Tame Impala Release New Album The Slow Rush: Listen

'She Is Miley Cyrus' is on the way

Set for release in May

The National joins the star-studded Songs for Australia charity album with their stirring cover of "Never Tear Us Apart" by Australian rock band INXS, which was officially released Thursday (Feb. 27). Songs for Australia will arrive on digital and physical formats March 12 via BMG.

Vevo is expanding into Australia and New Zealand. The video streaming company launches a new sales office in Sydney

Chicano Batman have announced their fourth LP Invisible People. The Los Angeles band’s follow-up to 2017’s Freedom Is Free arrives May 1 via ATO. The new album is a collaboration with engineer Shawn Everett and producer Leon Michels. The announcement arrives with the new song “Color my life.” Watch the George Mays-directed video below.

Los Angeles punk icon Alice Bag—formerly of the Bags—is back with a new album. Sister Dynamite is out April 24 via In the Red. She’s also shared a new song called “Breadcrumbs,” which arrives with a new video featuring the Bob Baker Marionette Theater. Watch it below. Alice Bag has also announced an upcoming tour, which includes dates with Bikini Kill. Find her schedule below.

Perfume Genius has announced a new album. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately is Mike Hadreas’ follow-up to his 2017 LP No Shape and it’s out May 15 via Matador. Watch the video for the new song “Describe” below.

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New Order and the Pet Shop Boys are teaming up for a major North American tour.

British bands Pet Shops Boys and New Order are heading to North America for a joint headlining tour beginning in September. The electronic acts will band together for The Unity tour set to launch at Budweiser Stage in Toronto.

Princess Nokia has two new albums on the way: Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Sucks both arrive on February 26 (via Platoon). According to a press release, “Everything Is Beautiful is a representation of the sensitive, feminine side of the gender fluid artist,” which she recorded across two years in New York, Puerto Rico, and Los Angeles.

Tame Impala nab a second No. 1 in Australia with The Slow Rush (Island/Universal), while The Weeknd enters a fifth week at the summit of the national singles chart with “Blinding Lights” (Republic/Universal) and Billie Eilish cuts another slice of chart history. Kevin Parker’s Tame Impala bowed at the top of the national albums survey in 2015

The Unity tour will begin in September

SEOUL (Reuters) - The young stars in South Korean boy band BTS said on Monday the theme of their new album dealt with how they overcame doubts and fears encountered since they burst on the K-Pop scene seven years ago.

Eva Mendes called out the progress within the once "archaic" fashion industry while speaking at a women's summit in Los Angeles on Saturday. The actress shared why it was important to her to have plus sizes in her fashion collections with New York and Company, calling it an "obvious" choice.

Sergio Mendes is known globally for his signature style of buoyant samba pop; his career that over more than half-a-century has also proved unsinkable. Mendes, who burst onto the scene with his instantly recognizable hit “Mas Que Nada” in the 1960s, and embraced new audiences with the same song reinterpreted with The Black Eyed Peas in the 2000s, has just turned 79.His new album, In the Key of Joy, will be released on Feb.

Bollywood Hollywood Production will give rugby film “Jungle Cry” a theatrical release in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa next month. The film screens for buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin this month.

NEW YORK -- In her role in the news CBS drama “Tommy,” actress Edie Falco plays the first female chief of police in Los Angeles, but the native New Yorker found a way to shoot the show in her hometown.