Weekly wrap-up
Week of September 14, 2026
242 stories No issue this week
Everything the desk filed September 14 to 20, 2026, best-covered first. No issue went out this week, so this page is the whole of it.
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BusinessPop
Ed Sheeran breaks his silence on Gaza at the first concert since Macklemore's exit
He took the B stage out over safety fears, played with no support acts at all, and told a Philadelphia crowd he had thought about giving up music.
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ObituaryRock
Chad Gilbert, guitarist and songwriter of New Found Glory, has died at 45
Five years of cancer treatment ended on Sunday morning, six months after he disclosed a brain diagnosis.
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ObituaryPop
Duncan Sheik, the Spring Awakening composer and singer, has died at 56
His mother told the New York Times the cause was organ failure, days after his family said he was in critical condition.
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BusinessHip-hop
Travis Scott and Keith Richards open the Grand Theft Auto 6 soundtrack
Six songs from a 34-track album landed on 17 September, with the full record and the game both due on 19 November.
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ToursMetal
William Shatner, 95, debuts his metal band the *uckers at a Chicago warm-up
Six songs at Park West, three of them his own, before a Riot Fest slot the following afternoon.
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ReleasesPop
The Weeknd debuts the song Tokyo in Japan with the singer Yoko Takahashi
The track builds on A Cruel Angel's Thesis, and Yoko Taro supplied stage visuals from NieR:Automata and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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ToursIndie
Death Cab for Cutie book a 2027 tour and share the Stone Over Water video
Twenty-two dates run from Honolulu in January to Asheville in April, with Swapmeet supporting the mainland leg.
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ReleasesRock
Hayley Williams plays the song Airplanes with Rico Nasty, 16 years on
The pair closed the encore at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, where Nasty had opened the show earlier that night.
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BusinessIndie
Sylvan Esso put their music back on Spotify and say they still hate it
Amelia Meath says the duo cannot keep paying the people who work for them while staying off the platform. Their politics have not changed.
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ReleasesPop
Ian McKellen narrates the Troye Sivan single Party, built on a Madonna sample
Gordon von Steiner directed the medieval clip. She's the Best, Sivan's fourth album, lands on 9 October.
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ToursIndie
Leithauser and Rostam tour their duo album as it turns ten
Eleven November dates open at the 9:30 Club in their shared hometown, with a new piano version of In a Black Out to mark it.
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BusinessPop
The Weeknd rules out retirement and calls the break a hibernation
Abel Tesfaye told GQ Hong Kong he had a glimpse of retirement and did not like it, after five years of albums, a TV show and a film.
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ToursRock
Papa Roach cancel their Louder Than Life festival set over Tobin Esperance's health
The Louisville show was their last US date before a European run opens in Glasgow on 1 November.
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ReunionsR&B
Gnarls Barkley book their first tour in 18 years, with UK dates in December
CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse open in San Francisco on 5 November and finish in London, behind the album they call their last.
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ReleasesIndie
Matt Berninger of The National surprise-releases the Type It Up EP
Six tracks, a Rosanne Cash guest turn and a chorus he rewrote because audiences kept hearing something ruder.
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BusinessIndie
Pulp film What Do You Do For An Encore? reaches cinemas and MUBI
Garth Jennings cut 90 minutes from two sold-out O2 nights, with a stripped-back Something Changed for Steve Mackey.
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ReleasesR&B
Meshell Ndegeocello and Bill Callahan take a Bob Dylan song for Synonym
Chris Thile sings on it too, the duets album lands on 2 October, and Chaka Khan and Brandi Carlile are elsewhere on the record.
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BusinessPop
Songwriter Gregg Alexander names the second New Radicals album
Maybe You've Been Brainwashed TWO is due early next year on Universal, with Danielle Brisebois back alongside him.
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ReleasesIndie
Soccer Mommy returns with the song Rings of Saturn
Sophie Allison's first release in two years was produced by Elliott Kozel, and she tours with Snail Mail from 30 September.
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BusinessIndie
Spotify offers 10,000 independent artists a year studio time and therapy
Fresh Finds Forward gives each participant a 12-month package, though the free studio days are limited to artists based in the United States.
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BusinessCountry
Dolly Parton accepts an Americana lifetime award in a video taped before her death
Emmylou Harris introduced the clip at the Ryman, and Brandi Carlile and I'm With Her led a performance of Coat of Many Colors.
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ReleasesIndie
Jamie T puts Lily Allen and Liam Howlett in the lyrics of his single Tallahassee
The track samples Leif Vollebekk and previews Ghosts (100 Days Of Morning), which Polydor releases on 9 October.
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ToursRock
Gorillaz open their North American tour with Albarn raising a Palestinian flag
The Orlando set ran to 24 songs and pulled from their debut, Plastic Beach, Demon Days, Humanz and The Mountain.
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BusinessPop
Singer Billy Joel is alive, his publicist says, after a Google death listing
Claire Mercuri told Newsday she had just been emailing him. The search engine had put his date of death at 17 September.
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BusinessPop
Ms. Rachel dates her first album I'm So Happy for 25 September
Twenty-three songs played on real instruments, made with her husband Aron Accurso, the Broadway composer behind Songs for Littles.
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BusinessR&B
Kelela says her album New Avatar is built to take apart sonic racism
Oscar Scheller produced almost all of the guitar-heavy third record. She plays two nights at the Wiltern on 21 and 22 September.
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BusinessPop
Singer Zara Larsson calls a White House ICE video using her song dehumanising
The Swedish pop star answered on TikTok after immigration arrest footage was cut to Midnight Sun.
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Business
Apollo puts $1.25bn into the BMG arm holding bonds on a million songs
The investment lets the newly merged BMG pay down debt raised against Concord's royalties without diluting Bertelsmann's stake.
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Business
Zach Bryan and Benny Blanco back a $5m raise for the artist platform Notes.fm
The royalty collection company says the round was funded almost entirely by musicians, managers and industry figures, with no lead investor named.
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ReleasesRock
Neil Young's 50th album Second Song pairs new songs with 1960s tapes
Cut to tape at Shangri-La with the Chrome Hearts, the record revives two songs he wrote as a teenager in Canada.
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ReunionsElectronic
Noisia reunite for a December show in Amsterdam and new music
The Dutch drum and bass trio play Melkweg on 4 December, seven years after a split they now describe as letting go rather than trying harder.
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BusinessPop
La Roux says a breakdown cost the singer a decade away from music
Elly Jackson posted the account to TikTok over a remix of Bulletproof, weeks before the fourth album Old Flames arrives on 6 November.
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ReleasesPop
Madonna and Charli XCX put the single Danceteria Afterhours out on 24 September
Stuart Price produced the track, which lands days before Madonna opens the VMAs for the first time in 23 years.
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ObituaryHip-hop
Sway DaSafo, the British rapper who beat 50 Cent to a MOBO, has died at 44
He died at his home in Ghana. The 2005 award came before he had released an album, and he later helped start Ed Sheeran and KSI.
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ChartsR&B
Jhene Aiko takes a first number one album 13 years after her chart debut
Westside Whimsy opened with 74,000 units, almost all of them streaming, and was announced three days before release.
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ReleasesHip-hop
Cardi B says her third album is coming next year and teases a Europe tour
She has two songs done, plans to disappear and record after her November birthday, and says the eight-year wait will not repeat.
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ReleasesR&B
Singer Tweet shares videos for Love Again and Toot Toot from her new album
One song was the lead single nearly a year ago; the other has been circulating since a third record was shelved in 2008.
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ReleasesIndie
beabadoobee fills her fourth album Pylon with guests from Deftones and Turnstile
Chino Moreno sings on the closing track, Brendan Yates carries a hook, and Hayley Williams co-wrote one of the songs.
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ReleasesHip-hop
Skepta puts Chase & Status and Suggs on the single Innocent Smile
The track is lifted from his coming album The Fork and Knife, out through Big Smoke Records and Epic.
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ReunionsRock
Talking Heads reunite on 28 September for a SiriusXM channel launch
Este Haim hosts the conversation at the broadcaster's New York studios. Talking Heads Radio runs through October, and no new music is involved.
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ReleasesHip-hop
AZ Chike releases his major-label debut album, No Rest For The Wicked
The South Central rapper spent years in the Los Angeles underground before trading verses with Kendrick Lamar on Peekaboo.
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ReleasesPop
Miley Cyrus films the Let's Get Married video at the Chateau Marmont
Mert Alas directed the black and white clip, with her fiance Maxx Morando in it, a day before Bass Persuades arrived.
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ReleasesPop
Miley Cyrus releases her tenth album Bass Persuades under the name Miley
Ten tracks, features from Model/Actriz and Miike Snow's Andrew Wyatt, and two Hollywood Bowl nights in October.
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AwardsCountry
Nashville and California name 25 September Dolly Parton Day for the late singer
The date nods to 9 to 5. Venues across Nashville play the song at 5 p.m. and fireworks follow downtown at 9:25 p.m.
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ToursCountry
Luke Bryan loses two Farm Tour dates to waterlogged fields
Latrobe was called off hours before doors on 17 September and Allegan followed on 20 September, leaving half his autumn run unplayed.
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ObituaryR&B
Kevin Spencer, a founding singer of the SOLAR group Dynasty, has died
He had been reported to be fighting cancer, and wrote for Shalamar and The Whispers as well.
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ReleasesIndie
Dirt Buyer cover the Shira Small song My Life's All Right for Bayonet
The fourth entry in a series of Bayonet artists raiding the Numero Group vaults.
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BusinessCountry
Billy Strings plays his first full-band set since breaking his leg on Austin City Limits
The Season 52 hour was taped on 2 July and runs seven songs, ending in a Hendrix quote.
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ReleasesIndie
Julia Cumming follows her solo album with the song Mom, I'm Going Back To Therapy
A Dolly Parton lyric book pointed the Sunflower Bean singer at country for her first release since Julia.
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ReleasesIndie
V.V. Lightbody premieres Two Swans from the album Period Piece
The Chicago songwriter's third record lands on 9 October through Egghunt Records, and this is its fourth preview.
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ReleasesPop
Kate Nash dates her sixth album Cailin and shares the single Spilt Milk
Recorded on the west coast of Ireland with trad players and produced by KoOoLkOjAk, the record lands on 22 January through Kill Rock Stars.
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ObituaryHip-hop
Tay Keith, the producer behind Look Alive, died of an accidental overdose
The Nashville medical examiner's office found kratom compounds and ketamine three months after he was found dead at 29.
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LegalHip-hop
Ski Mask the Slump God plays down a Florida arrest that carries ten charges
The rapper posted bail of almost 9,000 dollars and was home watching UFC by the weekend.
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BusinessHip-hop
Quavo says a Migos album is nearly finished and points at a January anniversary
The rapper told Baller Alert he and Offset are close to turning it in, and that it will not be another Culture record.
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BusinessMetal
Amanda Somerville, the singer behind two decades of symphonic metal, has a brain tumour
Her husband Sander Gommans says the diagnosis is malignant and aggressive, and asked the scene to hold her in mind.
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ReleasesPop
Say Now bring in PinkPantheress to executive produce the single Met my match
The British trio's new track also carries Oscar Scheller, Count Baldor and Maestro The Baker on the credits.
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ToursPop
Celine Dion climbs on a car outside her hotel and sings to Paris
Barefoot on the bonnet after her third residency night, she conducted a street full of fans through a 1995 single.
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LegalHip-hop
An investor says the rapper Drake's OVO left it unpaid when the brand was sold
A.R.I. claims a guaranteed return clause was triggered by the Authentic Brands deal and never honoured.
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ReleasesElectronic
Torture Methods follow a self-titled debut with the single RIPPER, REAPER
Grant Chapman's sample-built project took four months to return after its first record.
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BusinessR&B
The Soul Train Awards return to BET on 27 November after two years off air
Don Cornelius's son Tony helped bring the ceremony back, and it goes home to Chicago with it.
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ReleasesJazz
An unheard George Benson vocal from 2013 surfaces on a reissued Nat King Cole tribute
Almost Like Being In Love sat in the vault for thirteen years; a Candid remaster has brought it out.
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ReleasesIndie
Cam Cole opens his album Lost In Creation with the single Chasing Dreams
The busker turned touring act has the record down for 30 October, and says the song came out of trying to carry the whole world at once.
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LegalHip-hop
Judge clears marshals to force music manager Big U into a federal courtroom
Eugene Henley stayed in his cell at a Los Angeles jail on 17 September, and the order holds for later hearings unless the court changes it.
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ReleasesR&B
Glenn Lewis puts a video to Waiting, the latest cut from his album Overture
Anna Keenan directed the clip, which follows the singer round a white room while the clock on the wall keeps moving.
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BusinessCountry
ABC sets a two-hour Dolly Parton tribute concert special for 21 October
The live show comes from Belmont University's Fisher Center in Nashville, with a share of proceeds going to the Imagination Library.
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ReleasesHip-hop
Drake releases the song Quebec and the videos from his FOMO short film
HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR got individual clips too, and the track has not been confirmed for streaming services.
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BusinessIndie
Lizzy McAlpine says a song on her album Angel copies Nick Drake by accident
She raised the resemblance herself rather than answering an accusation, at a moment when songwriting theft is a live argument.
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ToursHip-hop
A$AP Rocky brings Rihanna and their son onstage at his Copenhagen concert
Riot, who is three, took his father's megaphone during Lord Pretty Flacko Jodye 2 at the Royal Arena.
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ToursMetal
Ministry revive the Psalm 69 song Scarecrow at Red Rocks after 23 years
Former bassist Paul Barker came on for Useless at the same Colorado show, six weeks before the band's farewell album lands.
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Lineup changeMetal
Forbidden tour without bassist Matt Camacho and drummer Chris Kontos
Avery Thurman and Eli Lucas fill in on the Chaos By Design run from 23 October, the day the thrash band's first album in 16 years lands.
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BusinessHip-hop
Rapper AZ Chike posts the Kendrick Lamar advice behind No Rest For The Wicked
There is no guest verse on the album, but the producer Sounwave stayed across it, and the studio photos that started the rumours are now footage.
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LegalHip-hop
Prosecutors cite gun photos in arguing rapper NBA Ben 10 should stay in custody
The Louisiana filing leans on Instagram images, a long arrest record and his ties to Never Broke Again, and asks for a Houston medical facility.
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ReleasesR&B
Verdine White releases Celebrate Our Love, the last song Maurice White recorded
The keyboardist Freddie Ravel co-wrote the unfinished demo and kept it for years before taking it to his late bandmate's brother.
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ToursHip-hop
Tory Lanez books a US listening tour while serving a 10-year sentence
The Not On Tor run opens in New York on 25 September with DJs and guests playing his catalogue; organisers say he will not appear.
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ReunionsR&B
Gnarls Barkley book a nine-date tour, their first since 2008
The run supports Atlanta, the album CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse say is their last, and stops in the city it is named after.
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BusinessJazz
Steve Rubie marks 50 years running the 606 Club, London's basement jazz room
A two-week anniversary festival at the Chelsea venue runs from 12 to 25 October, with Jamie Cullum and Liane Carroll among those returning.
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Business
Tom Watson leaves the industry body UK Music to become a Palantir vice president
The former Labour deputy leader chaired the body for six years; a Green MP called the move a revolving door between politics and lobbying.
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FestivalsJazz
JazzFest Berlin gives pianist Alexander Hawkins the premiere of Willow Music
His large ensemble piece closes the opening night on 29 October, straight after a new Anthony Braxton septet for four saxophones and three tubas.
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ToursPop
Davido books a three-night Lagos residency at the National Theatre in December
He calls the renovated building Nigeria's Madison Square Garden, and a video for the single On the Road landed the same day.
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LegalLatin
Shein asks a court to dismiss the Selena estate's merchandise lawsuit
The retailer says third-party sellers uploaded the items and that a marketplace cannot be liable simply for displaying listings.
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Lineup changeCountry
Silverada bassist Omar Oyoque steps away for hand surgery after nine years
The band's onstage hype man played two final shows in Tennessee, with no stand-in named and no date set for a return.
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ReleasesPop
Carly Rae Jepsen splits her eighth album Day and Night into two halves
The record runs to 24 tracks, with the B-sides folded in rather than held back for a companion release.
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ReleasesHip-hop
Gunna names his next album Splurge and says October is possible
He told Forbes he has no date and will not rush it, and pushed back at the idea that he is a free agent after The Last Wun.
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BusinessHip-hop
Roc Nation struggles to book the Super Bowl LXI halftime show, a report says
Artists are said to be weighing political fallout against a slot that carries no real fee, and the announcement could slip to November.
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ReleasesCountry
Rhiannon Giddens goes big on the album Hope is the Thing With Feathers
She tells NPR it is time for large feelings, and the record runs from a song about refugees to a loose jam on Cluck Old Hen.
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ReleasesR&B
Josh Levi puts Brandy on the deluxe album HYDRAULIC: FUELED UP
Five tracks join the singer's debut, and unusually they sit at the front of the record rather than tacked on the end.
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ReleasesIndie
Lael Neale directs her own video for the single Picasso's Wife
The clip was shot on a kitchen floor in Lisbon using her paintings, two months before the album As Killers Do arrives.
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BusinessLatin
FLVCKKA is the standout artist in YouTube's Foundry class of 2026
The Chihuahua-born singer calls their own style hypercorridos, and Remezcla reads the pick as a signal about where Mexican music is going.
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ToursCountry
Carly Pearce plays a 20-song Chicago club set on the Honest Woman tour
She talked about her mother's illness, let the room vote on two songs and sang fragments of the requests that missed the cut.
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FestivalsElectronic
Arca headlines the Rave3000 festival in Buenos Aires on 11 December
A twelve-hour open-air event at Club Ciudad, with hard techno, house and trance across several stages and tickets already selling.
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ObituaryHip-hop
CEO Grip, a business partner in Yo Gotti's CMG label, has died
Tributes came from Boosie, YFN Lucci, Moneybagg Yo and 42 Dugg, with no cause of death announced.
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ReleasesIndie
Greek pop singer Stella returns on Sub Pop with a single called Belinda
Rodaidh McDonald co-produced the track, and Rafael Cohen of the band !!! plays on it as he did on her last album.
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ReleasesIndie
Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot turns 25 from the day the album went online free
The band put the record on their own website in September 2001 after Reprise let them walk, seven months before a shop ever stocked it.
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ReleasesRock
TAUK guitarist Matt Jalbert sings for the first time on his solo album Somebody's Child
The instrumental quartet's guitarist wrote lyrics for the first time in his thirties, and the title track is out now.
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BusinessMetal
Metal band Metallica run a Red Cross blood drive at their Las Vegas residency
A themed donation centre opens on the Strip on 28 September, with a replica of Lars Ulrich's kit to sit behind and his real one to win.
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ReleasesElectronic
2hollis swings back to dance pop on his new single Sex
Two months after the industrial-leaning Hurt, the rapper and singer has gone back to something built for a big room.
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BusinessCountry
Country Radio Broadcasters names a 2027 board drawn from labels, radio and streaming
Kurt Johnson stays on as president, four new directors join, and the next Country Radio Seminar is set for March in Nashville.
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BusinessCountry
Luke Bryan marks his album Signs with a Live From Roku City set
The taped performance goes up on 19 September and includes a cover of the Cheers theme alongside two of his own songs.
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BusinessCountry
Kenny Chesney says three years of time went into the album Silver Sands Marina
Two years at the Sphere and a book kept him off the usual release treadmill, and eleven songs came out of it.
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ToursCountry
Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol books 25 cities of holiday tour dates
The musical recasts Scrooge as a mining company owner in 1930s Tennessee, and opens in West Virginia on 14 November.
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LegalHip-hop
Bad Boy label co-founder Kirk Burrowes presses a 25 percent claim on Diddy's mother
A judge threw out Janice Combs's first attempt to end the case, but only because the complaint it attacked no longer exists.
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ReleasesPop
Blackpink singer Rose releases a solo single called new trick
Her last one outside the group, the Bruno Mars collaboration APT, is still the biggest solo song any member has had.
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ReleasesIndie
Vetusta Morla end a two-year silence with the single Si vuelves
The Madrid sextet recorded it live in one room, and the title nods to a line from the exiled Spanish minister Fernando de los Rios.
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ReleasesMetal
Justifications, the new band from two founders of The Red Chord, release Urge To Kill
Guy Kozowyk and Kevin Rampelberg have a hardcore group together again, and its first song runs under two minutes.
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ReleasesHip-hop
Curly Castro opens his album Yaphet with a six-minute posse cut, Black Don't Crack
billy woods, Fatboi Sharif, Blueprint, Brian Ennals, SKECH185 and AJ Suede all turn up on the Philadelphia rapper's opening track.
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ReleasesRock
An unreleased Neal Casal song, Muscatine, opens a posthumous album of home recordings
Twelve tracks the singer-songwriter cut at home on a gifted eight-track machine arrive on 6 November, seven years after his death.
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FestivalsRock
Punk In The Park promoter Brew Ha Ha plans a new punk festival after the boycott
Cameron Collins cancelled everything he had booked when acts refused to play over his donation to Donald Trump.
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ToursIndie
Animal Collective add more Feels shows after ticket bots hit the first pair
The band's first gigs in four years sold out fast and largely to software, so two more have gone on the schedule.
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BusinessCountry
Rapper turned country singer Chanel West Coast refuses to apologise for the switch
She says the criticism followed her out of hip-hop and into country, and that it has never changed what she records.
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ToursCountry
Kenny Chesney books a one-night Nashville concert for Silver Sands Marina
Tickets are ten dollars through a lottery, and a plaza takeover runs across the two days around the show.
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BusinessCountry
Drew Baldridge answers a label executive who told the singer he was not cool enough
His first major-label album runs 16 tracks in three parts, and one of them is a song about being told to be somebody else.
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Business
Universal Music Group and Sony sue Suno again over its v6 AI models
The second complaint covers 60,202 recordings and argues a model trained on an infringing model's output is still infringing.
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BusinessElectronic
DJ James Hype teases a 16-deck setup and says we have been thinking too small
The producer behind Ferrari has posted a rig that would surround him with CDJs, without saying whether it ever leaves the studio.
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ToursIndie
Tune-Yards book a US tour called The Ones That Love You, opening in Chicago
Nine dates run from 5 November to 18 November in small rooms, with the pop duo Rituals of Mine opening every night.
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LegalHip-hop
Producer Mally Mall gets 17 months for breaching his supervised release
He admitted five violations in a Las Vegas court, among them a failed drug test and a room he hid from probation officers.
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ReleasesIndie
Strange Pains share the single Lucifer Disguised as their album slips to October
Ted Bradley's Providence project has a new song out, while the record it belongs to moves back by a month.
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ReleasesRock
Beck shot the Run Away video in Tokyo with the actor Tadanobu Asano
Mikai Karl directed it on location in Japan, the second arthouse lead Beck has cast for this record.
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ToursPop
Valley book a 2027 world tour with 12 Canadian shows and a Massey Hall finish
The Toronto band open in Quebec City in February and reach London, Berlin and Paris by May.
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ReleasesIndie
Hayboy releases the single smartness and dollars from a coming album
Daniel Brown cut the West Virginia songwriter's new track in one take, loud enough for a room.
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ReleasesR&B
Teddy Swims dates the album Ugly for January and shares Perfect Man
Warner has it on 22 January 2027, written across the 15 months since his son was born.
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Riconoflow releases the single Essential, sung in English and Portuguese
The Brazilian rapper, based in Puerto Rico, writes in the booth rather than on paper.
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ReleasesCountry
Brandy Clark dates the album the bird for 15 January on Reprise
Shooter Jennings produced it, Rosanne Cash sings on one track, and American Roots is out now.
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BusinessElectronic
Italo disco duo Mind Enterprises release a mini-documentary about the band
Andrea Tirone and Roberto Conigliaro went from kitchen videos to Coachella, and the film follows them on the road.
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BusinessHip-hop
Fat Joe says veteran rappers are too scared of first-week sales to record
He made the remark on Shade 45 while promoting his own album, and said he has no idea what it sold.
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BusinessPop
Chubby Checker and Gil Cunningham enter the IEBA Hall of Fame on 6 October
The singer behind The Twist goes in alongside a talent buyer whose company books more than 900 shows a year.
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ReleasesLatin
Metrika releases the single P0RN0 from her coming album La Orden
Victor Marin directed the video, which puts the Valencian singer in a psychiatric ward.
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Business
Universal Music Group and Warner say the AFM clause misses their AI deals
The musicians' union says session rates already supply a measure of what its members are owed from the Udio and Suno licences.
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ReleasesCountry
Dylan Marlowe dates his self-titled second album for 6 November
Sony Music Nashville has it, Joe Fox co-produced, and the song In This Boat arrives ahead of it.
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ReleasesCountry
Lainey Wilson and John Mayer duet on Phone, Keys, Wallet for the first time
Their June single got its stage debut at a Country Music Hall of Fame benefit she was hosting in Los Angeles.
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ReleasesIndie
Dr. Dog drummer Eric Slick sets the solo album Bounce House for March
Mannequin, the first song from it, brings in Molly Martin and Jamie Lidell.
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Straw Man Army drop the electricity on the acoustic album True North
Striking Home is the first song from it, two years after the New York duo closed a post-punk trilogy.
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Karol G plays MetLife Stadium with Tainy and Judeline joining her
Rusowsky came out too, on the first of two sold-out New Jersey nights, for a Bby Wow the three had never performed live.
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Mt. Joy bring out guests Gigi Perez and Taylor Meier at Madison Square Garden
SNACKTIME joined them too, for two songs and a medley that took in the Flaming Lips and Gnarls Barkley.
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Tonio Hall, the Dallas R&B singer, has been killed in a Michigan shooting
SoulBounce marked the death of Antonio Hall, who was in his twenties, by pointing readers to a Dallas television report.
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Wasia Project release the debut album Nocturne through AWAL
Will Gao and Olivia Hardy built 12 tracks around one night, from a nightclub to a sleepless bedroom.
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Zac Brown Band play an Allman Brothers medley with Brothers Osborne
One Way Out ran into Whipping Post in Charleston, and Mark Bryan turned up for a first live Hootie cover.
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XTC bassist Colin Moulding shares Want It Bad, his second solo single
He has written for the band since 1972 and put out solo work exactly once before this.
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Interpol and Queens Of The Stone Age book three Mexico shows for 2027
A stadium night in Mexico City on 6 March sits between arena dates in Guadalajara and Monterrey, with The Black Angels opening.
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Beck releases the album Ride Lonesome, his first record in seven years
Capitol put it out with Nigel Godrich mixing, and a tour opens at the Santa Barbara Bowl on 22 September.
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Business
Spin, the music magazine, makes Liza Lentini its editor-in-chief
She is the first person to hold the title outright under Jimmy Hutcheson's ownership, after six years on the masthead.
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BusinessR&B
Chuck Brown and E.U. feature in a Tiny Desk Radio episode on go-go music
Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre pull office concerts by Chuck Brown, Trouble Funk, Rare Essence and E.U. into one broadcast.
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no na release the debut album island girl through 88rising
The four Indonesian singers call their sound Island Pop, and the 15 tracks arrive a week after a near 15-minute medley.
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The Avett Brothers bring back Linger, the Cranberries song, after 480 shows
Seth Avett sang it to open the encore in New Haven, eight years after the band last played it.
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Cameron Winter takes the Live at Carnegie Hall concert film to Canada
Paul Thomas Anderson shot it on 35 mm, and Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal get dates across December and January.
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Orville Peck releases the album Mule, made with producer Jay Joyce
Molly Tuttle, Ketch Secor and Emmylou Harris all turn up on it, and the Man Turned Mules tour opens the same night at the Hollywood Bowl.
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Knock2 releases the single sound di alarm after a year of quiet
It is his first new original music since the January 2025 debut album, and it has been in his sets since Coachella.
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GRiZ books two free Denver shows after the Red Rocks ticket scramble
Both sets are at the open-air JunkYard on 27 September, at 1pm and 7pm, with every penny of merchandise profit going to Denver charities.
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FestivalsElectronic
Ultra Japan bans moshing and public defecation before its Tokyo festival weekend
Organisers warn the event may not be able to happen in future if the behaviour continues. Alesso, Peggy Gou and Sara Landry play.
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SoundExchange and MusicNation will pay artists for music played in each other's markets
SoundExchange affiliates start collecting for UAE broadcasts, and Emirati creators for US airplay, under a reciprocal neighbouring rights deal.
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Symphonic wires MassiveMusic audio delivery into its label migration tool
A label switching distributor no longer has to upload its own audio files if the catalogue already sits in MassiveMusic's systems.
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BusinessElectronic
Metro Boomin, Fred again.. and Travis Scott fill the GTA 6 soundtrack album
Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album carries 34 original tracks and lands on 19 November, the same day as the game.
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Kofi Stone dates the 16-track album The Last Flower To Bloom for October
The UK rapper follows last year's All The Flowers Have Bloomed, and the soulful title track is already online.
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Nardia cuts the album Own Every Scar between Melbourne, Nashville and Memphis
Boo Mitchell of Royal Studios mixed the title track. The Australian singer-songwriter's ten-song record is out now.
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Saina dates her EP Hotel 555 for 23 October
Darkest Hours is out now, drawn from Joe Hisaishi's Studio Ghibli scores and co-produced with zuriel, who worked on the whole record.
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Montell Fish opens the EP NEST with Forever and Vancouver Sleep Clinic
The four-track record lands on 2 October, ahead of a 20-date run starting at The Ford in Los Angeles.
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Charli XCX adds a second O2 night to her Music, Fashion, Film tour
The extra show is on Saturday 20 February 2027, the night after the date already booked, and takes the run to seven.
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The Sewing Club share Complicated before the Nashville band's debut album Sew
Sew arrives on 2 October through Born Losers Records, followed by an autumn run across the UK, Europe and the United States.
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BusinessJazz
Firefly, the first feature documentary on guitarist Emily Remler, opens its Kickstarter
Al Naffah has a 75-minute rough cut and needs up to $85,000 to clear the archive and music rights behind it.
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BusinessPop
MPs will review how the UK picks its Eurovision song as Ireland sits out
A DCMS committee wants to know who chooses the entrant and on what basis, after a third straight nul points from the public vote.
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Melissa Weikart dates her second album Contact for 23 October
Midnight Special Records puts out the twelve-track record, which the Paris-based artist wrote, arranged and produced largely on her own.
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Mietze Conte dates an antifascist album and shares a club single
painting on a monument is out now. The album arrives on 29 October through common knowledge, with UK, Irish and Japanese dates around it.
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Kwamie Liv ends six years away with a single about the sunrise
No One Owns the Sunrise comes out on her own imprint Fame Bear, her first music since the 2018 album Lovers That Come and Go.
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Toria Wooff sets her goth-folk album Aleister for 12 January
Sloe Flower Records releases the record. James Wyatt produced it in a Welsh cottage, and the first single arrives with a folk-horror video.
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K2icyy turns a viral snippet into the single Luv Don't Cost A Thang
A teaser pulled more than 150,000 impressions, so the Los Angeles rapper finished the song and put it out.
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FERG goes bright and playful on the single CYCLE
The Harlem rapper swaps his hard-hitting sound for something closer to 90s pop, and sets the lyric in a spin class.
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Carly Rae Jepsen sets her Versailles video at a party in Los Angeles
Kanya Iwana directed the clip. The song comes from Day and Night, the 24-track double album that arrived the same day.
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Rakim, Kurupt and Masta Killa stack the album THE GODBODY with guests
Snoop Dogg, KRS-One, Kool G Rap, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon all turn up across the sixteen tracks.
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Bokani Dyer builds the album Traditions out of covers and bow music
The South African pianist releases the record on 1 October and headlines Ronnie Scott's for the first time five days later.
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Offset builds a call-in hotline around his single Something I Need
NEED FM takes relationship problems from listeners, and the Atlanta rapper may answer some of them himself.
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Hunxho answers the title of his album I Quit Rap with 20 songs
The Atlanta rapper is not retiring. G Herbo, Hotboii and BabyDrill turn up on a record that caps a busy year of singles.
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Yeat and Drake make MISS MY DAWG their fourth song together
Drake premiered it in his FOMO short film days before it reached streaming. It sits on Yeat's COCOON EP.
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Yeat puts out COCOON, a seven-track EP made on the LOVE/LYFE Tour
It began as a five-song pack and kept growing before release night. Drake turns up on miss my dawg.
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Josh Levi puts Brandy on a Say It remix for his deluxe album
Hydraulic: Fueled Up also brings in Teezo Touchdown, Kirko Bangz and FLO, and lands through Raedio and Atlantic Records.
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Clean Bandit, Chloe Bailey and Omah Lay put out the single Company
Jack Patterson produced the chorus and the group directed the choreography-led video. It follows Bailey's Timbaland mixtape Resurrection.
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untitled (halo) put out an easy rider video before their Dirty Hit debut album
Ariana Mamnoon calls the song the closing track and the summation of everything before it. The record arrives on 6 November.
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Business
Barbra Streisand attacks the closure of the Kennedy Center concert hall
A Trump-appointed board voted to shut the building after a judge blocked his name going on the facade. The board cites a looming bankruptcy.
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Kirk Franklin's single with Karen Clark Sheard is Thank You For Everything
He wrote and co-produced it with Adam Blackstone, drawing the lyric from Romans 8:28 and 1 Thessalonians 5:18.
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Dummy give two songs from their new album a single shared video
April Limousine and Alluvial Fan both come off do you love the color of the sky?, out on Polyvinyl on 16 October. Emma Maatman of the band directed.
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BusinessPop
Classic Hits Radio pulls Ed Sheeran's records over the Macklemore tour row
Bay Broadcasting's Dave Kelly says listener feeling settled it, and that the station is standing with the Irish acts who walked off the bill.
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Spiritualized's Let It Come Down turns 25, and it took 115 musicians
Jason Pierce spent four years and a symphony orchestra answering the question of whether he could do it without his old band.
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LegalHip-hop
Rapper AB Milli gets 13 years after no-contest pleas in an Oakland case
Albert Collins, 31, also pleaded to robbery, assault and witness intimidation. Good behaviour could cut the term to about six and a half years.
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Juan Luis Guerra and Manny Cruz cut a merengue single, Nieve en Verano
The song marks ten years of Cruz's career, and the video pairs both men with the Dominican broadcaster Francisca.
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BusinessHip-hop
Ms. Rachel matches the rapper Macklemore's $1 million Palestine donation
The children's educator asked every wealthy white celebrity to do the same. Robert Kraft has separately pledged $2 million at Ed Sheeran's request.
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BusinessPop
Jennifer Lopez turns her Las Vegas residency into a two-hour CBS concert film
The JLo Show: Live in Las Vegas premieres on 26 November, filmed on the closing night of a twelve-show run in March.
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HiJinx Festival books Excision b2b Wooli and Subtronics for its eighth year
The bass weekend runs 30 and 31 December at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, with Ray Volpe b2b Sullivan King and Dabin also on the bill.
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Trypt lands on Circus Records with the four-track EP DUPPY
The Toronto producer got a Skrillex co-sign in 2011. Fifteen years on, the record runs UK 140 and the North American sound into each other.
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Fresh Start and Teletech open 2027 with a three-venue techno festival in San Francisco
Pier 80 Warehouse, The Midway and 888 Garage all run at once on Saturday 2 January, with I Hate Models and Eli Brown on the bill.
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AFM Local 257 sets 24 September for the concert For Those We Lost IV
Seven Nashville players who died in the past two years are remembered at 3rd and Lindsley, with an auction raising money for the union's funeral fund.
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BusinessRock
Roger Waters says Ed Sheeran was wrong to drop Macklemore from the tour
The Pink Floyd co-founder posted the video on Tuesday night, over a clip of himself singing We Shall Overcome.
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Jake Owen, the country singer, marks five years without a drink
He filmed the update on the way to Canada and told anyone weighing the same decision that life only gets better afterwards.
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The Voice coaches sing The Weight, with Kelly Clarkson closing the song
Riley Green opens on acoustic guitar and Adam Levine takes the drums, in a clip released ahead of the season 30 premiere on NBC.
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Deer park and Valeria Litvakov share two singles cut in New York and Prague
Better Than Mine came together in one take after the pair met opening for James K. The Neverhood followed at an Airbnb in the Czech countryside.
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Schwefelgelb turn Sextile's Women Respond To Bass into a club single
The original closed out last year's album yes, please. Sacred Bones has the Berlin pair's rework out now.
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Warren Haynes says Matt Abts' medical leave is holding the Gov't Mule album
The drummer has not played with the band since January 2025. Terence Higgins is covering, and Haynes wants the next record made with bassist Kevin Scott.
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hemlocke springs releases the single gloria! as the MUNA tour starts
Her first full-length album arrived at the start of the year and Stereogum made it an Album Of The Week.
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Nirvana, Pixies and The Smiths sit in a 10,000-concert Chicago tape archive
Aadam Jacobs taped clubs across the city from 1984 until the pandemic. Brian Emerick and about 15 volunteers are putting roughly 200 shows a month online.
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The first AI Music Awards set a Los Angeles ceremony with 25 award categories
SIQA will stage the show at The Mayan on 13 November, with generated acts billed to perform.
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Anthrax put drummer London May through the wringer in the Cursum Perficio video
Don Argott shot the title track in black and white, and the man in the chains broke a finger on day one.
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Howlin Rain open their covers album Watermelon with Chris Robinson on Silver Paper
Ethan Miller marks twenty years of the band by mining obscure 1970s records, out 13 November.
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deadmau5 books a Halloween weekend DJ set inside a 50,000 square foot inflatable park
The all-ages Bounce Empire show on 1 November follows his first Halloween night at Red Rocks.
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BreakupsLatin
Jesse & Joy stop after two decades as Jesse Huerta steps back from the duo
He says he is prioritising his family and his mental health, and will work through to a December date.
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Singer-songwriter Johanna Warren shares a second 2026 single in Islamorada
The Florida-born writer, now working out of Wales, follows brave & capable from May.
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Rhiannon Giddens extends her tour into 2027 in her album release week
Forty dates run from two New York nights to a Washington close, taking in five nights in Hamburg.
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ChartsElectronic
RUFUS DU SOL close the highest-grossing electronic tour on record at $158m
Billboard puts the Inhale / Exhale run at 1.7 million tickets across 98 shows on four continents.
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Steve Winwood joins John Fogerty in Charlotte for a Wilson Pickett song
The tourmates waited until show ten of the Legacy Tour to share a stage on In The Midnight Hour.
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XPoNential Music Festival streams its whole Camden bill live on NPR
Dawes, Portugal. The Man and Little Feat close three days on the Wiggins Waterfront Park stage.
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The Ocean close Solaris with Tangerine Dream's Thorsten Quaeschning on a new track
Milk of My Dreams finishes a 20-minute closing chapter on the band's twelfth album, out 25 September.
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1tbsp and kid on air share the single Wish You Luck
Maxwell Byrne's third track of the run points at something bigger than his 2025 EP.
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Kevin Parker drums with Pond in Austin on a Mink Mussel Creek song
The Tame Impala leader played the band's last song of the night at The Mohawk, fifteen years after leaving.
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Lee Adams, Adrian Michaels and Ken Tucker all leave the label BMG this month
Three promotion chiefs at Broken Bow, Stoney Creek and Wheelhouse go at once, and the reporting line is redrawn.
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Sway, first rapper to win a MOBO without an album, has died at 44
The north London artist born Derek Andrew Safo beat 50 Cent and The Game to the 2005 hip-hop prize.
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Letterbombs share the song I'm Not Here To Enjoy My Life on a new split
The Finnish screamo group keep filling inboxes, this time alongside another band from the same underground.
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Dummy share April Limousine and Alluvial Fan from their next album
The Los Angeles band's do you love the color of the sky? arrives next month after Free Energy.
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Mitchell Tenpenny takes his 10Penny Fund benefit show to the Grand Ole Opry stage
Chris Young, Lee Brice and Jo Dee Messina join the 6 October bill, with five dollars a ticket going to the fund.
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AwardsJazz
Saxophonist Elliot Wong wins the 2026 Brubeck Living Legacy Prize
The award funds an album due in May 2027, produced by Claire Martin, with Wong keeping the master.
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The GMA Dove Awards add a second round of performers for 6 October
A Richard Smallwood tribute joins the Bridgestone Arena bill, with the broadcast held back to 9 October.
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Composer Hans Zimmer sets a North American arena tour for early 2027
Hans Zimmer Live - The Next Level opens in Hartford on 17 February and ends in Portland on 11 April.
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Winyah premiere I Am Of Course a day before the album Right Here, Right Now
The South Carolina five-piece follow their 2025 debut a year later, recorded with Matt Zutell.
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Ruby Gill shares the song Jamie from her collection Fishing is not about fishing
The Melbourne songwriter's second preview of the record follows an album of live poetry in June.
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Alif Hilal, the artist formerly known as Lyra Pramuk, records a FADER DJ mix
The set is the middle hour of a three-hour Venice gig played in an unventilated room in June.
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Beatport parks The Block at two Breakaway festival stops
The converted shipping container gives competition winners a 45-minute set, next at Breakaway Carolina.
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The T.J. Martell Foundation's New York Honors Gala raised $3.2m for cancer research
Dave Matthews, Trey Anastasio and Chris Stapleton played for Coran Capshaw at a sold-out Cipriani.
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Jay Lane starts the band Jayski and the Dawn to funk up the Dead
The drummer debuts the project with saxophonist Dave Ellis at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall on 20 November.
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Claud maps a 2027 US tour behind the album Me and the Music
Twelve dates open in Boston on 18 February, with one Canadian stop at Toronto's Drake Underground.
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Dylan Scott maps 18 cities for the Dear Big City Tour from January
Graham Barham, Cody Lohden and Jacob Hackworth split support duties on a run that opens in Detroit and ends in Washington state.
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Talking Heads regroup to talk about their music on a SiriusXM channel
All four members sit down with Este Haim on 28 September, and Talking Heads Radio launches on Channel 145 three days later.
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Courseval rebuild the Daft Punk song Veridis Quo in medieval style
The French bardcore group filmed their lute-led version at the Chateau de Martinvast, a historic estate in Normandy.
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Revocation put Data Corpse in a cyber dystopia for its video
Dave Davidson turns into a mutant cyborg in a clip made with MyGoodEye, for a song about social media companies mining private life.
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Hey Rosetta! tease a 22 September date after nine years on hiatus
Two clips, one of road cases being wheeled through St John's and one of a bowl repairing itself, point at the band's return.
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Suno's paying users turn on the v6 model built from licensed music
The first Suno model trained on deals with Warner, BMG and Believe drew complaints about muffled audio on the company's own forums.
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Rosalia sings on Where Is Gone?, the Fontaines D.C. album's only guest spot
Dopamine Chamber arrives on 16 October with eleven songs, and it is the first record the Dublin band have opened to another singer.
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard tease a bluegrass record with a guest
Stu Mackenzie and Joey Walker told triple j the project is unfinished, and JamBase reads the unnamed guest as Billy Strings.
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CBGB owners hunt for a New York room, twenty years after the club closed
Brand owner Phil Sandhaus says rents pushed the search to Brooklyn and Queens, and the name is running as a festival in the meantime.
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Death to T.O., the Toronto Halloween covers festival, fills two stages
Twelve local acts play Lee's Palace and the Dance Cave on 31 October, taking on Dolly Parton, the Bee Gees, Misfits and the Tragically Hip for $21.50 a ticket.
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BusinessLatin
The Peruvian cumbia band Los Mirlos play a Tiny Desk Concert
Fifty years after Jorge Rodriguez Grandez founded the group in Moyobamba, seven of them play five songs for NPR during its Latin Music Month takeover.
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Les Claypool records a new theme song for the renamed South Park
The Primus bassist revisits the 30-second piece he wrote in 1997, now that the show has become South America for its 29th season.
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ObituaryRock
Gary McCracken, the drummer in Max Webster, has died aged 75
Kim Mitchell and Rush's Geddy Lee both posted tributes to the Sarnia player nicknamed Stixie, who had been in palliative care.
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Editors share the single Seriously from their seventh album
Surface, Echo & Sound lands on 30 October through Play It Again Sam, written in a Gloucestershire industrial estate over the summer of 2025.
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Concert ticket bot bill clears a House committee as Live Nation fights the same law
The MAIN Event Ticketing Act passed 36-0 and would toughen the 2016 statute the FTC is using to sue Ticketmaster's parent.
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Spotify puts Taylor Swift's whole music video catalogue behind Premium
Fifty-eight clips, from Tim McGraw in 2006 to this year's Toy Story 5 song, arrived for paying subscribers on 16 September.
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Ms* Gloom hands the J Is For Joon songs to seven remixers
Malibu, araabMUZIK, Quiet Light, Lust For Youth and Cult Member are among the guests reworking this year's mixtape.
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Friendly Fires date the album Dig Deeper for January and share Magnetic
The St Albans group, now the duo of Ed Macfarlane and Edd Gibson, put the record out through LAB Records after most of a decade spent writing it.
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