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The Murder Capital have shared a new short film – watch That I May Cease To Be below.The film arrives to celebrate the first birthday of the band’s debut album, ‘When I Have Fears’, which landed yesterday (August 16).Announcing the new short, the band wrote: “On the one year anniversary of ‘When I Have Fears’, our short film That I May Cease To Be documents the truth of our lives in the studio, and on stage.“Our endeavour when making the record was to understand, and capture our personal relationships with growth, grief, and loss, as truly as possible. The beauty of making your first record is that there is no memory bank to withdraw from.”They added: “The highs so very high, and the lows so very low.

Glass Animals is showing NME a toy ray gun – a piece of “naff” paraphernalia, he says – that hasn’t made the cut for merchandise linked to their new album ‘Dreamland’. “I’ve tried to do a lot of crazy shit that didn’t quite work.

The Magic Gang have shared another new song ahead of the release of their second album, ‘Death Of The Party’.‘(The World) Outside My Door’ will be the last preview of the new album, which comes out next Friday (August 21) via Warner – listen to it below.The new track follows ‘What Have You Got To Lose’, ‘Take Back The Track’, lead single Think’ and recent effort ‘Make Time For Change’.“This song was written while the Extinction Rebellion protests were happening around London,” frontman Jack Kaye says of ‘(The World) Outside My Door’.“I had this real sense that everybody around me was taking part in history while I was holed up in my bedroom trying to write an album.

The Flaming Lips have shared a new track from their upcoming album – you can listen to ‘Will You Return / When You Come Down’ below.The track is the fifth release from upcoming album, ‘American Head’ which is set for release next month on September 11.Other tracks shared so far include ‘You n Me Sellin’ Weed’, ‘Dinosaurs On The Mountain’, ‘My Religion Is You’ and ‘Flowers of Neptune 6.’ You can listen to ‘Will You Return / When You Come Down’, which is the opening track from their upcoming new album, below.‘American Head’ is produced by the band’s long-term collaborator, Dave Fridmann and will feature Kacey Musgraves on a number of the album’s 13 tracks.

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Beck has recalled the moment that Kanye West almost invaded the stage while the singer was picking up an award at the 2015 GRAMMYs.The incident happened in a strikingly similar way to his notorious stage invasion at the 2009 MTV VMAs, while Taylor Swift was making an acceptance speech.On that night, Beck beat Beyoncé to the Album Of The Year award, and Kanye motioned to invade the stage again, before deciding against it at the last moment, and heading back down the stairs to re-take his seat.“Yeah, he was disappointed about that,” Beck said of the incident in a recent interview with Zane Lowe, “which I respected and I was fine with”.“Later on, I’ve run into him since, and I ran into him earlier this year, and he just turned around and

Declan McKenna has announced details of a one-off live-streamed concert in London.The singer-songwriter will be showcasing the entirety of his forthcoming new album ‘Zeroes’ on September 4 – the day it’s released – at 9pm BST, at the Lafayette in King’s Cross.Tickets for the show, which can be viewed for 24 hours after the concert goes out live, can be purchased via DICE here from tomorrow (August 14) at 5pm BST.UK fans will also be given the option of purchasing the album and a ticket to the show together.McKenna said: “I’m really excited to be able to perform again for you guys. I can’t wait to get back on the road next March but in the meantime, this will be the best performance of ours the internet has ever seen.

Phoebe Bridgers has explained why she dissed Eric Clapton on a recent track, calling the legendary guitarist’s music “extremely mediocre.”‘Moon Song’, which appears on Bridgers’ new album ‘Punisher’, features the lyrics: “We hate ‘Tears In Heaven’/ But it’s sad that his baby died,” referencing Clapton’s 1992 single written about the death of his four-year-old son, Conor.Speaking in a new interview, Bridgers confirmed she is yet to hear from Clapton, or his people, about the song.“You know, I don’t think our Venn diagrams are very connected,” she told Double J. “I have such an Eric Clapton rant, because I think it’s just extremely mediocre music, but also he’s a famous racist.”Referencing the time Clapton made racist comments during a gig in

Peaches has returned with her first new original song in five years, ‘Flip This’. The iconoclastic producer has also shared an apparently one-take new music video filmed in her Berlin studio.In a statement, Peaches said the new song was “about me waking myself up and getting active”.

The 1975‘s Matty Healy and George Daniel went on the Song Exploder podcast this week to deconstruct ‘The Birthday Party’ from their latest album ‘Notes on a Conditional Form’.Healy spoke about how the track was a rare example of the band writing the arrangement together, rather than Daniel or him coming up with the idea in its entirety.The pair also shared iPhone recordings of early acoustic versions of the song – listen to the full podcast below.Healy explained that he wrote the song at the end of a relationship, after relapsing for the first time since coming out of rehab.“Everything felt like it was drawing to end in a natural way.

Future Islands have announced their new album — get full details on ‘As Long As You Are’ below.The new record will arrive via 4AD on October 9, following the band’s 2017 LP ‘The Far Field’.The Baltimore four-piece made their comeback last month with the release of new single ‘For Sure’, and they’re now sharing another new track and video – watch and hear ‘Thrill’, which is created by the band’s own Samuel T.

Glasvegas have announced that they’re working on new music, their first in seven years.The Glaswegian band haven’t released any new music since 2013’s ‘Later…When The TV Turns To Static’, but that’s about to change according to frontman James Allan.Taking to Instagram tonight (August 10) to explain why it’s taken so long for Glasvegas to return to making music, Allan has revealed that it has a lot to do with wanting to create a new album “free of any outside assistance.”“It’s been 7 years since we released new music so, yeah, I guess an explanation why is overdue,” Allan began his post.“I made the decision to record, engineer and produce our latest album free of any outside assistance, which for the bands momentum maybe didn’t seem like the

Best Coast have shared a new version of ‘Boyfriend’, featuring LGBTQ-inclusive pronouns.The song was originally released in 2010 and appeared on the Californian band’s debut album ‘Crazy For You’.In the first version of the track, Bethany Cosentino sang about a male figure, with the chorus featuring the lines: “I wish he was my boyfriend/ I’d love him til the very end/ But instead he is just a friend/ I wish he was my boyfriend.”The new, more inclusive version of the song now features the lyrics: “I wish he was my boyfriend/ I wish she was my girlfriend/ I’d love them til the very end/ But instead they’re just a friend/ I wish he was my boyfriend.” The song, which is dubbed ‘Boyfriend (10th Anniversary Edition), is available to download

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Kate Tempest has announced that they have changed their name to Kae Tempest and declared themself as gender neutral.Sharing the news on Facebook, the spoken word artist said that they have been “struggling to accept” themself for a long time, and that these changes are “a first step towards knowing and respecting myself better.”“Hello old fans, new fans and passers by – I’m changing my name! And I’m changing my pronouns. From Kate to Kae.

Tame Impala have hinted that they have a new video on the way soon.Posting on their Instagram account earlier today, the Australian psych-rock outfit shared a number of cryptic images of red television screens, some of which had text written on them.One said: “from the past to the happening,” while another said: “I don’t know.” You can see the posts below.A post shared by Tame Impala (@tameimpala) on Aug 6, 2020 at 1:12am PDTA post shared by Tame Impala (@tameimpala) on Aug 6, 2020 at 6:11am PDTA post shared by Tame Impala (@tameimpala) on Aug 6, 2020 at 6:12am PDTLast month, Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker revealed how Mark Ronson played a significant part in his pivot into pop music.Parker was speaking to NME about the making of his

Glass Animals’ frontman Dave Bayley explained of their third album ‘Dreamland’ in their recent NME cover feature. Having created two albums that largely explored the lives of others (2014 debut ‘Zaba’ and its follow 2016 follow-up ‘How to Be a Human Being’, the latter of which based each of the 11 songs on a different character), their latest release marks a stark change in how the Oxfordian quartet construct an album.

Declan McKenna has shared new track ‘Be An Astronaut’ and delayed his forthcoming album ‘Zeros’, for the second time this year.The singer-songwriter teased the song yesterday (August 4) and it is now available to stream.

Yungblug has revealed how Green Day inspired his latest single ‘Strawberry Lipstick’.The Doncaster artist, whose real name is Dominic Harrison, shared the track last month ahead of his forthcoming second album.Speaking to MTV, Harrison recalled watching Green Day live during his early teenage years, before going on to pen the ‘Strawberry Lipstick’ chorus with The Strypes‘ Josh McClorey at the age of 15.“I was just like, ‘I’m gonna make a song and a video that I’ve always wanted to make’,” he explained.

The Vaccines keyboardist Timothy Lanham has shared his second solo single under his T Truman moniker – listen to ‘Rock ’n’ Roll’ below.It comes as part of an announcement that Lanham will release his debut EP ‘Born To Be Right’ in September.Describing his alter-ego as his “very own writing scapegoat,” T Truman bridges the gap between 70s pop rock and modern indie while channeling his piano-pop heroes Todd Rundgren and Elton John.His new single, which follows debut track ‘Holiday’, is a love letter to rock and roll, a genre he feels is dying.

@beats1 with @zanelowe. Buzzing! You can listen live over here from 5pm BST tomorrow where I’ll be chatting to Zane-> https://t.co/Nrt9ZX0Tx8 pic.twitter.com/jinjkPvrQr— Declan McKenna (@DeclanMcKenna) August 4, 2020‘Be An Astronaut’ is the fourth single to be lifted from the singer’s second studio album, ‘Zeros’, following ‘Daniel, You’re Still A Child‘, ‘Beautiful Faces’ and ‘The Key To Life On Earth’.‘Zeros’ is set for release August 21 through, after being postponed from May 15 due to the coronavirus pandemic.