Guy Chambers: “The thread that ties superstars together is that gritty determination”

Primark’s latest launch has excited shoppers but has left music fans making the same demand. The budget retailer has released a wide range of graphic music tees for “whatever your go-to genre” is.

Dwayne Johnson makes a little girl’s Make a Wish come true by singing “You’re Welcome.” The 2 year-old child named Naomi is in the hospital with a brain disorder, and her favorite movie is Moana. Kim Kardashian looks absolutely thrilled while creating this hilarious and chaotic TikTok with North West.Lady Gaga shows off her birthday glam for her 38th. Cardi B shows off her new piercings while dancing to her new track with Shakira, “Punteria.”Notice something new ? Jessica Alba does her own Friday glam, showing off her beauty.

Olivia Rodrigo is putting her own stamp on Nicole Kidman‘s 2021 commercial for AMC Theaters.

Splendour In The Grass festival has reportedly been cancelled.The supposed cancellation, announced by The Sydney Morning Herald and the festival’s official media partner Triple J, comes just two weeks after the festival revealed its line-up for July’s three-day event.The festival has yet to confirm its cancellation. NME has reached out for comment.Splendour In The Grass 2024 is scheduled to take place between July 19 and July 21.

In the ever-evolving landscape of beauty and wellness, one steady trend has emerged: celebrities defying traditional notions of ageing – and 50 seems to be fast becoming the new 30. In Hollywood, age has long been viewed as a barrier to success. However, in recent years, there has been a shift.

Chappell Roan brought the Pink Pony Club to the set of NPR’s Tiny Desk with a performance that has since gone viral.The artist was joined by an all-female band who were each dressed in a pink collared shirt, blue eyeshadow and red lipstick while Roan performed in a pink dress and a tiara with drag queen-inspired makeup.They performed five tracks from Roan’s debut album ‘The Rise and Fall Of A Midwest Princess‘, namely ‘Casual’, ‘Pink Pony Club’, ‘Picture You’, ‘California’ and ‘Red Wine Supernova’.She added that performing on the web series had been a long time dream of hers. “I love NPR, guys, I’m serious — I donate!” she said.Check out her performance below:Roan appeared on NME’s The Cover last month, in which she discussed being inspired by drag queens and how she first encountered LA’s queer scene after being brought up as a devout Christian.“I was told this city is demonic and Satanists live here,” she says.

Soft Play have spoken to NME about their nu-metal inspired single ‘Mirror Muscles’ and what fans can expect from their first album in six years – as well as their decision to ditch the name ‘Slaves’ name and the chances of another collab with Robbie Williams.The punk duo kickstarted a new chapter of their career back in August with snooty comeback track ‘Punk’s Dead’ and last week, they followed it up with the ferocious ‘Mirror Muscles’.“We’ve just really embraced what we were about when we first started this band,” said guitarist Laurie Vincent. “On the last two records (2016’s ‘Take Control’ and 2018’s ‘Acts Of Fear And Love’) we had veered off course accidentally trying to be something we weren’t.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music If there’s a top jack-of-all-trades in the music industry, there’s a good chance it’s Ryan Tedder. He’s a hugely successful recording artist (as leader of OneRepublic), one of the top songwriter-producers of the past 15 years (Beyoncé’s “Halo,” U2, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Ed Sheeran, Maroon 5, Ariana Grande and many more) and is also a more savvy music publisher than many full-time music publishers.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Olivia Rodrigo fans who wanted to own all of her “Guts” bonus tracks until now had to develop an expensive Discogs habit, since copies of the very limited vinyl editions that included them have commanded collectors’ prices, and the songs were not put up for streaming. But those extra tracks will finally be made available in a more widespread way with this Friday’s release of “Guts (Spilled),” a deluxe edition that puts the four previously vinyl-only tracks up for digital consumption — while throwing in a fifth, brand-new bonus track to boot.

Tim Burgess is to receive special recognition at the first ever Northern Music Awards in Manchester next month.

Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA will headline this year’s Glastonbury Festival.

Karl Wallinger, a star of The Waterboys and World Party, has sadly passed away at the age of 66.The musician's publicist confirmed that he died on Sunday (March 12). Karl, who was born in Wales, formed World Party in 1986 after leaving The Waterboys.Their debut album, Private Revolution, included popular songs like Ship Of Fools.They released several more albums, with their fourth, Egyptology, featuring the track She's The One.This song was later covered by Robbie Williams and reached number one on the UK charts in 1999. In 2001, Karl had a brain aneurysm which paused his career for a few years.

Karl Wallinger, the frontman of World Party who earlier played with The Waterboys, died Sunday, March 10 at 66. No cause or location was given by his publicist in the confirmation.

Soft Play have released their heavy new track ‘Mirror Muscles’, marking their first release of the year.The track sees the duo comprising of Laurie Vincent and Isaac Holman – formerly known as Slaves – showcase weighty guitar riffs and a pulsing drumbeat as Holman sings “I’ve been working on my Mirror Muscles / See these buttons bursting out of my sleeves” in the chours.The song lyrics take a wryly comic observational look at how bodybuilding has become a very visible nationwide trend – a place where people work relentlessly to look like “Mike Tyson meets Rylan.” Speaking of the song in a press release, the band said: “We love to work out. We frequent the local gymnasium.

Did 12th district tribute Lucy Gray Baird really die at the end of Liongate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes?

So many leading women in music hit the red carpet at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday (March 10) at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue, has said that the presence of advancing artificial intelligence technology in the music industry is “terrifying”.The songwriter, who is best known for collaborating with Williams over the last two decades, expressed concern that AI technology has the potential to replace songwriters during a talk for music and entertainment industry apprentices at the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies in Nottingham.“I think we may get to a stage in the future where an album will need to have a badge saying ‘this is an all-human record’,” he said. [via The Guardian]“From what I’ve seen of AI, the acceleration is pretty terrifying, in terms of what it can do and how it could replace songwriters.“Any person could put into an AI programme something like ‘I want a song 100 BPM that sounds like a cross between ABBA and Arctic Monkeys’.

Glastonbury 2024.SZA is tipped as the latest artist speculated to be heading to Worthy Farm later this year, after fans pieced together clues from her upcoming shows.Rumours around the American singer-songwriter come following her being announced as one of the headline acts for this year’s BST Hyde Park series. She’ll join the previously-announced artists Shania Twain, Andrea Bocelli, Robbie Williams, Stray Kids, Kylie Minogue and Kings Of Leon at the London event.The ‘Snooze’ singer is set to be in the UK to headline the show on June 29, meaning that she will also be in the country when the Worthy Farm festival takes place between June 26 and June 30.“SZA at Glastonbury festival,” wrote one user on X/Twitter.

CMAT has spoken to NME about the rising popularity of country music in the mainstream, as well as new music and plans to start a religion devoted to Kylie Minogue. Watch our interview above.Speaking to NME at the BRIT Awards 2024 – where the singer, real name Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, was nominated for International artist of the year – told us how the Australian pop icon inspired her as a child.“She is the love of my life and the most important woman.

Nick Cannon, besties North West and Lala Anthony, and Kylie Jenner’s morning with her kids, get ready to be entertained with the 10 best celebrity TikTok of the week.Christina Aguilera and Drew Berrymore teach us how to be a Diva. Kylie Jenner shares her morning routine with her kids Stormi and Aire Webster.