Daily Newsletter, June 27, 2024

Home » Blog » Hot Picks 26/6/24 – The Best New Releases Photo: KINSLEY – Adam/Leah Staley Today we bring to you our hottest finds of the week. We have curated a list of the best releases from our musical travels this week and are putting them all in one place for your listing pleasure! This coverage […]

The trio is able to infuse more melody-oriented elements within their soundscapes, further advancing their forays into ambient country.

Nevertheless, they once hopped into the writer's room together for their skiffle band, The Quarrymen. Learn more about this song, below.

A Halftime Report for 2024: A very personal list of 50 favourite albums released between January 1 and June 30 this year

A rolling list of our favorite albums of the year, updated somewhat frequently.

English Teacher, Tyla, Kneecap and The Last Dinner Party have released some of 2024's best debut albums so far – see NME's full list

Keeping (or losing) a taste for the new stuff, the (non) Battle at Artists Space, the album artistry of Otis Redding, forerunners vs. forefathers, existential anxiety, and the appalling Gaza war.

1969 was an amazing year for music, particularly for the album format. These masterpieces were the best folk albums released in the final year of the 1960s.

We didn’t stop climbing mountains when chair lifts were invented. Similarly, there will always be something uniquely special and valuable about human music-making.

Exploring the strange world of magnitizdat, DIY bootleg tape recordings created by people within the Soviet Union to distribute Western rock and roll music.

Author Mike Curato wrote Flamer as a way to help young queer kids, like he once was, better understand and accept themselves. It was met with immediate praise and accolades — until it wasn't. When the book got caught up in a wave of Texas-based book bans, suddenly the narrative changed. And like so many books that address queer identity, Flamer quickly became a flashpoint in a long, messy culture war that tried to distort the nature of the book.

Connecting her Mexican identity, childhood and explorations further afield, Frida Kahlo's music taste is just as dynamic and revealing as her artwork itself is.