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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.

The xx‘s Oliver Sim has announced that his debut solo single, ‘Romance With A Memory’, will be released tomorrow (March 10).Sim, who plays bass and is co-lead vocalist in The xx, will also share a new lyric video when the track drops at 3pm UK time tomorrow.A snippet of ‘Romance With A Memory’ has been shared today (March 9) by Sim on his Instagram account, which you can hear in the below clip.“I cannot tell you how much joy it brings me to watch a ghoul having a good time,” Sim said in the caption about the video for the new song.A post shared by Oliver Sim (@hideousbastard)“I’ve made a compilation of some of my favourite monsters, killers and queers getting down to ‘Romance With A Memory’. I hope both the music and monsters make you feel as happy as they make me.”You can listen to Sim’s ‘Romance With A Memory’ in the below lyric video from 3pm on March 10.Sim will also begin The xx’s new monthly radio show on Apple Music 1, titled Interludes Radio, tomorrow.For the inaugural “horror-themed” episode, Sim will be joined by a host of friends and collaborators including Florence Welch, Elton John, Sampha, Jimmy Somerville and director Yann Gonzalez, as well as his bandmates from The xx.

Strictly Come Dancing 2021 winners Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice are reuniting for a very important reason. The ballroom champions have confirmed they will be getting back together for a one-off appearance more than a month after they finished their victory lap on the Strictly tour. The BBC has announced that Rose and Giovanni are among the special celebrity guests lined up for this year's Red Nose Day show on Friday, March 18 on BBC One.

Art Brut will perform their debut album ‘Bang Bang Rock & Roll’ in full at a special show in London in the autumn.The band are set to play their 2005 record in its entirety at the capital’s Heaven venue on October 27. They’ll also treat fans to live airings of “assorted greatest hits” from across their career so far.“Shouty talky indie music is fashionable again,” frontman Eddie Argos wrote to announce the one-off UK gig.

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.

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.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor, who made her mainstream breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 2000s, Theaudience were active for three years, between 1996 and 1999.The Britpop group had a string of singles from their debut LP, including ‘If You Can’t Do It When You’re Young; When Can You Do It?’ and ‘A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed’. They disbanded after a set of demos recorded for their second album – which was never formally released – were rejected by Mercury Records.Now, guitarist Billy Reeves has announced a reissue of Theaudience’s self-titled album will arrive on April 30.

Stray Kids have announced their second world tour, ‘Maniac’, which will kick off in South Korea this spring.The JYP Entertainment boy band will hit the road in support of their upcoming EP ‘ODDINARY’, which will be released later this month.Although venues for the tour have yet to be revealed, Stray Kids unveiled the first dates and cities they will perform in on the ‘Maniac’ tour earlier today (March 6). Following an opening performance in Seoul, the group will then visit Japan and the US, before returning to Tokyo at the end of the run.An official tour poster shared on the band’s social media accounts hinted that other cities would be added to the itinerary soon, with “and more” written at the bottom of the flyer.Stray Kids(스트레이 키즈) 2nd World Tour "MANIAC" ✅ Pre-Save and Pre-Order <ODDINARY> now! https://t.co/hVvEkDsyoZ #StrayKids #스트레이키즈#StrayKids_2ndWorldTour#ODDINARY#MANIAC #MANIAC_SKZ#StrayKidsComeback#YouMakeStrayKidsStay pic.twitter.com/VHnpISmy7U— Stray Kids (@Stray_Kids) March 6, 2022Stray Kids will play: April 2022 30 – SeoulMay 2022 1 – Seoul 11 – Kobe 12 – Kobe 18 – Tokyo 19 – TokyoJune 2022 29 – Newark, NJJuly 2022 1 – Chicago, IL 3 – Atlanta, GA 6 – Fort Worth, TX 9 – Los Angeles, CA 12 – Oakland, CA 14 – Seattle, WA 26 – Tokyo 27 – TokyoFurther information about ticket sales and venues is expected to be announced soon.Last month, Stray Kids shared a thrilling trailer for ‘ODDINARY’, which featured member Felix entering a building called ‘Ordinary’ before being transported to a different dimension.

Olivia Dean has told NME that she’s currently finishing up work on her highly anticipated debut album, and that it should be out before the end of this year.The singer-songwriter, who released her EP ‘Growth’ last year, was speaking on the red carpet at the O2 Academy Brixton in London last night (March 2) ahead of the BandLab NME Awards 2022. Watch the full interview above.Asked about her future plans, Dean said: “I’m just finishing my debut album at the moment.

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.

Gayle has announced the release of her debut EP, following the smash-hit success of her Number 1 debut single abcdefu. 

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Porridge Radio have announced the follow-up to their Mercury-nominated second album ‘Every Bad’. Titled ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’, the new LP will be out in May, with first single, ‘Back To The Radio’, out now.“’Back To The Radio’ feels like a huge introductory hello or a big ceremonial goodbye”, says the band’s Dana Margolin.

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.

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.