“[We] must not succumb to the pressure of those individuals and groups who would rather see Waters’ music removed than engage with the issues his music highlights”The post Eric Clapton, Nick Mason and more sign petition for Roger Waters’ gig ban to be reversed appeared first on NME.

Weezer, Limp Bizkit, Pantera, Falling in Reverse, Queens Of The Stone Age, Turnstile and many more also join the line-upThe post Foo Fighters, Green Day, Avenged Sevenfold announced for Louder Than Life festival appeared first on NME.

We need better genre names. We don’t need more genre names; god knows we already have way too many of them. But none of our currently-existing genre names are up to the task of describing what, exactly, M83 does. Think of whatever single-word descriptors you’ve seen applied to the work of the mad Frenchman Anthony Gonzalez. S...

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The Hold Steady are a few weeks away from releasing their ninth studio album, The Price Of Progress. They’ve shared two singles from it so far, “Sideways Skull” and “Steady Sixers,” and here comes a third, “Understudies.”“This is sonically a leap from any song on the...