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Scissor Sisters have announced their return with a huge 2025 anniversary tour of their self-titled debut album. The New York pop-rock band will reunite on stage for the first time in over a decade to perform a string of live dates across the UK and Ireland. Jake Shears, Babydaddy and Del Marquis will return on

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has shared a scary update about a vehicular accident that injured a family member at his Madame ZuZu’s tea room business in Chicago’s Highland Park area. What Happened at Madame ZuZu’s? As shared by Billy Corgan’s wife, Chloe Mendel Corgan, “This afternoon at Madame Zuzu’s, a car (in circumstances which

R.E.M. have shared a new lyric video for their 1986 hit ‘I Believe’, as part of their ‘We Are Hope Despite The Times’ campaign to encourage people to vote. READ MORE: NME meets R.E.M.: “We needed swagger – to be loud and raw” In the lead-up to the US election next week (November 5), the band have been

The full When We Were Young 2025 lineup has been revealed, with Blink-182 and Panic! At the Disco as the festival’s main headlining acts. Just a few weeks after the 2024 installment of the event wrapped up, the full lineup for the 2025 version has been shared. The festival will take place Oct. 18, 2025

Bush have announced an intimate show in Manchester for MTV World Stage ahead of this year’s EMAs in the city. Find all the details below. READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life: Bush’s Gavin Rossdale The Gavin Rossdale-fronted band are due to perform at the 1,000-capacity New Century Hall next Saturday (November 9). In a statement, Rossdale

As the presidential election of 2024 nears, Evanescence‘s Amy Lee has made her official endorsement. Lee posted an Instagram video sharing who she’s voting for along with a message stating why she chose the candidate she’s backing. Who Is Amy Lee Voting For? In an Instagram video message captioned, “One more time for the people

Becky Hill has shut down rumours that she’ll be representing the UK at Eurovision 2025. The 69th Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Basel, Switzerland, with the final taking place in May 2025. This comes after Nemo clinched victory for Switzerland at Eurovision 2024 with their track ‘The Code’. It marked the nation’s first win since

There’s something you may not have noticed about Ghost‘s 2025 world tour announcement earlier today (Oct. 28). The Tobias Forge-led Swedish band revealed a 55-date world tour of Europe and North America, with more shows to be announced in the future. The North American leg features a July performance at New York City’s Madison Square

Gwen Stefani has shared new single ‘Swallow My Tears’, as well as telling NME about her new solo album ‘Bouquet‘ – her first in seven years – and the future of No Doubt. When she was a teenager growing up in Orange County, California, Stefani and her brother Eric – a founding member of No

Which was the better post Van Halen split album – David Lee Roth‘s Eat ‘Em and Smile or Van Halen’s 5150? That’s our Chuck’s Fight Club battle on Loudwire Nights this week. It was the breakup heard round the world as there was no bigger drama in the mid-’80s than the divide between guitar rock

A previously unknown composition by 19th-century composer Frédéric Chopin has been unearthed by a museum curator in Manhattan, New York. Robinson McClellan, a curator and composer at the Morgan Library & Museum discovered the piece while sorting through a collection of cultural memorabilia within the vault at the museum on Madison Ave. According to The New

There’s never been a time when rock and metal music wasn’t influenced by horror and these must-see horror flicks are totally metal! From early – and relatively tame – progenitors such as Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and KISS to newer and more extreme acts (White Zombie, King Diamond, Autopsy, Cannibal Corpse, Ice Nine Kills, Mortician,

Stevie Nicks has said that going through with her pregnancy in 1979 would have “destroyed” her career with Fleetwood Mac. During a new interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, the 76-year-old singer-songwriter spoke about the inspiration behind her powerful new single ‘The Lighthouse’. READ MORE: Stevie Nicks interview: “In Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie and I were

Alex Van Halen said David Lee Roth used to tell Eddie Van Halen to play fewer guitar solos. The drummer asserted that Roth’s increasing jealousy over Eddie’s popularity led to the singer quitting the band in 1985. “He couldn’t handle the fact that Eddie was getting more attention than he was,” Alex wrote in his

Nicki Minaj has claimed she and her fans ‘the Barbz’ pioneered stan culture in hip-hop, saying that “there were no rappers naming their fans” before her. The Queens rapper attended Vogue‘s Forces of Fashion event in her hometown of New York City earlier this month, where she was asked about the power and influence of

Most Jelly Roll fans know that he once incurred a felony charge for armed robbery. It’s a story he frequently shares, as part of his policy about being open about his criminal past — and how it motivates him to work on his personal growth. But it might not have occurred to fans that the

Eddie Van Halen took a whole bottle of steroid pills shortly before he died because he liked the “superhuman feeling” they gave him. The legendary guitarist passed away in October 2020 following complications from throat cancer at the age of 65. Now, his brother Alex, who played drums with Van Halen, has revealed in an

Every stadium has its collection of songs that gets fans off their feet as their team is making a huge defensive stand or are trying to drive in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Those same stadiums also likely have a bunch of songs they hope fans forget because they are