Mogwai have replaced King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard for this year’s All Points East. View the updated line up below. The Scottish band will join The National on August 26 at Victoria Park along with Perfume Genius, Lucy Dacus, Kurt Vile and more. The announcement of King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard’s All Points […]
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A security guard who worked at this year’s edition of Lollapalooza has been charged with making a false terrorist threat, after allegedly circulating an anonymous text messages which indicated a mass shooting was going to take place at the festival. 18-year-old Janya Williams is accused of sending her supervisor an anonymous text message shortly before […]
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Gracie Abrams spoke to NME backstage at Lollapalooza 2022 and told us her songwriting process, what it’s like to work with The National‘s Aaron Dessner, and the potential name of an unreleased track she just performed live. Watch our interview above. Hours before taking on the festival’s Discord stage Saturday (July 30), one of her […]
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Måneskin spoke to NME backstage at Lollapalooza 2022 and told us how they feel about topping alternative charts, their favourite performance in the states, and how proud they are to receive recognition in the US. Watch our interview above. Just before taking the festival’s main stage and performing to an audience of over 65,000 fans […]
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Elbow and Easy Life have been announced as headliners for this year’s Glastonbury Pilton Party. READ MORE: Supergrass tell us about their reunion: “We’re going to bring joy into a slightly disturbed world” Both acts will perform at the Worthy Farm bash, which will be held for the first time since 2019, on September 2. They also […]
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Back in the mid-’00s, inspired by the likes of Arctic Monkeys and The Cribs, NME heralded the arrival of the ‘New Yorkshire’ scene. It’s tempting to suggest there’s been a resurgence of that regional indie uprising, given that Leeds post-punkers Yard Act and Rotherham pop provocateur Self Esteem were nominated for the career-changing Mercury Prize […]
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On the opening day of Lollapalooza 2022 last week (July 28), a group of activists protested about the city’s 10pm weekend curfew for young people. The ongoing youth curfew in Chicago means all young people under 18 have to be indoors by 10pm. While the city says the curfew is a way to crack down […]
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J-hope is no stranger to making history. It’s something he’s done multiple times as part of BTS – breaking YouTube records on more than one occasion, being the first Korean act to hit the Number One spot on the Billboard Hot 100, and too many more accolades to list here. But tonight (July 31), the […]
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BTS member J-Hope performed his headlining set at Lollapalooza 2022 last night (July 31), making him the first South Korean to top the bill at the famed Chicago festival. J-Hope closed out the final night of this year’s Lollapalooza, performing on the Bud Light Seltzer stage adjacent to sets from Green Day and Polo & […]
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Tomorrow X Together made history tonight (July 30) as the first K-pop group to perform at Lollapalooza in Chicago, appearing on the Solana x Perry’s stage. The K-pop group recently completed the US leg of their first world tour, ACT: Lovesick, and performed at Lollapalooza as the final stop of their itinerary in the States. […]
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