King Princess, Genesis Owusu, 070 Shake and more, alongside a huge launch party at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Catch up with everything C23 here.Now, details for the next instalment have been announced with a release date set for this summer.
King Princess, Genesis Owusu, 070 Shake and more, alongside a huge launch party at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Catch up with everything C23 here.Now, details for the next instalment have been announced with a release date set for this summer.
IDLES have announced their support acts for their upcoming 2024 UK/Ireland tour – check out all details below.The Bristol band have just released their fifth album ‘Tangk‘ and are set to tour the album across the country from July this year. Now, the band have taken to social media to reveal a swathe of support acts who’ll join their tour with them.First, Australian genre-bending master Genesis Owusu, along with Brighton punk rockers Lambrini Girls have been announced to perform with IDLES.
Anna Prior – the drummer in Metronomy – has announced her debut solo EP and has shared its retro lead single ‘Fall Back’.READ MORE: Indie survivors Metronomy: “I like the idea that we stealthily succeeded in our own way”‘Fall Back’ features a thumping beat and bright synth sounds reminiscent of 90s dance music. “If I fall back on you / It’s hard to say what’s true / If I fall back on you / It’s hard to say what’s true,” she sings in the chorus.Speaking about the track in a press release, Prior said: “The song is about when I realised that love from a partner is never unconditional.
NME’s latest star of The Cover, Genesis Owusu, has shared a playlist exclusively to accompany the story’s launch – listen to it below.The Ghanaian-Australian artist is on this week’s (August 14) edition of The Cover, a renewal of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read Genesis Owusu’s profile here, written by Josh Martin and featuring photography by Bailey Howard.Genesis Owusu’s stunning second album ‘Struggler’, out this Friday, centres on a character called ‘the Roach’, who’s feverishly contemplating existence and purpose as it runs a never-ending race.
For fans of: Ava Max, Eurovision, all the fake-sounding RuPaul songs Related: Kylie Minogue ‘bursting with joy’ as new single Padam Padam soars up charts Padam Padam, the first single from Kylie Minogue’s forthcoming 16th album Tension, has proven as inescapable (and about as subtle) as an airborne virus. The track has been subject to hundreds of memes and thousands of text messages from mums to their gay sons: “What’s ‘padam’?”The memes, combined with the overt ridiculousness of the whole affair – a dead-serious Eurodance track built around the onomatopoeic sound of a heartbeart – have pushed Padam Padam to Kylie’s highest singles chart placement in over a decade.
Genesis Owusu has announced his awaited sophomore album, ‘STRUGGLER’, alongside a new single and music video.Announced today (May 18), ‘STRUGGLER’ is set to arrive on August 18 via Ourness/AWAL – preorder the album here. ‘STRUGGLER’ is accompanied by a new single, ‘Leaving The Light’, and its music video.The Bose x NME C23 artist’s upcoming album will serve as a thematic successor to his debut album ‘Smiling With No Teeth’. While ‘Smiling With No Teeth’ chronicled Owusu’s battles with depression and racism, ‘STRUGGLER’ will see him grapple with overcoming his demons.Genesis Owusu said of the album via a press statement: “The struggler runs through an absurd world with no ‘where’ or ‘why’ at hand.
Kele Okereke joined Hayley Williams and the rest of Paramore to perform a cover of Bloc Party‘s ‘Blue Light’ in London last night (April 23).The show, which took place at the O2 Arena on April 23, was Paramore’s last in the UK as part of their 2023 UK and Ireland tour with Bloc Party. The show was also an additional date at the O2 Arena after what was originally meant to be the tour’s last stop in Birmingham on April 22.To commemorate the last show of their UK run, Hayley Williams and co.
Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke has shared that the band are working on “exciting” new music.The indie veterans released their sixth album ‘Alpha Games‘ last year, with Okereke previously telling NME that he was “more excited about the energy that the band has right now” than he was concerned with their legacy.Now, after the recent release of his sixth solo album ‘The Flames pt. 2’, he has now told NME that Bloc Party are already back at work. Speaking with NME‘s In Conversation series, Okereke shared: “We, Bloc Party, have been writing in the last week.”He continued: “We have made a lot of music over the years and we’re going to make more.
NME have announced the full line-up for the C23 Live showcase at SXSW Festival.The event will take place at Inn Cahoots in Austin, Texas on March 16 to celebrate the release of C23 and feature artists from the mixtape. The full ‘Bose x NME: C23’ mixtape will be released the day prior (March 15).The mixtape features exclusive tracks by 15 of the world’s most exciting and innovative emerging artists, creating an unmissable collection that will offer a definitive audio showcase of the future of music.
DEALSSony Music’s AWAL has expanded its partnership with Genesis Owusu and his Ourness label to provide global artist services for the rapper’s upcoming new album. “My ambitions for both Ourness as a label and Genesis Owusu are that we continue on our path to creative freedom through independence and agility”, says Owusu’s manager and Ourness co-founder Andrew Klippel.
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Genesis Owusu has returned, entering a post-‘Smiling With No Teeth’ era with new single ‘GTFO’.The Ghanaian-Australian artist’s first song for the year was co-written with frequent collaborators Michael DiFrancesco (Touch Sensitive) and Andrew Klippel along with Jono Ma. Klippel and Ma produced the track alongside Dann Hume.It’s a slow-burner that sees Owusu delivering introspective verses above a woozy, choral backdrop, before warbled synths and a marching drum-like beat foreground the deceptively triumphant refrain: “Get the fuck out.”‘GTFO’ arrives alongside a video directed by Rhett Wade-Ferrell (aka Uncle Friendly) that opens with Owusu kneeling in prayer before, increasingly frenzied, hunting down a cockroach in his house, causing destruction to his surrounds throughout.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, P!nk, The Chicks, SZA, Kacey Musgraves, Flume, Paramore and Lil Nas X all set to perform headline sets across the six-day festival. As it has for the past eight IRL editions, ACL ’22 will be held over two weekends in October. Each will feature a vastly different bill, though many acts – including the likes of Diplo, Wallows, The War On Drugs, Conan Gray, Spoon and Japanese Breakfast – will perform sets on both weekends.Other names appearing on both line-ups include Sofi Tukker, Omar Apollo, Arlo Parks, Pinkpantheress, Nathaniel Rateliff And The Night Sweats, The Midnight, Oliver Tree and Genesis Owusu. 39 names are down to perform exclusively during the first weekend, with standouts including Lil Durk, Carly Rae Jepsen, Rag ’N’ Bone Man, Slayyyter, James Blake, Manchester Orchestra and Muna.
BandLab NME Awards 2022, updated as all the action goes down at O2 Academy Brixton this evening (March 2).After a year of silence due to the pandemic, the wildest night in music returns, sponsored by leading social music creation platform BandLab and hosted by Daisy May Cooper and Lady Leshurr.Sam Fender, Little Simz, Wet Leg, Wolf Alice, Billie Eilish, Rina Sawayama and CHVRCHES are among the artists leading the nominations with several nods each. Meanwhile, Lana Del Rey, Self Esteem, Ghetts, BTS, Olivia Rodrigo, Lorde, Bring Me The Horizon, IDLES and Megan The Stallion are up for some of the biggest awards tonight.FKA Twigs will be crowned Godlike Genius, while Neneh Cherry will be honoured with the Icon Award.
Genesis Owusu has shared a new visual treatment for "Black Dogs!," a track from his March 2021 debut studio LP, Smiling With No Teeth. The video comes as the Ghanaian-Australian vocalist prepares for his first U.S. headlining tour, which starts in San Francisco next month, a full year after that album's release.
BandLab NME Awards 2022 have announced nominees in its Australia-specific categories as well as its all-new Asia-exclusive categories.The Awards, sponsored by leading social music creation platform BandLab, will take place on March 2, 2022 at O2 Academy Brixton in London, marking the Awards’ grand return after a break this year due to the pandemic.
Concert promoters Goldenvoice — of Coachella fame — have announced a new festival called This Ain't No Picnic and set the dates for August 27–28, 2022 at Brookside by the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The festival will be headlined by The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, and Le Tigre, whose performance will be their first reunion show since 2016 and their only 2022 appearance.
Genesis Owusu has delivered the visuals for the remix to his latest single, ‘Waitin’ On Ya’.While the original version of ‘Waitin’ On Ya’ is slow-burning and smooth, the remix – helmed by Jagwar Ma’s Jono Ma – injects it with frantic energy, while also reducing the original song’s length by almost two minutes.The remix’s visuals, directed by frequent collaborator Riley Blakeway, are equally as frantic, seeing Owusu watch a clip on his phone showing him and a troupe of dancers parade around an
WATCH: Taylor Swift releases I Bet You Think About Me Held at the picturesque Taronga Zoo this year, the day will be filled with stunning red carpet arrivals, live performances and, of course, awards for all of your favourite Australian and international artists. Musicians like Ed Sheeran, Charli XCX, Troye Sivan, The Wiggles, The Kid Laroi, Baker Boy, Lime Cordiale, and Vera Blue will be making appearances.
Genesis Owusu has announced a pair of UK and Ireland headline shows set to take place in summer 2022.The Australian rapper will hit the stage in London and Dublin in June next year in support of his debut full-length, ‘Smiling With No Teeth’, which arrived earlier this year.Owusu’s first stop will be Dublin’s Grand Social on June 14, followed by a performance at The Underworld in Camden on June 15.Tickets for the London show are on sale now – get them here. The Dublin show tickets go on sale
The Chats teamed up with NME 100 member Genesis Owusu for a high-energy cover of Talking Heads‘ ‘Psycho Killer’ last night (May 1) for music TV series The Set.The collaborative cover kicks the song’s tempo up a notch and transforms it from a new wave classic into a hard-hitting punk rock track.Watch the performance below:Elsewhere on the show, The Chats performed their track ‘AC/DC CD’ while Owusu shared a live rendition of ‘Whip Cracker’ and ‘A Song About Fishing’.The live performances follow
More details have been announced about the line-up for the online edition of The Great Escape that is taking place next month. More than 150 acts will feature across a series of online showcases on 13 and 14 May.Spotlight artists among the line-up include Alfie Templeman, Bad Boy Chiller Crew, Genesis Owusu, Remi Wolf and Priya Ragu, while Alexander 23, Jensen Mcrae, Robert Grace, Sir Chloe, Tayo Sound, Teeks, The Lottery Winners and Peach Tree Rascals have all also been added to the bill.
The Great Escape has added more than 75 new acts to the lineup for its virtual 2021 edition, including Holly Humberstone, Alfie Templeman and Genesis Owusu.The Brighton-based new music festival announced back in February that it had cancelled its traditional in-person event for 2021, with a virtual festival taking its place this May.The first 68 artists were confirmed for the festival last month, and a host of new acts have now been added.These new artists include the festival’s annual Spotlight
NME 100 member Genesis Owusu has tackled ‘Anarchy In The UK’ by Sex Pistols for triple j’s Like A Version this morning (February 26).Owusu’s take on the 1977 track marked his first appearance as lead artist on the long-running segment.The Australian singer-songwriter’s version remains faithful to the original’s punk drive, but features altered lyrics, referencing police brutality, colonisation and racial profiling.“Still celebrating deaths of my First Nations pals, all because of some old
Genesis Owusu takes aim at the trappings of fame and success on new song "Gold Chains." The song, a crunchy funk-rap number indebted to Prince and André 3000, plays as a celebratory moment but dig into Owusu's lyrics a little and there's an emptiness to the life of success and adoration.
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