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David and Victoria Beckham watched their son Cruz Beckham perform at Reading Festival today – see footage below. Cruz and his band The Breakers played a half-hour set on the festival’s new Canopy stage at Little John’s Farm earlier today (August 29). Footage shared online shows the former England football captain smiling as he watched on from the side of the stage, with the former Spice Girls singer alongside him. Check it out below. David and Victoria Beckham cheer on nepo son Cruz and his band The Breakers as they make their Reading debut as the whole family watch from backstage while critics say he wouldn’t be on…
Shame have announced that they will take a hiatus after playing their remaining shows in support of ‘Cutthroat’. The South London band confirmed the decision in a statement shared on Instagram yesterday (August 28). “After an incredible year touring ‘Cutthroat’, meeting so many new people and being afforded the privilege of travelling the world performing our music, we are reaching the last few shows of this record’s touring schedule,” they wrote. “After that, we’re going to take a little break. “This isn’t a decision we’ve taken lightly, however we think it’s best for us as individuals and as a band to take…
“Tonight’s show didn’t feel right without doing something like this,” singer says before her rendition of Dolly’s 1974 hit Ella Langley paid tribute to Dolly Parton at her Auburn, Alabama concert, delivering a rendition of the country legend’s “Jolene.” “Tonight’s show didn’t feel right without doing something like this,” Langley told the Neville Arena crowd before launching into the oft-covered 1974 classic that might take Number One on the singles chart for the first time next week. Langley, like all of country music and the world at large, previously honored Parton with a statement posted on social media following the…
Florence + The Machine played Leeds 2026 last night – check out highlights from the performance below. Florence Welch and co. took to the stage yesterday night (August 28), ahead of their set at Reading on Sunday night (August 30). The performance, which saw her draw heavily from the critically acclaimed ‘Everybody Scream’, also included a surprise sing-along from the crowd after they learned it was her birthday. When the album was shared last Halloween, Welch had said exploring spiritual mysticism and folk horror helped shape the record, and last night, she performed a playful “ritual” with the Leeds crowd.…
Few names unite the spectrums of country, rock, and folk music quite like Ray Wylie Hubbard. Since Jerry Jeff Walker first covered his “Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother,” more than 50 years ago, Hubbard has been name-dropped by artists from Eric Church and Hayes Carll to Blackberry Smoke and Cross Canadian Ragweed. He counts Ringo Starr among his friends. It’s a circle of respect and admiration that the 79-year-old Hubbard is quick to embrace. “It’s gratifying in a way that validates — OK, yeah, I can write these songs,” Hubbard tells Rolling Stone. Occasionally, too, it leads to some head-spinning…
It’s been fifteen years since Alabama Shakes released their debut EP, which catapulted the small-town southern band into an unlikely few years of stardom. The group’s early music was lo-fi, vintage-leaning, and just twee enough to make the scrappy garage rockers an emblem of early-mid aughts Urban Outfitters hipsterdom. Brittany Howard, the band’s lead singer and charismatic frontwoman, has spent much of the past decade refuting that notion. With the band’s daring second album, 2015’s Sound + Color, and her subsequent solo records, Howard has established herself less like the retro revivalist her band were pegged as and more as…
Cardinals caught up with NME backstage at Reading 2026, where the Cork indie upstarts told us about progress on the “darker” follow-up to their acclaimed album ‘Masquerade‘. Watch our full interview interview or read all about it below. The former NME cover stars and NME 100 alumni made their Reading & Leeds debut at the southern site yesterday (Friday August 28) – a moment not lost of them having been raised on the classic Nirvana ‘Live At Reading’ album and movie. It’s been a steady ascent for the Cork band. This writer first saw them in a tiny Oslo basement…
Earlier this week, Meta settled a lawsuit brought by a coalition of state attorneys general and the District of Columbia, which claimed that the company’s products — namely Facebook and Instagram — were harmful to children. One week into trial, Meta agreed to a settlement that would require them to pay up to a $17 billion penalty, as well as enact a handful of safety precautions for accountholders 17 and under. These stipulations are extensive. Kids will only have access to Facebook and Instagram for two hours a day, and the apps will be blocked between midnight and 6 a.m.…
The state of Tennessee has announced plans to rename the Nashville International Airport after Dolly Parton following the death of the country legend earlier this week. Both Governor Bill Lee and the Metro Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) are aligned on a proposal to rebrand the Music City hub (airport code BNA) in honor of Parton, with a September 17 meeting scheduled to plan the next steps. “Dolly Parton’s extraordinary life is forever woven into the fabric of our state,” Gov. Lee said in a statement. “From her rural mountain home in East Tennessee to global stages, Dolly carried the Volunteer Spirit with…
Sixty years ago, on Aug. 29, 1966, the Beatles played their final live show, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. It was a turning point for the Fabs — the night that John, Paul, George, and Ringo quit the road. They signed off with one last bash at “Long Tall Sally,” four boys in the freezing fog and wind, proving to themselves one last time that they’re still the greatest rock & roll group, the toppermost of the poppermost. But then they took their goodnight bows, and that was it: the final twist. The final shout. The last stand of…
