Porridge Radio announce new album, tour dates

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Kula Shaker have announced details of their new album ‘1st Congregational Church Of Eternal Love And Free Hugs’ alongside plans for a UK tour.The followup to 2016’s ‘K 2.0’ will be released June 10 via Strangefolk Records.

Sigur Rós have announced details of a UK and European tour for later this year – check out the full list of dates below.Following the announcement of tour dates in the United States, Mexico and Canada last month, Sigur Rós have now confirmed a lengthy run in the UK and Europe.Kicking off in Portugal on 28 September, the run of shows will take place in Italy, Germany and France before arriving in the UK for four shows, including two nights at London’s Brixton Academy. The band will then finish off with a homecoming gig in Reykjavík, Iceland.Tickets for the newly announced shows go on sale 9am GMT, Friday March 18 from here.A post shared by sigur rós (@sigurros)According to a press release, Sigur Rós are in the process of writing and recording their first new studio album since 2013’s ‘Kveikur’ and will air new songs at the shows, alongside material drawn from their acclaimed 25 year discography.Earlier this year, the band also confirmed that founding members Jónsi and Georg Holm will be joined in the studio and on tour by former member Kjartan Sveinsson, who is rejoining the band almost a decade after stepping away to focus on other projects.Sigur Rós will play:SEPTEMBER28 – Campo Pequeno – Lisbon, Portugal29 – WiZink Center – Madrid, SpainOCTOBER01 – Sant Jordi Club – Barcelona, Spain03 – Kioene Arena – Padova, Italy04 – Mediolanum Forum – Milan, Italy05 – Zenith – Munich, Germany07 – Halle 622 – Zurich, Switzerland08 – Gasometer – Vienna, Austria09 – O2 universum – Prague, Czech Republic11 – Tempodrom – Berlin, Germany15 – Arena Riga – Riga, Latvia17 – House of Culture – Helsinki, Finland19 – Hovet – Stockholm, Sweden20 – Oslo Spektrum – Oslo, Norway22 – K.B. Hallen – Copenhagen, Denmark24 – Expo XXI – Warsaw, Poland26

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Superorganism have announced that they will release their second album, ‘World Wide Pop’, this summer. The record will feature collaborations with artists including Chai, Pi Ja Ma, Dylan Cartridge and Stephen Malkmus.The album’s first single, ‘Teenager’, featuring Chai and Pi Ja Ma, is out now. Watch the video here:In support of the album, the band will also be touring in the UK in September.

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Superorganism have announced their second album ‘World Wide Pop’ – listen to the new single ‘Teenager’ below.The London-based collective will release the follow-up to their 2018 self-titled debut on July 15 via Domino. You can pre-order/pre-save the record from here.‘Teenager’ arrived today (March 7) and was produced by Stuart Price, who’s previously worked with the likes of Madonna, The Killers and Pet Shop Boys.

Tiësto has shared when he expects his next album to arrive, revealing that it should “come out in the summer”.The Dutch DJ and producer’s last album was 2020’s ‘The London Sessions’, which was recorded during a month-long stay in the British capital, and featured collaborations with Becky Hill, Snoop Dogg, Rita Ora, Post Malone, Mabel and more.Speaking in a new interview, he recalled the experience of making the album. “‘The London Sessions’ was a really great album,” he told Level One. “I spent a month in London, met up with all the best songwriters and we has a lot of session.“I feel like that’s how albums are gonna be from now on: they’ll be a vibe and not necessarily just like 10 songs put together.

Belle And Sebastian have announced that they will release their tenth studio album – and their first for seven years – later this year. Titled ‘A Bit Of Previous’, it is preceded by new single ‘Unnecessary Drama’.“We did it together, us and the city”, says frontman Stuart Murdoch of working on the album in the band’s hometown of Glasgow.

LIFE have announced plans to release new album ‘North East Coastal Town’ and have shared a taster from it with frenetic single ‘Big Moon Lake’.The Hull band will release their third LP on June 10, via Liquid Label. You can pre-order the record here.They also shared the video for their new single, which the band said “pays homage to 1980s Top Of The Pops“.“We wanted ‘Big Moon Lake’ to acknowledge the lyrical social commentary that was littered throughout our first two records whilst expanding the experimental and personal sound that you will hear throughout the new record,” says frontman Mez Green.“The track is playful and teases everyday themes of missing out, numbness, drinking, smoking and eating badly and generally wanting more for yourself in life. Its resolve being that in hindsight everything is in front of you, it’s on your doorstep and in this case that’s the wondrous county of Yorkshire.”It follows previous single ‘Friends Without Names’, which was released last November.Speaking about their new album, Green added: “Hull and the surrounding area runs through our DNA and has shaped us, weathered us, empowered us, embraced us and made us feel accepted.“‘North East Coastal Town’ is our love letter to the city.

GWAR have announced a new album, graphic novel and UK tour dates, all coming up this summer.New album, ‘The New Dark Ages’, is set for release on 3 Jun and will be accompanied by companion graphic novel, ‘GWAR In The Duoverse Of Absurdity’.“This is the greatest rock record of all time”, says frontman The Berserker Blóthar. “These are the songs for a new age, a New Dark Age, when men live by the dimming light of a technology destined to betray them.

The Wombats have announced a new set of UK and Ireland tour dates for August and October.The gigs will follow on from the three-piece’s upcoming UK arena tour, which will take place in April in support of their recent album ‘Fix Yourself, Not The World’.The Wombats have now announced further UK and Ireland tour dates for 2022, with a trio of headline shows set to take place in August in Edinburgh, Belfast and Dublin.The band will then hit the road again in October to play shows in Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham, Norwich and Manchester.UK! We're adding a bunch of new dates later this year to our All The Hits! Tour.

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Porridge Radio have announced details of their third album ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’ and shared its first single ‘Back To The Radio’.The band have also confirmed their biggest-ever UK headline tour alongside a series of intimate in-store shows around the record’s release.‘Back To The Radio’ was written by frontperson Dana Margolin ahead of the release of the group’s acclaimed 2020 album ‘Every Bad’, a time when she felt like “a lot of things were coming that I wasn’t sure I knew how to handle”.“The song grew out of a feeling of intense loneliness and being unprepared for what everybody was promising me was about to happen – and a strong desire to escape without knowing what I wanted to escape to,” she said in a press release. “To me, there’s a huge feeling of catharsis in this song, of letting go and letting it sweep you away.”The song comes with a video directed by Margolin’s sister Ella and finds the singer waking up in a room where papier-mâché furniture is slowly being removed one by one. Later, she joins the rest of Porridge Radio in a room decorated with landscape scenery as people dressed all in black move her around the space.

recent preview ‘Tamashii No Houkai’. “‘Tamashii No Houkai’ means ‘the breaking of the soul’ or ‘soul collapse’,” Heafy said of the track in a statement.

Ed Sheeran has announced details of some new warm up shows ahead of his UK and European tour later this year.Sheeran will play two gigs in Brighton, followed by five new London shows. Tickets are available here.Speaking about the new dates, Sheeran said: “I’m going to be doing some warm up shows for my tour in the next few weeks.“These are very low key shows where I get to try out all the new tunes before taking them into the stadiums.

Sinead O’Brien has announced that she will release her debut album, ‘Time Bend And Break The Bower’, this summer. She’s also released a new single called ‘Holy Country’ and announced a load of tour dates.“The story of the album is built up in layers; one song giving context to the next”, says O’Brien. “I thought about becoming undressed; testing my ideas, my voice.

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Emeli Sandé has announced that she will release new album ‘Let’s Say For Instance’ in May, following on from a string of recent singles. Her fourth album in total, it will be her first for Chrysalis Records.“I’m so proud of this album and can’t wait to release it”, Sandé tells Variety.