Author: rgultig
BOYNEXTDOOR aren’t quite ready to take on adulthood. Sitting on staggered chairs inside one of HYBE’s cavernous, black-walled practice rooms, the six-member boyband (whose ages range from 17 to 21) are telling NME about their struggle to feel like they’ve actually come of age, and how they channelled those feelings into their latest mini-album ‘19.99’. After his birthday came and went with no magical transformation into a ‘real adult’, Leehan says, “I realised that inside I was the same as when I was a child.” Sungho agrees: “Honestly, I think all of us are still kids.” Reaching the milestone can…
Deadletter have you where they want you before you even start listening to their debut album ‘Hysterical Strength’. The title alone sets the mood: the post-punk band are in thrall to life’s contradictions, busking at the crossroads where beauty meets brutality, fearsomely strong while also embracing the hysteria. The Yorkshire-bred group are now based – where else – in South London, and they’ve pitched themselves with this record somewhere between the clarity of genre forefathers Magazine and Gang of Four and the maximal overflow of contemporaries Black Midi and Squid. Broody, crunching guitars might be their staple diet, but Deadletter…
Steve McQueen’s son Chad McQueen, best known for his role in The Karate Kid, has died aged 63. READ MORE: Why is ‘Cobra Kai’ ending after six seasons? McQueen’s lawyer Arthur Barens told TMZ that he died of organ failure at his ranch in Palm Springs on Wednesday (September 11). “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our father Chad McQueen,” his wife Jeanie and children Chase and Madison said on social media. “His remarkable journey as a loving father to us, along with his unwavering commitment to our mother, truly exemplified a life filled…
“Three months ago, I didn’t know anything about this job. Now I know too much. How can I not do anything?” an aggrieved Lee Jung-do (Kim Woo-bin) asks his father in Officer Black Belt as he faces the call of duty. It might be easy to dismiss Netflix’s new Korea film as a cookie-cutter action-packed thriller, but the key conflict in Officer Black Belt is as surprising and earnest as its protagonist, and incredibly relevant to anyone following the news cycle. If you knew something wrong was happening right under your nose, would you do anything to change things or feign…
The Twilight Sad have announced a stripped-back winter 2024 UK tour. READ MORE: The Twilight Sad at Mad Cool 2019: more like group primal scream therapy than ‘entertainment’ The band’s James Graham and Andy MacFarlane are set to perform a series of intimate shows across the UK this December. Per a press release, fans on their mailing list will have got access to pre-sale tickets yesterday (September 12) “as a thank you” for their support, and tickets will go on general sale here from 10am BST today (September 13). James and Andy are heading out on the road to perform a…
Supergrass are teasing an upcoming announcement with fans, according to a new post. The British band, fronted by Gaz Coombes, shared a cryptic new post across their social media channels this morning (September 13), suggesting to fans that a new announcement is on the way. Posted at 9am BST, the post simply shared artwork of the band’s logo in red, alongside next Monday’s date, September 16. In the caption, the band simply wrote: “Sign up now”, alongside a link to their website’s homepage. Upon clicking the link, the page prompts fans to sign up for future updates, and asks them…
Korean-American singer Jay Park has shared that he wants to “take back” his previous comments about retiring from the music industry. In a recent episode of MBC’s Radio Star, Park shared that he wanted to retract a statement he had made in a previous episode of the show. “I mentioned retiring the last time I was on this show. I would like to take that back,” he said per SBS Star. Park previously hinted at his retirement in early 2022, shortly after stepping down from his CEO role of his hip-hop and R&B labels AOMG and H1GHR MUSIC. “There were…
When she imagined all of the potential “wonderful future[s]” she could never live, Sylvia Plath saw a fig tree. Gia Ford sees a stranger’s house lit from within at nighttime. She doesn’t mourn the lives she could have had, either; instead, she imagines them in song. Ford’s debut album ‘Transparent Things’ is a ponderous art rock tapestry of tragic, sinister and wondrous figures – many of them all three at once. Growing up surfing Murderpedia between two homes after her parent’s divorce – mum in Cheshire and dad in Sheffield – Gia lived the dichotomy that many of her song’s…
The Cure have sent fans postcards seemingly confirming their new album title and release date. READ MORE: On the cover – Robert Smith on 40 years of The Cure Some fans have taken to social media to share videos and speculate after receiving black postcards embossed to read ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ in scattered letting. At the bottom of the cryptic cards is the date 1/11/24 in Roman numerals, suggesting that their long-awaited album should be set to arrive on November 1. Earlier this week (September 9), it looked like The Cure were finally teasing a new album, after the…
The track comes off the duo’s new album, The Confidence Of Knowing Talib Kweli and J. Rawls appeared on The Tonight Show to perform “Native Sons” with the help of house band the Roots. The song comes off the pair’s joint LP, The Confidence Of Knowing, out today. Kweli and Rawls dropped “Native Sons” last month. The song pays homage to the Native Tongues collective, which featured the Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Queen Latifah, Monie Love, Black Sheep, and Chi Ali. “This one goes out to the legendary Native Tongues crew,” the rappers spit on the…