thing below. Lady Gaga recently wrapped up her massive

Underscores has announced a 2026 UK and European tour, as well as an upgrade to the previously-announced North American tour due to demand for tickets. The Hyperpop musician, real name April Harper Grey, will be touring in support of third album ‘U’, released last month. Beginning in late October, the UK and European leg of

Nedra Talley Ross, a founding member of the seminal girl group the Ronettes, has died. The group’s official social media accounts confirmed the news on Sunday, April 26. Ross was the final living original Ronette—her cousins and bandmates, sisters Estelle Bennett and Ronnie Spector, predeceased her in 2009 and 2022, respectively. Ross was 80. “It

Olivia Rodrigo has shared more insight into what to expect from her forthcoming album, sharing that it is centred around the feelings of “jealousy” and “longing” that arose from her first “big girl relationship”. Speculation about new music from the singer started rising last month, when cryptic pink album teasers were discovered by fans in

Vince Staples is back with his first new solo song in two years and it’s a dark one. Over a noise-rock beat, “Blackberry Marmalade” seems to be about modern anti-establishment views aligning with horseshoe theory, and includes the refrain “Promise me you won’t gun me down” along with references to Kanye West crashing out and

The Mysterines guitarist Callum Thompson has launched his new project AKA and shared the infectious single ‘It Grows On Trees (Money)’. The Liverpool-based musician and producer’s new solo moniker sees him releasing his first track, a bleary, fuzzed-out, melodic psych rock jam that finds him satirising the process of making money in the modern world. It arrives alongside a video

Ever heard this one: A high school prom queen, a med student, a Texan, and a thoroughly beguiling new voice in American indie pop walk into a bar? Probably not, because all those tropes come together then break apart in the singer-songwriter-producer Quiet Light, the latest signee to Oklou and Grace Ives’ label True Panther.

Michael Stipe has suggested that Billie Eilish could play him in a future R.E.M. biopic. READ MORE: NME meets R.E.M.: “We needed swagger – to be loud and raw” His pitch came during his appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Thursday (April 23), when Colbert raised the topic of a potential R.E.M. film, given the slew of

On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night, Michael Stipe returned to the studio to chat and perform an unreleased song called “The Rest of Ever.” The track is set to appear on his debut solo album, which, he revealed, is coming at the end of this year. Watch the performance and the pair’s