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Iceage will head to North America for a tour next April. The run includes dates at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles, and Chicago’s Thalia Hall. Check out the itinerary below.The Danish band has played sporadic shows around the release of June’s For Love of Grace & the Hereafter, including a recent two-night run at Hollywood Forever’s Masonic Lodge. They have a hometown show in Copenhagen lined up this week, before a festival date in Norway, a Geese support slot in Germany, and, this November, a set at Pitchfork Paris. The European tour resumes early next…

Ariana Grande‘s new album ‘Petal’ has topped the US Billboard albums chart. Her eighth studio LP shifted 295,000 equivalent album units according to Variety, marking her most successful album in America since 2019. The pop star took to her Instagram Story to hail her fans for helping her reach the summit after a week in which it was announced that she would withdrawing from the public eye. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart,” she wrote, along with a heart emoji. Her album also topped the UK albums chart over the weekend. The pop star’s representatives confirmed earlier this…

Florence Road have shared a new single, ‘7563’ – you can listen to it below. The Irish band and former NME Cover stars‘ latest track follows on from their 2026 breakout song ‘Hanging Out To Dry’, which reached Number One on the Irish Airplay Chart and went viral on TikTok. ”7563′ is about feeling out of place, lost and confused. Not being sure of who you are,” the group explained in a statement. “It’s about knowing that you need to break yourself out of it, feeling that something is calling at you to wake you up from this ‘bad dream’.”…

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has teased a new solo album, which he is recording at Dave Grohl‘s Studio 606. READ MORE: ‘Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition’ review: shock and roll with metal’s new wave pioneers Dickinson previously released his last record ‘The Mandrake Project’ in 2024 following on from ‘Tyranny Of Souls’, which was shared back in 2005. Along with an album, ‘The Mandrake Project’ was a cross-media multimedia concept, combining the record with a 12-issue quarterly adult comic book series. But Dickinson has now confirmed in a new interview with VSX, that he is working on a new LP due for release…

Palchi mai visti prima, la prima rock band occidentale oltre la Cortina di ferro, stadi esauriti in un’ora. Il Magic Tour fu l’ultimo dei Queen dal vivo, anche se nessuno allora poteva saperloIl 10 agosto 1986 il mondo si svegliò senza sapere che i Queen, intesi come live band, erano finiti per sempre. La sera prima, Freddie Mercury e compagni avevano suonato a Knebworth Park, nei pressi di Stevenage, data extra del Magic Tour aggiunta per via delle numerose richieste di biglietti nel Regno Unito, davanti a più di 120 mila spettatori. Ad aprire il concerto, i giovani scozzesi Big…

Brandon Flowers has shared another new solo single, ‘Tiger’s Blood’ – you can listen to it below. READ MORE: Brandon Flowers talks new solo and Killers music – and the power of Springsteen and Oasis The track is the third taste of the Killers frontman’s third solo album, ‘Thrasher’, which is out on August 21 via Island. He released the first track, ‘Plans’, in June before dropping ‘Paradise’ last month. ‘Tiger’s Blood’ is a driving and nostalgic Bruce Springsteen-esque anthem that packs a bigger punch than Flowers’ previous two offerings. “The last thing that I heard/ You were doing OK/ We took different roads…

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…