Toro y Moi to release instrumental version of debut album ‘Causers of This’

Violinist Galya Bisengalieva – best known for her work with Radiohead and Frank Ocean – has announced that she will release her debut album, ‘Aralkum’, through One Little Independent on 4 Sep.The album is inspired by the Aral Sea in Central Asia.

Dominic Fike has shared the details of his forthcoming debut album and with it a new single called ‘Politics & Violence’.The Florida singer and rapper will release ‘What Could Possibly Go Wrong’ on July 31 via Columbia Records.

Having surprise-released lockdown album ‘Love + Light’ last month, Daniel Avery has now put out a visual version of the record. Which I think is also a surprise.

Lana Del Rey will release ‘Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass’, a previously announced album of spoken word poetry, on July 28. The 14-track album will see Del Rey’s poetry set to the music of Jack Antonoff.Antonoff and Del Rey previously teamed up on her sixth studio album, ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell!’, co-writing the bulk of the album’s songs together.Alongside the album, Del Rey plans to release the poems as a hardback book later this year.

Alex G (formerly known as Sandy Alex G). Near the tail-end of recording, Massey’s parents were involved in a severe car crash, a week before the COVID-19 pandemic began to shut down America in earnest.“Thankfully most instrumentals were already written,” said drummer Theodore Mathews.“Alex and Henry and I were all able to do that separately from a studio space that we rent in Chicago.

Beabadoobee will offer a first taste of her upcoming debut album next week with the track ‘Care’.The Dirty Hit signee, who bagged the NME Radar Award in February, released her acclaimed ‘Space Cadet’ EP in 2019.

Pinegrove have released an expanded version of their latest album ‘Marigold’, and shared a video for the track ‘Endless’ – watch it below.The New Jersey outfit’s original ‘Marigold’ record arrived in January. Reviewing the project, NME said that the band “had enter[ed] into a new, more adult phase of their career, their flashy radicalism muted into a more subtle, less immediate aesthetic.”Today (July 8), Pinegrove released the expanded edition of ‘Marigold’ to online streaming services.

Can you believe it’s been 10 years since Christina Perri first released her hit song “Jar of Hearts”?!

Unfortunately for “Star Wars” fans in the U.K., Disney is scrapping plans to release a 4K version of “The Empire Strikes Back” in theaters. Just a couple of weeks ago the company had announced that it would re-release the remastered edition of the film as U.K.

Dave Grohl has reflected on making Foo Fighters’ self-titled debut album, 25 years after its release.The band’s frontman recorded an initial tape version of the album almost entirely by himself “for fun” before record labels expressed interest in releasing it.Speaking to Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music’s Beats 1, Grohl recalled the process of making the album. “I actually recorded the whole thing in sequence,” he said.

Nirvana through the release of the first Foo Fighters album.The interview airs on Saturday (July 4), exactly 25 years after the Foo Fighters' debut, self-titled album arrived (on July 4, 1995).Grohl admitted that when he joined Nirvana and they became "really huge really quickly," he was still insecure that he wasn't quite good enough for the band."Well I mean I joined Nirvana, I was their fifth drummer, right?" he said.

Lil Wayne has shared a new version of his ‘Free Weezy Album’ on streaming services, in celebration of the project’s fifth anniversary.Originally released in 2015, the new version that has appeared on streaming services features 12 of the record’s original 16 tracks, as well as a new song entitled ‘We Livin’ Like That’.A number of the 2015 songs are missing from the new version, however. They are ‘I Feel Good’, ‘Thinking About You’, ‘He’s Dead’ and ‘Without You’.

Congratulations to Dermot Kennedy who dominates this week’s Official Irish Charts, breaking a new chart record in the process.

Manori Ravindran International EditorDisney has rolled back on plans to release a 4K version of “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back” in theaters, Variety has confirmed.The decision comes just weeks after it was revealed a 4K edition of the film would form part of U.K. cinemas’ reopening slate.

he previously celebrated his 80th at Glastonbury, having the crowd sing to him before Patti Smith debuted a special poem she’d written in his honour. He’s also, it should be noted, a fan of the Beastie Boys.The Dalai Lama isn’t short on musical admirers, either — well, ones that don’t mind forfeiting the chance to ever play in China — such as Lady Gaga, whom he reportedly spoke about yoga with when they met in 2016.

The late rapper Pop Smoke‘s debut album, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, has been released posthumously.

Linda Laban A few months after Kurt Cobain’s death in April 1994, Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl called his longtime friend, musician and producer Barrett Jones: Grohl wanted studio time. What transpired was a five-day session manned by Grohl and Jones at Seattle’s Robert Lang Studios which yielded, note for note — with only final mixes finished later — Foo Fighters’ self-titled, punk- and grunge-fueled, keenly melodic debut album.

50 Cent is back to his old self after praising the greatest rapper in the world, Eminem. He’s back with the shade, and this time, he’s haunting the creation made by Virgil Abloh – the artwork for Pop Smoke’s posthumous debut album.

Slipknot‘s former drummer Joey Jordison has marked the recent 21st anniversary of the release of the band’s self-titled debut album with a touching Instagram post.Jordison, who played drums in Slipknot between 1995 and 2013, reflected on Slipknot’s first major album success in 1999 in a post he shared yesterday (June 30).“It’s almost hard to believe how these years have flown by like blast beats,” he wrote.