Andrew Bird announces new album ‘Inside Problems’ and shares single ‘Underlands’

Jack Harlow has announced an arena tour of North America in support of his second studio album, ‘Come Home The Kids Miss You’.The tour, announced today (May 10), will start in Nashville at the city’s Municipal Auditorium. An ensuing 21 dates will follow across September and October, wrapping at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena on October 16.

NEW YORK -- Joshua Cohen’s “The Netanyahus” has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.The work is a comic and rigorous campus novel based on the true story of the father of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeking a job in academia.The late artist Winfred Rembert won in biography for “Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South,” as told to Erin I.

black midi have announced details of a new album. The U.K. trio's follow-up to 2021 album Cavalcade is titled Hellfire and is due on July 15 via Rough Trade Records.

On Monday at 9 a.m. ET/ 6 a.m. PT, Tony Award-winning actress Adrienne Warren and three-time Tony-nominanted actor Joshua Henry will announce the 75th Annual Tony Award nominations.

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead have announced details of their eleventh studio album and shared two new songs – check them out below.‘XI: Bleed Here Now’ is out July 15 via InsideOutMusic in Europe & Dine Alone Records in North America.Alongside the album announcement, the American alt-rock band have shared two new songs, the scuzzy nostalgia of ‘Salt In Your Eyes’ and the menacing hard rock of ‘No Confidence’. Both tracks can be heard below:“Art has a role to play in the upcoming decade(s): It needs to point humanity towards solutions.

Madonna has announced details of ‘Finally Enough Love’, a new compilation celebrating the singer’s record 50 chart-topping hits on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.Madonna’s 2019 track ‘I Don’t Search I Find’, which featured on her ‘Madame X’ album, earned the artist her 50th number one on the Dance Club Songs chart in the US back in February 2020.The achievement made Madonna the first and only artist with 50 number ones on any single Billboard chart.Madonna is now set to further celebrate that success by releasing the career-spanning ‘Finally Enough Love’ collection digitally on June 24, before a physical release follows on August 19. Pre-order is available now from here and here.The forthcoming two versions of ‘Finally Enough Love’, a 50-song rundown of Madonna’s Dance Club hits (excluding 1987’s ‘Causing A Commotion’) and an abridged 16-track version, will be the first album releases to be part of the partnership between Madonna and Warner Music Group which was announced back in August.Both compilations have been curated by Madonna, with the 50-track ‘Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones’ including her favourite remixes of those chart-topping dance hits from across four decades, such as ‘Music’, ‘Like A Prayer’ and ‘Into The Groove’ (which you can hear above).You can see the full tracklist for ‘Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones’ below.

Twitter is rolling out some new ad strategies. The tech giant announced during Wednesday’s NewFront presentation that it is exploring new ways to engage audiences.The media company is partnering with NBCUniversal to become the first social partner to test an integration with iSpot, cross-platform video certified measurement partner.

Seeing a pop star live in concert is increasingly out of reach for most fans thanks to the truly staggering prices for tickets, but Harry Styles fans have a bit of respite. On May 20, Styles will play a concert at UBS Arena at Belmont Park in New York City to celebrate the release of his new album Harry's House. All tickets for the show will be on sale for $25, taxes and fees included.

Wilco have announced that they’ll be releasing a new double-disc album next month called ‘Cruel Country’.The band’s 12th studio album is set to arrive on May 27 via dBpm Records. This is the same weekend as their Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, MA, where the band will perform the new record for the first time.The title was inspired by the idea that Wilco were a country band when they first started out. “There have been elements of country music in everything we’ve ever done,” frontman Jeff Tweedy said in a press release.

Metric have announced details of their eighth studio album ‘Formentera’ and shared lead single ‘All Comes Crashing’ as well as announcing a massive North American tour – get tickets here.‘Formentera’ is the follow-up to 2018’s ‘Art Of Doubt’ and is set for release July 8.The announcement comes alongside the release of fiery new single ‘All Comes Crashing’. Check it out here:Speaking about the “end of days banger” track, vocalist Emily Haines said: “Not everyone has a conventional life with conventional relationships.

Stevie Nicks has announced a string of solo shows for this summer – tickets will be available from here.The Fleetwood Mac singer was already due to play various US festivals in 2022, including Bonnaroo, Sound On Sound, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Eddie Vedder‘s Ohana Festival.Nicks has now confirmed four new headline concerts, which will take place throughout June. She’ll play in Ridgefield, Washington (June 10), Mountain View, California (12), Salt Lake City, Utah (16) and Noblesville, Indiana (21).Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time this Friday (April 29).

070 Shake has announced her second studio album, ‘You Can’t Kill Me’ – listen to the lead single ‘Skin And Bones’ below.The New Jersey rapper/singer released her first record, ‘Modus Vivendi’, in early 2020. Featuring the single ‘Guilty Conscience’, it went on to appear in NME‘s 20 best debut albums list of that year.It’s now been confirmed that the second full-length from 070 Shake – real name Danielle Balbuena – will arrive this spring via G.O.O.D.

Bartees Strange has announced that his second album, ‘Farm To Table’, will arrive in June, sharing new single ‘Cosigns’ along with the news.Set to arrive on June 17, the follow-up to 2020 debut ‘Live Forever’ was previewed last month with lead single ‘Heavy Heart’. That song’s release came with the news that Strange had signed to his “dream label”, 4AD, who will release ‘Farm To Table’.‘Cosigns’ is a characteristically diverse cut from Strange, melding trappy, auto-tuned verses that shout out Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, Courtney Barnett and Justin Vernon, with blistering, anthemic alt-rock refrains.

aespa have shared new details about their upcoming projects, including their Coachella debut this weekend and an upcoming album.In a recent interview with Billboard, the K-pop quartet dropped several hints about new projects, including their debut performance at the upcoming second weekend of the Coachella festival. aespa will be appearing on the festival’s main stage on April 23.Earlier this week, in an announcement confirming aespa’s Coachella appearance, it was confirmed to NME that the group are set to perform an unreleased track during their set, which will also include other past hits such as ‘Savage’, ‘Next Level’ and ‘Black Mamba’.Winter has since revealed details about the unreleased track, titled ‘Life’s Too Short’, telling Billboard that it will be a cut from a new album from aespa.

Viagra Boys have announced a new album, ‘Cave World’, and shared the first taster from the record, ‘Ain’t No Thief’.The follow-up to 2021’s ‘Welfare Jazz’, which has been produced by Pelle Gunnerfeldt and DJ Haydn, is released on July 8 via Year0001. You can view the full tracklisting below.According to a press release, the album is “inspired by current events”, and “aims to tear through the insanity and confusion the world currently finds itself in.”“I just wrote down, ‘Who is the true ape?’” Murphy also added in a statement. “People look down at apes as primitive life forms, but we’re just this horrible, lazy society killing each other and starting wars, while they’re able to love and feel.

The full Tribeca Film Festival lineup of 109 feature films from 40 countries and 88 world premieres for the 2022 event that takes place June 9-18 has been announced. It’ll be interesting to see if some of the films at the festival will end up being popular breakouts, land major studio/streamer distribution, or eventually move on to get recognized during awards season.

Pusha T has announced that his upcoming fourth studio album ‘It’s Almost Dry’ will be released this Friday (April 22).The rapper confirmed the title of the album earlier this month, along with a tour of the United States in support of the album starting this May – tickets are available here.The album includes ‘Neck & Wrist’ featuring Jay-Z, which was recently released. The single was produced by Pharrell Williams and follows the release of February’s ‘Diet Coke’, which was produced by Kanye West and 88-Keys.Pusha T’s last album, ‘Daytona’, earned him a Best Rap Album nomination at the 2019 Grammy Awards.Since that release, the rapper has dropped several stand-alone singles, including ‘No Problem’, ‘Sociopath’ with Kash Doll, ‘Coming Home’ with Lauryn Hill and ‘Puppets’.He’s also collaborated with Babyface Ray on ‘Dancing With the Devil’ and last year, worked on ‘Jungle Mantra’ with Divine and Vince Staples and ‘Misfit Toys’ with Mako. In 2020, he worked with Black Thought on the single ‘Good Morning’.Lat month, Pusha T dropped a song that takes aim at McDonald’s, ‘Spicy Fish Diss Track’, released in partnership with rival US food chain Arby’s.

Kendrick Lamar has today (April 18) announced details of a new album, ‘Mr Morale & The Big Steppers’.The rapper, who is due to headline Glastonbury this summer alongside Paul McCartney and Billie Eilish, tweet out a new link to his Oklahoma website where he revealed the album’s new title along with its release date. The new album will arrive on May 13.The album will follow on from Lamar’s Pulitzer-winning 2017 album, ‘DAMN.’ which received four stars in NME and was described as “a powerful, potent look inside the troubled mind of a genius”.

Bob Dylan has announced a number of new West Coast tour dates in North America this summer – see the full list below and pick up tickets here.The dates, an extension of the ‘Never Ending Tour’ that Dylan is currently out on the road for, come behind his lauded 2020 album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’.The current set of dates began at the start of March in Arizona and finished up last week (April 14) in Oklahoma City.The new run of dates began in late May in Washington state, running through until mid-June when Dylan will play a host of Californian dates.Get tickets for the new shows here and see the full schedule below.MAY 202228 – Spokane, First Interstate Center for the Arts29 – Kennewick, Toyota Center31 – Portland, Arlene Schnitzer Concert HallJUNE 202201 – Seattle, Paramount Theatre02 – Seattle, Paramount Theatre05 – Eugene, Hult Performing Arts Center07 – Redding, Civic Auditorium09 – Oakland, Fox Theater10 – Oakland, Fox Theater11 – Oakland, Fox Theater14 – Los Angeles, Pantages Theatre15 – Los Angeles, Pantages Theatre16 – Los Angeles, Pantages Theatre17 – San Diego, Civic TheatreIn other Dylan news, Sony Music has acquired all of his back catalogue in a new deal.The agreement, which was concluded last year and announced in January, will see everything from Dylan’s self-titled debut to his last album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways‘ jump over to Sony in a deal that’s reportedly worth millions.Speaking about the deal, Dylan said: “Columbia Records and Rob Stringer have been nothing but good to me for many, many years and a whole lot of records. I’m glad that all my recordings can stay where they belong.” Later this year, Dylan is set to release a collection of more than 60 essays in a new book.