Tina Arena announces first new album in eight years: ‘I found solace in music during lockdown’

The Charlatans have announced the dates for a major UK tour later this year with a huge gig in Manchester in December.

The 55-year-old musician will travel to Los Angeles, New York City, Washington DC, Montreal, Paris, and London as part of the tour alongside five performances in Australia. 

READ MORE: Brian May 'highly emotional' as announces special edition of album with Eddie Van HalenAs Hucknall, 63 on Thursday, is for a generation weaned on timeless soulful hits like Stars, Fairground and Holding Back The Years - a hauntingly emotional number, about the mother who deserted him, delivered in a voice like honey oozing through silk. Sinatra adored it. How are your fans with you?"My wife jokes about this, perfectly normal people behave completely weirdly around you.

The band is currently touring the globe for the final time with their farewell tour The End of the Road, which originally visited in Australia late 2022. 

Queens Of The Stone Age gave a live debut to their new single ‘Emotion Sickness’ as part of their first live gig in three years this weekend – see footage below.On Friday (May 26), the band played their first full show since January 2020 at the Sonic Temple festival in Columbus, Ohio ahead of a performance at Boston Calling tomorrow (May 28).During their 11-song set, the band played their biggest hits, opening with ‘No One Knows’ and closing with ‘A Song For The Dead’.Sandwiched in between was a first performance of ‘Emotion Sickness’, which was shared earlier this month as the first preview of the band’s new album, ‘In Times New Roman’.See footage of their comeback show and the full setlist below.WE’RE BAAAAACK!!! pic.twitter.com/Tx10qTqbAw— QOTSA (@qotsa) May 27, 2023‘No One Knows’‘The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret’‘My God Is The Sun’‘If I Had A Tail’‘The Evil Has Landed’‘I Sat By The Ocean’‘Emotion Sickness’‘Little Sister’‘Sick, Sick, Sick’‘Go With The Flow’‘A Song For The Dead’Having been teasing their return this week with online videos and billboards in London, the band recently revealed details of the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Villains‘ with their eighth album ‘In Times New Roman’ arriving on June 8 via Matador Records.Described by QOTSA as “the sound of a band creating the music its own members want to hear, while giving the rest of us a sonic forum in which to congregate”, ‘In Times New Roman’ was recorded and mixed at Homme’s own Pink Duck studios, with additional recording at Shangri-La.

Creeper have announced their third album ‘Sanguivore’ and new UK tour dates – see the list of gigs and watch the video for new single ‘Cry To Heaven’ below.The Southampton band will release the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Sex, Death & The Infinite Void’ via their new label home Spinefarm on October 13. It follows last year’s ‘American Noir’ EP.Discussing the new single, vocalist Will Gould said in a statement: “Keeping in line with the band’s ethos of aggressive musical progression, the song is once again an ambitious departure from previous works.“‘Cry To Heaven’ turns the key and unlocks a door to a new world of decadent excess.

Tina Turner seemed to have a certain fondness for rock star David Bowie – and reportedly even credited him for helping her career at one low point. On Wednesday, it was announced that the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll” had died at the age of 83 in Switzerland, where she had been living for a number of years.The iconic performer was well-known for her hit-making songs like “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” and she sold more than 100 million records worldwide throughout her career.However, despite her tremendous success as an artist, there was a time when Tina faced extraordinary personal hardship, as she suffered abuse at the hands of her onetime-husband, Ike Turner.After they divorced in 1976, she was dropped by her record label, Capitol Records, reported People – but she divulged that it was Bowie who actually helped her get back into the industry after taking some time off from recording music.

Peace have announced their first run of headline UK tour dates since changing their line-up. Find a full list of dates below.Set to take place across November this year, the tour dates mark the band’s string of live dates as a duo — following the departure of guitarist Doug Castle and drummer Dom Boyce.The upcoming shows also come in celebration of the indie veterans’ recently surprise-released fourth album.

Miley Cyrus kicked off 2023 with an absolute tune in the form of Flowers. The track was played everywhere and was impossible to miss, with fans wasting no time theorising that the song was about her relationship with ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth.  Not only was it released on his birthday, but netizens started claiming that the music video was littered with easter eggs that nodded to their 2019 break-up, with online allegations ranging from unusual but plausible to downright bizarre.

Hard-Fi have announced their first UK tour in 11 years. Check out the full list of dates below.The band’s 13-date tour kicks off on October 5 at junction in Cambridge.

Janelle Monáe has opened up about the freedom of nudity during an interview with Rolling Stone in preparation for their forthcoming album.The 37-year-old non-binary singer explained that being naked has become a “big theme” in their life as they celebrate a “new era of liberation”.

Lewis Capaldi’s new album ‘Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent’ is already outselling the rest of the Official Albums Chart Top 20 combined, and set to reach the Number One spot.The album arrived last Friday (May 19) and marked the second full-length LP from the Scottish singer-songwriter.

Dua Lioa has announced that her first original song from the Barbie soundtrack will be arriving this week. 

Jorja Smith has confirmed details of her second album ‘Falling Or Flying’ alongside a string of UK record release shows.Set for release September 29, ‘Falling Or Flying’ is the follow-up to Smith’s debut album ‘Lost And Found’ and 2021’s “sonic waiting room” EP ‘Be Right Back’.According to a press release, the new album “thrillingly broaches any gap between Jazz, Soul, R&B and Funky House”.Smith said the songs on the record “touch on breakups, relationships with my friends, relationships with old friends, relationships with myself. It’s definitely about a lot of relationships, but every song I write I can sing it to myself,” she added.

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Blur have announced details of a surprise new album ‘The Ballad Of Darren’ and shared the first single ‘The Narcissist’. Check it out below.The returning Britpop legends first announced their comeback back in November with news of a huge Wembley Stadium show – before going on to reveal a second date at the venue before a run of European festival shows and an intimate UK warm-up tour,  which kicks off in their hometown of Colchester tomorrow (Friday May 19).Now, the band have revealed that the 10-track ‘The Ballad Of Darren’ will arrive on 21 July via Parlophone, and is available for pre-order here.

With two Top 40 singles a 10-date headline UK arena tour under his belt already this year, Tom Grennan is finally ready to unleash his third studio album What Ifs & Maybes.

Netflix UK has confirmed the complete Harry Potter collection will be dropping on the streaming platform THIS WEEK. The announcement has gone down well with fans who have been quick to brand it the “best news ever”.

Ethan Shanfeld King Gizzard & the Wizard Lizard, the prolific Australian rock act known for traversing genres, is returning to thrash metal with a new album titled “Petrodragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation.” Bet you can’t say that three times fast. “Petrodragonic Apocalypse,” the band’s 24th album, is out June 16 via their KGLW label. In tandem with the announcement, King Gizzard released the record’s first single, “Gila Monster,” along with a spooky music video in which frontman Stu Mackenzie wears a cloak and sings atop a snowy mountain while the rest of the band gathers around a witch’s cauldron.

Supermodel Lara Stone is pregnant with her second child. David Walliams' ex wife, who he split from eight years ago, was seen out and about in London on Monday, 15 May, sporting an orange floral print dress as she debuted her bump. Since splitting from former Britain's Got Talent judge David, 51, whom she shares ten year old son Alfred with, Lara, 39, has wed property developer David Grievson.