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Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has signed on as executive producer for the forthcoming documentary Freedom Theatre. Directed by Rishi Pelham, the film follows resistance fighter turned artist Ahmed Tobasi as he fights to keep a theatre open in the middle of the Jenin refugee camp in Palestine. Variety reports that the film took five years to shoot, and is intended for a tour of film festivals, heading to Venice this month to look for potential distribution partners. Pelham told the outlet: “I didn’t intentionally set out to make this film. I kept returning to Jenin, to the theatre, to…

Amy Poehler’s return! A reboot 30 years in the making! Stories based on real life! Stories crafted from wild imaginations! This upcoming slate of series has it all It’s already been a bang-up year for TV, with excellent shows like A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Wonder Man, Widow’s Bay, and Liz Meriwether’s just-concluded Furious arriving to upend our expectations about what certain genres, stars, or even streamers can do. And the rest of the year looks equally promising. While the next few months will see several eagerly anticipated returning series — including Slow Horses, Lupin (after a three-year hiatus!),…

Jake Bugg has announced “vulnerable” and exposing new album ‘Alamo’, along with country-tinged lead single ‘Never Can Tell’ and details of a 2027 tour. The album marks the seventh from the indie rock icon, and is set for release via Thirty Tigers on November 13. Pre-order it here. Produced by longtime friend and producer Jimmy Hogarth (Amy Winehouse, Paolo Nutini) and Steve McKewan (Chris Stapleton, Eminem), the album sees Bugg lean into themes of introspection and raw, unfiltered emotion – taking a deep dive into some of the struggles he has faced in recent years. Throughout the tracklist, the singer…

Alanis Morissette has filed a lawsuit against her ex-tour manager – accusing her of blackmail and an extortion scheme over airport trafficking charges. The filing was made yesterday (Tuesday September 1) at a federal court in California, and saw the singer call her 2025 European tour manager, Keren Urinov, “a disgruntled” former employee, and accuse her of extortion, fraud, and negligent misrepresentation. She alleges that Urinov blackmailed her with issues regarding drug trafficking charges, in an attempt to pressure the ‘Hand In My Pocket’ singer to sign a 15-year-long contract. In the lawsuit, Morissette claimed that in 2025 Urinov was…

Dark fantasy game Crimson Moon is out now (September 1) and HEALTH have shared their crushingly heavy contribution to the game’s soundtrack exclusively on NME – check it out below. Crimson Moon is “a gothic high renaissance action-adventure RPG built around intense, replayable missions” from indie studio ProbablyMonsters. Players take on the role of a Nephilim, a ruthless human-angel hybrid forged to defend humanity, before being immersed in “a blood-soaked power fantasy.” The game’s original soundtrack has been composed by ProbablyMonsters’ Christopher Wilson but he teamed up with some rock legends to create the music for Crimson Moon’s boss fights,…

Most acts wouldn’t even dare to dream of performing in front of thousands of people at one single stadium, let alone dozens of them, before their debut studio album has even come out. But that’s precisely what’s happened to Puerto Rican quartet Chuwi. Ever since the band – comprised of siblings Willy, Lorén and Wester Aldarondo Torres, plus Wester’s school friend Adrián López Soto – received the offer to feature on Bad Bunny’s monumental album ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ in 2024, they’ve been on a rollercoaster of pivotal shifts. “It’s hard to explain how it all felt,” Willy says emotionally…

Westside Cowboy caught up with NME backstage at Reading 2026 to tell us about their whirlwind year, slapping a smile on the face of modern indie, and hopes for “weirder, poppier” new music. Fresh from the release of their acclaimed and long-awaited debut album ‘It Goes On‘, the rising Manchester alt-country outfit packed out The Ballroom tent at both Reading and Leeds sites. This was their first time playing the legendary festival, but singer and guitarist Reuben Haycocks came as a young punter in 2019, their return bringing bad a flood of “PTSD” from that heady weekend. This time through,…

The singer admitted that when she sees a photo of the actress sometimes she thinks, “Oh, that’s a picture of me” Monica Barbaro has already embodied Joan Baez onscreen so why not Olivia Rodrigo as well? During a conversation with filmmaker Cameron Crowe at the Grammy Museum last night, Rodrigo revealed that she hopes the A Complete Unknown actress could someday play her in a movie. “Sometimes I see a picture of Monica Barbaro and I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s a picture of me. Oh no, that’s Monica,’” Rodrigo replied after being asked who would play her in a film. “So…

The global trek will hit the U.K., Europe, and North America before wrapping in November Katseye launched their global Wildworld Tour last night at Dublin’s 3Arena. The tour opener comes only days after the group cancelled their appearance at Olivia Rodrigo‘s Daisy Chain Fields Festival in Irvine, California, after member Megan Skiendiel suffered a sprained ankle. Skiendiel was rested up for the Dublin concert, which also featured group members Daniela Avanzini, Yoonchae Jeung, and Lara Raj. Sophia Laforteza was notably missing after announcing a hiatus from Katseye in August. The show opened with single “Hootie Frutti” and included several of…

R.I.P. to the internet. In the same way those who believed in punk’s revolutionary promise had declared it dead by 1977 (despite the music’s persistence), tech critics have long argued that we’re spending our lives on a necrotic World Wide Web that decays further every day. The Dead Internet Theory argues that the combined effects of SEO juicing, corporatized traffic flow, and the overwhelming presence of bots have riddled the system with so many cavities it’s functionally incapable of sustaining pure human expression. Presumably, you already know this—you’re reading this on the internet, after all. But knowledge is one thing,…