Rock

The Lathums have shared another preview of their upcoming second album – listen to ‘Struggle’ below. The Wigan band will release new album ‘From Nothing To A Little Bit More’ on March 3, recently delayed from a planned February release. After sharing the singles ‘Say My Name’ and ‘Turmoil’, ‘Struggle’ arrives as the third preview

David Bowie‘s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars will receive a reggae makeover on a forthcoming tribute album titled Ziggy Stardub, courtesy of the Easy Star All-Stars collective. Helmed by producer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and Easy Star Records co-founder Michael Goldwasser, Ziggy Stardub will feature a wide range of guests, including Rush guitarist

Liverpool nightclub Meraki has been saved from impending closure after the local council denied plans to build a block of flats across the road. The plans were originally put forward in February 2022, with Meraki’s future threatened by proposals to redevelop the area and convert the warehouse opposite their building into flats. The club then

A campaigner who’s tried three times to have Ozzy Osbourne knighted said she has good reason not to give up after receiving a letter from the U.K. government. Helen Maidiotis is behind the petition to elevate the Black Sabbath icon to the status of “Sir,” which has received nearly 35,000 signatures to date. (She’s been advocating

Since making their second comeback in 2017, Guided By Voices have continued to record at a vicious lick while maintaining standards of quality control that seem frankly unreal. La La Land is their 14th album since the band’s return, and they’re all good – sometimes great. Perhaps Robert Pollard learnt from the previous comeback between

Say Lou Lou have returned with brand new single ‘Waiting For A Boy’, with more new music expected in 2023 – check it out below. The new song is the Swedish/Australian duo’s first new music since their 2018 album ‘Immortelle’ and is the first of a batch of new material teased to be released this

Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain has lodged a countersuit against bandmate and guitarist Neal Schon for allegedly charging over $1 million in personal expenses to the band’s shared American Express card, including a one-month $400,000 shopping spree. Schon and Cain have been embroiled in a bitter, highly publicized legal battle over the past several months, as the guitarist

If rock fully sparked into life in the mid-’60s, then those pioneers are now well past collecting their pensions. Some are gone, of course, others creatively spent. A select few, over the last few years, have entered a new creative realm: here, the white-hot urgency of youth is regained, this time tempered with the wisdom

Circa Waves have had to push back their 2023 UK tour due to illness. The band were originally set to hit the road in February, but the dates have had to be moved to June due to frontman Kieran Shudall’s ongoing recovery from viral pericarditis, a type of heart inflammation. Shudall confirmed the change in

Neil Young had long been estranged from David Crosby when his former bandmate died this week. He’s decided instead to focus on the legendary songs they created together as members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. “David is gone, but his music lives on,” Young wrote on his official site, Neil Young Archives. “The soul of

Neil Young has paid tribute to David Crosby. Crosby, a founding member of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash, died yesterday (January 19) at the age of 81. His wife confirmed the news in a statement given to Variety, writing: “It is with great sadness after a long illness, that our beloved David (Croz)

James Hetfield hopes to shatter the taboos attached to discussing suicide with Metallica‘s new single. “Screaming Suicide” is the second song released from the band’s upcoming album 72 Seasons. You can watch the song’s official video below. “The intention is to communicate about the darkness we feel inside,” Hetfield said in a statement released with

Fall Out Boy were the musical guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday night (January 18), the same day they announced new album ‘So Much (For) Stardust’ and shared its lead single, ‘Love From The Other Side’. The performance took place just hours before founding guitarist Joe Trohman announced he was temporarily “stepping away” from the

With comedy legend Mel Brooks stubbornly refusing to slow down at the age of 96, the Hulu series sequel History of the World: Part II is set to release on March 6. A long, long time in coming, the series, sees Brooks acting as writer and executive producer alongside Nick Kroll, Ike Barinholtz, Wanda Sykes

Phoebe Bridgers has a hidden cameo on Shame’s upcoming third album ‘Food For Worms’, the band told NME in a new interview. The south London band spoke to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story ahead of the release of the new record. Speaking about the song ‘Adderall’, Shame revealed that the track features

Van Conner, co-founding bassist of alternative rock band Screaming Trees, has died at 55. Conner’s brother and bandmate, Gary Lee Conner, shared the news in a social media statement. “Van Conner, bassist and songwriter of Screaming Trees, died last night of an extended illness at 55,” he wrote. “It was pneumonia that got him in

J. Cole has detailed the origins of his new song ‘Procrastination (Broke)’, revealing that it began after the rapper “typed in ‘J. Cole type beat’ into YouTube”.  Producer Bvtman uploaded ‘Procrastination (Broke)’ to his YouTube channel today (January 19). The three-minute track is accompanied by a screenshot of a text message thread, in which J.

Bryan Adams chuckled about the good fortunes surrounding his latest album, Cuts Like a Knife, during a June 1983 phone conversation. He was happy about his first Top 10 hit in the U.S. – and first Top 20 in his native Canada – with the ballad “Straight From the Heart.” But, as he told this