Weekly wrap-up
Week of August 31, 2026
295 stories No issue this week
Everything the desk filed August 31 to September 6, 2026, best-covered first. No issue went out this week, so this page is the whole of it.
Filed this week
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LegalRock
Alanis Morissette sues her former tour manager over an alleged blackmail scheme
The complaint says Keren Urinov threatened drug trafficking claims unless she got a 15-year contract.
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ReleasesRock
Yeah Yeah Yeahs release a Royal Albert Hall live album and a concert film
Karen O says the 2025 shows came out of a need to gather after the election.
Confirmed6 outlets
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ObituaryJazz
Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson has died at 70
Her manager said she died at home in Jackson, Mississippi on September 1.
Confirmed5 outlets
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BusinessR&B
Lionel Richie is taken to a St. Louis ICU after his concert at the Muny
The 77-year-old singer had told the crowd his doctor blamed dehydration, and finished All Night Long sitting down.
Confirmed5 outlets
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LegalCountry
Jason Isbell and David Lowery lead a class action lawsuit against Suno
The 84-page filing brings 17 publicity rights claims and no copyright claim at all.
Confirmed4 outlets
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LegalPop
Judge dismisses a stylist's lawsuit against singer Lizzo's touring company
Asha Daniels did not show conduct demonstrating hostility to women, the ruling found.
Confirmed4 outlets
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ReleasesPop
Miley Cyrus lines up the album Bass Persuades and two nights at the Hollywood Bowl
Her first record for Atlantic arrives September 18, and the singer is now billed without a surname.
Confirmed4 outlets
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ToursHip-hop
Drake joins Don Toliver in Toronto for the first live ICEMAN songs
He opened with Shabang and closed on Janice STFU during the OCTANE tour stop in his home city.
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ChartsCountry
Ella Langley's Choosin' Texas sets a Hot 100 record with a 20th week at No. 1
The country crossover passes Old Town Road and A Bar Song (Tipsy), leaving only a Mariah Carey Christmas single ahead of it.
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FestivalsCountry
Dolly Parton's estate sets the DOLLYFEST music festival for Nashville and London
The two weekend event in 2027 revives a plan she had made for her 80th birthday before her health forced her to step back.
Confirmed4 outlets
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ObituaryRock
David Fair, who co-founded the band Half Japanese, has died at 74
His brother Jad confirmed the cause was cancer, days after the pair's label and friends began sharing tributes online.
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BusinessRock
First trailer arrives for the Neil Peart documentary No One's Disciple
Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Stewart Copeland and Chad Smith remember the Rush drummer.
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BusinessRock
David Byrne builds an Oscar-qualifying song from Elon Musk's own words
"Let Me Sell You a Dream" runs in Alex Gibney's documentary Musk and could put Byrne back in the Academy Awards race after nearly 40 years.
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ReleasesRock
PISS book 23 tour dates behind their first LP, you made me / skin on linen
The Vancouver four-piece play the UK, Ontario, a North American run supporting Gilla Band, and a hometown Halloween show on release day.
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ToursPop
Ariana Grande closes the Eternal Sunshine tour with a tearful final O2 show
Forty-one dates across North America, the UK and Europe end with a 10-night London stay.
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ReleasesPop
Miley Cyrus drops her surname and goes mononymous ahead of a tenth album
A red Los Angeles Times wrap, a refreshed website and a new Atlantic deal all pointed the same direction.
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ReleasesIndie
Little Grandad announce their debut album Speak Softly, Son with Tiny Feet
Brothers Jack and Harry Lower built the London band's blood harmonies at their family home.
Confirmed2 outlets
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BusinessMetal
Drummer Jay Weinberg says he sought therapy after Slipknot fired him
He told a mental health nonprofit he still sees the same therapist once a week.
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FestivalsCountry
Dolly Parton's DollyFest set as a two-weekend festival in Nashville and London
Dolly Parton's estate says the festival replaces a traditional public memorial for the singer, who died on Aug. 25.
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ReleasesIndie
Jake Bugg announces the album Alamo and a 2027 UK and Ireland tour
The seventh record arrives November 13 on Thirty Tigers, led by the single "Never Can Tell".
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ReleasesRock
Yeah Yeah Yeahs announce the live album Hidden In Pieces, taped in London
Karen O calls the run extraordinarily vulnerable; vinyl and CD editions follow on October 23.
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Lineup changeRock
Say Anything postpone shows as Max Bemis steps back from the band
Screenshots posted to a subreddit put a collaborative album with Wavves in doubt.
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ToursRock
Hayley Williams books a 2027 UK and European tour
Nine dates open in Milan on June 7 and close at Alexandra Palace, with a Slane Castle support slot between.
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BusinessCountry
Maggie Antone signs a record deal with Island Records after going it alone
Her independent album Rhinestoned carried Johnny Moonshine past 12 million Spotify streams.
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BusinessHip-hop
Rapper Jay-Z opens a Trafalgar Square pop-up before his Tottenham stadium shows
The installation screens period television from 2001, the year The Blueprint arrived.
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ToursHip-hop
Kneecap announce the Fenian world tour with UK and Ireland arena dates
The run opens in Mexico City in October and closes at Dublin's 3Arena on 16 December.
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ToursPop
Sombr books a 2027 arena tour of the UK and Europe after Reading and Leeds
Ravyn Lenae and Jessie Mazin support most of the run, and Suki Waterhouse opens the O2 finale in London.
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ToursRock
Sex Pistols with Frank Carter add six UK dates to their 50 Years Of Punk tour
Tickets for the December run go on general sale on Friday, with 11 shows now on the schedule.
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ToursLatin
Shakira dedicates her 12-show Madrid residency to Latinos living in fear
The Colombian singer made the case in an El Pais op-ed, pointing at Spain's immigration amnesty rather than at ICE.
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ReleasesPop
Miley Cyrus announces her tenth album Bass Persuades for September 18
Ten tracks, a Model/Actriz feature and two Hollywood Bowl shows, her first public concerts in four years.
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ReleasesHip-hop
Drake teases a Choosin Texas remix with the country singer Ella Langley
The rapper played a slowed down version from behind a DJ table in Toronto, a week after turning up at one of her Arkansas shows.
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ReleasesIndie
Grumpy release "The Whale" from the album Unfindable Ring
The New York band's second preview is a co-write between Heaven Schmitt and guitarist Diego Clare, who directed its video.
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ReleasesPop
Fine announces the album Jazz Dreams and shares "Everything in the Shade"
The Copenhagen musician, once of the electro-pop group CHINAH, has thirteen songs due on Escho on 23 October.
Developing2 outlets
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BusinessPop
Brazil's Taylor Swift Law sets free water and ticket rules for concerts
Two decrees signed on 31 August require free drinking water at events above 1,000 people and force ticket sellers to show fees upfront.
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ReleasesRock
HMLTD set their third album FANGS for October 23 with two new members
Theo Spark and Andrei Martynchyk join the founders, and lead single I Used To Ride In Limousines is out.
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LegalCountry
Jason Isbell's Suno lawsuit rests on publicity rights, not copyright
The class action cites laws in 15 states and territories and asks a Boston federal court for damages.
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ObituaryRock
Sean Ragon, founding frontman of the band Cult Of Youth, has died at 45
The Brooklyn record store owner and neofolk musician died with no cause given, his band said.
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LegalCountry
Jason Isbell and David Lowery file a class action lawsuit against Suno
The 84-page complaint carries no copyright claim and argues identity rights instead.
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Business
CD revenue jumps almost 60 percent as vinyl growth slows in the US
The RIAA mid-year report puts the format at $171 million, up from about $108 million.
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ReleasesRock
Little Grandad set January 22 for their debut album Speak Softly, Son
The London quartet recorded with Kev Jones in Crouch End between tour runs.
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ReleasesPop
Miley Cyrus drops her surname and announces the album Bass Persuades
Now billed as MILEY, the singer set a September 18 date and two Hollywood Bowl nights.
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ReleasesRock
Death Valley Girls share the single Basic Witch from Welcome to Earth
Bonnie Bloomgarden wrote the album after the Altadena fires took her house and her dog.
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ReleasesIndie
Pet Fox announce their second album Balance, their first record in four years
The Boston trio cut it in seven days at Drop of Sun with producer Alex Farrar.
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ToursMetal
Insomnium and Amorphis set a co-headlining North American metal tour
The Finnish pair open in Boston on 17 November with death-doom band Hinayana supporting.
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ReleasesElectronic
Kali Malone sets Burning Song, her first solo album in two years
The record was cut on the Bach Organ at Leipzig's Thomaskirche across two late nights.
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ReleasesElectronic
George FitzGerald ends a two-year gap with the single The Ladder
The track grew out of a session with Ghost Culture near Glastonbury and leans on early 2000s progressive house.
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BusinessPop
Rapper Doja Cat says she struggled with cocaine and alcohol in TikTok videos
She revisited the Planet Her track I Don't Do Drugs and said it did not reflect where she was at the time.
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AwardsHip-hop
Kendrick Lamar takes BMI songwriter of the year as Nas collects the Icon award
Five of the six songs behind the honour came from GNX, and Luther won song of the year on the same night.
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ReleasesRock
Wavves will re-record the shelved Say Anything album Cherry Soda alone
Nathan Williams says 10,000 copies are already pressed and the decision could cost him about 200,000 dollars.
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ReleasesHip-hop
skaiwater releases the surprise album femme fatale
The Nottingham rapper and producer follows February's Wonderful with twelve tracks and a single guest.
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ReleasesCountry
Billy Strings releases So Much For Goodbyes, an album written around his mother's death
Sixteen tracks move between traditional bluegrass, gospel and songs with drums and steel, closing with an instrumental named Debra's Waltz.
Developing2 outlets
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ToursRock
Max Bemis cancels solo shows as the Say Anything singer faces allegations
A statement cited mental health, and arrived while screenshots posted by a 17 year old were circulating on Reddit.
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ReleasesRock
Cretin Family, the new punk supergroup, debut at a Ramones tribute show
Billy Idol, Fred Armisen and The Linda Lindas guested at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and John Travolta introduced the band.
Developing2 outlets
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ReleasesRock
Dazy gathers 24 songs on the compilation album MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD Vol. 2
James Goodson's Richmond project collects three years of singles and EPs, adds seven new tracks, and puts them out on 23 October.
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ReleasesIndie
Total Wife rebuild a dead hard drive into the EP come.back.down.x.recovery
Four salvaged files went out to Winter, Full Body 2, TAGABOW and Scott Cortez, and the results land on 9 October.
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LegalR&B
Aaliyah's uncle blames his son in a lawsuit over the singer's 2001 plane crash
Barry Hankerson's filing against Jomo Hankerson is part of a wider fight over the Blackground Records catalogue.
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FestivalsPop
Report puts Dua Lipa and Tame Impala atop the Coachella 2027 festival bill
Fred again.. is tied to the poster's bottom-line slot, and the desert event has confirmed nothing.
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ReleasesJazz
Crying Laughing preview the album Talking with the single "Geese Six"
The Baltimore band's record lands next week on the Hausu Mountain label.
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ReleasesCountry
Dustin Lynch sets his album Clean Slate for October 30
Twelve tracks arrive through BBR Music Group and BMG Nashville, led by Made In A Bottle.
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FestivalsIndie
M for Montreal adds TVOD and Skiifall to its 2026 festival lineup
The 21st edition runs November 18 to 21 across ten venues in the city.
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FestivalsPop
Dua Lipa and Tame Impala reported in talks for the Coachella 2027 festival
SZA is said to lead for a remaining top slot, with BTS, Oasis and Radiohead chased.
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BusinessCountry
Kyle Schuesler signs with the label HEY NOW Records
The West Coast guitarist and writer arrives from Liz Rose Music with new songs due.
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ToursRock
Tinariwen postpone their Canadian tour after a fire destroyed travel papers
The Tuareg collective were due to open in Victoria on September 3.
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ToursIndie
Ben Howard plays his first Argentina show on a South American tour
The English songwriter reaches Deseo in Buenos Aires on September 24, then Sao Paulo.
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BusinessPop
Zhoumi will run STE, the Beijing label venture from SM and Tencent Music
The company plans to debut a Chinese idol group within two to three years.
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ReleasesElectronic
Brutalismus 3000 return with the club track "Drop Your Spirit"
It is the Berlin duo's first song since their second album Harmony in June.
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ToursRock
Noel Gallagher hints at Oasis shows in the summer of 2027
He told talkSPORT there is no football tournament next year to fill the calendar.
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Business
Warner Music makes Mateusz Smółka managing director for Eastern Europe
He arrives from Spotify to run Poland, the Czech Republic, South Eastern Europe and Ukraine.
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BusinessPop
Police to refer Bang Si-hyuk, chairman of K-pop label HYBE, to prosecutors
The step would close a 21-month inquiry into the company's 2020 stock market listing.
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BusinessRock
Stevie Nicks and Olivia Rodrigo appear on the Practical Magic 2 soundtrack
Landslide plays in one scene and Rodrigo's The Cure in another, Rolling Stone reports.
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LegalLatin
Bad Bunny wins a court ruling over the reggaeton dembow rhythm
Judge Andre Birotte Jr. found no single copyrighted work holds the pattern claimed.
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BusinessCountry
Reliant Talent Agency picks up country comedian Cledus T. Judd for bookings
Agency president Steve Lassiter calls the booking deal a return for a former client.
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ReleasesMetal
Deathcore band REV3RENT announce the album She Let the World Run Rampant
The California six-piece put out the title track alongside the news.
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ToursR&B
Samantha Fish sets December dates for the Shake 'Em On Down Tour
Cedric Burnside returns and Daddy Long Legs join the blues guitarist's fourth run.
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Business
SOCAN sues AI music company Suno over 150 copied songs
The Canadian society wants damages and an injunction covering its whole repertoire.
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ReleasesLatin
Karol G and Bruno Mars release the Still video shot at SoFi Stadium
Black and white rehearsal footage turns to colour when the pair reach the stage.
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ReleasesHip-hop
Texas rapper Syndaartist releases the country-tinged single RUNNiNG
He has a distribution deal with Steve Stoute's UnitedMasters and more songs ready.
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ReleasesElectronic
The Avalanches reveal a 31-song tracklist for the album No Bad Memories
Jamie xx, Karen O, Rivers Cuomo, Carly Simon and Mike Patton turn up across it.
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FestivalsCountry
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass adds a fourth round of acts to its 2026 festival
Miko Marks, Alison Brown and The Record Company join the free Golden Gate Park bill.
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LegalRock
Gary Glitter denies eight historical sex offence charges in court
The singer, real name Paul Gadd, faces a three-week trial in November 2027.
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ReleasesRock
Fake Names announce their third album Punk Ruins for October 23
The supergroup cut twelve songs in five days at Chicago's Electrical Audio.
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BusinessElectronic
Armin van Buuren and Laidback Luke advise the AI music app Moises
The company says its models train only on licensed material, and has hired Charlie Puth.
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ToursRock
David Byrne maps a North American book tour for Sleeping Beauties
Six October dates present the new title, with one Canadian stop in Toronto.
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ReleasesHip-hop
Wiz Khalifa releases the single "Yiccen" ahead of a new EP
The song arrived September 1, before a project called COOL AZZ SUMMER.
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ReleasesHip-hop
Sauce Walka and Adrien Broner team up on the single "Been Crashing"
Months of streaming on Kick brought the rapper and the former boxer together.
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ReleasesElectronic
Logic1000 and Christine And The Queens share the single "The Only One"
It is the third preview of Confirmation, after team-ups with KUCKA and Jam City.
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AwardsRock
Drummer Alex Van Halen receives the Netherlands' highest civilian honour
The Order of the Netherlands Lion honour was conferred in Nijmegen, where he grew up.
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ReleasesElectronic
Ryan Hemsworth shares the single "I Missed You More" from Numbskull
Nana Lourdes guests on the first taste of his first solo record in eight years.
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ToursCountry
Banjo player Bela Fleck books a North American tour through December
The run supports Live Heart, cut at the Ryman in 2022, and reaches Toronto in November.
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ReleasesIndie
Toner announce the album Dynasty House, their first in five years
Samuelito Cruz previews the Smoking Room release with a song called Cleo.
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ReleasesMetal
Slipknot's Iowa turns 25, the album the band made at its breaking point
Corey Taylor and Joey Jordison have both described sessions that turned adversarial.
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BusinessCountry
Country duo Muscadine Bloodline sign with Trenches Records and Republic
Charlie Muncaster and Gary Stanton put out Escatawpa Hollow through the deal on September 18.
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ToursCountry
Kacey Musgraves brings out Troye Sivan for a Madison Square Garden tour stop
The pair played their 2020 collaboration Easy live for the first time.
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ReleasesElectronic
The Avalanches reveal a 31-track list for the album No Bad Memories
Rivers Cuomo, Mike Patton, Carly Simon, Suzanne Ciani and the actor Haley Joel Osment all turn up on the October record.
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BusinessPop
Blackpink's Lisa gets a documentary, Always Lalisa, in October
Sue Kim's film follows the singer through the year she made her first solo album, and reaches theatres on October 12 before YouTube Premium.
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BusinessCountry
The Songwriters returns for a fourth season with songwriter Kent Blazy
The PBS-distributed Nashville series is back from September 5, with two episodes each on Jimmy Webb and John Prine.
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ReleasesElectronic
Andy Stott announces Late Loop, his first album in five years
"Something In Mind" with the singer Elaine Howley previews a record made under an unusually strict set of studio rules.
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ToursCountry
Chris Thile and Aoife O'Donovan take Wassail! out for nine December shows
The run opens in Groton, Massachusetts on December 2 and mixes holiday standards with newly written songs neither has released.
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ReleasesMetal
Nails share the songs "Dollar Bin Generation" and "Fear Based Life"
Todd Jones' Oxnard band put out two tracks with no warning, and the pair arrive as a surprise EP on a new label.
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Business
SOCAN sues the AI music platform Suno over Canadian songs
The rights body says it found 150 Suno tracks drawing on works in its catalogue, including songs by Joni Mitchell and Avril Lavigne.
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BusinessRock
Rush pay belated tribute to drummer Neil Peart in No One's Disciple
The CBC documentary premieres at Toronto on September 16, with Stewart Copeland, Chad Smith and Danny Carey jamming alongside Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson.
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ToursCountry
Kacey Musgraves and Troye Sivan play the song "Easy" together for the first time
Six years after Mark Ronson produced their version of it, the two finally performed the duet on the same stage.
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Tours
Chris Tomlin sets a Good News of Great Joy Tour for the holidays
Eleven December dates through churches and theatres, opening in Birmingham on December 1 and closing in Cincinnati on December 18.
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ReleasesHip-hop
Texas rapper Mike Dimes releases the album B.I.L.L.Y
Fifteen tracks with Maxo Kream, Ski Mask The Slump God and 1900Rugrat, put out mid-week rather than on a Friday.
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FestivalsElectronic
Kaskade's Sun Soaked festival returns with Matroda and Cassian
The one-day beach event lands at Huntington State Beach on September 12, with the headliner playing a solo set and a back-to-back with BUNT.
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ReleasesIndie
Post Common set a self-titled first EP
The Brighton trio, drawn from JOHN, TRAAMS and Sisterland, put out four tracks on Brace Yourself on 20 November.
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ReleasesElectronic
Producer Djrum takes on the next DJ-Kicks mix, out October 16
Thirty-three tracks with four unreleased productions of his own, plus exclusives from Skee Mask and Clark.
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ReleasesHip-hop
03 Greedo returns with the nine-track EP Last Night Out
Ty Dolla $ign, Wallie The Sensei, Desto Dubb and Kalan.FrFr all turn up across a mid-week release.
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ReleasesIndie
Parannoul releases a new Huremic record, No Dancing Allowed
The anonymous South Korean shoegaze musician has been quiet all year under his main name, but keeps working under his alter egos.
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ReleasesHip-hop
GDP announces the album Cross Off Matthew after years away
The New Jersey rapper, born Matthew Miller, spent the last decade on film and photography instead of records.
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ReleasesR&B
Daley returns September 18 with the album Strange Nature
Ten tracks on SRG-ILS with Marsha Ambrosius, Robert Glasper and Yussef Dayes, followed by a 27-city US tour from September 16.
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BusinessCountry
Nashville park dedicates a historic bench in memory of the singer Dolly Parton
Centennial Park marked the spot where a 1975 photo session caught her in the Sunken Garden, and tied the plaque to her literacy work.
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ReleasesRock
Vancouver's PISS name their debut LP "you made me / skin on linen"
Sub Pop and Paper Bag put the record out on October 30, with the single "time loop at hot slit" leading it.
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ToursRock
Alexisonfire book a Buenos Aires concert playing the album Crisis in full
The Canadian five-piece hit Teatro Vorterix on 17 November for the twentieth anniversary of the record, then play a second set from across their career.
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ReleasesIndie
Font announce the album American Bully XL and share the song "Texas"
The Austin-founded band drop the dance-punk tag on the lead single, a shimmering track closer to Hovvdy than to their last record.
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Business
Music rights group SESAC promotes Abbey Watson to creative services manager
The Belmont University graduate joined the organisation in 2021 and has worked as a link between its internal teams and outside partners.
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ReleasesMetal
Nails return with a surprise two-song EP and a new label
Fear Based Life lands with no warning, the band sign to Closed Casket Activities, and a fifth album is set for summer 2027.
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ReleasesRock
Clinic announce their tenth album, Wild In The Streets
The Liverpool art punk group, now down to Ade Blackburn and Jonathan Hartley, lead with the single "You And I".
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ReleasesRock
Vanessa Bedoret announces the album "About Time" for October 30
Eleven tracks on Scenic Route from the London-based French artist, who trained classically until 18 before joining punk bands.
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ReleasesCountry
The Wilder Blue release their fifth album Cinco
Saving Country Music scores it 8.3 out of 10, singling out "The Hunt" as the best thing the Texas band have recorded.
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ReleasesMetal
To The Grave share the single "LIFE AMONG THE SEPTICS" before an October album
The Australian deathcore band's LIBERATION FRONT lands 2 October on BLKIIBLK, with a co-headline tour starting in two weeks.
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ReleasesCountry
Bela Fleck sets a Ryman live album with Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle
Twenty tracks from a January 2022 Nashville concert, out October 16, with Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas and Sierra Hull also on the stage.
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FestivalsIndie
Le Guess Who? completes the festival bill for its 20th anniversary edition
Nirosta Steel, Martina Camargo, Okkyung Lee, Shadia Mansour and Cody ChesnuTT join the Utrecht programme, which runs 5 to 8 November.
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ReleasesJazz
Jazz drummer Moses Boyd sets October 30 for the album Songs For Sinners
His first record in six years arrives on Exodus, led by "Criticise" with the London vocalist Amber-Simone.
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FestivalsRock
Guitarist Pete Townshend withdraws from the Crossroads Guitar Festival
Foot damage and balance problems after knee surgery have stopped the trip to Austin, and he is donating $50,000 to Eric Clapton's Antigua clinic instead.
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ReleasesIndie
Danish artist Fine sets October 23 for the album "Jazz Dreams"
Thirteen songs written, recorded and mixed alone for Escho, shaped over sixteen months and tested in live sets and an NTS residency.
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ReunionsElectronic
Andy Stott returns from a five-year break with the album Late Loop
The Manchester producer built the record with no basslines, no reverb and a single delay unit, and brought in two singers for every song.
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ReleasesHip-hop
Oakland rapper Ovrkast. sets October 9 for the album "STRIKING"
Twelve tracks on the Brooklyn label three times LOUDER, built over a year and a half from an idea that began as an expansion of his last record.
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ReleasesRock
PISS line up a first album and share "time loop at hot slit"
The Vancouver band's 15-song debut lands 30 October on Sub Pop, led by a video shot at a shuttered DIY space.
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ReleasesIndie
Sam Burton shares "Fairweather Friend" from his third album
The title track arrives before an October release on Captured Tracks, and is the first song the singer produced himself with his touring band.
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BusinessRock
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters joins the documentary Freedom Theatre
Rishi Pelham's five-year shoot follows Ahmed Tobasi keeping a theatre open in the Jenin refugee camp.
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ReleasesIndie
Belfast producer cosign shares the single "Too Far For What"
Marsha Greer co-produced the shoegaze-leaning track with Chris W. Ryan for Our House Online.
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ReleasesIndie
Edinburgh band Curiosity Shop share the single "About A House"
Songwriter Ruairidh Wallace built the track from years of writing about the homes he has lived in.
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ReleasesIndie
Gwenllian Anthony announces her first solo album as GWEN, titled UMA
The former Adwaith member shares "POP!", a swipe at industry gatekeepers, as the record's second preview.
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AwardsJazz
Heidi Vogel and Yazz Ahmed among nominees for the 2026 parliamentary jazz awards
Nine of the ten categories were revealed ahead of an October 13 ceremony at World Heart Beat.
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ReleasesRock
Clinic set their tenth album Wild In The Streets for October 30
Ade Blackburn says exotica, dub reggae and early rock and roll fed the Liverpool band's Domino release.
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Business
Musixmatch launches Pro for Labels, a lyrics hub for record companies
The Bologna company is pitching AI transcription, curation and analytics at rosters of every size.
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BusinessRock
The 100 Club marks 50 years of its punk festival with Sprints and Maruja
Tickets cost 1.50 pounds, the 1976 price, for two Soho nights on September 20 and 21.
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FestivalsRock
Ocean Way, a new Santa Monica beach festival, books the Killers and Olivia Dean
Goldenvoice runs the car-free weekend on September 26-27, with Jack White and Khruangbin also billed.
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ReleasesR&B
Az Yet founder Shawn Rivera goes solo with the single "This Is What You Are"
The 1990s R&B singer's remake of a Mario Biondi song has already topped a UK soul chart.
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ReleasesIndie
Always You announce the album Against The World and share its title track
Wild Nothing's Jack Tatum produced the Los Angeles twins' record, folding drum and bass into guitars.
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Lady A singer Charles Kelley marks his sobriety with a before-and-after photo
Ruston Kelly, Shane McAnally and Russell Dickerson answered the Instagram post with support.
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Tyondai Braxton collects seven years of work on the album Splayed Werks
The former Battles member gathers singles, commissions and unreleased fragments into 70 minutes.
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Sam Smith's album Hazel Eyes misses the Billboard 200 entirely
A decade of top 10 placements ends even as the record ranks sixth in the week's new studio sales.
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Flo Milli releases the "Too Bo$$y" video, built on Kelis' 2006 single "Bossy"
Coby Mehler directed the clip for a track Allen Ritter and Nico Baran produced.
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Singer Ariana Grande plays her final London shows in flat shoes after a foot injury
She says the cut is not a sprain or a muscle problem and she has no plans to cancel.
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GloRilla and Sexyy Red draw a backlash over their "Jiggly Bow Bow" song preview
Listeners called the snippet lazy and dragged up old feuds; no release date has been set.
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Jay-Z surprises fans at a London pop-up before his Tottenham stadium shows
The Trafalgar Square installation is part of a 30th anniversary run built around The Blueprint.
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Darkest Hour set their 11th album Suffer Divine for October 30
The title track is out, and a fall US run opens for Fear Factory after two headline nights.
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Business
RIAA says US recorded music revenue hit $6 billion in the first half of 2026
Streaming brought in $4.9 billion, with paid subscriptions at $3.4 billion and free tiers at $900 million.
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Tom Hardy raps as Frankie Pulitzer on a new album with the group Czarface
The 15-track record brings in Busta Rhymes, Method Man, EL-P and Kendra Morris.
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Country singer Chase Wright signs a worldwide booking deal with North Loop Agency
The Indiana native behind 405 million streams joins a Nashville and Minneapolis roster.
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George Strait headlines the 2027 Boots In The Park festival in Albuquerque
Jason Aldean, Brooks & Dunn, Zach Top and Jon Pardi fill out a bill running May 14-16.
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Eau Claire band gash share the single "data master"
A third preview from the album at least you know what you're laughing at, due on Fire Talk's Angel Tapes.
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Greensky Bluegrass add Kalamazoo shows to their New Year's tour run
January 1 and 2 at Wings Event Center follow two Chicago nights at the Salt Shed.
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Punk supergroup Fake Names set the album Punk Ruins for October 23
Dennis Lyxzen, Brian Baker and a new drummer share Until It's Normal and book seven US dates.
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Perennial close out the album Modernism with the single "Emma Peel"
The New England trio have now shared four songs from a record due this month.
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LegalPop
Judge dismisses the last claims in the Asha Daniels lawsuit against Lizzo
The singer says she is relieved; the wardrobe worker's lawyer is weighing an appeal.
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Miley Cyrus sets her 10th album Bass Persuades for September 18
She has dropped her surname for the promo run and booked two Hollywood Bowl shows in October.
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Kane Brown and Shania Twain team up on the new single "Boots"
The September 4 release reaches back to Twain's 1995 breakthrough and turns it around on the men.
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Sombr adds 2027 tour dates across Europe, Australia and New Zealand
The You Are The Reason run opens in Adelaide in April before a swing through 14 European countries.
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Songwriter Dan Alley renews his publishing deal with River House Artists and Sony
The Nashville writer behind Luke Combs' Be By You stays put after four and a half years.
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Susanna Hoffs and Rufus Wainwright duet on new single "Bad Case Of Loneliness"
The Bangles co-founder's third preview of her solo record The List pairs her with a fellow songwriter.
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BreakupsCountry
George Strait hints at retirement with a final New Mexico festival date
A Boots in the Park booking for May 2027 was billed as the singer's last New Mexico show.
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Wavves scrap the Say Anything collaborative album Cherry Soda
Nathan Williams says the decision may cost him $200,000 with 10,000 records already pressed.
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311, Dirty Heads and Gym Class Heroes join the Warped Tour Orlando lineup
The two-day Central Florida Fairgrounds finale carries more than 100 acts in November.
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Hayley Williams books UK arena shows for summer 2027
The Paramore singer plays Glasgow, Cardiff and Alexandra Palace after a Slane Castle support slot.
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BusinessPop
Six crew hurt in a forklift accident after an Ed Sheeran concert in Detroit
The workers were breaking down the stage at Ford Field when equipment lost control.
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Darkest Hour announce the album Suffer Divine for 30 October
Mark Lewis produced the record, and the title track landed with the announcement.
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TikTok names a 15-year-old Katy Perry track its global song of the summer
Catalog tracks by Mac Miller, Lenny Kravitz and Malcolm Todd fill the rest of the US top four.
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The Avalanches put Mike Patton on three songs from their new album
Haley Joel Osment turns up on one of them, and the two acts had never worked together.
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Levon Helm Studios struggles to refund shows the Woodstock venue cancelled
The owners' dispute reached federal court last month, and ticket money has not come back.
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Sprints and Maruja play the 100 Club for the Punk Special 50th anniversary
Tickets cost 1.50 pounds, the same price the London venue charged in 1976.
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Weird Al Yankovic puts the lost Al's Brain film and its song on YouTube
The 2009 county fair short film, with Paul McCartney and Patton Oswalt, is on YouTube now.
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Jackson Dean expands his album Magnolia Sage with an In Full Bloom edition
Four extra tracks include a new song, The Moon And The Wolf, with Laci Kaye Booth.
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Business
Brittani Johnson joins MCA as streaming VP as Chris Schuler exits the label
Johnson arrives from The Core Entertainment after promotion roles at Big Loud.
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Report says Justin Timberlake is planning a 2027 album and world tour
Showbiz411 sources put both under the banner The Next Move, with a March 2027 start.
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Paley Center for Media brings Nashville country songwriting to New York
James Otto, Kevin MaC and D. Vincent Williams open the Southern Rounds series on September 24.
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Lauren Alaina sings Babies Raising Babies with her brother Tyler Suddeth
The duet opens STAGES, a 17-song album split into three chapters of her life.
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Joy Crookes remakes Feet Don't Fail Me Now as a duet with Ravyn Lenae
The South London singer revisits a 2021 song from her debut about staying quiet out of fear.
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Sheherazaad announces her debut album Khudgarzi and shares Andhera
The composer recorded across Brooklyn, London and the Bay Area after a broken engagement.
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HEALTH share the single Rite of Desolation from the Crimson Moon score
Ice Nine Kills guitarist Ricky Armellino plays on the boss fight track for the new RPG.
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Director Mary Bronstein teases a film of Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields
The one-off Irvine benefit raised $10 million, then Melinda French Gates matched it.
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Business
Debbie Linn will retire as executive director of Leadership Music
She stays in the Nashville role through 2027 while a search committee finds her successor.
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Joe Russo's Almost Dead book three November shows to close their tour year
New Brunswick, Washington and Philadelphia take the band's last dates of 2026.
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ToursMetal
Guilt Trip map out a late 2026 North American tour
The UK metalcore quintet run 16 dates from Des Moines to Indianapolis with Gates to Hell and Mauled.
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Warner Music launches a Berlin label led by Lea Londa
Warner Records Germany opens with Udo Lindenberg, Provinz, LINA and Yasola on its roster.
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Carly Pearce meets another clown in the Same Circus music video
The clip stages her love life as a travelling show where only the men change.
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Ella Langley's Choosin' Texas sets a Billboard Hot 100 chart record
A 20th week on top passes Old Town Road and A Bar Song, with only a Mariah Carey standard ahead.
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The Who expand The Who By Numbers into a five disc box set
92 unreleased tracks carry Pete Townshend's demos, two 1976 concerts and studio jams.
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Country Music Association names its 2026 CMA Broadcast Awards finalists
Radio personalities and stations were judged on aircheck, ratings and community work.
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Oso Oso will open Mark Quinlan's Feral Twin label with a new album
An Exchange of Information arrives on November 6 as the imprint's first release.
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BusinessPop
George Michael concert film The Faith Tour gets its first trailer
Two restored 1988 nights at the Palais Omnisports in Paris reach cinemas on December 11.
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Oso Oso announce the album an exchange of information for November
Jade Lilitri's Long Island project leads with "know you know me better" and a surprise string part.
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Business
Music publishers Sony and Warner sue Anthropic, naming Dario Amodei and Ben Mann
The complaint says the two founders personally directed the downloading of pirated books.
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Death Valley Girls share a Basic Witch video featuring Exene Cervenka of X
The second single from Welcome to Earth follows singer Bonnie Bloomgarden losing her home in the Altadena fire.
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Alex Warren digs into his turbulent past on second album Wildchild
John Mayer, his late father's favourite guitarist, plays a solo on the title track.
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LeAnn Phelan lines up a songwriting workshop with Nicolle Galyon and Tim DuBois
The Whole Songwriter runs online from 8 to 11 September and covers career, craft and burnout.
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Aaron Frazer details his new EP Corners, led by Paint the Picture
The Durand Jones and the Indications singer made it across studios in four corners of Los Angeles.
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Lily Seabird shares Lightspheres on Their Way, the title track of her album
The outro was improvised in the studio and drew on a Brent Mydland song from the Grateful Dead.
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Lily Seabird adds December dates to her 2026 North American tour
The Burlington songwriter plays a single Canadian show in Montreal before a hometown finale.
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ToursHip-hop
Saint Levant postpones his North American tour over US visa problems
The Palestinian rapper says additional background checks could take months, so the dates move to 2027.
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BusinessLatin
Richard Busch sues Suno for the Regional Mexican music label Gerencia 360
The complaint puts alleged infringement of 444 registered works at 66.6 million dollars.
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BusinessElectronic
A shooting at the Aarauer Rave dance music event kills a woman of 22
Swiss police have arrested a 43-year-old man after gunfire wounded five more people near Zurich.
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Oso Oso announce the album an exchange of information with a new song
Jade Lilitri's sixth record is the first release on Feral Twin, a label started by Hop Along's drummer.
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Business
BMG and Concord close their deal and name the new music company's leaders
An 18-member Strategic Leadership Council sits under Bob Valentine's executive team.
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ToursElectronic
Skrillex ends a 14-year Seattle absence with a Porter Robinson DJ set
Ninajirachi joined the pair at the Gas Works Day Party, where recording was reportedly banned.
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Kali Malone details her seven-track album Burning Song for October
Ideologic Organ puts out the record, and two London church shows follow in January.
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ObituaryRock
Miguel Zavaleta, singer and leader of the band Sueter, dies at 71
His daughter Lucrecia said in a statement he had been treated for cancer for several months.
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Burning Man co-founder John Law says the desert festival has lost its soul
In an essay for The San Francisco Standard, he calls the event a luxury product for wealthy Westerners.
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Alana Markel keeps it spare on the new single Not Likely
The New York songwriter follows last year's EP I Love You with a piano and vocal alternate take.
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Black Flag singer Max Zanelly misses the US tour over a work visa issue
London Downey fronts the hardcore band for a 45-date run starting in Aspen on 3 September.
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End Of The Road publishes stage times for its 20th anniversary festival
Pulp clash with Earl Sweatshirt on Saturday, and CMAT with Kurt Vile on Sunday.
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Business
Bob Valentine becomes chief executive as the BMG and Concord music merger closes
Bertelsmann holds about 67 per cent, with Great Mountain Partners affiliates taking a 1.16 billion dollar payment.
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Grouper confirms rare European shows including Glasgow and two London nights
Liz Harris plays Cafe OTO twice in November after a slot at Le Guess Who? in Utrecht.
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Irish band Amble preview their album Love And All Its Wares in Dublin
The trio played five songs at the Ruby Sessions, the weekly showcase above Doyle's pub.
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Kali Malone leads her album Burning Song with the single Heavy With Fruit
Stephen O'Malley plays bowed acoustic guitar and Lucy Railton cello on the Leipzig recording.
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The Warning book a Mexico City stadium concert to open their 2027 tour
The rock trio landed an NFL halftime slot hours before announcing the Estadio GNP Seguros date.
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Sprints and Maruja play 100 Club shows marking 50 years of UK punk
Tickets are pegged at 1976 prices for two nights at the Oxford Street basement in September.
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Elbow play debut album Asleep In The Back over three Manchester Ritz nights
Guy Garvey told NME about the 25-year-old record, its cancelled contracts, and a follow-up shaped partly by David Bowie.
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Spanish Horses sign to So Young Records and share the single Hey Man (Hey Man!)
The band play End Of The Road this weekend and a free-entry Soho show on 8 September.
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Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore score a skiing documentary on Threshold
The pair's second album this year soundtracks a film about Olympic cross-country skier Jessie Diggins.
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London's 100 Club marks 50 years of punk with 1976 ticket prices
Sprints and Maruja headline the two nights, half a century after the venue's Sex Pistols festival.
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Cardi B takes a fourth diamond single with WAP, passing Nicki Minaj
The RIAA certified the Megan Thee Stallion collaboration at 10 million units in early August.
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Six Ed Sheeran crew members hospitalised after a Detroit stage accident
Fire dispatch audio described a forklift injury at Ford Field around 11pm as the stage came down.
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Canadian soul singer Sean Jones shares an up-tempo new single, Body
A classmate outed his voice in a ninth-grade French class, and a Juno-winning group followed.
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Drone footage shows the tents left behind at Reading Festival 2026
Organisers had asked fans to take their gear home, then heavy rain arrived during Florence + The Machine's set.
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The 606 Club announces a 50th anniversary jazz festival running Oct. 12 to 25
Jamie Cullum, Julian Joseph, Kyle Eastwood and Liane Carroll are among the names on a two-week bill.
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Sombr books The O2 Arena for his biggest UK headline show on a 2027 arena tour
The You Are The Reason run opens in Oslo on May 8, with the London date following on June 22.
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David Sylvian's album Gone to Earth turns 40 and gets read as post-rock
The Quietus argues his 1986 second solo record prepared the ground as much as Talk Talk's more celebrated work.
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Tamia returns with the ballad Forever and a Day and a performance video
It is her first new music since the 2018 album Passion Like Fire, and her husband Grant Hill appears in it.
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Tank names his album Experience and puts out two songs from it
Highlight leans dance, while How I Need You goes gospel with Kirk Franklin, Eric Dawkins and Zacardi Cortez.
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Rochelle Jordan previews Disc 2 with a Chad Hugo remix of the song Never Enough
The second EP in her Through The Wall remix series lands Sept. 10 with Terry Hunter and Shanti Celeste on it.
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BusinessR&B
Mary J. Blige draws criticism for fronting a Suno AI music campaign
The advertisement shows her in the studio reacting to generated tracks she says she could not place at first.
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Bjork's Vespertine turns 25, an album built out of microbeats and whispers
Rolling Stone en Espanol revisits the 2001 record she made at home on her first laptop, once titled Domestika.
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Outkast mark 30 years of the album ATLiens with an East Point soccer partnership
Big Boi handed jerseys to youth teams in person, with a cut of sales going to Soccer in the Streets.
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Ye plays 41 songs at a sold-out New Orleans Superdome concert
More than 65,000 people saw his first show in the city in 13 years, with Ty Dolla $ign joining for three songs.
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Ella Langley breaks the MusicRow songwriter chart record with a 19th week at No. 1
Zach Bryan held the previous mark at 18 weeks; six of Langley's songs are counted in this week's tally.
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Trey Pendley releases his debut album Signs of Life through Leo33
The 13-track record includes songs written with the late Ronnie Bowman, and a fall run with Ashley McBryde follows.
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FestivalsElectronic
DJ Sam Feldt joins Dwyane Wade for the Faces of Fitness festival in Miami
The Chicago wellness event makes its Miami debut at Regatta Park on Oct. 24 and 25.
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Ty Dolla $ign says the Vultures 3 album with Kanye West is still coming
Ye has confirmed nothing, and the series stalled after a second instalment in 2024 that landed badly.
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ReunionsMetal
Tobias Forge says Ghost's hiatus works as a finale rather than a bookend
The frontman finished a 70-date tour in February with no idea what to make next, and says he needs to be home.
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half-alive announce a seven-date North American tour behind the EP Billions
Josh Taylor and J. Tyler Johnson open in Atlanta on Oct. 30 and finish in Los Angeles on Nov. 17.
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BusinessCountry
The NSAI Song Contest opens for entries with cash prizes up to 5,000 dollars
Nashville's songwriter association takes submissions from noon on Sept. 1 until the end of October, at 35 dollars a song for members.
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ChartsPop
Rihanna's Only Girl (In The World) passes two billion Spotify streams
It is her eighth song past the mark, more than any other woman, ten years on from her last album.
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BusinessR&B
Mary J. Blige fronts a Suno ad as the fight over AI music widens
SZA found 238 of her songs in AI training datasets, Dr. Dre backed the tools, and Australia barred machine-made tracks from its charts.
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Billy Strings shreds Open Face Surgery with the death metal band Cryptopsy
The bluegrass guitarist sat in at both Michigan shows, one of them at his own Ionia Freak Fair.
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Lil Baby puts MrBeast on a Dead Fresh remix, a song built on a Pharrell beat
The YouTuber's verse counts off ocean cleanups and tree plantings in a video shot in Greenville, North Carolina.
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ADELA premieres a new song called Boys during her Reading festival set
The Slovakian-born pop singer introduced the track as a night out with friends interrupted by unwanted attention.
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Told Slant share the single Sailor days before the album What's Up arrives
Stereogum called the third preview from the record a tearjerker rather than the casual thing its title suggests.
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CJ Wallace wins a ruling as his defamation case moves to a damages hearing
A federal judge in Tampa refused to undo a default against Jonathan Hay and set an Oct. 8 date.
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ObituaryCountry
Country singer Frankie Miller, who wrote Black Land Farmer, has died at 95
The Texas honky-tonk stylist charted in 1959, left music for a car dealership, and came back to recording in 2006.
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Singer-songwriter Bridey Costello signs a publishing deal with Blue Harbor Music
The Chicago native put out a new single, Knew What I Wanted, on the same day the agreement was announced.
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The Ramones debut album turns 50 and gets a Hollywood tribute concert
Fred Armisen, Billy Idol and The Linda Lindas guested at the Aug. 30 show, and footage has been circulating since.
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Luke Bryan sets his ninth album Signs for a September 18 release
Saving Country Music marked the news with a mock track list of 16 rearrangements of fish, hunt, golf and drink.
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ToursRock
Cretin Family play a 50th anniversary Ramones tribute concert in Hollywood
Billie Joe Armstrong, Travis Barker, Tim Armstrong and CJ Ramone led a sold-out night at Hollywood Forever.
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Aemia book October pop-up shows in Vancouver and Toronto
The Persian-Canadian alt-rock band's first dates since signing to Artist House land at the Pearl and Lee's Palace.
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Philadelphia rapper Young Chris returns with the three-track EP Brief Intermission
The Young Gunz and State Property veteran keeps his latest project down to a quarter of an hour of new bars.
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Breanne Miller launches Wayfinders, a Nashville firm for artists and songwriters
She leaves Martin, Allbee, Miller, Bryan & Associates after 25 years in music financial management, taking a colleague with her.
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ToursR&B
Jill Scott postpones four Texas tour dates after a COVID diagnosis
The Houston and Dallas area shows that were to close the US leg move to the middle of September, with tickets honoured.
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ToursMetal
Bruce Dickinson needles Donald Trump as Iron Maiden open a North American tour
In Toronto the singer made a point of naming Lake Ontario, after the US president floated renaming it.
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BusinessRock
Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way backs a Shifty Shellshock documentary film
Soleil Moon Frye's portrait of the late Crazy Town singer adds two executive producers after a festival run.
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Andrew W.K. turns to instrumental jazz noir on the album Temptation To Exist
His first record in five years drops the vocals and the power chords for piano, brass, woodwinds and cello.
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Flatland Cavalry expand their album Work Of Heart with five more songs
The Heartstrings edition arrives October 2 on Lost Highway, and Strangers & Angels lands as a preview on September 4.
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ObituaryRock
Miguel Zavaleta, singer and leader of the Argentine rock band Sueter, dies at 71
He founded the group in 1981 and helped remake the country's music as the dictatorship gave way to democracy.
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Jeff Tobias becomes vice president of sales at the music royalty firm Mogul
He arrives from Tone, and before that Stem and ONErpm, to sell into business managers and catalogue owners.
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BusinessElectronic
Basement, the Queens club, bans smart glasses from its dancefloor
The venue extends a long standing no photo policy to wearable cameras, with a permanent ban for anyone who brings a pair.
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Terri Clark sets a 17-song live album from her Ryman Auditorium debut
Ashley McBryde and Trisha Yearwood guest on a record assembled from board tapes of a 2024 show nobody planned to release.
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ToursLatin
Shakira says her Madrid residency answers Latinos forced to live in fear
Writing in El Pais, the singer described a purpose built stadium and a thirty acre cultural site modelled on Macondo.
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Amy Taylor sings a John Prine song with Viagra Boys at FORWARDS in Bristol
The pair had recorded In Spite Of Ourselves together in 2020 and never played it in front of an audience until now.
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ToursRock
Rush add four arena dates to the Fifty Something Tour
Houston, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh get one night stands after the band found they needed fewer days off than planned.
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No Limit era producer Donald XL Robertson returns with the beat tape Sunday's Mood
Twelve instrumentals draw on the brass bands and jazz he grew up with in New Orleans, with no rapper in front of them.
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Omni mark ten years of the album Deluxe with an expanded reissue
The two disc set adds the original demos, two singles from 2017 and a pair of songs nobody has heard.
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BusinessCountry
The 60th annual CMA Awards will reveal its nominees on September 10
Lara Spencer names some categories on Good Morning America, with the rest going out on a livestream from Nashville.
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FestivalsCountry
Billy Strings joins Cryptopsy onstage at his own Ionia Freak Fair festival
The bluegrass player booked a metal stage at his hometown event in Michigan and turned up on it himself.
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ReleasesMetal
Bad Wolves release the Jolene cover that cost the band its guitarist
Dolly Parton had agreed to sing on the track and was preparing to record when she died, and proceeds go to her Imagination Library.
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ReleasesMetal
Lamb Of God's Sacrament, the album that nearly broke the band, turns 20
The Richmond quintet's fifth record reached number eight on the Billboard 200 and brought their first Grammy nomination.
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Sargent Tucker returns with the soul album You're The One For Me
The singer, songwriter and guitarist follows a run of singles with a full record, out first on CD and vinyl.
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Saxophonist Michael Blake sets his album Halloween Tales for 25 September
Gary Versace, Ben Allison and Michael Sarin play a programme of horror themes, Charlie Brown tunes and Ellington, cut in a single day.
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ToursMetal
Harm's Way play their first show since guitarist Bo Lueders died
The Chicago band used a Friday night set at Casa Cafe as a warm up for the memorial gig the following evening.
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SOB x RBE lose a festival set after organizers report threats to their team
The Vallejo group were due at the New West Coast Festival in Salt Lake City, in what would have been their second reunion show.
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Kuzi Cee returns with the R&B single Ember (Remind Me)
The Canadian singer follows Rather Be with a nostalgic track that leans as much on pop as on the genre he came up in.
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2Slimey pushes rage rap further out on the single Critical
HotNewHipHop gave the Straight Edge track a 1.25 out of 5 and asked whether the noise is still worth it.
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Bad Waitress set In The Hollow, their first album in five years
The Toronto punk quartet produced the record themselves with engineer Josh Korody, and Lovin' Kind arrives as the first taste.
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AwardsLatin
Three singers reach the Mexico Canta final and a shot at a record deal
Tiffany Galaviz, Joshua Soto and Rosalba Valdez advance from the Los Angeles semifinal to the Auditorio Nacional on September 13.
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FestivalsRock
Twenty One Pilots debut Robot Voices in their only UK festival set of 2026
Emi Grace sang the Breach track with the duo at All Points East, on a night that also took in Beatles, Radiohead and White Stripes covers.
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ReleasesR&B
Scottie Barnett lets go of control on the single Soul Controller
SoulTracks gave the mid-tempo track a first listen, with Silver Angelina singing lead over a funk and R&B groove.
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ReleasesRock
Bruce Springsteen joins Bleachers onstage in Asbury Park for two songs
The Boss walked out at Shadow of the City, the hometown festival Jack Antonoff's band closed on August 28.
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ReleasesRock
Billie Joe Armstrong and Travis Barker lead Ramones tribute band The Cretin Family
Billy Idol, The Linda Lindas and Fred Armisen turned up at the Hollywood Forever anniversary show.
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ReleasesRock
cowboyy share the single melancholy (chain) from the EP revocder
Stan Powell wrote it as a throwback to what he was making as a teenager, and it started life as chain to pain.
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ToursRock
Irish band Fontaines D.C. to headline Slane Castle in June 2027
They are only the third Irish act to top the bill there, after U2 and Thin Lizzy.
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FestivalsElectronic
Chase & Status close the Reading festival with 12 guest vocalists
ArrDee, D Double E, Novelist, Flowdan and Tom Grennan all appeared, through a torrential downpour.
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ObituaryRock
David Fair, who co-founded the band Half Japanese with his brother Jad, has died
He had been treated for cancer for two years, and died at the weekend with his daughter beside him.
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ReleasesRock
Republica reissue their debut album at 30 with an unreleased 1997 live set
The double vinyl lands on 9 October, followed by a UK tour that opens on the Isle of Wight.
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ReleasesIndie
The Sewing Club share the single Bark before their debut album Sew
The Nashville band play UK dates from 15 October, then a US run supporting Chase Petra.
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