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Kasabian‘s Tom Meighan has said he’s working on new solo material during the coronavirus lockdown.The frontman told Sky News that he’s been writing his own music for years, but has been able to focus on it more while stuck at home.It comes after his band-mate Serge Pizzorno stepped out on his own last year, releasing his first solo record as The SLP.“I’m writing loads of music at the minute,” he said. “We’ll see what happens.

Sports Team have announced details of a headline tour for 2021 – check out the dates below.The group are set to headline shows in Dublin, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, Glasgow and Bristol.The tour will culminate with a headline show at London’s Brixton Academy on April 29. Tickets for the shows go on general sale on June 26 at 9am.The full dates are listed below:Sports Team April 2021 tour dates 20 – Dublin, The Grand Social 22 – Leeds, Leeds University Stylus 23 – Manchester, The Albert Hall 25 – Nottingham, Rock City 26 – Glasgow, SWG3 28 – Bristol, SWX Bristol 29 – London, O2 Academy Brixton  Last week, Lady Gaga dashed Sports Team’s hopes of securing a Number One album with their debut LP ‘Deep Down Happy‘ following a tight race to the

Perfume Genius has shared a cover of Mazzy Star‘s 1994 gem ‘Fade Into You’ as part of Amazon Music’s ‘Amazon Originals’ series.

Speedy Wunderground is to release its first ever album as it expands beyond selling limited 7″ singles and 10″ vinyl.The label, founded by producer Dan Carey (Kylie Minogue, Franz Ferdinand, Bat For Lashes, Kate Tempest) and co-run with engineer Alexis Smith and A&R Pierre Hall, is set to release Tiña‘s debut album ‘Positive Mental Health Music’ on November 6, 2020.Addressing the milestone for Speedy Wunderground, Carey said: “I’m so glad this is the first record on the label, I’m really proud of it.”Tiña have also today (June 18) shared the video for their new single ‘Rosalina’.According to a press release, the south London band’s frontman, Joshua Loftin, used the songs on the forthcoming album to “work through a mental breakdown”.

Soccer Mommy has teamed up with MGMT‘s Andrew VanWyngarden for the latest instalment in her ‘Soccer Mommy & Friends Singles Series’ — you can hear the two artists rework one another’s songs below.The new link-up with VanWyngarden, who is going by the moniker Gentle Dom, follows on from Soccer Mommy’s — AKA Sophie Allison — recent collaborations with Jay Som and Beabadoobee for the series.For this instalment in the singles series, Soccer Mommy has covered MGMT’s ‘Indie Rokkers’ while Gentle Dom has remixed Soccer Mommy’s ‘Circle The Drain’. You can hear the two tracks below.“I love MGMT so it was hard to pick a song to cover,” Allison said about her choice of song.

Dream Wife have shared their moving new single ‘Temporary’ — you can hear the track below.The song is the latest preview of the trio’s upcoming new album ‘So When You Gonna…’, which is set for release on July 3 via Lucky Number.Dream Wife explained in a statement that ‘Temporary’ is “a song about having hope through waves of difficulties, and was written for a friend who went through multiple miscarriages and is now pregnant again.”“It’s about the heartbreak of repeatedly putting your body through the transformation and danger of pregnancy, and it’s about holding space for dreams of creating new life and trying again,” the band added.

One day I’ll be good for you, ’til then we’re sleeping rough,” in a burst of youthful optimism. The aching ‘Head Cold’ dials up the fuzz and wants to get out and see the world, while ‘Straightfaced’ dances to the same beat as Catfish And The Bottlemen’s ‘7’.But there’s more to this record than purely chasing the roar of a crowd.

Tony Allen is set to be honoured posthumously at this year’s AIM Independent Music Awards.The AIM Awards 2020, which will take place online on August 12 due to the coronavirus pandemic, will honour Allen with the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award.The full list of nominations for the AIM Awards 2020 has been announced today (June 17), with drill rapper Digga D and electronic-jazz drummer Moses Boyd earning three nods each.Hania Rani, Greentea Peng, Floating Points and Flying Lotus all have two nominations each.

Johnny Borrell has responded to the time Matty Healy called him “a wanker” in a 2013 interview, revealing that he has still never met Healy and saying “it seems like a strange thing to say!”Borrell was speaking to NME for the latest edition of ‘Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!’ in which the Razorlight frontman looked back over his career by answering questions on topics such as old song lyrics and appearing on the cover of Vogue.During the interview, Borrell was asked if he knew which frontman once said in a Guardian interview: “We’re not worried about becoming a bunch of wankers because the people who become wankers were always gonna become wankers.

Courteeners have shared footage of their huge 2019 homecoming gig at Manchester’s Heaton Park, to mark the gig’s one-year anniversary today (June 15).“One year today we played in front of 50,000 of you in our back yard. Best night of our lives,” the band wrote on Facebook.You can take a look at the footage below.Courteeners – ‘The 17th’ – Live At Heaton Park, Manchester – 15.06.19One year today we played in front of 50,000 of you in our back yard.

Doves have launched a new countdown clock on their website, hinting that new music is arriving this week.Teasing new material on their social media accounts, the band are directing fans to the new clock, which runs down on Friday (June 19).https://t.co/2mz51UCM7t pic.twitter.com/LCK2083f6w— Doves (@dovesmusicblog) June 12, 2020Back in January, Doves revealed that they were “putting the finishing touches” to their first new album since 2009’s ‘Kingdom Of Rust’.It comes after the band ended a nine-year hiatus last year with a live return at London’s Royal Albert Hall in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust.The band had previously hinted back in 2018 that if “the waters are right, the planets are aligned and we get that right vibe” then they

DMA’s will return to the UK to play a new “album release” show in October, it has been confirmed.The band are currently set to release their latest record ‘The Glow’ on July 10 after it was postponed from its original April release due to the coronavirus pandemic.Earlier today (June 13), Kingston-Upon-Thames’ Banquet Records announced they would host a gig with the Australian trio at local venue Pryzm on October 22.However, they added the caveat that the pandemic could force them to postpone the show. “Life is a game of changing,” they wrote on Twitter.

Radiohead‘s 1997 album ‘OK Computer’ has topped the BBC’s ‘Ultimate 90s Album’ listener poll, beating the likes of Oasis, Nirvana and R.E.M.Listeners of Fearne Cotton’s show ‘Sounds of the 90s’, broadcast on Radio 2 and BBC Sounds, were asked to vote from a shortlist of albums compiled by a panel of music industry figures including Radio 2’s head of music and Mercury Prize head judge Jeff Smith, Radio 2 DJ Trevor Nelson and Scissor Sisters‘ Ana Matronic.Oasis were the only band to appear twice, with ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory’ coming second and ‘Definitely Maybe’ coming fourth.The full top 10 is as follows:1. Radiohead – ‘OK Computer’2. Oasis – ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory’3. Nirvana – ‘Nevermind’4. Oasis – ‘Definitely Maybe’5.

Bombay Bicycle Club have announced a new EP titled ‘Two Lives’ — you can listen to the band’s reworking of their song ‘Let You Go’, which features on the EP, below.The release follows on from the January arrival of the four-piece’s comeback album ‘Everything Else Has Gone Wrong’.Set for release on July 24, the ‘Two Lives’ EP features three acoustic reworkings of songs from ‘Everything Else Has Gone Wrong’ — ‘Racing Stripes’, ‘Is It Real’ and ‘Let You Go’ — and a cover of Bonnie Raitt’s ‘Two Lives’.Recorded mostly at frontman Jack Steadman’s house during the coronavirus-enforced lockdown, you can hear the first track from the EP, ‘Let You Go’, below.“Recording this EP at home meant going back to basics and recording just like I used to

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New Order and Pet Shop Boys have announced the rescheduled dates for their joint Unity Tour.The two bands were meant to begin a co-headline stint across North America in September, but were forced to postpone due to the coronavirus pandemic.Earlier today (June 11), they confirmed the rescheduled tour dates, set to begin in September 2021.

R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe and The National‘s Aaron Dessner have shared the studio version of their collaborative single ‘No Time For Love Like Now’. Check out the video below.Having originally shared a demo of the song with Stipe performing it from his home in lockdown back in March before performing the track on a number of talk shows, the duo have now shared the studio version and the video under Dessner’s Big Red Machine monicker.“I’m super excited to work with Aaron Dessner,” Stipe said of the collaboration.

Ed O’Brien has reassured Radiohead fans that the prospect of the band reconvening to make a new album “will definitely happen”.The guitarist told NME back in April that he and the band were having “online meetings” and “talking about stuff”. While he stressed that “for the foreseeable future, everyone is doing their own thing,” O’Brien did add that “when it feels right to plug back into Radiohead, then we will.”O’Brien has spoken about the future of Radiohead again in a new interview with Guitar World, in which he was asked if he had any idea on when the band plan to release the follow-up to their 2016 album ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’.“I’m sure there will be another album,” O’Brien said in reply.

Fontaines D.C. have shared the video for their reflective new song ‘I Don’t Belong’ — you can check out the clip, which was shot on location on the Irish east coast, below.‘I Don’t Belong’ is the opening track on the Dublin band’s upcoming second album ‘A Hero’s Death’, and follows on from the May release of the record’s title track.

Orlando Weeks has reflected on The Maccabees‘ 2017 split in a new interview, saying that the decision to put an end to the band “was what we needed to do”.The five-piece bowed out in 2017 following a farewell tour that culminated with an emotional final gig at Alexandra Palace in London.Speaking to The Independent, Weeks reflected on how the Maccabees’ split came about.“It felt like we’d made such good strides with [2012 album] ‘Given to the Wild’ and that maybe we had not moved on as far again with ‘Marks to Prove It’ [2015], and we’d been doing it for a very, very, very long time,” he said.Weeks added that even if the band had been “next in line” for major festival headline slots, he does not think it “would’ve been a reason to carry

Lucia & The Best Boys have shared the haunting video for their atmospheric latest single ‘Let Go’ — you can see it first via NME below.‘Let Go’ sees the Glaswegian band, named in last year’s NME 100 as one of 2019’s most exciting new acts, departing from their trademark bombastic alternative rock in favour of a sweeping, emotion-driven track.The single was recorded with Alex Greenwald of Phantom Planet, who the band met at SXSW, while the lockdown-filmed video mixes footage of frontwoman Lucia Fairfull and dancer Sarah Cath.“The video portrays two versions of what I was feeling and going through during the time I wrote the song,” Fairfull said.“One side of me still felt vulnerable and felt it couldn’t ‘Let Go’ of things that were happening