Cher Announces First Holiday Album

Ice Cube has announced that he will be dropping ‘Man Down’, his first solo album in five years, soon.While talking to Public Enemy‘s Chuck D on his RAPstation podcast, the Californian revealed that he’s finishing up his next album in hopes of getting it out very soon.“I’m working on an album that hopefully I can finish in the next couple of weeks and schedule to put it out,” Cube said. “I’m digging what I’m doing.

Late night TV is coming back!

Bob Marley has made history again after his 1984 compilation album ‘Legend’ became the first reggae album to chart for 800 weeks on the Billboard 200.Earlier this week (September 25), Forbes confirmed the feat, revealing that ‘Legend’ is also the second-ever album to do this. The first to hit this milestone was Pink Floyd’s 1974 classic ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’.The achievement comes 42 years after Marley’s death in 1981, passing away from cancer at the age of 36.

Bush have released a new single called ‘Nowhere To Go But Everywhere’ from a forthcoming greatest hits album, and shared details of a North American headline tour.The Gavin Rossdale-fronted band are due to release the career-spanning, 21-track ‘Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994-2023’ on November 10 via Round Hill. You can pre-order/pre-save the record here.“I’m really grateful that I get the chance to make music after all of this time,” Rossdale said of the project in a statement.

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has announced details of his first solo album in nearly two decades and detailed a 2024 tour.‘The Mandrake Project’ is Dickinson’s first solo album since 2005’s ‘Tyranny Of Souls’ and will arrive in 2024.Also next year, he will head out on a tour of Mexico and Brazil.In a statement about the album, Dickinson said: “This album has been a very personal journey for me and I am extremely proud of it. Roy Z and I have been planning, writing and recording it for years, and I am very excited for people to finally hear it.“I’m even more excited at the prospect of getting out on the road with this amazing band that we have put together, to be able to bring it to life.”He added: “We’re planning to play as many shows as we can in as many places as possible, for as many people as we can! As for what ‘The Mandrake Project’ actually is… all will be revealed soon!”No firm details of the album, including tracklist, artwork or exact release date, have yet been revealed.See the 2024 tour dates below.APRIL 202418 – Guadalajara, MX @ Diana Theater20 – Mexico City, MX @ Pepsi Theatre24 – Curitiba, BZ @ Live Curitiba25 – Porto Alegre, BZ @ Pepsi On Stage27 – Brasilia, BZ @ Opera Hall28 – Belo Horizonte, BZ @ Arena Hall30 – Rio De Janeiro, BZ @ QualistageMAY 20242 – Ribeirao Preto, BZ @ Quinta Linda4 – Sao Paulo, BZ @ VibraLast year, Iron Maiden shared a mini-documentary from their recent ‘Legacy Of The Beast’ tour, taking fans inside the mammoth shows’ production with Dickinson as their guide.During the tour, the frontman was forced to physically remove a stage-invader, and called attendees out for smoking weed in the crowd.

Little Man Tate have shared details of their first album in more than 10 years, ‘Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life’.The follow-up to 2008’s ‘Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy‘ arrives on November 17 (pre-order here). It comes weeks after the Sheffield indie rockers released their first single in over decade, ‘Undercover Lovers’, and two years on from comeback shows in their hometown following nearly a 15-year hiatus.Additionally, Little Man Tate have booked a UK headline tour for this October.

Hit me, Blink, one more time…

The Last Dinner Party have announced their first-ever North American tour.Kicking off on October 31, the five-piece will make their way to the East Coast for their first show at The Atlantis in Washington D.C.. From there, they will make stops in New York City and Philadelphia before heading over to the West Coast to play a show at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, California.Their final show of the tour will take place on November 9 at the Bottom Lounge in Chicago.

Jason Derulo has announced that he will embark on an eight-stop UK and Ireland arena tour in 2024 – his first in five years. Check out the full dates and ticket details below.The dates are a part of the UK and European leg of Derulo’s ‘Nu King’ world tour.

*NSYNC have announced their first new song in over 20 years, ‘Better Place’.The boyband – comprised of Justin Timberlake, Chris Kirkpatrick, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone and Lance Bass – reunited at the 2023 MTV VMAs on Tuesday (September 12) where they presented Taylor Swift with an award.It came after a comeback track from the group was teased via posters for the third Trolls film, Trolls Band Together. The promos featured the *NSYNC logo, with a QR code directing fans to a website containing a snippet of music.Now, the same web page has confirmed that ‘Better Place’ will be released on Friday, September 29.

Sia has shared a new single titled ‘Gimme Love’ – listen to it below.The song will appear on the singer’s forthcoming album ‘Reasonable Woman’, her first full-length project in eight years, which is set for release in spring 2024 via Atlantic Records. Pre-order the LP here.“Come now do this just for me, yeah / I don’t ask for much / Gimme love, gimme love, gimme love, baby,” pleads Sia in the anthemic chorus of the track.

Sia is back!

The S Club Party is coming to the States!

After nearly 10 years, Jennifer Lopez is releasing a new solo album.

Cher is getting a head start on Christmas!

Dagny has shared her newest single, ‘Ray-Bans’, and has announced her plans to release a trilogy of mini-albums.Her mini-album trilogy will kick off with the first instalment titled ‘Elle’. The LP is set for release later this year and features eight tracks including her previously released singles ‘Heartbreak In The Making’ and ‘Same Again (For Love)’ along with ‘Ray-Bans’.Speaking of the new song in a press release, Dagny said: “Inspired by the 90s melodic and melancholic pop; Ray-Bans offers a different mood and shows a slightly more vulnerable side than some of my previous music.

Jennifer Lopez is making an exciting announcement.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic A sophomore jinx would be a terrible thing to suffer before you’re old enough to have a legal drink to slug down the disappointment. It’s not something Olivia Rodrigo has to worry about. “Guts,” her second album, does feel at times like “Sour, Too” — a picking-up-right-where-we-left-off extension of her Grammy-winning 2021 debut — but that can only be counted as a good thing, if the spark is still there.

Vince Clarke – songwriter for bands including Erasure, Yazoo and Depeche Mode – has announced details of his first solo album, ‘Songs Of Silence’. Check out the lead single below.Set for release on November 17 via Mute, the upcoming instrumental album sees the Ivor Novello-winning songwriter explore the limitless possibilities of Eurorack – a modular synthesiser format famed for its addictive and limitless configurations.It also allows Clarke to explore the premise of musical genres, and create a more experimental record than with his countless chart-topping releases, and develop “a 10-track lyric-less album of uncategorisable ambient beauty”, according to a press release.Check out the lead single ‘The Lamentations Of Jeremiah’ below, which comes with a visual accompaniment directed by Turkish-born NY-based portrait photographer Ebru Yildiz.“I could have gone on forever, I could have not stopped,” Clarke said, explaining his use of Eurorack when creating new material for the album.“I was enjoying the process so much and wasn’t thinking about anyone else hearing it.

Eddie Murphy is coming to town this holiday season, bringing his comedic chops to his first-ever holiday film.