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Queens Of The Stone Age‘s Josh Homme defied a $10k smoking fine during a recent show at Detroit’s Ford Field. The band are currently opening for the Foo Fighters on their North American satdium tour and during their set on August 6, the QOTSA frontman complained about the venue’s no-smoking policy. He claimed that the band could be fined $10,000 (£7,410) for smoking backstage, with Detroit’s Metro Times further reporting Homme’s frustration at being unable to find anywhere to smoke. However, as QOTSA closed their set with ‘Song For The Dead’, Homme decided to go against the stadium’s rules. He told the…

Wasia Project have dropped their clubby new single ‘Vogue’ ahead of their upcoming debut album ‘Nocturne’. The sibling duo consisting of Will Gao and Olivia Hardy are set to drop their debut album ‘Nocturne’ on September 18 via AWAL (pre-order/pre-save here). So far, they’ve shared the singles ‘2515, ‘Bleeding Gold’ and ‘Whale Call’ – and now, Wasia Project have released their dance-floor ready anthem ‘Vogue’. “‘Vogue’ is an ethereal, club inspired song, about surrendering to desire rather than resisting it,” the duo said of the song. “It’s euphoric, sensual and immersive, exploring the anticipation of where a night might lead,…

Slash has teased the possibility of a new Guns N’ Roses album. READ MORE: Guns N’ Roses live at Glastonbury: a solid performance… to the wrong crowd In a podcast interview with Rolling Stone Australia, Slash reported that there was “a lot of writing going on” within the band – and that the rockers hoped to get in the studio soon. The band have not released a full-length album since 2008’s much-delayed ‘Chinese Democracy’, while the last LP that either Slash or bassist Duff McKagan appeared on was the 1993 covers album ‘The Spaghetti Incident?’ However, Slash said that any new material would…

Nate Amos is really, really busy. NME is catching 40 minutes with him in a Manchester hotel lobby towards the end of a months-long odyssey with Water From Your Eyes, the experimental noise-pop duo he’s one half of, supporting Hayley Williams. But we’re here to talk about a different project: This Is Lorelei, his power-pop solo project, with which he’s just kicking off a cycle for his second official album, ‘The Singer In My Band’. He released its predecessor, ‘Box For Buddy, Box For Star’, two years ago, after around a decade of quietly dropping music on Bandcamp. It became…

Travis Barker‘s near-death experience in a plane crash in 2008 is at the center of the trailer for upcoming documentary, Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear. Co-directed by Justin Krook and Michael Dwyer, the film reflects on the Blink-182 drummer’s life and career, including how he battled “pain, grief and the thin line between survival and surrender.” Louder Than Fear debuted at the Tribeca Festival in New York earlier this year and will arrive on Hulu and Disney+ on Aug. 13. It features appearances from late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, Barker’s bandmates Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge, and Barker’s wife,…

Demi Lovato will officially appear in the upcoming Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock 3. The singer is reprising her role as Mitchie Torres from the first two films, 2008’s Camp Rock and 2010’s Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, which spawned Lovato’s popular collaborations with the Jonas Brothers, “This Is Me” and “Wouldn’t Change a Thing.” Camp Rock 3 finds the Jonas Brothers returning as fictional band Connect 3, who are looking for a new opening act. That search brings them back to Camp Rock, where a fresh set of campers are ready to show their stuff. Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, and…

Some of the most beloved Mountain Goats songs are the desperate, defiant ones, where everything is in the process of collapse. The lo-fi sound of John Darnielle’s earliest records embodied the same emotional overspill as the lyrics, but starting with 2003’s Tallahassee, Darnielle explored more ornate production in service of the same raw feelings. By the time of 2017’s Goths, the band’s sound had become adventurous enough to ditch the acoustic guitar entirely, dropping rough-around-the-edges characters into smooth, accomplished arrangements ostensibly at odds with—but obliquely perfect for—their sensibilities.Darnielle started writing the latest Mountain Goats record, Days, as an attempt to…

Journalists and some White House staff were aboard the legacy Air Force One that served as a “decoy,” according to The Washington Post President Donald Trump was secretly ferried away from Turkey last month and used a catering truck to covertly transfer him from Air Force One to a smaller plane amid an assassination threat from Iran, The Washington Post reported. The operation reportedly took place a night after Trump directed U.S. military strikes on Iran after failed negotiations between Washington and Tehran to end their war. Trump, who was in Ankara for a NATO summit and traveled to Turkey…

Tucker Pillsbury says he’s playing a character called Chuck Timely on his new album, and it’s not the first time he’s had an alter ego. To promote 2024’s Kansas Anymore, the singer usually known as Role Model maintained a second social media presence, a crass imposter named Saint Laurent Cowboy who described his record as “a dude who just blew your fucking back out” and said things like “if you see a guy wearing a wool sweater on this app singing Gracie Abrams, just know he’s manipulating you, and he’ll probably give you some sort of a UTI.” This caricature…

You could never accuse Citizen of stasis. The Midwest outfit’s sound has been called indie hardcore and soft grunge, but the group constantly adds new, off-kilter elements to its template. Their 2013 debut Youth, for example, was filled with jagged post-punk flourishes, and a decade later, Calling the Dogs featured high-energy indie-rock fusion. This versatility means Citizen can be tourmates with a straight-up pop-punk outfit like The Story So Far just as easily as they can feature on a track with New York hardcore bruisers Missing Link. On Halcyon Blues, the band’s sixth record, their latest evolution is one of…