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Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK star Bimini has released their second official single titled ‘Tommy’s Dream’.– Read more: Soundtrack Of My Life: ‘Drag Race UK’ star Bimini Bon BoulashReleased via Relentless Records, ‘Tommy’s Dream’ is an upbeat offering that Bimini has described as being about reflection.“It’s optimistic but also comes from a place of vulnerability and aspiration,” Bimini said of the song. “It’s about going back to childhood innocence and the hope you have at that time.”BBimini added: “‘Tommy’s Dream’ is the perfect track to introduce people to what music I’ve been working on and where I’ve been for the last year,” Bimini said.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Franco-Swiss director and New Wave linchpin Jean-Luc Godard, who revolutionized world cinema with his ground-breaking debut, “Breathless,” and never stopped pushing the envelope of his creativity, has died. He was 91. The news was first reported in Liberation.

Rina Sawayama has shared the final preview of her imminent second album, ‘Hold The Girl’ – a soaring pop-rock anthem titled ‘Hurricanes’.At face value, ‘Hurricanes’ is one of Sawayama’s most upbeat tracks, powering ahead with sharp drum fills, glittery atmospherics and driving electric guitars, over which the artist herself sings with an emphatic, energised gusto.Its lyrics paint a more melancholic picture, though, as Sawayama sings in the first verse: “April showers finally making way for warmer weather / But yet I still feel the same / Doing yoga just to feel untethered / But my mind keeps running away.”Have a listen to ‘Hurricanes’ below:‘Hurricanes’ is the fifth single to come from ‘Hold The Girl’, following the May release of ‘This Hell’, June’s ‘Catch Me In The Air’, the title track in July and ‘Phantom’ last month. The album itself – said to be inspired by the “fake stories” on Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ – will be out this Friday (September 16) via Dirty Hit.Sawayama will tour ‘Hold The Girl’ in October, starting with a run of shows across the UK and Ireland.

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Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker have mastered the art of coordinated couple style. The lovebirds attended the Tommy Hilfiger spring 2023 show during New York Fashion Week in looks that had Us doing a double take.

Oliver Sim has shared a new single called ‘Run The Credits’ – you can listen to it below.The song is the final preview of The xx singer/bassist’s debut solo record ‘Hideous Bastard’, which is due for release tomorrow (Friday, September 9) via Young and can be pre-ordered here.“I very much see this album as a queer horror film, and I wrote ‘Run The Credits’ as the closing scenes of the film,” explained Sim in a statement.“Sonically, I think it’s quite a joyous and celebratory song, but lyrically it’s quite open ended and has a lot of anger. It was also an opportunity to pay homage to some of the characters I love the most in cinema like Patrick Bateman and Buffalo Bill.”He continued: “I’ve loved those characters since I was a little boy.

The Snuts have shared their rousing new single ‘Knuckles’, which is taken from their forthcoming album ‘Burn The Empire’.The track is the fifth cut from the record that’s due out on October 7 via Parlophone Records. It follows the singles ‘The Rodeo’, ‘End Of The Road’, ‘Zuckerpunch’ and the album’s title track.“We wanted to create something feel good and carefree.

BBC Three is to adapt Holly Jackson’s New York Times bestselling teen crime thriller A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder from Amazon Prime Video’s The Pursuit of Love producer Moonage Pictures.

Suede have shared a new track called ‘That Boy On The Stage’ – you can listen to it below.The song will appear on the band’s ninth studio album ‘Autofiction’, which is due for release on September 16 via BMG (pre-order/pre-save here).“It’s about persona,” explained frontman Brett Anderson of Suede’s gritty latest offering. “It’s about the people we become.”‘That Boy On The Stage’ sees the Anderson take an “outer view” of the alter ego he adopts for Suede’s live shows.

Swim Deep have released a new standalone single, ‘Little Blue’, and have shared details of a UK headline tour – find tickets here.Released today (September 1) via the Birmingham band’s own King City Records, the new song was influenced by Caribou, and its lyrics herald a new musical chapter for Swim Deep.Rampant with glittering synths and a swell of rich textures, take a listen to ‘Little Blue’ below.Swim Deep frontman Austin Williams said of the inspiration behind the song’s sweet lyrics: “When I look back at it and what I was feeling at the time, it was most probably about me and my fiancé [Nell Power], with a more general moniker for myself and the band too. “Here now we’re going to make it” is a reassurance that I’ve always needed.

EBM‘.The strutting new song follows on from June’s ‘Karma Climb‘ and and April’s ‘Heart Attack‘. It features on the band’s first album since 2018, which is released on September 23.Speaking about ‘Vibe’ [listen here], singer, guitarist and pianist Tom Smith said the track “takes up where ‘Frankenstein‘ [their 2019 single] left off, and is a hymn celebrating the night, and all that thrives in the dark”.Editors are playing classics alongside material from their new album at their recently announced UK and European tour shows, which kicked off in Spain earlier this summer and wraps in Bristol next February.The band will play gigs at London’s iconic Troxy, with further dates in Nottingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin and beyond in Europe.

I. JORDAN has shared a new double single ‘Hey Baby’ / ‘I Had The Best Of Times’ – listen to the two tracks below.The latest release from the producer and DJ fka India Jordan arrives as part of an ongoing series of paired songs. It follows this summer’s ‘Always Been’ / ‘First Time Back’.Per a press release, the dancefloor-ready ‘Hey Baby’ has become the most requested cut at I.

Willow Kayne has released a jagged new single called ‘Rat Race’ that sees the musician sing about a “nice little existential crisis”.The track follows on from Kayne’s debut EP ‘Playground Antics’ and the previously released singles ‘White City’ and ‘Final Notice’.Kayne wrote ‘Rat Race’ when she was “going through a little crisis; the music business sometimes makes me feel like I am a lottery ticket among millions of others,” she explained. “To sum it up briefly, it’s about the moment when you ask yourself ‘Am I doing this right? Or better yet, what AM I doing?’.”Check out the track below:Speaking to NME earlier this week at the Gorillaz date of All Points East Festival, Kayne confirmed the track was part of a bigger project.“This next project is about my experience in London, and in this industry as well,” she said.

Jamie xx has shared his new remix of Oliver Sim‘s ‘GMT’ – you can listen to the new version below.The two artists, who are bandmates in The xx, have further extended their creative partnership with the remix of the track, which has arrived this afternoon (August 22).The original ‘GMT’ – which was released last month – is set to feature on Sim’s forthcoming debut solo album ‘Hideous Bastard’, which has been produced by Jamie xx and is set for release on September 9.Marking Jamie xx’s first new official remix in over five years, the ‘GMT’ remix – which incorporates a sample of Brian Wilson‘s ‘Smile’ – features additional production from Floating Points, and has previously been aired during Jamie’s recent DJ sets and live shows.You can listen to Jamie xx’s remix of Oliver Sim’s ‘GMT’ below.Having played his debut London solo show in June (where he covered Placebo and was joined by his xx bandmate Romy), Sim is now scheduled to embark on a North American, European and UK tour next month.Tickets for Sim’s UK dates are on sale now from here, and you can see his upcoming gigs below.September29 – The Showbox, Seattle, WAOctober01 – The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA02 – The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA05 – Metro, Chicago, IL06 – Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto, ON08 – Lincoln Theatre, Washington, DC09 – Royale, Boston, MA10 – Webster Hall, New York, NY 11 – Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA20 – Vega, Copenhagen, Denmark22 – Le Cabaret Sauvage, Paris, France23 – Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands26 – Admiralspalast, Berlin, Germany27 – Uebel & Gefaehrlich, Hamburg, Germany29 – New Century Hall, Manchester30 – KOKO, London

Drahla have returned today (August 22) with their new single ‘Under The Glass’, their first new music in three years.The new music comes alongside details of the band’s first UK tour since 2019, which kicks off in Brighton next month. It follows their debut album, ‘Useless Coordinates’.“‘Under the Glass’ represents a moment of creative reconnection, almost a sense of euphoria in the darkest moments – an awaited, yet slight, respite from reality,” the band said of their new material in a statement.“The song is a collage, reworking early ideas from 2020 with newer work – bridging the gap of time, in the literal sense as well as musically.”They added: “The lyrics are deliberately vague, using metaphor to interpret personal experience and emotion of loss and grief.”Listen to ‘Under The Glass’ below.Drahla’s UK tour takes in six dates in mid-September, including a London headline show on September 20 at the Bermondsey Social Club.Alongside the tour is the tagline: “992 days later, Drahla return to the stage,” nodding to their extended absence.See the tour dates below and pick up tickets here.SEPTEMBER 18 – Brighton, Komedia 19 – Bristol, Dareshack 20 – London, Bermondsey Social Club 21 – Oxford, The Port Mahon 22 – Manchester, Soup Kitchen 23 – Leeds, Wharf ChambersReviewing Drahla’s debut LP ‘Useless Coordinates’ upon its release in 2019, NME said: “Despite its monochrome aesthetics and jarring sonics, ‘Useless Coordinates’ steers clear of imitating the well-trodden past.“Drahla’s melodies are gnarled and resist locking together at all costs; warped pop songs emerge out of the gloom.

Willow Kayne has discussed her new single ‘Rat Race’, telling NME the track is a “diary entry tune”.Speaking backstage at All Points East festival, the Bristol-born singer-songwriter explained that the track, out today (August 22), is part of a new project.“This next project is about my experience in London, and in this industry as well,” she said. “‘Rat Race’ is about my perception on London and how everything is so fast, and you’ve got to keep up.

Greentea Peng has returned with a spiritual new song called ‘Look To Him’ – listen below.The new track follows the track ‘Your Mind’, which was shared back in March, and is a precursor to a new project from the singer that is touted to drop “imminently”.“‘Look To Him’ explores the idea of originality and the notion of tapping into source energy for creativity and inspiration rather than just searching for it amongst your peers and surroundings,” Greentea Peng said of the new song in a statement.“At the same time, it challenges the idea that anything is truly original as nothing is truly our own rather seeped into us from a Higher Power and thus channelled from God him/herself.”Listen to ‘Look To Him’ below.Earlier this year, Greentea Peng cancelled her March UK headline tour due to the uncertainty caused by COVID-19. “If it was just me on the mic over a track it would be different but manoeuvring a 6 piece band plus team is a different story and we need time, full energy and a lot of money to make shit happen.

BLACKPINK have returned with ‘Pink Venom’, the lead single from their imminent ‘Born Pink’ album.The song was first teased at the very start of the month (on August 1), when BLACKPINK confirmed their return in a video outlining the ‘Born Pink’ timeline – they’d release a single this month and the album itself in September, before kicking off “the largest world tour in the history of a K-pop girl group” in October.Listen to ‘Pink Venom’, which features the use of the traditional Korean string instrument called the gayageum, and watch the music video below:‘Born Pink’ will be released on September 16 via YG Entertainment. According to the label, the title for the album “implies the identity” of the group, “which is never ordinary and will exude a fatal aura”.

PVA have shared a dark new single called ‘Bad Dad’ – listen to it below.The South London trio have shared the latest track from upcoming debut album ‘BLUSH’, which arrives on October 14 via Ninja Tune.Speaking on the themes of the single, the band’s Ella Harris said: “Bad Dad explores the internal world of a new father checking in on his son at night, afraid of the lineage of masculinity and how it might impact someone so untainted.”Check out the song here:Speaking about the upcoming new album, drummer Louis Satchell said: “We wanted to surprise people and do something more than just get across how we sound at a gig. It’s quite an anxious record sometimes that is relating to mental health issues and carries within it the anxiety of making an album.

Beth Orton has shared a video for her latest single ‘Friday Night’, as well as a string of newly-announced live in-store appearances.The track is the third to be lifted from her new album, ‘Weather Alive’ – following ‘Forever Young’ and the album’s title track – which is released on September 23 via Partisan Records. You can pre-order it here.Speaking about the new single, Orton said: “Friday Night is someone reflecting on, and trying to decide, what to give up or what to surrender to.