Riot Fest 2025 got a double dose of Jack White. On Sunday, the musician made a surprise appearance during Idles‘ top-billed set, which came just before closers Green Day, for a special performance of their single “Never Fight a Man With a Perm.” White had also performed the prior day, …
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Darren Aronofsky wasn’t able to convince his fiancée to agree with his pick of Idles‘ scabrous 2017 track “Love Song” for the first dance at their wedding (they compromised on the Cure), but the director got the next best thing. The hard-edged U.K. band — often described as post-punk, a …
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Idles debuted a new single, “Rabbit Run,” which was written for Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming film Caught Stealing. The song is one of four original tracks the rock band contributed to the movie’s soundtrack and they also recorded the full film score composed by Rob Simonsen. The soundtrack, out Aug. 29 …
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Describing the warm, fuzzy optimism of an Idles record requires only the most pretentious adjectives — ebullience, exultation, jubilation — words that Idles frontman Joe Talbot would likely laugh at heartily before offering a pint to anyone who said them. This is a band who once titled an album, Joy …
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U.K. post-punks Idles enlisted Chris Martin — both the real one from now and the one from 24 years ago — to help them put together the video for their new song, “Grace.” The clip is basically the same one Coldplay released all the way back in 2000 for their …
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Idles stopped by The Tonight Show to perform their recent single, “Gift Horse.” The punk-tinged song, released last month, is an intense rock number that is even more so live. “Gift Horse” will appear on the U.K. group’s forthcoming fifth LP,Tangk, out Feb. 16 via Partisan Records. The LP was …
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Idles have released a new single, “Dancer,” featuring LCD Soundsystem‘s James Murphy and Nancy Whang. The song is the first listen from the U.K. group’s forthcoming fifth LP, Tangk, out Feb. 16 via Partisan Records. The band performed a secret show at London’s Village Underground on Oct. 17 under the …
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British punks Idles offer a visual metaphor for the drudgery of a life spent living and working within a ceaselessly churning machine in the new music video for “Stockholm syndrome.” Directed by Charlotte Gosch and Idles guitarist Lee Kiernan, the clip follows two young kids who stumble upon a strange …
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After two years of Covid-related cancellations, the world’s most famous music festival is back in full force. As Coachella goes, so goes the rest of the live music business. And Coachella’s first day on Friday was a clear statement: Hundreds of thousands of (overwhelmingly maskless) festival-goers returning to the desert …
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