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Carly Rae Jepsen has spent the last decade learning exactly how pop works, mostly so she can have more fun breaking its rules. With sprawling double album 'Day And Night', she's following her instincts wherever they lead.
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The second single from ‘Dopamine Chamber’ arrives with a video directed by John Angus Stewart.
Porij’s first new music in over a year, ‘Valley Kudu’ is out now via Underplay Recordings with an accompanying video.
The band will return to Queens and Brooklyn in November and December, with their 100th residency show raising money for charity.
Jess Williamson has adopted a two-mile stretch of road outside Marfa that became part of her ritual while making ‘A Mile South Of Heaven’.
Tinashe has thanked fans while reflecting on years of feeling misunderstood and overlooked in the music industry.
The London four-piece return with ‘Dreams’, their first release since July’s debut EP ‘Something To Be Said’.
Nieve Ella rewrites the second verse of overpass’ ‘Fall In Love’ on the pair’s newly released collaboration.
Brighton’s PROJECTOR have released ‘I Need A Lie Down’ digitally via Alcopop! Records, following its MOWNO-exclusive seven-inch release.
Holly Humberstone’s deluxe album ‘Cruel World… So It Ends’ arrives on 13th November, with new single and video ‘Too Cute To Be Lonely’ out now.
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‘Violins’ catches Blondshell’s Sabrina Teitelbaum learning to relinquish control while making some of her most assured music yet.
UCHE YARA played a stadium with Bilderbuch before her first official single. Now, after two EPs and a lot of figuring things out on stage, she’s ready to let her debut album ‘BODYSCANNER’ do the talking.
Girl In The Year Above have two (now three!) original songs out, more than 50 waiting in the wings and every intention of becoming absolutely massive. After a whirlwind introduction, Jennifer Ball is learning to enjoy the ridiculousness of it all.
A debut album. Two escapes to Berlin. And a duo ready to go massive. Wasia Project find their way through the dark with 'Nocturne'.
Last autumn, a band that doesn’t exist overtook HOLDING ABSENCE on Spotify. They were already tearing up their own rulebook, building a robot mascot and making an album about human connection. Lucas Woodland explains why ‘Modern Life Is Lonely’ means so much to them.
Spanish beer brand’s music project SON Estrella Galicia looked at how Britain treats its small venues, liked what they saw, and took the idea home. Now they're bringing it back to Hackney, in a pub, a vintage shop, a record store and a hairdresser's. Soundhood's Gabriela Cárdenas and Nacho Ruiz explain.
Slayyyter’s 2026 rise brought a long-built internet-pop audience into festival tents, charts and a larger touring cycle.
‘Violins’ catches Blondshell’s Sabrina Teitelbaum learning to relinquish control while making some of her most assured music yet.
UCHE YARA played a stadium with Bilderbuch before her first official single. Now, after two EPs and a lot of figuring things out on stage, she’s ready to let her debut album ‘BODYSCANNER’ do the talking.
Duo preview October release with new single produced by Caspar Holloway.
Lil Nas X will release ‘World’s Greatest’ with an official video on 1st October, following a personal post featuring a voicemail from his late mother.
Keo’s debut album is currently at No.1 in the midweek UK album chart, ahead of Friday’s final reveal.
Welly’s new single ‘Skinny Boy’, produced by Ed Buller, is out now via Submarine Cat Records.
OutKast and Waffle House have shared a ‘So Fresh, So Clean’ reference ahead of an announcement on Friday, 2nd October.
horsegiirL’s companion EP ‘HARDCORE HEALING’ arrives on 30th October, led by new Dylan Brady collaboration ‘c*ntry girl rock’.
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'Sugar Rush' captures a young band at precisely the point where enthusiasm, confidence and a lot of gigging have started feeding into each other. It's messy, urgent and ridiculously alive.
Reading Festival, Reading
Reading Festival, Reading
Reading Festival, Reading
Reading Festival, Reading
Reading Festival, Reading
Reading Festival, Reading
CMAT is set for her third US talk-show appearance, promoting ‘EURO-COUNTRY’ with Jordan Klepper hosting.
Elke’s second preview of ‘Big Mike’ imagines a different ending for ‘The Virgin Suicides’ ahead of the album’s 30th October release.
Matty Healy has offered a fresh update on The 1975’s next album, saying it is ‘almost done’ in a video shown at a Sunday For Sammy event.
ArcTanGent will move to Todenham Manor Farm in Gloucestershire next August, with Blood Incantation and Neurosis leading its first 2027 line-up.
Grumpy’s new single ‘Queens’ is a friendship ballad written by Heaven Schmitt for bandmate Anya Good.
Phoebe Bridgers brought Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus out at Barclays Center for performances of ‘Not Strong Enough’ and ‘Cool About It’.
‘Violins’ catches Blondshell’s Sabrina Teitelbaum learning to relinquish control while making some of her most assured music yet.
The new single arrives with a Ralph Fuller-directed video ahead of the band’s second album this Friday.
A limited vinyl and CD edition of Bon Iver’s 2016 album arrives on 20th November, alongside a new lyric-video supercut.
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'Dune: Part Three' comes to ODEON early on 15th December
'Dune: Part Three' comes to ODEON early on 15th December
A reported international ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ poster places Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom alongside three masked Latverian Witches.
Girl In The Year Above have two (now three!) original songs out, more than 50 waiting in the wings and every intention of becoming absolutely massive. After a whirlwind introduction, Jennifer Ball is learning to enjoy the ridiculousness of it all.
Hot Topic stores across the US will host listening parties for My Chemical Romance’s ‘The Black Parade’ on its 20th anniversary.
Rachel Chinouriri’s third preview of ‘I Think I Spoke Too Soon’ was written with Lucy Dacus, while UK in-store shows will follow the album’s release.
Lil Nas X will release ‘World’s Greatest’ with an official video on 1st October, following a personal post featuring a voicemail from his late mother.
Love is unexpectedly sympathetic over the dark synths of 'Call It What You Want', and he's an engaging presence when he eases off.
