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DMA’S have shared their new single ‘I Don’t Need To Hide’ and announced a trio of UK shows for October – you can listen to the track in the below video.After previewing its release last week, the Australian band have now returned with their first new material since 2021’s ‘I Love You Unconditionally, Sure Am Going To Miss You’ EP.Speaking about ‘I Don’t Need To Hide’, which was produced by Konstantin Kersting and Rich Costey, DMA’S guitarist Jonny Took explained: “There’s a confidence you obtain when you find someone who loves you for all your faults, quirks and obscurities.“They make you feel like you don’t need to hide anything from anyone anymore.”The video for DMA’S ‘I Don’t Need To Hide’, directed by Lucy Knox, has been released today (August 17) – you can watch it below.DMA’S have also announced three headline UK shows in October, with dates set in Manchester, London and Glasgow.Tickets for these gigs will go on general sale on Friday (August 19) at 10am from here. You can see DMA’S upcoming tour dates below.October29 – The Roundhouse, London30 – Manchester Academy, Manchester31 – Barrowland Ballroom, GlasgowDMA’S will play at Reading & Leeds Festival next weekend, with the band set to perform on the same day as headliners Halsey and The 1975.The bill also features Run The Jewels, Bastille, Bad Boy Chiller Crew and Pale Waves.

Witch Fever have shared a dark new single today (August 16) called ‘I Saw You Dancing’ – check it out below.The song is another preview of their upcoming debut album, ‘Congregation’, which arrives on October 21 via Sony’s Music For Nations. You can pre-order the album here.The latest single offering is described as a “brutalist slab of IDLES-esque bass, as strings rattle the fretboard and trudge the track into life, whilst claustrophobic vocal lines and intense guitar melodies entwine an oppressive atmosphere throughout the duration,” in a press statement.It adds: “It’s a song about singer Amy Walpole’s experiences in the charismatic church she grew up in, and feeling watched by men as a teenage girl.”Of the track, Amy Walpole says: “This is a song on the album that we’re really excited about as really it’s the first time we’ve written and allowed a song to have space and time to breathe!“We’ve been so used to writing quick thrashy tunes it was fun to experiment and write slower ones for the album.

Jesse Jo Stark has released a new single called ‘Tornado’ – you can listen to it below.The song will feature on the Los Angeles singer-songwriter’s debut album ‘Doomed’, which is due to arrive on September 21 (pre-order/pre-save here).“It’s a story of letting a feeling take you to heaven then bury you six feet in the ground… somewhere in the desert,” Stark explained in a statement about her personal latest offering.‘Tornado’ follows on from the artist’s previous singles ‘Modern Love’ and ‘So Bad’ (feat. Jesse Rutherford).

Kate Nash’s new video for ‘Wasteman’, in which he goes on a mission through the streets of London – scroll down the page to watch it now.The song mixes garage and piano melodies as its creator urges listeners to dump partners who aren’t good for them.“I’m not about it / I’m on my own shit,” Nash sings in the chorus, adding in a later verse: “Every time you tell me that you hate me / You don’t seem to leave, just wanna berate me […] Every time I look inside the mirror / I can see that girl, I think I used to be her.”In the video, Dyer shares a similar message with his daughter Sunnie, before bumping into contemporary dancer Gaby Diaz and causing her to drop her wallet. The actor goes on a mission, following her to return her belongings as she dances through the streets and he adds his own moves into the mix.“‘Wasteman’ is about owning your power and being in a confident enough place to call someone out for their bad behaviour in a toxic relationship,” Nash said in a press release.

Danger Mouse & Black Thought have shared the official video for their latest collaborative single, ‘Strangers’ – check it out below.The song – featuring contributions from A$AP Rocky and Run The Jewels – appears on the pair’s new joint studio album ‘Cheat Codes’, which came out today (August 12) via BMG.To coincide with the record’s arrival, Danger Mouse & Black Thought have also posted a black-and-white official video for ‘Strangers’ that was shot in an iPhone-style vertical orientation.The dizzying, lo-fi clip sees Killer Mike, El-P, Rocky and Black Thought deliver their respective parts as they film themselves in various locations. Numerous other shots are rapidly interspersed with the performances.Tune in here:The ‘Strangers’ single dropped earlier this week.

Megadeth have today (August 12) shared a thundering new single called ‘Soldier On!’ – check it out below.The new song is the latest track taken from their upcoming new album, ‘The Sick…The Dying…And The Dead’, which arrives on September 2.Megadeth recently shared the first track from their new album, – ‘We’ll Be Back’. It is first record the band have released since vocalist Dave Mustaine recovered from throat cancer.The latest single opens with images of war and Frontman Dave Mustaine singing: “Of all the battles won and lost / The lives and treasures that it costs / I know I’ve got to soldier on / Watching mankind destroy itself / Walk straight into the mouth of hell / I know I’ve got to soldier on.”You can listen to the track here:Speaking about album, ‘The Sick, The Dying…And The Dead’, Mustaine said: “For the first time in a long time, everything that we needed on this record is right in its place.

Alvvays have shared their brand new single ‘Easy On Your Own?’ – you can listen to it below.The song is the second to be previewed from the Canadian band’s forthcoming third studio album ‘Blue Rev’, which is due for release via Transgressive on October 7.Following on from the arrival last month of the LP’s lead single ‘Pharmacist’, Alvvays have now shared ‘Easy On Your Own?’.You can listen to the track in the below visualiser.You can see the tracklist for Alvvays’ ‘Blue Rev’, which has been described in a press release as the band’s “most harmonically rich and lyrically provocative” album yet, below.Alvvays will head out on a North American tour in October, with dates running through to mid-November.

Pixies have shared the latest preview of their forthcoming eighth album, ‘Doggerel’ – an equally smoky and melodic cut of alt-rock titled ‘Vault Of Heaven’ – announcing with it a short run of US tour dates.The song itself features an allusion to a bad drug trip and copious references to 7-Eleven, as Black Francis (aka Frank Black) sings in the first verse: “There in the vault of heaven / While trying to titrate / I ended up in… / Another case. I went to 7-Eleven / To try and get me straight / I ended up there… / In outer space.”‘Vault Of Heaven’ arrives alongside a suitably wacky music video, directed by Charles Derenne.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs have shared a snippet of their new single ‘Burning’ ahead of its release later this week.The band confirmed in a post that the song will arrive this Wednesday (August 10). They also shared a roughly 10 second preview of the song, which features a heavily distorted guitar riff over a piano sequence.‘Burning’ follows the New York City trio’s comeback single ‘Spitting Off The Edge Of The World’ (feat.

Panic! At The Disco have shared an upbeat new single called ‘Local God’ – check it out below.The song is the final single to be shared from their upcoming new album, ‘Viva Las Vengeance’ after the title track was previously shared and last single, ‘Middle Of A Breakup‘.Speaking about the album’s title track recently, frontman Bronson Urie said: “’Viva Las Vengeance’ is a look back at who I was 17 years ago and who I am now with the fondness I didn’t have before.“I didn’t realize I was making an album and there was something about the tape machine that kept me honest.”The album is set to be released on August 19 via Fueled By Ramen and will focus on “the fine line between taking advantage of your youth, seizing the day and burning out,” according to a release.It’s also said to take an introspective look into the singer songwriter’s decade-plus career and his experiences with growing up in Las Vegas, love, and fame.Check out the video for the latest track here:The band have also announced that they will be celebrating their album release on August 19 with an outdoor performance at New York City’s Rockefeller Plaza as part of the Citi Summer Concert Series on NBC’s TODAY.Panic! At The Disco are also due to hit the road for a 40-date worldwide arena tour, with stops in Europe, the UK, and North America from September.The dates will mark the band’s return to NYC’s Madison Square Garden, LA’s Kia Forum, and London’s The O2. MARINA, Jake Wesley Rogers, and Beach Bunny are set to open for select dates.

Gently Tender have shared their new single ‘True Colours (Sometime I’ll Get Through)’.The band, made up from ex-Palma Violets members Sam Fryer, Will Doyle and Peter Mayhew alongside The Big Moon’s Celia Archer and guitarist Adam Brown, returned earlier this year, after being away since 2019.The track, which you can listen to below, is the fourth taster to be lifted from their forthcoming debut, ‘Take Hold Of Your Promise!’ after ‘Love All The Population’, ‘Dead Is Dead’ and ‘Sunlight In Motion’.Fryer said of the single: “‘True Colours’ is a song that on the surface seems like a conversation between two people in a relationship. It’s actually based on a conversation between myself and unwanted emotions – like feelings of anxiety and depression.

The 1975 have released a new single called ‘Happiness’ – you can listen to it below.The song is the latest preview of the Manchester group’s fifth album ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, which is due to arrive on October 14 via Dirty Hit. It follows on from the recent comeback track ‘Part Of The Band’.“‘Happiness’ is like… there’s literally loads of us in the room on that track,” frontman Matty Healy told Zane Lowe of the funky, sax-filled latest offering on Apple Music 1 this evening (August 3).“[It] really doesn’t really have much structure.

The 1975 have shared a short clip of their new song and video for their upcoming release, ‘Happiness’. Check it out below.The band shared the clip on Twitter and confirmed that the new song would be arriving tomorrow (August 3) at 5:30pm.The Manchester group returned earlier this month with the track ‘Part Of The Band’, which served as the first taste of their fifth album ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’ (out October 14 via Dirty Hit).The latest song has already been teased with a poster campaign in London and frontman Matty Healy recently shared a black-and-white image of himself in the studio with the upcoming song’s title appearing as the caption.HappinessThe official video premieres tomorrow, 5.30pm bsthttps://t.co/NQyDYFj4lM pic.twitter.com/8tOMplW29q— The 1975 (@the1975) August 2, 2022In a four-star review, NME said that The 1975 were “unafraid to rip up their own rule book” with their latest single.It added: “If ‘Part Of The Band’ is anything to go by, Healy and co.

John Cale has shared an animated video for his new single ‘Night Crawling’.The clip, which you can view below, sees the Velvet Underground multi-instrumentalist hitting the streets of New York in the 1970s with David Bowie.The song is his first new music since 2020 single ‘Lazy Day’ and his collaboration with Kelly Lee Owens on ‘Corner Of My Sky’.“There was this period around mid-late 70s when David and I would run into each other in NY. There was plenty of talk about getting some work done but of course we’d end up running the streets, sometimes until we couldn’t keep a thought in our heads, let alone actually get a song together.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSci-fi-comedy “Moon Man” rocketed to a $130 million opening weekend and helped the China box office to escape gravity.Data from consultancy Artisan Gateway showed that the film scored a three-day gross of RMB873 million ($130 million) and accounted for fully 90% of the nationwide weekend theatrical business. The strong results came despite some cinemas remaining closed in key markets and capacity limitations remaining in place in others.

OFF! – which features ex-members of Black Flag and Burning Brides – have announced their long-awaited third album, ‘Free LSD’, with the first single ready to stream right now.Titled ‘War Above Los Angeles’, the new single carries a wild science-fiction narrative, and arrives with a music video written and directed by guitarist Dimitri Coats. According to a description for the clip, the narrative footage in it comes from an upcoming feature film, also titled Free LSD, which is set for release in 2023.Have a look at the video below:‘Free LSD’ will be released on September 30 via Fat Possum, and mark the band’s first full-length offering since 2014’s ‘Wasted Years’ album. In a press release, Coats said the album would serve as a soundtrack for its cinematic counterpart, with both the album and film “go[ing] hand in hand as an overall art project”.

Rosalía has today (July 28) shared a summery new single called ‘Despechá’ – check it out below.The song has been performed by Rosalía live during her ongoing world tour and has now been released as a one-off single.Speaking about the track and its meaning, Rosalía said: “There are many ways to be Despechá, in this theme it is from the freeness or the craziness, moving without reservations or regrets.“This is the place from where I make music, from where I did it when I first started and where I will continue to until God says so.“I’m grateful for having been able to travel in recent years and have learned from music from other places including the DR, where artists like Fefita La Grande, Juan Luis Guerra and Omega have inspired me and without them this song would not exist.”Check out the song here: The current ‘Motomani World Tour’ marks Rosalía’s first global run of concerts and sees her travel to 15 countries across a 46 dates.The tour began earlier this month in Almería, Spain at Recinto Ferial de Almeria and recently made stops in Barcelona and Madrid.

Big Joanie have returned with a cruisy new single titled ‘In My Arms’, sharing it alongside the announcement for their forthcoming second album and a nine-date headline tour in support of it.Discussing the themes explored in the track, frontwoman Stephanie Phillips said in a statement: “At this point I was getting tired of living in London and dreaming about another life. It’s about knowing you should go another way in life but you end up dreaming about the road you’ve already travelled down even though you know it won’t take you where you need to go.”Have a look at the music video for ‘In My Arms’, directed by Lydia Garnett, below:‘In My Arms’ is the second single to be released from Big Joanie’s new album, following ‘Happier Still’ at the start of June. The album itself – the follow-up to 2018’s ‘Sistahs’ – is titled ‘Back Home’ and will be out on November 4 via Daydream Library Series (and Kill Rock Stars outside the UK and Europe).

Rina Sawayama has shared the third single and title track from her highly-anticipated second album ‘Hold The Girl’.The artist has already previewed the new album – the follow-up to 2020’s ‘SAWAYAMA’, which NME awarded five stars – with the singles ‘This Hell’ and ‘Catch Me In The Air’, with the latter premiering as Zane Lowe’s New Music Daily pick on Apple Music 1.The new single is a typically ambitious, multi-faceted pop song, addressing both the trauma and catharsis of moving forward in life. “Sometimes I just wanna run away, leave behind that old me, start again/ Then I’ll remember who I’m really made of/ And she’s been hide-and-seeking, waiting all alone,” she sings on the track.Speaking about the songwriting process, Sawayama said: “‘Hold the Girl’ was the first song I wrote for the record at the end of 2020 – I had gone to therapy and had a revelation, so I decided to write this song… that was the start of it.