Trampolene’s Jack Jones announces debut solo album with new single, ‘Breathe’

The Jesus and Mary Chain will be heading out on a North American tour with the Psychedelic Furs later this year.The tour kicks off in Philadelphia on September 29 and will see the band take in numerous cities across the continent in October and November.They will then wrap up at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California on November 11. Also opening for them alongside the Psychedelic Furs will be Frankie Rose.Check out the tour dates below and buy your tickets here.SEPTEMBER29 – Philadelphia, PA, Franklin Music HallOCTOBER1 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall2 – Boston, MA – Orpheum Theater4 – New York, NY – The Beacon Theatre5 – Brooklyn, NY – The Brooklyn Paramount6 – Washington, D.C. – The Anthem8 – Rochester, NY – Kodak Center Music Hall9 – Toronto, Ontario – Queen Elizabeth Theater11 – Detroit, MI – Masonic Cathedral Theater12 – Indianapolis, IN – Murat Theatre13 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed16 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater17 – St. Paul, MN – The Palace19 – Des Moines, IA – Val-Air Ballroom20 – St. Louis, MO – Stifel Theatre22 – La Vista, NE – The Astro23 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater24 – Salina, KS – Stiefel Theatre26 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium29 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre30 – Portland, OR – Crystal BallroomNOVEMBER1 – Redding, CA – Redding Civic Auditorium2 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic3 – Reno, NV – Grand Sierra Resort Grand Theatre6 – Riverside, CA – Fox Performing Arts Center8 – San Diego, CA – The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park9 – Inglewood, CA – YouTube TheaterIn other news, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Robert Fripp are among the artists who have launched a lawsuit against the PRS over songwriter royalties.The case is centred around how the organisation handles royalties

Kim Gordon has dropped a discordant new single, ‘ECRP’, to coincide with a run of dates starting tonight (June 25).Following on from her trap-inspired album ‘The Collective’ earlier this year, Gordon’s new one-off single is a noisy, experimental affair that speaks of “rumours of free speech” and “ashes on the nightstand”.The video, meanwhile, was directed by Gordon’s daughter Coco Gordon Moore and features various shots of New York street scenes.Check out ‘ECRP’ below.Gordon plays London’s Koko tonight, kicking off a European tour, and will head to Birmingham for a gig at the O2 Institute2. The tour also includes various festival appearances at the likes of Glastonbury, Open’er and Roskilde.In a four-star review of ‘The Collective’, NME wrote: “Here the 70-year-old balances her less than commercial sensibilities with crunchily on-trend production and relatable lyrics about rotten capitalism and fragile masculinity – if these sound like themes she explored during Sonic Youth’s ‘90s heyday, it only goes to show how little has changed.”“It’s notable, though, how contemporary her distorted art-punk sounds, given the ongoing grunge resurgence and the fact that Olivia Rodrigo’s taking The Breeders on tour this year.

Love Island star Callum Jones has revealed he's now dating a stunning model in one what some fans dubbed a "soft launch" of their relationship.The 28-year-old star dropped a series of clanging hints he's loved-up with Myna Amor by inserting pictures of her hand and back in several pictures - with her doing exactly the same. It comes months after Callum won Love Island alongside Jessica Gale, 24, with the pair taking second place after he failed to couple up with his ex Molly Smith, who were together for three and a half years.

is unusual.Iconic crooner Tom Jones just announced he’ll embark on a 17-concert North American tour this September and October.Midway through the quick, late summer run, the ‘Ages & Stages Tour’ will take Jones and his timeless stable of his to a trio of New York and New Jersey venues.First, he’ll swing into Atlantic City’s Hard Rock Live on Sunday, Sept. 15.

We love seeing Busy Philipps happy and in love again!

Taylor Swift is like winning the lottery in music right about now.We all saw what happened to Sabrina Carpenter’s career after she opened for Swift on her epic Eras Tour last year. I mean, she blew all the way up — and now she’s got the song of the summer with “Espresso.”Now it’s Gracie Abrams’ turn to have a hot girl summer after also opening for Swift last year.

Liam Gallagher has confirmed that he reserves a seat at every one of his solo shows for his brother and former Oasis bandmate Noel.Last week, X user Simon Love shared a post saying he had attended a Liam Gallagher show, where he noticed that a seat had been reserved for Noel. He wrote in the post: “I’m in a hospitality box at Liam Gallagher and I’ve just seen this on a seat in front of mine.”I’m in a hospitality box at #LiamGallagher and I’ve just seen this on a seat in front of mine.

after supporting Gene’s dad Liam on his current run of arena shows, which are celebrating the 30th anniversary of Oasis’ ‘Definitely Maybe’.Villanelle are due to kick off their first UK tour in Glasgow on November 19. Further dates are scheduled for Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol and Nottingham throughout the month.The final gig will take place at Oslo in Hackney, London on November 28.Tickets for the tour go on general sale at 9am BST this Friday (June 21) – you’ll be able to buy yours here.

Liam Gallagher has compared Manchester’s new Co-Op Live arena to New York’s iconic Madison Square Garden – despite the venue’s recent problems.The venue in Gallagher’s hometown has had its fair share of teething problems this year, mired in controversy after myriad delays. It was due to open on April 23 with a show from comedian Peter Kay, but after power supply issues at a test event featuring Rick Astley, Kay’s show was first postponed by a week and then for a second time as the venue “wasn’t ready“.Shows by The Black Keys, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Olivia Rodrigo and Keane were all postponed, too, while Take That decided to move their five concert dates to the AO Arena instead.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer After she recently held private listening sessions for her upcoming sixth album, Katy Perry has officially announced that the first single for the project, “Woman’s World,” will arrive next month. The pop star plans to drop “Woman’s World” on July 11 at 7 p.m.

Liam Gallagher debuted the ‘rap’ from the Sawmills demo of Oasis‘ ‘Columbia’ during one of his recent shows in Manchester. Watch the footage below.The Britpop band released the previously unheard version of the song – titled ‘Columbia (Sawmills Outtake)’ – last week to preview their upcoming 30th anniversary edition of ‘Definitely Maybe’.Mixed for the first time by Noel Gallagher and Callum Marinho, the extended early take of the track clocks in at over seven minutes, and is based around an effectively simple chord structure.It boasts “hypnotic rhythms” that “spiral into delayed drums and droning feedback”, as well as a ‘rapped’ segment from Liam.The singer incorporated the ‘rap’ into his live performance of ‘Columbia’ at his show at the Co-Op Live arena on Saturday night (June 15) – which marked the first ‘Definitely Maybe’ tour date since the demo dropped.Later, a fan on X/Twitter asked Liam if he was “gonna rap again for the rest of the tour”.

Liam Gallagher “almost” played there earlier this year.Last month, the former Oasis frontman joked that if his show at the city’s Co-Op Live Arena wasn’t “sorted” in time, then he would have to play at Lidl instead.At the time, the Manchester venue was going through a torrid series of complications and delays as it was trying to open its doors, causing Gallagher to make the quip on social media.Gig in LIDL— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) May 2, 2024And now, the Newton Heath branch of the supermarket, the closest one to Co-Op Live, has unveiled a commemorative blue plaque, bearing the words “Liam Gallagher. Legend.

BERWYN has announced his hotly-anticipated debut album ‘WHO AM I’ and shared moving new single, ‘DEAR IMMIGRATION’.Following the release of the powerful single ‘I AM BLACK’, the new album offers what is described as a “vivid and vulnerable journey through BERWYN’s search for meaning and freedom”.News of the NME Award-winning singer-rapper’s debut is accompanied by the release of ‘DEAR IMMIGRATION’, a spoken word battle cry against a corrupt immigration system.On the song, BERWYN sings: “You make me look at the mirror in horror, you took my tomorrow / I want you to know since I was nine I felt like a crime / I used to imagine you coming for me every day of my life” – watch below.His lyrical honesty has become a signature of his sound, which he previously told NME was “a double-edged sword“, saying: “The sick part about it all is that for my day job I stand up on a wooden stage and people are like ‘Your life is hard? Tell me more. Give me more.'”But that hasn’t put the Trinidad-born artist off being emotionally frank, with his debut studio album promising “crafted and cohesive reflections on faith, on the tugs of addiction and the embrace of love, on what it means to be demonised for your immigration status or skin colour”.In 2021, the Mercury Prize nominee told NME his work was intentionally “solemn, musical and explorative,” going on to say these attributes were “tools relative to every human being inside of the matrix we live in.”The debut album follows BERWYN’s EP, ‘Bulletproof’, and two previous mixtapes, ‘Demotape/Vega’ and ‘Tape 2/Fomalhaut’, which NME wrote had “a beautiful twilight quality” in a four-star review.‘WHO AM I’ is out on July 12 via Columbia Records.

Easy Life have emerged from their legal battle with easyGroup under the new name of Hard Life with their comeback single ‘Tears’. Check it out below along with our interview with frontman Murray Matravers.Last year saw Easy Life play their final show under that name, having conceded defeat in a legal battle over the moniker against easyGroup (the brand owner of easyJet airlines) and that “sadly, it seems that justice is only available to those who can afford it” without “the funds to access a fair trial in the High Court”.

Janet Jackson has announced a second London date with Wyclef Jean on her ‘Together Again’ tour later this year.The music legend is bringing her ‘Together Again’ tour to 10 cities later this year, kicking off in Paris at the Accor Arena on September 25.From there, she’ll continue on to stops in Birmingham, London, Glasgow and Manchester, before heading back to mainland Europe and concluding at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam on October 10.The new London date will take place on September 29, the day after the original London show.The singer’s UK and European leg of her ‘Together Again’ tour will mark her first UK performance since Glastonbury 2019.

Ariana Grande‘s ex-husband Dalton Gomez has officially moved on!

Bon Jovi made their debut 40 years ago with their 1984 self-titled album featuring their hit “Runaway,” they were compared to the likes of Loverboy.Words like “characterless” and “nondescript” were used to describe their music in a review by the Washington Post, which called out Jon Bon Jovi’s singing as “high, hysterical screaming.”The review went on to slam his songwriting, saying: “He writes dumb songs about women.”And the review concluded with one final dig. And I quote: “The band’s brand of antiseptic hard rock only makes you want to cheer on all the more the undiluted heavy rockers like Motley Crue.”Ouch.

Raye has shared an expansive and “deeply personal” new single, ‘Genesis’ – you can listen to it below.The multi-BRIT Award-winning singer-songwriter previewed the track live at a special pop-up exhibition in New York City earlier this week, saying she was “so proud” of how it had turned out.Today (June 7) Raye released the studio version of the ambitious, seven-minute song – which marks her first material since her critically acclaimed, Mercury Prize-nominated debut album ‘My 21st Century Blues’ (2023).“There is a Nina Simone quote, ‘It is an artist’s duty to reflect the times’. This quote is everything to me and I believe the best way I can try to do this is through my art and my music,” she said in a statement.“There is so much darkness and pain in this world we live in, and I wanted to create something both as deeply personal and as raw as I could find myself to be about my own mind and the world I see around me.”Raye continued: “The song is a seven-minute piece that I have crafted and scrutinised over the last year and a half, experimenting with different genres and sonic expressions, beneath all the layers and the lyrics, the underlying message is ‘Let There Be Light’.“It is a prayer and a plea and a cry for help, and I really hope this song will be able to bring some hope, the way this music does for me, to those who need it most.”In the gospel-tinged first part, Raye sings about how she’s “been sober for some months“.

Dylan has dropped a high-energy new single called ‘Perfect Revenge’. Check it out below.Released today (June 6), the dates come on the heels of the 24-year-old’s recent headline tour across the UK, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, and North America.With ‘Perfect Revenge’, the singer brings out her knack for delivering sharp-tongued lyrics in full force – and the lyrics explore the feeling of obsession and wanting something you can’t have.It was written alongside her regular collaborators Mati Schwarz and Vera Carlbom in Los Angeles, and came together while she was on tour across the country with Ed Sheeran.“You, you’re so sweet/ You’re making me seem bitter/ Yeah you, pull me in to leave me like a sinner,” Dylan sings in the opening lines, and the track comes alongside a music video which sees her look straight into the camera.Describing the track, Dylan said: “I understand that there is power in being the bigger person, and that ‘the best revenge is to have enough self-worth to not seek it’…but sometimes that is not always the answer.“My perfect revenge is releasing a song called ‘Perfect Revenge’.

The Killers have announced a surprise intimate gig in New York City ahead of their UK and Ireland tour.Brandon Flowers and co will take over the Bowery Ballroom – an iconic venue in Manhattan’s Lower East Side with a capacity of 500 people – this Friday (June 7). General ticket sales will commence tomorrow (June 6) at 10am local time.