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Netflix has announced the development and production of a new One Piece anime series, titled The One Piece.On December 17, Netflix announced via the Tudum website that the upcoming anime series is already in production, and that it will offer a “fresh new remake” of the long-running hit anime and manga.The Netflix team have also shared an announcement video, in which we get to hear the new voice of lead protagonist Luffy for the first time as he declares: “First things first, I’ve got to get a crew. I think about ten men should do.”Netflix’s The One Piece anime has yet to receive a release date.

A Perth man with Motor Neurone Disease is gearing up for his latest challenge to help a charity close to his heart.

Netflix‘s live-action adaptation of the beloved One Piece anime and manga series has been confirmed to return for a second season.Last night (September 14), series creator Eiichiro Oda announced the news through a special video. In the video, Oda thanked fans for their support and asked viewers if they had enjoyed season 1, which launched in late August.“I spent a long time working on it with Netflix and Tomorrow Studios.

It all began over a pint with former Scotland rugby star Kenny Logan.

NME have teamed up with new entertainment platform Ladbrokes LIVE to launch the return of the iconic Club NME, which is set to kick off in London next month.Since its initial event back in 2004 and subsequent launch the following year, Club NME offered fans the opportunity to see their favourite artists in intimate settings – supporting local grassroots venues along the way.Now, Club NME is making a comeback for 2023 with a series of unmissable live events across the UK, starting in London this September and covering various genres across the series, along with plenty of surprises and special guests for the free-ticketed events.A club night with a twist – each instalment will feature top-class DJs as well as a live music performance, and over 2,500 tickets will be up for grabs over the course of the first four events.The return of Club NME is also created in partnership with Ladbrokes LIVE – a new digital hub devoted to giving fans the chance to win access to thousands of tickets to massive live events across the UK.

The Wombats have released another taste of their forthcoming EP ‘Is This What It Feels Like To Feel Like This?’ by way of a new single ‘I Think My Mind Has Made Its Mind Up’.Breaking open with a thrashing guitar melody, ‘I Think My Mind Has Made Its Mind Up’ boasts some airy yet pensive vocal runs, with The Womabts’ frontman Matthew ‘Murph’ Murphy saying of the song in a press release: “It’s a glitchy ode to the ’90s, innocence and escapism.”Take a listen below:Their forthcoming EP ‘Is This What It Feels Like To Feel Like This?’ – the follow-up to January’s ‘Fix Yourself, Not The World’ – is due for release on November 18.Announcing the release back in August, the band shared its title track alongside a breezy visualiser.Preceded by singles ‘Method To The Madness’, ‘If You Ever Leave, I’m Coming With You’, ‘Ready For The High’ and ‘Everything I Love Is Going To Die’, The Wombats’ fifth studio offering landed back in January.A four-star review saw NME‘s Mark Beaumont remark: “Anyone surprised at the trio’s continued success clearly hasn’t been listening.

Jack White has suggested that The Rolling Stones copied The Beatles in a new interview.Speaking to MOJO, White praised frontman Mick Jagger saying that he was “smart” and was always “feeing whatever the hippest thing was” in the 1960s, including, he went on, “copying” The Beatles – their biggest rivals of the day.White explained: “People want The Rolling Stones to be cool, dirty, raucous. They don’t want to understand that The Rolling Stones were chasing a hit constantly and feeding off whatever the hippest thing was, copying whatever The Beatles did last week.“That disrupts the fantasy. And the fantasy’s amazing – I have indulged many times with those kinds of bands. That’s not an insult.

Dave Grohl has released metal album as the fictional band Dream Widow, who feature in the plot of the Foo Fighters‘ recent comedy-horror film Studio 666.In the film, the band hire a mansion in Encino to record their 10th studio album, but Grohl soon becomes possessed by a curse and begins viciously attacking his bandmates. We learn that decades earlier, Dream Widow experienced a similar fate, with the band recording a “lost album” before their frontman murdered the rest of the band.Now, that “lost album” is available to stream.

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl will release an album of music he recorded as the fictional metal band Dream Widow this week.In the Foo Fighters’ recent comedy-horror film Studio 666, the band hire a mansion in Encino to record their 10th studio album, but Grohl soon becomes possessed by a curse and begins viciously attacking his bandmates.Throughout the film, we learn that decades earlier, the band Dream Widow experienced a similar fate, with the band recording a “lost album” before their frontman murdered the rest of the band.Now, according to Variety, that “lost album” will arrive digitally this Friday (March 25), with a physical release to follow later in the year.Grohl has already released the first single to be lifted from the Dream Widow record, having shared ‘March of the Insane’ last month. The thrash-influenced cut sees Grohl howl lyrics like “Sing in a villainous choir / Join in a chorus of pain,” above blistering, heavily distorted guitar riffs and frenetic drums.It’s not clear how many tracks the record will contain, or what the overall sound will be, but Grohl cited Trouble, Corrosion of Conformity and Kyuss as reference points when speaking to Rolling Stone about the project last month.

vinyl sales in the UK look set to overtake CDs this year. That’s according to figures gathered by the Entertainment Retailers’ Association (ERA) – based on unit sales provided by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) – which show that 2021 sales point to vinyl becoming greater in value than CDs in 2022.The CD format, however, looks to have a promising future, as NME columnist Mark Beaumont celebrated recently.

Andrew Weatherall‘s mantra ‘Fail We May, Sail We Must’ has been released. Watch Sail We Must below.The 11-minute documentary unveils the story of Weatherall’s encounter with fisherman Gerard Sheehy in rural county Cork.

Music Week reports that while BPI’s 2021 unit sales data showed that CDs remained ahead of vinyl, the latter is poised to become the dominant physical format in terms of revenue.Vinyl albums brought in £135.6million in 2021 (up 23.2 per cent year-on-year) compared to £150.1million in CD sales (down 3.9 per cent year-on-year). On this current growth trajectory, vinyl will be ahead by the end of this year.In terms of unit sales, 14.4million CDs were sold in the UK last year (down 10.5 per cent year-on-year) compared to 5.3million vinyl LPs (up 10.6 per cent).Sony Music UK VP of market planning and sales Charles Wood told Music Week that he believes vinyl will become the largest physical contributor to labels in terms of revenue during the next 12 months.“Following an uplift of interest in vinyl sales during Covid, we saw that vinyl was being purchased by a broader audience, beyond your music fanatics and niche format obsessives that drove the ‘vinyl revival’,” Wood said.“We saw continued growth for vinyl sales in 2021 – now making up 27 per cent of the physical market in terms of volume.

Madness are set to throw an “all-day party” in London to coincide with the Queen’s Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend.The group shared a tongue-in-cheek video on Instagram that showed frontman Suggs being knighted by a Queen lookalike. She did so with a sword made of “Valyrian steel” – in a knowing nod to Game of Thrones.The gig will take place on June 2 at Brockwell Park, Brixton and fans can register here now for “early bird lowest price tickets”.They accompanied the video, which you can see below, with a post announcing the gig.They wrote: “Arise Sir Suggs! Seeing as the Queen has made a new Jubilee Bank Holiday this year on June 2, we thought we’d take advantage and throw a proper all day party at Brockwell Park, Brixton.”“We’re calling it JUBILATION! And it’s our only London show this year…”A post shared by Madness (@madnessband)Earlier this month, The Specials bassist Hor­ace Panter has revealed that the band would love to collaborate and tour with Madness.Panter told the Daily Star newspaper’s ‘Wired’ column (via Music News) that there had previously been talk of the groups doing a co-headline tour or heading into the studio together to record.He said: “Let’s see what we can do.

The Specials bassist Hor­ace Panter has revealed that the band would love to collaborate and tour with Madness.Panter told the Daily Star newspaper’s ‘Wired’ column (via Music News) that there had previously been talk of the groups doing a co-headline tour or heading into the studio together to record.He said: “Let’s see what we can do. There was talk about a doubleheader, but nor­mally if we are mak­ing a record then they are tak­ing a break, but it would be good to do something with those guys.”The Specials, who formed in 1977, currently comprise of bassist Panter, guitarist Lynval Golding and vocalist Terry Hall.Back in September, The Specials released an album of cover songs titled ‘Protest Songs 1924-2012’.

Perthshire long distance cyclist Mark Beaumont is lending his support to a new campaign which helps feed children in some of world’s poorest communities.

Business Insider, Crocker explained that selling the video was their way of reclaiming the clip after years of relentless mockery and abuse.“I felt like a lot of people might misconstrue why I wanted to sell it,” Crocker said.“But the real reason is because I felt like I took a lot of hits — you know, literal hits,” explaining they had been “physically assaulted at gay clubs” and received death threats.Crocker added that the money made from the sale would go primarily towards helping their grandmother, but any additional funds will be put towards their gender transition surgery.“I would absolutely put that towards, like, me being able to become myself”, Crocker said.An NFT, as NME‘s Mark Beaumont explained recently in a blog, is a form of

Pete Davidson and Jack Harlow teamed up on Saturday Night Live over the weekend to deliver a not-so-serious explainer behind the current trend of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).Davidson is seen in the video donning a Batman & Robin-style costume as he parodies Eminem‘s song ‘Without Me’ to explain the trend, with Harlow also appearing in the clip as a caretaker.“Here’s the thing about NFTs, it’s a non-fungible token you see,” Harlow raps in the clip.

NME’s Mark Beaumont recently noted, are essentially digital gold bars with a changing value of their own.Once purchased, owners are essentially able to use them as a digital currency to buy and trade other commodities.Posting on Twitter, the Tesla founder shared a brief snippet of a pounding dance track alongside visuals showing a rotating golden trophy with the words ‘Vanity Trophy’ seen revolving around a golden globe and a base bearing the phrase ‘Computers Never Sleep’.It also features the acronym ‘HODL’ – which stands for ‘hold on for dear life’, a common phrase in the cryptocurrency community.“I’m selling this song about NFTs as an NFT,” Musk captioned the clip.

Paul McCartney has proven himself – once again – as a jack of all trades in the new music video for his song ‘Find My Way’.Directed by famed filmmaker Roman Coppola, the video shows McCartney playing every instrument on the song – including guitar, drums and piano – in a collage of footage taken by a staggering 46 cameras.Watch the video for ‘Find My Way’ below.‘Find My Way’ is the first song from McCartney’s latest album ‘McCartney III’ to receive a music video.

The video is the first glimpse of a short film made with director Sing Lee