Alex Cameron announces new album and North American tour, shares “Best Life”

Orville Peck has announced his sophomore album ‘Bronco’ with a new trailer featuring neon lights, barroom brawls, and slick dance moves.The country artist has also revealed that ‘Chapter 1’ from ‘Bronco’ will be released this Friday, February 11, while the album itself is slated to drop on April 8 via Columbia. ‘Bronco’ is the follow-up to his 2019 album ‘Pony’, released 2019 on Sub Pop.The trailer features a snippet of a new Orville Peck song, which appears to be the title track of the album.

mxmtoon has released ‘mona lisa’, a new single from her sophomore album that will be released later this year. The artist known as Maia has also announced North American tour dates – find those below.The single was released on streaming platforms on February 8 alongside art depicting the singer as the iconic Leonardo da Vinci painting.The ukulele-driven song invites the listener to daydream, mxmtoon checking off references to several famous artists, including William Shakespeare and Frida Kahlo, as she sings: “I wanna be a Mona Lisa / The kinda girl that you can dream of”.Listen to mxmtoon’s ‘mona lisa’ below.The single is taken from mxmtoon’s upcoming sophomore album, which has yet to be given a release date.In a statement, she said, “As someone who usually writes songs about other people, one of my ongoing questions is ‘will anyone ever write songs about me?’”“‘mona lisa’ is about wanting to be the subject of the art for once instead of being the creator.

IDLES have shared the details behind their 2022 North American tour and announced that they’ve been added to this year’s Coachella Music Festival lineup.Along with the new tour dates, the band has shared a video for their single, ‘CRAWL!’ from their fourth studio album, ‘CRAWLER’. The video features a claymation version of frontman Joe Talbot riding a motorcycle while singing the lyrics to the gritty track. Watch the video below.“This is the turning point, after you’ve crashed,” Talbot said of the track.

Ringo Starr is set to return to the road with his All-Starr Band in mid-2022, touring North America for the first time in nearly three years.Joining Starr on the road will be long-serving guitarist Steve Lukather of Toto, saxophonist Warren Ham, bassist Hamish Stuart and drummer Gregg Bissonette.Men At Work‘s Colin Hay is also set to participate in the tour, providing guitar and vocals, as is a returning Edgar Winter. The prolific musician – who provides keyboards, saxophone and backing vocals – has not performed with the All-Starr Band since 2011.

The Who have announced details of a huge two-part North American tour for 2022 – see the full list of dates and ticket details below.The tour – dubbed ‘The Who Hits Back!’ – will begin in late April, with the first leg running until the end of May.The band will then return to the States in October for another run of dates, which take them through until November.Speaking of the tour, Roger Daltrey said: “Pete and I said we’d be back, but we didn’t think we’d have to wait for two years for the privilege. This is making the chance to perform feel even more special this time around.“So many livelihoods have been impacted due to COVID, so we are thrilled to get everyone back together – the band, the crew and the fans.

Slowthai has announced a slate of dates for a brief North American tour. The Antisocial Roadshow tour is a seven-show run that kicks off in New York City on April 8 and will make stops in Toronto, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco before concluding in Boston on April 30.

The Washington Commanders is the new name of the NFL team for the Washington, D.C. area, after a long search to final a new moniker that stretched out over almost two years.

Slowthai will return to North America later this year for a run of headlining shows in the leadup to his performances at Coachella 2022.The tour, announced earlier this week (January 31), will commence in early April with a performance at New York’s Webster Hall. The rapper will spend most of the month on tour throughout the continent, which will include sets across both weekends of Coachella alongside the likes of Harry Styles, Billie Eilish and Kanye West.Slowthai was performing in the US as recently as last month, where he performed a last-minute show at Brooklyn venue Baby’s All Right.

Wolf Alice will tour North America this March and April, taking in shows across the US and Canada on a 20-date run.READ MORE: Wolf Alice live in London: spellbinding small venue show from snarling rock superstarsThe tour, announced yesterday (February 1), is part of the band’s ongoing world tour in support of their third studio album, ‘Blue Weekend’. It marks their second tour of North America in as many years, following their run of dates in late 2021.Along with their headlining dates, the band will also play two shows in June as a support act.

Yesterday, English rockers Wolf Alice were announced as the opening act for just one date of Halsey's upcoming 2022 tour. It was unlikely that the group, who just released one of 2021's best albums with Blue Weekend, would be playing just one stateside show this year, and lo and behold, today they've announced more North American dates.

EXCLUSIVE: FilmRise has acquired all North American distribution rights to New Zealand drama The Justice of Bunny King, starring Essie Davis (The Babadook) and Jojo Rabbit, Last Night in Soho and The Power of the Dog actress Thomasin McKenzie.

Lewis Capaldi has announced his first solo headline gig of 2022 - and it's in Wales.

Megadeth‘s forthcoming new album, ‘The Sick, The Dying And The Dead’, has been pushed back again, frontman Dave Mustaine has revealed.The follow-up to 2016’s ‘Dystopia’ has been a longtime coming, with multiple projected release timelines shared over the last few years.In June 2020, Mustaine revealed the band had recorded 18 new songs for the album, while in April last year, he said he only had “one song left to sing”. In late November, Mustaine suggested they were targeting a spring 2022 release, which would have aligned with the second leg of their US tour alongside co-headliners Lamb Of God.Now, in a new interview with Forbes, Mustaine – who was being interviewed alongside Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe – spoke about their forthcoming tour and what’s next to come from the band.When asked if the next leg of the US tour would be in support of a new record, Mustaine replied: “No.

Bleachers have announced a lengthy run of North American tour dates, sprawling into the second half of 2022.Sans a brief detour through Barcelona for this year’s Primavera Sound festival, the band have 22 dates on their itinerary thus far. Each of the tour’s legs will feature unique support acts – Charly Bliss, for example, will open for the two sold-out dates in Boston where Bleachers will play their first two records in full (2014’s ‘Strange Desire’ on Thursday March 24 and 2017’s ‘Gone Now’ on Friday 25).Allison Ponthier will kick the festivities off throughout May, performing with Bleachers in Orlando, St.

Biffy Clyro have announced plans for a 15-date North American tour in the spring.The Scottish trio will hit the road in Chicago on April 17, taking in further dates in the likes of Washington, New York, Toronto, Las Vegas and San Francisco before wrapping up in LA on May 9. You can view the full list of dates below.It is the first time the band have performed in the US and Canada since 2017.Announcing their return the band wrote: “North America, we’ve missed you, it’s been way too long! We can’t wait to come and play for you all again, it’s going to be special…”North America – we've missed you, it's been way too long! We can't wait to come and play for you all again, it's going to be special… Simon, James and Ben xBiffy will return to the US & Canada in April & May.

PinkPantheress is set to perform her debut US headlining shows later this year, with the Bath-born, London-based musician announcing four North American dates for May.The run of shows will kick off on May 7 in Oakland, California before continuing on to Los Angeles and New York. The brief run will wrap up May 21 with a show in Atlanta.

Rex Orange County has announced details of his new album ‘Who Cares?’ and shared the first track from it in ‘Keep It Up’.The artist last released a record with his 2020 ‘Live At Radio City Music Hall’ EP, which was recorded at his pair of sold-out shows at the New York venue that same year.Rex’s fourth album, ‘Who Cares?’ will be released on March 11 via Sony. It was made in Amsterdam in collaboration with Benny Sings, whom the musician previously worked with on his 2017 platinum-selling breakout single ‘Loving Is Easy’.The record will also feature a new collaboration with Tyler, The Creator in ‘Open A Window’ – the first time the British artist and US rapper have worked together since the latter’s 2017 album ‘Flower Boy’.‘Keep It Up’ opens with lush string melodies before a bassline groove and synth chords drop in in their place.

TikTok sensation-turned-bonafide pop star PinkPantheress will head to the United States this summer for her first-ever North American shows. Starting May 7, PinkPantheress will perform in Oakland, Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta.

In winter 2021, Baby Keem traveled across the United States in support of his album The Melodic Blue. If you live stateside and missed those dates, you'll get a second bite at the apple starting in March, when Keem kicks off a 28-date spring tour.