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Four years before Paul McCartney wrapped up their 1976 “Wings Over the World” tour with a three-night stand at Wembley Arena (then known as Empire Pool), the band played a much smaller show at a hillside venue in Ollioules, France. They’d only been gigging for a few months, and these were under-the-radar shows designed to road-test new material and get McCartney in front of live audiences for the first time since the final Beatles tour in 1966. Guardian writer Robin Denselow was not impressed by what he saw in Ollioules. “[It was] one of the most depressing, almost embarrassing concerts…
Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 16, Rolling Stone is breaking down 11 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. With the country album nominations now split into traditional and contemporary categories, things are a bit more interesting (and complicated) when it comes to records with twang. What’s not complicated, though? Ella Langley’s dominance this year. Her sophomore LP Dandelion is the one to beat, which is probably an impossible feat. “We’re talking about a cultural phenomenon here,” says RJ Curtis, executive director of Country…
The National have played their first full gig in two years, bringing out Richard Reed Parry as a special guest and playing ‘90-Mile Water Wall’ for the first time in over a decade. Find footage and the setlist below. The gig marked their first full-band concert since 2024, and was held last night (Sunday October 18) at the closing night of AB100 at the Kursaal Auditorium in San Sebastián. Billed as ‘The National And Friends’, the performance was their only full-band show of this year and featured a variety of special guests as well as some deep cuts. The 22-song…
Bon Jovi have been announced as the first confirmed headliner for the 2027 edition of BST Hyde Park. Check out the ticket details below. The rock giants are set to take to the stage on Thursday June 24, and are the first confirmed headliners to be announced for the 2027 instalment of the iconic series of outdoor shows at the UK capital. The slot comes after Jon Bon Jovi and co. headlined the festival’s inaugural show back in 2013 – opening the stage with classics including ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’, ‘You Give Love a Bad Name’ and ‘It’s My Life’.…
A Harry Styles ‘Together, Together’ tour documentary is in the works from director John Wilson. Styles released his fourth solo album ‘Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally’ in March. To celebrate, he played a one-off show at Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena before launching his ‘Together, Together’ tour in May. The first leg of the ongoing 82-date tour saw Styles visit six cities around the world. The run of shows included 12 nights at London’s Wembley Stadium and 30 at New York’s Madison Square Garden. According to a report from Variety, John Wilson, the director behind surprise box-office hit The History…
Mauro Repetto, 57 anni, l’altra metà degli 883, torna a fare l’esordiente, una condizione che gli piace parecchio. Il 6 novembre esce il suo primo romanzo Election Day 2067, una distopia cyberpunk tra Roma e Parigi dove la politica è affidata a personaggi storici clonati (Giulio Cesare, Cleopatra, Tutankhamon) e le multinazionali inseguono «fregnacce sempre più enormi», perché «più sono enormi, più passano facilmente al grande pubblico». Visionario, a tratti apocalittico, ma meno lontano dalla realtà di quanto sembri. Nella protagonista, una spogliarellista che balla con il volto di un’altra, c’è molto di autobiografico. E, come Flaubert con Madame Bovary,…
The Cribs have announced a special homecoming show that will celebrate the 20th anniversary of ‘Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever’, and !Forward, Russia! are confirmed as special guests. The gig will be held at Tileyard North in Wakefield on Friday August 20, and makes the indie icons the first confirmed headliners for next summer’s Live At Tileyard North series. The show will celebrate their acclaimed 2007 album ‘Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever’ being released 20 years ago, and is set to see Ryan Jarman and co. play the record in its entirety. With the slot at Live At Tileyard North,…
NME’s latest stars of The Cover, Radio Free Alice, have created an exclusive playlist to accompany the story’s launch – check it out below. The Australian indie band are on this week’s (October 19) 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 Radio Free Alice’s profile here, written by Jordan Bassett and featuring photography by Tom Oxley. The four-piece have curated an exclusive playlist to accompany their appearance on The Cover, titled ‘Melbourne Friends’.…
The muted, rumbling rhythm sections; the warm guitar tones and grounding basslines; the strings that cut like a Japanese knife through the soft soulfulness; and the rich, humble voice that brings it all together: at its core, Michael Kiwanuka‘s new record ‘Fudge’ traces a continuous path from his last album, 2024’s critically acclaimed ‘Small Changes’. But the world the Mercury Prize-winning singer-songwriter is living in couldn’t be more different. “I want to tell people why I haven’t been around. Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. That’s one thing all humans have in common. So I’m just sharing mine with…
The Simpsons brought back fan favorite Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on Sunday night’s episode, revealing a new voice for the character after nine years. Apu appeared in “The Revengening” with Sunil Malhotra taking over for Hank Azaria, who voiced Apu in the past. The character has been but not heard on since the October 2017 episode “The Serfsons” and his new voice was a surprise for fans as the creators didn’t announce the casting in advance. “When my agent called me about a Simpsons audition, I knew exactly what role it was for, and the idea actually made my stomach sink,” Malhotra…
