Author: Amanda Collins
Conan Gray told NME about his new album ‘Wishbone’ backstage at Reading 2025, saying it dissects “every little piece of what a breakup feels like”. Check out the video interview in full above or read our chat below. ‘Wishbone’, Gray’s fourth album, was released earlier this month and follows his 2024 record ‘Found Heaven’. “It’s my baby, I’m obsessed with it. I’m so proud of it,” he told NME backstage at Reading after his huge main stage set. “It’s an album about breakups and about every little piece that you go through when you’re going through a breakup. It’s denial…
Soft Play have spoken out against the UK Government for being “complicit” in a “genocide” against the Palestinian people, the BBC for “not sharing a proper view” of said conflict and Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s for investing in “AI drone weaponry”, while speaking to NME backstage at Reading 2025. Watch our video interview with the band above. They also hailed Kneecap for inspiring them to speak out, exclusively revealed that they have written a new album and reflected on an amusing encounter with Robbie Williams and Danny Dyer. Guitarist Laurie Vincent and drummer/vocalist Isaac Holman were speaking backstage at Reading…
“Congratulations on surviving long enough to witness the end of the Nex Gen research programme,” says Eve, a digital avatar greets us from the main stage’s big screens. This is our host for the evening and she tells us: “Tonight marks my final experiment. Soon I will have enough data to harvest every human soul on this planet, to become omnipresent, omnipotent, unstoppable.” As her evil cackle rings out, you’d question if you’d mistakenly wandered into an elaborate escape room or some OTT laser quest experience. But no, all the high drama and Doom or Final Fantasy VII-like vintage video…
Soulwax have shared the latest single from their upcoming album ‘All Systems Are Lying’ – listen to ‘New Earth Time’ below. The Belgian dance-punk group, featuring brothers Stephen and David Dewaele, announced their first studio record in seven years will be released on October 17 via DEEWEE/Because Music and you can pre-order/pre-save your copy here. They have already released the double A-side single ‘All Systems Are Lying’ and ‘Run Free’, and now they have followed those up with ‘New Earth Time’, a propulsive, twitching track built around the trademark deep Soulwax percussion sound and dancing modular synths. Watch the track’s…
Doja Cat has opened up about working with Jack Antonoff and writing about “love bombing” on her upcoming album ‘Vie’. READ MORE: Doja Cat live in Glasgow: pyros and poise from one of rap’s most interesting protagonists On Friday (August 22), the singer-rapper officially announced that ‘Vie’ is due for release on September 26 (pre-order here), and shared the ’80s-inspired lead single ‘Jealous Type’. Now, in a new interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe, Doja has shared her experience working with former fun. member and Bleachers leader Antonoff. “I’m working with Jack Antonoff and working with a person that’s new in my life,”…
Press release – Los Angeles, CA: On October 17th, pioneers of the Los Angeles underground art damage electronic music scene, Grey Factor (who have been more myth than legend for over 45 years) will release 2 LP’s of unearthed recordings via Damaged Disco Records (US)/Tiny Global Productions (Europe). The two LPs 1979-1980 A.D. Complete Studio Recordings and A Peak In The Signal: Live 1979-1980 were released in 2023 & 2024 and garnered critical acclaim, with Paste Magazine including the 1979-1980 A.D. LP in their 50 Greatest Synth Pop Albums Of All Time in 2024. When the Future Arrives Without You is a 27-track compilation album that will also…
Last Retch. – Contributed photo Press release – In the heart of Hamilton, Ontario LAST RETCH returns with Abject Cruelty, their most punishing and refined statement to date. Due out September 26, 2025 via Time to Kill Records, this eight-track slab of old-school death metal captures the raw energy of a band embracing its fury and focus with sharpened intent. It’s a soundtrack to social rot: tight, unflinching, and seething with contempt. Formed in 2021 in nearby St. Catharines, LAST RETCH burst onto the scene with a no-frills demo and soon followed it up with their debut full-length Sadism and Severed Heads in…
Jerry Adler, the actor and director remembered for playing Hesh Rabkin in The Sopranos, has died at the age of 96. The news was confirmed by his friend Frank J. Reilly on Saturday (August 23), who wrote on X: “The great actor, my friend Jerry Adler died today at the age of 96. You know him from one of his iconic roles had from many of his guest appearances. Not bad for a guy who didn’t start acting until he was 65.” In the iconic HBO crime series, Adler played Herman ‘Hesh’ Rabkin, the mentor and consigliere-like figure to James…
Enter Shikari used their Reading Festival 2025 set to call out the “atrocity” in Gaza. See their full speech below. READ MORE: Reading & Leeds 2025 liveblog: all the action as it happens The band performed on Reading’s Main Stage yesterday (August 23), and reflected on a previous performance in 2010, where frontman Rou Reynolds wore a t-shirt displaying the words “Free Gaza”. He told the crowd that, back then, he was beginning to learn about the situation in the region, and how Israel “treated Palestinians like second-class citizens. It subjected them to constant intimidation, humiliation, subjugation, and forced them…
For the majority of the crowd at Reading 2025, the nu-metal heyday was something before their time. But while they may not have been there for Fred Durst’s now-iconic red cap sparking its own fashion trend or the Ben Stiller-starring music video for ‘Rollin’’ dominating MTV, when Limp Bizkit rock up to the main stage tonight (August 23), the ’90s giants fulfil their promise of taking us back to 1999. Seeing as they’ve been more or less touring nonstop since the release of 2021’s ‘Still Sucks’, it comes as no surprise that their set at Reading tonight is technically seamless.…