Placebo announce new single ‘Surrounded By Spies’

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ABBA have announced that their first Christmas single, ‘Little Things’, will arrive as a special CD release next month.The festive track, which appears on the Swedish icons’ new album ‘Voyage’, will be available physically from December 3.

Your Old Droog first came into the public eye about seven years ago, roughly two eternities in the hip-hop world. But to his (and our) ongoing benefit, the New York-based rapper has never wavered from making immersive and lyrical collections of music with whip-smart wordplay and a nearly flawless beat selection.

Placebo have spoken about their upcoming eighth album ‘Never Let Me Go’ in a new interview, with vocalist Brian Molko hoping he’s been “courageous” with it.Placebo announced ‘Never Let Me Go’ earlier this month, with the followup to 2013’s ‘Loud Like Love’ being released March 25 2022.In a new interview with The Guardian, it’s revealed that ‘Never Let Me Go’ started life while the band were doing a 20th anniversary tour for their 1996 self-titled debut album.For Molko, that run felt like “an

Eric Nam has announced his sophomore album with a brand-new single, ‘Any Other Way’.Titled ‘There And Back Again’, the album marks Nam’s second all-English full-length release following 2019’s ‘Before We Begin’. The LP will be released January 7, 2022, and will feature the previously released track ‘I Don’t Know You Anymore’ as well as his latest single, ‘Any Other Way’.‘Any Other Way’ premiered today (November 12) alongside a music video directed by Scott Lazer.

Confidence Man have announced the release of their second album, ‘TILT’ – you can listen to its lead single ‘Holiday’ below.The Australian electro-pop duo are set to release the follow-up to 2018’s ‘Confident Music For Confident People’ on April 1, 2022 via Heavenly Recordings.According to a press release, the album is “fierce, flirty and full of anthems” and listeners “might need to sit down before you hit play”.Confidence Man – comprised of Sugar Bones and Janet Planet – have accompanied the

Pinegrove have announced details of a new album – ’11:11′ is set to come out early next year and is being previewed by the single ‘Alaska’.The band’s new album, which follows 2020’s ‘Marigold’, will come out on January 28, 2022 via Rough Trade, and was self-produced by the band, while mixing came from Death Cab For Cutie‘s Chris Walla.“Calling the record ’11:11′ should be a heartening statement, though there’s certainly a range of emotion across the album,” vocalist and songwriter Evan Stephens

PENGSHUi have announced their second album ‘Destroy Yourself’ and have shared new single ‘This Is My Youth’ – listen to it below.The follow-up to the band’s 2020 self-titled debut album is set to arrive on January 28; it was written and produced with Flux Pavillion alongside production from longtime collaborator Pete Cannon.“I think we’ve managed to capture our live energy on this record,” frontman Illaman said of the forthcoming LP.

Gang Of Youths have announced the release of their highly anticipated third album, ‘Angel In Realtime’.Due out on February 25, the new LP will be the band’s first full-length project in almost five years, following 2017’s ‘Go Farther In Lightness’.The album’s announcement comes with the release of new single ‘Tend The Garden’, a huge tonal change from their recent work, following a lighter, summery route.‘Tend The Garden’ is the fourth preview to be shared from the band’s new album.

Rolo Tomassi have announced details of a new album – ‘Where Myth Becomes Memory’ will come out next year.The Sheffield band’s first record since 2018’s ‘Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It’ will land on February 4 next year via MNRK, and is being previewed by first single ‘Drip’.“This is a really important album for all of us,” the band’s James Spence said in a statement.

Mitski has shared details of her sixth album, ‘Laurel Hell’, alongside a music video for her new single ‘The Only Heartbreaker’.The US singer-songwriter’s new record is released on February 4 via Dead Oceans.

Ellise Shafer administratorIt’s official: A new Mitski album is coming soon.The singer-songwriter’s sixth record, titled “Laurel Hell,” is set to release on Feb. 4 via Dead Oceans.

Placebo have shared a new song called ‘Surrounded By Spies’, plus announced details of a UK and Ireland tour.The longstanding band released their first single in five years in the form of ‘Beautiful James’ in September.Now, they’ve followed it up with ‘Surrounded By Spies’, which frontman Brian Molko said was inspired by discovering his neighbours were spying on him “on behalf of parties with a nefarious agenda”.“I then began to ponder the countless ways in which our privacy has been eroded and

Johnny Marr has announced a ‘Fever Dreams Pt 2’ EP and shared two singles ‘Tenement Time’ and ‘Sensory Street’.Due for release on December 17, the EP will preview four brand new tracks that make up the second quarter of his forthcoming double album, ‘Fever Dreams Pts 1-4’.You can watch the official music video for ‘Tenement Time’ and the new lyric video for ‘Sensory Street’ below.

Avril Lavigne has announced her new single Bite Me will drop this Wednesday (November 10). 

Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul have announced ‘Topical Dancer’, their debut album as a duo. See its artwork and tracklist below.The album will be released on March 4, 2022 via Deewee – the label owned by Soulwax, who co-wrote and co-produced the album.With its announcement, the duo issued its second single ‘Blenda’ with a music video on Thursday (November 4).

Avril Lavigne has announced the release of a new single called ‘Bite Me’, which is set to arrive next week.It comes after the Canadian singer-songwriter revealed on Wednesday (November 3) that she has signed to Travis Barker‘s label DTA Records.With the announcement – which followed her performance on the Blink-182 drummer’s House Of Horrors live-stream – she teased the arrival of a new song, writing on Instagram: “Should I drop my first single next week?”Today (November 5), Lavigne took to

Slipknot have announced the release of a brand new single, ‘The Chapeltown Rag’, which is set to be released tomorrow (November 5).It comes after frontman Corey Taylor confirmed last month that new music from the band was imminent.Taking to Twitter this afternoon (November 4), the band shared a link to an interview with Knotfest, in which they revealed ‘The Chapeltown Rag’ is a “punisher” of a new tune that will get its live debut tomorrow at Knotfest Los Angeles.According to the article, the

Charli XCX has announced her fifth album ‘CRASH’ and has shared a new single, ‘New Shapes’ featuring Christine And The Queens and Caroline Polachek – listen to it below.The follow-up to last year’s ‘How I’m Feeling Now’ is the pop star’s final album as part of her record deal with Atlantic Records.