Embrace announce new album ‘How To Be A Person Like Other People’ and UK tour

Prince Harry is set to make a huge announcement about a new project he is launching in New Zealand. The Duke of Sussex will appear on New Zealand TV for an exclusive interview in which the Royal will also speak the Māori people's native language too. The 37 year old dad-of-two also spoke in the tongue to announce the news, as he teased what's to come.

Arcade Fire have announced details of a new world tour, set to take place later this year in support of their new album ‘WE’.The band released the record – their sixth so far – earlier today (May 6) and will hit the road in September, following on from one-off dates in New Orleans, New York, Coachella, and London in the run-up to the LP’s release.The tour will kick off in Dublin on August 30, taking the group across the UK and into Europe throughout September. The North American leg of the tour will begin in Washington D.C.

Harry Styles has announced a North American headline tour for this year – see all the details below.The pop star, whose third album ‘Harry’s House’ arrives on May 20, will return to New York to perform 10 nights at Madison Square Garden between August 28 and September 21 in continuation of his global ‘Love On Tour’.He’ll then head over to Los Angeles to play 10 shows at the city’s Kia Forum between October 31 and November 15.Styles is also scheduled to play five concerts in both Austin (September 25 to October 2) and Chicago (October 6-14) after kicking off the stint with two nights at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena (August 15, 16).Support will come from Blood Orange (New York), Ben Harper (LA), Madi Diaz (Toronto), Gabriels (Austin) and Jessie Ware (Chicago).Ticket details are yet to be confirmed – you’ll be able to find them here when they go live. Check out the announcement post below, and head to Styles’ official site for more information.A post shared by @harrystylesThe UK and Ireland leg of Styles’ 2022 tour commences next month, with the run including two consecutive nights at Wembley Stadium in London (June 18, 19).

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Telling his side. Ray J and Kim Kardashian’s sex tape may have been planned all along. The singer claims that his infamous sex tape leak with the Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum was orchestrated by the Kardashian family in order to launch their careers forward. 

The Afghan Whigs have announced ‘How Do You Burn?’, their first new album in five years, and shared their latest single ‘The Getaway’ – you can hear the new song below.After returning with new music back in February, the five-piece are now set to release their ninth studio album, which will be the follow-up to 2017’s ‘In Spades’, on September 9 via Royal Cream/BMG. Pre-order is available here.Work on ‘How Do You Burn?’ started in September 2020, with recording largely taking place remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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The UK's defence secretary warns Vladimir Putin could declare a new world war in days - having 'failed' most of his objectives in Ukraine. Russia launched a devastating invasion of Ukraine back on February 24, causing destruction in cities across the eastern European country and leading to millions fleeing their homes.

Foals gave their new album’s title track ‘Life Is Yours’ its live debut during a show in Newcastle this week – check out fan-shot footage below.The Oxford band’s seventh studio album ‘Life Is Yours’ is due to be released on June 17, with the trio currently on a UK tour throughout this month and May.On Tuesday (April 26), they hit Newcastle’s O2 City Hall, where they performed album tracks ‘2am’, which was released as a single back in February, and ‘2001’. Both tracks were given a live debut when they kicked off the tour at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall on April 20.The following night at the same venue, they performed latest single ‘Looking High’ live for the first time.

The B-52’s have announced details of a North American farewell tour – get your tickets here and see the full list of dates below.The band, best known for their hits ‘Love Shack’ and ‘Rock Lobster’, formed in October 1976 over a shared flaming volcano cocktail at the Hunan Chinese Restaurant. They released their self-titled debut album in 1979, produced by Chris Blackwell via Island Records.Back in 2019, they played a summer farewell tour in the UK, after celebrating their 40th anniversary the year prior by co-headlining a North American tour with Boy George & Culture Club and Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey.The new tour dates begin in Seattle in August and will see The B-52’s supported by The Tubes and KC & The Sunshine Band.Check out the full list of dates below, and buy tickets here.AUGUST 202222 – Seattle, McCaw Hall *SEPTEMBER 202229 – Mashantucket, Foxwoods Casino ^30 – Boston, MGM Music Hall ^OCTOBER 20221 – Washington DC, The Anthem ^7 – Chicago, Chicago Theatre ^13 – New York, Beacon Theatre ^14 – New York, Beacon Theatre ^15 – Atlantic City, Ovation Hall – Ocean Casino ^19 – Las Vegas, The Venetian Theatre21 – Las Vegas, The Venetian Theatre22 – Las Vegas, The Venetian Theatre28 – San Francisco, The Masonic Auditorium *29 – San Francisco, The Masonic Auditorium *NOVEMBER4 – Los Angeles, YouTube Theater ^11 – Atlanta, The Fox Theatre ^*with The Tubes^with KC & The Sunshine Band Back in 2015, The B-52’s Kate Pierson released a debut solo album featuring a song co-written by The Strokes‘ Nick Valensi and Sia.The new wave icons released their last studio album, ‘Funplex’, in 2008.

Gary Barlow is taking his acclaimed one-man theatre show on a further run of dates including coming BACK to Salford following huge demand from fans. The Take That star premiered A Different Stage in Runcorn before a run of shows in Salford in February and March this year.

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Bad Bunny has announced details of his sixth studio album via an advert for a supercar.Earlier this week (April 21), the reggaeton star posted an ad for a Bugatti Chiron 110, released in 2019 to mark the 110th anniversary of the French car maker.The ad, which appears in Clasificados Online, was posted under the superstar’s real name, Benito A. Martinez Ocasio.

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 Smile have announced their debut album, ‘A Light For Attracting Attention’, alongside the release of a brand new track called ‘Free In The Knowledge’.The band – comprising Thom Yorke, his Radiohead bandmate Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner – formed last year and have been sharing sporadic teasers of a debut album since.They’ve so far released ‘You Will Never Work In Television Again’, ‘The Smoke’,  ‘Skrting On The Surface’, and earlier this month they shared ‘Pana-vision’, a track taken from the Peaky Blinders soundtrack.Today (April 20), The Smile have confirmed the release of their much anticipated debut LP, ‘A Light For Attracting Attention’, which will arrive May 13 via XL Recordings.Produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich and mastered by Bob Ludwig, the 13-track album will feature strings by the London Contemporary Orchestra and a full brass section of contemporary UK jazz players including Byron Wallen, Theon and Nathaniel Cross, Chelsea Carmichael, Robert Stillman and Jason Yarde.The trio have also shared the latest preview of the album, ‘Free In The Knowledge’. The song was first previewed by Yorke as part of the Letters Live Royal Albert Hall event he performed at back in December.Watch the Leo Leigh-directed video for ‘Free In The Knowledge’ below:Last week, Yorke spoke on the process of writing the album.

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The Interrupters have announced their return and details of their first album in four years.The follow up to 2018’s ‘Fight The Good Fight’ is titled ‘In The Wild’ and it will arrive on August 5 via Hellcat/Epitaph Records.The album has been previewed this week with first single, ‘In The Mirror’, which takes the group back to their ska-punk roots.Speaking about the new track, vocalist Aimee Interrupter said: “I fell into so many self-destructive patterns trying to come to terms with my childhood. I spent so long trying to run from the pain. No matter how far I ran, there I was…I realised I needed to make peace with who I saw in the mirror.”Listen to the new track below. Commenting on the record, the band added: “We are so excited to announce our 4th full-length album ‘In The Wild’.“We put so much love into this album.

BTS have announced details of a new album set for release in June.The new album was first teased at the last of the band’s recent four-night Las Vegas residency, when a date of ‘2022.06.10’ – June 10 – came up on screen at the end of the show, alongside the tagline: “We are bulletproof.”Following the original teaser, the band have posted the video from the show on Twitter, while label Big Hit Music took to the band’s fan community platform, Weverse, to confirm the new album.[공지] #BTS 신보 발매 안내 (+ENG/JPN/CHN)https://t.co/Pxb2rZbyCc pic.twitter.com/qkuPPA4cmx— BTS_official (@bts_bighit) April 17, 2022In English, the statement from the label reads:“Hello.This is Big Hit Music.BTS will be back with another new album on June 10, 2022.Details on the new album will be provided in a separate notice at a later date.We look forward to your love and support for BTS’ new album.Thank you.”[Weverse Announcement] Big Hit Music has announced @BTS_twt will officially be back with a new album on June 10, 2022! pic.twitter.com/rsg40AYPV2— BTS Charts & Translations⁷ (@charts_k) April 17, 2022BTS’ last official single came in the form of 2021’s ‘Permission To Dance’, which NME called “an uplifting gift for ARMY and an inevitable addition to their collection of chart-toppers” in a four-star review.A few months later, the track was followed by a collaboration with Coldplay on ‘My Universe’.Last year, the septet marked their return to in-person performances with ‘Permission To Dance On Stage’ in Los Angeles, California. The group held a short residency at the SoFi Stadium on November 27 and 28, and December 1 and 2, 2021.Their Los Angeles show went on to become the biggest single venue concert engagement by any act in almost a decade.

Ride have announced new reissues of their early albums and EPs to mark their 30th anniversary as a band.The Oxford group are set to re-release their seminal 1990 debut ‘Nowhere’ and its follow-up ‘Going Blank Again’ (1992) on November 4 via Wichita Recordings.Per a press release, the former will be pressed on on blue vinyl with a gatefold sleeve and embossed artwork; the latter, meanwhile, is available on double orange vinyl with a gatefold sleeve.Additionally, fans will be able to get their hands on Ride’s first four EPs – ‘Ride’, ‘Play’, ‘Fall’, and ‘Today Forever’ – on a new double white vinyl compilation called ‘4 EPs’. This comes with a 16-page booklet featuring archive photos and an essay by Sonic Cathedral’s Nathaniel Cramp.All the original audio has been reworked and refined, with the upcoming reissues also available on CD and streaming services.