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Metallica have shared a new trailer for their photo book, The Black Album in Black & White.The book features images of the band at work on their 1991 self-titled fifth studio album, which became known as ‘The Black Album’.Continuing Metallica’s ‘Black Album’ 30th anniversary celebrations, Metallica have this week published The Black Album in Black & White in collaboration with the photographer Ross Halfin.The book features numerous classic and previously unpublished photographs of Metallica,

Animal Collective have shared details of their forthcoming album, ‘Time Skiffs’, and shared its lead single, ‘Prester John’.‘Time Skiffs’ follows the band’s last record, 2016’s ‘Painting With‘, and will mark their 11th studio album to date.

Bastille have announced that they will release their fourth album, ‘Give Me The Future’, next year. New single, ‘No Bad Days’, is out now.The concept behind the record is life in an age of rapidly-changing new technology, and how sometimes it can feel like we’re all living in science fiction.

The stars will be sharing their opinions on the latest TV shows and films, while the usual Gogglebox families will also offer their judgement. In recent years, Gogglebox guests have included Naomi Campbell and Naomi Gallagher, the Whitehalls, the Perrys, Danny and Dani Dyer, England footballers Dele Alli and Eric Dier and One Direction’s Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson.

Westlife have announced the release of their twelfth album, Wild Dreams, their first in two years. 

Aurora has announced her new album ‘The Gods We Can Touch’ and shared her latest single – you can hear ‘Giving In To The Love’ below.The record, the follow-up to 2019’s ‘A Different Kind of Human (Step 2)’, is set for release on January 21, 2022 via Decca.“The spiritual door between the human and the gods is a very complicated thing,” Aurora said in a statement about ‘The Gods We Can Touch’. “In the right hands faith can become the most beautiful thing.

Cate Le Bon has announced her sixth album ‘Pompeii’ – you can listen to its lead single ‘Running Away’ below.The Welsh musician/producer will release the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Reward’ on February 4, 2022 via Mexican Summer. You can pre-order it here.“’Pompeii’ was written and recorded in a quagmire of unease.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse have announced the release of a new album called ‘Barn’.Set to arrive on December 10, the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Colorado’ comes after Young teased its arrival back in June, saying that “the Horse is back in the barn, shaking off the rust”.“We are so happy to be back in the barn, a barn built to replicate the 1850s barn that had collapsed in exactly the same place, high in the mountains of Colorado,” Young said.

Adele has officially announced the the title and release of her new album.

Friday's Stand Up to Cancer special. Celebrity Gogglebox will air as part of the marathon programme of SU2C events on Channel 4 this Friday evening.

Jameela Jamil has responded to people who have questioned her producer credits on three quarters of the tracks on her boyfriend James Blake’s new album, ‘Friends That Break Your Heart’.“A lot of mostly women [are] insisting I couldn’t possibly have actually worked on my boyfriend’s music, and that he must have just credited me to be nice”, she tweeted. “I was a DJ for eight years, and studied music for six years before that.

Cat Power has confirmed details of a covers album, due for release in 2022. The album, aptly titled Covers, is due on January 14 via Domino Records.

Cat Power has announced details of a new covers album – listen to her versions of tracks by Frank Ocean and The Pogues below.‘Covers’ will be released on January 14, 2022 via Domino, and also feature renditions of songs by Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, Billie Holiday and more.Ahead of the release of the album, Cat Power has shared a version of Frank Ocean’s 2012 track ‘Bad Religion’, which she also performed on The Late Late Show with James Corden last night (October 7).In a statement, the singer

Bonobo has announced details of a new album ‘Fragments’, which will come out early next year and is being previewed with first single ‘Rosewood’.The producer – aka Simon Green – will then take his new record out on a world tour in 2022, ending with a trio of gigs at London’s Royal Albert Hall.The new album, out on January 14, 2022 via Ninja Tune, will feature guest appearances from Jamila Woods, Joji, Kadhja Bonet, Jordan Rakei, O’Flynn and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson.“I remembered all over again how

Hello, it’s Adele, and she’s been wondering if after all these years we’d like to hear some new music from her.

Hello from the other side! Adele is finally back with her a taste of fourth studio album after several years away — and it’ll be entirely worth the wait.

Sam Fender has announced a run of intimate shows to celebrate the release of his forthcoming new album, ‘Seventeen Going Under’.The North Shields singer-songwriter’s second album is set to be released next week (October 8) and has already been previewed by the tracks ‘Howdon Aldi Death Queue’, ‘Aye’, ‘Get You Down’, ‘Spit Of You’, and the album’s title track and its acoustic version.Fender took to social media this afternoon (September 30) to tell fans that he will be heading out on the road for

On My Block is getting a spinoff!

Metallica played ‘The Black Album’ in its entirety during their headline set at Louder Than Life festival last night (September 26) – see footage below.‘The Black Album’ was reissued this month to celebrate its 20th anniversary, while alongside the record’s reissue came ‘The Metallica Blacklist’, a mammoth covers album.To continue the celebrations, Metallica played their second headline set of the weekend at Louder Than Life in Louisville, Kentucky, playing the album in reverse order.The set

The Wrens has announced his return with new project Aeon Station – get all the details on new album ‘Observatory’ below.The Wrens, who hail from New Jersey, have been promising fans a new album since 2003, with Whelan and co-songwriter Charles Bissell writing music separately.Songs from the proposed new Wrens album will appear on ‘Observatory’, according to a feature in the New York Times.