Avenged Sevenfold using lockdown to “meticulously work on music” for new album

The Staves have announced their brand new album ‘Good Woman’ — you can listen to the title track below.The LP will be their first album since 2014’s ‘If I Was’.

On Saturday, Ariana Grande teased her upcoming album and single via a cheeky video on her Instagram grid and Twitter. In the video, she ran her hand across a green lit-up green keyboard to spell out what is presumably a single and album title, "P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N-S." This content is imported from Instagram.

Fever 333 have shared ‘Bite Back’, a powerful new single that recounts some of the incidents that took place during the recent anti-racism protests.Set to land on the post-hardcore band’s upcoming new EP ‘Wrong Generation’, the track was written and recorded after frontman Jason Aalon Butler spent 13 days protesting following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, back in May.“Everything in this song was what I’d seen during those 13 days and what I felt needed to happen,” Butler

Black Thought has made his new solo album ‘Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Abel’ available to stream – listen below.The release follows Vols.

Elvis Costello has shared a chilling new song called ‘Newspaper Pane’ – you can listen to it below.Set to land on Costello’s upcoming new album, ‘Hey Clockface’, due out October 30, his latest offering was recorded after the coronavirus pandemic separated the singer-songwriter from his regular collaborators.While the rest of the songs on ‘Hey Clockface’ were recorded in Helsinki and Paris, ‘Newspaper Pane’ was written and produced in New York by composer/arranger Michael Leonhart, with the help

Sturgill Simpson has released a surprise double album, ‘Cuttin’ Grass Vol 1 – The Butcher Shoppe Sessions’ today (October 16).The bluegrass album is available on digital platforms now with a vinyl release set for December 11.Simpson came up with the idea for the record when he was recovering from coronavirus earlier this year.

Dame Shirley Bassey poses wearing a matching mask and sequined gold gown ahead of the release of her first new album in more than five years.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have announced their new album ‘New Fragility’ – you can listen to a preview of the record in the form of two new songs below.The Alec Ounsworth–fronted band’s follow-up to 2017’s ‘The Tourist’ is set for release on January 29, 2021 via CYHSY/Secretly Distribution.The announcement of ‘New Fragility’ – whose title is taken from the David Foster Wallace short story ‘Forever Overhead’ from the collection Brief Interviews With Hideous Men – has been paired today (October 14)

Chris Kamara is to release another festive album this year, vowing to "save" the Christmas season with the collection.

A brand new trailer for the new season of The Bachelorette features some explosive moments, including 15 guys threatening to leave the show.

FKA twigs has written an entire new album during lockdown, the singer has revealed.Her third album will follow last year’s ‘MAGDALENE’ LP, which NME crowned the sixth best album of 2019.With the album only a year old, twigs has revealed that she’s “just finishing” its follow-up now, having experienced a burst of inspiration during the coronavirus-enforced lockdown period this year.Speaking as part of the GRAMMY Museum’s new series Programs at Home, the singer said that during lockdown she “ended

It’s been three years since Lorde released her last album Melodrama, and almost as long since she spoke out on social media (her last Instagram post is from Apr. 2018).

NEW YORK -- Bruce Springsteen isn't just releasing a new rock album later this month — he'll also offer a documentary on the making of the music.“Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You” will offer performances from The E Street Band, in-studio footage and never-before-seen archival material, featuring “a behind-the-scenes look at the iconic artist’s creative process,” according to a statement.It is written by Springsteen and directed by his frequent collaborator Thom Zimny.

AC/DC‘s longtime engineer has confirmed that the band’s comeback album includes moments that were inspired by the riff ideas of the late Malcolm Young.The recently reunited band continued to teaser their forthcoming ‘PWR UP’ project last week by sharing a snippet from a new song, ‘Shot In The Dark’.Speaking to the AC/DCFans.Net podcast over the weekend about the upcoming album, producer and long-serving AC/DC sound engineer Mike Fraser discussed how the band’s songwriting and recording process

NEW YORK -- It's been four years since Rihanna released an album but the singer is working hard on recording new music.The pop star, 32, told The Associated Press for her new album she's already held “tons of writing camps" — where songwriters are put into groups to create original tracks for artists.Now, she said she's asked herself the questions: “What do I feel personally? What do I want to put out, and as an artist, how do I want to play it with my art? How do I want to interpret that?"“How

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentMadrid-based The Mediapro Studio (TMS), one of Europe’s biggest independent film and TV players, had a smashing 2019 with the release of 126 titles. And then the pandemic struck, forcing the company to shut down 56 shows.