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Bret McKenzie has announced details of his debut solo album ‘Songs Without Jokes’ – you can listen to his new single ‘A Little Tune’ below.McKenzie, a member of Flight Of The Conchords and further renowned for his music work on The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014), will release the LP on August 26 via Sub Pop.‘Songs Without Jokes’ was produced by Mickey Petralia and McKenzie, and was mixed by Darrell Thorpe and recorded in LA at East West Studios and United Recordings.“Post-Conchords, I’d been working on songs for the Muppets films, and during a session I had the thought that it would be fun someday to work on some songs that weren’t for someone else, that don’t have to tell a story or be funny or continue the narrative plot, checking all the boxes for the character in the movie,” McKenzie said in a statement about his album. “I thought it’d be fun to do a record like that, something different.”The Ezra Simons-directed video for ‘A Little Tune’, the lead single from ‘Songs Without Jokes’, has also been released today (May 11). Filmed at the Royal Whanganui Opera House in Whanganui, New Zealand, you can watch the clip above.You can see the album artwork and tracklist for McKenzie’s ‘Songs Without Jokes’ below, and pre-order the LP here.1. ‘This World’2. ‘If You Wanna Go’3. ‘Dave’s Place’4. ‘Here for You’5. ‘That’s L.A.’6. ‘Up in Smoke’7. ‘Carry On’8. ‘A Little Tune’9. ‘America Goodbye’10. ‘Tomorrow Today’11. ‘Crazy Times’ McKenzie and his seven-piece live band will tour in support of ‘Songs Without Jokes’ later this year, with a run of UK dates scheduled for September and October.You can see McKenzie’s UK tour dates below, and find tickets here when they go on general sale on May 20 at 10am.September22 – Town

black midi have announced details of a new album. The U.K. trio's follow-up to 2021 album Cavalcade is titled Hellfire and is due on July 15 via Rough Trade Records.

GOT7 have confirmed that they will be releasing a brand-new EP later this month.Today (May 8), the group took to their newly establish social media pages – which were launched just two days ago – to announce their upcoming self-titled EP. The posts were accompanied by a teaser image, featuring the names of all seven members of the boyband, alongside the project’s release date.‘GOT7’, due out May 23, will be the group’s first EP since they departed from longtime agency JYP Entertainment in January last year.

Elizabeth Banks' movie 'Cocaine Bear' will be released in 2023. The 48-year-old star's upcoming thriller - inspired by the true story of a drug runner's plane crash in 1985 which led to a black bear eating a bag full of cocaine - is set to hit the big screen with a cast featuring the likes of Keri Russell and Margo Martindale. Universal has confirmed the film - also starring Ray Liotta, Alden Ehrenreich, O'Shea Jackson Jr.

Seeing a pop star live in concert is increasingly out of reach for most fans thanks to the truly staggering prices for tickets, but Harry Styles fans have a bit of respite. On May 20, Styles will play a concert at UBS Arena at Belmont Park in New York City to celebrate the release of his new album Harry's House. All tickets for the show will be on sale for $25, taxes and fees included.

Harry Styles has announced a special ‘One Night Only In New York’ gig to celebrate the release of his new album, ‘Harry’s House’.The pop star will release his third album, featuring the recent single ‘As It Was’, on May 20, via Erskine Records.The special concert will take place at the UBS Arena at Belmont Park, in Long Island’s Elmont, on May 20. According to a press release, the show will see Styles perform tracks from ‘Harry’s House’ for the first time ever.Tickets for the gig will cost $25 all-in (£20), including taxes and fees.

Burna Boy has announced the release of his next album, ‘Love, Damini’.The ‘On The Low’ hitmaker became the first Nigerian artist to headline a concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Thursday night (April 28).During the show, Burna Boy revealed his new album will be called ‘Love, Damini’, which a press release later stated “is set to release for his 31st birthday,” which would be July 2.However, according to Pitchfork, representatives for the artist have said his sixth LP does not currently have a firm release date.‘Love, Damini’ will be the follow-up to Burna Boy’s 2020 album, the Grammy-winning ‘Twice As Tall’. Since releasing the LP, he’s released numerous singles, including ’20 10 20′, ‘Kilometre’, ‘Question’, ‘Want It All’, and ‘B.

Sasha Urban editorJohn Stamos has been cast as the voice of Iron Man in Disney Junior’s “Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends,” while the preschool network has also added Lou Diamond Phillips and Yvette Nicole Brown to the vocal cast of “Firebuds” and Justina Machado, Bobby Moynihan, Eric Bauza and Kari Wahlgren have joined “Pupstruction.”The announcements were made Friday by Disney Branded Television president Ayo Davis, who revealed a slate of content for Disney Junior over the next two years, including new and original series, shorts, returning franchises and casting news. The announcement was made during the Disney Junior Fun Fest event Friday at Disney California Adventure.“Disney Junior is already home to some of the most beloved preschool programming, and today, we have unveiled the next slate of content that is sure to entertain preschool kids for years to come,” Davis said.

Wilco have announced that they’ll be releasing a new double-disc album next month called ‘Cruel Country’.The band’s 12th studio album is set to arrive on May 27 via dBpm Records. This is the same weekend as their Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, MA, where the band will perform the new record for the first time.The title was inspired by the idea that Wilco were a country band when they first started out. “There have been elements of country music in everything we’ve ever done,” frontman Jeff Tweedy said in a press release.

Stevie Nicks has announced a string of solo shows for this summer – tickets will be available from here.The Fleetwood Mac singer was already due to play various US festivals in 2022, including Bonnaroo, Sound On Sound, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Eddie Vedder‘s Ohana Festival.Nicks has now confirmed four new headline concerts, which will take place throughout June. She’ll play in Ridgefield, Washington (June 10), Mountain View, California (12), Salt Lake City, Utah (16) and Noblesville, Indiana (21).Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time this Friday (April 29).

EXCUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment said Monday that it has acquired North American distribution rights to Accepted, the feature documentary from The Disunited States of America helmer Dan Chen that played at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.

A second season of the psychological mystery drama Undone is coming to Amazon Prime Video.

Reality show Meet The Khans: Big in Bolton is set to return to screens next week. The series, which follows Bolton boxer Amir Khan and influencer wife Faryal Makhdoom, will air on BBC Three from next Thursday (April 28).

Orbital have announced details of their new album ‘30 Something’ – you can listen to a new mix of ‘Where Is It Going?’, which posthumously features the late Stephen Hawking, below.The new record, which is set for release on July 15 via London Recordings, is being billed as “a musical celebration of the pioneering career of the hugely influential electronic music duo comprised of brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll”.Featuring a host of reworks, remakes, remixes and re-imaginings of “landmark Orbital tracks based on the duo’s unrivalled live show”, ‘30 Something’ will be released this summer to celebrate the duo’s recent 30th anniversary.Such Orbital tracks as ‘Chime’, ‘Satan’, ‘The Box’, ‘Impact’ and ‘Halcyon’ will feature on ‘30 Something’, as well as guest mixes from the likes of Joris Voorn, Jon Hopkins, Dusky, Jon Tejada, Yotto and David Holmes.“What’s been amazing for me is looking at our past and thinking of all the people who’ve come to see us, they are absolutely brilliant, warm and create such an amazing vibe,” Phil Hartnoll said in a statement. “They are now bringing their kids to our gigs, they love it.”His brother Paul added: “Now we’re diving into our past and reminding ourselves, blimey, we really did that.

Kendrick Lamar has today (April 18) announced details of a new album, ‘Mr Morale & The Big Steppers’.The rapper, who is due to headline Glastonbury this summer alongside Paul McCartney and Billie Eilish, tweet out a new link to his Oklahoma website where he revealed the album’s new title along with its release date. The new album will arrive on May 13.The album will follow on from Lamar’s Pulitzer-winning 2017 album, ‘DAMN.’ which received four stars in NME and was described as “a powerful, potent look inside the troubled mind of a genius”.

Ethan Shanfeld Apart from a small number of guest appearances and live sets, Kendrick Lamar has kept quiet these last few years — but it seems the Pulitzer Prize-winning artist is returning with another album next month.According to a cryptic new press release, Lamar will release “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” on May 13.https://t.co/YVE5bZOBL2 https://t.co/UywGGKExb1— Kendrick Lamar (@kendricklamar) April 18, 2022Responding to an earlier tweet from SK that says, “Kendrick Lamar is officially retired,” the rap titan responded with a link: oklama.com, which leads to a note that reads:“The following statement was released today by oklama, through his company pgLang at 11:00 a.m.

Megan Thee Stallion made her Coachella debut on Saturday, and gave her «hotties» a first taste of a brand new track that's sure to be a summer banger.On April 7, the rapper took to Twitter to give her fans a hint of what was to come before she appeared at Coachella's first festival since the COVID-19 pandemic began. «I got this song that I recorded and every time I play it for a woman they start jumping and clapping,» she wrote. «I think I wanna perform it at Coachella for the first time before I actually drop it.»Cue her performance on Saturday, when she called the song «very motherf**king personal» and personally dedicated it «to whom it may the f**k concern.» The diss track -- reportedly called «You's a B*tch» according to samples Jodeci and Wu-Tang's «Freak'n You Remix» and takes aim at an ex, with lines like «popping Plan B's cuz I ain't plan to be stuck with 'cha» and «dick don’t run me, I run dick.» And the GRAMMY winner echoed the sentiments of iconic rappers before her like Queen Latifah and Lil' Kim as she rapped, «Ladies, love yourself cause’ this sh*t could get ugly, that’s why it's f**k n****s, get money.».@theestallion performs a new song at #Coachellapic.twitter.com/sFt5w9C414The Texas Southern University graduate also performed her hits «Body,» «Savage,» «Eat It,» and «WAP» during the first weekend of the music festival, as well as her and Dua Lipa's new collaboration, «Sweetest Pie,» which dropped last month. On Monday, the rapper took to Instagram to give fans a clearer listen to that already-classic first verse, writing, «If you was wondering YEAH BOY IM STILL THAT B****

Bob Dylan has announced a number of new West Coast tour dates in North America this summer – see the full list below and pick up tickets here.The dates, an extension of the ‘Never Ending Tour’ that Dylan is currently out on the road for, come behind his lauded 2020 album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’.The current set of dates began at the start of March in Arizona and finished up last week (April 14) in Oklahoma City.The new run of dates began in late May in Washington state, running through until mid-June when Dylan will play a host of Californian dates.Get tickets for the new shows here and see the full schedule below.MAY 202228 – Spokane, First Interstate Center for the Arts29 – Kennewick, Toyota Center31 – Portland, Arlene Schnitzer Concert HallJUNE 202201 – Seattle, Paramount Theatre02 – Seattle, Paramount Theatre05 – Eugene, Hult Performing Arts Center07 – Redding, Civic Auditorium09 – Oakland, Fox Theater10 – Oakland, Fox Theater11 – Oakland, Fox Theater14 – Los Angeles, Pantages Theatre15 – Los Angeles, Pantages Theatre16 – Los Angeles, Pantages Theatre17 – San Diego, Civic TheatreIn other Dylan news, Sony Music has acquired all of his back catalogue in a new deal.The agreement, which was concluded last year and announced in January, will see everything from Dylan’s self-titled debut to his last album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways‘ jump over to Sony in a deal that’s reportedly worth millions.Speaking about the deal, Dylan said: “Columbia Records and Rob Stringer have been nothing but good to me for many, many years and a whole lot of records. I’m glad that all my recordings can stay where they belong.” Later this year, Dylan is set to release a collection of more than 60 essays in a new book.

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.