Michael Stipe to release new climate-friendly vinyl in aid of EarthPercent

Smashing Pumpkins have announced a three-part album called ‘ATUM’ and shared the new single ‘Beguiled’. Listen to the track and read NME’s interview with frontman Billy Corgan below.Following on from 2020’s ‘CYR’, the forthcoming 33-song “rock opera” serves as a sequel to the band’s classic double album records ‘Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness’ (1995) and ‘Machina/The Machines Of God’ (2000).The project has been previewed by the swaggering, all-guns-blazing ‘Beguiled’, which sees the Pumpkins return to their gritty, guitar-led sound.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor A judge has overturned the murder conviction of Adnan Syed — whose case was the focus of the viral “Serial” podcast back in 2014 — and the Baltimore man has been released from prison after serving more than 22 years behind bars. The ruling Monday by Judge Melissa Phinn of Baltimore City Circuit Court vacated Syed’s murder conviction, after she found that prosecutors failed to turn over evidence that could have helped Syed at trial — specifically, evidence that two other suspects may have been involved in committing the crime. “At this time, we will remove the shackles from Mr. Syed,” Judge Phinn said after announcing the decision, according to the New York Times.

The 1975 are set to release a new single called ‘All I Need To Hear’ this week.The band will release their fifth album, ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, on October 14 via Dirty Hit, which has been previewed so far by the singles ‘Part Of The Band’, ‘Happiness’ and ‘I’m In Love With You’.On Wednesday (September 21), they will give a fourth preview of the record in the shape of new single ‘All I Need To Hear’.Get all the details and pre-save the song below.The 1975 – All I Need To HearSeptember 21st 2022https://t.co/njz2uSaRYb pic.twitter.com/liBRTOqgCt— The 1975 (@the1975) September 16, 2022Following the announcement of the release of ‘All I Need To Hear’, fans are speculating that the new song is the track frontman Matty Healy debuted live last year while supporting Phoebe Bridgers at a Los Angeles gig.Hear the song, which features the lyric “all I need to hear,” below.In support of the new album, the band will tour the UK and Ireland in 2023, which they recently added new dates to – find full details of the tour below and get your tickets here.The UK and Ireland leg of The 1975’s ‘At Their Very Best’ tour will kick off on January 8, 2023 in Brighton and run until January 30 in Belfast.After tickets went on sale on September 9, two new dates in London and Cardiff were then added for the tour.

Jamie xx has announced that his new single ‘Kill Dem’ will be released tomorrow (September 20) – listen to a teaser below.‘Kill Dem’ will be the follow-up to ‘Let’s Do It Again’, which was released in April. The track was Jamie xx’s first new music in two years and premiered on Zane Lowe’s show on Apple Music 1.Speaking about the track, Jamie xx said: “I started making it at a time when we weren’t sure when we were going to be able to do stuff.

Easy Life have shared a new single called ‘Antifreeze’ – you can listen to it below.The song serves as the latest preview of the Leicester band’s second studio album ‘Maybe In Another Life’, which is due for release on October 7 via Island (pre-order/pre-save here).‘Antifreeze’ was written during the COVID lockdown by frontman Murray Matravers and US bedroom pop artist Gus Dapperton.“[I’ve] been meaning to write a song with [Dapperton] since we met,” Easy Life wrote on social media upon the track premiering as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record last night (September 14).“It’s inspired by the winter and all its icy emotions. We shot the video together on the coldest day I can remember.

The Snuts have won the battle to release their forthcoming new album ‘Burn The Empire’ a week early.It comes after the band recently called on their fans to “bombard” Parlophone Records so that they can hear the record before their UK tour kicks off at Bristol O2 Academy on October 2.They wrote on Twitter at the time: “Growing up watching bands we always wished we could hear their new album before going to the show. We asked our record label Parlophone if we could release out second record ‘Burn The Empire’ early to allow us all to be able to connect with the new songs together and absolutely rip it up on the tour – to this we were told no.”They continued: “Since then, we have found out the records are ready to go to the store and can be delivered to you all.

Jack White has announced that he’ll release a new live album, recorded during his current Supply Chain Issues world tour.Taking its title from the tour, the ‘Jack White Live: The Supply Chain Issues Tour’ album includes three vinyl LPs, each of which feature a different assortment of songs from the setlist of White’s tour. The ensemble set also includes a seven-inch vinyl with a demo version of ‘A Tip From You to Me’, which appears on White’s most recent album, ‘Entering Heaven Alive’.Disc one includes the tracks ‘Taking Me Back’ and ‘The White Raven’, both lifted from the White’s other 2022 album, ‘Fear of the Dawn’.

Meghan Trainor has a new song out!

New York City Center, home of, among other arts endeavors, the popular Encores! series of concert-style theatrical productions that recently gave Broadway one of its biggest current hits with Into The Woods, has named Michael S. Rosenberg  as its new president and CEO.

The Snuts have encouraged their fanbase to 'bombard' their record company, Parlophone, in order to release their second album early. The West Lothian rockers announced their highly anticipated second album, Burn The Empire, back in June and currently isn't due to hit shelves until October 7.

Bree Runway has confirmed that she will release new music at some point this month.The London singer-songwriter and rapper, who featured in the NME 100 2022, shared her latest single ‘Somebody Like You’ back in March. It followed on from the track ‘Pressure’ and last year’s team-up with Glass Animals, ‘Space Ghost Coast To Coast’.Last Saturday (September 3), a fan on Twitter asked Runway when more new material would be arriving.

Michael Stipe has released track ‘Future If Future’ – his debut solo track, which originally arrived in 2018 – on the world’s first commercially available bioplastic 12″ vinyl.Produced by Brian Eno, the split single also features ‘Oh My Heart’ by Beatie Wolfe. Proceeds from the single go towards Eno’s EarthPercent.

Pay rises for better-off council staff would be capped under plans discussed to end waves of strikes by local authority workers.

Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins looks set for dramatic scenes as it released a new trailer teasing the upcoming series on Wednesday.  Starting on Sunday 4 September at 9pm, 14 celebrities will face a brutal selection course run by the elite team of ex-special forces operators - Chief Instructor, Rudy Reyes, and his team of Directing Staff (DS), Foxy (Jason Fox), Billy (Mark Billingham) and Remi Adeleke.Teasing what viewers can expect in a new trailer, it sees a voiceover say: "Welcome to our extreme spa where celebrity treatments include a relaxing plunge pool, skin exfoliation and motivational speakers." It then cuts to Maisie Smith in the desert shouting: "I need help!" while Ferne McCann is seen grimacing during a brutal challenge. It ends by quickly showing a montage of the other celebrities, including Curtis Pritchard and Pete Wicks, testing themselves during the intense experience.The new trailer comes after former EastEnders star Maisie, 21, revealed she went on the Channel 4 show to inspire "other young girls".

Gorillaz have shared details of their new album ‘Cracker Island’ alongside the release of latest single ‘New Gold’ featuring Tame Impala and Bootie Brown.‘Cracker Island’ is released on February 24, 2023 via Parlophone (pre-order here) and marks the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Song Machine, Season One – Strange Timez‘.The virtual band, headed up by Damon Albarn, has a host of collaborators on their eighth studio album including Stevie Nicks, Bad Bunny, Beck, Thundercat, Adeleye Omotayond and the aforementioned Tame Impala and Bootie Brown.It’s produced by eight-time Grammy Award-winning producer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Greg Kurstin along with Gorillaz and Remi Kabaka Jr.Today (August 31) the band have also shared ‘New Gold’, which follows on from first single ‘Cracker Island‘. Gorillaz debuted the track live at their headline All Points East show in London on August 19 with both Kevin Parker of Tame Impala and Bootie Brown joining the band onstage.“It’s kind of a mad song, to be honest with you,” Albarn told the crowd at the time.Press material about Gorillaz’s new album states: “Originally based at Kong Studios in West London, the group of musical misfits – Murdoc, Noodle, Russel and 2D – have relocated to Silverlake, California as they recruit new members to join The Last Cult in search of the one truth to fix the world.

Arctic Monkeys have released their first new single in four years, There'd Better Be A Mirrorball, to launch their seventh album, The Car.