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More countries have called for a voting audit after Israel controversially came second in Eurovision 2025. The Grand Final of this year’s song contest took place in Basel, Switzerland last Saturday (May 17) where Austria’s entry JJ was crowned the winner, having earned 436 points overall. READ MORE: Inside the raging debate to watch Eurovision 2024: “This feels bigger than the contest” Israel placed second with the country’s entry, Yuval Raphael, […]

Richard Hawley has spoken to NME about the closure of The Leadmill in his native Sheffield, launching a plea for the government to change the law to stop this from happening to another music venue. READ MORE: If Sheffield’s Leadmill – the venue that helped break Arctic Monkeys – goes, we all lose something Last week saw the iconic Steel City venue denied an appeal against their eviction notice from Electric […]

White Lies have shared a new single, ‘Nothing On Me’, and announced a 2026 UK and European tour. Listen and find all the details below. The high-octane song marks the first material from the London band in three years, following on from their 2022 sixth album ‘As I Try Not to Fall Apart’, and is somewhat of a gear shift. It was recorded at The Church Studios in the capital, […]

Gorillaz are set to mark their 25th anniversary with ‘House of Kong’, a new exhibition showing at London’s Copper Box later this year. READ MORE: Gorillaz – ‘Cracker Island’ review: conventional, but richly satisfying For a limited run from August 8 to September 3, fans can get a look behind the curtain of the virtual band’s headquarters, with their origins charted from their formation and release of their 2000 debut single […]

Grinderman are set to release their entire discography on eco-friendly vinyl and CD. Find all the details below. READ MORE: Nick Cave interview: “There’s no metric that says virtuousness makes good art” Formed in 2005, the side-project is made up of Bad Seeds members Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos. They released two studio albums, ‘Grinderman’ (2007) and ‘Grinderman 2’ (2010), as well as a remix collection […]

Megan Thee Stallion has responded to Tory Lanez‘s claim that her former friend Kelsey Harris was responsible for the 2020 shooting that he was convicted of. In 2022, ‘Say It’ rapper Lanez was convicted of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in her feet while she left a party held at Kylie Jenner’s house in the summer of 2020. He was found guilty of all three charges pegged against him: one count […]

Paul Weller has announced a new covers album, ‘Find El Dorado’. Listen to two songs from the project below. READ MORE: Paul Weller interview: “I’m trying different things as much as I can – time is of the essence, man” The soloist and former Jam frontman is due to release the 15-track collection on July 25 via Parlophone (pre-order/pre-save here). It is described as “a map of his emotional and […]

Foreigner frontman Kelly Hansen has announced his departure from the band, and confirmed his replacement. The singer had served as lead vocalist in the British-American rock group since 2005. He took over the role from co-founder and original frontman Lou Gramm. Hansen shared the news of his exit during Foreigner’s appearance on the season finale of The Voice last night (May 20). He told fans that Foreigner guitarist Luis Maldonado […]

Turnstile have shared a new single called ‘Look Out For Me’ – you can listen to it below. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Turnstile: “When the stars align for things to happen, we follow them” The almost-seven-minute song is the latest preview of the Baltimore hardcore punk band’s fourth studio album, ‘Never Enough’, which is out on June 6 via Roadrunner (pre-order/pre-save here). It follows on from the record’s title track […]

ABBA‘s acclaimed sound engineer, Michael B Tretow, has died at the age of 90. His wife and son confirmed the news to Swedish publication Aftonbladet, with ABBA’s manager Görel Hanser going on to confirm it. No cause of death has yet been released, although the tributes paid so far have made mention of an illness. All four members of the iconic pop group have shared moving reflections about their time […]