Barcelona’s Sónar announce two new festivals for later this year

Edinburgh’s International Festival will take place this year with ‘reimagined’ settings, it has been confirmed. Performances at the arts festival will go ahead in temporary outdoor pavilions to ensure that the audience and staff are safeguarded during the coronavirus pandemic.

Olivia and Alex Bowen have announced they've bought his childhood home as they plan to renovate it.The former Love Island couple took to their The Bowen Home Instagram account to share the exciting news with their 698,000 followers. Posting a series of before-and-after snaps of the £1million Essex mansion they live in, where they recently unveiled a stylish new spare room, Olivia, 27, and her 28 year old husband Alex spoke on their recent buy-to-let purchase.

Cade Foehner met his future wife Gabby Barrett when they were both just rising stars on American Idol, and now, he’s congratulating her for winning a major ACM award. The 21-year-old singer was given the prestigious title as the ACM New Female Artist of the Year, and learned the wonderful news from a country music legend: Keith Urban.

Arkane Studios has announced that its upcoming first-person shooter, Deathloop, has been delayed until September 14.Arkane shared the reasons behind the delay on Twitter, saying: “We’re committed to quality and preserving our team’s ambitions for Deathloop while ensuring the health and safety of everyone at Arkane.

Sony has announced that Abandoned, a brand new first-person horror survival game, is set to release on PS5 later this year.In a new Playstation blog post Hasan Kahraman, game director at Blue Box Game Studios, revealed the cinematic title alongside a new teaser trailer.Kahraman shared that the studio is currently working on Abandoned and the title is at an “early development stage”, with the studio currently focused on “crafting a cinematic style, first-person story”.According to the game

Mónica Marie Zorrilla “Bachelor in Paradise” and its sister spinoff series “The Bachelorette” are headed back to ABC this summer to enrapture fans with soaring romance and dating don’ts once again after the former took a hiatus due to the pandemic and the latter had a clunky, COVID-19-friendly split-season with two leads, Clare Crawley and Tayshia Adams.Adams and former Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe (Season 11) will co-host Katie Thurston’s nationally televised search for love on “The

Scotland would be entitled to a free meal, which means around 700,000 pupils could benefit. Sarwar, who is fighting Nicola Sturgeon in her Glasgow Southside constituency, said the SNP is only committed to giving out food to primary kids.

Avicii biography is set to be published later this year.Tim: The Official Biography of Avicii includes interviews with the late DJ and producer’s family, friends and colleagues in the music industry.

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Elvis Presley graphic novel is set to be released later this year via Z2 Comics.Written by Chris Miskiewicz and illustrated by Michael Shelfer, Elvis: The Graphic Novel will cover Presley’s career, from his Memphis roots and Sun Studios breakthrough to the triumphs and tribulations that marked his reign as the King of Rock and Roll.On Friday (April 2), Z2 shared an excerpt from the forthcoming novel which focuses on King’s adolescence, starting with a scene in a record store where he and a

Country music superstar Alan Jackson is back with new music.

Analogue Pocket portable gaming console has been delayed due to “supply chain challenges” and will now ship in October 2021.The announcement comes from Analogue’s support website where an official statement was made. It reads, “The current global state of affairs continues to create a supply chain challenges outside of our control.

London-via-Fleet trio Drug Store Romeos have announced that their debut album, The world within our bedrooms, will be released June 25 via Fiction Records. The band’s first body of work, The world within our bedrooms follows a series of dreamy, ultra-romantic singles, including “Frame of Reference”, "Now You're Moving", and “Quotations For Locations”, the former of which appears on The world within our bedrooms.

Primavera Sound, the two-day event will take place on November 5-6 at the Magic Robin Hood resort in Benidorm.Organisers are promising over 30 artists on the bill for the event, with the line-up set to be released soon.“Taking into account the current restrictions and safety measures at all times, the intention is for Primavera Weekender 2021 to be a festival as similar as possible to what a festival was before the pandemic,” the organisers said in a statement.The first tickets for the Primavera

Glastonbury Festival will return this year in the form of a new live streamed event. Organisers behind the popular festival announced details of its Live at Worthy Farm event - a live streamed concert that is set to take place on May 22.

For Those I Love has announced that his first ever live show will take place later this year.The Dublin producer and songwriter (real name David Balfe), who released his self-titled debut album last week, will be performing at Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland on October 1.Taking to social media earlier today (March 29), For Those I Love wrote: “Performing on Jools and Other Voices gave me a taste of what playing live could do for me, a temporary escape, a chance to bellow loud from my lungs, a

Willy Mason has announced his first new solo album in nearly a decade – you can hear his new single ‘Youth On A Spit’ below.‘Already Dead’ will be released on August 6 via Cooking Vinyl and is the long-awaited follow-up to Mason’s last LP ‘Carry On’, which came out in 2012.“‘Already Dead’ is a spiritual state to aspire to; it is freedom from the trappings and inhibitions of one’s ego, culture and mythology,” Mason said in a statement about the philosophy behind the writing of the album.

Rag‘n’Bone Man has announced that he has collaborated with Pink on his forthcoming new single, ‘Anywhere Away From Here’.The track will feature on the singer’s upcoming new album ‘Life By Misadventure’, which is now set for release on May 7 via Columbia.‘Anywhere Away From Here’ will serve as the next preview of the LP when it is released as a single on April 9.“This song is an honest reflection of wanting to disappear from uncomfortable situations – about the vulnerabilities that we all face,”

The Weeknd is getting into the NFT world.