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Jake Bugg has shared the new video for his latest single ‘Lost’ – you can watch the clip below.The song is taken from the Nottingham musician’s forthcoming new album ‘Saturday Night, Sunday Morning’, which is set for release on August 20 via RCA Records.The video for ‘Lost’, directed by visual collective High Art, has been released this morning (May 7) and features Bugg attending a party in the desert, before he and a number of his fellow revellers are catapulted into space to dance among the stars.You can watch the video for Jake Bugg’s ‘Lost’ below.“The song is inspired by everyone who felt lost and parted from loved ones during the pandemic,” Bugg explained about the intention behind ‘Lost’.

Easy Life have brought forward the release of their debut album ‘Life’s A Beach’.The Leicester band were initially due to release the record, which will feature the singles ‘Skeletons’ and ‘A Message To Myself’, on Friday, June 4 via Island.Taking to Twitter today (May 6), the group told fans that “the album came early” and are therefore bringing it forward by one week. “YOU HEARD IT RIGHT 28TH OF MAY GO GET IT,” they wrote.You can see that post below.OH SHIT THE ALBUM CAME EARLY.

Noel Gallagher has shared the official video for his latest single ‘We’re On Our Way Now’, starring actor Matt Smith – watch below.The song will feature on Gallagher’s forthcoming ‘Best Of’ album ‘Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021)’, which celebrates the 10th anniversary of his band the High Flying Birds.With a nod to French New Wave cinema, the vintage black-and-white visuals focus on the relationship of a love-struck couple (portrayed by Doctor Who actor Smith and actor/model Gala Gordon).The video also features a brief appearance from Gallagher, who meets Smith’s character in a quiet bar along with two other friends.

Sonic Youth covering The Stooges at a benefit gig in 1987 – watch it below.The band were the surprise guests at an event supporting Jimmy Johnson and Byron Coley’s experimental music magazine Forced Exposure, taking place at The Rat in Boston.Joined by Dinosaur Jr.‘s J Mascis, Sonic Youth, using equipment borrowed from Dredd Foole and the Din, covered Crime’s ‘Hot Wire My Heart’ with Thurston Moore on lead vocals, followed by The Stooges’ ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ sung by Kim Gordon.You can see the footage below:A few weeks after their performance in Boston, Sonic Youth performed another cover of ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’, this time with Stooges frontman Iggy Pop himself at London’s Town And Country – watch it here.Last year, an unearthed cover of

Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard has teamed up with New York singer-songwriter Amy Douglas to form the new group Hard Feelings.The duo came together after Goddard reached out to Douglas on Twitter, tweeting at her: “Amy, can we make a thing?”Now, the pair have shared their debut single as Hard Feelings, titled ‘Holding On Too Long’, via Domino Records.

Blossoms have told NME that they have completed work on their fourth album.The Stockport band spoke to NME backstage at the weekend’s COVID pilot gig at Sefton Park, where they discussed progress on the follow-up to 2020’s acclaimed ‘Foolish Loving Spaces’.“Yeah, we’ve done it, so it’s recorded and we’re sorting all the other stuff out now, like the artwork and all that sort of stuff,” frontman Tom Ogden told NME.

Wolf Alice have announced that they’re bringing forward the release of their third album ‘Blue Weekend’.The band were set to release the new record, which has been previewed by singles ‘Smile’ and ‘The Last Man On Earth’, on June 11 via Dirty Hit.In a new social media post toasting the arrival of physical copies of the album, the band have announced that the record, which follows 2017’s ‘Visions Of A Life’, will now land on June 4.“The vinyl has arrived & we’ve held it in our arms and let me tell u we r very proud parents,” they wrote. “We’re bringing the release date forward so put June 4th in ur diaries.”The vinyl has arrived & we’ve held it in our arms and let me tell u we r very proud parents.

Blossoms covered a classic from The Beatles as part of their historic set in Liverpool last night (May 2) – watch footage below.Part of a weekend of pilot events in Liverpool this weekend, the city’s Sefton Park played host to 5,000 people – it usually holds 7,500 – with no requirement for attendees to socially distance, wear a face mask or have a vaccine passport to get into the venue.See footage, photos and reaction to the gig – which followed a two-day clubbing event in the city on Friday and Saturday, here.As part of their set, which leaned on all of their three studio albums, Blossoms also threw in an ode to Liverpool’s greatest sons, covering The Beatles’ ‘Paperback Writer’, which they previously covered at the start of the pandemic

Coldplay have today (May 3) shared a preview of their new song ‘Higher Power’ exclusively on TikTok – you can listen to it below.The clip of the song, which is released this Friday (May 7), will be available for 24-hours only. TikTok users can listen to the clip and add it in their own video creations before anyone else.The upcoming release is produced by pop songwriting supremo Max Martin, and comes after they teased a new project called Alien Radio last week.Confirming the track’s arrival on May 7, they wrote on social media: “Higher Power is a song that arrived on a little keyboard and a bathroom sink at the start of 2020.

Warpaint are back with ‘Lilys’, their first piece of new music in five years – listen to the new track below and read on for the band’s guitarist and singer Theresa ‘TT’ Wayman telling us about the song and their next album.‘Lilys’ arrives after featuring in the new HBO series Made For Love, its inclusion in which sped up the LA band’s return.“The HBO show wanted to use it and so that made us finish it faster,” Wayman explained to NME. “And then the label heard it and were like, ‘Actually, we want to put this out not just have it be on the show’.

Bikini Kill have postponed their planned 2021 tour dates until next year – you can see the full schedule below.The US punk outfit were set to hit the road in the UK, Europe and North America this year, having made their long-awaited live return in 2019.After pushing back their US and Canada dates for 2020 due to coronavirus restrictions, Bikini Kill have now confirmed that they will return to the stage on April 29, 2022 at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre.A run of European gigs will follow their US dates, with shows booked for Italy, France and Belgium in June.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds are set to release a new Greatest Hits album to celebrate a decade as a band.‘Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021)’ will come out on June 11 via Sour Mash Records, and features two brand new songs. The first of these, ‘We’re On Our Way Now’, is streaming below now.Of the milestone, Gallagher said: “10 years of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds?? Blimey! … Just think of all the things I COULD have done in that time!!“The title just came to me one afternoon, at the kitchen table,” he added.

Tim Burgess has revealed that The Charlatans will go on tour later this year.The band’s frontman said on Twitter that he told BBC Radio 4 the news during an interview on the station earlier today (April 24). The official announcement comes on Monday (April 26).The Charlatans’ last tour was with James in 2018, which saw them play venues in the UK, Ireland, Mexico and the US.

Paul Weller has opened up about making music during lockdown.In a new interview with Uncut magazine, the former frontman of The Jam said music helped to keep him sane during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.Weller’s upcoming new album ‘Fat Pop (Volume 1)’ is set for release on May 14, was written and recorded during the first coronavirus lockdown last year.Weller said that without access to a studio and the means to make music, he would “probably be in a padded cell.

Michael Stipe has criticised the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, over his failure to not suspend the account of former US President Donald Trump sooner.Speaking to The Guardian, the former R.E.M.

London Grammar have scored the fastest-selling album of 2021 by a British act so far with their third album ‘California Soil’.The record has landed at the top spot on the Official UK Albums Chart today (April 23) after its release last week (April 16).The album secured over 31,000 chart sales in the last seven days, outselling the rest of the top five combined.

Beach House have soundtracked a new short film, Marin’s Dreams – you can watch it below.The film has been produced in collaboration with arts collective Meow Wolf for a psychedelic new exhibition in Las Vegas.Speaking about the collaboration, the group’s keyboarddist Alex Scally told Rolling Stone: “It was kind of a no-brainer for us. Anything immersive fits with us.

Coldplay have asked fans to send them videos for “something special.”On Twitter, the group have asked fans to send them videos of themselves singing the “‘woah-oh-ohs’ at the end of ‘Vida La Vida’.”The post, which you can see below, read: “Hello everyone. I need to ask a favour.

For Those I Love has announced details of his first ever UK tour and shared a new live film.The project of Irish musician David Balfe released a self-titled debut album last month, and a number of tracks from the album are performed live in the new Holy Trinity film.The new film is a collaboration between Balfe and Irish director Hugh Mulhern, and is set at Tolka Park, the home of Balfe’s beloved Shelbourne FC, a club that has informed large parts of the For Those I Love story.Of the collaboration, Balfe said: “For me, collaboration has always been based on trust. So much of this project was spent sharing memories of my life over Zoom, and listening to Hugh share his.

Bartees Strange has covered Bon Iver’s enduring hit ‘Skinny Love’, taken from the latter’s 2008 album ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’.Strange stays true to the song’s sparse arrangement in this performance on SiriusXMU, where he also played tracks from his own album ‘Live Forever’, which arrived last year and landed on NME‘s best debut albums of 2020 list.Watch his performance below.Bartees Strange discussed his decision to cover Bon Iver on social media. “I just fucking love Justin Vernon so when they said I could do this one I was like hell yeah,” he said on Instagram.

Weezer have released a new song today (April 21) titled ‘I Need Some Of That’ – listen below.It’s taken from the group’s upcoming new album, ‘Van Weezer’, which will be released on May 7 via Crush Music/Atlantic Records.The song hears the group reminisce about times gone by over a ’90s rock-inspired track.‘I Need Some Of That’ follows the release of last year’s ‘Hero’, ‘Beginning Of The End,’ and 2019’s ‘End Of The Game,’ all of which appear on ‘Van Weezer’, which is set to be a metal-inspired album.‘Van Weezer’ tracklist:01. ‘Hero’02. ‘All The Good Ones’03. ‘The End Of The Game’04. ‘I Need Some Of That’05. ‘Beginning Of The End’06. ‘Blue Dream’07. ‘1 More Hit’08. ‘Sheila Can Do It’09. ‘She Needs Me’10. ‘Precious Metal Girl’In other