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Mercury Prize shortlist for 2022 Album Of The Year has been revealed.At 11am today (July 26), the Mercury Prize – in partnership with mobility app FREE NOW – confirmed that the 12 albums that have been shortlisted for the Album Of The Year award include Harry Styles’ ‘Harry’s House’, Little Simz’s ‘Sometimes I Might be Introvert’, Sam Fender’s ‘Seventeen Going Under’, Wet Leg’s self-titled album and Yard Act’s ‘The Overload’.You can find the entire list of albums shortlisted for the coveted award below.The awards show for the event will take place on September 8 at London’s Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith. Tickets for the event are now available for purchase here.It was announced yesterday (July 25) that a handful of musicians including Anna Calvi, Lanterns On The Lake’s Hazel Wilde, Loyle Carner and Jamie Cullum helped judge this year’s prize, alongside a range of broadcasters and critics.The Mercury’s official website has also noted that the 12 nominated artists will “receive a specially commissioned ‘Album Of The Year’ trophy, with the overall winner also receiving a winner trophy and a cash prize of £25,000”.This year’s Mercury Prize has also announced that it’s new headline sponsor is the FREE NOW mobility app as part of a “multi-year commitment from FREE NOW to support British music”.Last year, Arlo Parks walked away with the 2021 Mercury Prize for her album ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’.

This year’s Mercury Prize shortlist has been announced, rounding up the twelve absolute best British and Irish albums of the last year. No question. Actually, before you get all annoyed, it is a very strong list this year.

Joy Crookes caught up with NME backstage at Glastonbury 2022, where she gave us the lowdown on what it was like to make the jump to Pyramid Stage, as well working with England football squad, The Lionesses.While upset that she was “still in a tent” while staying at the festival, the 23-year-old singer was proud to have made the jump to the main stage. “I played at the Pussy Parlour in 2019 before the pandemic and it’s mad I’m on the Pyramid stage this time,” she told NME.”When asked what it’s like to play on the world’s most important festival stage, she replied: “Funny, if you should put it like that. It was surreal, absolutely surreal.

Kasabian have shared the official video for their latest single ‘Chemicals’ – you can watch it below.Released earlier this month, the track followed ‘ALYGATOR’ and ‘SCRIPTVRE’ in previewing the Leicester band’s upcoming seventh album ‘The Alchemist’s Euphoria’ – their first since the departure of ex-frontman Tom Meighan.Today (June 21), Serge Pizzorno and co. have dropped the trippy new visuals for their most recent track, which sees Kasabian’s newly-appointed lead singer taking a stroll through his hometown in the early hours.The clip, titled ‘Chemicals – 3:21am In Les-tah’, was directed by LOOSE (IDLES, Fred Again.., Joy Crookes) and filmed, as its name suggests, at 3:21am.Speaking of the single, Pizzorno explained: “It is me telling myself that it is going to be OK.

The full line-up and stage times for this 2022's Glastonbury Festival have been revealed. 

Disclosure have teamed up with RAYE for their new garage driven single ‘Waterfall’ – you can listen to the track below.The song follows the dance duo’s previous single ‘You’ve Got To Let Go If You Want To Be Free’ and is RAYE’s first music of 2022.“RAYE is such a dream to work with in the studio. Best way to describe her is as a hook machine! You get the beat rolling and vibes going and she gives you like five chorus melody options straight away… she makes writing the way we do so easy & enjoyable,” Disclosure said.“We all knew within five minutes we were gonna make a UKG summer sunshine banger and that’s exactly what we ended up with.

Alissic has shared her third single, a brand new track called ‘Superstitious’ – you can watch the song’s video below.The Brazilian-born, Sheffield-based avant-pop singer returns with her first new material since last October’s ‘Piano’, which itself followed her debut single ‘Like’.‘Superstitious’ is a hypnotic, alt-pop ode to the summer, and it’s the first track Alissic has released to feature some vocals in her native Brazilian tongue.“It makes me feel warm and like home with its Latin American influence,” Alissic said of the single. “The super spacey and lush sound in the pre-chorus gives it a really ethereal vibe.

Arctic Monkeys have been announced as one of the headliners for this year’s Electric Picnic – check out the full line-up below.Alex Turner and co. will top the bill at the Irish music and arts festival on Sunday, September 4 alongside Tame Impala (September 3) and Dermot Kennedy (2).

Ethan Shanfeld Paul McCartney, Kendrick Lamar and Billie Eilish are set to headline England’s Glastonbury Festival, taking place June 22-26 at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset.McCartney and Lamar join previously announced headliners Eilish and Ross. McCartney will headline the Pyramid Stage on Saturday night, while Lamar will close out the festival on Sunday.

Prada to get a glimpse of the A-list set slipping in to see Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’ most recent co-designed collection at Milan Fashion Week on Thursday afternoon. Crowds erupted when Kim Kardashian appeared, wearing a full length leather trench from Prada’s latest menswear collection, a patent green shirt, baggy trousers and gloves, complete with silver shades.

London Fashion Week return to its former glory in a style not seen since pre- pandemic. Unlike last September, the show schedule is back-to-back and an international set of editors, models and celebrities have descended upon the city to see the best British design has to offer. Irina Shayk kicked things off off with a speech at the British Fashion Council’s official opening party on Thursday night, before Joy Crookes took the mic for a surprise performance.

London’s Under The Bridge on Thursday, but after waking up feeling ‘a touch funky’ he subsequently found out he has Covid.In a statement issued on his Instagram, the 40-year-old singer said this week: ‘I’m so sorry, but I woke up feeling a touch funky this morning so I did some tests and unfortunately tested positive for Covid.‘I’m feeling ok and just taking it easy in isolation. Apologies to anyone coming to my Brits War Child show this coming Thursday, it has been rescheduled and will now happen on Thursday 10th March… I hope you can all still make it!’He went on: ‘For my Radio 2 Piano room session on Wednesday, I was so looking forward to performing with my stripped back band & the BBC Orchestra so I’m hoping we can re-schedule this for a later date.’ Still set to perform as part of Brits Week Presented by Mastercard for War Child is Damon Albarn, who plays a solo gig at London’s Troxy on Sunday.Anne-Marie, Joy Crookes, Bastille, Becky Hill, Maisie Peters, Fontaines D.C.

NME at the BRIT Awards 2022, Griff revealed that she’s progressing well with her debut album – as well as discussing what it was like to collaborate with Sigrid on recent single ‘Head On Fire’. Check out our video interview with Griff above.Having won the BRITs Rising Star Award last year, Griff was down at the London ceremony this week where she was nominated for Best New Act and Best Pop/R&B Act.Up against the likes of Adele, Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran, Joy Crookes, Central Cee, Little Simz and Self Esteem across her categories, Griff said that “you can’t really look at it as competition”.“First of all, the Pop and R&B category is Dua, Ed, Joy, they’re all such incredible artists and I feel very grateful to be in and amongst the nominations,” she told NME.Looking to the future, Griff told us about progress on the follow-up up to her acclaimed ‘One Foot In Front Of The Other’ mixtape and what to expect from her long-awaited debut album.“I’m always trying to write, but it’s quite funny because it feels like we’re kind of coming out of the pandemic and I feel like it was a blessing to write in such a space where I was left alone,” she told NME.

Little Simz won Best New Artist at tonight’s (February 8) BRIT Awards 2022, taking to the stage with her mum to accept the award.She was nominated in the category alongside Central Cee, Griff, Joy Crookes and Self Esteem.Simz was presented the award by Tom Daley and Celeste. “Mum, look at what you’ve done. Look at what you’ve done,” she said as she handed her mum the trophy.

Rock En Seine has announced a new wave of acts for 2022 – check out the festival’s full line-up below.The French festival is due to take place across four days (August 25-28) at the Domaine National de Saint-Cloud in Paris.Tame Impala and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds were announced as two of this year’s headliners last October, with Arctic Monkeys confirming their bill-topping appearance the following month.Today (February 8) organisers have added Joy Crookes, Griff, Perfume Genius and Remi Wolf to the line-up, as well as Soulwax, Izia, Aldous Harding, Crystal Murray, Lala&Ce, November Ultra, Nu Genea, Priya Ragu, Requin Chagrin and Vendredi Sur Mer.Additionally, it’s been confirmed that Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes and Ausgang will open for Rage Against The Machine at their standalone Rock En Seine date with Run The Jewels on August 30.⚡️ROCK EN SEINE 2022 ⚡️⛵️ Embarquement immédiat pour les nouveaux noms de cette édition XXL

The BRIT Awards 2022 will partner with TikTok to power the public vote for several new categories in this year's ceremony, it's been revealed.

BBC Radio 2 has announced that it will broadcast a series of 20 new live sessions with artists including Ed Sheeran, Anne-Marie, Jamie Cullum, Joy Crookes and Emeli Sandé. Starting later this month, one session a day will air on Ken Bruce’s weekday morning show, with each performer backed by the BBC Concert Orchestra.Dubbed Radio 2’s Piano Room Month – because the sessions will be recorded in the Piano Room at the broadcaster’s Maida Vale Studios, see? – each artist will perform three songs each – one new, one old and a cover.All the performances will be broadcast live, aside from Ed Sheeran and Jamie Cullum, who are pre-recording their efforts.

Damon Albarn and Bastille are among the leading names who have been announced for the BRITs Week 2022 gig series.The London shows will take place around the staging of next year’s BRIT Awards, which will be held at The O2 in London on February 8.BRITs Week presented by Mastercard for War Child will kick off on February 1 with Anne-Marie performing at Lafayette, before Bastille play at Earth Theatre on February 2.Albarn will close the gig series – which will also feature the likes of Joy Crookes, Maisie Peters, Becky Hill, Mimi Webb and Craig David – with a show at the Troxy in London on February 20.Further shows for BRITS Week 2022 are set to be announced next month – you can see the current line-up below.Proceeds from the shows will go

Little Simz has shared new song "Woman," the second song from her upcoming album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert. The track features vocals from Cleo Sol and comes with a self-directed video featuring cameo appearances from Jourdan Dunn, Joy Crookes, and Denai Moore among others.

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