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IDLES have announced the special guests for their homecoming Bristol Block Party, a two-night festival in August.In November, the punk band revealed plans for the event, which will see them take over Queen Square on August 1 and 2, the first mass live music concerts at the site in over two decades. Find any remaining tickets here.Now, the full line-ups have been unveiled for both nights.

Julian Casablancas + The Voidz have shared their futuristic new single ‘Blue Demon’ from their forthcoming EP.The track features The Voidz’s signature synth-heavy experimental beats along with Casablancas’ auto-tuned heavy vocals singing: “And In The Name Of Our Lord & Savior We Fight Each Other / Like Two Brothers / Father Forgive Me Intifada / Too Many Babies / Dead Like Their Mothers,” describing a conflict.‘Blue Demon’ was teased on the band’s official Instagram account with a couple of posts created by AI. The first clip sees a news reporter reading a letter from Tron Cole – the band’s “former social media manager” – who threatened to leak the band’s new music.According to a press release, the track is the first taster from The Voidz’s forthcoming EP which is set for release sometime later this spring.

Julian Casablancas and The Voidz have announced a one-off London show for 2025 – you can find all the details below.The band are due to play at The Troxy in the capital on Saturday March 8 in support of their third and latest album, 2024’s ‘Like All Before You’.This will follow a newly confirmed appearance at Les InRocks Festival in Paris on Wednesday March 5. The Voidz are scheduled to perform at Le Centquatre in the French Capital.Tickets for the upcoming London gig go on general sale at 11am GMT this Friday (December 6) – you’ll be able to buy yours here.

Charli XCX has been cast in a film loosely inspired by the story of Joan Of Arc.READ MORE: Julian Casablancas on working with Charli XCX: “Fame has never hit someone at a better time”As reported by Deadline, Charli XCX has joined the cast of Sacrifice, the English-language debut of French director Romain Gavras. She will star alongside Anya Taylor-Joy (Furiosa), Chris Evans (Avengers: Endgame), Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) and Ambika Mod (One Day).The plot synopsis read: “Sacrifice — loosely inspired by the Joan Of Arc story — tells the story of Joan (Taylor-Joy), a zealous spirit driven by a volcanic prophecy only she can hear, who is on a mission to save the world from a fiery reckoning.“Along with her militia of mystical disciples, she hijacks a glamorous charity gala and takes three hostages: Mike Tyler (Evans), a beleaguered movie star desperate for redemption, Bracken (Cassel), the world’s richest man, and Katie (Mod), who’s just unlucky.

The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has revealed that he’s refused to vote for the US Presidential elections – see what he had to say below.In 2020, along with the rest of The Strokes, Casablancas backed Bernie Sanders, who lost to Joe Biden in the race to become the Democratic party’s candidate for the presidency. The band performed at a rally for the Democrat candidate at the beginning of the year and later called for Biden to choose Sanders as his running mate in the election.Now, on the day of the US Presidential elections – which is being contested mainly by Donald Trump and current Vice President Kamala Harris – Casablancas shared a a post on social media that revealed his refusal to vote.In the post, he shared an image of an “I protested” badge.

The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has said that the band’s classic hit single ‘Last Nite’ is “pretty dead to me”.Casablancas has often expressed his dismay at performing the band’s more popular, older songs in the past, admitting that he became “sick” of playing old hits live, saying “the music doesn’t move you” when playing the same tracks repeatedly in 2020.He added at the time: “When you’re growing up and imagining playing music, it is for the excitement, but the one aspect of doing it for a living that is a sadness you don’t anticipate is that you play songs so much, you become sick of them.“We hadn’t played for a while. So it was still fun, but when you start playing 30 or 40 shows, the music doesn’t move you.

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Julian Casablancas has opened up on working with Charli XCX for her ‘Brat’ album remix.Charli confirmed The Strokes frontman would be amongst the 18 features on her ‘Brat’ remix album, and he eventually appeared on the song ‘Mean girls’.Now, Casablancas has spoken to Jimmy Fallon about the collaboration, saying: “That was very serendipitous. I actually can’t believe how fast it happened, I feel like it was a few weeks ago that she asked me, and I was in LA.

Julian Casablancas has spoken about why he’s “kind of stepped away a little bit” from The Strokes.Casablancas, who founded The Strokes in 1997, spoke to the LA Times about his decision to “step away” from the band. Their last album was 2020’s ‘The New Abnormal‘; since then, Casablancas has just released a new album with his experimental side project The Voidz, which dropped back in September.Speaking with LA Times, Casablancas was asked whether there was anything he missed about working with the Strokes or the Voidz, to which he replied: “Probably one direction more than the other. I don’t know if I can answer that without being offensive to someone.”When the LA Times presumed “that means you miss the Voidz”, Casablancas confirmed: “sometimes, yeah”.Casablancas was then asked whether he felt like he was contributing to an “opiate-of-the-masses vibe” when playing with The Strokes.

Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker‘s 18-year-old daughter, Alabama, has shared that she doesn’t want to vote in the upcoming US Election.Alabama, who is now of legal voting age, revealed her stance on voting during a livestream on social media, telling followers she didn’t feel “educated” enough.“Not voting isn’t crazy in my opinion at all, because if I don’t feel like I have the exact education for what I’m voting for, how is it right to vote something I’m not completely educated on?” she told followers, per Billboard. “I could educate myself, but why would I do that if I genuinely don’t care? I’m just honest.”She continued: “I don’t care to vote if I don’t know exactly what’s going on.

Charli XCX has spoken about her friendship with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy and the pair’s new collaboration, while praising the band for “taking risks” with their creative output.Healy is set to appear on the star-studded ‘Brat’ remix album alongside the likes of Ariana Grande, Julian Casablancas, Lorde and Bon Iver. He will feature on a reworking of ‘I Might Say Something Stupid’ with Jon Hopkins.During a new video interview with Apple Music, Charli spoke to Zane Lowe about the huge success of ‘Brat’ and the unstoppable cultural phenomenon that was 2024’s “Brat summer”.She also shared details about ‘Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat’ – which is due for release this Friday (October 11).

Charli XCX has now confirmed all the artists who will feature.Last month, the pop singer announced a reimagined version of the cultural phenomenon of the summer, the ‘Brat’ album. It’s titled ‘Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat’ and can be pre-saved here.The remix record is set for release on October 11, and has so far been previewed with ‘Von Dutch’ featuring Addison Rae, ‘Girl, So Confusing’ with Lorde, ‘360’ with Robyn and Yung Lean, ‘Guess’ with Billie Eilish, and ‘Talk Talk’ with Troye Sivan, plus a spoken contribution from Dua Lipa.Various potential names had been circulating online ahead of XCX’s confirmation of the line-up, with artists including including Madonna, Caroline Polachek, SOPHIE and Grimes rumoured to appear.Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat feat: pic.twitter.com/Bn6HD2LRiE— Charli (@charli_xcx) October 4, 2024Earlier this week, XCX’s team started erecting ‘Brat’ green billboards in the hometown of artists that are now confirmed to feature on the album – including the 1975, Bon Iver and Tinashe.

Julian Casablancas has shared that he feels no strong affinity to either party in the upcoming US election, referring to the candidates as “both sides of the same corporate coin”.In 2020, along with the rest of The Strokes, Casablancas backed Bernie Sanders, who lost to Joe Biden in the race to become the Democratic party’s candidate for the presidency. The band performed at a rally for the Democrat candidate at the beginning of the year and later called for Biden to choose Sanders as his running mate in the election.When asked how he felt about the upcoming US presidential election, however, the singer said: “Nothing”.

The Voidz have announced their third album ‘Like All Before You’ and have shared the LP’s opening track ‘Overture’.Earlier this week, Julian Casablancas and co. shared a cryptic teaser video for the album which saw the band reveal the release date for the record and was soundtracked by an instrumental ‘Overture’ filled with moody synths, which serves as the album’s opening track.Now, the band have announced their third album ‘Like All Before You’ is set for digital release on September 20 and will be available on Vinyl starting October 18 (you can pre-save it here). ‘Like All Before You’ was created at the band’s home studio in Venice, CA as well as the renowned Vox Studios in Los Angeles.The LP sees the band collaborate with producers Ivan Wayman (Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, The War on Drugs), Justin Raisen (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kim Gordon, Yves Tumor), and SAD PONY (Lil Yachty, Drake) on several tracks.1. ‘Overture’2. ‘Square Wave’3. ‘Prophecy of The Dragon’4. ‘7 Horses’5. ‘Spectral Analysis’6. ‘Flexorcist’7. ‘Perseverance–1C2S’8. ‘All The Same’9. ‘When Will The Time of These Bastards End’10. ‘Walk Off (Outro)’Both ‘Flexorcist’, which the band put out near Halloween and the metallic pop cut ‘Prophecy of the Dragon’, both of which the band combined into a 14-minute music video last October will be featured on the LP.Elsewhere, Casablancas and co also announced two gigs in New York and Los Angeles to celebrate the release of ‘Like All Before You’.

The Strokes revived some live rarities during a benefit concert for Chicago congressional candidate Kina Collins over the weekend.The New York indie legends performed at Credit Union 1 Arena on Friday (March 8), the second time they have staged a gig to support Democrat candidate Collins, following a 2022 event.This weekend’s show took place on Collins’ birthday and saw Julian Casablancas and co. dust off some rare live tracks.The setlist included ‘You Talk Way Too Much’ from 2003’s ‘Room on Fire’, performed live for the first time since 2015, and ‘The Way It Is’ for the first time since 2019, along with ‘Drag Queen’ from their 2016 EP ‘Future Present Past’ for the first time since 2017.You can check out footage of the full set below.The set also included performances of ‘The Adults Are Talking’, ‘Last Nite’, ‘Reptilia’, ‘Someday’ and more.In an Instagram post shared after the performance, the band wrote: “Thank you Chicago – Vote for Kina on March 19 (or during early voting).

Idles frontman Joe Talbot has spoken to NME about the prospect of the band stepping up to headline Glastonbury or Reading & Leeds in the future.The Bristol punk band released their acclaimed fifth album ‘Tangk‘ last week, ahead of a busy summer of major festivals and some of the biggest headline shows of their career. With the band tipped to have another Number One album this week, attention now turns to whether they could be the next act to graduate to topping the bill at the UK’s largest festivals.Asked about the prospect of headlining Reading & Leeds as part of this week’s NME In Conversation interview, Talbot replied: “Do I want it? It was the first and only festival I went to for six years.

Daft Punk‘s Thomas Bangalter has been announced as the composer of the DAAAAAALÍ film soundtrack.The news was announced on Instagram today (January 9) via Ed Banger Records (Justice, Breakbot), who will release the soundtrack on their label.“Let’s start 2024 with something very special!”, the label wrote. “Thrilled to welcome Thomas Bangalter on Ed Banger recordsfor the release of the original soundtrack of DAAAAAALÍ.”The movie, directed by Quentin Dupieux (also known by his DJ name Mr Oizo), is scheduled for release on February 7.A post shared by ED BANGER / PEDRO WINTER (@edbanger)DAAAAAALÍ! will be Dupieux’s twelfth feature film, following films such as his breakout horror-comedy Rubber (2010) and his recent black comedy Yannick (2023).

The Voidz have shared their spooky new single ‘Flexorcist’ ahead of Halloween this weekend – listen to it below.The new track from Julian Casablancas and co. is nearly six minutes long and sees the frontman sing of “graves lined-up across the hill“, “pistols at dawn” and “friendly face in the firing squad” atop a synthy, indie-pop leaning melody.“I guess I mighta – sounded a little crazy, maybe / I only think of things I shouldn’t do,” Casablancas sings on the off-kilter new single.‘Flexorcist’ arrives with concept art featuring a spectral winged figure staring over a glowing city.The track also comes ahead of the band’s “immersive” Halloween residency in Brooklyn this weekend.The Voidz will be taking over the Murmrr Theatre for four nights from October 31 to November 3.

Lauren Mayberry covered The 1975‘s ‘Paris’ during her show in Paris last night (October 15).The Chvrches’ frontwoman performed the song – lifted from the band’s 2016 ‘I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It’ – at the La Maroquinerie towards the end of her set.Much like the original track, Mayberry performed it at the same gentle tempo. You can listen to it below.The song was part of her current European tour which kicked off last week.During her set, she also performed Madonna‘s classic hit single ‘Like A Prayer’, which the Queen of Pop herself sang during her first night at The O2 in London over the weekend, along with a host of solo tracks she has been playing throughout her tour.The singer also performed her new single ‘Shame’, which she released last week.

The 1975‘s Matty Healy has hit out at The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas‘ comments about their LGBTQ+ stance in Malaysia.It comes after the 1975 were banned from Malaysia after their set was cut short during day one of the Good Vibes Festival on July 21, when Healy criticised the Malaysian government for anti-LGBTQ laws during their headlining set.Healy also kissed bandmate and bassist Ross MacDonald on the lips onstage before their set was cut short.The cancellation resulted in The Strokes’ set being pulled from Good Vibes and led to Casablancas sharing his own thoughts on Instagram.He wrote at the time: “it def helped the white outsider awareness yes, for sure… i felt the same. had no idea.

Daft Punk have announced a new “drumless edition” of their final studio album ‘Random Access Memories’.The French duo are set to release a track-by-track reimagining of their 2013 Grammy-winning fourth record on November 17. You can pre-order it here (physical) and here (digital).Fans will be able to get their hands on a CD, 2LP and a choice of two vinyl ‘bundles’.An official description reads: “This version strips away all drum and percussive elements from the album, giving listeners the ability to dive deeper into the layers of instrumentation on each track.”Check out the preview video and snippet in the announcement post below.Random Access Memories – Drumless Edition, November 17th 2023 Pre-order now, https://t.co/788o6rjHKE pic.twitter.com/EtNeu1Ccmd— Daft Punk (@daftpunk) September 28, 2023Earlier this year Daft Punk released a 10th anniversary edition of ‘Random Access Memories’ containing 35 minutes of outtakes and unheard demos.The original version of the album included the hit single ‘Get Lucky’ featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers, and ‘Instant Crush’ featuring The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas.NME this year explored how ‘Random Access Memories’ became the most hyped album of its era in a special retrospective feature.Daft Punk announced their break-up in February 2021 after almost 30 years together.During a recent interview Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter he was “relieved” over the way that the band ended.“The question I ask more myself is why we did end it rather than how it could last for so long,” he said.