Listen to Rico Nasty’s fierce new single, ‘Intrusive’

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.

Danger Mouse and Black Thought have shared a second song from their upcoming debut collaborative debut album ‘Cheat Codes‘ – listen to ‘Because’ below.‘Because’ follows ‘No Gold Teeth’, which was released last month, and features guest turns by Joey Bada$$, Russ and Dylan Cartlidge.Set to be released on August 12 via BMG, ‘Cheat Codes’ is Danger Mouse’s first hip-hop full-length since his ‘DANGERDOOM’ collaboration with the late MF DOOM which was released in October 2005.Joey Bada$$ said: “I’ve always been a big fan of Black Thought and Danger Mouse. I think Black Thought is one of the greatest rappers ever, so when they asked me to get on this record, it was a no-brainer, plus the record is fire!“I still remember the first time I heard ‘You Got Me’ the video was shot on my great-grandmother’s block and I was actually there that day when I was a child.

Halsey has shared a cinematic trailer for their upcoming new single ‘So Good’, which is due to arrive later this week.The single comes after the star recently shared their battle with her label to get it released on their social media accounts.The teaser clocks in at 25 seconds and opens with the camera slowly zooming in on a chair at a dressing table. It then cuts to a close-up of a shelf that holds crystals, a candle, perfume, a glass trophy from Red Rocks in Colorado and a box that reads: “Halsey, July 30 2018.”As the video continues, it shows a brief clip of Halsey’s partner Alev Aydin looking at the camera, before cutting to the star themselves doing the same.

The Amazons have shared new song ‘Ready For Something’, the second taste of their third album ‘How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me?’Lead singer Matt Thomson has described the riff-laden single as “a scratching at the walls kind of song”.“You’ve been in the cage for far too long and you are ready. Ready to live, ready to experience, ready to make mistakes.

Paolo Nutini has shared another track from upcoming album ‘Last Night In The Bittersweet’ – check out the anthemic ‘Shine A Light’ below.The track follows on from ‘Lose It’ and ‘Through The Echoes’ which were both released last month to announce Nutini’s fourth album, the follow-up to 2014’s ‘Caustic Love’.‘Shine A Light’ is an upbeat slice of arena-ready pop which is perfectly timed, since Nutini will headline TRNSMT and Victorious Festival this summer, and later this month he’ll perform two large outdoor shows in Bristol and Belfast. He’s also set to support Liam Gallagher this weekend at one of his two Knebworth shows.Listen to ‘Shine A Light’ below: Nutini’s ‘Last Night In The Bittersweet’ is released on July 1 via Atlantic Records.

Beth Orton has released a new single today (May 31) called ‘Weather Alive’ – check it out below.It’s the title track from her new album, which is released on September 23 via Partisan Records – her first for the label. You can pre-order it here.A statement about the new album describes it as “a record that collates memories and experiences spanning a lifetime, with stories that touch on struggles, on healing and of beauty.”Collaborators on the album include The Smile’s drummer Tom Skinner, Mancunian jazz star Alabaster dePlume, multi-instrumentalist/composed Shahzad Ismaily, and The Invisible’s bassist Tom Herbert.Listen to ‘Weather Alive’ here:Orton heads out on tour in support of Alanis Morissette later this month before taking ‘Weather Alive’ out on tour this October across the UK and Ireland.Tickets for her headline tour will be on sale on June 10 here.

Sky Ferreira has returned with her first new single in over three years, ‘Don’t Forget’.This smoky and soulful cut of ’80s-channeling new-wave sees Ferreira tap into a darker side of her artistry. In the second verse, she sings: “Honey, you can see that it’s a rotten world? / I don’t need you to save me, another drama unsung / I’ll catch your disease, it’s such a raw deal world / I don’t need to deceive you, I’m the real bad girl.”Have a listen to ‘Don’t Forget’ below:Ferreira co-wrote ‘Don’t Forget’ with New Zealand dream-pop artist Tamaryn Brown. In a new interview with Vulture, Ferreira explained that the song “wasn’t supposed to be apocalyptic, but in some ways it is”, with fire being a central motif (“Tears of fire in the sky / Makes me feel good to be alive”).

Just Mustard have unleashed a brand new single, ‘Seed’ – you can check out the track below.The song is taken from the Irish five-piece’s upcoming second album ‘Heart Under’, which arrives this Friday (May 27) via Partisan and can be pre-ordered here. It follows on from previous single releases ‘Still’, ‘I Am You’ and ‘Mirrors’.The eerie album highlight sees the band experiment with revving twin guitars and a techno-infused rhythm section.“Along with a lot of electronics and noise, I was listening to a lot of music which featured bowed string instruments,” guitarist Mete Kalyoncuoglu said of the song’s inspiration.

Angel Olsen has shared her new single ‘Through The Fires’ – you can listen to the track below.The song is taken from her forthcoming new album ‘Big Time’, which is set for release on June 3 via Jagjaguwar. It’s the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Whole New Mess’, which featured a host of reworkings of tracks from Olsen’s 2019 LP ‘All Mirrors’.‘Through The Fires’ is the third preview of ‘Big Time’ to be released following its title track and her March single ‘All The Good Times’.Speaking about ‘Through The Fires’, which you can hear in the below lyric video, Olsen said that the track is “the centrepiece statement of this record”.“It’s a song I wrote to remind myself that this life is temporary, the past is not something to dwell on, that it’s important to keep moving, keep searching for the people that are also searching, and to notice the moments that are lighter and bigger than whatever trouble I’ve encountered,” she added.Olsen and director Kimberly Stuckwisch recently announced a new film, also titled Big Time, that will premiere on the Amazon Music channel on Twitch and via the Amazon Music App next month.

A tentative agreement has been reached for a new three-year contract covering casting directors and associate casting directors in Los Angeles and New York.

Rico Nasty has confirmed that she’s about to release a new single – hear a snippet of the track below.In multiple social media posts made Sunday (May 15) the rapper teased new music, tweeting to fans: “I have a new song coming out very soon”. Rico also told fans that the vibe of the track would be “intrusive”.This morning (May 17) she dropped a video clip of the song, with the caption ‘Black Punk’. The heavy and abrasive sounding track features the rapper confidently sharing lines like “life is a movie but I never act” before a chorus where the lyrics “Black punk” are repeated.In the clip, Rico can be seen wearing black lipstick and sunglasses as she blows out smoke rings cut between shots of a city.Black punk pic.twitter.com/Fosuo4kQcN— TACOBELLA (@Rico_nastyy) May 16, 2022This new music follows the release of her single ‘Vaderz’ featuring Bktherula back in April.

Irish alt-rock quartet Modernlove have announced the release of a brand new EP, along with an exceptional single. 

Nia Archives has teamed up with Watch The Ride to release a new joint single, ‘Mash Up The Dance’ – listen to the song below.Co-produced by Nia, who won Best Producer at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 in March, the track also features the Bradford-born, London-based producer/DJ on vocals.“I was so gassed to make this one with DJ Die, Randall and Dismantle and be part of the Watch The Ride family,” Nia said about the collaboration, which you can hear in the below Geeneus (founder of Rinse FM) and Nia Archives-directed video.“Have seen this one going off in my sets for a minute now and I know it’s gonna mash up dance for the summer of jungle.”Watch The Ride, a dance supergroup comprised of Randall, DJ Die and Dismantle, added: “The track’s creation was really natural, sometimes everything just clicks in the session and this was one of those moments.

P1Harmony and American singer-songwriter Pink Sweat$ are set to collaborate on the upcoming single, ‘Gotta Get Back’.Yesterday (May 16), the boyband announced the upcoming digital single on Twitter, and also released the song’s pastel-coloured cover art. According to Korea JoongAng Daily, Pink Sweat$ composed the forthcoming collaboration, while P1Harmony members Intak and Jongseob helped pen lyrics for the track.

Burna Boy has shared a new track called ‘Last Last’ – you can listen to it below.Produced by Chopstix, the song samples Toni Braxton‘s 2000 single ‘He Wasn’t Man Enough’. It’ll appear on the Nigerian artist’s sixth studio album ‘Love, Damini’, which is due to arrive this summer.The accompanying ‘Last Last’ video was directed by Burna Boy – real name Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu – and features “my house, my car, my friends, my Igbo, my Shayo”, per an onscreen message.“And most importantly [it’s] for you, my fans,” it adds.

Post Malone has shared the latest single from forthcoming album ‘Twelve Carat Toothache’ ahead of its release next month: a collaboration with Roddy Ricch titled ‘Cooped Up’.“I’ve been waitin’ so long, now I gotta resurface,” Posty croons on the track’s refrain above a hazy, mellow beat, referencing two years of pandemic life, and the rapper’s relative absence from music as a result. “We ’bout to toast up all that bread that we burnin’ / ‘Cause I’ve been feelin’ cooped up.”Listen to ‘Cooped Up’ below:“I’ve been out of my bag for a long time, and I’m trying to hop back in there, man,” Post said when discussing ‘Cooped Up’ in an interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe.“We knew what we wanted to say, and we knew what we wanted to express, not only in a song but in that particular moment on the album. And yeah, it just came super naturally.

My Chemical Romance is finally back with new music!