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Green Day mock Satan and reject mortality on new single I’m Never Gonna R.I.P
Green Day have released a new single, “I’m Never Gonna R.I.P.”, which will feature on the soundtrack to the band’s forthcoming coming-of-age comedy film, Nimrods. The track pairs a “Rock Around the Clock”-style rock-and-roll groove with the band’s trademark crunchy guitars and defiant, tongue-in-cheek lyrics, with frontman Billie Joe Armstrong singing about outrunning the devil…
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Elton John among stars who lose UK phone-hacking court case
Elton John, Prince Harry and a group of high-profile British public figures have lost their long-running High Court case against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, in a judgement handed down on Tuesday 7 July. The claimants alleged that the newspapers had unlawfully gathered information about them by…
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Chat Pile unleash devastating new song titled PEN I S MALL
American noise-rock band Chat Pile have released a new track titled ‘PEN I S MALL’, taken from their forthcoming second album ‘Who Loves The Sun’. Described by the band as their heaviest song to date, the roughly six-minute piece of industrial-tinged hardcore continues the group’s bleak, capitalism-critiquing tone that has drawn attention within the heavy-music…
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Dolly Parton musical A True Original heading to Broadway
Dolly Parton has announced that her stage production, Dolly: A True Original Musical, will transfer to Broadway this winter, with the country star revealing the news herself in a video posted to her social media accounts on Tuesday 7 July. The show charts Parton’s life and career, and the singer stressed that it focuses on…
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Alabama Shakes to release new album after 11-year gap
Alabama Shakes have announced I Must Be Dreaming, their first album in 11 years, which will be released on 28 August via Island. The record follows the trio’s 2015 LP Sound & Color and marks a significant return for the band, who reunited for a surprise live set in December 2024 and have been touring…
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Dolly Parton musical to open on Broadway with December previews
Dolly Parton’s biographical stage show, now titled “Dolly: A True Original Musical”, is heading to Broadway, with previews beginning at the St. James Theatre on 7 December 2026 and an official opening night set for 19 January 2027, the country-pop star’s 81st birthday. The production, which had its world premiere in Nashville in the summer…
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Wet Leg singer Rhian Teasdale recalls being removed from GCSE music class
Wet Leg’s frontwoman Rhian Teasdale has revealed in a new interview with The Cut that she was “kicked out” of her GCSE music course at school for falling too far behind the rest of the class. Now a successful musician, she reflected on how she has had to work to “demystify” music-making for herself, having…
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Green Day announce new single I’m Never Gonna R.I.P
Green Day have announced the soundtrack to Nimrods, a forthcoming road-trip comedy the band produced with Live Nation, and have shared a new song recorded for the film titled “I’m Never Gonna R.I.P.” The movie follows a fictional punk band on a desperate journey to open for Green Day, who appear as themselves, and it…
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Told Slant Announces New Album What’s Up: Hear “Manhattan”
Told Slant, the project of musician Felix Walworth, has announced a new album titled What’s Up, arriving nearly six years after 2020’s Point The Flashlight And Walk. The record’s lead single, “Manhattan,” was released on 7 July 2026, and Walworth describes it as a lament for New York “becoming a shrine to capitalism” and the…
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Wishy release new single All the Rage
Indianapolis indie band Wishy have released “All The Rage”, the second single from their forthcoming album Nature’s Pill. The track continues the group’s jangly guitar-pop style and follows last month’s single “Lovesick”, giving fans new material ahead of the record’s autumn release. The song arrives with a music video directed by Trent Wayne. In a…