Disney+ has introduced a brand-new journey present titled Are You Certain?!, starring BTS singers Jungkook and Jimin.
Right now (July 3), Disney+ launched the primary poster for Are You Certain?!, that includes BTS’ Jungkook and Jimin posing in canoes on a lake. The present will reportedly comply with the duo within the US, South Korea’s Jeju Island and the Japanese metropolis of Saporro, in response to Yonhap News Agency.
“The unplanned nature of their journey results in varied conditions the place they often ask one another, ‘Are you positive?’,” the streamer mentioned in a press launch. “All through their travels, they get pleasure from easy each day pleasures and have interaction in out of doors adventures, corresponding to tenting, canoeing and street journeys.”
The official BTS account on X (previously Twitter) has additionally launched a video teaser for the upcoming collection. The clip, formatted like a slideshow, that includes photographs of areas from Jungkook and Jimin’s travels.
Are You Certain?! will premiere August 8 on Disney+ with its first two episodes. The collection, which can characteristic eight episodes in complete, will launch new episodes each Thursday thereafter.
In different BTS information, member Jin will reportedly be a torchbearer on the 2024 Summer season Olympics, in response to music business sources South Korean information company Yonhap spoke to.
In the meantime, Jimin has teased the upcoming launch of his second solo studio album, titled ‘MUSE’, due out later this month. The singer has since launched the primary single from the file, dropping ‘Smeraldo Backyard Marching Band’ with Loco final week.
Elsewhere, BTS have additionally collaborated with Despicable Me 4 on a brand new Minions-themed line of merchandise in help of the upcoming movie.
Dave Grohl was noticed on the Wimbledon tennis event and has given his predictions as to who will win.
The Foo Fighters frontman – who lately wrapped up a UK tour along with his band – traded his traditional rockstar garb of denims, a t-shirt and lengthy flowing locks for a clean-cut go well with and tie with brown loafers whereas showing at Wimbledon right now (July 2).
Whereas on the event along with his spouse Jordyn Blum, Grohl was stopped by the BBC for a fast interview about his predictions for the event’s winners. After being requested about who he thought would win, the previous Nirvana drummer initially replied: “What?”
Requested a second time, he repeated “What?” earlier than including on the potential males’s champion: “No clue.” Grohl was then requested about who he thought would win the ladies’s occasion to which he awkwardly replied: “Couldn’t say.”
ordyn Blum and Dave Grohl attend day two of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships on the All England Garden Tennis and Croquet Membership on July 02, 2024 in London, England. (Picture by Karwai Tang/WireImage)
Final week, Grohl was noticed at this yr’s version of Glastonbury Competition. He was seen along with the Pyramid stage throughout LCD Soundsystem’s set on the annual Worthy Farm music bash.
Elsewhere, Foo Fighters have been joined by Geezer Butler for a canopy of the 1970 Black Sabbath basic ‘Paranoid’ throughout their gig at Birmingham’s Villa Park.
For the efficiency, Butler led the band on bass duties, whereas Grohl ditched the guitar to imitate Ozzy Osbourne’s onstage actions whereas singing.
Foo Fighters’ latest Manchester live performance scored them a four-star score, with Rishi Shah writing for NME: “Approaching thirty years as a band, Foo Fighters have tailored within the face of any adversity, making certain their stadium present stays cohesive, exemplary and easily untouchable.
“Whereas others from their time would possibly start to creep in direction of legacy act territory, Foo Fighters stay as related and imperious as ever – they’re solely going to wish much more stadiums to fill.”
Smooth Play had been joined onstage by punk duo Bob Vylan at Glastonbury 2024 – watch footage under.
Throughout their stint on the Different Stage final Sunday (June 30), drummer Isaac Holman informed the gang: “We’re gonna invite some buddies onto the stage,” earlier than the band joined them for a riotous efficiency of ‘One Extra Day Gained’t Damage’.
Bob Vylan have been a major pressure within the trajectory of Smooth Play, and had been partially liable for the duo altering their identify from Slaves in 2022, following conversations between Vylan vocalist Bobby and Holman.
When the band introduced the change two years in the past, it was coupled with a statement explaining that the unique identify was imagined to mirror “the grind of day-to-day life,” with the acknowledgement that it didn’t “change the truth that the identify Slaves is a matter”.
Holman later defined he’d mentioned the racial insensitivity of the band’s identify with Bobby. “He principally stated we had been one among his favorite bands however he wouldn’t put on our merch,” defined Holman.
Guitarist Laurie Vincent additionally stated on the time: “If he felt uncomfortable about liking us, there should be others who really feel the identical method.”
Of their assertion, the band wrote that they’d “responded to criticism of the identify from a spot of concern and defensiveness,” and shared fears about dropping their id as a unit alongside the identify.
“It took years of remedy to see previous that,” Vincent informed NME. “In the long run, it simply turned tiring. I didn’t wish to construct a life round a reputation that clearly made individuals uncomfortable. It took a whole lot of rising up however now we’ve performed it, it feels proper.”
Reflecting on Glastonbury’s most magical moments, NME reviewer Sophie Williams wrote that their set “celebrated their friendship and regarded in the direction of a recent begin” after the band have “been by means of the wringer lately”.
“The Kent punks (FKA Slaves) have overcome respective psychological well being points, life-altering grief and rivalry in the direction of their identify change as a band; after Vincent’s companion handed away in 2019, the duo went on an prolonged hiatus, and for a sizzling minute, it appeared like they had been intending on by no means returning to the stage,” she stated.
“Via remedy and perseverance, they made their electrifying return to Worthy Farm this yr. Although the gang spent a lot of the set gleefully dancing and roundhouse-kicking away, it was the reflective single ‘Every little thing And Nothing’ that conjured an actual second of intimacy.
Because the acoustic observe’s last chords rang out, Holman and Vincent hugged it out for a couple of minutes, proving generally cry is all you want. Right here, large moshpits met even larger feelings.”
Throughout their efficiency at Glastonbury 2024, The Streets paid homage to fellow iconic Birmingham band, Black Sabbath – watch footage beneath.
READ MORE: The Streets – ‘The Darker The Shadow, The Brighter The Gentle’ evaluation: evocative ode to membership tradition
Throughout their Saturday (June 29) set on the Different Stage, the band blended the ominous sounds of metallic basic ‘Iron Man’ with lyrics from their ‘Authentic Pirate Materials’ observe ‘Has It Come To This’.
Skinner was playfully interacting with the group as riffs performed out, chucking up satan horns and headbanging they usually transitioned into an explosive rendition of ‘Match However You Know It’.
All through the efficiency, Skinner was joking with the viewers and becoming a member of them within the crowd, with many followers then taking to social media to declare their set was a spotlight of the weekend.
Grasp Peace, who Skinner introduced out for ‘Unsuitable Solutions Solely’ was amongst these reacting on-line, taking to X/Twitter to say: “Performed Glastonbury yesterday, with the streets, what a time to be alive …”
Different followers commented that the band had been: “Utter chaos, utter class,” and “the spotlight of Glastonbury to date”. Try extra fan reactions and a full setlist beneath:
‘Flip The Web page’ ‘Who’s Obtained the Bag’ ‘Let’s Push Issues Ahead’ ‘Don’t Mug Your self’ ‘Might Effectively Be In’ ‘Has It Come to This?’ ‘I Want You Liked You as A lot as You Love Him’ ‘Unsuitable Solutions Solely’ (with Grasp Peace) ‘On the Fringe of a Cliff’ ‘Weak Develop into Heroes’ ‘Mike (Desert Island Cover)’ ‘Match However You Know It’ ‘Dry Your Eyes’ ‘Blinded by the Lights’ ‘Take Me as I Am’
The Streets lately launched a contemplative new single titled ‘Finish Of The Queue’, launched as a part of their ‘Cloth Presents…’ combine.
The 31-track combine for the long-lasting London membership’s Twenty fifth-anniversary celebrations, and consists of ‘Desert Island Cover (Skinner’s Model)’ with Fred Once more.. and Dermot Kennedy.
Bebe Rexha has opened up about her disappointment and anger with points of the music business in a sequence of posts on X/Twitter.
The American singer spoke of her frustration at being “silence [sic] and punished” by the business and mentioned that she may carry down a “large chunk” of it in her posts.
Rexha wrote the posts this afternoon (July 2) whereas in London, after perfoming at Pleasure over the weekend, and mentioned that she had been “crying my eyes out” in her lodge room within the metropolis.
“I may carry down a BIG chunk of this business,” she wrote. “I AM pissed off. I Have been UNDERMINED. I’ve been so quiet for the longest time. I haven’t seen the indicators though individuals consistently are bringing them up and so they have been SO OBVIOUS. And when I’ve spoken up I’ve been silence [sic] and PUNISHED by this business. Issues should change or I’m telling ALL of my truths. The great the dangerous and the ugly.”
I may carry down a BIG chunk of this business. I AM pissed off. I Have been UNDERMINED. I’ve been so quiet for the longest time. I haven’t seen the indicators though individuals consistently are bringing them up and so they have been SO OBVIOUS. And when I’ve spoken up I’ve been…
Her followers leapt to her defence, one mentioning the time her title was initially left off the credit of David Guetta’s single ‘Hey Mama’ in 2015, in contrast to fellow featured artists Nicki Minaj and Afrojack. To this, Rexha replied, “My love. That? In comparison with all the opposite stuff you don’t find out about? That’s youngster’s play.”
One other requested, “What stops you from talking? Do it! We’re with you,” to which Rexha replied, merely, “THEY PUNISH YOU.”
Somebody steered that Rexha making the posts was “good timing” to coincide with the promotion of her new single ‘I’m The Drama’, however Rexha mentioned, “Advertising and marketing? I’ve no price range for that.”
She completed: “This isn’t simply coming from a spot of anger. It’s disappointment. I’m sitting in my lodge room in London crying my eyes out. I’ve felt hopeless for the longest time. I’ve been strolling so much by this metropolis and assembly followers and so they have actually ignited one thing inside me,” earlier than thanking her followers for giving her power.
This isn’t simply coming from a spot of anger. It’s disappointment. I’m sitting in my lodge room in London Crying my eyes out. I’ve felt hopeless for the longest time. I’ve been strolling so much by this metropolis and assembly followers and so they have actually ignited one thing inside me.
Final month, Rexha particularly referred to as out rapper G-Eazy, too, calling him a “stuck-up ungrateful loser” for circuitously asking her to shoot social media content material with him.
The pair beforehand labored collectively on the one ‘Me, Myself and I’ from G-Eazy’s 2015 album ‘When It’s Darkish Out’.
On her Instagram story, she shared a screenshot with the request and wrote beneath, earlier than later deleting the publish: “G-Eazy you’ve my quantity. Why don’t you textual content me and ask me your self you caught up ungrateful loser?
“You’re fortunate individuals are liking you once more. Trigger I may go in on all of the shitty stuff you’ve executed and the way you handled me after providing you with your solely actual hit. Btw the reply is not any. Hope you good.”
After one other action-packed weekend, Glastonbury is over for one more 12 months – however now the pageant has formally confirmed dates for subsequent 12 months. Try every thing we all know in regards to the Glasto 25 up to now beneath.
This 12 months’s pageant noticed Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA headline the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm, with Shania Twain taking the legends slot. Different artists to carry out over the weekend included Little Simz, Justice, Avril Lavigne, The Nationwide, LCD Soundsystem, Fontaines D.C. and Idles.
In a four-star overview, NME described Lipa’s Friday headline set as “a glittering celebration of pop in its highest kind,” whereas calling Coldplay’s four-star efficiency on Saturday “a great crack at making historical past with a set that felt like dwelling.”
NME gave SZA’s Sunday headline efficiency a four-star overview, calling it “hypnotic and potent”, although it obtained a combined reception as a result of technical and audio difficulties the R&B star confronted all through her set.
However now, Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis is already waiting for subsequent 12 months’s pageant. Right here’s what we all know up to now about Glastonbury 2025.
When is Glastonbury 2025?
The 2025 pageant will run from Wednesday June 25 to Sunday June 29 – and it historically takes place on the final weekend of June.
When will tickets go on sale?
We don’t know when tickets will go on sale for 2025’s pageant, however final 12 months tickets for 2024 went on sale at 6pm GMT on November 16 for tickets with coach journey and bought out in 25 minutes. Normal admission tickets went on sale at 9am on November 19 – all tickets had been purchased by 10am.
Re-sale tickets for 2024 went on sale in April, for any tickets that had been undesirable by followers or for any balances that had not been paid. Coach and ticket choices went on sale at 6pm BST on April 18, promoting out in simply 18 minutes. Glastonbury 2024 had the “highest share of ticket balances paid ever” – that means that “very restricted” tickets had been obtainable within the re-sale, based on pageant boss Emily Eavis. In the meantime, common admission tickets went on re-sale sale at 9am BST on April 21 and bought out in 22 minutes.
We must always count on common tickets to go on sale in November earlier than a re-sale within the spring, often in April.
How a lot will tickets be?
Normal admission tickets in 2024 value £355, plus a £5 reserving payment. This was a rise of £20 from 2023. In the meantime, tickets in 2022 had been £75 cheaper than the next 12 months.
We don’t know the way a lot tickets will probably be for Glastonbury 2025, however we will anticipate finding out by the autumn and to be round £355 or maybe with a slight improve.
Glastonbury will return in 2025. CREDIT: Jim Dyson/Redferns through Getty Pictures
How and when do I register for tickets to Glastonbury 2025?
If you wish to be in with an opportunity of heading to Glastonbury subsequent 12 months, you’ll must register first when you haven’t already. The organisers require everybody aged 13 or over heading to the pageant to have their very own legitimate registration quantity, in a bid to chop down on touts. So, every common admission ticket will include a photograph of the ticket holder printed on it.
If you happen to plan to purchase tickets for different individuals, all of them must be registered too. You’ll want their registration numbers and corresponding postcodes when you’re planning to purchase tickets on their behalf.
It’s free to register and doesn’t take lengthy, however registration often closes for a couple of weeks round every ticket sale – and it’s a good suggestion to provide your self time to re-submit your registration if it is advisable – it’s greatest to register sooner somewhat than later.
To register, merely begin by getting into your electronic mail deal with. Inside an hour, you’ll be despatched a novel hyperlink to assist you to begin the registration course of. You need to use the hyperlink a number of occasions for various individuals when you want to, however you’ll want to attend 10 minutes earlier than submitting every registration. When registering, you’ll want to offer some primary contact particulars together with a passport-standard picture.
Final 12 months, the pageant informed followers that anybody who registered for tickets previous to 2020 would want to overview and make sure their registration earlier than 2024 tickets went on sale, so even when you’ve registered previously chances are you’ll must overview your registration. Try Glastonbury’s website for extra data.
When will the Glastonbury 2025 line-up be revealed and who’s enjoying?
We don’t know who’ll be enjoying but. Often, the preliminary line-up announcement is available in March, with every stage and space sharing its full line-up within the following months and weeks main as much as the pageant.
Among the many high-profile names rumoured for subsequent 12 months embody Taylor Swift, Eminem, Harry Types, Rihanna, Sam Fender and The Rolling Stones.
Eavis has revealed that Glastonbury is already in talks with some artists for subsequent 12 months, so extra data is more likely to come within the following months.
Will subsequent 12 months be a fallow 12 months?
To assist the land on Worthy Farm get better, Glastonbury often takes each fifth 12 months off as a fallow 12 months. The final official fallow 12 months was 2018, however as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 and 2021 turned unofficial fallow years too.
Subsequent 12 months gained’t be a fallow 12 months, however 2026 will probably be, based on pageant boss Emily Eavis.
To relive this 12 months’s pageant, verify NME right here for information, opinions, interviews, photographs, and extra from Glastonbury 2024.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have introduced a brand new album, ‘FLIGHT b741’.
READ MORE: King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard: “If one thing is shit and nobody likes it, you simply put out one other one the subsequent month”
The discharge, the band’s twenty sixth studio album, is about to come back out on August 9 by way of their very own p(doom) Information, and its lead single is about to reach on July 9.
The prolific Australian rockers final launched an album, ‘The Silver Twine’, in October 2023. It was their third album of the 12 months, so the band have been comparatively quiet in 2024 by their regular (extremely productive) requirements.
“Been working actual exhausting on this one. So excited for you all to listen to it!” wrote lead vocalist Stu Mackenzie on Instagram as he introduced the brand new album.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are additionally heading off on a North American tour supported by the likes of New York post-punks Geese and Australian surf rockers King Stingray from subsequent month, starting with a present at Washington D.C.’s The Anthem. And subsequent summer time, they’re enjoying a sequence of European reveals. You possibly can take a look at the total record of tour dates and purchase tickets here.
Earlier this 12 months, the band performed Lollapalooza throughout Argentina, Chile and Brazil, after which performed a variety of European tour dates, together with six reveals within the UK. They debuted 5 of the tracks on ‘FLIGHT b741’ throughout their European tour, together with album nearer ‘Each day Blues’.
In the meantime, band member Ambrose Kenny-Smith advised SPIN again in Could that the brand new album could be “Fairly rock/blues rock – kind of like a traditional ‘70s-sounding album. Numerous power. Numerous large vibes happening.”
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s ‘FLIGHT b741’ tracklist is:
1. ‘Mirage Metropolis’ 2. ‘Antarctica’ 3. ‘Uncooked Really feel’ 4. ‘Discipline of Imaginative and prescient’ 5. ‘Hog Calling Contest’ 6. ‘Le Risque’ 7. ‘Flight b741’ 8. ‘Unhappy Pilot’ 9. ‘Rats In The Sky’ 10. ‘Each day Blues’
Will Taylor Swift function on Ice Spice‘s upcoming debut album? Discover out what the rapper has to say in regards to the matter under.
READ MORE: Ice Spice – ‘Like…?’ evaluate: meme-worthy, hater-baiting New York rap
On the finish of the month (July 26), New York rapper Ice Spice will launch her extremely anticipated debut album, ‘Y2K’. Little is understood in regards to the album to this point, and the rapper has but to share its tracklist. Nonetheless, Spice did reveal in January {that a} “loopy” collaboration had been locked in for the report.
Talking to Leisure Tonight on the 2024 BET Awards, Ice Spice was requested in regards to the album’s featured friends. The rapper denied to disclose who will seem on the album, however confirmed that it’ll function “a pair” of collaborations.
ET went on to say Taylor Swift particularly, asking if Spice will “return the favour” after Swift had invited the New York rapper to hop on a remix of ‘Karma’. “I feel she did me the favour,” Spice replied, suggesting that Swift helped expose the rapper to a bigger viewers.
Ice Spice coyly added a few potential Taylor Swift collab on ‘Y2K’: “I don’t know, we’ll see, we’ll see.”
Ice Spice has additionally introduced European and North American tour dates in assist of ‘Y2K’. In July, the rapper will trek throughout Europe for a run of pageant performances, together with Roskilde, Open’er, Wi-fi and extra.
Ice Spice. CREDIT: Christopher Polk/Selection by way of Getty Photographs
Later in July, she returns to North America, the place she’ll start a slew of headlining exhibits, with assist from Money Cobain by means of late August. Followers should buy and promote tickets for Ice Spice at world market viagogo.
‘Y2K’ will observe the Bronx rapper’s January 2023 EP, ‘Like..?’, which featured viral hits together with ‘Munch (Feelin’ U)’ and ‘In Ha Temper’. NME awarded that launch 4 stars, with Thomas Smith praising Ice Spice’s sardonic supply and down to earth confidence.
“The street continues to be lengthy for Ice Spice, and weathering the post-viral breakout interval feels essential: longevity feels attainable, however informal listeners and even some followers stay fickle,” Smith wrote. “On ‘Like…?’, she seems unbothered about chasing clout or followers – she is aware of they’ll come round ultimately anyway.”
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Los Angeles-based Singer-Songwriter/Producer JiLLi drops her newest Indie Digital observe, ‘Pure Bread’. Recognized for her emotive voice and lyrical ingenuity, JiLLi provides a recent and compelling manufacturing to her rising discography with this new launch, showcasing her modern method that continues to garner her consideration from style fanatics throughout the globe.
JiLLi’s journey from New York to Los Angeles has seen her evolve into a flexible Artist with influences spanning Rock, Pop, and Digital genres. Her early begin in music, taking part in guitar and singing in bands, laid the inspiration for her diverse musical abilities, increasing her musical horizons along with her training on the famend music manufacturing faculty Icon Collective. Now, while persevering with to encourage as a Workers Vocalist Teacher at Icon Collective, JiLLi seeks to make her personal mark inside Digital Music, providing various vocals with the discharge of her pattern packs, ‘Ardour Vocals’ and ‘Rainbow of Feelings’, alongside notable performances with Artists like Muerte and at festivals like Countdown with Klaxx for his or her unreleased observe ‘Dream’. Poised to cement a repute on the scene, JiLLi now places ahead one other distinctive soundscape, aiming to impress listeners and solidify her identify excessive on the checklist of abilities to be watched carefully inside Digital Music at present.
As ‘Pure Bread’ seamlessly blends JiLLi’s signature vocal fashion with dynamic digital beats, making a sound recent and authentic, the observe invitations listeners to find its distinctive vitality, compelling in its participating high quality. With the potent bassline performing because the driving drive behind the association, supported by shimmering synth hits and vocal layers, ‘Pure Bread’ evolves into a definite sonic journey punctuated by laidback rhythms, lyrical depth, and filtered particulars, leading to an expertise that’s absorbing in vibes, immersive within the dynamic sound delivered.
With the flexibility of JiLLi’s abilities on show, encapsulating her journey and development as an Artist, ‘Pure Bread’ comes as the perfect manufacturing to find JiLLi’s creativity and expertise the distinctive mix of emotion and vitality she constantly brings inside her music.
So, exhibiting no indicators of slowing down, keep tuned to JiLLi’s information and upcoming tasks by following her throughout social media. ‘Pure Bread’ is out now and is offered to stream and obtain throughout platforms.
Eminem has lastly revealed the discharge date for his extremely anticipated twelfth studio album, ‘The Loss of life of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)’.
READ MORE: Eminem vs everybody: an enormous checklist of each one in every of Slim Shady’s lyrical feuds
At present (July 2), the rapper – who additionally goes by the alias Slim Shady – shared the discharge date by way of a brand new trailer. Within the trailer, we see a lady giving beginning to a child, who quickly begins displaying demonic attributes. The album’s launch date is then confirmed for subsequent Friday (July 12).
Forward of the brand new album, in the present day (July 2) Eminem will launch the file’s second single, ‘Tobey’, that includes Huge Sean and BabyTron. A music video will arrive on Friday (July 5). ‘Tobey’ is Eminem’s first collaboration with BabyTron and his fourth with Huge Sean – they’ve labored collectively on the tracks ‘No Favors’, ‘Friday Night time Cypher’ and ‘Detroit Vs. Everyone’ previously.
It follows on from ‘Houdini’, which was launched on Could 31 and interpolates plenty of Eminem’s earlier hits in addition to ‘Abracadabra’ by the Steve Miller Band. The track garnered controversy because it references the taking pictures incident involving Megan Thee Stallion in 2020, in addition to the transgender neighborhood, cancel tradition, and RuPaul.
Eminem’s final studio album, ‘Music to Be Murdered By’, was launched in January 2020. NME gave it a three-star evaluate, saying: “He’s able to cross on hard-earned knowledge earlier than working his mouth like he hasn’t realized his personal classes. And he affords informal followers a hook or two earlier than embarking on one other lyrical work-out. It could really be fairly disappointing to see Eminem develop up fully, and he appears to be having enjoyable as he navigates his personal idiosyncratic house.”
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