Author: Press Room
Ash have surprised fans at Kendal Calling by taking to the stage pretending to be a tribute band, in a set that also saw them presented with gold discs for their hit single ‘Girl From Mars’. The 2026 edition of the festival took place at Lowther Deer Park, near Penrith, over the weekend, and saw performances from Wolf Alice, Biffy Clyro, Primal Scream, Scissor Sisters and The Libertines. There was also a set planned from Rehash, a band described as a Cumbria-based tribute band to alt-rock band Ash. However, fans at the site were surprised to see the real band…
Fans at Lollapalooza have gone viral for passing a bag of urine over the crowd. The annual Chicago music festival returned last week for the 2026 edition, and featured performances from Olivia Dean, Charli XCX, Tate McRae, Lorde, The xx and The Smashing Pumpkins. Other names on the bill included Geese, Wet Leg, Wolf Alice, Ethel Cain, Turnstile, Lil Uzi Vert, CMAT, Little Simz, Zara Larsson, Clipse, The Neighbourhood, Yungblud, Beabadoobee and Sombr. While the festival has already made headlines for Lorde bringing out Charli XCX, Smashing Pumpkins bringing out Olivia Rodrigo, and Charli XCX making it rain women’s underwear,…
Pitchfork Festival London has announced its second wave of artists, who will converge on the city for a week this November. Panda Bear & Sonic Boom will appear alongside the Avalanches at their Roundhouse headlining show, with a guest DJ set from Arushi Jain and more to be announced; Nirosta Steel will perform My Skyscraper at ICA; and DIIV will top the Dalston Takeover ticket alongside Mandy, Indiana, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, and Working Men’s Club. They all join a lineup led by Ear, Tortoise, Aja Monet, Los Thuthanaka, Olof Dreijer, Hania Rani, Radio Dept, Actress, and Noname. See Pitchfork London’s…
Multiple people have been injured following a “stampede” that broke out at a live music event in London. The event in question was the Ghana Party In The Park at Copthall Playing Fields in Barnet, which was held this Saturday (August 1). It was brought to an end early when an “overcrowding issue” forced organisers and local police to intervene. According to various reports, a “crush” broke out on site, sparked by a small fire which led to the gates being closed temporarily. From there, police said a crowd started to build up “and surged when the gates were reopened”.…
Charli XCX has delivered her first full ‘Music, Fashion, Film‘ headline show at Lollapalooza 2026, and broken out two songs live for the first time. Check out footage and the setlist below. The stacked performance at Lollapalooza took place on Friday night (July 31) as Charli topped the bill alongside The Smashing Pumpkins for the 2026 edition of the Chicago festival. Ahead of the slot, the singer played an intimate pre-Lollapalooza slot in Nashville, where she broke out numerous tracks from her new ‘Music, Fashion, Film‘ album for the first time in a live setting – including ‘Magic Metal Montana’,…
Between her profound emotional growth on 2024’s ‘Eternal Sunshine’ and her virtuosic performance as Glinda in the Wicked films, Ariana Grande would seem to have endless reasons to be grateful. Those works emerged from a year-plus spent largely out of the spotlight – a relatively long time by her standards. However, brought back in by the movies’ press cycle and her first world tour in seven years, she’s once again come under intense tabloid and social media scrutiny – around her relationships, her image, her body. In response, she’s described ‘Petal’, her eighth studio album, as “a little feral”, “an…
NME’s latest stars of The Cover, Sailor Honeymoon, have created an exclusive playlist to accompany the story’s launch – check it out below. The South Korean punk trio are on this week’s (August 3) 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 Sailor Honeymoon’s profile here, written by Rhian Daly and featuring photography by Annie Chung. To accompany their appearance on The Cover, Sailor Honeymoon have curated an exclusive playlist, titled ‘14.5 Hour Flight…
Massive Attack have spoken out after two band members were banned from Singapore for displaying the Palestinian flag onstage during a concert. “Following our performance at the Star Theatre, Singapore, on 29th July, we were surprised and disappointed that our entire band was detained by the police, isolated and separately questioned – with some members subjected to hotel room searches and temporary passport confiscation,” the band wrote in a post on Instagram on Sunday. “Before we set foot on the stage and again at the end of the show, large sections of the auditorium organically led chants of ‘Free Palestine,’ presumably…
Tra le tante cose che ci si aspetta di vedere a un festival metal, una sessione di acquagym a pochi passi da Dessel, accompagnata da riff e doppia cassa probabilmente non occupa le prime posizioni della lista. Eppure, è proprio una delle immagini che precedono l’inizio della ventinovesima edizione del Graspop Metal Meeting, dimostrando ancora una volta come il conto alla rovescia verso il festival possa riservare qualche sorpresa inattesa. Il Day 1 si apre però con una notizia che nessuno avrebbe voluto leggere. Tom Morello è costretto a rinunciare alla propria esibizione per fare ritorno negli Stati Uniti, dopo…
The evolution of Surf Gang Records has been staggering to witness. What began as a hub for producers evilgiane, Harrison, Eera, and friends to leave their stamp on then-emergent mutations of drill seeping onto the New York airwaves has become a thriving network stretching from hip-hop’s upper echelons to the trenches of SoundCloud and bedroom studios. Not every artist who releases a project through the label is technically part of the collective, but they all share a curiosity for a rap future diverse enough to challenge fanbases and divide forums for years to come. Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE recently joked…
