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Nirvana will receive MTV‘s Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award later this month at the Video Music Awards, which will air live on CBS on Sept. 27. The awards show will also simulcast on MTV and stream on Paramount+. The network’s announcement did not mention who from the band would be on hand to accept the award. MTV made the announcement on Sept. 9, the 34th anniversary of Nirvana’s instrument-smashing performance at the VMAs. At that show, the band performed Nevermind’s “Lithium” and Kurt Cobain teased the opening chords to the then-unreleased In Utero song, “Rape Me,” to irritate network censors.…
When Bob Weir died in January at 78, he was in the midst of a number of projects, including writing his memoir and plotting a symphony tour with his band Wolf Bros. According to Nashville songwriter Aaron Raitiere, he was also working on a concept album about his life. Weir recruited Raitiere, J.D. Souther, Rival Sons singer Jay Buchanan, and producer Dave Cobb to help write his musical life story. The Grammy-winning Raitiere, who’s written hit country songs for artists like Ella Langley and Lainey Wilson, says he hopes the finished tracks, inspired by both Weir and mythologist Joseph Campbell’s…
Liars’ Angus Andrew has announced his first album in five years, A Ban on Plastic Bag Bans. Inspired by a move to Kalamazoo, Michigan and titled after an actual law on the state’s books, the record is out March 5, 2027 via Mute. Below, watch the music video for lead single “Ice Pick, Kalamazoo,” which Andrew shot on 3D camera at the city’s No Kings rally.After move to Kalamazoo with his wife and daughter, Andrew experienced a toxic air crisis originating from a local packaging factory. “It wasn’t just the environment that was polluted,” Andrew said in press materials, “It…
The one-off single, produced by Adam Granduciel, is a refined and revealing entry in the band’s catalog.
The German composer Max Richter has a new album on the way. While the Flood Rages arrives October 16 and features 15 tracks taken from his score of MaddAddam, a ballet inspired by a trilogy of post-apocalyptic Margaret Atwood novels. The standalone album deals with themes of technological acceleration, ecological crisis, and human connection. The full tracklist isn’t available yet, but you can listen to the reflective first single, “Now We Can Sing,” below.MaddAddam marks Richter’s third collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor, following 2017’s Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works, and 2010’s Infra. More recently, Richter has stayed busy working…
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The directors behind Oasis‘ new documentary Don’t Look Back In Anger have spoken to NME about capturing the Gallagher brothers burying the hatchet, as well as touching moments in the film in honour of Mani and Bonehead. Watch our full interview above or read below. Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern already have a celebrated canon of music documentaries under their belts, including LCD Soundsystem’s Shut Up And Play The Hits, a love letter to ’00s New York indie Meet Me In The Bathroom and Blur’s 2010 comeback doc No Distance Left To Run. Now, they’ve helmed the celebrated new film capturing…
Stephen Morris has said he “doesn’t know” if he’ll return to New Order due to serious illness. In June, the Manchester band confirmed that Morris, as well as Gillian Gilbert, would not be touring with them in the “foreseeable future” due to “personal health reasons”. Morris was the drummer in Joy Division alongside Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Ian Curtis, and the remaining members formed New Order after Curtis’ death in 1980. The news marks a major change to New Order’s live incarnation, which has been centred around Sumner, Morris and Gilbert since the band returned in 2011 without founding bassist Hook. Now, Morris has shared…
Neurosis will embark on a handful of dates this fall in support of their celebrated comeback album, An Undying Love for a Burning World. In addition to the band’s previously announced gigs in San Francisco, the group added dates in Brooklyn, Chicago, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Boston, and L.A. The Boston gig is part of Converge’s Saddest Day festival and will see the band playing alongside Converge, Cave In, and others. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, though San Francisco’s gigs are already sold out. Full details are on the band’s website, which also lists the…
Between recording two albums and playing the European festival route, Beirut have stayed busy this decade. But Zach Condon and his bandmates haven’t been able to cross the pond in that time, and they’re looking to change that in 2027. Next spring, Beirut will finally perform their first North American tour in eight years. Check out the full list of stops below.Beirut will just be dipping their toes into the water here, as their shows in the United States and Canada tally up to only six concerts in total. The cities they plan on performing in are Boston, Chicago, Toronto,…
