It takes Onew around seven minutes to start looking at the Zoom call screen more freely. Until then, the main vocalist and leader of SHINee has been politely staring down, lifting eyes only from time to time, as if peeking through a door ajar, while the translator relays his answers from Korean to English. Ask…
Rock The Spacebar is a twice-monthly column investigating the great music that underpins your favorite games. this week, Dom Peppiatt discusses authenticity and historical accuracy in Trek to Yomi with Cody Matthew Johnson, and investigates what it takes to make a game’s soundtrack truly live up to its inspirations. Think about how an Akira Kurosawa…
Legendary London venue Nambucca is closing in May, it was announced today (April 26). READ MORE: If Sheffield’s Leadmill – the venue that helped break Arctic Monkeys – closes, we all lose something This Holloway Road, 300-capacity venue played hosts to acts including Frank Turner, Florence & The Machine and The Libertines in the early…
Main image credit: Eva Pentel for NME at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 “L .”et’s get this on record,” starts Bobby Vylan with a sense of urgency. “In 2020, there was a year of protests around police abuse, racism and inequality. We, Bob Vylan, released an album [‘We Live Here’] that dealt with that political…
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As Archie Blagden and Josh Greacen waited to step out onto the stage at Chicago’s Credit Union 1 Arena last month, they could have been forgiven for allowing themselves a moment to savour it. Having landed a support slot with Glass Animals on their recent US tour, 8,000 people were waiting for them on the…
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Something that you learn quick into an interview with Lee Tae-yong – best known just as Taeyong, the leader of K-pop behemoth NCT – is that everything is about communication. From the music he releases, the content he makes and even the way he presents himself over video call, he’s seeking to make a connection…
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Post Malone shared snippets of some new collaborations with Doja Cat, Roddy Ricch, Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold and The Kid Laroi during an Instagram Live last night (April 23). The rapper – whose real name is Austin Post – is expected to return soon with his fourth album, ‘Twelve Carat Toothache’, and gave fans previews…
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For many people, the name Black Sabath is synonymous with four men – Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward. For others, that line up expands to include Ronnie James Dio – who recorded three great albums with them – and maybe to a lesser degree, Mob Rules and Dehumanizer drummer Vinny Application….
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THe world, as always, is dying. Beyond being a very real issue outside of our screens, it’s a conflict that rears its head in countless games – but adventure platformer Skábma – Snowfall paints it in colors you’ve likely never seen before. In Skábma – Snowfall, your dying world is very small. Playing as Áilu,…
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This week’s new heavy metal releases include some fine death metal, a lil jazz piano, everyone’s favorite bass slapping dorks, and more! To the metals… Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Bodysnatcher – Bleed – Abide Genre: DeathcoreOrigin: Melbourne, FloridaLabel: MNRK Heavy Starting this week with some high energy aggression from Bodysnatcher. These Floridians know their…
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