Global Music Releases & News

Music industry warns UK music studios could close without energy bills support

Figures from the UK music industry have warned that without support to combat rising energy bills, music studios, venues and other businesses could face closure. The government has committed to helping domestic households with rising energy bills, which are expected to soar by as...

Yungblud samples The Cure’s ‘Close To Me’ on buoyant new song ‘Tissues’

Yungblud has sampled The Cure‘s ‘Close To Me’ on ‘Tissues’, the latest cut from his self-titled album arriving this Friday (September 2). READ MORE: Yungblud – “This album is about reclaiming my name and humanising the caricature” The singer-songwriter, who grew up listening to...

Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer says producer Rick Rubin was a “hindrance”

Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer has opened up about the band’s producer Rick Rubin, saying he was “more a hindrance than help” on their 2011 album. READ MORE: Red Hot Chili Peppers – “We feel fresh, like a new band” Klinghoffer was...

The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz is suing the FBI

The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz is suing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to obtain any records that the organisation has on the band and its members. In 1967 an FBI informant attended a concert on the band’s first tour in the US and filed...

My Chemical Romance’s ‘The Mad Gear And Missile Kid’ EP released on streaming

My Chemical Romance’s ‘The Mad Gear And Missile Kid’ EP has finally been made available on streaming, 12 years after it was first released. READ MORE: My Chemical Romance live in Cornwall: giddy rock’n’roll from returning emo heroes The three-track record was originally released...

Police issue statements after reports of “disorder and tent-burning” at Reading & Leeds

Police have responded to claims of “disorder and tent-burning” at both Reading & Leeds festival sites over the weekend. Over the Bank Holiday weekend, tens of thousands of music fans flocked to Little John’s Farm in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds to see...

Deluxe boxset of The Beatles’ ‘Revolver’ to be released

The Beatles producer Giles Martin has confirmed a deluxe boxset of the band’s 1966 album ‘Revolver’ is in the works. READ MORE: Producer Giles Martin on remixing The Beatles’ ‘Let It Be’: “I was surprised by the camaraderie” Previously ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club...

Exclusive: Bastille’s Dan Smith wants to soundtrack ‘Red Dead Redemption 3’

The next Red Dead Redemption game could get a Brit rock edge, if one of the UK’s biggest bands have anything to do with it. Speaking exclusively to NME, Dan Smith, frontman of Bastille has revealed that he wants to compose the soundtrack to...

Rapper TKorStretch killed in stabbing at Notting Hill Carnival

Police have confirmed that Takayo Nembhard, a 21-year-old drill rapper from Bristol, was stabbed at Notting Hill Carnival over the weekend and later died. Nembhard, who performed under the stage name TKorStretch and had over 10,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, went to Carnival “with...

The 6th Uncut New Music Playlist Of 2022

You join us on a busy Monday morning where we’re in the throes of finishing an issue. We’ll talk about that soon enough – stand by for revelations concerning the car boot sale purchases of one of our most beloved artists – but for...