Author: Press Room
The Weeknd has seemingly gone back on his plans to retire the moniker, telling fans at a recent show that he will “never disappear”. The artist, real name Abel Tesfaye, has been releasing music as The Weeknd since 2011, and dropped his sixth album under the name, ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’, in January 2025. That record was the final instalment in his ‘Blinding Lights’ album trilogy – following 2020’s ‘After Hours‘ and ‘Dawn FM‘ – and planned to be his last LP under the moniker. Discussing his plans to retire his stage name, the singer and actor previously explained why he…
NME’s latest star of The Cover, Nate Sib, has created an exclusive playlist to accompany the story’s launch – check it out below. The rising US pop artist is on this week’s (August 10) edition of The Cover, a manifestation of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read Nate Sib’s profile here, written by David Renshaw and featuring photography by Chessa Subbiondo. Alongside his The Cover story, Nate Sib has curated an exclusive playlist, titled ‘Loveliife<3’. The selection includes the…
The Pearl Jam frontman performed in Hansard’s usual spot on Grafton Street alongside Murdo Mitchell and several other musicians Eddie Vedder paid tribute to Glen Hansard by busking on Dublin’s Grafton Street, where the late musician got his start. Following Hansard’s funeral last week, Vedder showcased Pearl Jam‘s “Black” and Bruce Springsteen‘s “Drive All Night” on guitar alongside a group of fellow musicians on the local thoroughfare. The clips were shared by Scottish musician Murdo Mitchell alongside photos taken by music photographer Danny Clinch. Mitchell and Hansard had a long friendship after Hansard spotted him busking at age 14 and…
Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder has paid tribute to Glen Hansard by busking in his spot in Dublin’s city centre. Hansard, known as the frontman of The Frames and one half of the duo The Swell Season, tragically died in a motorcycle crash last month. He was 56 years old. The late musician and Oscar winning actor began his career busking on Grafton Street at the age of 13. In tribute to his friend, Vedder recently busked in the same spot with local musicians after attending Hansard’s funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. During his short session the Pearl Jam frontman played his band’s classic track…
Fans speculated that the singer employed a body double for his concert at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey Usher shut down rumors that he used a body double during one of his recent live shows. Fans have claimed that the singer hired a lookalike to perform in his place on his Raymond & Brown Tour with Chris Brown. In a video posted to the tour’s official Instagram page, Usher shared his reaction to the multitude of claims that he’s employed a stunt double during a recent concert. Or even a clone. “Ya’ll are funny…clone?” he wrote. “They can’t clone this??”…
Though Chinook is her debut solo record, Mallory Hawk is no rookie. After graduating from college, she sold merch and scanned tickets at venues in Boston; then, during a decade in New York, she played in the post-punk band Customer and the tender indie-rock project Trace Mountains (and served as the touring bassist for M(h)aol, a feminist punk group from Ireland). She was employed for a while by the indie-pop label Double Double Whammy, eventually working her way up to become its director. These days, she avails herself of a seemingly endlessly renewable musical resource: the indie-rock community in Philly,…
When London avant-pop artist Martha Skye Murphy asked experimental guitarist Roy Montgomery to contribute to her 2024 debut record, Um, he sent a recording of himself revving the engine of his 1968 Chrysler: the sound of a life in motion in another hemisphere. His playing on that record sounded like long-awaited sunlight finally emerging from her cloud cover, conjoining two existences that never physically touch. After those suggestions of distance, their new album Nebular—the pair’s first full-length collaboration, pieced together from stems emailed back and forth under the cover of night—feels like the next logical step in their remote partnership,…
It’s easier to stay silent in the face of conflict. But while taking a clean break from the noise of social media, Margaret Glaspy started thinking critically about the complicity and complacency implicit in holding your tongue. On her latest album of raw, untamed folk, I Am Both, the New York singer-songwriter pushes back at passivity, whether political or personal, in carefully wrought storytelling. Her expressive voice sounding both ragged and controlled—a rare skill, on vivid display—breaks through the apathy and fear of her songs’ characters, urging confrontation and reminding us what inaction looks like: a broken relationship, neighbors abandoned…
Oh, Lil Uzi Vert—heavy is the head that wears the $24 million diamond. When the Philly rapper unleashed their crowning achievement Eternal Atake in March 2020 after years of leaks and label purgatory, it seemed like everything was finally falling into place. What actually followed was a global health emergency. By the time the world opened back up, Uzi had entered the least-inspired period of their career. 2023’s perplexing Pink Tape and the next year’s shell-of-its-predecessor Eternal Atake 2 fulfilled their plagued Atlantic contract and sounded like obligations. Gone were the trap pyrotechnics and six-minute screeds about Vetements that scorched…
“I’d like to dedicate this to the Beatles,” Yo La Tengo guitarist and singer Ira Kaplan said from the stage, introducing Yoko Ono’s 1973 song “What Did I Do!” He added, by way of explanation, “It’s been long enough that we no longer bear a grudge for them trying to break up the Plastic Ono Band.” The quip resonated with most of the fans and other musicians — geezers and hipsters of all stripes — pressed up to the stage outside Los Angeles’ the Broad museum for “Yoko Only: A Night Celebrating the Music of Yoko Ono.” Ono, 93, was…
