James Righton releases new single, announces short film for upcoming album ‘Jim, I’m Still Here’

Taylor Swift reveals she pulled out all the stops in keeping her "All Too Well: The Short Film" project under wraps. Last year, the singer wrote, directed and filmed the short movie, featuring actors Dylan O'Brien and Sadie Sink, in New York City. It was released last November, and little-to-no information was ever leaked prior to the airing."I'm really secret agent-y about people not finding out about what we're making while we're making it," Tayor told fans during the Tribeca Film Festival screening of "All Too Well: The Short Film." She continued, "So everything was codewords, and writing things in codes that only certain people knew … I'm so weird with stuff like that."Although the song was reportedly written about ex-boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal, Taylor has never publicly confirmed it.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterFor hundreds of Swifties in New York City, today was a fairy tale.That’s because Taylor Swift made a rare public appearance, at Tribeca Festival, to screen her short film “All Too Well” and talk with filmmaker Mike Mills (“C’mon C’mon,” “20th Century Women”) about bringing the 10-minute track to the big screen.“This is not a music video,” she informed the audience at the Beacon Theatre on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “We approached everything differently.”In a wide-ranging conversation, the notoriously private pop star also revealed easter eggs in the short film, discussed her ambitions to direct a movie and treated fans to a surprise performance of “All Too Well.” Seated near the stage, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds were among the many in the crowd who enthusiastically sung along, clapped and took videos of Swift throughout the lengthy track.

Steve Aoki and Taking Back Sunday have teamed up on an unexpected new joint single called ‘Just Us Two’ – check it out below along with the two acts telling NME about what they learnt from each other and their newfound brotherhood.The track marks Taking Back Sunday’s second release of the year, following frontman Adam Lazzara featuring on The Maine’s ‘Loved You A Little’ in January. It’s Aoki’s fourth single of 2022, succeeding ‘Welcome To The Playhouse’, ‘Da Homies’ and ‘KULT’.“I was talking with our manager one day and she’s like ‘Hey, Steve Aoki’s camp reached out – would you like to write a song with him?’ My first reaction was, ‘Wait, do they know who they’re reaching out to? Did they get the wrong guys?’” explained Lazzara.

BTS have released the music video for ‘Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)’, the title track of their new compilation album ‘Proof’.The visual opens with Jungkook sitting alone in a desert, looking out into the vast open land. It then cuts to the septet sitting together as they perform ‘Yet To Come’, which finds the boyband looking back at their nine-year-long career so far.It later cuts to individual shots of BTS performing their different parts, before they reunite and run towards a yellow school bus in the middle of nowhere.

Halsey‘s new song is finally out!

Even with Top Gun: Maverick continuing to crush at the box-office, buzz for director Joseph Kosinski’s next film Spiderhead continues to grow as Netflix as released a new clip of the pic featuring stars Chris Hemsworth and Miles Teller. The clip was unveiled during a panel for Netflix’s Geeked Out Festival with Hemsworth introducing it himself.

ITZY have dropped a stunning new concept film in anticipation of their upcoming mini-album ‘Checkmate’.The new visual features each of the members individually as they pose against a minimalistic set, confidently gazing into the camera as they fiddle with glass chess pieces. ‘Checkmate’ is set to be released on July 15 at 1pm KST.‘Checkmate’ will mark the girl group’s fifth mini-album so far, as well as their first domestic release of 2022.

Panic! At The Disco announced that their seventh studio album is on the way while releasing the song and video for the title track “Viva Las Vengeance” on Wednesday.

It’s official. The reviews are in and ABBA’s new concert experience, ABBA Voyage is a certified hit!The ABBA Voyage concert, which officially opened on at the purpose build ABBA Voyage Arena in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, May 27, has received rapturous reviews from fans and critics.Kylie Minogue attended the premiere and said on Instagram, “Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! What.

Martha is back! The UK-based band hasn’t released an album since 2019’s Love Keeps Kicking but are returning with a limited 7” that’ll be released on June 24 via Specialist Subject. The 7” features new song “Please Don’t Take Me Back” and a cover of Allo Darlin’s “My Heart Is A Drummer.” But you won’t have to wait a whole month to check out the new song.

ABBA Voyage live experience have spoken to NME about how it was made, as well as what could be next for both the show and the band. Watch our video interview above.Premiering earlier this week at the purpose-built ABBA Arena in Stratford, East London, to a delighted response from fans, the ambitious production sees a “digital” version of ABBA (or ‘ABBAtars’) performing alongside a 10-piece live band (put together with the help of Klaxons’ James Righton).Working on the show with ABBA were Svana Gisla (who produced Jay-Z and Beyoncé‘s On the Run Tour), choreographer Wayne McGregor, Johan Renck (who directed David Bowie‘s videos for ‘Blackstar’ and ‘Lazarus’), Baillie Walsh (who has directed for Massive Attack and Bruce Springsteen) and producer Ludvig Andersson (son of ABBA’s Benny Andersson and producer of And Then We Danced, Yung Lean‘s ‘In My Head’ and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again).“We did an awful lot of research and development on this, as you can imagine,” Gisla told NME from the red carpet.

Swedish supergroup ABBA has returned to the stage as digital avatars for a new London concert residency. On Thursday, all four members of the band publicly reunited to attend the opening night of "ABBA Voyage." Benny Andersson, 75; Agnetha Fältskog, 72;  Anni-Frid Lyngstad, 76; and Björn Ulvaeus, 77, were all smiles on the red carpet as they posed for photographers before entering the new ABBA Arena in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, where they watched their digital avatars hit the stage.

Zara Larsson has covered ABBA‘s ‘Lay All Your Love On Me’, as well as telling NME what the band mean to her and revealing that work is progressing well on a “dark” and “vulnerable” new album. Watch our interview with Larsson above.Today sees Larsson release her cover of the Swedish pop giants’ 1981 track for the Spotify Singles series, just after the premiere of the band’s ambitious new ABBA Voyage show in London.Speaking to NME on the red carpet of the event, Larsson admitted being a little starstruck to have pop royalty nearby.“They were like, ‘Oh, can you believe the Swedish Royal Family is here?’ and I was like, ‘I know, ABBA are right there’,” she said.

MUNA have shared their new single, ‘Home By Now’ – listen below.The latest song to be previewed from their forthcoming self-titled album, ‘Home By Now’ follows a pair of singles released by the Los Angeles-based trio earlier this year: ‘Kind Of Girl’ and ‘Anything But Me.’In a statement, Katie Gavin – who forms one third of MUNA alongside Naomi McPherson and Josette Maskin – said ‘Home By Now’ recalls the sounds of the band’s 2017 debut, ‘About U’, and discussed the track’s lyrics.“[‘Home By Now’] is the song on the record that we feel might be closest to our first album in that it’s a dance song with brutal lyrics and an emo bridge…While a lot of this album does seem to be about trusting my instincts, this song acknowledges the pain of not knowing if I left a relationship that I was meant to be in,” Gavin said.‘Home By Now’ arrives ahead of MUNA’s self-titled album, which was announced in March and will mark the band’s first project since their 2019 sophomore album, ‘Saves The World’. Dropping next month (June 24), the eponymous album will also be MUNA’s first full length release under a new label, having departed RCA Records in 2020.Late last year, MUNA enlisted Phoebe Bridgers to feature on ‘Silk Chiffon’, another track lifted from the upcoming album which then marked their first single under Bridgers’ Saddest Factory label.