TWICE has dropped their new album and we also have new photos of the group!
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The View have announced their new album ‘Exorcism Of Youth’ along with plans for a pair of UK shows this May.The new record is out June 9 via Cooking Vinyl and will be the first from the indie rockers’ in eight years, having spent five years apart before reconvening in 2022 – you can pre-order/pre-save it here.The first taste of ‘Exorcism Of Youth’ arrives in the shape of lead single ‘Feels Like’, which frontman Kyle Falconer described as “anthemic from the get go”.“Even though under the surface it’s about somewhere everyone’s been in their life before: regret of losing someone amazing due to your inner demons and seeing them moving on with their life, when you’re stuck in a ‘nightmare not a dream,’” he explained in a statement.“When I first sat down to write it I had Holden Caulfield from ‘Catcher in the Rye’ in mind. It’s playing out in his mind and it’s his own paranoia destroying him from the inside out when in reality she’s the perfect woman.”Listen to ‘Feels Like’ below.Alongside the album announcement, The View have shared details of two shows this May at Manchester’s Deaf Institute (10) and London’s Oslo (11), their first shows in both cities since 2017.
Pre-sale starts this Wednesday (February 22) 9am GMT, and general sale goes live Friday, February 24 at 9am GMT. You can buy tickets here.The band – comprising Falconer, Kieran Webster and Pete Reilly – relocated to Granada, Spain to record the new album with producer Youth (The Verve, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Charlatans).We're back with a brand new album, Exorcism of Youth! Pre-order on limited vinyl, CD and cassette from our official store and listen to the first track 'Feels Like' now: https://t.co/DPZ4R9FhRz pic.twitter.com/gMUhlkvWV7— The View (@viewofficial)
.TWICE has dropped their new album and we also have new photos of the group!
Naman Ramachandran British musician Ed Sheeran has previewed his new single “Eyes Closed” exclusively on TikTok. Live now, the single is from Sheeran’s final album in the mathematical album era, “Subtract.” The six-day TikTok preview features Sheeran performing an acoustic performance of “Eyes Closed.” The single will drop March 24. The album, which will release on May 5, was produced and written with Aaron Dessner of the National and follows his latest release “F64,” which dropped Jan. 19 and memorialized his friend and SBTV founder Jamal Edwards, who died last year at 31. “Subtract” was written against a backdrop of grief and hope. “As an artist I didn’t feel like I could credibly put a body of work into the world that didn’t accurately represent where I am and how I need to express myself at this point in my life. This album is purely that. It’s opening the trapdoor into my soul. For the first time I’m not trying to craft an album people will like, I’m merely putting something out that’s honest and true to where I am in my adult life,” Sheeran said in a message about the album.
Wunderhorse have announced additional UK and Ireland dates for 2023 – find all the details below and buy tickets here.Jacob Slater and co. will open at SWX in Bristol on October 25, with stops in Manchester, Dublin, Glasgow and Birmingham, before closing out at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on November 1.O2’s pre-sale is happening from today (March 8) until Friday, March 10 8am GMT, while general sale goes live Friday 9am GMT – you can purchase your tickets here.The new dates follow Wunderhorse’s previously announced UK and Ireland tour which is due to kick off March 26 in Southampton, with further shows scheduled for Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, Brighton, London, Dublin and more.A post shared by WUNDERHORSE (@wunderhorse_)Wunderhorse will also perform five North American shows across May and June, starting in Philadelphia on May 27, followed by Boston, Toronto, Chicago and New York.The tour follows the release of debut album ‘Cub’, which NME said in a four-star review “repositions Slater as a rock’n’roll troubadour drawing from the likes of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell (the music he always listened to, Slater says) and desperately grappling back control of his narrative”.“It makes for an album that’s filled with fantastic revelations, namely the realisation that you have agency over your decisions and the path you choose to go down.”Last year Wunderhorse hit the road with Fontaines D.C., which they described as a “hell of a year” in an Instagram post.
Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Too $hort, Warren G, Berner and DJ Drama.From July 7 through Aug. 27, the hip-hop icons are taking off on their 33-concert ‘High School Reunion Tour’ that will take them to arenas and amphitheaters all over North America.That includes three stops in New York and New Jersey.First, the sextet will drop it like it’s hot at Camden, NJ’s Freedom Mortgage Pavilion on July 30.
SBTRKT has returned with details of his fourth album ‘The Rat Road’ alongside sharing its first single, ‘Waiting’ (feat. Teezo Touchdown).The follow-up to Aaron Jerome’s 2016 album ‘SAVE YOURSELF’ arrives on May 5 and is available to pre-order/pre-save here.‘Waiting’ hears the musician and producer experiment with a different sound from his earlier, bombastic electronic outings.“I’m always listening to and looking out for new music – and came across a song of Teezo’s ‘I’m Just A Fan’ – in Oct ’21,” Jerome explained of collaborating with Touchdown for the album’s first single.“By serendipity [Touchdown] was heading to London the next week so we connected in person.
Sparks have shared the title track for their new album ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte’.The Los Angeles duo – comprising brothers Ron and Russell Mael – also announced that the song, which you can listen to below, will come with a video featuring actress Cate Blanchett at 5pm GMT tomorrow (March 3) here.They said via press release: “We met Cate Blanchett in Paris at the César Awards last year, little knowing that a year later, one of the great actors of our time (and a splendid person!) would graciously consent to lending her bootie-shaking skills to the first video from our new album, ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte’. Dreams really do come true.
Che Lingo has released new single ‘Out The Blue’ and shared details of his sophomore album ‘Coming Up For Air’.The album follows his critically acclaimed debut ‘The Worst Generation’, and will see the AIM Award-nominated south Londoner talk about mental health and anguish to the full extent“CUFA is an intimate and personal look at myself and the people like me who find it hard to see themselves sometimes,” said Che Lingo. “The CUFA album in my own way is to let people know that they aren’t alone in these trials”.In anticipation of his follow-up record, Lingo has released ‘Out The Blue’; a sombre track to help “break out of the cycle of pressures, inherited and personal, that he and so many suffer from”.Speaking of what inspired the song, Lingo talked of “Times where I felt like I was drowning, fighting things, emotionally and mentally I couldn’t even see and repeating that cycle…This is a story about times like that and how I sung and rapped my way through it.
Ashnikko has announced their debut album ‘WEEDKILLER’ and shared details of a huge world tour for 2023 – find all the details below.The album will be released on June 2 via Parlophone, and will be available to pre-order from today (March 2) at 6pm GMT from here.“My bioluminescent heart is glowing. My post-apocalyptic fae world is here for you to journey into,” Ashnikko shared in a statement.
Ed Sheeran has new music on the way, and the English singer is revealing how emotional pain in his personal life informed and influenced his new album.Sheeran dropped a press release on Wednesday, revealing that his long-awaited new album,, will be hitting shelves May 5, and explained the creative journey that the album took over the past few years.«I had been working on for a decade, trying to sculpt the perfect acoustic album, writing and recording hundreds of songs with a clear vision of what I thought it should be,» Sheeran shared in his statement. «Then at the start of 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art.»According to the «Bad Habits» singer, a series of misfortune and tragedy struck — from his wife, Cherry Seaborn, finding out she had a tumor to the death of a close friend, and the stress of fighting a copyright infringement lawsuit.«Within the space of a month, my pregnant wife got told she had a tumour, with no route to treatment until after the birth.
Ellie Goulding has announced that the release of her upcoming album Higher Than Heaven has once again been delayed.
Ed Sheeran has new music on the way, and the English singer is revealing how emotional pain in his personal life informed and influenced his new album.Sheeran dropped a press release on Wednesday, revealing that his long-awaited new album,, will be hitting shelves May 5, and explained the creative journey that the album took over the past few years.«I had been working on for a decade, trying to sculpt the perfect acoustic album, writing and recording hundreds of songs with a clear vision of what I thought it should be,» Sheeran shared in his statement. «Then at the start of 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art.»According to the «Bad Habits» singer, a series of misfortune and tragedy struck — from his wife, Cherry Seaborn, finding out she had a tumor to the death of a close friend, and the stress of fighting a copyright infringement lawsuit.«Within the space of a month, my pregnant wife got told she had a tumour, with no route to treatment until after the birth.
Benefits have announced debut album ‘Nails’ and shared its first single, the furious ‘Warhorse’.The band, led by frontman Kingsley Hall, have signed to Bristol’s Invada Records, the label of Portishead and BEAK>‘s Geoff Barrow, for the album, which will come out on April 21.“We could have released a record at any point over the last couple of years but held back because I wanted to wait until the right people came along,” Hall said of the signing and forthcoming album.Watch him sign the record contract at Middlesbrough’s Riverside Stadium below.Ok. Here's some massive news. pic.twitter.com/a8DVTSubDG— Benefits (@Benefitstheband) February 27, 2023Of first single ‘Warhorse’, Hall added: “At some point if the boot continues to stamp on us, we’re going to react.
Wu-Tang Clan and Nas have announced a sprawling world tour for this year, covering Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the UK and North America from May to October. The new run marks a continuation of the co-headlined ‘N.Y. State Of Mind’ tour – named for Nas’ 1994 ‘Illmatic’ cut – which initially hit the North American touring circuit over 25 dates last year.
Chvrches have announced a trio of shows, which are due to take place across the UK this summer.The band, who announced their return last week with new song ‘Over’, shared the news on their social media channels today (February 27).“We’ve just announced a handful of shows in the UK this summer including a rescheduled stop in Dundee,” they wrote.Chvrches will be heading to Nottingham’s Rock City on June 9, Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom on June 10 and Dundee’s Fat Sam’s on June 12.Tickets will be on sale from 9am this Friday and will be available to buy here.A post shared by CHVRCHES (@chvrches)‘Over’, which the band had been teasing for the last couple of weeks, is their first new song for over a year. They shared the lyrics for the song ahead of its release, saying that it serves as “a brief reprieve from the horrors of CHV4 [their fourth album, 2021’s ‘Screen Violence’]”, adding: “We finished a new song and couldn’t wait to share it with you.”Speaking of the single, Chvrches said: “’Over’ is a song that we wrote with Oscar Holter, a producer we really respect and admire.“Normally we collect songs over the course of months (or years!) until we have an album’s worth of material, but this time we just wanted to release something we were excited about and give the fans something new to mark the end of the ‘Screen Violence’ era, and the start of whatever the next CHVRCHES chapter might be.”Last summer, NME asked Chvrches if fans could expect any new material in the near future.
The Clash, Gorillaz and The Good, The Bad and The Queen, has teamed up with singer-songwriter Galen Ayres for a new project.The pair are set to release their debut album, ‘Can We Do Tomorrow Another Day?’, under the name Galen & Paul, on May 19. The album comprises a collection of bilingual duets, with both singers singing in English and Spanish, in which they explore a variety of European music cultures.Per a press release, the album began coming together in lockdown, which Simonon spent in a Mallorcan fishing village writing music and painting. As COVID-19 restrictions lifted, he began working with local musicians and busking in front of cafes in Palma.
Thania Garcia Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Ozuna is calling 2023 his year. With a new album on the way, the release of a live album today, and an arena tour kicking off this summer — there’s a lot to chat about. “There are a lot of challenges, a lot of newness coming my way this year,” Ozuna tells Variety over the phone. “But I like a good challenge — and I’m at a point in my career where I have the energy to really give it my all. There’s a lot of goals I want to cross off.” Time is of the essence for the chart-topper who will embark on a new tour that will kick off in May, and continue on through the end of the summer in Europe. He’ll make stops in arenas across cities like Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas and Miami — including European stops in Barcelona, Madrid, Paris and more — before wrapping on Aug. 5 in Torrevieja, Spain (see full schedule below). Tickets will go on sale on March 3, with more details to be announced soon.
The BBC has confirmed who will replace Ken Bruce on his BBC Radio 2 mid-morning weekday show.
Rihanna fans have been eagerly waiting for the release of her next album, which has been many years in the making. Now, following her show-stopping performance at the Super Bowl, the singer has finally given them an update on the much-anticipated project.“I want it to be this year,” Rihanna said during a cover story interview with British Vogue.
The View will release their first new album in eight years this summer.
Maisie Peters has announced that she will release her second album ‘The Good Witch’ this summer through Ed Sheeran’s Gingerbread Man Records. She is also set to head out on a tour of the UK in April.“This is my heart and soul, my blood on the page, the collection of stories that I’ve managed to capture in the past year”, she says of the album.