Adam Gontier is back with Three Days Grace. The original singer surprised fans at the band’s Nashville performance and is returning to the band’s lineup with Matt Walst remaining a lead vocalist too. The shocking announcement was teased in a video across social media of Gontier and Walst linking up at the studio to work on new music.  

On the reunion, Gontier shares, “I feel like it’s been seamless, better than we were expecting. It’s like we got back in a room together and picked up where we left off. We have been friends for so long it’s kind of natural to get back in the room together.”

Walst adds, “It’s been so much fun and inspiring making this record. Combining over 20 years of Three Days Grace and doing something that no band has ever done. I’m excited for the fans to hear it!”

Three Days Grace has 18 #1 songs at Active Rock over the past 20 years, which include “Home,” “Just Like You,” “Pain,” “Animal I Have Become,” “Never Too Late,” “Break,” “Good Life,” “World So Cold,” “Misery Loves My Company,” “The High Road,” “Chalk Outline,” “I am Machine,” “Painkiller,” “The Mountain”, “Infra-Red,” “Right Left Wrong,” “So Called Life,” and “Lifetime.”

LA-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Vienna Vienna will release his debut EP, Wonderful on October 11th via PULSE Records in collaboration with Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz’ label DCD2 via Concord Records.

Describing his music as “glimmer rock, Vienna Vienna fuses dreamy guitar riffs with raw, revealing lyrics. Vienna Vienna sings, “I’m not scared to die, yeah fucking right, you’re too cool to care but you fucking tried…”  

The music video for the lead single “Vienna (Everything’s Fine)” is a playful and hallucinogenic music video with Vienna Vienna interrogated by a group of mysterious, surreal orange men. The visuals add an extra layer of intrigue into Vienna Vienna’s unique artistic vision. Watch the video HERE.

“I approach this like I approach everything, facetiously and lathered in distortion,” says Vienna Vienna. “Accepting that people care about you hurts like hell, but could you learn to be more like them? If you poke around inside yourself for long enough, you might see love underneath the rubble; It might be worth digging for.”

Vienna Vienna’s journey to Wonderland has been one of self-discovery and embracing his queer identity, themes that are deeply reflected in the Wonderland EP. Pete Wentz says, “Have you ever heard something that both felt so familiar and so alien all at once? That’s how I felt when I first heard a Vienna Vienna song. The lyricism feels adjacent to something our band would do but also completely new and odd in the best way.”

Today Oasis announced the North American dates of their Oasis Live ’25 World Tour. Watch the trailer HERE. The tour will kick off on October 24th in Toronto at Rogers Stadium. Oasis will also play October 28th in Chicago at Soldier Field, October 31st in East Rutherford, NJ at MetLife Stadium, September 6th in Los Angeles at the Rose Bowl, and September 12th in Mexico City, MX at Estadio GNP Seguros.

It’s the band’s first tour in 15 years and Cage The Elephant will open all the dates.

Oasis commented: “America. Oasis is coming. You have one last chance to prove that you loved us all along.”

The pre-sale will take place this Thursday, October 3rd with general on-sale happening this Friday, October 4th at 12pm local time HERE.  

Texas-born, Nashville-based Blake Coddington (aka Letdown.) announces his raw and introspective new album, Be Ok, will be released on November 15th via Big Loud Rock. The announcement arrived with the album’s title track, “Be Ok,” featuring LØLØ. Watch the video HERE.

Written by Letdown. during the end of a serious relationship, “Be Ok” captures the duality of longing for something that was ultimately unhealthy. “I was so focused on my love for someone else that I didn’t realize how much it was actually shooting me in the foot,” Coddington reflects. “I didn’t understand that everything could be better if this was over. At the same time, it immediately says, ‘I never thought I’d miss you this way.’ It’s something I think about all the time. I left everything negative in my life that has affected me, but I still think about it in a way that is almost like I miss it. It’s a weird headspace to live in—to hate something and know it’s gone, but still want it somehow. I think it’s something that everyone feels, and a lot of people don’t talk about that much.”

The new collection will feature Letdown.’s signature sound, blending elements of punk, emo, electronic, and pop into cathartic rock anthems. It includes previous singles, “Hate Myself” and “Crying In The Shower” — both breaking into the Top 25 on the Alternative chart. These songs, along with the rest of the album, reflect Coddington’s therapeutic songwriting process, which serves as both an emotional outlet and a way to connect with listeners facing similar struggles.

 “I think I’m at the end of writing about my problems,” Coddington muses about the album’s themes. “I’ve been putting myself through emotional music therapy for three years now, and it’s working. I’m finally looking back and laughing for the first time. I consider it the upswing of the depression. I’m about to enter this whole new phase in my life. Everything feels new again for the first time.”

 Letdown. is set to hit the road for a “Be Ok” headline tour in support of the album beginning November 6th in Louisville. Find the tour dates HERE.

To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of U2’s Grammy-winning album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, the band has uncovered unreleased tracks from the original recording sessions that will be part of a new 10 song collection, How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb, set to drop on November 29th. The first two tracks “Country Mile” and “Picture Of You (X + W)” have been released. “Picture Of You (X + W)” is the official single. Watch the official trailer and lyric videos for both songs HERE.

To further celebrate the anniversary of this seminal album, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb has now been remastered for the first time, a process which saw the band go back to the vault to revisit those early ‘00s recording sessions, a period of intense creativity for U2 in the studio, as well as a time of deep personal and artistic reflection following the passing of Bono’s father Bob in 2001. This special 20th anniversary remastered edition will be released on November 22nd and include a bonus track “Fast Cars.”

The Edge said, “The sessions for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb were such a creative period for the band, we were exploring so many song ideas in the studio. We were inspired to revisit our early music influences, and it was a time of deep personal introspection for Bono who was attempting to process – dismantle – the death of his father. For this anniversary edition I went into my personal archive to see if there were any unreleased gems and I hit the jackpot. We chose ten that really spoke to us. Although at the time we left these songs to one side, with the benefit of hindsight we recognize that our initial instincts about them being contenders for the album were right, we were onto something. What you’re getting on this shadow album is that raw energy of discovery, the visceral impact of the music, a sonic narrative, a moment in time, the exploration and interaction of four musicians playing together in a room… this is the pure U2 drop.”

The tracklisting for How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb is:

1. Picture Of You (X+W)
2. Evidence Of Life
3. Luckiest Man In The World
4. Treason
5. I Don’t Wanna See You Smile
6. Country Mile
7. Happiness
8. Are We Gonna Wait Forever?
9. Theme From The Batman
10. All Because Of You 2

How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Re-Assemble Edition) – featuring both How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb + How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb – will be available as a dual digital release exclusively for Record Store Day on November 22nd.

The Cure will release their first new album in 16 years on November 1st via Fiction/Capitol. The long-awaited 14th album from The Cure, Songs Of A Lost World, was previewed during the band’s 90-date, 33-country “Shows Of A Lost World’ tour.”

The first song released from the new collection “Alone” (not the first single) is almost 7 minutes long and opened every show on the tour. Robert Smith says, “It’s the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded I knew it was the opening song, and I felt the whole album come into focus. I had been struggling to find the right opening line for the right opening song for a while, working with the simple idea of ‘being alone’, always in the back of my mind this nagging feeling that I already knew what the opening line should be… as soon as we finished recording I remembered the poem ‘Dregs’ by the English poet Ernest Dowson… and that was the moment when I knew the song – and the album – were real.”Watch the lyric video HERE.

The Cure will reveal the rest of the track listing for the record over the coming weeks. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales. Robert Smith created the sleeve concept, and Andy Vella, a long-time Cure collaborator, handled the album’s art and design. The cover art features ‘Bagatelle’, a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat.

Initially formed in 1978, The Cure has sold over 30 million albums worldwide, headlined the Glastonbury festival four times and been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2019.

311 has announced their 14th studio album, Full Bloom, will be released on October 25th. In celebration, the band has released a new track “Need Somebody” from their upcoming collection. The song speaks to avoiding isolation and staying connected with the people that love you. Watch the video visualizer HERE.

The band just just wrapped up their “Unity Tour,” one of the most successful tours of the band’s 34 year history. Their first single off the album, “You’re Gonna Get It” is the band’s highest charting song in 13 years, breaking into the top 15 at Alternative Radio. The introspective track reflecting upon the realization that all actions have consequences, even if they aren’t immediate, has over 1M streams since its release this summer. Full Bloom will be the band’s first full length project in 5 years. 311’s last album was Voyager in 2019.

“We hope fans can take from this album 311’s message of positivity and unity. In today’s world it’s so easy to become alienated by the pressures of everyday life. Whether it’s social media, stress at work, an illness, the list goes on.” The band shares with us, “It’s so important to stay open with your loved ones and community so we can all thrive in full bloom” shares the band.

Nico Vega has released a new single “Make It Out Alive” via the band’s own label. It’s the title track from their upcoming album due in 2025 with an EP set to drop on November 8th, which will be the band’s first new release since 2018. The band is managed by C3. Watch “Make It Out Alive” music video HERE.

Original band member Michael Peña returns to the fold alongside singer Aja Volkman, guitarist Rich Koehler, and drummer Dan Epand. Peña, whose mother the band is named after, was the original drummer, but left early in the band’s history due to the demands of a burgeoning acting career which would see him get roles in movies such as End Of Watch, Narcos: Mexico, Crash, and Ant-Man. Peña now plays bass with the band.

Nico Vega just played at Lollapalooza and the band will be playing Austin City Limits Live on October 11th and ACL Festival on October 12th. The band has an upcoming tour beginning November 3rd in Phoenix. Find the tour dates HERE. 

Tourmates Dashboard Confessional and BOYS LIKE GIRLS team up for a new single “Watch the Fire.” Recorded in Nashville, the track is cinematic and sentimental in a way that perfectly blends the hallmark sound of each band. Watch the visualizer HERE.

Speaking to the natural draw he felt with Martin Johnson of BOYS LIKE GIRLS, Chris Carrabba shared, “Martin and I had bonded over some horrific accidents we’d had and about the recoveries that we had both worked our way through. One of the things you carry heavily when your body is laid up and your spirit is heavy is, inevitably, the past. One thing Martin and I share between us was a desire to put the past down for a while. Maybe for good. I hope so. I guess I do know one sure way of putting the past down, for a little while anyway: pick up a guitar. Reckoning with your past can be painful and ugly. It can also be rejuvenative and beautiful. I don’t know whether you get to decide. I just know that it’s worth it.”

Johnson reflects on the lifelong influence of Dashboard Confessional. He says, “The year is 2002. I’m a sophomore in high school destroying the family PC to illegally download the early Dashboard Confessional EPs off Limewire. I eventually coughed up enough cash to cop the MTV unplugged CD and DVD at Newbury Comics in Boston and spun it into submission. I heard something interesting on those recordings that I had no idea would alter the rest of my career as a songwriter and guitar player — a certain tuning where all the strings were played open and strummed top to bottom. I studied the way Chris played and the interesting voicings I had never heard before and applied them to my playing.”

Dashboard Confessional and BOYS LIKE GIRLS just kicked off a fall tour. Find the tour dates HERE.

The Revivalists are celebrating the start of spooky season by releasing a brand new single, “Zombie (Wild Coming Out)” via Concord. The spine-tingling official music video premiered today. Watch it HERE.

“It’s a fun song that’s mechanism for change is hidden in its chorus,” says The Revivalists vocalist/guitarist David Shaw. “We’re all so attached to our phones, it’s becoming a massive issue. The only time we’re away from them is when we sleep. That’s when the wild comes out, in our dreams and imagination.”

“Zombie (Wild Coming Out)” heralds the upcoming arrival of an expanded Deluxe Edition of The Revivalists’ 2023 album, Pour It Out Into The Night, due later this year. A life-affirming collection about living in the moment that offers both an unburdening and an appreciation for the here and now, the album marked The Revivalists’ fifth full-length studio recording. 

The Revivalists will continue to celebrate Pour It Out Into The Night with a wide range festival dates and headline shows slated through mid-October, including Oceans Calling next weekend (9/27).

Father John Misty announced his sixth album, Mahashmashana, will be released on November 22nd.

The Mahashmashana collection will include 8 songs. To accompany the announcement Father John Misty has shared his new single “Screamland,” a 7-minute epic that features Alan Sparhawk from Low on guitar. Watch the official “Screamland” video directed by Estefania Kröl HERE.

Kröl says “The video is a visual journey through the depths of “Screamland,” capturing the essence of both the music and the artists. Father John Misty blends seamlessly into the scene, becoming a part of the city, a living echo of ‘Screamland.’”

Father John Misty is also announcing new UK and EU tour dates for April 2025. His previously announced 2024 headline dates and support run with Kacey Musgraves on her “Deeper Well Tour” is currently underway. Find the tour dates HERE.

Romania-born, Nashville-based Vlad Holiday will release his debut album, My Favorite Drug on November 15th via ONErpm. The album announcement arrives with a new single “Closer” featuring guest vocals from Cage The Elephant’s Matt Shultz, who is also a co-writer on the track. Shultz’s voice can be heard singing the “ah ah ah ah” hook and some repeated “closers” in the outro.

On the single, Holiday shares, “This is a love song. It introduces the romantic element of the album. It’s about going with the flow and letting the universe do its thing, rather than forcing things into existence.”

About his upcoming debut album, Holiday said, “I’ve been releasing music for years, and a full-length album never really seemed like a thing I wanted to do. But as these songs were being written, I was noticing a pattern. Fragments of a story I had to tell. More for myself than for anyone else. It’s definitely one of those, ‘listen to it in order’ albums.”

Last month, Holiday was joined by Kacey Musgraves for genre-fusing track “I Don’t Wanna Party Anymore.” 

Holiday just had a run of tour dates alongside Cage The Elephant, Young the Giant and Bakar. He will play weekend one of Austin City Limits on October 6th followed by a string of headline dates as well as a stop at weekend one of Austin City Limits. Find the tour dates HERE.

Glasgow, Scotland’s Franz Ferdinand announce their new studio album, The Human Fear, will be released January 10, 2025 via Domino. It’s the band’s sixth album and first since Always Ascending in 2018.

Produced with Mark Ralph, who previously worked with them on their 2013 album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, the album showcases Franz at their most immediate, upbeat and life-affirming, unashamedly going for the pop-jugular in classic Franz style. The new collection will have 11-songs that all allude to some deep-set human fears and how overcoming and accepting these fears drives and defines our lives.

Lead singer Alex Kapranos said, “Making this record was one of the most life-affirming experiences I’ve had, but it’s called The Human Fear. Fear reminds you that you’re alive. I think we all are addicted in some way to the buzz it can give us. How we respond to it shows how we are human. So here’s a bunch of songs searching for the thrill of being human via fears. Not that you’d necessarily notice on first listen.”

The album announcement arrived with the video for first single “Audacious” which was directed by long-time Franz collaborator Andy Knowles and filmed at Barrowland in Glasgow, over the years the scene of many a celebratory “homecoming” gig for the band. Alex has this to say about the new song: “It’s about having an audacious response when you feel the fabric of existence come undone around you. Being bold, contrary. Peering over the edge into the eternity of non-existence and saying Aye! Fuck it! Not today thank you!”

The highly-anticipated return of Linkin Park includes new co-vocalist Emily Armstrong (Dead Sara) and drummer Colin Brittain (songwriter/producer for G Flip, Illenium, One OK Rock) accompanying the band’s first brand new music in seven years with the release of their new single “The Emptiness Machine” on September 5th at 3p (PT) via Warner Records. Armstrong and Brittain join the band’s lineup of Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Phoenix, and Joe Hahn.

The announcement arrived with a global livestream performance (available for 24 hours HERE) with 6 upcoming arena shows in Los Angeles (9/11), New York (9/16), Hamburg (9/22), London (9/24), Seoul (9/28), and Bogota (11/11) as part of the From Zero World Tour. Linkin Park will release their new album, From Zero on November 15th. It’s the first release of new music since the passing of former lead singer Chester Bennington in 2017. 

Without expectations, Shinoda, Delson, Farrell, and Hahn quietly began meeting up again in recent years. Rather than “trying to restart the band,” their instinct was to simply spend more time together, and reconnect with the creativity and camaraderie that has been at the core of their friendship since college. During this time, they invited various friends and cohorts to join them in the studio; among the guests, they found a special kinship with Armstong and Brittain. A natural chemistry drew these musicians back into its gravitational pull as they logged more and more hours in the studio. It was the sound of lifelong musicians rediscovering the uncontainable energy of a new beginning once again. Over this season, From Zero was born.

Shinoda says, “Before Linkin Park, our first band name was Xero. This album title refers to both this humble beginning and the journey we’re currently undertaking. Sonically and emotionally, it is about past, present, and future—embracing our signature sound, but new and full of life. It was made with a deep appreciation for our new and longtime bandmates, our friends, our family, and our fans. We are proud of what Linkin Park has become over the years, and excited about the journey ahead.”

In 2020, the band celebrated their groundbreaking debut album, Hybrid Theory, by releasing a comprehensive 20th anniversary edition super deluxe box set. In 2023, the band released Meteora 20th Anniversary Edition, which topped the charts and featured the newly-uncovered single “Lost.” The emotionally charged single was originally recorded during sessions for their second studio album Meteora (2003). Earlier this year marked the release of their first greatest hits package Papercuts, featuring vault track “Friendly Fire.”

FROM ZERO WORLD TOUR 2024

September 11, 2024 | Kia Forum – Los Angeles, CA

September 16, 2024 | Barclays Center – New York, NY

September 22, 2024 | Barclays Arena – Hamburg, Germany

September 24, 2024 | The O2 – London, UK

September 28, 2024 | INSPIRE Arena – Seoul, South Korea

November 11, 2024 | Coliseo Medplus – Bogota, Colombia

FROM ZERO TRACKLIST

From Zero (Intro)

The Emptiness Machine

Cut The Bridge

Heavy Is The Crown

Over Each Other

Casualty

Overflow

Two Faced

Stained

IGYEIH

Good Things Go

Boston trio Beach Weather announce their second album, Melt, will be released on October 25th.

Frontman Nick Santino says, “Melt takes you on an emotional journey through the complexities of relationships and personal growth. The album delves into themes of love, vulnerability, and self-discovery, exploring how we navigate both the joy and turmoil of human connections. With a mix of introspective lyrics and engaging melodies, Melt offers an honest reflection on the human condition, capturing the essence of experiencing the highs and lows of life and love through raw emotion and relatable experiences.”

The album announcement arrives with the band sharing a new song “Fake Nice.” Beach Weather’s current single “High In Low Places” pushing Top 20 on the Alternative chart. 

Beach Weather have fall tour dates beginning October 23rd on Cambridge, MA. Find the tour dates HERE.

Punk In The Park is making its way to San Diego on November 16th headlined by The Offspring and Pennywise. The day-long punk rock and craft beer tasting event also includes Streetlight Manifesto, Face To Face, Manic Hispanic, Buck-O-Nine, Slaughterhouse, Winterhaven and more to be announced.

This will mark the third stop for Punk In The Park – American Road Trip, following May’s Road Trip debut in San Francisco and upcoming September 15th stop in Orlando.

Tickets for Punk In The Park San Diego go on sale Wednesday, September 4th at 10am (PT) at www.PunkInThePark.com.  

Punk In The Park is produced by Brew Ha Ha Productions (BHHP).

Vancouver quartet Peach Pit will release their fourth album, Magpie, October 25th via Columbia. The band also shared the title track, accompanied by an action packed new video. Watch it HERE.

“As Vancouver was slipping into winter, Melbourne was heading into summer and the birds were everywhere,” recalls lead singer/guitarist Neil Smith. “It was the magpies that caught my attention. I’m not sure what it was about them – maybe it was just the name that I liked.” 

 “I liked the idea that the magpie is neither good nor bad,” he says. “Or, maybe it’s both –  it just depends on how many you find. It reminded me of the record we were trying to make – the days of doubt after strumming the same four chords without a good melody, followed by the days of writing something worthwhile and biking home on a high. Magpie symbolizes the heartbreak that led to many of the songs we were writing, as well as the new love that inspired the others. The year it had taken to make Magpie had been full of ups and downs – constantly changing and leaving the good for the bad and the bad for the good, just like the songs on the record.”

Magpie is the follow-up to Peach Pit’s 2022 album, From 2 to 3.

Michigander has released a new single “Giving Up” on own imprint Totally Normal Records via Thirty Tigers. “Giving Up” follows three Top 10 singles at Triple A and has captured playlist placement on Spotify The New Alt and the #1 spot on both Apple Music’s The New Rock and Tidal’s The Hot Rock. The official music video, directed by longtime visual collaborator Tyler Appel (Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness, Manchester Orchestra), is streaming now on YouTube HERE.

“I was so excited after I wrote this song,” says Jason Singer (aka Michigander). “It’s an anthem for the people pleasers who are always trying to make other folks happy. They go to great lengths to make things work out in situations where it’s really not worth their time or good for their mental health. It’s a special song for me, because it’s self-referential.”

Michigander begins a headline tour October 10th in Cincinnati. Find the tour dates HERE. 

Katastro announces final album, Until The End Of Time, in honor of their late lead singer Andy Chaves. The band’s seventh album will be released on October 4th via Kamp Records/Controlled Substance Sound Labs. 

The Arizona-based quartet began working on new music in May 2022 when a tragic car accident took the life of Chaves. Over the last two years, Katastro’s surviving members – Ryan Weddle (bass), Andrew Stravers (drums), and Tanner Riccio (guitar) – searched through hard drives and past recording sessions to collect any vocal takes from Chaves they could find. Until The End Of Time took shape as a way of paying tribute to Andy while allowing the band and their friends within the music community to work through their pain, proving to be both a healing and therapeutic process.

The band has released a new single “Our Favorite Song” which features vocals from Chaves. The band’s remaining members reworked the demo’s soundscape while keeping Andy’s original vocals to give the song a new life as they honor their brother. 

The forthcoming 14-track album includes the previously released singles “Good Time” featuring Jared Watson and Duddy B of Dirty Heads and “Tell Me I’m OK” also featuring Watson. In addition to two other Dirty Heads collaborations, Katastro’s friends stepped up to contribute vocals for the album including Iration, The Maine, Atmosphere’s Slug and Mouse Powell, Rome Ramirez, Artikal Sound System, Mike., and Common Kings.

blink-182 will release ONE MORE TIME… PART-2 on September 6th via Columbia Records. The band’s new 8 tracks on ONE MORE TIME… PART-2 will include the first single “ALL IN MY HEAD” set to be released this Friday, August 23rd. Last year’s ONE MORE TIME… marked the first album to feature the group’s iconic lineup — Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker since 2011. The new single arrives nearly one year after the title track “ONE MORE TIME” was released.

ONE MORE TIME… PART-2 will be released in multiple physical configurations in addition to digital. These include the 2 LP COMPLETE DELUXE EDITION (featuring all 27 tracks available on limited-edition Blue Balls Colored Vinyl in a Gatefold Jacket with a Printed Insert), and the 1LP DELUXE TRACKS ONLY variant (which includes 10 tracks on vinyl for the first time —namely the 8 brand new tracks plus 2 bonus tracks previously only available digitally). The DELUXE TRACKS ONLY vinyl variant will be pressed on limited-edition Red Rocket Colored Vinyl in a Gatefold Jacket with a Printed Insert.

blink-182 will headline Reading & Leeds Festival this weekend. The band will be back in the U.S. for festival dates at Oceans Calling, South Star Music Festival, and Austin City Limits (weekend #2).

Coinciding with the 35th anniversary of their hit single “So Alive,” Love And Rockets will release a limited-edition remix EP that contains remixes of the track by The Crystal Method and D.J. K. on August 30th. The EP will be available on limited edition clear picture disc and digitally.

“So Alive” was released in 1989 off of Love And Rockets self-titled breakthrough fourth album. Last year, Love And Rockets —  Daniel Ash (vocals and guitar), David J (vocals and bass) and Kevin Haskins (drums) reunited and played their first show in 15 years at Cruel World Festival in Pasadena, CA. Rob (D.J. K) and Scott (The Crystal Method) were in the crowd and were blown away by the performance. They decided to approach the band and they then agreed to dust off and unvault the 34 year old original stems to officially remix and reimagine “So Alive.”

Love And Rockets are currently out with a reunited Jane’s Addiction on a 23-city tour that runs through September 29th in St. Louis.

The Lumineers announce their first-ever live album, Live From Wrigley Field, which will be available digitally and as a 3LP vinyl set via Dualtone on September 27th. 

The 25-track collection was recorded on September 3, 2022 during the final night of BRIGHTSIDE World Tour. Live From Wrigley Field features the premiere of “Gale Song (Feat. James Bay),” a fan-favorite track from their 2016 RIAA Platinum-certified album, Cleopatra. The live version features special guest vocals of singer-songwriter James Bay. Watch the official live performance video HERE.

“Gale song has become a fan-favorite in a way we didn’t see coming,” says The Lumineers’ co-founder Wesley Shultz. “It was beautiful to hear it in a new way with James Bay live during this show and much of our US tour.”

In addition to extensive touring and the new live album, the band also recently collaborated with James Bay and Noah Kahan on Bay’s new single, “Up All Night.”

Weezer, Eddie Vedder, Nathaniel Rateliff, Sharon Van Etten, The War On Drugs, Briston Maroney, Fitz And The Tantrums are part of a big list of artists doing Tom Petty cover songs on the new Apple TV+ comedy series, Bad Monkey which debuts tonight (8/14). The soundtrack is set for release on October 4th via WaterTower Music with songs being released Tuesdays at 6pm (PT) on DSP’s. Fitz And The Tantrums “Even The Losers” (Listen HERE) and  Eddie Vedder “Room At The Top” (Listen HERE) are among the songs released so far.

The show was produced by Bill Lawrence (Ted Lasso, Scrubs, Shrinking, Cougar Town). “Not only have I been a huge Tom Petty fan forever (every episode of Cougar Town was named after a song), but he is also quintessentially Florida,” says Lawrence. “Having contemporary bands cover his music is not only a thrill for me, but it adds to the feeling that Florida itself is a character.”

Craft Recordings and Violent Femmes are commemorating 40 years of the band’s sophomore title, Hallowed Ground, with a wide vinyl reissue set for release on November 8th. The LP has been mastered from the original stereo tapes. First released in May 1984, Hallowed Ground is celebrated for its innovative exploration of American roots music, blending traditional folk influences with the band’s distinctive style. 

The reissue includes contributions from banjo virtuoso Tony Trischka on “Country Death Song” and “It’s Gonna Rain,” and avant-garde saxophonist John Zorn on “Black Girls,” both of whom added distinctive layers to the record’s experimental soundscape. The album’s lyrics delve into themes of faith, redemption and existential contemplation. This marked a bold departure from the more straightforward pop sound of the band’s breakthrough debut release, which featured “Blister In The Sun” and “Add It Up.” 

In addition to the standard vinyl, widely available for the first time in over a decade, Hallowed Ground can also be found in four limited color pressings, including a Green Smoke variant (available at vfemmes.com and craftrecordings.com), Orange Smoke (independent record stores), Azure Blue (Barnes & Noble) and Onyx (Spotify Fans First, available exclusively to followers).

To mark this milestone, Violent Femmes are currently on a North America Tour through October 9th. Find the tour dates HERE.

Vevo announces the release of St. Vincent’s Live From Vevo Studios performance of “Reckless,” off her seventh album All Born Screaming. 

“This was recorded during the All Born Screaming album release week and was the first time this band had performed together,” said St. Vincent.

The newest album from St. Vincent is her first fully self-produced effort. The album is equal parts spiritual desolation and rapturous acceptance. 

Watch the live performance of “Reckless” HERE.

The Killers released a celebratory homecoming single “Bright Lights” overnight via Island/Republic. The new track (available HERE) arrives as they head home for their Las Vegas Residency that begins next Wednesday, August 14th. 

The Killers are celebrating the 20th Anniversary Of their debut album, Hot Fuss. The Killers will perform Hot Fuss from front to back for the first time ever from August 14 thru September 1 at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

Tonight (8/9) The Killers headline Outside Lands Festival.

 Congrats to Shinedown on achieving a remarkable milestone on their latest single, “A Symptom Of Being Human.” It’s the first song to chart in the top 10 on three Mediabase charts: Alternative, Active Rock, AC. 

“Mediabase would like to congratulate Shinedown, Atlantic-Elektra and the In De Goot Management team on this accomplishment for “A Symptom Of Being Human.” To be able to go top 10 at these three formats, as well as having successful runs at Top 40 and Hot AC is very rare for a rock song,” shared Philippe Generali, President and CEO. 

 Shinedown has achieved a record-breaking 23 chart-topping songs. “Radio has been the heartbeat of our band, and we owe an immense debt of gratitude to the stations that have championed us,” said Brent Smith, lead vocalist of Shinedown. Smith went on to add, “This milestone is a testament to the unwavering support from our fans and their beloved radio stations, which have been pivotal in our journey and growth since day one.”

Yo Gabba GabbaLand! Original Soundtrack is being released on August 9th via BMG. The premiere of the first season of the series debuts the same day on Apple TV+.

The soundtrack includes Portugal. The Man, Thundercat, Local Natives, Lucius, Kurt Vile, Twin Shadow, Ty Segall, Dayglow, The Drums, The Interrupters, and The Linda Lindas.

In celebration of the announcement, The Linda Lindas have premiered their contribution to the album, “I’m So Happy To Be Little,” written and produced by the Yo Gabba Gabba! Team. “I’m So Happy To Be Little” is the perfect taste of a soundtrack that will delight children and adults alike. The song appears in the third episode of season one, Little, in which the Gabba Friends shrink to the size of shrimps and learn that we’re all “just the right size.”

In a group statement, The Linda Linda’s said, “We’ve gone from being smaller, younger kids who watched YoGabba Gabba! to actually becoming characters in the show, which is so surreal!”, said The Linda Lindas. “Singing a fun song about being little is perfect and something that a lot of us can relate to. Even though we’re bigger now, we haven’t grown out of Yo Gabba Gabba!, and neither should you.” 

Lollapalooza is making history with this year’s Main Stage being powered solely and completely on a hybrid battery system, including all audio, lighting, video and stage production. In partnership with Live Nation’s sustainability initiative Green Nation, T-Mobile and CES Power, Lollapalooza becomes the first major U.S. festival to achieve this, furthering its commitment to its ever-expanding sustainability efforts.  

“We have set a goal to build a more sustainable future for music festivals, which requires taking bold steps to find solutions that can reinvent how we operate and in turn, build industry trust in new t”chnology so that major live events can see a path towards becoming more energy efficient,” said Jake Perry, Director of Operations and Sustainability at C3 Presents. “Lollapalooza is a leader in sustainable solutions, and we are proud to have aligned ourselves with partners that have the same passion and experience to execute this mission.”

Lollapalooza 2024 4-day festival kicks off at Grant Park this Thursday (8/1) featuring SZA, Tyler, The Creator, blink-182, The Killers, Future X Metro Boomin, Hozier, Stray Kids, Melanie Martinez and Skrillex and many more in the heart of downtown Chicago. Find the daily lineup HERE.

blur released Live At Wembley Stadium via Parlophone/Warner Records last Friday (7/26). Check out the trailer HERE. 

The new collection of songs was captured from two nights last summer at Wembley Stadium on July 8th and 9th where Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree performed to over 150,000 fans. It was blur’s first time ever to play the iconic London venue. 

The UK band has released nine albums over the last 30 years — Leisure (1991), Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Parklife (1994), The Great Escape (1995), Blur (1997), 13 (1999), Think Tank (2003), The Magic Whip (2015), and The Ballad Of Darren (2023).

Jack White has announced a special benefit concert this Saturday, July 27th at The American Legion Post 82 in Nashville. The venue needs a new sound system and Third Man Records and Jack White are giving fans a chance to sign up at https://laylo.com/jackwhite/americanlegion to get a code to purchase a ticket. 

Tickets will go on sale Friday, July 26th at 10am (CT) to raise funds for a new sound system for the Nashville venue. 

The lineup for Desert Daze 2024 has been unveiled for October 10-13 on Moreno Beach in Lake Perris, CA.  The 4-day festival includes Jack White, Cigarettes After Sex, Alex G, The Mars Volta, Thundercat, Fleet Foxes, 100 GECS, Liz Phair, De La Soul, The Kills, and more.

Tickets go on sale on Friday, July 26th at 10am (PT). Find the full lineup and more HERE.

Pixies announce their 10th album, The Night The Zombies Came, will drop on October 25th via BMG. It’s their first new music since Doggerel in 2022.  The new album is the first for Pixies with new bassist Emma Richardson, who previously played with Band of Skulls. 

Lead singer/guitarist Black Francis explains, “Fragments that are related and juxtaposed with other fragments in other songs. And in a collection of songs in a so-called LP, you end up making a kind of movie.”

The Smashing Pumpkins have revealed their 13th album, Aghori Mhori Mei, will drop on August 2nd. 

“In the writing of this new album I became intrigued with the well-worn axiom, ‘you can’t go home again,'” said frontman Billy Corgan. “Which I have found personally to be true in form but thought well, what if we tried anyway? Not so much in looking backwards with sentimentality but rather as a means to move forward; to see if in the balance of success and failure that our ways of making music circa 1990-1996 would still inspire something revelatory.”

Corgan posted on social media, “We want people to hear the record as one body of work, and they can decide, the value of what we have done.”

The band’s last album was ATUM: A Rock Opera In Three Acts that was released beginning November ’22.

The Smashing Pumpkins begin their summer tour with Green Day next Monday, July 29th in Washington at Nationals Park. Find the tour dates HERE. 

The Airborne Toxic Event have a new album, Glory, that they will release on September 6th via Little Tokyo. The announcement arrived with the title track and you can check out the lyric video for “Glory” HERE. 

“The journey through the world that you document through songwriting is not manageable,” shares frontman Mikel Jollett. “It just happens. I get in certain moods and all I want to hear is a person singing the thing I’m feeling. Even if the thing I’m feeling is so fucked up. It’s a relief. I don’t know why that’s true. But it is.”

The Airborne Toxic Event will embark on an extensive tour in support of Glory beginning September 5 in Salt Lake City. Find the tour dates HERE.  

Glory is the band’s first album for The Airborne Toxic Event since the 2020 album Hollywood Park which arrived alongside memoir by Jollett.

UK 4-piece Glass Animals release their fourth album, I Love You So F***ing Much, today via Republic. The new 10 song collection includes the lead single “Creatures In Heaven.” Glass Animals debuted the first song on the album “Show Pony” last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Watch it HERE. This morning, the band chatted with Anthony Mason on CBS Mornings about the new album and its creation process as well as their upcoming tour.

Glass Animals frontman/producer David Bayley said, “I love you so f***ing much, I LOVE YOU SO F***ING MUCH, I love you SO f***ing MUCH, I love you so F***ING much, I LOVE you so f***ing MUCH. These words take on a different meaning every time you say them. The universe may make us feel overwhelmingly small, but we have this human connection that is far vaster and more mysterious. Love comes in an infinite number of forms and shapes and sizes. It is so complex, and so powerful that even witnessing the tiniest instance of it can change your life forever.”

Painting 10 portraits of love in all its messy forms, I Love You So F***ing Much is the most personal record that Bayley has ever written. “Show Pony,” the album’s opening track, is a lucid tale of a relationship from start to finish. Bayley shares, “Our first blueprints of love are the relationships we see and experience growing up. They aren’t always perfect, but they completely shape our understanding of love. That’s why I wanted ‘Show Pony’ to open the album. It throws you in at the deep end, but that’s life.” 

I Love You So F***ing Much is the follow-up to the band’s 2020’s critically revered Dreamland, which sold over 12 million copies globally and featured the breakout single “Heat Waves.”  The Oxford band’s other releases include How To Be A Human Being (2016), and Zaba (2014).

Having performed a string of intimate, underplay pop-up shows for fans across the world, including Elsewhere in Brooklyn this past week, Glass Animals begins their U.S. leg of  “Human Musical Group Sensations Glass Animals Tour Of Earth” on August 7th in Charlotte. Find the tour dates HERE. 

Declan McKenna announces headlining tour dates in October. The new tour dates precede his previously announced dates supporting Sabrina Carpenter in cities including Salt Lake City, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco and more. McKenna sold out three U.S. tours last year. 

Tickets for these new dates go on sale Friday, July 19 at 10am local time. Find the tour dates HERE. 

McKenna says, “I was putting a lot of pressure on myself in the past when I just needed to drop the intensity a bit and have some fun,” said McKenna about his third album, What Happened To The Beach?, which was released earlier this year.

Cannons announces new shows for the final run of U.S. dates for their Heartbeat Highway Tour. After achieving their second #1 single at Alternative Radio with “Loving You” earlier this year, the L.A.-based band known for their extensive touring has not slowed down. Slated in between supporting Imagine Dragons, the new added dates will be the last time fans can experience the ethereal Heartbeat Highway album before the band goes back to the studio. 

The following new shows will go on sale this Friday, July 19th at 10AM local time. 

NEW DATES ADDED TO THE HEARTBEAT HIGHWAY TOUR:

08/21/2024   CINCINNATI, OH – BOGART’S

08/25/2024   CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – JEFFERSON THEATER

08/27/2024   CARRBORO, NC – CAT’S CRADLE

08/31/2024   ORLANDO, FL – THE BEACHAM

09/03/2024   FORT WORTH, TX – TANNAHILL’S TAVERN & MUSIC HALL

09/07/2024   LITTLETON, CO – BRECKENRIDGE BREWERY

10/08/2024   NASHVILLE, TN – MARATHON MUSIC WORKS

10/09/2024   BIRMINGHAM, AL – IRON CITY

10/10/2024   BATON ROUGE, LA – CHELSEA’S LIVE

10/12/2024   SAN ANTONIO, TX – THE AZTEC THEATRE

10/15/2024   FAYETTEVILLE, AR – JJ’S LIVE

10/16/2024   OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – TOWER THEATRE

10/18/2024   SANTA FE, NM – THE BRIDGE AT SANTA FE BREWING

10/20/2024   LAS VEGAS, NV – AREA15

See full routing for all upcoming CANNONS tour dates HERE.  

Young The Giant has released an unreleased single “Metropolis” from their upcoming Mind Over Matter Deluxe Album (10th Anniversary Edition) coming July 26th. “Metropolis” was written and recorded by lead singer Sameer Gadhia  during the recording of their Mind Over Matter album. The band teased the track on their 2023 American Bollywood World Tour by surprising fans with stripped-back acoustic performances of the song several times throughout the summer. Check out the acoustic version of the “Metropolis” HERE. 

The exclusive deluxe version of the album comes in clear smoke vinyl and includes a 12-page booklet, fold-out poster, and an exclusive slipcover. The tracklist includes 3 never-before-released demos “Mind Over Matter (Demo),” “Camera (Demo),” “What You Get (Demo),” and “Metropolis (Acoustic).”

Young The Giant is on the road with Cage The Elephant and Bakar for the Neon Pill Tour.

Clairo released her third album, Charm, today via Virgin. Her new 11 song collection features the lead single “Sexy To Someone.”

Charm is a collection of warm, 70’s-inspired grooves that move lithely between jazz, psychedelic folk and soul. Raised in Carlisle, Massachusetts, Clairo tracked live to tape between the Queens-based studio Diamond Mine Recording and Allaire Studios, which is nestled in the mountains outside of Woodstock, NY. 

Producer Leon Michels, a renowned soul revivalist who has worked with funk legend Sharon Jones and The Black Keys, was enlisted to lead the strictly-analogue recording process. Charm takes everything that has won Clairo legions of devoted fans all over the world to elegant new heights. 

Clairo brings the album to life in September with five-date residencies at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles (9/6, 9/7, 9/8, 9/10 & 9/11) and Webster Hall in New York City (9/14, 9/15, 9/17.9/18, 9/19). All dates sold-out in just minutes.

UK duo Good Neighbours announce their first ever North American headlining tour, as part of their world tour, beginning this fall. The eight-city North American tour kicks off September 3 in Toronto, making stops in New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Denver, before concluding in Tempe, AZ on September 15.  

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

09/03 – Axis Club Theatre – Toronto, ON

09/04 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY

09/06 – The Foundry at the Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA

09/08 – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL

09/11 – Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA

09/12 – Rickshaw Stop – San Francisco, CA

09/14 – Marquis – Denver, CO

09/15 – Marquee – Tempe, AZ

General on-sale begins Friday, July 12 at 10am local time. Find more info HERE. 

 Good Neighbours’ breakout debut single “Home” is currently in the Top 15 on the Alternative chart.

Atlas Genius and Robert DeLong have announced a co-headline tour kicking off September 8th in Chicago and running through October 21st in Los Angeles.  Tickets go on-sale this Friday, July 12th at 10am local time.

“It’s been six years since our last proper tour,” says Keith Jeffrey of Atlas Genius. “We are thrilled and honored to share the stage with Robert DeLong, one of the most innovative and creative artists and performers of the last decade.” 

Atlas Genius recently announced their first album in nine years, End of the Tunnel,  due out on September 6th. The band has already shared four songs from the album including the lead single “On A Wave,” along with “Don’t Let Love Be A Stranger,” “Nobody Loves Like You” and “Romans.”

“I’m very excited to hit the road this fall with Atlas Genius,” said DeLong. “‘Trojans’ has been a personal favorite earworm since I first heard it, and I’m pumped to share the stage with them! I’ve been writing and recording my newest album, Playlist of Doom and I can’t wait to play some new jams for y’all, and as always, rock all the classics and fan favorites. I’ll be seeing you!”

DeLong just released his new single “soft boy” and announced his new album, Playlist of DOOM, will drop on September 13th through Round Hill Records.  

Brew Ha Ha Productions has announced the first wave of bands for Punk In The Park Orlando set for Saturday, September 14th at Central Florida Fairgrounds in Orlando, Florida. This marks the second stop for Punk In The Park – American Road Trip, originally known as Southern California’s favorite punk rock and craft beer tasting festival, following May’s Road Trip debut at The Cow Palace in San Francisco.

The initial lineup for Punk In The Park Orlando includes Alkaline Trio, The Vandals, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, T.S.O.L., Down By Law, Swingin’ Utters and Dwarves, with more to be announced. The festival will feature band performances on two stages, with no overlapping set times.

Tickets and more info for Punk In The Park Orlando are on sale at www.PunkInThePark.com. 

Smallpools announce their new album Ghost Town Road will drop September 20th via Nettwerk. The bold new project is an elegy for a bygone era about appreciating the allure of nostalgia while trying not to get stuck in the past. To celebrate the announcement, the band released “Be Kind, Rewind,” an ode to Blockbuster. Check out the lyric video HERE.

The album was written and recorded at guitarist Michael Kamerman’s house in Los Angeles, with collaborations from colin creeV of Third Eye Blind and Mitchy Collins of lovelytheband. As a project that splits time between Los Angeles and Nashville, Kamerman, frontman Sean Scanlon, and drummer Beau Kuther reflected on the evolution of each city in the decade since their debut 2013 breakout single “Dreaming.” “When the band first started, the goal was to play the free Monday nights at the Satellite, that’s all we wanted to do,” Kuther recalls. Once proving ground for ambitious local indie bands, the legendary Silver Lake venue closed permanently during the pandemic. Four years later, the space still lies vacant. Meanwhile, they’ve seen Nashville equally overrun by Brooklyn transplants, reality TV producers and bachelorette parties.  

These are the images that inform Ghost Town Road and the forthcoming full-length, named after a street sign that Kamerman saw passing through a stretch of the Nevada desert. It follows their recent EP Ghost Town Road (east) “There’s not that many of the bands that we started with that are still doing it, so it feels a little bit like a ghost town out here now, especially post-pandemic,” he reflects. Yet, Ghost Town Road is as much a state of mind as it is a physical place, as Smallpools re-acquainted themselves with the Hollywood dive bars and restaurants that served as their communal, creative spaces in the early days. “Drive down Wilshire at night, it feels kind of like a ghost town as well,” Scanlon jokes. 

Washed Out has a new album, Notes From A Quiet Life, out today via Sub Pop Records. It’s the fifth album from Ernest Greene, who goes by the stage name Washed Out. The new 10 song collection features the lead single “The Hardest Part.”

It’s his first album in four years and first for the Georgia native since moving in 2021 to a former horse farm in Macon, GA that he calls “Endymion.” He named it after the pastoral John Keats poem about a lovesick shepherd, the opening line is: “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.” 

Inspired by the lifestyle change and simplicity of country living, Greene created an under 12 minute documentary that shares the story behind the making of his new album, Notes From A Quiet Life. Watch it HERE.

“I’ve read that every five, maybe 10 years, you’re practically a different person — like literally, on a cellular level,” Greene explains. “The things that you’re going through will end up changing you, and you’re kind of a different person. This album is a reflection of that. Experimenting with painting and sculpture helps my music. They influence each other. That was a kind of realization for me. I don’t want to look back on my life one day, and be like, ’Oh, it was all about maximizing productivity. I want to enjoy this.

It’s the first album he has self-produced and it was mixed with Nathan Boddy (James Blake, Mura Masa) and David Wrench (Caribou, Florence + The Machine). “Early in my career, I had a lack of technical skill, and there were some things I wasn’t 100% enthusiastic about,” he says, noting Jean-Michel Basquiat’s distinct, self-driven method as an inspiration. “Something that I was looking for was…I didn’t want any illusion of anyone else’s influences. I wanted to see this through to the end. And honestly, that was a big challenge.”

Greene says, “Each of his albums is a diary entry of his life.” Washed Out has released the following five albums: Within And Without (2011), Paracosm (2013), Mister Mellow (2017), Purple Moon (2020), and Notes From A Quiet Life (2024).

Washed Out has tour dates in August. Find the tour dates HERE. 

#HAPPENS 2024 Las Vegas UK showcase band, HotWax are featured on the soundtrack for the new Amazon Prime series, My Lady Jane that debuts today (6/27). HotWax recorded a cover of Deep Purple’s “Sail Away” for the show which will be featured twice throughout the series. Check out their version of the song HERE.

The new series is a witty revisionist take on Tudor history and the My Lady Jane Soundtrack released today via Milan Records, includes up-and-coming female-fronted artists from the UK putting their own unique spin on iconic British songs.

Here’s the My Lady Jane Soundtrack Tracklist:

1. Goat Girl “Tainted Love” 
2. Black Honey “Wild Thing” 
3. Lizzie Esas “I’m A Man” 
4. Griff “She’s Not There” 
5. Chinchilla “The Chain” 
6. Katy J Pearson “Dreamer” 
7. HotWax “Sail Away”
8. Yonaka “Ever Fallen In Love”

My Lady Jane co-showrunners, Gemma Burgess and Meredith Glynn, state, “We love how the covers work in the show – they tell the audience this is England in the past, but not as you know it,” when speaking about their choice to use music within the show.”

Music Supervisor Ciata Elwis curated the female-fronted artists. She explains, “The female characters in our show are often not treated with any respect or given the place in the world that they deserve, but they don’t let that get to them – they’re constantly fighting for something more. I think all of the artists we’ve used have that feel in their vocals, of taking up space and refusing to back down. The songs aren’t ‘nice’, they’ve all got a bit e to them, which is what we really love about Jane too.”

Stream the My Lady Jane soundtrack HERE.  

Yungblud has shared his latest single “Breakdown” and partnered with mental health organizations Sound Mind Live in the US and Mind in the UK, and will donate $1 (up to $25,000) split between the charities for every use of the “Breakdown” CapCut template. The song was originally written by Yungblud as a poem during a difficult time. The official video is a short film based on an original idea by Yungblud with the script written by the Olivier Award winner Chris Bush (Standing At The Sky’s Edge) and starring revered actor Dame Harriet Walter (Succession, Ted Lasso, Killing Eve). Watch the video HERE.

 Speaking about “Breakdown” Yungblud says, “I wrote this song because it’s been the hardest year for me mentally. I feel myself changing and throughout my life I’ve never felt good enough, it’s been the main thing that on the one hand has driven me forward but on the other, has eaten me up. For as long as I can remember I have felt constantly afraid of how quickly my head can turn dark. It’s always been so hard to fight the darkness that I inevitably have. A lot of people will say it’s a phase and it will go away. But it doesn’t and the reality of the situation is I have to find strategies to allow it to exist and to deal with it as a constant. A lot of us can feel like our lives are insignificant. We can feel like we have no purpose, so what is there to live for? The inexplicable darkness inside our heads can consume us. It can make it hard to get out of bed in the morning, force us to cancel plans, or back out of opportunities last minute.

 “This song was written as a message to myself to try and exist alongside my insecurities and my darkness by grounding myself and remembering what is real in life and that the world is so much bigger than me. In the past my art has been about highlighting the pain and letting the world know that it is there, in order to relate to others but now I want to beat it. This song is a gateway to where my new music is heading. Embracing the light, realising what’s beautiful in the world and fighting the darkness – not wallowing in it. It’s about getting out of your head and noticing the world around you, the things and people. Connect with them, the chances are they probably feel the same. Don’t let the bullshit inside your head consume you. It just wastes precious time and life potential. Remember what is real. Help people, be kind, help the world, help yourself. You’re probably living more than you think.”

They said it would never happen, but after 25 years, Soul Coughing are reuniting for a 17-date American tour beginning on the west coast on September 11th in San Diego and concluding on the east coast with two nights at Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn, NY on October 4th and 5th.

All four original members — Mike Doughty (vocals/guitar), Mark degli Antoni (keyboards/sampler), Sebastian Steinberg (bass), and Yuval Gabay (drums) — reunite for their first shows together in 25 years. Soul Coughing formed in 1992 after meeting at New York’s Knitting Factory, where Doughty worked the door. The guys merged drum & bass, trance, rock & roll, and hip-hop to create a totally unique strain of music. As Doughty says, “Our music didn’t fit into the landscape then and it doesn’t now. We were super incorrect. We were messy. We were all over the place. There were moments in our career where we tried to be less different, and we always failed.” 

Over their eight-year history, the guys collected a motley crew of fans who gravitated to the deeply weird — yet danceable — energy of their discography, starting off with their 1994 debut, Ruby Vroom. They broke up in 2000, but Soul Coughing has a new crop of listeners who may have heard standouts like “Super Bon Bon” on a video game soundtrack or “Circles” on a favorite TV show. 

Artist presale tickets go on sale this Monday, June 24th at 10 am (local). The general on-sale begins on Friday, June 28 at 10 am (local). 

SOUL COUGHING – TOUR 2024

SEPTEMBER

11 – San Diego, CA – Belly Up Tavern

13 – Los Angeles, CA – The Bellwether

14 & 15 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore

17 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom

18 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox

20 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot

21 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre

22 – Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater

24 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue

25 – Chicago, IL – Vic Theatre

27 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Small’s Theatre

28 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club

29 – Boston, MA – Royale

OCTOBER

3 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer

4 & 5 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel

UK 4-piece The Mysterines release their second album, Afraid Of Tomorrows, today via Fiction Records. In advance of the 12 song collection, The Mysterines dropped three singles: “Stray,” “Sink Your Teeth,” and “The Last Dance.”

Formed in Liverpool, The Mysterines – frontwoman Lia Metcalfe, drummer Paul Crilly, bassist George Favager and guitarist Callum Thompson – have undergone a radical transformation over the past few years. Fresh with new purpose and reinvigorated from songwriting sessions while secluded away in the countryside (in between playing to 60,000-strong crowds while on tour with the Arctic Monkeys), The Mysterines spent a month working with Grammy Award winning producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen) at his brand new studio in L.A.. Afraid Of Tomorrows is a deeper and darker foray into The Mysterines’ psyche than its predecessor, and reflects the maturity and growth of the band. 

Frontwoman Lia says, “‘Afraid of Tomorrows’ is a mirror where you find you’re nothing more than a formless being, one made from celestial constellations – of traumas, of the old and new, mistakes, addiction, fear and happiness, loneliness, but ultimately a desire for life and the fight to keep living. It’s a collage of what’s been lost and of love unbounded.”

She adds, “We can feel the difference with this album. These songs show how far we’ve come. We’ve grown up a lot. I think it’s easy to look back and feel judgmental about your younger self, but we’re past that now. We feel like we know who we are as a band.”

The band’s 2022 debut album, Reeling was produced by Grammy-winner Catherine Marks (Boygenius, Wolf Alice).

The Mysterines are set to embark on their biggest headline tour to date this fall across Europe and North America. They have upcoming tour dates on September 10th in Los Angeles at The Roxy September 11th in Phoenix at Last Exit, September 13th in Colorado Springs, CO at Vultures, September 15th in Minneapolis at 7th St Entry, September 17th in Toronto at The Cave, September 19th in New York at Mercury Lounge, and will be playing at Riot Fest on September 22nd in Chicago. 

Adding to the excitement of the kickoff to Something Corporate’s long-awaited reunion tour June 20th in Brooklyn, NY, frontman and singer-songwriter-pianist Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness reunited with his early 2000s pop-punk band Something Corporate to release a new single “Death Grip” via Big Loud Rock. Watch the video HERE. 

The process of writing and creating “Death Grip” was different for McMahon, who took a casual trip to Nashville in April to flex his dormant writing muscle with friends Luke Nicolli and Ivory Layne. On his last day in town, the trio was able to articulate the moment McMahon had been living in: one of peace and letting go and accepting that the craft that had defined his life doesn’t need to be at the center of every moment of his life. He immediately decided the song needed to be released into the world as soon as possible and with the Something Corporate shows on the horizon, McMahon called upon his original band mates to see if his old friends would be into collaborating again on something new for the first time in over 20 years. 

 “I honestly didn’t expect to be releasing new music this year,” shares McMahon. “I’ve lived on the write, record, release, tour hamster wheel for a long time and decided after the last album I would do things differently. Giving myself permission to enjoy home, enjoy the reunion shows, and work on other projects has been really good for me. I have historically put so much pressure on myself to keep producing, to keep fighting for my relevance, and I often forget that some of the biggest moments in my career and my life in general have manifested in times when I’ve chosen to take my hands off the wheel a bit and trust that things will be okay. That’s what ‘Death Grip’ is about. Finding a rhythm in life that allows everything to exist at once without forcing things into being.”

“I was nervous to bring up the idea of collaborating with the Something Corporate guys again on this song, but they were so supportive and excited by the idea of taking what we did together so many years ago and layering it onto this Wilderness process I’ve worked within for the last 10 years,” McMahon adds. “Being back in the studio together, it was like no time had passed and the recording came as easy as the creation of the song had been. There was a lot of laughing, a lot of stories told and memories revisited. From the time this song was written to the time it will be available in people’s speakers, less than three months will have passed. There are plenty of arguments to be made for not rushing work out, but I think fast-tracking this song back into the world is the truest way to honor what inspired its creation in the first place. It’s a song about letting go and having faith that everything will work out, so we’re letting it go. We’ll see what happens next. I also have to shout out the Big Loud Rock team, who I’ve been so impressed with. When I told them I was excited to release music on this insane timeline, they didn’t even blink. When I said I have no idea what comes next but I’m inspired, they said they were excited to take this journey with me.”

“It’s a privilege for Big Loud Rock to release the first Something Corporate music in 20 years and be in business with Andrew McMahon,” adds Greg Thompson, President of Big Loud Rock. “We are honored to be a partner in his amazing musical journey and are excited to help tell their story.”

See the Something Corporate’s Out Of Office Tour dates HERE. 

 

Photo Credit: Connor Lenihan (@connorlenny)

Cage The Elephant’s highly anticipated North American Neon Pill Tour continues to sell-out dates across the country including the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, and many more. Following the band’s Bonnaroo Festival performance this past weekend, where The Tennessean hailed their set as a “rousing, gritty rock ‘n’ roll performance” in Manchester, TN, Cage The Elephant added a date in the band’s current hometown of Nashville on Sunday, September 1st at Ascend Amphitheater.

 The 48-date North American tour, produced by Live Nation, kicks off tomorrow (6/20) in Salt Lake City with support from Young The Giant and Bakar on most dates. General on sale for newly added Nashville date begins 6/20 at 10am (CT). Find ticket info and all the upcoming Cage The Elephant tour dates HERE. 

 The Neon Pill Tour supports Cage The Elephant’s 6th studio album, Neon Pill, which was released on May 17th. The Kentucky-bred 6-piece are closing in on their 3rd decade together as a band and follow up to their second single “Rainbow” impacts June 25th. It’s the follow up to their latest #1 single “Neon Pill.”

San Francisco punk rock supergroup Me First And The Gimme Gimmes release their 12th album, Blow it…at Madison’s Quinceanera! today via Fat Wreck Chords. It’s the band’s first release in 7 years. 

Frontman Spike Slawson said, “It was really tense for me going out to no applause—and to people actually walking away when we were playing. A Quinceañera is a very celebrated and important event, not just in a young girl’s life, but in the whole families. Mom and Dad were great, but it took the uncles a little while to warm up to me and our off-color jokes, though I think eventually they got it. Our process is to cast the line out and bring people to the point of—and beyond—outward expressions of displeasure like booing, and then hopefully reel them back in by the end of the set.”

On the 13 song live collection, Slawson introduces “Changes” at the beginning of the first of the band’s two sets. “This is a Black Sabbath song,” he says. “If you know it, feel free to sing along.” Recorded on July 15th, 2023, at The Soap Factory in San Diego, on this live outing, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes consist of Joey Cape (Lagwagon) on guitar, CJ Ramone (Ramones) on bass, Swami John Reis (Rocket From The Crypt) on guitar, and Andrew “Pinch” Pinching (The Damned) on drums. They also add a horn section for the first time, courtesy of Keith Douglas and Jason Crane. Swami John Reis’ father, John Reis Sr., even played accordion on the penultimate song, “Before The Next Teardrop Falls,” the track made famous in 1975 by Freddy Fender. 

“I would like this to be considered indicative of what a live show by the Gimme Gimmes can be,” said Slawson. “The only difference is that there would be people that wanted to hear us specifically and came to see us. What happened at this show, to me, is better than unfettered, unconditional applause from a lot of people. Golf-claps from about five people is how I want to hear a live record. It’s funny, and it doesn’t stop being funny. Not only do outward displays of disapproval not scare me, but I might even crave them a little bit. I don’t necessarily want to leave with people booing, but fawning praise makes me cringe. The girl had a good time, her mom and dad had a good time, her abuelo had a good time. And then when the DJ music finally played, her friends had a good time, too.”

The group’s past releases are Rake it In: The Greatestest Hits (2017), Are We Not Men? We Are Diva! (2014), Go Down Under (2011), Sing In Japanese (2011), Have Another Ball (2008), Love Their Country (2006), Ruin Jonny’s Bar Mitzvah (2004), Take A Break (2003), Blow In The Wind (2001), and Are A Drag (1999), and Have A Ball (1997).

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes will begin a 2 week run of U.S. tour dates on August 14th in Sacramento. Find the tour dates HERE. 

The lineup for Riot Fest 2024 has been announced September 20-22. After a 10-year run in Chicago’s Douglass Park, Riot Fest is moving to SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, IL.

The 3-day lineup includes Fall Out Boy, Beck, The Offspring (playing new SUPERCHARGED album), Pavement, St. Vincent, Public Enemy, Bright Eyes, Sublime, Spoon, Sum 41, Taking Back Sunday, Beach Bunny, The Hives, and more.

Find more Riot Fest 2024 info HERE.

UK’s Pale Waves announce their upcoming fourth studio album Smitten, will be released on September 20th via Dirty Hit. The announcement arrived with the lead single “Perfume” which premiered as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record. Watch the video HERE.

The album was written between the US and UK over a two-year period. “‘Perfume’ is the perfect introduction into the new world we’ve created,” shares lead singer Heather Baron-Gracie. “It’s queer, feminine and romantic and it encapsulates the essence of ‘Smitten.'”

Heather adds, “I found myself writing about not just a certain time period, but my whole life, from years ago. “When I fall in love, I fall deep, and it’s interesting to me that you can feel so fascinated and smitten with someone and then they can become a total stranger. So, I feel like ‘Smitten’ really summarized perfectly what I felt for others at a certain point.”

Pale Waves are currently playing US dates as support for PVRIS. Find the tour dates HERE. 

New York City/Los Angeles-based MisterWives announce a fall tour, MisterWives: Just For One Night! with support from Joan, Juliana Madrid, Moody Joody and Meg Smith.

MisterWives also share a fiery new track “Other Side (featuring Charlotte Sands)” Check it out HERE. This marks the first collaboration of many more to come later this summer from the group as they gear up to share Nosebleeds: Encore which promises reworked music with a host of exciting features on each track. 

MisterWives will kick off their upcoming tour with an appearance at Austin City Limits stage on October 6th and October 13th. Tickets go on sale on June 14th at 10am local time HERE.

Canada 3-piece Valley announce their third full-length album Water the Flowers, Pray For A Garden, will arrive August 30 via Capitol Records/Universal Music Canada. The band also dropped the title track “Water the Flowers, Pray For A Garden.” Valley’s lead single “When You Know Someone” was released May 10th.

For the first time, Valley welcomed in an executive producer, COIN’s Chase Lawrence, who helped them to navigate their collective grief after the exit of their fourth band member. 

Valley is comprised of Rob Laska (Lead Vocals, Guitar), Alex Dimauro (Bass) and Karah James (Vocals, Drums).

Laska said, “We wanted to make this album in a very condensed period of time so we didn’t overthink it.” Rob comments, “we went away for a month to the top of a mountain in rural Tennessee and built a studio in a cabin. We wrote and produced the entire album start to finish that month.” 

In addition to the summer festival appearances, Valley announce their Water the Flowers, Pray for a Garden North American headlining tour beginning September 28th in Philadelphia. Find the tour dates HERE.

A benefit compilation, Silver Patron Saints: The Songs Of Jesse Malin will be released on September 20th via Glassnote Records. In May 2023, Malin suffered a rare spinal stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down. The charity compilation will have all proceeds benefit Jesse Malin’s Sweet Relief Fund. 

“As always in my songs, the themes are all there— transcendence, positivity and global unity through music,” said Malin. “This is what I love to do, and I’m going to do everything I can to keep doing it.” Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin is tribute and benefit album, with all proceeds to Jesse Malin’s Sweet Relief artist fund.  

The list of artists part of the upcoming collection, includes Bruce Springsteen, Billie Joe Armstrong, Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello, The Hold Steady, Tommy Stinson, Alison Mossheart with the late, great Wayne Kramer, Tom Morello, Counting Crows, Dinosaur Jr., The Wallflowers, Spoon, Susanna Hoffs, Frank Turner, Rancid, and Bleachers. The full track listing is coming soon.

The first song released from the compilation is Jesse Malin “Prisoners Of Paradise (featuring Bleachers).” Watch the video visualizer HERE.

Jack Antonoff takes the song “through tunnel-of-love reverb like Suicide’s ‘Dream Baby Dream'” cut after hours at Sun Records in Memphis,” writes longtime supporter David Fricke in the liner notes.

Malin said, “There’s a feeling of liberation that comes with this, but I don’t want to keep repeating myself either. “My whole process—since I was 13—is to progress, evolve and challenge myself on each record. I really hope people in all parts of the world can relate to these songs, just the spectrum of emotions, overcoming by celebrating life through music and art.”

Southern California’s Dogstar confirm their “Summer Vacation” Tour of the US in August and September in support of their new album Somewhere Between The Power Lines And Palm Trees. 

The band shared, “We are having the best time out here on the road interacting with fans at these shows, we wanted to keep it going! For this next US run starting in August, we will be planning to try out some new songs as well—hope to see you out there!” 

“Summer Vacation” begins August 8th in Indianapolis. On-sale starts Friday, June 7th at 10am local time. Find tour dates HERE.

AWOLNATION announce forthcoming fifth studio album, The Phantom Five will drop on August 30th, via Twenty Two Five Music/The Orchard. The new album includes the lead single “Panoramic View” which is heading Top 20 on the Alternative chart. 

The album announcement arrived with a dark new song “Jump Sit Stand March (featuring Emily Anderson).” Check out the video HERE. 

“We’ve played a few shows with Dead Sara over the years and I’ve always been a fan of Emily’s voice,” says Aaron Bruno (aka AWOLNATION). “She is a vocal superstar. She ripped it on this track, and it’s really fun to have the male and female vocals together, especially in the chorus where the textures are so nice. The song is about overstimulation and being frustrated with having to please everybody’s virtues all at the same time.”

The Phantom Five is a collection of 10 songs that highlights every different impulse and urge Bruno has learned to master with AWOLNATION in a cohesive, anthemic pastiche of modern music. It functions almost as a “greatest hits” album, in the sense that it offers something for everyone who has followed the band’s arc in its celebrated, shape – shifting way.

AWOLNATION is playing Summerfest in Milwaukee on June 22nd and begins a summer tour with 311 and Neon Trees on July 20th. Find the tour dates HERE.  

Flogging Molly and Sixthman announced the lineup for the upcoming eighth sailing of Flogging Molly’s Salty Dog Cruise, sailing February 17-22, 2025 from Miami, FL to the first-time ports of Grand Cayman and Ocho Rios, Jamaica aboard Norwegian Gem. 

The cruise will feature non-stop live music and activities from morning to night, across several stages and settings throughout the ship, highlighted of course by Flogging Molly and kicking off with a port-show celebration from The Gaslight Anthem. On-board performances will come from a hand-picked selection of special guests including The Living End, FIDLAR, The Devil Makes Three, Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, Mariachi El Bronx, The Aggrolites, Good Riddance, Street Dogs, Scowl, Riverboat Gamblers, The Tossers, Sprints, The Cherry Coke$, and Punk Rock Karaoke. DJs throughout include Matt Stocks, Boss Hooligan Soundsystem, DJ Sweet C, and Smoke and Mirrors Sound System. 

More information on the stacked schedule of activities and a waiting list for the sold out Flogging Molly’s Salty Dog Cruise HERE. 

Following the announcement of her third studio album This Is How Tomorrow Moves (produced by Rick Rubin) out August 16 via Dirty Hit and the release of her new single “Take A Bite,” beabadoobee has announced a North American Fall tour. Her return to the U.S. after kicking off Taylor Swift’s 2023 The Eras Tour, the string of headline dates will bring beabadoobee to major cities coast-to-coast kicking off September 8th in Philadelphia, PA and including Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Denver, and more, as well as New York’s Central Park SummerStage.

Pre-sales begin with beabadoobee’s artist pre-sale on Friday, May 31st ahead of the general on-sale beginning Thursday, June 6th at 10am local time. Find the tour dates HERE.

After reuniting for the first time in 14 years to perform an intimate show in London, Jane’s Addiction, with their original band members, and Love And Rockets announced they will hit the road for their 2024 co-headline tour. Produced by Live Nation, the 23-city tour kicks off on August 9th at Fontainebleau Las Vegas making stops across North America in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto and more before wrapping up in St. Louis at Evolution Festival on September 29th.

 Tickets will be available with presales throughout the week with the general onsale beginning Friday, May 31at at 10am. Find the tour dates HERE. 

Dropkick Murphys is hitting the road with punk legends Pennywise and hotly-tipped Dublin rock band The Scratch for a fall North American tour. The trek launches September 24 in New York City and wraps October 27 in Amherst, Massachusetts. 

In addition, Dropkick Murphys will follow up a European festival run in June and July with North America festivals shows at Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival (July 21 in Mansfield, OH), Newport Folk Festival (July 28 in Newport, RI), the New York State Fair (Aug. 25 in Syracuse, NY), Envol et Macadam (Sept. 12-14 festival in Quebec City, Quebec), Music 4 Cancer (Sept. 12-14 festival in Sainte-Therese, Quebec), Louder Than Life (Sept. 28 in Louisville, KY) and Aftershock (Oct. 11 in Sacramento, CA).

Find all the tour dates HERE. 

On May 24th, Bring Me The Horizon released their new album, POST HUMAN: NeX GEn via Columbia Records. The surprise highly-anticipated release is the latest chapter in the series to be revealed and sees the band expanding both musically and conceptually. It follows their 2020 POST HUMAN: Survival Horror – which featured collaborations with YUNGBLUD, Nova Twins, BABYMETAL and Evanescence’s Amy Lee.

The first part of the POST-HUMAN Series, Survival Horror was recorded during the first COVID lockdowns, almost entirely remotely, and leaned into the band’s heavy side to express its feelings of anger, fear, emptiness and despair. Of NeX GEn, singer Oli Sykes says that it’s searching for something more hopeful, if not entirely positive in and of itself. The music this time on already released singles from the new collection “Kool Aid,” “DiE4u,” “AmEN!” and “DArkSide” has an even more euphonic, post-hardcore-inflected stripe, while still bursting with the band’s unique, forward-thinking creativity. The surprise album release arrived with a new single “Top 10 staTues tHat CriEd bloOd.”  

Lead singer Oli Sykes says the album took “ages to write.” Partly, this is down to the band thinking that lockdown would last much longer than it did. When it lifted, they quickly found their schedules full with touring the world and headlining festivals such as Reading & Leeds (where they were joined by Ed Sheeran for their collaborative hit Bad Habits), hosting and headlining NEX FEST in Japan, Download Festival in the UK, Good Things in Australia and When We Were Young and Sick New World in Las Vegas. 

But it’s also down to the concept quickly growing into something bigger than its creators originally imagined. POST-HUMAN: Survival Horror became far more of an event than the band had envisioned upon release, and crafting its follow-up required much bigger thinking than first anticipated. 

There is so much to unwrap under the surface of the album for those who can spot it. “It’s a real concept album, with a full narrative that connects to the first record, but the concept is hidden and buried,” he says. “Some people aren’t going to be interested, but for some people it could be like a self-help book. There’s a lot of things in there, some of it’s quite clear, but a lot of it cryptic and hidden. People are gonna have to work it out.”

Sydney, Australia duo Empire Of The Sun will drop their fourth album, Ask That God, on July 26th via Capitol. The announcement arrived with a new song “Music On The Radio” from the upcoming release. It’s the second new song from the upcoming release. Last month, Empire Of The Sun released “Changes.” 

Ask That God will be Empire Of The Sun’s first album in 8 years. Empire Of The Sun’s Luke Steele said, “Ask That God is an album we searched for and were thankfully blessed with. We are nothing more than conduits, gathering experience and finding what is meant for the Empire to find.”

The band’s previous releases are Two Vines (2016), Ice On The Dune (2013), and Walking On A Dream (2008). The title track from 2008 was their breakthrough single.

Joywave has announced their Permanent Pleasure World Tour 2024 kicking off on September 11 in Toronto, ON. The U.S. tour leg will feature special guest HUNNY as the supporting act. Artist Presale begins Wednesday, May 15 at 10am (ET) and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, May 17 at 10am (ET). 

Joywave’s upcoming tour will coincide with the release of their fifth studio album, Permanent Pleasure, which will be released this Friday, May 17 featuring their latest single “Scared.” Additionally, Permanent Pleasure: A film by Joywave premieres Thursday, May 16 at The Little Theatre in the band’s hometown of Rochester, NY. It will screen for one night only and will include a Q&A with the band.

Find Permanent Pleasure World Tour dates HERE.

This October, Catfish And The Bottlemen will return to the U.S. for the first time in nearly five years and embark on a North American headline tour. The band delivered their comeback single “Showtime” in February from their upcoming fourth studio album, recorded and co-produced with producer Dave Sardy (Oasis, LCD Soundsystem, Rolling Stones).

Last week, Catfish And The Bottlemen teased their return to the States with an Instagram post depicting New York City in black and white. After taking the stage at Austin City Limits on October 4, Catfish and the Bottlemen will kick off the tour on October 5 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, then hit major cities like Nashville, Chicago, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia before wrapping up on November 3 at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. 

Tickets for the tour are available via presales ahead of the general onsale beginning on Friday, May 9th at 10am local time. Find the tour dates HERE. 

The Austin City Limits Music Festival 2024 lineup has been announced for October 4-6 and October 11-13 at Zilker Park in Austin. The headliners are Dua Lipa, Tyler, The Creator, Chris Stapleton, blink-182, Sturgill Simpson, and Pretty Lights.

The nine-stage, two weekend ACL Fest will include Foster The People, The Beaches, Benson Boone, Bakar, CAAMP, Cannons, Catfish And The Bottlemen, Dominic Fike, The Marias, Jungle, Royel Otis (weekend #2), Porter Robinson (weekend #1), Something Corporate (weekend #1).   

More than 30 Texas artists will grace this year’s ACL Fest stages, including including Dexter And The Moonrocks (weekend #1) and Late Night Drive Home (weekend #2).

New for 2024 will be a dedicated Bungalow located above the VIP viewing deck and overlooking the Honda Stage, complete with lounge seating, cocktail service, and complimentary WiFi. The brand-new Bungalow package includes 10 tickets with full access to VIP. More information HERE.

 3-Day Tickets for both ACL weekends will go on sale today (5/7) at 12pm at www.aclfestival.com. 

The Sisters Of Mercy (TSOM) have announced a run of 26 shows this Fall with Blaqk Audio that include such legendary venues as New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, Los Angeles’ The Greek, San Francisco’s The Masonic and Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom among others. The tour kicks off September 14th in Detroit at The Fillmore.

Tickets go on sale Friday, May 10th with presales beginning Wednesday, May 8th to Thursday, May 9th.

The Chameleons will release a 3-song EP, Where Are You? on May 24th via Metropolis Records in conjunction with Strange Times Entertainment. It’s their first new studio recording in over 20 years.

“It’s exciting to finally be putting out fresh Chameleons material for the first time in over twenty years, although initially I found it quite daunting,” said The Chameleons vocalist/bassist Mark Burgess. “The question about new music is one I had been asked the most from people coming to the shows, a great many of whom weren’t even born when those records were originally made but nevertheless were excited and inspired by the music enough to catch multiple shows on multiple tours.”

The band will celebrate their 1986 breakthrough album, Strange Times with a North American Tour beginning on May 30th in San Diego and working their way east to Washington, DC on August 17th.

“I initially wasn’t a huge fan of album performance tours,” Burgess admits. “I believed instead that they ought to have been confined to one-off, special events.” 

Burgess added, “Performing Strange Times changed my mind. For one thing, the album marked a significant evolution by the band both in its sound and the maturity of the writing. Secondly, it’s a challenging album to perform live and thus, it’s much more fun to play. When all is said and done, we look forward to recreating this particular album for our North American fans!”

TOUR DATES:

May 30 San Diego CA Music Box

May 31 Los Angeles CA The Belasco

Jun 4 Vancouver BC The Pearl

Jun 5 Seattle WA El Corazon

Jun 6 Portland OR Hawthorne Theater

Jun 7 Sacramento CA Harlow’s

Jun 8 San Francisco CA Great American Music Hall

Jun 9 San Francisco CA Great American Music Hall

Jun 11 Salt Lake City UT Urban Lounge

Jun 12 Denver CO Oriental Theater

Jun 13 Kansas City MO recordBar

Jun 14 Dallas TX Sundown at The Granada

Jun 15 Houston TX Dark Ceremony Festival

Jun 17 El Paso TX Lowbrow Palace

Jun 18 Albuquerque NM Launchpad

Jun 19 Tucson AZ 191 Toole

Jun 20 Phoenix AZ Last Exit Live

Aug 8 Philadelphia PA Underground Arts

Aug 9 New Haven CT Space Ballroom

Aug 10 Boston MA The Sinclair

Aug 12 Montreal QC Theatre Fairmount

Aug 13 Toronto ON Opera House

Aug 14 Buffalo NY Town Ballroom

Aug 15 Pittsburgh PA Spirit Hall

Aug 16 New York NY Webster Hall

Aug 17 Washington DC Black Cat

Following the news of her highly anticipated third studio album Hit Me Hard And Soft, set for release on May 17, Billie Eilish has announced arena dates, produced by Live Nation, for her Hit Me Hard And Soft: The Tour. Starting in September 2024, Eilish will embark on her North American leg of the tour which runs through to the end of December 2024. The tour will continue in Australia starting February 2025 ahead of her European, U.K., and Ireland arena dates from April until late July. 

Tickets for Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard And Soft: The Tour will be available starting with the American Express Presale beginning Tuesday, April 30, with additional presales running throughout the week. Any remaining tickets will be available during the general on-sale starting Friday, May 3 on billieeilish.com. 

HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR – NORTH AMERICA*

Sun Sep 29 – Québec, QC – Centre Videotron

Tue Oct 01 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena

Wed Oct 02 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena

Fri Oct 04 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena

Sat Oct 05 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center

Mon Oct 07 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena

Wed Oct 09 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center

Fri Oct 11 – Boston, MA – TD Garden

Sun Oct 13 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena

Wed Oct 16 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden

Thu Oct 17 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden

Fri Oct 18 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden

Sat Nov 02 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena

Sun Nov 03 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena

Wed Nov 06 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena

Fri Nov 08 – Cincinnati, OH – Heritage Bank Center

Sun Nov 10 – Saint Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center

Mon Nov 11 – Saint Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center

Wed Nov 13 – Chicago, IL – United Center

Thu Nov 14 – Chicago, IL – United Center

Sat Nov 16 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center

Sun Nov 17 – Omaha, NE – CHI Health Center Omaha

Tue Nov 19 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena

Wed Nov 20 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena

Tue Dec 03 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena

Thu Dec 05 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena

Fri Dec 06 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena

Sun Dec 08 – Portland, OR – Moda Center

Tue Dec 10 – San Jose, CA – SAP Center at San Jose

Wed Dec 11 – San Jose, CA – SAP Center at San Jose

Fri Dec 13 – Glendale, AZ – Desert Diamond Arena

Sun Dec 15 – Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum

Mon Dec 16 – Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum

Tue Dec 17 – Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum

Judah & The Lion announce fall tour dates for “The Process Tour”  Produced by Live Nation, the 17-city tour kicks off on October 4 in Tulsa making stops across the U.S. in Denver, Boston, Philadelphia and more before wrapping up in Nashville on October 26.

The band began releasing multiple songs from The Process last year. The Process is the band’s fifth album, set to drop on May 10th. The new material has racked up over 10 million combined global streams to date and earned spots on numerous DSP playlists, including Spotify’s New Music Friday, Apple Music’s New Music Daily and Amazon Music’s Alternative Hits. Judah & The Lion’s current Alternative radio single “Long Dark Night” is heading Top 30 on the Alternative chart.

As Judah & The Lion spring dates for The Process tour get underway in Charlotte on April 25th, the fall general onsale begins Friday, April 26 at 10am local time. Find all the tour dates HERE.

Everclear has announced a fall headline tour featuring special guests Marcy Playground and Jimmie’s Chicken Shack. The 30+ date outing launches September 13th in San Francisco and will stop all over the U.S. including Portland, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Denver, Virginia Beach, Knoxville, Richmond, Long Island, Boston, Asbury Park, Baltimore, Cleveland, Green Bay, Minneapolis, Birmingham, and many more before wrapping November 2nd in Porterville, California. The public on sale starts Friday, April 26th at 10am local. Find more info and tour dates HERE, including additional upcoming Everclear tour dates leading into the Fall tour. 

“We’re super excited to be hitting the road with both Marcy Playground and Jimmie’s Chicken Shack,” shares Art Alexakis.  “This will be a great time to celebrate our album Songs From An American Movie Vol. One, which was created 25 years ago. A lot of these songs we haven’t played in a while or, in some cases, we’ve never played live before. We’ll of course be playing the hits and fan favorites too. It’s going to be a fun show for both old school and new fans alike.”

The tour will celebrate Everclear’s 25 Years of Songs From An American Movie with the band’s setlist spotlighting tracks off the album that will release on vinyl later this year for the first time ever via Intervention Records. Since forming in 1992, Everclear has released 11 studio releases, including four that have been certified Gold or Platinum, selling over 6 million records, with breakout singles including “Santa Monica,” “Father Of Mine,” “I Will Buy You A New Life,” “Wonderful” and “Everything To Everyone.”

 Last year, Matt Pinfield hosted a special commemorative anniversary video, “Everclear – 30 Years Gone: A Retrospective.” Check it out HERE.

Sixthman has announced the broken-hearted lineup for the upcoming sold-out third edition of Emo’s Not Dead Cruise, sailing February 4-8, 2025 from Miami, Florida to Nassau, Bahamas aboard the Norwegian Gem. The pop-punk lineup includes The Used, Boys Like Girls, Chiodos, Hawthorne Heights, Saosin, Hey Monday, Norma Jean, Emery, The Early November, Lydia, and Reclaim The Fallen, with more to be announced soon. 

There will be an emo social and usual full itinerary of cruise activites and excursions. Find more details on Emo’s Not Dead Cruise HERE. 

The lineup for Ohana Festival 2024 has been announced for September 27-29 at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, CA. Pearl Jam will headline on Friday 9/27 and Sunday 9/29 with Neil Young With Crazy Horse headlining on Saturday 9/28.

There are over 35 artists on the 3-day festival lineup, including Alanis Morissette, Garbage, Dogstar, The Moss, Black Pumas, Idles, Jenny Lewis, The Breeders, Crowded House, Kim Gordon, and more. 

Ohana Festival was founded by Eddie Vedder in 2016. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Doheny State Beach Foundation, San Onofre Parks Foundation, and Surfrider Foundation. Find ticket info and the daily lineup on the C3 Presents Ohana Festival HERE.

The Outside Lands 2024 festival lineup has been revealed for August 9-11 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. 

The 3-day festival includes Tyler, the Creator, The Killers, Sturgill Simpson, Post Malone (performing a special country set), Jungle, The Postal Service, Young The Giant, Slowdive, The Japanese House, Romy, The Last Dinner Party, STRFKR, Real Estate, K.Flay, and more. 

Find ticket info and full details HERE.

The Texas band Giovannie And The Hired Guns will release their new album, Land of the Lost, via Tejano Punk Boyz/Crush South/Warner Music Nashville on September 13th. Produced by Johnny K (Megadeth, Disturbed, Sevendust, Plain White T’s), Land of the Lost is Giovannie And The Hired Guns’ fourth full-length and second LP since signing with Warner Music Nashville through a first-of-its-kind partnership with Warner Music Latina. 

Land Of The Lost finds Giovannie And The Hired Guns doubling down on the freewheeling attitude they first embraced in their earliest days as a band. “From the beginning I told the guys not to worry about sounding too rock or too country on this record,” says lead singer Giovannie Ynez. “We just went in there and had fun and didn’t let anything hold us back, and because of that the album shows the full range of what we can do as a band.”

It’s the follow-up to the band’s 2022 album, Tejano Punk Boyz, which featured the massive breakthrough single “Ramon Ayala,” a #1 song on both the Alternative & Active Rock charts.

Along with the announcement, the band shares their new  single “Chiquita.” Watch the “Chiquita” visualizer video HERE. Ynez says, “We set out writing ‘Chiquita’ as this sexy song, and it turned out just how we wanted it to. It was really fun to make – all the guys in the band jammed out really hard, and it was awesome. This song is about showing your haters that you’re going to make it, one way or another.”

Giovannie And The Hired Guns are set to play a hometown show on April 24th LJT’s 35th Annual Texas Music Festival in Stephenville, TX and then head out on tour dates throughout the summer leading into Rocklahoma and Aftershock festival dates. Find the tour dates HERE.

Imagine Dragons announce their sixth album, LOOM, will drop on June 28th. In addition, the band will embark on their biggest North American headline tour beginning July 30th in Camden, NJ at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion and ending October 22nd in Los Angeles at Hollywood Bowl. 

LOOM, produced entirely by Imagine Dragons and their longtime collaborators Mattman and Robin, blends a balance between the band’s classic sound and the fresh sounds that brought them joy in the studio featuring nine tracks including current boundary-breaking single “Eyes Closed.”

Lead singer Dan Reynolds shares: “Working on this record was a rollercoaster – just as it always is. some days the songs came from a place a sadness and heartache and others joy and jubilance. loneliness. searching. wanting. anger. Love. The beauty of songwriting is that it as always simply been my journal. it has documented decades of my journey through this strange life. and I’ve been lucky enough to create it with my best friends in a band and have you share it with us.

“Thank you for letting me feel less alone here on this planet. for singing with me across the globe. reminding me that we all truly are one and in this together. falling and failing. and then getting back up and trying again. and singing about it along the way. You have given me purpose and a place to sing and dance. you have continually stood by our side now for over a decade. in return we will always be here singing along with you. I always and only hope that it helps you feel less alone. It brings you joy. makes you cry. makes you angry. makes you dance. makes you FEEL something.

“May your days be a bit brighter. may the things that loom in the future and distance be a beautiful tapestry of joy and pain that you can hang on your wall to reflect on as life passes us by. may you see this art for what it is – a sunset or a sunrise? the end of something or just the beginning? it all looks the same to me. I love you and will see you on the road soon.”

Last year, Imagine Dragons found themselves with a rare break from the road and devoted that time to family and friends. Catalyzed by this respite with a refreshed perspective, the band rallied together in the studio and mined the same well of inspiration that fed their most beloved material. The musicians reflected on the past in order to catapult into a future where stylistic boundaries have disappeared entirely and anything is possible creatively. 

Tickets will be available with presales beginning April 23rd ahead of the general onsale beginning on April 26 at 10am local time. Find the tour dates HERE.  

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats announces their fourth full-length studio album South Of Here, will drop on June 28th via Stax/Concord. Ahead of the album, the band has shared the first single “Heartless.”

Produced by Brad Cook (Waxahatchee, Bon Iver, Kevin Morby) and recorded at Sonic Ranch outside El Paso, TX, South of Here reckons with a lifetime of pain and trauma and transforms it into a stirring, soul-baring rumination on love, loss, hope and resolve.

Rateliff said, “Brad was a great producer to write alongside. This album is a look into my own struggle with anxiety, insecurity and also stories of my life. He encouraged me to take responsibility for my own narrative in the songs and to write about what’s happening in my own life. These recordings were done together in a room with my closest friends. I hope these songs and stories give you an opportunity to better understand your own struggles whatever they may be.”

The band’s breakthrough album in 2015 featured the single S.O.B. The Denver band have released three LPs, two EPs, and a live album. 

All Things Go Music Festival 2024 has been announced for September 28-29 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD.

The lineup on Saturday 9/28 includes Bleachers, Remi Wolf, Julien Baker, and Briston Maroney. Sunday 9/29 includes The Japanese House, Holly Humberstone, David Kushner, Del Water Gap, Soccer Mommy, and Blondshell.

Presale begins Thursday, April 18 at 10am (ET) with tickets on sale Friday, April 19 at 10am (ET) at AllThingsGoFestival.com.

The Killers and SZA are set to headline the inaugural Sudden Little Thrills Music Festival on September 7-8 at Hazelwood Green in Pittsburgh. The new two-day music festival will feature a diverse lineup across three stages that will include St. Vincent, Del Water Gap, Good Neighbours, Hippos Campus, The Driver Era, Michael Marcagi, Royel Otis, and more.

Sudden Little Thrills Music Festival will also put a spotlight on Pittsburgh artists Feeble Little Horse, Corook, Fedd the God and Krunk and the Center of Life Band. As part of its commitment to the community, a portion of every ticket for Sudden Little Thrills will benefit nonprofit and grassroots organizations within the Hazelwood Community, providing lasting economic impact beyond the two-day event.

The presale takes place Thursday, April 18 from 10-11am (ET) with public on-sale beginning Thursday, April 18 at 11am (ET). Find details at SuddenLittleThrillsFestival.com. 

Northern California’s StrateJacket has announced their self-titled debut EP will drop on May 10th via EDGEOUT Records. The EP includes the band’s lead single “Bad Start,” originally featured on EA Sports’ NHL24 Soundtrack. The announcement arrived with a performance video release of another new song “Be My Drug.” Watch the video HERE.

“I hope we’re seen as a response to the overproduced music that’s coming out lately,” said lead singer/guitarist Jackson Roemers. “We want to sound raw and stripped-down.” 

StrateJacket recorded a bulk of new music at Vancouver’s Armoury Studios in November of 2022 with the Juno/BMI-winning Canadian producer/songwriter Brian Howes (Hinder, Skillet, Boys Like Girls). They also secured the Grammy winning Chris Lord-Alge (Green Day, Muse, Prince) to mix the tunes.

British post-punk band The Mission will be hitting the West Coast at the end of the month for a nine shows before playing Cruel World Festival on May 11th.

“I’ve always liked the West Coast,” says vocalist/guitarist Wayne Hussey. “I even lived in SoCal for 4-5 years in the late ‘90s. I prefer to visit though than to live there.”

THE MISSION UPCOMING TOUR DATES:

Apr 28 Las Vegas, NV Backstage Bar

Apr 29 Fresno, CA Strummer’s

May 1 Portland, OR Mission Theater

May 2 Seattle, WA El Corazon

May 3 Tacoma, WA Spanish Ballroom

May 5 Eugene, OR W.O.W. Hall

May 6 Sacramento, CA Harlow’s

May 8 San Jose, CA The Ritz

May 9 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall

May 11 Pasadena, CA Cruel World

May 12 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theater

May 15 Edmonton, AB Midway Music Hall

May 16 Calgary, AB Palace Theater

Featuring footage filmed before Andy Rourke’s untimely death, Blitz Vega’s official music video for new single “Disconnected” teleports the band back to happier times in the studio, while recording their debut album Northern Gentlemen, set to drop on May 17th via FutureSonic Records/CEN/The Orchard). Watch the video for Blitz Vega “Disconnected” HERE. 

Kav (formerly of Happy Mondays) formed Blitz Vega in 2016 with Rourke before his terminal battle with cancer. Kav said, “We originally started recording the track in July 2019 in a studio in Echo Park, CA. Andy came in with the bassline and we built a song around it. The lyrics are about a desire to escape from the digital world and all the distractions that come with it.” 

Written mostly during the pandemic, the Blitz Vega 10 song collection features Andy Rourke (bass), Kav Sandhu (guitar / lead vocals), Asa Brown (keyboards / backing vocals), Thom Arizmendi (guitar), Greg Gent (guitar / backing vocals), Craig Eriksson (drums). Northern Gentlemen is a bittersweet celebration of the late seminal bassist’s decades-long impact on the music world and stands as a testament to the power and impact he continues to have. “Every song tells a story and ‘Disconnected’ takes me back to a particularly poignant memory driving to the studio before we recorded the song,” Kav shares, evoking not only the emotions of sadness for Andy’s death but also the joyful memories that came with their personal friendship and musical collaboration. 

To celebrate the album, Kav wants to keep the promise he made to Andy to release and go out on tour. Kav recently played the first live London show as Blitz Vega at Scala as part of the FSR Events club night.

Billie Eilish has revealed her third studio album, Hit Me Hard And Soft will see its global release on May 17 via Darkroom/Interscope Records. 

Her most daring body of work to date is being described as a diverse yet cohesive collection of songs, ideally listened to in its entirety from beginning to end. The album does exactly as the title suggests: hits you hard and soft both lyrically and sonically while bending genres and defying trends along the way. 

Hit Me Hard And Soft was written by Billie Eilish and FINNEAS, her brother and long-time collaborator, who also produced the album. 

Find upcoming releases dates for Alternative Albums HERE.

Los Angeles trio Smallpools released their new EP Ghost Town Road (east) on April 5th, part one of their forthcoming full-length album out later this year via Nettwerk. It was written and recorded at guitarist Michael Kamerman’s house in Los Angeles, with collaborations from colin creeV of Third Eye Blind and Mitchy Collins of lovelytheband.

As a project that splits time between Los Angeles and Nashville, Kamerman, frontman Sean Scanlon, and drummer Beau Kuther reflected on the evolution of each city in the decade since their debut single “Dreaming.” “When the band first started, the goal was to play the free Monday nights at the Satellite, that’s all we wanted to do,” Kuther recalls. Once proving ground for ambitious local indie bands, the legendary Silver Lake venue closed permanently during the pandemic. Four years later, the space still lies vacant. Meanwhile, they’ve seen Nashville equally overrun by Brooklyn transplants, reality TV producers and bachelorette parties.  

These are the images that inform Ghost Town Road (east) and the forthcoming full-length, named after a street sign that Kamerman saw passing through a stretch of the Nevada desert. “There’s not that many of the bands that we started with that are still doing it, so it feels a little bit like a ghost town out here now, especially post-pandemic,” reflects Kamerman. Yet, Ghost Town Road is as much a state of mind as it is a physical place, as Smallpools re-acquainted themselves with the Hollywood dive bars and restaurants that served as their communal, creative spaces in the early days. “Drive down Wilshire at night, it feels kind of like a ghost town as well,” Scanlon jokes. 

Smallpools began their Night Shift co-headline 23-date tour with Grayscale on April 6th in Atlanta. Find the tour dates HERE.

Grouplove announce that their latest album, I Want It All Right Now, will be expanded into a deluxe version, which will drop on May 10th via Glassnote. The deluxe album will feature six new tracks, including a live version of the album’s title track “All” with Jake Clemons from Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band lending his talents on the saxophone from Madison Square Garden show.

Multifaceted in her approach to artistry, Hannah Hooper has painted all of the band’s artwork.

I Want It All Right Now Deluxe Tracklist

“All”

“Cheese”

“Malachi”

“Hello”

“Eyes”

“Billie”

“Tryin’”

“Cream”

“Francine”

“Climb”

“Wall”

“Chances”

“Can You Feel My Love”

“Fire”

“House”

“Fishbowl”

“All (Live)”

Grouplove have festival performances this summer at Wildflower! Festival, Bonnaroo and Oceans Calling. They have been added to 9 new dates this fall supporting P!nk. Find the Grouplove tour dates HERE.

UK 4-piece Glass Animals released their new single “Creatures In Heaven” today. It’s the lead single from the band’s fourth album, I Love You So F***ing Much, to be released on July 19th via Republic Records. 

Glass Animals lead singer David Bayley said, “I love you so f***ing much, I LOVE YOU SO F***ING MUCH, I love you SO f***ing MUCH, I love you so F***ING much, I LOVE you so f***ing MUCH. These words take on a different meaning every time you say them.” I Love You So F***ing Much is the follow-up to the band’s 2020’s critically revered Dreamland, which sold over 12 million copies globally and featured the breakout single “Heat Waves.” The record-breaking “Heat Waves” single became the biggest international hit from a British band in almost 30 years. It was the first song to reach #1 with a single writer and producer since Pharell’s “Happy,” and led to the pop world’s biggest acts, including Florence Welch, all wanting to work with Glass Animals frontman, songwriter, and producer, Dave Bayley. 

On the new single “Creatures In Heaven,” Bayley says, “It’s about a moment in time, be it a split second or a year or whatever, having the capacity to be enormously formative and life-changing. Even if it is over. Or if it doesn’t go as planned. Or if it dies too soon. It is still fucking beautiful. The love and care and the feeling in that moment lives forever. It never really dies. If that’s how you choose to see it.”

“Creatures In Heaven” is the sublime first glimpse into 10 intimate love stories set against the backdrop of the universe. Wanting to bring fans into the sci-fi-inspired world of I Love You So F***ing Much early, Glass Animals set up a landing page that simply read “PANIC. ANSWER THE QUESTION PLS.” (a nod to Douglas Adams’ infamous The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy). With 15,000 questions posed to the band within the first couple of days, they set about trawling through them: What’s going on (existentially)? Will Glass Animals perform in space? Are we hitchhiking the universe? What is the meaning of life? 

To Dave, it’s a continuation of the Open Source website the band started in the pandemic. A site where fans could download jpegs and mp3s from the band, share them, and create their own artwork and tunes. Engaging with each other and Glass Animals in a deeper way, this modernist iteration of “Ask Me Anything” sparked a conversation around the power of love in a-what-can-sometimes-feel-like-a cold and loveless world. In the build-up to today’s announcement, cryptic flyposters, graffiti, and billboards of the album’s title have been popping up globally since Valentine’s Day, with the band officially revealing the first visual taste of the album, the cosmic zoom, on socials last week. Dave also began sharing “Desperately Seeking Dave” ads in local newspapers last week, prompting fans to find him for an exclusive play of the single before its release across London, New York, and Kansas City.

Glass Animals has also announced intimate pop-up shows for this spring, selling out instantly. They’ll be taking place in California (at the legendary Pappy + Harriet’s in the Mojave Desert) on April 11th and Mexico City on April 15th with more shows to be announced soon.

Dashboard Confessional announces their 2024 Fall tour featuring BOYS LIKE GIRLS and Taylor Acorn. The 28-city tour is produced by Live Nation and kicks off on September 10 at Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury Park, NJ and wraps up in Irving, TX, at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory on October 27.

Artist presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday, April 5 at 10am local time. Find the tour dates HERE. 

Ahead of the Fall Tour, Dashboard Confessional will play at Lovin’ Life Festival, Sunfest and Let’s Go! Music Fest before heading to Manchester, TN, to host Bonnaroo’s Emo Superjam. 

St. Vincent has announced the All Born Screaming US Tour headline dates to support her upcoming seventh album with the same name, set to drop on April 26th via Total Pleasure Records in partnership with Virgin Music. The new album features the current lead single “Broken Man” and new second advance song “Flea” arrives with the tour announcement. 

In addition to the All Born Screaming US Tour new confirmed headline shows, St. Vincent has upcoming festival appearances including Bottlerock and The Thing!  

May 22 — Ventura, CA — The Majestic Ventura Theater*

May 25 — San Francisco, CA — The Masonic*

August 8 — Bend, OR — Hayden Homes Amphitheater #

August 11 — Vancouver, BC — Orpheum +

August 13 — Boise, ID — Knitting Factory +

August 14 — Ogden, UT — Twilight Concert Series +

August 16 — Los Angeles, CA — Greek Theater 

September 5 — Boston, MA — MGM Music Hall at Fenway ^

September 6 — Philadelphia, PA — The Met ^

September 10 — Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn Paramount ^

September 11 — Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn Paramount ^

September 13 — Washington D.C. — Anthem ^

September 14 — Toronto, ON — Massey Hall %

September 16 — Ann Arbor, MI — Michigan Theater %

September 20 — St. Paul, MN — The Palace Theater %

*Momma supports

# Spoon supports

+ Eartheater supports

^ Yves Tumor supports

% Dorian Electra supports

Twenty One Pilots have announced details of their massive global headline The Clancy World Tour and shared “Next Semester,” a new song from their highly anticipated forthcoming album, Clancy, which will be released May 24th via Fueled By Ramen/3EE. Watch the Andrew Donoho directed music video for “Next Semester” HERE.

Last month, Twenty One Pilots returned with news of Clancy and released the album’s lead single “Overcompensate,” which has rocketed up the Alternative chart.

The Clancy World Tour, produced by LIve Nation, will get underway August 15th at Denver. The tour will traverse North America through the fall followed by dates in New Zealand, Australia, Europe and the United Kingdom. The official artist presale for tickets beginning April 2nd (US/CA) and April 3rd (UK/EU/AU/NZ) with all remaining tickets available during the general on sale at 10am local time on Friday, April 5th. Find tickets and tour details HERE.

Having amassed over 33 billion streams worldwide and over 3 million tickets sold across global headline tours, the Columbus, OH based duo of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun have established themselves as one of the most successful bands of the 21st century and redefined the sound of a generation. Co-produced by Joseph and Paul Meany, Clancy marks the final chapter in an ambitious multi-album narrative first introduced in the band’s 2015 multi-Platinum breakthrough, Blurryface.  Furthermore, Clancy’s forthcoming release on May 17th coincides with the 9th anniversary of Blurryface, which was released exactly nine years prior to the day.

SHAED announces their new album Spinning Out will drop on June 14 via BMG. It features the band’s lead single “Everybody Knows I’m High” released on January 26th and currently building on the Alternative chart (Listen/Download HERE). The band has also released another new track “Rocket In The Sky” with the album announce. Watch the visualizer HERE.

The album comprises 11 songs exploring themes of family, love, and growth. Over years of writing, recording, and producing, Spinning Out cohered as a collection of snapshots and vignettes, reflecting on love and belonging from all different angles.

SHAED weren’t immune to spinning out. The trio of Chelsea Lee and twin brothers Max and Spencer Ernst had been living in a whirlwind for a long time — a long, circuitous, sometimes stop-start arc that included meeting as teenagers playing around D.C., living and writing at home together, and a surprise breakout hit in 2018’s “Trampoline.” The runaway ascension of  “Trampoline” led the band through an array of dream scenario milestones — soundtracking a MacBook Air commercial, two billion streams, and accolades from pop culture monoliths like iHeart and Billboard. 

But SHAED also experienced the pitfalls of following that unexpected success. Seeking a reset, the trio emerged from tumultuous times equally defined by existential crises and beautiful life changes to craft a sophomore album that was as true a statement of their identity as anything they had made thus far. There was only one name for it: Spinning Out.

The Washington, D.C. trio released their debut album, High Dive, in 2021.

The Gaslight Anthem released a new EP, History Books – Short Stories, March 22nd on their own Rich Mahogany Recordings label via Thirty Tigers. The four track EP features a cover of “Ocean Eyes,” a heavier version of Billie Eilish’s song, a brand new rendition of the longtime fan favorite, “Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts,” and stripped-down acoustic performances of “Positive Charge” and “History Books.

About the new single, “Ocean Eyes,” The Gaslight Anthem lead singer Brian Fallon said, “I was driving my daughter to school and she played it for me on the way and I really took to the song. Then one day we were talking ideas for a cover with our friends and I said, wouldn’t it be cool to do a heavier version of ‘Ocean Eyes’? I tried it out and everybody loved the idea.” 

The band released their sixth full-length album, History Books, on October 27, 2023. It was the band’s first album in nearly a decade and includes the title track, “History Books,” which sees Fallon trading duet vocals with longtime band champion and fellow New Jerseyan Bruce Springsteen, as well as “Spider Bites,” “Autumn,” “Little Fires” (featuring guest vocals from PUP frontman Stefan Babcock), “Positive Charge.” 

The New Jersey 4-piece consists of Brian Fallon (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Alex Rosamilia (lead guitar, backing vocals), Alex Levine (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Benny Horowitz (drums, percussion, backing vocals).

The Gaslight Anthem will celebrate History Books – Short Stories and much more with a North American Summer headline tour. The History Books Tour gets underway July 26 at Denver with support from Joyce Manor on all dates and The Dirty Nil joining from July 26-August 11 and Pinkshift on August 13-September 1. Find the tour dates HERE.

The band’s previous five full-length albums are Get Hurt (2014), Handwritten (2012), American Slang (2010), The ’59 Sound (2008), and Sink or Swim (2007).

Australian band Vacations announce their No Place Like Home USA Tour, kicking off July 24th in Chicago, with stops in Denver, Philadelphia, DC, New York, San Antonio, Los Angeles, and performances at Pickathon and THING Festivals. Before coming stateside, the band will be playing dates across the EU/UK in May, including London Calling Festival.

The No Place Like Home USA Tour is in support of their latest album, No Place Like Home, which debuted at #6 on the Spotify US Album Chart. No Place Like Home follows an intense period of transformation for the lead singer Campbell Burns, who was diagnosed with Pure OCD (or “Pure O”), a subtype of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder marked by intrusive, unwanted, and uncontrollable thoughts. His experiences learning to live with this while touring the world informed the record, which also engages in nuanced discussions around personal growth and sexuality. 

A DIY affair from the get-go, Vacations formed in 2016 primarily as a songwriting vehicle for Campbell Burns, Burns later adding band members Jake Johnson, Nate Delizzotti, and Joseph Van Lier. The band has racked up over 1.5 billion streams worldwide, including over 675 million streams within the last year and over 2.2 million Shazam’s. Vacations have become known for their raucous live shows. Find the tour dates HERE. 

The lineup for Lollapalooza 2024 has been announced with SZA, Tyler, The Creator, blink-182, The Killers, Future X Metro Boomin, Hozier, Stray Kids, Melanie Martinez and Skrillex set to headline August 1-4 with over 170 bands, eight stages and four full days of music at Grant Park in Chicago. This year’s packed all-star class includes Benson Boone, Raye, The Last Dinner Party, d4vd, Tyla, Qveen Herby, Flo, Olivia Dean and more. 

Presale starts happening on Thursday, March 21 from 10am–12pm (CT). Ticket prices will increase at 12pm CT when the Public On-Sale begins. Tickets and more info at www.lollapalooza.com. 

After teasing upcoming live shows on social media, Weezer has officially announced an extensive North American tour in celebration of the 30th anniversary of their career-defining, self-titled debut Weezer, also known as the “Blue Album.’ They will play Weezer (the Blue Album) in full along with other fan favorites, rarities and more. The tour kicks off September 4th in Saint Paul, Minnesota at the Xcel Energy Center and wraps up October 11th at the brand-new Intuit Dome in Inglewood, CA.

Weezer will be joined by The Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr. on the anniversary tour produced by Live Nation with the general onsale on Friday, March 15th at 10am local time on the band’s website HERE.

In addition, Weezer also announces a special anniversary event on Friday, March 15th at the Lodge Room in Los Angeles with Dogstar as support. The full-circle moment mirrors the band’s March 1992 show at Raji’s where they ended up opening for Dogstar in an unlikely turn of events. The name “Weezer” was coined in a conversation with the show’s booker. They will be playing Weezer (the Blue Album) front to back alongside some very special guests. 

The lineup for THING Festival has been announced for August 9-11 at Remlinger Farms in Carnation, WA. This year, the festival will be taking place at Remlinger Farms August 9th-11th. The 3-day festival located about 30 miles from Seattle features headliners St. Vincent, Toro Y Moi, and Black Pumas. The lineup also includes Spoon, Arlo Parks, Vacations, Militarie Gun, and more.

The festival features local performances and Creative Expression Workshops. Tickets are on sale this Friday, March 15th. Find more info HERE. 

Sea.Hear.Now has Noah Kahan and Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band coming to the beaches of Asbury Park, NJ as headliners on Saturday, September 14th and Sunday, September 15th. The 2-day festival lineup includes The Gaslight Anthem, Trey Anastasio Band, The Black Crowes, Norah Jones, 311, The Revivalists, Kool & The Gang, The Hives and more.

Presale begins Thursday, March 7th at 10am (ET) HERE.

Dropkick Murphys are inviting fans worldwide to virtually join them in their hometown of Boston to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day together through the 5th Annual Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick’s Day Livestream From MGM Music Hall at Fenway on Sunday, March 17th. The sold-out performance will stream live on Veeps at 9pm (ET) HERE. 

Livestream viewers get access to unlimited repeat viewings of the Dropkick Murphys performance stream during the 7-day replay period and option of purchasing an exclusive Dropkick Murphys merch package.

March 17th marks the final date of Dropkick Murphys’ U.S. St. Patrick’s Day tour with Pennywise. Find the tour dates HERE. 

Cage The Elephant announce their forthcoming sixth studio album, Neon Pill, will drop May 17th via RCA Records. Concurrently, Cage The Elephant has revealed a 45-date North American summer tour.

The new album finds the Kentucky-bred six piece—brothers Matthew Shultz [vocals] and Brad Shultz [guitar], Daniel Tichenor [bass], Jared Champion [drums], Nick Bockrath [lead guitar], and Matthan Minster [guitar, keys, backing vocals] forging new musical ground. “To me, Neon Pill is the first record where we were consistently uninfluenced, and I mean that in a positive way,” says Matt Schultz. “Everything is undoubtedly expressed through having settled into finding our own voice. We’ve always drawn inspiration from artists we love, and at times we’ve even emulated some of them to a certain degree. With this album, having gone through so much, life had almost forced us into becoming more and more comfortable with ourselves. We weren’t reaching for much outside of the pure experience of self expression, and simultaneously not necessarily settling either. We just found a uniqueness in simply existing.”

In addition, Cage The Elephant has shared an instant grat track, “Out Loud” six weeks after the release of their current single and title track, “Neon Pill.” “Out Loud” the emotional centerpiece of Neon Pill. Backed by stark piano, Matthew’s bare delivery quakes as he sings, “Man, I really messed up now.” “Maybe it’s so straightforward and honest, because I didn’t know if it would see the light of day,” he admits. “‘Out Loud’ is very connected to my father. My dad’s the reason we discovered music in the first place. When he died, ‘Out Loud’ just poured out of me. My efforts towards the song were deeply rooted in paying honor to him, and I knew it meant a lot to Brad too,” he remarks. “That, also in connection with the difficulties that I was dealing with at that time. It was almost a subconscious apology of sorts before I was fully capable of grasping the gravity of it all. Subconsciously working through it while channeling all of the adversity my family faced growing up coming full circle into my adult life in this one song.” Watch the “Out Loud” lyric video HERE.

Cage The Elephant’s 45-date North American US tour, produced by Live Nation, will kick off on June 20 in Salt Lake City with support from Young The Giant & Bakar on most dates. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, March 8th at 10am local here, and numerous presales, including for the band’s Fan Club and Discord, will begin on Tuesday, March 5th at 10am local time. Prior to the tour, Cage The Elephant has performances at Hangout Festival and Bonnaroo. Find the Cage The Elephant tour dates HERE.

Oceans Calling Festival 2024 will be headlined by blink-182, The Killers, and Dave Matthews Band on September 27-29 in Ocean City, MD. The lineup includes Cage The Elephant, Sublime, 311, The Revivalists, The Offspring, Young The Giant, Grouplove, The Hives, and more.

Oceans Calling 2024 Presale begins February 29th at 10a (ET) at www.oceanscallingfestival.com.

Linkin Park will release a greatest hits album, Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023), on April 12th via Warner. The 20-track collection features the latest unreleased single “Friendly Fire.” The song was recorded during the 2017 sessions for their seventh album One More Light. Watch the video for “Friendly Fire” HERE. 

Mike Shinoda said, “In the making of each Linkin Park album, I want to love and believe in each individual song completely. I hope that if any one track is heard on its own in the world, it is something I can feel proud of, and something that takes root inside the listener and becomes part of the energy that connects us. Curating the tracks for Papercuts was a joy. Each song in this collection is both a singular moment on our timeline and an evolving story that is as much ours as it is yours. From our first release ‘One Step Closer’ to the brand-new ‘Friendly Fire,’ this tracklist spans all our chapters so far. Thank you for being a part of our journey. We hope you enjoy Papercuts.”

PAPERCUTS (Singles Collection 2000-2023) Tracklisting:

1. Crawling
2. Faint
3. Numb/Encore
4. Papercut
5. Breaking The Habit
6. In The End
7. Bleed It Out
8. Somewhere I Belong
9. Waiting For The End
10. Castle Of Glass
11. One More Light
12. Burn It Down
13. What I’ve Done
14. QWERTY
15. One Step Closer
16. New Divide
17. Leave Out All The Rest
18. Lost
19. Numb
20. Friendly Fire

Kings Of Leon return with a new label partnership with Capitol Records for their upcoming 9th full-length studio album, Can We Please Have Fun, out on May 10. The album announcement arrives alongside a 2024 World Tour and lead single, “Mustang.” Watch the video for “Mustang” HERE.

It’s the band’s first new music since When You See Yourself was released in 2021 on RCA. Can We Please Have Fun, as the new  album title suggests, sees the band cutting loose, trying new things, and, yes, having some fun. Recorded at Dark Horse studio in Nashville and produced with new collaborator Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Florence + the Machine) the album sees Kings Of Leon back to their gritty origins.

King Of Leon say this is the album they’ve always wanted to make. “It was the most enjoyable record I’ve ever been a part of,” says lead singer/guitarist Caleb. “It’s like we allowed ourselves to be musically vulnerable,” added drummer Nathan. “I love it when a rock band is not embarrassed to admit that every song doesn’t have to be on 11.”

The Nashville 4-piece 2024 World Tour, produced by Live Nation, will hit 26 cities across the US and Canada, starting August 14. Kings Of Leon will also tour internationally with a headline set at BST Hyde Park in London on Sunday, June 30. General on sale for North American tickets will begin Friday, March 1 at 10am local time at Ticketmaster. 

Kings of Leon – 2024 US/Canada Tour Dates:

August 14 Austin, TX Moody Center

August 16 Houston, TX Toyota Center

August 17 Fort Worth, TX Dickies Arena

August 20 Phoenix, AZ Arizona Financial Theatre

August 22 Inglewood, CA Kia Forum

August 23 Palm Springs, CA Acrisure Arena

August 25 Berkeley, CA Greek Theatre*

August 26 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl*

August 28 Portland, OR Moda Center

August 29 Seattle, WA Climate Pledge Arena

August 31 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena

September 2 Edmonton, AB Rogers Place

September 3 Calgary, AB Scotiabank Saddledome

September 5 Winnipeg, MB Canada Life Centre

September 13 Huntsville, AL Orion Amphitheater

September 14 Cincinnati, OH The Andrew J Brady Music Center

September 16 Boston, MA MGM Music Hall at Fenway

September 18 New York, NY Forest Hills Stadium

September 20 Washington, DC The Anthem

September 23 Philadelphia, PA TD Pavilion at The Mann

September 25 Atlanta, GA State Farm Arena

September 26 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena

September 28 Chicago, IL Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island

October 1 Toronto, ON Budweiser Stage

October 2 Laval, QC Place Bell

Vampire Weekend follows last week’s album announcement (Only God Was Above Us out 4/5 via Columbia) with a 39-date God Was Above Us North American headline tour. Produced by Live Nation, the tour includes three unique two-show engagements that will see Vampire Weekend play Saturday night shows followed by Sunday morning sets at the Greek Theater in Berkeley CA, KettleHouse Amphitheater in Bonner MT and New York’s Madison Square Garden.

Vampire Weekend has also released a pair of advance tracks to showcase distinctly different aspects of Only God Was Above Us, while feeling very much parts of the same whole. The band’s last album was Father Of The Bride in 2019. 

“Capricorn,” written by Ezra Koenig and produced by Ariel Rechtstaid and Koenig, begins on a deceptively subdued note, its honeyed melodies and arpeggiated keys launching into a transcendent chorus featuring a maelstrom of distorted guitars and vibrant drum fills. 

“Gen-X Cops,” co-written by Koenig and Chris Tomson, and produced by Rechtstaid, Koenig and Tomson, kicks off with a frantic guitar figure befitting a title lifted from a 1990s Hong Kong action movie, and rides a jaunty beat to an anthemic refrain of “Each generation makes its own apology.”

Each track is accompanied by a new video built around footage of New York circa 1988 by Only God Was Above Us album art photographer Steven Siegel. 

Watch “Capricorn” video HERE.

Watch “Gen-X Cops” video HERE.

Support acts for Vampire Weekend’s upcoming tour have been hand-picked by Ezra Koenig, Chris Baio and Chris Tomson. Every region of the country will be treated to their own very special guests — several of whom hold local significance —all of whom are beloved by the band. Those guests include: LA LOM, The English Beat, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Mike Gordon, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Ra Ra Riot, Princess featuring Maya Rudolph and Gretchen Lieberum, Cults, a DJ Set By Mark Ronson, Turnstiles and The Brothers Macklovitch. 

Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, February 20 at 10am local time until Thursday, February 22 at 10pm local time through the Citi Entertainment program at www.citientertainment.com .

Bristol UK’s IDLES release their fifth album, TANGK, via Partisan. The 11-track album was co-produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, The Smile, Beck), the band’s Mark Bowen and Kenny Beats (Denzel Curry, Vince Staples, Benee). In an explosive run of unerringly stirring albums, TANGK—pronounced “tank” with a whiff of the “g” and an onomatopoeic reference to the lashing way the band imagined the guitars sounding that has grown into a sort of sigil for living in love – is this band’s most ambitious and striking record yet. 

Speaking about the album, lead singer Joe Talbot says, “TANGK. I needed love. So I made it. I gave love out to the world and it feels like magic. This is our album of gratitude and power. All love songs. All is love.”

The lead single “Dancer” features LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Nancy Whang). Talbot said, “I give myself to you/As long as you move on the floor.” 

TANK is the followup to IDLES releasing their GRAMMY-nominated CRAWLER album in 2021. The band’s previous albums are Ultra Mono (2020), Joy As An Act of Resistance (2018), and Brutalism (2017).

Dexter And The Moonrocks signs with Severance Records, the independent division of Big Loud Rock. “We’re honored to have Mike, Stevo, and the Severance / Big Loud team believe in us and give us the opportunity and resources to pioneer a sound that’s meant for all the freaks, geeks, and everyone in between,” Dexter And The Moonrocks share. “Whether you think ‘a pair of boots’ means cowboy or combat, we’ve got music that will make you feel truly comfortable in your own skin, and we cannot wait to share it with you.”

Produced by Ryan Hewitt (Noah Kahan, Lumineers, Red Hot Chili Peppers), Dexter And The Moonrocks showcase their artistic evolution and lyrical depth on their new track. “She Likes Girls” explores the themes of love, heart-break, and the self-destructive tendencies that impact those around you, taking the time to reflect on memories you once thought to be sacred while realizing they’re tarnished with the mistakes of the past and actions of the present.

Hailing from Abilene, TX and rooted in Southern alt / alt-rock, Dexter And The Moonrocks are a sub-genre all their own. Creating a distinct, fan-labeled “Western Space Grunge” sound, the self-proclaimed “sad space cowboys” pull inspiration from artists ranging from Rainbow Kitten Surprise and Foo Fighters to Tyler Childers and Whiskey Myers, finding a distinct niche and quickly piquing the interest of fans with their edgy take on Southern rock.

Dexter and The Moonrocks will be kicking off a headline tour February 29th in Grand Junction, CO. The band will play Shaky Knees Festival on May 4th and Bourbon & Beyond on September 19th. Find the tour dates HERE.

Pearl Jam will release their 12th studio album, Dark Matter, on Monkeywrench/Republic Records on April 19th and launch a 35-date worldwide tour in May. The album’s title track was released overnight to radio and is available HERE. Produced by multi-GRAMMY award winning producer Andrew Watt, Dark Matter, marks the band’s first release since Gigaton in 2020. 

In 2023, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder [vocals], Jeff Ament [bass], Stone Gossard [rhythm guitar], Mike McCready [lead guitar], and Matt Cameron [drums] retreated to Shangri-La Studios in Malibu where they simply plugged in and played with producer Andrew Watt at the helm. Writing and recording in a burst of inspiration, Dark Matter was born in just three weeks.

The band members personally previewed the record with a listening party at the iconic Troubadour in West Hollywood during GRAMMY week. Vedder said, “I’m getting chills, because I have good memories. We’re still looking for ways to communicate. We’re at this time in our lives when you could do it or you could not do it, but we still care about putting something out there that is meaningful and we hopefully think is our best work. No hyperbole, I think this is our best work.”

Ament added, “What Ed said about getting us in a room at this point, we felt like we were about to make a really important record. A lot of that had to do with the atmosphere Andrew set up. He has encyclopedic knowledge of our history, not only as a band and how we wrote songs, but as players. He could pinpoint things we did on old songs to the point where I was like, ‘What the fuck is he talking about?’ His excitement was contagious. He’s a force. I just want to say thanks for keeping us on track. I couldn’t be prouder of us as a band. I feel so grateful for the fans, but mostly for my brothers and these people I’ve made music with.”

The band is celebrating indie record stores with the release of a special edition of Dark Matter on April 20. Only at participating stores as part of Record Store Day. Get more information and find stores at www.recordstoreday.com. 

Meanwhile, Pearl Jam’s global tour, hitting nine countries and 25 cities, kicks off at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, and will cover much of North America including shows at Wrigley Field, Madison Square Garden, Fenway Park, and their first hometown performance in six years at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena. The tour includes Pearl Jam’s first performance at London’s brand new and state-of-the-art Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in September with New Zealand and Australia in November. Deep Sea Diver (North America Leg 1), Glen Hansard (North America Leg 2), The Murder Capital (UK/EU), Richard Ashcroft (Dublin and London) and Pixies (Australia and New Zealand) will serve as support.

Tickets will be available for Dark Matter World Tour 2024 via Ten Club members-only presale will be held through Ticketmaster Request for eligible members or Pearl Jam fans can register for a chance to participate in the Dark Matter World Tour 2024 registration sale at shops.ticketmasterpartners.com/pearl-jam by Sunday, February 18. More all the Pearl Jam tour info at pearljam.com.

girl in red has announced that she will support the release of her sophomore album I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY! with the GIRL IN RED: DOING IT AGAIN TOUR!. The North American leg of the tour kicks off on April 16th in Boston with Momma supporting dates through May 5th in Nashville and The Beaches supporting dates from May 21st through June 2nd in San Francisco.

Known for her high energy, raucous live shows, girl in red spent most of 2023 performing at various festivals, as well as opening for Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour. Regarding her return to headline touring, girl in red shared via an Instagram message to fans, “North America, we’re doing it again!!!!! I’m bringing my biggest show to you ever!! I’ve put all my creativity into it and it looks f**king sick.”

Tickets for GIRL IN RED: DOING IT AGAIN WORLD TOUR! presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on sale beginning Friday, February 16th at 10am local time at www.worldinred.com.

GIRL IN RED: DOING IT AGAIN TOUR!

4/16/24 Boston, MA                MGM Music Hall at Fenway*

4/17/24 Philadelphia, PA        The Met Philadelphia*

4/20/24 Washington, DC        The Anthem*

4/24/24 New York, NY            Radio City Music Hall*

4/27/24 Chicago, IL                Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom*

4/28/24 Madison, WI              The Sylvee*

4/30/24 Toronto, ON               History*

5/02/24  Detroit, MI                 The Masonic Temple*

5/04/24  Atlanta, GA               Shaky Knees Music Festival

5/05/24  Nashville, TN            The Ryman Auditorium*

5/21/24 Seattle, WA               Paramount Theatre^

5/23/24 Magna, UT                 The Great Saltair^

5/25/24 Morrison, CO             Red Rocks Amphitheatre^

5/28/24 Del Mar, CA               The Sound^

5/29/24 Los Angeles, CA        Greek Theatre^

6/01/24 Oakland, CA              Fox Theater^

6/02/24 San Francisco, CA    The Warfield^

*Momma supporting

^The Beaches supporting

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, The Struts deliver a new track “How Can I Love You (Without Breaking Your Heart).” The crafting of the track was a labor of love for the quartet, with thoughtful lyrics that are highlighted by iconic instrumentation and lush BGVs.

“’How Can I Love You (Without Breaking Your Heart)’ is a brutally honest song that takes me right back to that moment when the phrase came to me,” frontman Luke Spiller explains. “The lyric was labored over for a long time, which I hope people will appreciate.”

Watch the lyric video for the tear-jerker “How Can I Love You (Without Breaking Your Heart)” HERE! 

Meanwhile, The Struts current single “Pretty Vicious” is approaching Top 20 on the Alternative chart.

UK’s Declan McKenna releases his new album, What Happened To The Beach?, on his own label Tomplicated Records via Q Prime. It’s Declan’s third album and first since his 2020 collection, Zeros.

His new album was produced by Gianluca Buccellati (Lana Del Rey, Arlo Parks). The pop—and where it is headed—an experimental spark of inspiration is a new direction for Declan. He said, “The whole process has been less traditional. We tried to see what we could do by spending a bit more time on the recordings and getting perspective as we went along. The songs are more strange and I love that there’s this weird, wonky edge to that. I’ve taken the spirit of how I like to make music at home and just made a record out of that. It’s perhaps a record that can be listened to in a more universal context. It doesn’t always demand your attention, which I really like.”

Declan released the lead single “Symphathy” and played Lollapalooza last summer. The new single is “Muholland’s Dinner And Wine” and you can watch the video HERE. 

Raised in Hertfordshire, Declan was a multi-instrumentalist by the time he was a teenager and began releasing tracks on his Bandcamp page when “Brazil” began to attract viral followers in January 2015. He has released two full length albums: What Do You Think About the Car? (2017) and Zeros (2020). 

Vampire Weekend announced their highly anticipated new album, Only God Was Above Us will drop on April 5th. It’s the fifth album from the band and first in five years from Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, Chris Baio and Chris Tomson. Only God Was Above Us is the first full-length offering from Vampire Weekend since 2019’s Father of the Bride.

Inspired and haunted by 20th Century New York City, the album was recorded all over the world, from Manhattan to Los Angeles to London and Tokyo. The album was produced by Koenig and longtime collaborator Ariel Rechtshaid, mixed by Dave Fridmann and mastered by Emily Lazar. Watch the :30 album trailer HERE. 

The beginnings of Only God Was Above Us stretch back to 2019-2020, when Koenig wrote the bulk of the lyrics. The 10-track magnum opus is the product of five years spent refining, reworking and gradually shaping those lyrical and melodic structures to take Vampire Weekend to a new creative peak. Only God Was Above Us is nothing short of a definitive statement — one that begins on a playfully profane and confrontational note, and runs a gauntlet of emotions, experiences, characters and stories, before ending on an unambiguous note of acceptance… and quite literally “Hope.” 

The title is lifted directly from the album artwork, comprised of photos taken from a subway graveyard in New Jersey in 1988 by Steven Siegel. In the album’s cover, a man in a toppled subway car reads the May 1, 1988 edition of the New York Daily News — the cover story detailing the horrific explosion that tore the roof off Aloha Airlines flight 243. The headline quotes a survivor: “ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US.”

To celebrate their release week, Vampire Weekend will perform in Austin at the Moody Amphitheater on April 8th at noon during the historic total eclipse. Tickets for this special event go on sale on February 13th at 10am (CT) at www.vampireweekend.com. 

L.A. 4-piece Lo Moon has announced the release of their third studio album, I Wish You Way More Than Luck, to be released April 5th via Thirty Tigers/The Orchard. To coincide with the announcement, the band has revealed two new tracks, including focus single, “Water” and a b-side “Connecticut.” Both tracks were written by Matt Lowell and produced by Mike Davis (Ratboys, Pool Kids, Great Grandpa), with Alan Moulder (Depeche Mode, U2, Ride, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, The Smashing Pumpkins) mixing the record.

 Speaking about “Water,” Lo Moon’s Matt Lowell reveals, “Since all the songs on our new album were inspired by the moment I found my artistic voice as a teenager, I started Water with the riff on an acoustic guitar. It really reminded me of something I might play when I was sixteen. It felt whimsical and nostalgic and when the band jumped in it felt like refreshing new ground for us. A couple days before the song appeared I had re-read David Foster Wallace’s transcript of a commencement speech he gave at Kenyon College in 2005. It had a much more profound effect on me from the first time I read it, and I thought the last line of the speech I Wish You Way More Than Luck could work perfectly within the musical framework. In some ways the song felt like it came to us, it’s hard to explain when those things happen, but we’re happy it did.” 

Watch the official music video for “Water” HERE.

Shinedown has released a live version of their single “A Symptom Of Being Human.” The new version was recorded in Denver this past fall at the final date of their headlining The Revolutions Live Tour. The #1 Active Rock single is marching Top 10 on Alternative chart. The crossover hit, which also reached Top 15 at Hot AC in 2023, is Shinedown’s fourth #1 single from their seventh studio album Planet Zero. 

“Live music is such a part of who we are in Shinedown,” shares front man Brent Smith. “As we have said before, in this band we only have one boss, it just happens to be everybody in the audience. So, what better way to celebrate that connection than with a brand new live version of ‘A Symptom of Being Human.’ We hope you love it as much as we love you Shinedown Nation!”

Brew Ha Ha Productions has announced the initial music lineup for the first-ever BRIGHTSIDE Music Festival, presented by WJRR/Orlando, on Saturday, April 27 at Central Florida Fairgrounds in Orlando, Florida. The line includes Sublime, 311, Goldfinger, Story Of The Year, Face To Face, Save Ferris, Unwritten Law, Zebrahead and more.

BRIGHTSIDE will include one of the first announced festival appearances for the recently reunited Sublime — featuring original members Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson together with Jakob Nowell (son of original singer Bradley Nowell) — and comes one week after the band’s Coachella performance. 

Event co-producer Cameron Collins of Brew Ha Ha Productions said, “This is one of those events you just get that feeling, something special is about to happen. The stars aligned perfectly on this festival and I’m absolutely stoked to be doing this with Sublime, 311, Goldfinger and the whole lineup in Orlando, Florida. The energy from the crowd singing along to every word at this one is going to be electrifying! This is an exciting time for Brew Ha Ha Productions!”

BRIGHTSIDE is produced in collaboration with Massachusetts-based independent live event producer John Peters of MassConcerts. Tickets for BRIGHTSIDE go on sale Friday, February 2 at 10a (ET) at www.BRIGHTSIDEFEST.com. 

Southern California’s punk rock and craft beer tasting festival, Punk In The Park is celebrating its fourth year by hitting the road in 2024 with Punk In The Park American Road Trip. The first stop for Punk In The Park on tour is Saturday, May 4 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. 

The initial lineup includes Descendents, The Vandals, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, The Exploited, T.S.O.L., Adolescents, The Dickies, Dwarves and more.

For more info on the Brew Ha Ha Productions event, click HERE. 

Hozier has added 14 new shows to his most extensive headlining run in North America – the Unreal Unearth Tour –  signaling an incredibly momentous touring year for the award-winning, RIAA-Diamond certified singer/songwriter. The first round of shows announced on the Unreal Unearth Tour in 2024 sold over 500K tickets in a single day. 

New performances include a fourth and final show at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium, a third show at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum, and numerous new dates across Jacksonville, FL; Wilmington, NC; Buffalo, NY; Camden, NJ; Detroit, MI; Lincoln, NE; Winnipeg, MB; Saskatoon, SK; Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Sacramento, CA; and Mountain View, CA. 

Hozier first teased the announcement of added shows this past Friday (1/26) via social media. Tickets for the newly added dates will go on sale starting on Friday, February 2 at 12pm local time at livenation.com. 

LCD Soundsystem has confirmed new 2024 North American shows. Beginning with a trio of shows in Mexico, March 21, 22 and 24, LCD Soundsystem will then kick off May 12 in Salt Lake City at Kilby Block Party, May 14 in Bend, OR at Hayden Homes Amphitheater, followed by a May 16-19 run at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre, a May 22 stop in Minneapolis at the Armory, and conclude May 24-27 with four nights at Chicago’s Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom.

Tickets for the 12 new shows will go on-sale to the general public beginning Friday, February 2 at 10am local time. Find details HERE. 

Grammy Award winning artist Gary Clark Jr. has released four new tracks — “Maktub,” “JPEG RAW,” “This Is Who We Are,” “Hyperwave,” and “Habits” — and nnounced his much-anticipated upcoming album, JPEG RAW, set for release on March 22 via Warner Records. This new body of work signals a brave new world for Clark’s ever-expanding creative palette. Clark’s lyrics are pointed, deeply personal, outspoken and socially conscious with occasional forays into rap and spoken word from Clark himself. 

JPEG RAW is Clark’s first album since 2019’s critically lauded This Land, which became his third consecutive top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart and garnered three Grammy Awards, including Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance (“This Land”) and Best Contemporary Blues Album (This Land). Clark’s first Grammy win was awarded in 2014 for Best Traditional R&B Performance (“Please Come Home”). 

Since its release, the singer-songwriter has toured extensively and stretched his wings as an actor, playing American blues legend Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, which received eight Academy Award nominations. 

Blu DeTiger announces her debut album, All I Ever Want Is Everything, which will be released on March 29 via Capitol Records. The New York City born artist picked up the bass guitar at age seven, played her first gig at the legendary punk venue CBGB soon thereafter and was a fixture in the Lower Manhattan music scene by age 17. The energy of this nightlife world manifests through her expressive vocals on her new collection of eclectic songs, which meld art pop, electroclash, funk, disco and alt-rock. 

On her playfully seductive new single “Dangerous Game,” Blu sings, “Call me yoko ono / I’ll break up the band” and proposes an unforgettable evening of dancing and indulgence: “Let’s blow our money / Let’s go all night.” She and Noah Conrad (Niall Horan, LANY) produced the track, co-writing it with Casey Smith (Jonas Brothers, Tori Kelly). 

“I wanted a song that portrayed this fun character who doesn’t give a fuck, who wants to go out and experience life – which is a big part of my personality,” Blu DeTiger says.

In the official video for “Dangerous Game,” Blu gives an effortlessly cool performance of the song as the four-piece band she fronts “breaks up” and is continually reinvented. Shot in Los Angeles, where Blu now resides, the video was directed by Alex Thurmond (Kehlani, TEED, Blondshell) and produced by Stink Films. Watch it HERE.

Blu will support All I Ever Want Is Everything with a North American headline tour. The run will kick off on April 25 in Boston at The Sinclair and include shows at NYC’s Irving Plaza (April 27) and in L.A. at The Troubadour (May 4). 

L.A. 5-piece Militarie Gun has dropped a new EP Life Under The Sun, via Loma Vista/Concord. Life Under The Sun strips back a selection of songs from Militarie Gun’s debut album Life Under The Gun, which was released last summer, putting Ian Shelton’s intensely personal songwriting center stage. 

The EP includes collaborations: “Never Fucked Up Twice (featuring Bully’s Alicia Bognanno),” “Very High (Under The Sun),” “My Friends Are Having A Hard Time (featuring Manchester Orchestra), a new version of “Will Logic (featuring Mannequin Pussy),”and a cover of the NOFX track “Whoops I OD’d.”

The band’s 2023 collection, Life Under The Gun, features the current single “Do It Faster” as prominently heard on the Taco Bell commercial.

Militarie Gun kick off U.S. tour dates beginning January 31st in Phoenix with 31 dates through March 9th. Militarie Gun will also be performing at Coachella, LDB Fest, Welcome To Rockville, Sonic Temple Festival, Primavera Sound, and Bonnaroo this year in addition to their headlining shows. See all the upcoming Militarie Gun tour dates HERE.

The lineup has been announced for Bourbon & Beyond Festival for September 19-22 in Louisville.

The 4-day festival at Highland Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Exposition Center includes Zach Bryan, Tyler Childers, Dave Matthews Band, Neil Young, Beck, My Morning Jacket, The National, The War On Drugs, Fleet Foxes, Black Pumas, X Ambassadors, Sunny Day Real Estate, Dinosaur Jr, The Head And the Heart, Young The Giant, Mt. Joy, Arlo Parks, Amigo The Devil, and The Record Company.

Now in its 6th year, the 4-day destination festival is adding two music stages and 40 additional music artists for 2024, expanding to a total of five music stages and 100 music artists, plus the festival’s culinary and bourbon workshop stages. 

“To have one of the most influential artists of all time, Neil Young, headline Bourbon & Beyond this year is so incredibly special. Not only do I love his music, but I think there is a real authenticity in his craft that has inspired generations of artists to find their true voice,” says Danny Wimmer of Danny Wimmer Presents. “To have such a timeless artist share the stage with some of today’s best storytellers and craftsmen is something truly exceptional. Plus, being able to celebrate hometown heroes, My Morning Jacket and Kentucky’s own, Tyler Childers, this year’s Bourbon & Beyond lineup is truly a career highlight for me. We can’t wait to see everyone this September to celebrate the pure magic of this festival and the great city of Louisville.”

Find all the details HERE. 

Ahead of their North American live dates this Spring in New York, Chicago, Miami and California, Orbital has announced the reissue of their seminal self-titled 1991 debut album, known as “The Green Album,” on April 19 via London Records. All tracks have been fully remastered by Phil and Paul Hartnoll for the very first time. Originally released on September 30, 1991, “The Green Album” contains their breakthrough 1990 single “Chime.” 

 33 years after its initial release, and over 10 years since last pressed on vinyl, the remastered Green Album arrives ahead of the recently updated The Green + Brown Album Tour, which will see the electronic music duo revisit and reinterpret both albums in their entirety, including performing several of the tracks live for the very first time. The tour will start in New York on March 22, followed by a date in Chicago on March 23. Orbital will next appear at Miami’s Ultra Music Festival, and Coachella Festival in California on Saturday, April 13 and 20 before returning for the UK leg.

 Since reuniting with London Records, Orbital have released the 2022 compilation 30 Something, which contained reworks, remakes, remixes and re-imaginings of their tracks, and last year’s critically acclaimed new studio album Optical Delusion.

The Killers have announced a special hometown Las Vegas residency for later this summer. To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of their iconic debut album, Hot Fuss, The Killers will perform the record front to back for the first time ever. The residency will run between August 14-30 at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. 

Tickets are on sale starting Saturday, January 27th. Find more details HERE. 

Sublime has signed a new management deal with Regime Music Group co-founder Kevin Zinger and music industry vet/Vandals bassist Joe Escalante for worldwide management of business, legacy assets and licensing. The collaboration between Escalante and Zinger’s Regime Music Group marks the beginning of an exciting era and the next chapter for Sublime as original members Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh have reunited with Bradley Nowell’s son Jakob as front man. 

As previously announced, the band are scheduled to perform on the main stage at Coachella and will be announcing additional music festival performances in 2024. Production will begin this year on the band’s highly anticipated biopic from Sony’s 3000 Pictures, along with the launch of new products and merchandise further expanding the Sublime brand to new audiences. 

UK’s The Last Dinner Party announce their 20-date North American tour in cities including Austin, New York, Portland, San Francisco, and more. The band’s tour will kick off in Mexico City on March 19th, and tickets for all dates will go on sale this Friday, January 26th at 10am local time. Find the tour dates HERE.

BeachLife Festival returns May 3-5 Redondo Beach, CA with Sting, Incubus, and My Morning Jacket headlining. 

The 3-day festival lineup includes Dirty Heads, Devo, Local Natives, Santogold, Pepper, Steel Pulse, Fleet Foxes, Courtney Barnett, and Atlas Genius. 

Find more BeachLife Festival info HERE. 

The Governors Ball has announced its 2024 festival lineup for June 7-9 at Flushing Meadows Corona Park headlined by Post Malone, The Killers, and SZA.

Blondshell, Durry, Hippo Campus, Bakar, and Cannons are part of the Gov Ball lineup.

Pre-sale begins January 18th from 11a-1p (ET). Find more info HERE. 

Coachella announces its multi-weekend 2024 festival will be headlined by Lana Del Rey, Tyler the Creator, and Doja Cat. Weekend #1 is April 12-14 and week #2 is April 19-21 in Indio, CA. The lineup includes reunion performances for Sublime and No Doubt.

The Alternative artists part of the lineup include (Friday) Deftones, Alvvays, Lovejoy, Brittany Howard, The Japanese House, The Beths, Neil Frances; (Saturday) Sublime, Blur, Jungle, Bleachers, Grimes, Blur, The Drums, The Aquabats, The Last Dinner Party, Militarie Gun; (Sunday) Taking Back Sunday and No Doubt.

Pre-sale starts Friday, January 19th at 11a (PT). More info HERE. 

Sum 41 has announced their last headlining world tour, “Tour Of The Setting Sum”, to celebrate the upcoming release of their final album Heaven :x: Hell (out March 29th). Sum 41 will be making stops in the United States, Japan, Mexico, Germany, Italy, and more, as well as performing their largest show to date to a sold-out crowd of over 35,000 people at Paris La Défense Arena in France later this year. The first run of U.S. dates begin April 19th in Omaha with The Interrupters opening. Sum 41 will be playing their final show as a band in Toronto, Ontario, at Scotiabank Arena on January 30, 2025.

All tickets to the U.S. shows will be on sale Friday, January 19th at 10a local time at www.sum41.com/tour.

The Black Keys kick off the new year with the release of their new single “Beautiful People (Stay High)” on January 12th. The song arrives alongside the announcement of Akron, OH natives’ 12th studio album Ohio Players, out April 5th via Nonesuch/Warner Records. It’s the first new music from The Black Keys since their last album Dropout Boogie in 2022.

Written by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney with longtime friends Dan “The Automator” Nakamura and Beck, the celebratory, joyful “Beautiful People (Stay High)” It’s one of several songs on the album that feature collaborations with friends, including Noel Gallagher, Greg Kurstin, and others.

Speaking on the collaborative nature of the album, Carney shares, “We had this epiphany: ‘We can call our friends to help us make music.’ It’s funny because we both write songs with other people – Dan all the time [as a solo artist and producer], me when I’m producing a record. That’s what we do.”

Auerbach adds, “No matter who we work with, it never feels like we’re sacrificing who we are. It only feels like it adds some special flavor. We just expanded that palette with people we wanted to work with. We were there to support them and their ideas, to do whatever we could to see that moment flourish. But when it came time to finish the album, it was just Pat and me. We’d never worked harder to make a record,” he continues. “It’s never taken us this long to make an album. We took our time and did it right.”

“What we wanted to accomplish with this record was make something that was fun,” Carney adds. “And something that most bands 20 years into their career don’t make, which is an approachable, fun record that is also cool.”

While making Ohio Players, a title inspired by the legendary Dayton, OH funk band of the same name, The Black Keys were also DJing dance parties in cities around the world that they called “record hangs,” spinning 45s from their own eclectic and growing collections.

Formed in 2001, The Black Keys are singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney. The band’s previously 11 studio albums are: The Big Come Up (2002), Thickfreakness (2003) Rubber Factory (2004), Magic Potion (2006), Attack & Release (2008), Brothers (2010), El Camino (2011), Turn Blue (2014), Let’s Rock (2019), Delta Kream (2021), and Dropout Boogie (2022). The Black Keys are winners of six Grammy Awards and a BRIT.

British band The Vaccines drop their sixth album, Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations, via Super Easy/Thirty Tigers. The 10-track album was produced by Andrew Wells (Halsey, Phoebe Bridgers). It’s the quartet’s first album since Back In Love City in 2021.

The Vaccines are Justin Young (lead vocals, guitars), Árni Árnason (bass, vocals), Timothy Lanham (guitars, keys, vocals) and Yoann Intonti (drums). Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations was recorded at producer Andrew Wells’ home studio in Los Angeles and mixed by Dave Fridmann (Tame Impala, The Flaming Lips).

This album is the epitome of what The Vaccines do best: 60’s-inspired classicist guitar pop filtered through a new wave lens, with equal parts euphoria and melancholy. Titled after a

misremembered lyric in Don McLean’s “American Pie,” Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations illustrates the disillusionment that comes when expectations, dreams and reality don’t quite meet. Though the album is ultimately about reconciling with that loss, these 10 songs packed with hooks and melodies and pop smarts are also filled with gratitude for the people and placeswe once loved.

Young notes, “It’s about loss. And coming to terms with that loss – not necessarily grieving for it, but trying to get a new understanding of it.” 

On the current single “Heartbreak Kid,” “There are two types of people in the world – people that have had their heart broken and people that haven’t had their heart broken yet,” said Young. “‘Heartbreak Kid’ is a call to arms, a reminder that in a world where too many of us feel too detached too often, facing your feelings head on can make you feel more alive, even if it feels like the world is ending. It’s a song to keep you company on the busy freeway that connects loss to discovery.”

The band will make their return to the U.S. this spring on a coast-to-coast tour with The Kooks.

 

Hangout Music Festival 2024 is May 17-19 on the beaches of Gulf Shores Alabama. The three-day festival will be headlined by Zach Bryan, Lana Del Rey, and ODESZA.

Some of the Alternative artists playing Hangout include: Cage The Elephant, A Day To Remember, Koe Wetzel, All Time Low, David Kushner, Matt Maeson, and The Beaches.

Presale begins Friday, January 12th at 11a (CT). Find more info HERE. 

The lineup for Boston Calling 2024 has been announced for May 24-26 at Harvard Athletic Complex. The annual three-day Boston festival will be headlined by Ed Sheeran on May 24th, Tyler Childers on May 25th, and The Killers on May 26th.

Alternative artists playing Boston Calling 2024 include: Young the Giant, David Kushner, Cannons, The Beaches, Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, d4vd, Hozier, The Revivalists, Lovejoy, Blondshell, and Royel Otis.

Pre-sale starts Thursday, January 11th at 10a (EST). Find more info on Boston Calling 2024 HERE. 

Bonnaroo Music And Arts Festival 2024 is set for June 13-16 in Manchester, TN. The four-day festival will be headlined by Pretty Lights, Post Malone, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fred Again..

The lineup includes Cage The Elephant, Lovejoy, Interpol, Gary Clark Jr, Maggie Rogers, David Kushner, Grouplove, IDLES, Bakar, The Maine, The Beaches, and so many more.

For the first time, Bonnaroo’s main stage will power up on Thursday night.

Pre-sale begins Thursday, January 11th at 10a (CT). Find more details and the complete lineup HERE.

The BottleRock 2024 lineup has been announced for May 24-26 in Napa Valley. More than 75 artists are set to take the stage over the 3-day Memorial Day Weekend festival with Pearl Jam, Ed Sheran, Stevie Nicks, and Mana headlining.

Alternative artists on the bill include: Queens Of The Stone Age, St. Vincent, The Offspring, Oliver Tree, Cold War Kids, Cannons, All Time Low, BoyWithUke, The Beaches, Jack Kays, Royel Otis, Colony House, and The Moss.

Tickets on-sale beginning Tuesday, January 9th at 10a. Find all the BottleRock details HERE. 

The last album for Sum 41 will be a double album, Heaven :x: Hell, set for release on March 29th, 2024 via Rise/BMG Records. The 20 track collection will have 10 Heaven tracks of pop punk and 10 Hell tracks of heavy metal. The band has been straddling the line of pop-punk and metal for their entire career, and Heaven :x: Hell is a testament to their innovative sound since the band’s inception 27 years ago.

On the new album, lead singer Deryck Whibley says, “Once I heard the music, I was confident enough to say, ‘This is the record I’d like to go out on.’ We’ve made a double album of pop punk and metal, and it makes sense. It took a long time for us to pave this lane for ourselves, but we did, and it’s unique to us.”

The lead single off the Heaven side of the new album is “Landmines,” moving into the Top 10 on the Alternative chart.

Alongside the album announcement, Sum 41 has released a new single and music video, “Rise Up”. It’s the first offering from the upcoming album’s metal-filled Hell side. “Writing ‘Rise Up,’ I felt the way I did when I first got signed,” said Whibley. “I felt the pressure and the need to create something great, but I felt so excited at the same time.” 

Watch the video for “Rise Up” HERE.

beabadoobee has released a new live album, Live In LA, via Dirty Hit. It’s a live recording of 22 songs from her sold out headline show at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. The UK artist released her first live album, Live In London, in September. She released her debut album Fake It Flowers in 2020 and her sophomore album Beatopia was released in 2022.

Live in LA tracklist:

Talk

Apple Cider

10:36

Together

Charlie Brown

Care

She Plays Bass

Last Day On Earth

Pictures Of Us

Animal Noises

the perfect pair

See you Soon

Sunny day 

Glue Song

Don’t get the deal

You Lie All The Time

Back To Mars

Cologne

the way things go

Coffee

fairy song 

Taking Back Sunday has announced dates for their spring/summer 2024 North American headline tour in support of their latest release 152. The two-part run, featuring support from Citizen, is set to take place May 19th through August 17th with stops in Dallas, Portland, Cleveland, Orlando, Boston, New York, and more. 

The band shares: “Man, just taking it all in. We’ve been on a whirlwind on finishing the record, getting everything ready to put it out, making all the plans. Now comes our other favorite part, getting to visit so many cities in North America and playing live. The set will be a good mixture of albums and the reception for 152 has been so positive that we can’t wait to get out there and play some of those songs for the first time in these cities and make magic all summer. Citizen also put out a great new record so we’re going to have a good time together. Can’t wait.”

In addition to the headline tour, the band’s local New York and New Jersey fans will be treated to annual holiday spectacular on December 13th and 14th at Mulcahy’s and December 15th and 16th at Starland Ballroom. On Dec. 16th, Taking Back Sunday will also be holding their annual Holiday Pop-Up Shop and fundraiser at Starland Ballroom in support of Tamerlaine Sanctuary & Preserve in honor of the band’s longtime attorney Dave Stein.

Find more info HERE.

L.A.’s Mike Shinoda drops his new EP, The Crimson Chapter today (12/1) via Warner. The new collection features 8 tracks, including new remixes of his latest solo single, “Already Over” and his previous single “In My Head (f/Kailee Morgue)” from the Scream VI Soundtrack.

Shinoda said, “’Already Over’ came to me as I was sitting with my favorite guitar in my hands—the same guitar I used on songs from ‘What I’ve Done’ to ‘In My Head.’ There was a familiar DNA to the song that I think Linkin Park fans will recognize. For me, it creates a bridge from the past to a blurry but exciting future.” 

He added, “This chapter takes some of my favorite things about releasing music – the songs, games, challenges, and visuals – and assembles them in a different way.”

Find the latest Alternative Album release dates HERE.

In celebration of his favorite holiday, Koe Wetzel has released his new EP Koe Wetzel Presents… Wetzel’s Wonderland via Columbia. The genre-bending Texan puts his spin on three Christmas classics: “Please Come Home For Christmas,” “Blue Christmas,” and “I’ll Be Home For Christmas.”

Earlier this week Koe shared a hilarious EP trailer, which he wrote and co-directed. The video clip finds Koe encountering Mr. Claus himself “once upon a time in a lonely Texas dive bar.” Watch it HERE. 

As Koe was leaving the bar after his run-in with Santa, he was asked for a statement from the scene: “Christmas music is my favorite music to get drunk to. Also I love eggnog.”

Shinedown has released The Library Sessions inspired by their current crossover single “A Symptom Of Being Human.” In the spirit of Giving Tuesday, the special November 28th broadcast event is benefits the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), an organization dedicated to saving lives and bringing hope to those affected by suicide that Shinedown has been supporting for over a decade. 

The Library Sessions video features stripped-down, acoustic performances of “A Symptom Of Being Human” and Shinedown’s previous #1 rock single “GET UP” along with the band reading real fan stories that were submitted to the Symptom Library. Through their lyrics and sharing their own personal stories as well as providing a safe space for fans to express their life struggles, Shinedown continues to shine a light on mental health awareness two decades into their record-setting career, while also reminding us of the importance of human connection and that we are not alone in this world. 

“For over a decade, we have had the honor of working with the AFSP,” shares Shinedown front man Brent Smith. “Mental health is not a term to be taken lightly under any circumstances. We are all a work in progress, and we will all be challenged in our lifetime. That being said, we know we live in a world that has countless obstacles that we must overcome on any given day, and at times it can feel overwhelming. Remember, life is a journey…When we got the chance to sit down together and read fan-submitted stories, it once again showed us the power of humanity and served as yet another reminder that we’re not alone. This was something to be celebrated.”

Watch The Library Sessions HERE.

Yungblud has shared the official music video for his latest single,‘Happier’ (ft. Oli Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon). Directed by Masaki Watanabe of Maxilla Japan, the music video features both Yungblud and Oli, and was shot in Tokyo during their sold-out co-headlining tour. Watch the high-energy, in-your-face video HERE.

“Happier’ marks the second collaboration together following Bring Me The Horizon’s massive single “OBEY” in 2020. The pair have been touring Asia on their sold-out co-headlining tour this fall.

Nettwerk has announced the signing of Scottish duo SAINT PHNX and share the band’s new single “Something In The Water.” Check it out HERE.

SAINT PHNX had this to say about their new single, “‘Something in the Water’ is a song about individuality. It’s about letting that inner person who you really are out for the world to see and not care what others think.”

Formed in 2016, the Glasgow brothers, Stevie and Alan Jukes have hustled hard, performed countless gigs, and even touched down on U.S. soil to write in Las Vegas. The duo served up their single “KING” and eventually garnered over 19 million Spotify streams and counting. In between touring with Yungblud and opening for everyone from Lewis Capaldi to Imagine Dragons, they unveiled their independent full-length debut, DDMN, in 2020. 

In the middle of SAINT PHNX’s international rise, their dad was diagnosed with the terminal lung condition, pulmonary fibrosis, so Stevie and Alan moved into a new house with him and turned the room above the garage into a studio.

L.A. 3-piece Bad Suns share a new collection of songs titled Infinite Joy via Epitaph. Infinite Joy is the band’s fifth album. It was produced by Ben Allen (Washed Out, Walk The Moon).

“The songs on Infinite Joy reflect an oceanic scope of emotions which colored the last year of my life,” said lead singer Christo Bowman. “In October of 2022 I got clean after a decade spent battling with alcohol abuse. In the direct aftermath, it was like experiencing an entire ten years’ worth of growth, in a matter of months. Growth doesn’t occur independent of pain, sorrow, joy — very emotion imaginable. I had to go through all of it, and resist none of it. It’s a journey I will be on for the rest of my life.”

In celebration of the new release, Sirius XM Alt Nation premiered the new focus track “Everything Is…” The song combines witty lyrics, jangly guitars and a bouncy rhythm to find joy in letting go.

Last month Bad Suns released the upbeat single and music video for “The One I Used To Love.”

Bad Suns will be playing an Infinite Joy release show tonight at the House Of Blues in Anaheim, CA.

Infinite Joy Tracklisting

1. Lunar Shadows
2. The One I Used To Love
3. Astral Plans
4. Everything Is…
5. Just To Feel Your Touch
6. Living Or Dying

Following the release of two tracks “Within (Drumless Edition)” and “Motherboard (Drumless Edition),” Daft Punk has released a Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition) album via Columbia to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the GRAMMY-award winning Album Of The Year. The new edition strips away all drum and percussive elements from the album.  

Daft Punk’s “Memory Tapes” content series continues most recently with episodes with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers. Directed by long-time Daft Punk collaborator Warren Fu, interviews for Memory Tapes were conducted at Henson Studios in Los Angeles and Gang Studios in Paris, where much of Random Access Memories was recorded. Each episode includes a new interview as well as archival footage and never before seen studio footage of Daft Punk as they crafted what became their final album.

Bleachers announce their upcoming self-titled fourth album, will drop on March 8th via Dirty Hit. The lead single “Modern Girl” is inside the Top 15 on the Alternative chart. Jack Antonoff has also shared another new track, “Alma Mater” featuring backing vocals from Lana Del Rey.

The press release says, “Antonoff’s distinctly New Jersey take on the bizarre sensory contradictions of modern life, on his position in culture, and on the things he cares about.” It’s also perfect music for “driving on the highway to, for crying to, and for dancing to at weddings.”

The collection will include vinyl options with different bonus tracks and 4 part special edition covers now available for pre order. plus bundles with cds, cassettes, + signed postcards.

Bleachers will play UK tour dates in March following the album release.

The lineup for When We Were Young Festival 2024 has been announced for October 19th at Las Vegas Festival Grounds and there’s a new twist, each band will be performing one of their albums. 

On the bill will be My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, A Day To Remember, Dashboard Confessional, Pierce The Veil, The Used, Simple Plan, Coheed And Cambria, All-American Rejects, Underoath, Bayside, New Found Glory, and more.

Pre-sale starts Friday, November 17th at 10a. Find more info at whenwewereyoungfestival.com.

After a 26 year touring hiatus, L.A.’s Porno For Pyros will embark on their farewell tour in 2024. Perry Farrell, Stephen Perkins, and Peter DiStefano kick off their 16-city tour Porno For Pyros – Horns, Thorns En Halos Farewell, produced by Live Nation, on February 13th at the Observatory in Santa Ana, CA.

Farrell said, “Now we’re here, and that same heart, that same desire to make music together, has returned. Getting together with these guys has been some of the most fun, the happiest times in my life.”

It’s been 30 years since their self-titled debut album. Porno For Pyros will also share a new single “Agua” tomorrow (11/16). Originally inspired by the band members’ close encounters with dolphins on their globe-trotting surfing trips of the ‘90s, “Agua” reflects their contemporary environmental concerns. The single is part of a forthcoming self-released EP set to drop in 2024 ahead of the band’s touring run.

Last year saw the reunion of the original members (Perry Farrell, Stephen Perkins, Peter DiStefano, and Martyn LeNoble) for a hometown show at The Belasco. Porno For Pyros performed at Rockville and Lollapalooza festivals in 2023.

Tickets will be available for presale at 12p local time today, with the general on-sale taking place on Friday, November 17th at 10a local time at LiveNation.com.

PORNO FOR PYROS – HORNS, THORNS EN HALOS FAREWELL TOUR DATES:

Tue Feb 13 – Santa Ana, CA – Observatory Orange County

Thu Feb 15 – San Diego, CA – Observatory San Diego

Sat Feb 17 – Ventura, CA – Ventura Theater

Sun Feb 18 – Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco

Wed Feb 21 – Aspen, CO * – Belly Up Aspen*

Thu Feb 22 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium

Sat Feb 24 –- Omaha, NE – Astro Theatre*

Mon Feb 26 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed*

Tue Feb 27 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit

Thu Feb 29 – Toronto, ON – HISTORY

Sat Mar 02 – Philadelphia, PA – Parx Casino*

Sun Mar 03 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore Silver Spring

Tue Mar 05 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway

Thu Mar 07 – Port Chester, NY – The Capitol Theatre

Fri Mar 08 – New York, NY – Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom

Sun Mar 10 – Montclair, NJ – The Wellmont Theater

*Not a Live Nation Date

Laura Jane Grace announces her new album, Hole In My Head, will drop February 16th via Polyvinyl. The announcement came alongside the release of title track and music video directed by actor/photographer Gilbert Trejo (Machete, From a Son). Watch “Hole In My Head” video HERE.

The upcoming 11-song collection was recorded at Native Sound in St. Louis with David Beeman and mixed by Matt Allison (The Lawrence Arms, Rise Against). Laura plays guitar and drums with Drive-By Truckers bassist Matt Patton part on over half the album.

Grace is the former lead singer and guitarist of political punk band Against Me! She has previously released two solo records and will head out on a U.S. headline tour set for March 2024 backed by a full band featuring Matt Patton (Drive-By Truckers) & Mikey Erg, with support from Thelma and the Sleaze and Dikembe.

On Friday, November 10th, Maneskin released RUSH! (ARE U COMING?) via Arista. It’s a new edition of their album RUSH! originally released in January and reverses the provocative original cover art. The newest collection includes 5 new Maneskin songs, including the band’s current Top 5 Alternative single single “Honey (Are U Coming?).”

The new album has 22-songs and also includes the long-awaited release of “Trastevere” that was first performed live at the band’s Circo Massimo show in Rome where it became an instant fan-favorite on tour. The song is named after the neighborhood they grew up in in Rome, it’s one of the rawest and most personal songs the band have ever written. The other three new songs are: “Off My Face,” “The Driver,” and “Valentine” and the announcement arrived with an accompanying video for the rock ballad. Watch the video for “Valentine” HERE.

The deluxe version of RUSH! (Are U Coming?) includes the “LOUD KIDS JOURNAL,” an exclusive photo book with 152 pages with photos and memories collected from fans during the last tour.

Yes, AJR has dropped their fifth album, The Maybe Man, via their own AJR Productions/Mercury/Republic Records. Last night, the band appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for their first-ever late night couch conversation. You can watch AJR’s interview HERE and their performance of “Yes I’m A Mess” on the show HERE. The band also performed this morning on Live With Kelly And Mark.

The new collection features 12 tracks, including five previously released tracks, including “Yes I’m A Mess,”, which was just released and has already amassed 15M global streams, “The Dumb Song,” which has over 20M global streams and over 1M views on YouTube, “The DJ Is Crying For Help,” which has nearly 20M global streams and 4.5M views on YouTube, and “I Won’t,” which they premiered on Jimmy Fallon and has amassed over 52M global streams and nearly 7M views on Youtube. The album also includes “God Is Really Real,” which is written about their father, Gary Metzger, who tragically passed away earlier this year. The heartfelt song resonated in the hearts of listeners worldwide who had grown to love Gary as an unofficial fourth member of the band. 

 “In your mid-to-late twenties, you start to think about your life. There’s endless potential, but it’s also scary because you don’t know who you’re going to be. This album examines that personal existential crisis and the prevalent question of, ‘Who am I?’” AJR share. “We’ve experienced a lot this past year and decided to write about all the serious issues you face as you get older in the most AJR-way we could.”

In celebration of the album, AJR announced a massive 43-city Maybe Man Tour set for next spring. The band’s first arena tour, promoted by Live Nation, will kick off on April 2nd in Norfolk and will conclude on August 2nd in Washington, D.C. Presale happens Monday, November 13th at 10a (ET) through Thursday, November 16th at 10p local time. The general on-sale will begin on Friday, November 17th at 9a local time at ajrbrothers.com.

$1 for every ticket sold will go towards Planet Reimagined, a non-profit organization co-founded by AJR’s Adam Met.

 The Maybe Man Tour Dates:

 Tue-Apr-02-24  – Norfolk, VA – Scope Arena

 Wed-Apr-03-24 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center

 Thu-Apr-04-24 – Boston, MA – TD Garden

 Sat-Apr-06-24 – Hartford, CT – XL Center

 Sun-Apr-07-24 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena

 Tue-Apr-09-24 – Raleigh, NC – PNC Arena

 Wed-Apr-10-24 – Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center

 Fri-Apr-12-24 – Indianapolis, IN – Gainbridge Fieldhouse

 Sat-Apr-13-24 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center

 Sun-Apr-14-24 – Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Arena

 Tue-Apr-16-24 – Des Moines, IA – Wells Fargo Arena

 Wed-Apr-17-24 – Minneapolis, MN – Xcel Energy Center

 Fri-Apr-19-24 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center

 Tue-Apr-23-24 – Boise, ID – Idaho Central Arena

 Wed-Apr-24-24 – Portland, OR – MODA Center

 Fri-Apr-26-24 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena

 Mon-Apr-29-24 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center

 Wed-May-01-24 – San Diego, CA – Pechanga Arena

 Sat-May-04-24 – Oklahoma City, OK – Paycom Center

 Tue-May-07-24 – Austin, TX – Moody Center

 Thu-May-09-24 – Tampa, FL – Amalie Arena

 Fri-May-10-24 – Orlando, FL – Amway Center

 Sun-May-12-24 – Jacksonville, FL – VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena

 Tue-Jun-25-24 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena  

 Thu-Jun-27-24 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse

 Fri-Jun-28-24 – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena

 Sat-Jun-29-24 – Rosemont, IL – Allstate Arena

 Sun-Jun-30-24 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena

 Sun-Jul-04-24 – Milwaukee, WI – American Family Insurance Amphitheater (Summerfest)

 Sat-Jul-06-24 – St Louis, MO – Enterprise Center

 Tue-Jul-09-24 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center

 Wed-Jul-10-24 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena

 Fri-Jul-12-24 – Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center

 Sun-Jul-14-24 – Los Angeles, CA – Kia Forum

 Tue-Jul-16-24- Salt Lake City, UT – Delta Center

 Thu-Jul-18-24 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena

 Sun-Jul-21-24 – Omaha, NE – CHI Health Center

 Tue-Jul-23-24- Cincinnati, OH – Heritage Bank Center

 Thu-Jul-25-24 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center

 Fri-Jul-26-24 – New York City, NY – Madison Square Garden

 Tue-Jul-30-24 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena

 Wed-Jul-31-24 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena

 Fri-Aug-02-24 – Washington DC – Capitol One Arena