"I have nothing against this guy nor his band. I just hate artists being taken advantage of to whitewash Genocidal dictatorships"The post System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian hits back at Imagine Dragons’ Azerbaijan gig defence: “Respectfully, I draw the line at ethnic cleansing and genocide” appeared first on ...

Nineteen years ago, I covered a terrible New York music festival called Amsterjam. The theme of the fests was mash-ups, an online phenomenon that was already running out of steam in 2005. When the mash-up became a corporate-backed music fest, that meant we got the rare treat of seeing Wyclef and 311 half-assing their way through an onstage colla...

"It was such a drunken kind of thing, and it was just for the fun of it"The post Slash doesn’t remember early gigs as they were a “drunken kind of thing” appeared first on NME.

In the past month, the Killers have covered Erasure, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Kinks, and the Stone Roses while celebrating 20 years of Hot Fuss. On Thursday, frontman Brandon Flowers crashed their opener Travis’ performance for a rendition of Aztec Camera’s “Somewhere In My Heart.”

Sunday June 30, Other Stage: hitting the Worthy Farm stage for the first time ever, the pop-punk icon takes us back to the ‘00s with back-to-back hitsThe post Avril Lavigne live at Glastonbury 2024: pop-punk star delivers an unashamed nostalgia fest appeared first on NME.