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persistent divorce rumors. Kate Mansfield has given her thoughts to the Mirror, saying the Duke of Sussex’s recent rip to Japan without Markle shows that the two have faith in each other.

NME’s latest star of The Cover, Voice of Baceprot, have shared a playlist exclusively to accompany the story’s launch – check it out below.The Indonesian metal trio are on this week’s (August 7) 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 Voice of Baceprot’s profile here, written by Yudhistira Agato and featuring photography by Saska Paloma Gladina.Accompanying the story is an exclusive playlist curated by Firda ‘Marsya’ Kurnia, Widi Rahmawati and Euis Siti Aisyah.

Muse are still set to perform in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this weekend despite the cancellation of the country’s Good Vibes Festival recently over controversies relating to The 1975.Last Friday (July 21), while headlining day one of Good Vibes, The 1975’s Matty Healy had criticised the country’s government for anti-LGBTQ+ laws. Healy – who was drinking onstage – also smashed a festival-owned drone and kissed bassist Ross MacDonald onstage, before announcing just seven songs into their set that they had been banned from Malaysia and had to leave.The following day (July 22), the country’s communications minister announced that he had ordered the rest of the festival cancelled.Now, concert promoter Hello Universe has confirmed that Muse’s concert will go ahead as planned, sharing set times on social media, as well as queueing details.

In partnership with GMATaiwanese musicians A-Lin and HUSH have taken home the top honours at the Golden Melody Awards 2023, which was held at the Taipei Arena on July 1.A-Lin took home the trophy for Best Female Singer (Mandarin) for her tenth studio album ‘LINK’. It is the singer’s first win in the category, after being nominated four times before, in 2015, 2012, 2011 and 2009.Meanwhile, HUSH won Best Male Singer (Mandarin) with his album ‘Pleasing Myself’, besting other nominees such as Zhao Lei, The Crane and Wu Qing-feng.

Elephant Kind made a huge leap: uprooting from their home country of Indonesia to move to London for their music. It’s a move that’s the subject of their new documentary, From Indo to England, which NME is hosting exclusively here along with a chat about their new EP ‘Superblue’ and more.

shonen anime series Demon Slayer will be returning for a second season this year – building on the runaway popularity of its debut 2019 season and the 2020 feature film Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train.Based on the highly popular manga of the same name by Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer was adapted into anime and its 26-episode first season released in 2019. Its story, dealing with a young boy’s quest to save his sister amid a brutal war between humans and demons, continued as a feature film in 2020’s Mugen Train.To say the film was a success is an understatement: it became Japan’s highest-grossing film ever, beating the likes of Spirited Away and Titanic.

Pyra has released a fiery new single ‘Yellow Fever’ with Indonesian rapper Ramengvrl and Japanese rapper Yayoi Daimon.Over nu metal-inflected production, the trio blast the racialised fetishisation of Asian women and offensive Asian stereotypes. “I’m not your fetish / Not your trophy / Not your muse / Muay thai on you bad guys, baby I don’t do kungfu,” Pyra raps.“Yellow fever is a nasty fetish towards Asian women.