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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…

Put an empty cup in front of anyone who came of tweenage in the 2010s, and chances are they can still clap out “Cups,” that percussive children’s game made famous by Pitch Perfect and ubiquitous by the popular girls in the cafeteria. Those with wholesome adolescent associations will be gagged to hear the beat resurface in “Cups 2 (I Invented Popping P*ssy),” the lead single from Sophie Hunter’s new album, Stereoscope. It’s a tongue-in-cheek provocation that grinds gleefully on the guardrails of seriousness, much like Hunter’s declaration that she—a white woman from Connecticut—“invented throwing ass” and “invented the dancefloor.”Got secondhand…

Earlier this year, Cheekface “broke containment,” as the youths say. The Los Angeles trio had spent seven years self-releasing albums of quirked-up indie rock and amassing a following of “Cheek freaks,” loyal fans who revere their playful hooks and meme-poisoned humor. But in March, after revealing that they had rejected an opportunity to appear in an AT&T commercial due to the company’s contracts with ICE, Cheekface drew a surge of attention for their politics—which, like their lyrics, lean lefty and anti-corporate. Then a clip of their jittery deep cut “I Feel So Weird!” blew up and became a TikTok trend…

I feel like once a week I see an Instagram Reel captioned something like, “Berklee students be like,” showing a musician cheekily pulling off a seemingly impossible feat, fingers fluttering in a hummingbird-winged blur. Drummer/keyboardist combo DOMi & JD BECK embody that winkingly skillful spirit: They bring daredevil swagger to their meticulously refined chops, making jazz fusion at the intersection of conservatory discipline and madcap hijinks. It’s an equal-opportunity approach to virtuosity: Their changes are dense enough for music-theory YouTubers, approachable enough for the flat-white set.NOT TiGHT, DOMi & BECK’s 2022 debut, channeled trad jazz fusion into a whirlwind of…