Wet Leg take shots at “full of it” ex-boyfriend on new track ‘Ur Mum’

Wet Leg have announced a string of 13 headline shows for cities in the US, Canada and Mexico, bridging the gap between a handful of festival sets and their trio of gigs supporting Florence + The Machine.Following their appearances as this year’s Lollapalooza, Mo Pop and Osheaga festivals, the Isle of Wight duo will take to the Phoenix Concert Centre in Toronto, Canada on Monday August 1. They’ll head to Vancouver next, playing the Commodore Ballroom that Thursday (August 4).After another handful of festival sets – including Outside Lands in San Francisco, as well as the Netherlands’ Lowlands – Wet Leg will return to theatres for gigs in San Antonio, New Orleans, Orlando, Atlanta, Louisville, St Louis, Kansas City, Abiquiu, Salt Lake City and Phoenix.

Architects have released a brand new single called ‘When We Were Young’ – listen to the track below.The Brighton metalcore band’s soaring new record is their first new music since the release of their 2021 album, ‘For Those That Wish To Exist’.“‘When We Were Young’ is a song that recognises what is gained and what is lost as we get older,” drummer Dan Searle said of the track. “As the world unfolds around us we can become overwhelmed by its endless complexity.”He continued: “When I was 20 I thought I had the whole thing sussed, today I’m pretty sure I’ll never understand reality. We lose our innocence as we age, and although fatalism and cynicism can creep in, we also begin to shift our focus toward gratitude for existence and for those that we love.”The song comes alongside a dizzying video, directed by Searle and produced by Jamie Whymark, which sees the band set up in the centre of a rotating camera rig which captures every angle of their explosive performance.Watch the video for ‘When We Were Young’ below:Architects are gearing up to head out on tour in the UK next month – you can see the full list of dates below and find any remaining tickets here.Meanwhile, Architects frontman Sam Carter and his fiancé Abby Kirk have released a children’s book about their fox dog Sophia.Sophia Fox Dog Gets Adopted aims to educate children on what foster dogs go through before they find their forever homes, while also giving a voice to young people who may have been through adoption and foster care themselves.In addition to the book, the pair are also selling a Sophia plushie and a signed card from Carter and Kirk, and a paw print from Sophia.

Maggie Rogers performed her latest single, ‘That’s Where I Am’ live for the first time during her Coachella 2022 set.The track is the lead single from her yet to be released album ‘Surrender’, which is due out on July 29 on Polydor.Although Rogers just dropped the track on Friday (April 8) of last week, fans sang along to the words as she played it today (April 17) on Coachella’s main stage..@Maggierogers just played ‘That’s Where I Am’ live on #Coachella ‘s main stage pic.twitter.com/TPOFvt2ogx— Erica Campbell (@ericacxmpbell) April 18, 2022‘That’s Where I Am” is a story I’d been carrying around for many years, the story of a love that had been with me and unfolding for a long time,’ she said of the track. “A lot of the events that ‘Surrender’ chronicles take place in New York City.”She continued: “In the stark solitude and distance of COVID, it was the backdrop for all my claustrophobic fantasies.

Wet Leg have scored their first UK Number One album with their self-titled debut LP.The Isle of Wight indie duo – comprising Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – outsold the rest of the Top Five comfortably to earn themselves the second-biggest opening week for any chart-topping album in 2022 so far. Only Central Cee’s ’23’ has had a bigger opening week.

Wet Leg fly in at Number 1 with their self-titled debut album, fronting a spectacular hat-trick of chart success for independent record labels who dominate all top three places on this week’s Official Albums Chart for the first time in more than a decade.

Wet Leg score the highest new entry on this week’s Official Irish Albums Chart.

Phoebe Bridgers just dropped a bright and bold new love song called ‘Sidelines’. Listen to the track below.Released via Dead Oceans, the song will appear in Hulu’s Conversations With Friends, the TV adaption of the popular Sally Rooney novel, when it premiers on May 15.Bridgers, a longtime fan of Rooney, was tapped to write the track by Hulu.

How do you become the biggest indie-rock duo in the UK? For Wet Leg, that meant dropping an insanely viral, word-of-mouth single that seemed to explode out of nowhere and ride the wave.

Wet Leg have played tiny homecoming show on a porch on the Isle of Wight last night (April 13) – watch the moment below.The duo – comprising Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – posted about the gig on their social media accounts. Nodding to their Isle of Wight accents, they wrote: “Good deeey ol’ wettie, ol’ pal.“Just wanted to let you know that we played some songs from our shmalbum on a porch on the Isle of Wight.”Good deeey ol’ wettie, ol’ pal.

A "bright" teenage girl died after taking an overdose and collapsing during an "impulsive cry for help", an inquest heard. Emily Shore, 17, of Brinnington, Stockport, was described by her heartbroken mum as a "lovely, bubbly girl who enjoyed life and loved her horses".

Witch Fever have returned today (April 12) with a thundering new track, ‘Blessed Be Thy’ – check it out below.The Manchester band appeared on NME’s 2021’s ‘Essential Emerging Artists’ list where they were described as “bringing the horror-show back to rock without any gimmickry because real life is scary enough after all” and “looking cool as fuck, they sound like a reckoning and they really mean it.”The new track was produced by Pigs x7’s Sam Grant at Blank Studios in Newcastle.Check out the new track here:Bassist Alex Thompson said of the track, “it just goes heavy”, adding: “it was literally the last song we wrote before we went into the studio but came together really quickly.“I think it still has an essence of some of our older material, so it’s a good way to bridge the gap.”According to a press release, the song’s video has been inspired by the likes of “Blur’s ‘Song 2’, The White Stripes’ ‘Seven Nation Army’, and early noughties music channels like Kerrang and Scuzz.”The band will also embark on a number of festival dates this summer. See the full list of dates below.

Wet Leg are currently leading the pack in the race for this week’s Number One album in the UK.On Friday (April 8), the Isle of Wight indie duo – comprising Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – released their self-titled debut LP.The 12-track project featured the singles ‘Chaise Longue’, ‘Wet Dream’, ‘Too Late Now’, ‘Oh No’, ‘Angelica’ and ‘Ur Mum’.In the midweeks, the Official Charts Company has revealed that ‘Wet Leg’ is outselling its closest competition – Father John Misty’s ‘Chloë And The Next 20th Century’ – 4:1. If it holds on until Friday (April 15), it will be the band’s first UK Number One album.There are three other new entries – including Father John Misty at Number Two – that have cracked the Top Five in the midweeks: Jack White’s ‘Fear Of The Dawn’ (Three) and Kae Tempest’s ‘The Line Is A Curve’ (Four).Rounding out the rest of the Top Five is last week’s Number One, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ‘Unlimited Love’.Elsewhere in the Top 10, Camila Cabello’s third album ‘Familia’ sits at Number Seven, while Joe Santriani‘s latest release, ‘The Elephants Of Mars’, is Number Nine.Pavement also look set to make a return to the chart for the first time in 23 years with a reissue of their 1999 album ‘Terror Twilight’.

Wet Leg lead the race for this week’s Number 1 album, currently outselling their closest competition almost 4:1. 

Jussie Smollett has shared a new track that touches upon his recent high-profile court case – listen to ‘Thank You God’ below.The Empire actor was sentenced to 150 days in prison last month after being found guilty on five counts of disorderly conduct pertaining to a police report he filed on January 29, 2019 in which he claimed he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago.Following his sentencing, Smollett’s lawyers launched an appeal and he was released from Cook County jail on March 16 after signing a $150,000 (£114,000) personal recognisance bond, which doesn’t require him to pay any money if he appears in court for future proceedings.On Friday (April 8), the Empire actor shared a new single called ‘Thank You God’, a shiny R&B number that references his December court case.“It’s like they’re hell-bent on not solving the crime/ Taking out the elements of race and trans and homophobia that’s straight taking lives/ But turn around and act like I’m the one that killed the strides,” Smollett raps on the track.Later, he adds: “I can’t be mad/ Take my ego out/ Some people searching for fame/ Some people chasing that clout/ Just remember this, this ain’t that situation/ You think I’m stupid enough to kill my reputation?”You can listen to ‘Thank You God’ below:Smollett has dedicated ‘Thank You God’ to “the people who kept it real”, and he’s donating all profits from the track to social justice organisations Rainbow Push Coalition, Secure The Bag Safety, and Illinois Innocence Project.During Smollett’s trial in December last year, brothers Amimbola and Olabingo Osundairo testified that the actor had recruited them to help him stage an attack in an effort to boost the actor’s publicity, and were paid $3,500

Bullet For My Valentine have confirmed the release of a deluxe version of 2021’s self-titled album and shared the first new track – listen to ‘Omen’ below.‘Bullet For My Valentine’ is the group’s seventh album. The expanded version will feature the original ten tracks plus four new ones alongside b-side ‘Stitches’ which was previously only available in Japan.The first of those new tracks ‘Omen’ was released Friday (April 8).

Gwenno has shared a dreamy new track called ‘Men An Toll’ – listen to it below.Following on from her last single in February, ‘An Stevel Nowydh’, it’s the second track shared from the songwriter’s upcoming new album ‘Tresor’. That will arrive on July 1 via Heavenly.Speaking about the track, Gwenno said: “‘Men An Toll’ (also known as Mên-an-Tol and meaning holed stone) is a wonderful Bronze Age formation of standing stones near Madron, Cornwall.“With its obvious feminine symbolism its holed stone was believed to aid fertility.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt is perhaps a telling sign of this strange era that one of the breakout music acts of the past 12 months was formed for a laugh by a pair of friends — singer-guitarists Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers — who had for years been trying to perform more “serious” music, mostly unsuccessfully. (Oddest of all, they didn’t even break through via TikTok.)But within weeks of sending around a private link containing four songs with their now-trademark new wave bounce and hilariously deadpan vocals, the deliberately ridiculously named Wet Leg had top management and a record deal.

Pink Floyd have come back together and released a new track in order to raise funds for Ukraine Humanitarian Relief. The track is called ‘Hey, Hey, Rise Up’ and features a sample of Andriy Khlyvnyuk, singer with the Ukrainian band Boombox.From the classic Pink Floyd line-up, David Gilmour and Nick Mason are both involved in the new recording.