Author: Press Room
Dolly Parton‘s estate has confirmed plans for an inaugural “star-studded” two-day DollyFest event in 2027 in Nashville and London. The bash, which will honour the late country icon’s life and legacy, will be staged across two consecutive weekends next year, with specific dates to be announced in the coming weeks. Parton died aged 80 last Tuesday (August 25), with her representatives later confirming that it followed a “brief battle with cancer”. “DOLLYFEST will be the party of a lifetime she wanted to share with the world,” her estate said. DollyFest organiser Danny Nozell, the founder and CEO of CTK Enterprises, said in…
Fincher directs Tarantino! Downey Jr. rejoins the MCU! Timothée, Tom Cruise, and the ‘To Catch a Predator’ origin story! Get ready for a wild and crazy moviegoing season Every fall, studios trot out their big prestige-drama titles, film festivals roll out the red carpet for gala premiers, and big-name talent starts hitting the for-your-consideration circuit. For the next few months, a lot of oxygen will get sucked up over whether this title or that has a good chance of going all the way, or whether a veteran actor is campaigning enough to nab a long overdue Oscar. Do a lot…
Kali Malone has announced a new album, Burning Song, her solo follow-up to 2024’s All Life Long. Joined by Stephen O’Malley on guitar and Lucy Railton on cello, Malone recorded the album at Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany—the church where Johann Sebastian Bach served as cantor for the last 27 years of his life and was subsequently buried. She performed on the church’s Bach Organ, a modern instrument based on baroque tunings and temperament. With the announcement come a single, “Heavy With Fruit,” and a European tour itinerary, both below.Since All Life Long, Malone has released an album with Drew McDowall,…
Tributes have been paid following news of the passing of Half Japanese co-founder David Fair. He was 74. The musician founded the art-punk rock band alongside brother and bandmate Jad Fair after they moved from Michigan to Maryland in the mid-’70s, and soon went on to gain momentum for their unconventional approach to music. His passing was confirmed on Sunday (August 30) by Thick Syrup Records, with the label’s founder Travis McElroy sharing how the artist and his band “meant a lot to me”. “This one really hurts,” the post began. “My good friend David Fair of Half Japanese has…
The 100 Club in London is set to host two shows from Sprints, Maruja and more, celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of their most iconic punk gigs. To mark the landmark moment, they will be pricing tickets at just £1.50 – the same as what they were in 1976. The 1976 shows were held on September 20 and 21, and featured performances from Sex Pistols, The Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Damned, Buzzcocks Subway Sect, Chris Spedding & The Vibrators and Stinky Toys from Paris – most of which were unsigned at the time. In the audience were…
Sombr has followed his huge slot at Reading & Leeds 2026 by announcing a 2027 UK and European tour. Check out a list of shows below, which include a London date with Suki Waterhouse. The US pop star performed on the R&L main stage – now known as The Grid – over the weekend, and pulled one of the biggest crowds at the 2026 edition of the festival. During his set, he performed alongside Slayyyter, and kicked off the set by walking out with her from an ambulance stretcher. Now, following the appearance at the dual festival, Sombr has announced…
Don’t let the sweaty, pearl-blue-lit hedonism of his album cover fool you: when Lancey Foux (born Lance Omal) joins NME’s Zoom call, the 30-year-old is coming from a morning spent in regimented rigour. Already, he’s completed a full-body boxer-style workout and spent the rest of his morning sharpening his skills behind the decks, with a Cupra car event later on. It’s a typically restless schedule for an artist, DJ and budding label head whose career has rarely settled into one lane. “I get super busy, so I try to go to the gym five or six days a week,” he…
The Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter have announced a raft of new dates for their forthcoming winter ’50 Years Of Punk’ tour. Earlier this year, they announced an arena tour marking five decades since punk’s most momentous year, with 1976 seeing the original line-up play a series of legendary gigs in now mythic venues like The Marquee, The 100 Club, The Nashville and the El Paradiso strip club. A series of headline dates kicking off at Dublin’s 3Arena on December 7 along with further dates at Edinburgh’s Corn Exchange, Glasgow’s O2 Academy, and London’s Brixton Academy and Eventim Apollo were initially announced.…
The rapper showcased “Shabang,” “Burning Bridges,” and “Janice STFU” on stage for the first time Drake made a surprise appearance at Don Toliver‘s concert in Toronto last night, performing tracks off his recent LP, Iceman, live for the first time. The rapper emerged on the stage at Scotiabank Arena for a mini-set midway through Toliver’s performance. He showcased three tracks off Iceman: “Shabang,” “Burning Bridges,” and “Janice STFU.” “I just wanna thank Don for having me out tonight,” Drake told the crowd. “This is my first time performing the album since it dropped, so thank you for being here. Look,…
Erykah Badu’s first studio album in 16 years arrives after a cryptic, stop-start rollout, carrying a title fit for the final broadcast before civilisation loses signal. Yet ‘Before the World Blows’, her long-awaited collaboration with venerated rap auteur The Alchemist, is less interested in predicting doomsday than asking what deserves protection when everything already feels volatile. Her answer is wonderfully human: attention, humour, desire, ancestry and the freedom to change your mind. The Alchemist’s dusty production and smoke-stained samples give these ideas a suitably unstable home, but Badu is no decorative voice laid over his beats. She rearranges and programmes,…
