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Nilüfer Yanya has shared a new music video for her song, ‘Day 7.5093’.The clip is an ode to days gone by, featuring a compilation of tour and holiday footage interspersed with scenic B-roll clips. In an email statement to her fans, Yanya described the video as “something nostalgic and hopeful for the future”.“Touring was a huge part of ‘Miss Universe’ and I loved performing and seeing new fans from across the world,” she said.“Making this video and going through old footage was fun to remember all the memories again and the laughs we had while out on the road.

Hand Habits – has announced a new EP titled ‘dirt’ will arrive next month, sharing lead single ‘4th of July’.“‘4th of july’ feels like trying again, rolling around in the wreckage of the past and finding new ways out of the maze of memory,” commented Duffy.“For the video, I went to V and Adam and said I wanted to ‘just dig a hole’ and they turned that idea into a cinematic version of what it looks like to try and get to the bottom of a feeling.”Watch the video for ‘4th of july’ below:Set for release on February 19 via Saddle Creek, the ‘dirt’ EP will also feature a cover of Neil Young‘s ‘I Believe in You’ and a remix of 2019 ‘placeholder’ track ‘what’s the use’ by Katie Dey.The EP was recorded after Duffy began sharing a living space in Los

Yard Act have shared a new single called ‘Dark Days’ – you can listen to it below.The rising Leeds four-piece, who feature in The NME 100 2021, have previously released the songs ‘The Trapper’s Pelts’, ‘Peanuts’ and ‘Fixer Upper’.According to frontman James Smith, ‘Dark Days’ serves as “the last of four singles before we start work on the album, of which none of those songs will be on”.“It’s a world-building song, this one, everything we’ve put out so far is from the same universe, which is based on an imagined Yorkshire 100 years in the future,” Smith said of Yard Act’s latest offering.“I liked the juxtaposition of the bleak world with the cartoon bassline.

On The Road, a new documentary film from the organisers of Independent Venue Week, is set to premiere online next week.This year’s Independent Venue Week kicks off on Monday (January 25), running until January 31.On The Road will premiere on Monday at 7PM, and will be followed by a live Q&A session with a panel which includes Radiohead‘s Philip Selway at 8:30PM.The documentary, which features interviews with the likes of Pink Floyd‘s Nick Mason, IDLES and Nadine Shah, was filmed over the course of two years at such independent music venues as The 100 Club in London, Brudenell Social Club in Leeds and The Leadmill in Sheffield.A post shared by Independent Venue Week (@ivw_uk)Tickets for Monday’s premiere of On The Road are on sale now from

Soulwax have shared their remix of Fontaines D.C.’s ‘A Hero’s Death’ – you can listen to the duo’s new reworking of the Fontaines track below.The original song is the title track from the Dublin band’s second album, which was released back in July.Soulwax have turned their attention to ‘A Hero’s Death’ with their latest remix, with the Dewaele brothers saying in a statement about the track: “Whatever the part of the brain is that sparks the idea for a remix when you hear a great song, even though it doesn’t always work, it was definitely fully functional when we heard ‘A Hero’s Death’.”You can hear Soulwax’s remix of Fontaines D.C.’s ‘A Hero’s Death’ below.Soulwax are also releasing a limited run of hand-stamped vinyl of their ‘A Hero’s

Future Islands have confirmed that they have started work on their next album.The Baltimore band released their sixth album ‘As Long As You Are’ back in October, following on from 2017’s ‘The Far Field’.Just three months on from the arrival of ‘As Long As You Are’, Future Islands have now confirmed that they are back in the studio and currently at work on their seventh LP.Sharing a snap on Instagram of the band at work and all wearing face masks, Future Island’s latest image is captioned: “Back in the studio… #LP7”.A post shared by Future Islands (@futureislands)While Future Islands already have their eye on their next project, the band did celebrate ‘As Long As You Are’ last week with a live performance of the song ‘Plastic Beach’ on Late

Weezer have shared details of a new album arriving next week called ‘OK Human’.The record, which will be the Californian band’s 14th, was first teased in 2019 alongside ‘Van Weezer’, the latter album of which originally had a May 2020 release date before being shelved due to the coronavirus pandemic.Now, ‘OK Human’ – described by frontman Rivers Cuomo in a previous Entertainment Weekly interview as a piano-based, orchestral album – will arrive on January 29 before its hard rock counterpart ‘Van Weezer’ on May 7.Cuomo told EW back in 2019: “‘Van Weezer’ is in mortal combat with ‘Okay Human’, a record that’s mostly done. That one’s totally different.

MGMT‘s Andrew VanWyngarden has shared a new song under his solo moniker Gentle Dom called ‘I Miss Dancing In New York’.The up-tempo house track appeared on the musician’s Soundcloud over the weekend.

The Vaccines have teased a cover version of Queens Of The Stone Age‘s ‘No One Knows’, which is set to arrive later this week.The band said their take on Josh Homme and co’s 2002 single, taken from their third album ‘Songs For The Deaf‘ is part of a ‘Cosy Karaoke’ covers EP. The release date and full tracklisting is yet to be announced.You can hear a 17-second snippet of The Vaccines’ take below, along with visuals featuring frontman Justin Young driving through the streets of London.The full version of the band’s stripped-back cover will be released on Wednesday (January 20).yooooo…first song from our ‘cosy karaoke’ covers ep is out wednesday.

Julien Baker has covered Soundgarden‘s 1995 single ‘Fell On Black Days’ – watch below.The singer-songwriter said she was floored by the song when digging into the band’s back catalogue, prompting her to choose it for a filmed home session.Baker told Seattle’s KEPX radio that she is a big fan of Audioslave – one of late frontman Chris Cornell‘s bands alongside Soundgarden – while growing up and had recently reacquainted herself with Soundgarden material.“I am a huge Audioslave fan – I’m a huge fan of all things Cornell, in all of his iterations – but I am just particularly super on-board with Audioslave, and I think that is because they have such more of a visceral memory to me, because it was, like, happening when I was growing up,” she

Shame have discussed their new sonic identity on their second album, labelling the idea of staying the same “fucking boring”.The band released ‘Drunk Tank Pink’, their follow-up to 2018’s acclaimed debut ‘Songs of Praise’, on Friday (January 15).Speaking in a new NME cover feature, the band say the new style put forward on the second record was a necessity rather than a choice.“I don’t think it would’ve been possible to write the first album again,” frontman Charlie Steen told NME, with drummer Charlie Forbes concurring that the idea of writing ‘Songs Of Praise’ part two was “fucking boring” to the band.“I don’t think we’ll ever write a tune and then think, ‘This is what the whole album is going to sound like’,” Forbes added.“There are

The Vaccines’ Justin Young has played a snippet of unreleased track ‘Internet Disco ft. Agent Emotion’.So far, the song has only been made available on the ‘Songs For The National Health Service’ compilation that was released last year.“here’s a hidden track for u – unreleased vaccines song that u can order from our instagram now.

Tom Grennan has shared a striking new video for recent single ‘Little Bit Of Love’ – watch it below.The track, shared last week, is the fifth preview of Grennan’s new album ‘Evering Road’, following recent singles ‘Amen’, ‘This Is The Place’, ‘Oh Please’ and ‘Something Better’.‘Evering Road’ is set for release on March 5, 2021 via Insanity Records.“This video is a representation of toxic masculinity and unconditional love, told via a story of two brothers,” Grennan said of the new visual in a statement.

Christian Lee Hutson has shared a new covers EP, featuring versions of tracks by Taylor Swift, ABBA and more.‘The Version Suicides’ is the follow-up to a covers series Hutson shared for Bandcamp Day back in August, where he covered Blink-182, Kid Cudi and more.“Last year, I started recording quiet demo versions of songs I like on my phone just to send to friends,” he wrote on Twitter to announce the new EP.“We put out Volume 4 of The Version Suicides in August for Bandcamp Day and people seemed to like it so we’re putting out Volume 1 on Friday” (January 15).Last year, I started recording quiet demo versions of songs I like on my phone just to send to friends.We put out Volume 4 of The Version Suicides in August for Bandcamp Day and people

Phoebe Bridgers has shared one musician’s impressive attempt at predicting her ‘Punisher’ follow-up’s opening track.LA singer-songwriter Jensen McRae shared the affectionate parody of Bridgers’ style on Twitter, joking that “in 2023 Phoebe Bridgers is gonna drop her third album & the opening track will be about hooking up in the car while waiting in line to get vaccinated at dodger stadium and it’s gonna make me cry.”McRae then posted a 52-second clip in her following tweet, adding that the track was her “preemptive cover” of “what I imagine it will sound like”.The song opens with the lines: “Traffic from the East Side’s got me aggravated / Hotter than the day my brother graduated / Wait four hours in the sun / In line at Dodger Stadium /

John Grant has released a new song titled ‘The Only Baby’ – listen below.The musician, whose last album was 2018’s ‘Love Is Magic‘, said he wrote and recorded the song in summer 2020 but now “seems like a good time” to share it with fans.He wrote in a statement: “Hello all you Dear Ones, I’ve been so disturbed to see how things are progressing in the U.S. and the world, I wanted to share this song which I wrote and recorded last summer.

Beabadoobee‘s viral lip-sync on TikTok of their track ‘The Leanover’.It only took a 10-second-long clip of the former NME cover star lip-syncing to the 2000s deep cut by the Glasgow indie band to turn it into a new alt-girl anthem on the platform, with over 69,000 videos on the app and 3 million Spotify streams, 21 years after its release.Talking about the recently-revived track, Life Without Buildings’s guitarist Chris Evans said it was down to the song’s ability to “take you somewhere or to a certain somebody – it can also be a wilful thought, say if you’re singing along in the backseat of your stepdad’s car.”NME‘s Lucy Harbron also put the song’s success down to the fact that its “opening humming lends itself to an exaggerated satisfied

Sufjan Stevens has teamed up with CARM – aka trumpeter and yMusic co-founder CJ Camerieri – for the new track ‘Song Of Trouble’.The song will feature on Camerieri’s first album under the CARM moniker, which will be released on January 27.Stevens co-wrote and arranged ‘Song Of Trouble’ with Camerieri, as well as lending his vocals to the track. “Have you seen my confidence?” Stevens asks at one point.

Declan McKenna has postponed his upcoming UK and European tour dates due to the continuing uncertainty surrounding live shows during the coronavirus pandemic.The ‘Zeros’ artist had been set to play a handful of intimate gigs next month before embarking on a wider UK and European headline tour from March through to May.McKenna informed his fans this morning (January 14) that some “unavoidable changes” have had to be made in regards to his touring plans.“I’ve been waiting to know for sure that these dates are out of the question and now I’m sure you’ll understand that they very much are,” McKenna said in a statement confirming the postponement of his gigs.!!TOUR UPDATE!!Some unavoidable changes, but better news is on the way,Dec x

Matt Helders has revealed that Arctic Monkeys are in the “early stages of trying to write a [new] record”.Speaking on Instagram Live this evening (January 13), the drummer explained that the Sheffield band had been “faced with various obstacles” while working on the follow-up to ‘Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’.“Being separated by the sea is one of them,” Helders said, referring to the travel restrictions that have been imposed due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis.“We’re all eager to do it – we would have been doing it by now in a normal time. There’s definitely a desire from our end to do a new record, as soon as we can.”Helders went on to say that he’s “always tinkering on machines and synths” at his home in Los Angeles.

Pale Waves have shared a new single called ‘Easy’ – check out its official video below.The song follows on from ‘Change’ and ‘She’s My Religion’ in previewing the Manchester band’s forthcoming second album ‘Who Am I?’, which will arrive on February 12 via Dirty Hit.Premiering on BBC Radio 1 tonight (January 13) as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record In The World, ‘Easy’ started out as a piano ballad, frontwoman Heather Baron-Gracie revealed in an interview with Mac.“I made that decision to change the music because it’s such a positive song within the lyrics; [it’s] about how uplifting love can be overall,” she said, adding that the group then set out to make ‘Easy’ “as feel-good as possible”.Its gothic visuals find Baron-Gracie sitting in a throne