Cher announces first-ever Christmas album and shares first single ‘DJ Play A Christmas Song’

Valerie Wu Intern The 2023 annual Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF), hosted from Oct. 12 to Oct. 19, has announced its slate of awards winners.

Kaiser Chiefs have announced their eighth studio album and shared a new single co-written by Nile Rodgers – listen to ‘Feeling Alright’ below.The Ricky Wilson-fronted band are due to release the 10-track record – titled ‘Kaiser Chiefs’ Easy Eighth Album’ – on March 1, 2024. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.Produced by Amir Amor (Rudimental), the upcoming LP will feature the previous singles ‘Jealousy’ and ‘How 2 Dance’.

Green Day have shared details of a new album ‘Saviors’, and dropped a new single titled ‘The American Dream Is Killing Me’. Check it out below.Announced today (October 24), the forthcoming album will mark the 14th studio LP by the pop-punk trio, and their first full-length release since 2020’s ‘Father Of All Motherfuckers’.

Jack Grealish has shared his delight at recently meeting former Aston Villa striker Juan Pablo Angel, someone he calls his “first ever hero”.

Feeder have announced news of a new ‘Black’/’Red’ double album, as well as details of a UK tour set for next year. Check out new singles ‘Playing With Fire’ and ‘ELF’ below.Set for release next April, ‘Black’/’Red’ marks the first double album from the British rock band, and completes a trilogy of albums joined to 2022’s ‘Torpedo’.According to the band, the tracks across ‘Black’ and ‘Red’ both carry the same aura of “open space, freedom and possibility” as seen with last year’s LP, but sees them connected by their optimistic energy, rather than through a specific concept.It also sees the members both acknowledge where they are in their current songwriting process, as well as acknowledge their evolution across the decades.“I really wanted the album to be split in two parts for the listener, CD1 and CD2, black and red rather than be one long player, almost like a musical production with an interval,” said frontman Grant Nicholas of the double album.“Making it was a very creative time for me as a writer and a real labour of love.

This week, American fried chicken restaurant, Popeyes, officially opens the doors to its first restaurant in Manchester. The chicken spot, which is known to attract massive queues will be located at One Piccadilly Gardens and launches at 11am on Thursday (26 October)

Rochelle Humes has said her love for her husband Marvin is a 'forever thing' as she flew out of the country to support him as he returned to the stage. The singer is back on tour with his JLS bandmates and the group, who shot to fame as finalists on The X Factor in 2008, kicked things off on Friday night in Dublin.

Chain, launched by B.J. Novak and chef Tim Hollingsworth, collaborates with some of your favorite chain restaurants to reimagine and elevate the classic menu items that you know and love.

title track which arrived in August. Speaking of ‘I Don’t Know You’ in a press release, the band said: “This is simply a song about having a crush. About the excitement and playful fantasy that can come from meeting someone unexpectedly at a festival, or on the street, or in line at the grocery store.”They continued: “You don’t know when you’ll see them again but the rush of their possibility lingers, making you yearn to know more about them.” Directed by Mason Mercer and Anthony Miralles, the song’s accompanying video features the band performing in a barn.

Alkaline Trio are set to return with a new album, ‘Blood, Hair And Eyeballs’.The Matt Skiba-fronted band are set to return with the follow-up to ‘Is This Thing Cursed?’ on January 26 via Rise Records, marking their first release in six years.Speaking about the album and its attention-grabbing title track, Skiba said in a press release: “My mom worked for years as an emergency room nurse. She and her co-workers referred to exceptionally busy nights as ‘blood, hair, and eyeballs’.

A Scots secondary school teacher who told one child "I am not here to wipe your a***" and shouted at pupils has been allowed to stay in the profession.

Brittany Howard has shared her new single ‘What Now’ – the title track of an upcoming album. Listen to the song below.The Alabama Shakes singer released her debut solo album ‘Jaime’ in 2019, earning her multiple Grammy nominations, including Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rock Song.“‘What Now’ is maybe the truest and bluest of all the songs,” Howard said.

The treats continue for Take That fans as it's been announced they are releasing a brand new podcast which celebrates their return.

Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart has launched a new creative collective called The Time Experience Project. Listen to their debut single ‘Brings Me Home’ first on NME below.The Grammy-winning musician enlisted a group of writers, actors, filmmakers, composers and performers to join him in the group.

Greg Kurstin, Mura Masa, Danny L Harle, Count Baldor, Phil and Cash Cobain among others.Speaking of the LP in a press release, the singer said: “The record is about grief for a loss but being at peace with yourself in your aloneness. Journeying from hell into purgatory, but I’m ok with being there.”‘Heaven Knows’ is set for release on November 10 via Warner.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer After years of immigration issues that resulted in his 2019 detention by ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 21 Savage has been declared a legal U.S.

Björk and Rosalía have shared their first official collaboration, a 75-second song protesting fish farming in Iceland. It exists only on YouTube and is appropriately titled — for now, at least — “help fight fish farming in iceland.” The Icelandic art-pop legend and Spanish flamenco-pop superstar sing a capella and in unison on the track, repeating a simple refrain: “Is that the right thing to do? / Is that the right thing to do? / Oh, I just don’t know / I just don’t know.” A statement shared by Björk explains that the track will be officially released later this month, with proceeds going toward the legal fees of the people on the front lines of an ongoing protest against a new fish farm in Fjord Seyðisfjörður.

Love Island's Chyna Mills and Strictly Come Dancing's Neil Jones have welcomed their first child together. Strictly professional Neil, 41, and Love Islander Chyna, 24, began dating in 2022 and are now proud parents of a baby girl.The pair announced her birth as they shared the first picture of their little one on Instagram. Alongside an adorable black and white snap of their baby's feet, Chyna wrote: "Our hearts are so full", along with a white love heart emoji.The couple also shared the happy news with HELLO!, as Neil said: "Mum and baby are doing really well, she's everything we hoped for and more." Messages of congratulations soon flooded in from celeb pals and Neil's Strictly co-stars.

Palace have announced a new EP, ‘Part II – Nightmares & Ice Cream’, and have shared a new single titled ‘Rabid Dog’.The single serves as the opening track on the EP. ‘Part II – Nightmares & Ice Cream’ follows ‘Part I – When Everything Was Lost’ which was released earlier this year.

Sleater-Kinney have shared details of their new album ‘Little Rope’ and a tour in support of it alongside the release of lead single ‘Hell’.The Washington, US-formed indie rockers release their 11th album on January 19 via Loma Vista Recordings (pre-order here).Today (October 3) the duo comprising Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein have also shared the accompanying music video for ‘Hell’ directed by Ashley Connor (The Miseducation Of Cameron Post), which stars actress and Kajillionaire filmmaker Miranda July.‘Hell’, which was recorded at Flora Recording and Playback in Portland, Oregon with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton, is being released against the backdrop of a family tragedy.In autumn 2022, Brownstein received a call from Tucker, who herself had just received a call from the American embassy in Italy. Years earlier, Brownstein has listed Tucker as her emergency contact on a passport form, and while she had since changed her phone number, Tucker hadn’t.The embassy staff were desperately trying to reach Brownstein to inform her that her mother and stepfather had been killed in a car crash while holidaying in Italy.Press material notes that although some of the album had already been written, aspects of each song (e.g. a guitar solo, the singing style, sonic approaches) were approached with grief hanging heavy.See the tracklist and artwork for ‘Little Rope’, as well as all of Sleater-Kinney’s upcoming live shows below.‘Little Rope’ tracklist:01. ‘Hell’02. ‘Needlessly Wild’03. ‘Say It Like You Mean It’04. ‘Hunt You Down’05. ‘Small Finds’06. ‘Don’t Feel Right’07. ‘Six Mistakes’08. ‘Crusader’09. ‘Dress Yourself’10. ‘Untidy Creature’Tickets for the 2024 North American tour shows go on sale this Friday (October 6)