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Ella Williams’ is back with her latest Squirrel Flower record. Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going includes contributions from Horse Jumper of Love’s Dimitri Giannopoulos, the War on Drugs’ Dave Hartley, Free Range’s Sofia Jensen, Twin Peaks’ Clay Frankel, and more. It arrives August 21 on Polyvinyl. Check out the video for

Eels have today shared details of a new album, ‘Cookie Happened’, while giving fans a taster of what it sounds like via the emotive new track, ‘Cap In Hand’ – listen to it below. The album will be the band’s 16th and will arrive on October 16 via E Works/Play It Again Sam. You can

Johnny Marr is gearing up for his fifth solo LP, The Age of Everything. Check out the first single, “Spin,” and its accompanying video, below. The full project arrives October 2 via BMG. “The title came to me early in the process and became an inescapable idea,” Marr said in a statement about Everything’s origins.

Tom Morello used his set at Download Festival 2026 to send a message to the British far-right activist Tommy Robinson. The Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave guitarist played on the Opus Stage at the Donington Park festival this weekend (June 14), and took the chance while playing for a big UK crowd to share his feelings about Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Morello played a set

Spotify spent the last week teasing a mysterious new project called T.R.M. on billboards across the country. Predictions varied—it’s a Selena Gomez album! No, it’s a Carti project!—but now we have the real answer: It’s a Future album called The Real Me. No other details (release date, artwork, whether Future’s frenemy Drake is involved, etc.)

The government must work with the EU and individual member states to support artists looking to perform in Europe, MPs have said in a new report. READ MORE: UK touring bands are suffering due to “Brexit fuck-ups and a lack of government control” The report was published by the Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee today (Monday

Oliver Tree, the musician and comedian behind viral pop hits like “Miss You” and “Life Goes On,” has died, reports the Associated Press. Tree was reportedly on board one of two helicopters that collided mid-air this morning in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. One of the helicopters crashed into several electronic vehicles in a car dealership’s

Cocaine-related deaths have reached record levels in the UK amid a surge in the availability of “ultra-strength” forms of the drug. New figures show cocaine was linked to 1,279 deaths across the UK in 2024, an increase from 1,118 the previous year and the highest number since records began, according to a report by The Independent. Undercover research carried

Olivia Rodrigo’s third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, is here, and with it a new music video for the track “Stupid Song.” The clip follows a hoodie-sporting, head-over-heels Rodrigo wandering around New York City with a posse of ballerinas in tow. Watch it below. “Stupid Song” is the third

Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, DJ Carl Cox and Catatonia’s Cerys Matthews have been named in the King’s Birthday Honours list. The annual honours recognise individuals from across the UK for their achievements and contributions to society, celebrating figures from the arts, sport, science, public services and charity. This time around, those named include the iconic guitarist Iommi, who becomes an MBE for services to music and charity,

Outside a handful of live performances and guest appearances, Carly Simon has been relatively quiet on the music front since her last album, 2009’s Never Been Gone, which featured a selection of acoustic versions of her own work. But she’s set to break her LP streak with Comes in Waves, her first album of original

Harry Styles paid tribute to the late David Hockney and reflected on his time in One Direction last night (June 12), as he kicked off his record-breaking residency at Wembley Stadium. Hockney – whose painting of Styles was displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in 2023 – died on June 11, aged 88, and the musician

The-Dream, the Beyoncé and Rihanna hitmaker who is being sued by a former collaborator alleging rape, sexual battery, and sex trafficking, has confirmed his comeback with a new album. (The-Dream has denied the allegations in the 2024 lawsuit.) The-Dream’s own label, Radio Killa, and the Universal imprint Republic will release the sequel to his 2007

Dave Grohl has reflected on the day he broke his leg on stage as Foo Fighters returned to Sweden for a show exactly 11 years later. It was during the second song (‘Monkey Wrench’) of a gig at Gothenburg’s Ullevi Stadium on June 12, 2015 that the frontman fell from the stage and broke his leg in an accident that ultimately forced the

When Wiki wrapped production on his new album Ancient History, the New York rapper couldn’t have known just how electric a moment in the city’s history it would be born into. But longtime Knicks fans and bandwagoners alike will appreciate this record’s dedication to the sounds of his hometown—more specifically, its parks system, a place

Do Nothing have announced their second album ‘Friend World’ and shared the melancholic single ‘Stars’ – listen below. The Nottingham band released their debut record ‘Snake Sideways’ in 2023 and now they are back, with ‘Friend World’ to be released on November 6 via Submarine Cat Records. Pre-order/pre-save your copy here. Built around drum machine patterns

Telefone, the piercing 2016 breakout debut from Noname, turns ten this year, and the Chicago rapper is celebrating it with a late-summer anniversary trek. It kicks off in Toronto on August 2 and ends with a September 10 hometown show. Check out the full list of stops below. Two months after the tour ends, she

A fan wearing a banana suit has called out hardcore band End It after they encouraged other audience members to rip his costume. The incident took place last Friday (June 5) at a venue in Toronto, when the Baltimore-based hardcore band singled the fan out in the crowd and the singer seemed less than impressed

Last year, Hamlet Hail to the Thief—an adaptation of Shakespeare’s eternal classic, Hamlet, set to Radiohead’s politically charged 2003 album, Hail to the Thief—made its world debut in Manchester, England. Now, after completing an additional run at the historic Royal Shakespeare Company, the play will get its London premiere at the Barbican Theatre from October

The trailer for Nimrods, the new coming-of-age film inspired by Green Day’s early days, has been released – watch below. READ MORE: Green Day – ‘Saviors’ review: their best work since ‘American Idiot’ The film sees the members of Green Day inspire a young, hopeful band by apparently granting them a support slot on a New Year’s Eve show after hearing

L’Rain is back with a new album. Fata Morgana arrives August 14, via Mexican Summer, preceded by the salvo of “Soulless Cycle,” which you can hear below. The hell-raising track comes with an elliptical video directed by Mackai Sharp. L’Rain’s Taja Cheek bills Fata Morgana as the culmination of a quadrilogy that began with her 2017

An autobiography from the late legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, titled Music Sets You Free: A Memoir, has been announced today (June 9). The memoir from the “godfather of electronic music” will be released on September 22 via HarperVia books. A statement from publishers HarperVia (an imprint of Harper Collins) described it as “the complete autobiography

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Motörhead have announced the seventh ‘Lemmy Forever’ ceremony taking place at Download 2026, and will house some of his ashes permanently in Manchester after the festival. The iconic Motörhead singer and bassist, who is considered to be one of the most influential figures in metal history, died in December 2015 at age 70, shortly after

Ahead of this Friday’s release of So Help Me God, her first album in seven years, Kelsey Lu has announced a fall tour across North America, the UK, and Europe. The news arrives with a music video for new single “Cutting Off the Head of a Ghost.” You can watch that and check out the

The Cure played ‘Treasure’ and ‘In Your House’ for the first time in over a decade at their show at North Festival – watch below. Robert Smith and co. played the second of their summer shows at the event in Maia, Portugal on Sunday night (June 7), two nights after their return to the stage

The American Federation of Musicians (AFM), a union for session musicians, is suing Universal Music Group (UMG) and Warner Music Group (WMG) for breaching their collective bargaining agreement over use of their music by AI programs. In the lawsuit filed on Friday (June 5), AFM claim that the major labels’ recent licensing training with Suno

Staff at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. have started to remove all references to Donald Trump. In December last year, the Trump-appointed board of the arts venue voted to rename the institution to the ‘Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts’, or the ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’ in short. In May, however, a US district

Note: This article contains references to sexual assault that readers may find disturbing. Duffy, the Welsh singer behind the 2008 smash “Mercy,” will make a surprise return to the stage next month for the first time in nearly 15 years. She revealed on Friday (June 5) via Instagram Stories that she’ll play a “secret intimate