Genesis Owusu: Last News

King Princess, Genesis Owusu, 070 Shake and more, alongside a huge launch party at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Catch up with everything C23 here.Now, details for the next instalment have been announced with a release date set for this summer.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have been shortlisted for the 20th annual Australian Music Prize for his most recent album ‘Wild God’.It marks Cave’s fourth time being nominated for the prestigious award, having previously received recognition for 2016’s ‘Skeleton Tree‘, ‘Ghosteen‘ in 2019 and ‘Carnage‘, his collaborative album with Warren Ellis, in 2021.The nine albums shortlisted come from a list of 46 nominated records, selected from a pool of 600 released by Australian artists over the past year.Other acts making the shortlist are Amyl and The Sniffers for their album ‘Cartoon Darkness‘, Hiatus Kaiyote with ‘Love Heart Cheat Code’, both of whom have also been nominated previously.A post shared by Natalie Files (@theprfiles)The winning album will be announced on December 4, and will see the chosen artist receive a prize of $50,000 (£25,567) courtesy of sponsor SoundMerch.Previous winners include Sampa the Great, Genesis Owusu, the Avalanches, Courtney Barnett, Gurrumul, King Stingray, and RVG who won the award in 2023.Other shortlisted artists for 2024 include Grace Cummings, Rowena Wise, Dirty Three, Dobby, Audrey Powne and Kankawa Nagarra. Find a full list above.A post shared by Nick Cave (@nickcaveofficial)In a statement, Cave said: “Thank you to everyone for their support.

NME has announced details of NME The Cover 2023-2024 – a new premium new coffee-table book that celebrates one year of championing new talent.Coming as a 300-page high-quality hardcover book, the release is a special piece for collectors in the NME community, and presents a collection of the first 50 artists to have featured on The Cover.Having relaunched in May 2023, The Cover is dedicated to championing the most exciting emerging artists globally, and looks to connect them with NME’s audience of millions of music fans through world-class journalism and premium original photography.Across the 50 covers shared over the 12 months from May 2023-May 2024, soon-to-be stars have featured alongside unsigned and DIY heroes making waves in their respective scenes. These have included BandLab break-out d4vd, K-pop megastars ENHYPEN, BRIT Award-winners The Last Dinner Party, Mercury Prize winners English Teacher, Icelandic-Chinese sensation Laufey, and global pop phenomenon Chappell Roan.NME The Cover 2023-2024 captures the definitive story of an incredible year in new music, and copies of the premium coffee-table book are available exclusively online through music retailer Dawsons.Visit here to order NME The Cover 2023-2024 – on sale now with a special 20 per cent launch discount.

NME today release C24, the latest mixtape in the iconic C-Series – featuring new tracks from a range of essential new artists. Listen to it now on all major streaming platforms.The iconic C-Series was revived last year with C23, which featured blistering new music from King Princess, Genesis Owusu, 070 Shake, Jockstrap and more. After being teased with Teddy Swims’ exclusive new single ‘Funeral’ earlier this month, the seven-track mixtape is now available in full for the first time.Also featuring new tracks from the brilliant Laufey, Artemas, Royel Otis, Lola Young, Samara Cyn and Tehya, who was hand-picked by the judges of C24’s new artist competition, C24 is a who’s who of exciting rising stars.“It’s amazing to be part of C24,” Teddy Swims told NME.“It’s quite legendary, a lot of amazing artists have come through being a part of that.

King Princess, Genesis Owusu, 070 Shake and more. To celebrate the release, we threw a huge party at SXSW in Austin, Texas complete with high-octane performances from Jockstrap, Flo Milli, Danielle Ponder and other C23 artists.Earlier this year, Bose and NME confirmed the C-Series would return this summer with a new, star-studded roster of exciting artists.

IDLES have announced their support acts for their upcoming 2024 UK/Ireland tour – check out all details below.The Bristol band have just released their fifth album ‘Tangk‘ and are set to tour the album across the country from July this year. Now, the band have taken to social media to reveal a swathe of support acts who’ll join their tour with them.First, Australian genre-bending master Genesis Owusu, along with Brighton punk rockers Lambrini Girls have been announced to perform with IDLES.

Anna Prior – the drummer in Metronomy – has announced her debut solo EP and has shared its retro lead single ‘Fall Back’.READ MORE: Indie survivors Metronomy: “I like the idea that we stealthily succeeded in our own way”‘Fall Back’ features a thumping beat and bright synth sounds reminiscent of 90s dance music. “If I fall back on you / It’s hard to say what’s true / If I fall back on you / It’s hard to say what’s true,” she sings in the chorus.Speaking about the track in a press release, Prior said: “The song is about when I realised that love from a partner is never unconditional.

NME’s latest star of The Cover, Genesis Owusu, has shared a playlist exclusively to accompany the story’s launch – listen to it below.The Ghanaian-Australian artist is on this week’s (August 14) edition of The Cover, a renewal 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 Genesis Owusu’s profile here, written by Josh Martin and featuring photography by Bailey Howard.Genesis Owusu’s stunning second album ‘Struggler’, out this Friday, centres on a character called ‘the Roach’, who’s feverishly contemplating existence and purpose as it runs a never-ending race.

For fans of: Ava Max, Eurovision, all the fake-sounding RuPaul songs Related: Kylie Minogue ‘bursting with joy’ as new single Padam Padam soars up charts Padam Padam, the first single from Kylie Minogue’s forthcoming 16th album Tension, has proven as inescapable (and about as subtle) as an airborne virus. The track has been subject to hundreds of memes and thousands of text messages from mums to their gay sons: “What’s ‘padam’?”The memes, combined with the overt ridiculousness of the whole affair – a dead-serious Eurodance track built around the onomatopoeic sound of a heartbeart – have pushed Padam Padam to Kylie’s highest singles chart placement in over a decade.

Genesis Owusu has announced his awaited sophomore album, ‘STRUGGLER’, alongside a new single and music video.Announced today (May 18), ‘STRUGGLER’ is set to arrive on August 18 via Ourness/AWAL – preorder the album here. ‘STRUGGLER’ is accompanied by a new single, ‘Leaving The Light’, and its music video.The Bose x NME C23 artist’s upcoming album will serve as a thematic successor to his debut album ‘Smiling With No Teeth’. While ‘Smiling With No Teeth’ chronicled Owusu’s battles with depression and racism, ‘STRUGGLER’ will see him grapple with overcoming his demons.Genesis Owusu said of the album via a press statement: “The struggler runs through an absurd world with no ‘where’ or ‘why’ at hand.

Kele Okereke joined Hayley Williams and the rest of Paramore to perform a cover of Bloc Party‘s ‘Blue Light’ in London last night (April 23).The show, which took place at the O2 Arena on April 23, was Paramore’s last in the UK as part of their 2023 UK and Ireland tour with Bloc Party. The show was also an additional date at the O2 Arena after what was originally meant to be the tour’s last stop in Birmingham on April 22.To commemorate the last show of their UK run, Hayley Williams and co.

Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke has shared that the band are working on “exciting” new music.The indie veterans released their sixth album ‘Alpha Games‘ last year, with Okereke previously telling NME that he was “more excited about the energy that the band has right now” than he was concerned with their legacy.Now, after the recent release of his sixth solo album ‘The Flames pt. 2’, he has now told NME that Bloc Party are already back at work. Speaking with NME‘s In Conversation series, Okereke shared: “We, Bloc Party, have been writing in the last week.”He continued: “We have made a lot of music over the years and we’re going to make more.

NME have announced the full line-up for the C23 Live showcase at SXSW Festival.The event will take place at Inn Cahoots in Austin, Texas on March 16 to celebrate the release of C23 and feature artists from the mixtape. The full ‘Bose x NME: C23’ mixtape will be released the day prior (March 15).The mixtape features exclusive tracks by 15 of the world’s most exciting and innovative emerging artists, creating an unmissable collection that will offer a definitive audio showcase of the future of music.

DEALSSony Music’s AWAL has expanded its partnership with Genesis Owusu and his Ourness label to provide global artist services for the rapper’s upcoming new album. “My ambitions for both Ourness as a label and Genesis Owusu are that we continue on our path to creative freedom through independence and agility”, says Owusu’s manager and Ourness co-founder Andrew Klippel.

Genesis Owusu has returned, entering a post-‘Smiling With No Teeth’ era with new single ‘GTFO’.The Ghanaian-Australian artist’s first song for the year was co-written with frequent collaborators Michael DiFrancesco (Touch Sensitive) and Andrew Klippel along with Jono Ma. Klippel and Ma produced the track alongside Dann Hume.It’s a slow-burner that sees Owusu delivering introspective verses above a woozy, choral backdrop, before warbled synths and a marching drum-like beat foreground the deceptively triumphant refrain: “Get the fuck out.”‘GTFO’ arrives alongside a video directed by Rhett Wade-Ferrell (aka Uncle Friendly) that opens with Owusu kneeling in prayer before, increasingly frenzied, hunting down a cockroach in his house, causing destruction to his surrounds throughout.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, P!nk, The Chicks, SZA, Kacey Musgraves, Flume, Paramore and Lil Nas X all set to perform headline sets across the six-day festival. As it has for the past eight IRL editions, ACL ’22 will be held over two weekends in October. Each will feature a vastly different bill, though many acts – including the likes of Diplo, Wallows, The War On Drugs, Conan Gray, Spoon and Japanese Breakfast – will perform sets on both weekends.Other names appearing on both line-ups include Sofi Tukker, Omar Apollo, Arlo Parks, Pinkpantheress, Nathaniel Rateliff And The Night Sweats, The Midnight, Oliver Tree and Genesis Owusu. 39 names are down to perform exclusively during the first weekend, with standouts including Lil Durk, Carly Rae Jepsen, Rag ’N’ Bone Man, Slayyyter, James Blake, Manchester Orchestra and Muna.

BandLab NME Awards 2022, updated as all the action goes down at O2 Academy Brixton this evening (March 2).After a year of silence due to the pandemic, the wildest night in music returns, sponsored by leading social music creation platform BandLab and hosted by Daisy May Cooper and Lady Leshurr.Sam Fender, Little Simz, Wet Leg, Wolf Alice, Billie Eilish, Rina Sawayama and CHVRCHES are among the artists leading the nominations with several nods each. Meanwhile, Lana Del Rey, Self Esteem, Ghetts, BTS, Olivia Rodrigo, Lorde, Bring Me The Horizon, IDLES and Megan The Stallion are up for some of the biggest awards tonight.FKA Twigs will be crowned Godlike Genius, while Neneh Cherry will be honoured with the Icon Award.

Genesis Owusu has shared a new visual treatment for "Black Dogs!," a track from his March 2021 debut studio LP, Smiling With No Teeth. The video comes as the Ghanaian-Australian vocalist prepares for his first U.S. headlining tour, which starts in San Francisco next month, a full year after that album's release.

Genesis Owusu has delivered the visuals for the remix to his latest single, ‘Waitin’ On Ya’.While the original version of ‘Waitin’ On Ya’ is slow-burning and smooth, the remix – helmed by Jagwar Ma’s Jono Ma – injects it with frantic energy, while also reducing the original song’s length by almost two minutes.The remix’s visuals, directed by frequent collaborator Riley Blakeway, are equally as frantic, seeing Owusu watch a clip on his phone showing him and a troupe of dancers parade around an office with a large world map.