Wet Leg reveal they’ve completed their second album: “It’s in the bag”

Missy Elliott has given advice to artists working on their second album, encouraging them to take risks and not allow themselves to be pigeonholed.“Sophomore albums are a very PIVOTAL time for [artists],” the rap icon tweeted yesterday (July 7). “Your sophomore album be stressful but it’s the BEST ALBUM to EXPERIMENT on! Don’t be AFRAID! Becuz If u play safe you will be BOXED in & its hard to get out because your fans get used to that 1 sound.”She continued: “Listen CLOSELY! Go with the songs you feel you should drop not what everyone else suggest! You the Artist must FEEL it YASELF because YOU are the one that have have to SELL it & CONVINCE ppl it’s HOT.

Wet Leg have shared a new Soulwax remix of their track ‘Too Late Now’ – check out the electro banger below.The track appears on the Isle of Wight duo’s self-titled debut album, which came out earlier this year via Domino and appears on NME‘s new list of the best albums of 2022 so far.“Good news dudes. You can now have a proper dance to a Wet Leg song thanks to Soulwax,” the band – comprising Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – wrote on Twitter to reveal the remix.Listen to Soulwax’s take on ‘Too Late Now’ below.Last month Wet Leg made their Glastonbury Festival debut, which NME said cemented their “hero status” at Worthy Farm.Our five-star review said: “Wet Leg’s appeal to their tribe is summed up by how they deliver all of this wacky charisma totally deadpan, including runaway hit ‘Chaise Longue’, which seemingly doesn’t need an introduction.

Porcupine Tree - comprising members Steven Wilson, Richard Barbieri and Gavin Harrison - see their eleventh studio album Closure / Continuation enter at Number 2, just behind reigning chart supremo Harry Styles - becoming the group’s first-ever UK Top 5 record.   Prior to this, the English experimental rockers enjoyed two UK Top 40 albums; 2007’s Fear of a Blank Planet (31) and 2009 release The Incident (23) and a further three Top 100 outings. The band’s new LP also tops this week’s Official Vinyl Albums Chart. See Porcupine Tree’s full Official Charts history here. 

Going private. Alabama Barker posted and then subsequently deleted a photo of her father, Travis Barker, in the hospital following his mysterious health scare.

Alabama Barker has seemingly asked fans to pray for dad Travis Barker after he was rushed to hospital. The Blink-182 drummer was reportedly taken by ambulance to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday (28. 06.

Travis Barker‘s daughter is asking for prayers following his hospitalization.

Travis Barker is leaning on his faith amid his hospitalization Tuesday. The Blink-182 drummer cryptically wrote, «God save me,» on Twitter during his current health scare. Adding to the concern for the musician, his daughter, Alabama, took to Instagram to ask her followers to keep her father in their prayers.

Worried for her family. Travis Barker’s daughter Alabama is requesting well wishes amid her dad’s hospitalization.

Glastonbury 2022, Sampa The Great has dropped an alluring new single titled ‘Never Forget’ – for which she linked up with fellow Zambian artists Chef 187, Tio Nason and Mwanjé – and revealed the details for her forthcoming second album.In a press release, Sampa described ‘Never Forget’ as “an ode to Zamrock music, a genre born in the ’70s combining traditional Zambian music and psychedelic rock”. More specifically, the song was inspired by music focused on the kalindula, a traditional style of bass guitar that features prominently on ‘Never Forget’.Expounding on how the song honours Zamrock and the kalindula, Sampa continued: “This tribute was inspired by the band WITCH and their lead singer, Mr Jagari Chanda, who has become one of my musical mentors.

Neil Young’s 2019 European tour, with Promise Of The Real as his backing band, is featured in an upcoming concert movie and accompanying album called ‘Noise & Flowers’.The film and album feature performances from various shows on the nine city tour, and include the songs ‘Helpless’, ‘Rockin In The Free World’, ‘Winterlong’, ‘Alabama’ and ‘I’ve Been Waiting For You’, plus the rarely performed ‘On The Beach’.The tour followed the death of Young’s long-time manager Elliot Roberts, something the musician noted when writing about the film and album on his blog last week.“Promise Of The Real and I had a tour planned of Europe”, he recalled. “[Wife Darryl Hannah] and I were in the bus, on our way to New York to catch a plane to Europe when we got the call.

The Snuts have announced the release of their second album, ‘Burn The Empire Out’ – find out more info below.The Scottish band’s forthcoming LP is the follow-up to their 2021 debut LP, ‘W.L.’, which topped the UK’s Official Albums Chart in April last year, marking the first time in 14 years that a Scottish band scored a UK Number One album.Speaking about the new album and how lockdown provided them with more time to tackle the topics that were important to them, frontman Jack Cochrane said: “The universe delivered us time to create a record where we finally felt we could address some of the topics, be it societal or spiritual, that we have been dying to scream out.”He continued: “There are songs about the highs & lows, stuff we really want to talk about and things we cannot help but feel, but have just never made the space to.”Due out October 7 via Parlophone Records, the album has so far been previewed by three tracks: ‘End Of The Road’ featuring Rachel Chinouriri, ‘Zuckerpunch’, and the album’s title track.Alongside the news of their second LP, The Snuts have released another track from the album, the “care-free, four to the floor, singalong indie anthem” ‘The Rodeo’. You can listen to it below.“‘The Rodeo’ is about knowing that your life is more often than not completely out of your control,” explained Cochrane. “It is about finding merit in the madness and celebrating the journey and not just the destination.

Honoring her father. Alabama Barker shared a loving — and telling — tribute to dad Travis Barker on Sunday, June 19.

Steve Lacy has shared his first new music since 2019 along with details of a new solo album.New album ‘Gemini Rights’ is set to come out this summer, with a firm release date still to be confirmed.The follow-up to The Internet guitarist’s debut solo album ‘Apollo XXI’ is being previewed today with the release of its first single, ‘Mercury’.Watch the video for ‘Mercury’, which sees Lacy dance around a warehouse in sunglasses and suit, below:At the tail end of 2020, Lacy officially released a number of his Soundcloud tracks and demos.The record, called ‘The Lo-Fis’, compiles a host of unofficial early releases from the solo artist, and came 18 months after the release of his debut album.In a four-star review of the debut record, NME wrote: “Although Steve Lacy is already fairly established through his collaborations, it’s exciting, on this album, to see his own personality shine through, as well as his ambition and inspirations (he’s cited Mac DeMarco as a production influence before), as he experiments, fills out his own catalogue and sound, and speaks for himself.”Since the release of that album, Lacy has collaborated with Calvin Harris on a track called ‘Live Without Your Love’ under the DJ’s Love Regenerator moniker. He also appeared on Vampire Weekend’s 2019 album ‘Father Of The Bride’, duetting with Ezra Koenig on collaborative track ‘Sunflower’.Lacy’s Internet bandmate Syd released her new album, ‘Broken Hearts Club’, in April.

David Bowie, explaining how they almost worked on a project together in Berlin.The director, who worked with the late musician on the soundtrack for 2001’s Moulin Rouge!, told NME about how Bowie’s classic track ‘Changes’ impacted his life.“From the moment I first heard this song, I was a huge Bowie fan,” Luhrmann said. “I eventually worked with him [on the Moulin Rouge! soundtrack] and then towards the end of his life, he became a very good friend.“He used to come round and we’d walk the dogs.

Sky Ferreira has given a new update on her long-delayed second album, ‘Masochism’.The follow-up to the singer’s 2013 debut LP ‘Night Time, My Time’ has been teased on and off for more than half a decade, but in a new interview with NME she has given fans a promising update.“It’s basically done for the most part, it’s just that some parts need to be re-recorded,” she said in this week’s Big Read, before adding: “Just the finishing touches, really.”‘Masochism’ has been a long time coming. It was first scheduled for release in 2015, and has been pushed back multiple times since.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJapanese Breakfast, Wet Leg and Madlib were among the top winners at the Libera Awards on Thursday night, the American Association of Independent Music’s annual awards ceremony.The event returned in a hybrid setting, with people from the indie community gathering at New York’s Webster Hall to receive awards, catch a DJ set from Madlib (featuring a freestyle from Talib Kweli) and live sets from Sammy Rae & the Friends and others, while concurrently a livestream of performances from Japanese Breakfast, Brittany Howard, Jason Isbell, Helado Negro and Cautious Clay was played in a separate room at the venue. Also performing live at the event were Tré Burt, Canadian Brass and Adrian Daniel.