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Neko Case has announced her memoir. The new book, The Harder I Fight The More I Love You: A Memoir, arrives on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, via Grand Central Publishing (GCP). Find the book cover below. A press release for the memoir includes a brief synopsis: In The Harder I Fight The More I Love

MC5 have shared details of ‘Heavy Lifting’ – their first new studio album in over five decades. Check out the lead single ‘Boys Who Play With Matches’ below. Announced today (June 6), the project will feature both guitar and vocals from the founding member Wayne Kramer, as well as a number of special guest appearances.

Kendrick Lamar has announced a concert that will take place on Juneteenth (Wednesday, June 19) at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California. He’s calling the show, which is presented by pgLang and Free Lunch, the Pop Out — Ken & Friends. See a poster below. The Pop Out gets its name from a line in

London’s first ‘indie sleaze’ themed daytime club event will launch later this month. The Daytime For Heroes event will take place at Camden’s Electric Ballroom on June 22 and will feature DJs from Club NME, Transmission and Panic!, who put the event together. DJs from Alexandra Palace and Bloody Awful Poetry will also be performing.

Blur have announced a live album recorded at their Wembley Stadium concerts last July. Blur: Live at Wembley Stadium is out July 26, in digital and physical formats, via Parlophone. A film of the same name, directed by Toby L, will screen in cinemas in the UK and Ireland from September 6, with international release

Primavera Sound have announced dates for the 2025 Barcelona edition – check out details below. This year’s edition saw the likes of Lana Del Rey, Pulp, The National, SZA, Disclosure, Justice, Mitski, Phoenix, PJ Harvey and Vampire Weekend play at the festival. Now, after a spectacular year – which saw NME give the festival four stars – Primavera Sound has unveiled the dates for next year in

Halsey has released the new song “The End.” She co-produced the track with Michael Uzowuru and Alex G, the latter of whom also plays guitar on the song. Listen to the single below. On Instagram, Halsey shared photos and videos of herself receiving treatment. She captioned the post, “long story short, i’m Lucky to be

Queens of the Stone Age have announced the final shows of their ‘The End Is Nero’ world tour with The Kills in support. They will wrap up their world tour with a short run of US dates in the autumn, starting in Boston on September 28. They will then move on to Cincinnati on October

New York producer Shane Lavers is bringing his Chanel Beads project on tour. The tour includes performances for Pitchfork Music Festival London and Pitchfork Music Festival Paris. See the tour dates below; scroll down for the new video for “Idea June.” “Idea June,” featuring vocals from Maya McGrory and guitar and strings from Zachary Paul,

Fans have been responding to Glastonbury sharing new names for the 2024 edition, as well as the full line-up and schedule. The legendary Worthy Farm festival will be taking place later this month, and see headline sets from Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA, as well as the likes of Shania Twain, LCD Soundsystem, Little Simz

Mark D. Ross, best known as the rapper Brother Marquis in 2 Live Crew, has died, according to a social media post by the group and TMZ confirms. “Mark Ross AKA Brother Marquis of the 2 Live crew has went to the upper room,” 2 Live Crew wrote on Instagram. He was 58. Born Mark

Ukraine’s largest music festival, ATLAS, will take place for the first time since the Russian invasion. Rebranded as ATLAS UNITED, the festival will return to Blockbuster Mall in the capital of Kyiv from July 12-14 after two years away. Over 70 Ukrainian artists have been booked to perform, as well as support from international artists,

Caribou is back with another new song, plus news of a tour that extends into next year. “Broke My Heart” follows April’s single “Honey.” “I always find it hard to believe those ‘it came to me in a dream’ stories about songs arriving fully formed, but this one was pretty close to that, which is

Liam Gallagher has shared official footage from his ‘Definitely Maybe’ anniversary tour on the opening night in Sheffield. He kicked off his 30th anniversary tour over the weekend playing every song from the iconic 1994 album with his band – several of which were the first time ever he’s performed them outside of Oasis –

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Declan McKenna has spoken to NME about working with CMAT, as well as his plans for Glastonbury and new material. The singer-songwriter and past Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition winner was speaking to NME backstage at last week’s BBC Radio One Big Weekend, where hailed fellow performer CMAT over the work they did together on her

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Arooj Aftab, Bat for Lashes, Belly, Shaboozey, Ayra Starr, Thou, Ezra Feinberg, and

Dolly Parton has revealed she was surprised that Beyoncé’s cover of her seminal song ‘Jolene’ featured different lyrics. In an interview with E! News, Parton said “it was very bold” of Beyoncé to give her 1973 song a new spin on her latest album ‘Cowboy Carter’. “When they said she was gonna do ‘Jolene,’ I