Cast unveil new single ‘Love You Like I Do’, announce new album date

Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera has announced details of a memoir, Revolución To Roxy.The new book, which features over 100 colour and black and white photographs, will hit shelves on March 22. It will chronicle Manzanera’s life and times with Roxy Music and David Gilmour.

Ghetts has teamed up with London rapper Skrapz on his latest single ‘Twin Sisters’ from his forthcoming LP ‘On Purpose, With Purpose‘.Produced by frequent Ghetts-collaborator TenBillion Dreams, the track opens up with a cheeky and explicit verse with the rapper saying: “One night I stayed round / Now I know my way round / Used to wonder what the pillow saw when you’re faced down / I’ve been fucking twin sisters / they don’t make the same sound”.The song also comes with a head-spinning visual by Dutch director Geerten Harmens (A$AP Rocky, Lil Wayne, Gunna). The video sees Ghetts sitting on an invisible chair in a puffer jacket in a white room.It features trippy camera movements as the rapper walks around and is surrounded by other things, such as a couple dressed in what appears to be Victorian garb, a butler holding a plate of spaghetti bolognese and more.‘Twin Sisters’ follows Ghetts’ previous release, ‘Laps’ featuring the South African singer Moonchild Sanelly, which marked his first new single in two years.

Shygirl has dropped a rave-inspired new single titled ‘f@k€’. Check it out below.The track comes as Shygirl’s last release of 2023, and sees her close out the year with a bang, as she channels the classic club anthems of the ‘00s.It also sees the English rapper join forces with the LA-based DJ and producer, Kingdom, and deliver a sultry, upbeat single that is wrapped up in less than two minutes.“Who needs to be real?/ I want it fake, bitch/ Give me sex appeal/ I want it fake, bitch,” she sings.

Sleater-Kinney‘s Carrie Brownstein has opened up about how losing her mother influenced their new album ‘Little Rope’.The US rock duo – comprising Brownstein and Corin Tucker – shared details of their 11th album and a tour in support of it back in October, announced alongside lead single ‘Hell’.The track was released against the backdrop of a family tragedy, after Brownstein’s mother and stepfather were been killed in a car crash while on holiday in Italy last year.According to press notes, while the album was already in progress, some musical aspects of songs were approached with the artist’s fresh grief at the fore.Brownstein has now opened up about the personal impact of the sudden loss. “I don’t think there was ever a question that we would stop recording, she told The Guardian.

Guns N’ Roses have today shared a slow-burning, soaring new single called ‘The General’ – check it out below.‘The General’ is the B-side of the band’s limited-edition seven-inch vinyl single titled ‘Perhaps’, which was made available for pre-order in August.The band first performed the song live in Los Angeles last month and first teased the song back in August. The gig marked the first of two nights at the Hollywood Bowl.

Creamfields has unveiled a new 30,000 capacity indoor main stage called APEX for its 2024 edition.The festival, which will take place over the August Bank Holiday weekend from August 22-25 next year at its usual site in Daresbury, Cheshire, is already sold out.The festival claims that APEX will be the largest indoor festival superstructure in the world, and promises it will be paired with “jaw dropping production”. The stage will also allow the festival to extend until 4am on Saturday night for the first time.The lineup for the dance festival’s 2024 incarnation has yet to be announced, although the organisers have confirmed that the arena hosts will include Teletech and techno promoters XXL.At the 2023 edition of Creamfields, the weekend was headlined by Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Fatboy Slim, Swedish House Mafia, Tiësto and Four Tet.

London Film Festival program boss Rowan Woods is to take on the Creative Director post at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

Big Thief‘s Adrianne Lenker has debuted a new single ‘Ruined’ and announced a 2024 UK and Europe tour.The track is set to become the lead single from Lenker’s forthcoming sixth solo album, which will land next year. No further details about the album have been revealed as of yet.‘Ruined’ sees Lenker move to the piano for the first time as she laments a conflicting romantic situation – “Can’t get enough of you/ You come around I’m ruined,” she sings.“This song has been a quiet beacon for me.

The Department of Works and Pensions (DWP) has issued a statement on whether or not new cost of living payments will be announced from next spring.

Never mind Turkey, the true star of Christmas dinner comes miniature and wrapped in bacon.

Giovanni Pernice has sent a 'last' message before teasing some exciting plans coming in the New Year. The professional dancer has been keeping himself busy after being forced to make an early exit from Strictly Come Dancing this year.

Nadine Shah has released ‘Twenty Things’, the second single from her upcoming full-length, ‘Filthy Underneath’. Upon a hypnotic groove, dramatic piano stabs and a gloomy sonic atmosphere, Shah recounts various colourful characters who appear to hide darker secrets. In the second verse, she sings: “They’re laying flowers by the bus stop / Some poor old junkie’s lucks up  / Took a man and woman on the same day  / His right leg shorter than the other / The second eldest brother  / Goes to see his mother every Sunday ”. In a press release, Shah expressed that the sombre track was inspired by a slate of characters she encountered “whilst in recovery”.

Noel Gallagher has confirmed that he will be heading into the studio early next year to record his next solo album.The former Oasis musician released his latest album with the High Flying Birds, ‘Council Skies’, in June this year, but he has revealed that he is already getting ready to make its follow-up.Speaking in The Sun (via Music News), Gallagher said: “I’ve had to stop writing because I need to get these songs recorded and get them out there so I can write some more.”“In the pandemic there was nothing to do all day so I just wrote songs. There’s another two albums-worth of material there.”“I think I’m going to be back in the studio in January, so we’ll see where it goes from there.”At the start of November, Gallagher shared the single ‘We’re Gonna Get There in the End’, taken from ‘Council Skies’.

Rod Stewart still has gas left in the tank.Although the 78-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s children have begged him to retire, he’s going back on the road in 2024.As of now, the legendary knighted “Maggie May” singer has lined up 13 concerts from February through August next year.However, fans should make a point of seeing the classic singer live in the U.S. before it’s too late.“This will be the last time ’round, I think, to do the rock ‘n’ roll stuff because I want to move on to swing music and the Great American Song Book,” Stewart told People Magazine.“No more big tours.

One of the most famous streets in the country is set to undergo another change - with the residents of Weatherfield are getting a new shop on Coronation Street. Soon, viewers of the ITV soap will have their first sight of Hays Travel's new branch on the cobbles.

The Jesus & Mary Chain have announced new album ‘Glasgow Eyes’ and shared new single ‘jamcod’. Check out the video first on NME below, along with details of their 2024 UK and European tour and our interview with Jim Reid.Marking 40 years since the release of their debut single ‘Upside Down’, 2024 will see the hugely influential band – whose debut album ‘Psychocandy’ is considered a pivotal work in the development of alt-rock, noise pop and shoegaze – release their eighth studio album, an autobiography and a documentary, and also begin a world tour.The 12-track new album was recorded at Mogwai’s Castle Of Doom studio in Glasgow, and finds the band working with electronics and textures that seem to play on the band’s place in a lineage taking in The Velvet Underground and Suicide.

The Rifles have announced their first album in seven years, ‘Love Your Neighbour’, and shared news of a 2024 UK tour.The East London indie rock group are due to release their new LP on April 26, 2024 – which you can pre-order/pre-save here – and have shared the first preview in the shape of new single ‘The Kids Won’t Stop’.The band’s last album was 2016’s ‘Big Life‘. They have also released special records in the interim, including their ‘Unplugged’ album recorded at Abbey Road Studios (2017) and ‘Live At The Roundhouse’ (2020).

Claudia Fogarty has revealed that she has 'never been happier' as she gushes over her new boyfriend Olly Crankshaw, who she went public with in September. The Love Island star, 29, entered the famous villa almost nine months ago, and while she may not have found a lasting connection on the ITV2 show, good things come to those who wait. Chatting to OK! at the launch of new restaurant Fenix in Manchester, Claudia gushed over her new footballer beau, who is an Altrincham winger.

You Me At Six have announced a headlining tour in celebration of the 10th anniversary of ‘Cavalier Youth’.The tour is set to kick off on February 9, 2024, at Wolverhampton KK’s Steel Mill. From there, Josh Franceschi and Co.

A bouquet of red roses have been place at her resting place to mark what would have been her 37th birthday today. Her life was brutally ended just three months short of her 21st birthday.