Rock

Taylor Swift has joined the cast of an upcoming film by David O. Russell, the director of Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle. According to Showbiz 411, which first broke the news of Swift’s casting, the film has already wrapped production. Swift joins a sprawling ensemble – Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Robert De Niro,

Foo Fighters announced the first headlining U.S. dates of their 25th 26th Anniversary Tour. The six confirmed shows, featuring openers Radkey, are July 28 in Cincinnati; July 30 in Milwaukee; Aug. 3 in St. Louis; Aug. 5 in Bonner Springs, Kan.; Aug. 7 in Oklahoma City; and Aug. 9 in Albuquerque, N.M. You can also find the full

Kate Nash has spoken to NME about new single ‘Misery’, as well as the future of hit show GLOW and how mental health shaped her new material. Watch our video interview with Nash above. Her first new material in 18 months, the bittersweet new single ‘Misery‘ comes as the first taster of the singer-songwriter and

Roger Waters has revealed that the long delay in releasing a new version of Pink Floyd‘s Animals has been caused at least in part by a battle over the album’s liner notes – and he’s attempted to bypass the problem in a most unusual way. In a new post on his Twitter account and official

Thursday have shared a cover of one of Bruce Springsteen‘s biggest hits, ‘Dancing in the Dark’. The American post-hardcore band were enlisted to cover the song by the YouTube channel Two Minutes to Late Night. The channel’s host, Gwarsenio Hall – aka Jordan Olds – joins the band on keyboards for the cover. The cover was

Tom Petty was ready to duke it out on the final episode of Garry Shandling’s The Larry Sanders Show, which aired 23 years ago on May 31, 1998. Appearing as himself on the show, Petty sparked a scuffle first with actor Greg Kinnear and then with country singer Clint Black over who would be singing Larry’s farewell song. “I

Rico Nasty has teased a mysterious new project that appears set to arrive this summer called ‘Rx’. Posting on Instagram, the musician shared a cryptic post which showed an image of some glowing pills spilled out from a jar labelled ‘Rx Pharmacy’ with Rico’s name underneath. Nasty captioned the post” “Rx. This summer”, and tagged

The solo acts, the side projects, the supergroups: the Genesis tree has many branches. Not all of these records earned much fanfare but most have been interesting for one reason or another. (Does anyone but Tony Banks remember the keyboardist’s underrated, surprisingly hooky 1983 LP, The Fugitive?) Whatever the origin — probably their respective shifts toward brighter,

Lion Babe have shared a spellbinding new track called ‘Signs’ – you can listen to it below. The freshly squeezed slice of R&B is a mesmerising one of a kind sonic that features Ethiopian-raised and Brooklyn-based music artist Siimbiie Lakew. ‘Signs’ arrives a month after the alt-R&B/soul duo – comprised of singer-songwriter and performance artist Jillian

In a new interview, Alice Cooper described the moment his manager Shep Gordon was asked to take on the Beatles – and why he refused. In a new episode of Joe Bonamassa’s Live From Nerdville podcast, Cooper said he was in Gordon’s office, presumably during the period when the British band were attempting to rearrange their business concerns, when the

The night before recording their 1978 album Lanquidity, Sun Ra and his Arkestra filmed a brief live spot for Saturday Night Live. Given a window of only four minutes, Sun Ra crammed three classics into the performance: Space Is The Place, The Sound Mirror, which featured a typically cosmic monologue from Ra himself, and Watusa.

Jorja Smith performed a surprisingly intimate set for Radio 1’s Big Weekend on Friday (May 28), including a Shaybo team-up for ‘Bussdown’. Playing in a colourfully lit BBC Radio Theatre, Smith joined Shaybo – described as packing “sure-fire punchlines that have shown she’s capable of great things to come” in the NME 100 2021 list

Grammy-winning pop, country and gospel singer B.J. Thomas has died at age 78 following a bout with lung cancer. He died earlier today at his home in Arlington, Texas. Thomas, best known for hits like “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” and “Hooked on a Feeling,” announced in March that he had been diagnosed with

For John Lennon’s 30th birthday, Yoko Ono presented him with a sensory box. Fingers could be inserted into holes containing different materials: liquid, say, or a spike. It was a hit, though you’d be forgiven for thinking the birthday boy might’ve preferred something less surprising. After all, it’d been a turbulent old year. The Beatles

A Florida gig promoter has come up with a way of making sure that as many fans as possible attending an upcoming punk show have been vaccinated. Paul Williams of Leadfoot Productions is putting on a gig at VFW Post #39 in St. Petersburg, Florida on June 26, featuring performances from Teenage Bottlerocket, MakeWar and Rutterkin. In

Graham Nash recalled the “emotionally destroying” experience that reduced him to tears in the studio for the only time in his life. The moment took place when Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were working on their landmark 1970 album Deja Vu. In a new interview on Apple Music’s Zane Lowe Show, Nash remembered the challenge of working

Remarkably, given their long shadows and proximity to one another around Nashville, good friends John Hiatt and Jerry Douglas had never recorded together until now. They chose to mark the occasion in style by commandeering RCA’s fabled Studio B – birthplace of the late-’50s Nashville Sound and once home to Elvis, Dolly, the Everlys, Roy

No Rome has shared a remix of A.G. Cook‘s song ‘Windows’ – you can listen to it below. The Dirty Hit artist’s new version of the track appears on Cook’s new ‘Apple vs 7G’ collection, which comprises reworkings of cuts from the producer’s two 2020 albums ‘Apple’ and ‘7G’. Arriving yesterday (May 28), the record also features Caroline

Mike Patton has admitted to urinating on Axl Rose’s teleprompter, while also revealing the motive behind his act. The incident took place in 1992 when Patton’s band Faith No More was opening for Guns N’ Roses during their co-headlining tour alongside Metallica. “It was such a drag touring with [GNR], I hate to say it. They treated