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Hayley Williams “leaks” 2026 solo tour dates and teases more are coming

Hayley Williams has “leaked” her solo tour dates for next year, and seemingly suggested more may be coming. READ MORE: Hayley Williams’ surprise 17-song release is a bold choose-your-own-adventure through hope and heartache Fresh off the back of four Grammy nominations for her surprise-dropped solo album ‘Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party’, which she released digitally in August, the Paramore frontwoman has continued her streak of surprising fans by sharing, without […]

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Olivia Rodrigo slams ICE for using her music to soundtrack “racist” self-deportation video

Olivia Rodrigo has slammed the White House and the Department of Homeland Security for using her music in a promotion video for self-deportations. READ MORE: Olivia Rodrigo live at Glastonbury 2025: A Robert Smith-assisted ending to stand the test of time The pop star was responding to a clip showing United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers forcibly tackling and detaining people, which was soundtracked by the rock-heavy section of […]

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Watch Radiohead play ‘Just’ for the first time in 16 years

Radiohead played ‘Just’ for the first time in 16 years during the third stop on their ongoing tour – check out footage and a full setlist below. READ MORE: Colin Greenwood on capturing “the middle era” of Radiohead – and what’s next for the band Last night (November 7), Thom Yorke and co. played their third show in seven years – with four nights a piece in Madrid, Bologna, London, Copenhagen […]

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Fans react to the biggest Grammys 2026 snubs – from Lorde and The Weeknd to Gracie Abrams and Benson Boone

The Grammy nominations are out and fans of some of the snubbed artists – Lorde, The Weeknd, Gracie Abrams, Benson Boone – are not happy. READ MORE: Grammys 2026: Check out the full list of nominations Earlier today (November 7), the Recording Academy revealed the full list of nominees for the 2026 Grammys, which are set to be presented at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena on February 1. Kendrick Lamar was the big winner with the announcement, picking up nine […]

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Screamo project ‘Taylor Swift’ by Ogbert The Nerd’s Madison James returns to Bandcamp

The screamo project ‘Taylor Swift’, launched by Ogbert The Nerd’s Madison James, has returned to Bandcamp. READ MORE: Taylor Swift – ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ review: magical when the songwriter just lets herself be Last year, the New Jersey emo band Ogbert The Nerd secured the Bandcamp domain name for the pop megastar and posted a single, blistering screamo track named ‘Taylor Swift 1’. Announcing the enterprising project, James took to X last April to say: “Ok, secured the URL, who’s starting a screamo […]

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Grammys 2026: Check out the full list of nominations

Kendrick Lamar leads the way at the 2026 Grammy nominations with nine nods – see the full list of nominations below. READ MORE: Grammys 2025: Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé win big The Recording Academy announced the full list of nominees on their YouTube channel today (November 7) and the ceremony is due to take place in Los Angeles on February 1, with CBS and Paramount+ set to broadcast the show live. Lamar leads the way thanks to his […]

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Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo co-wrote a song on Rosalía’s ‘LUX’

Daft Punk‘s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo co-wrote a song on Rosalía‘s new album, ‘LUX’. READ MORE: Rosalía – ‘Lux’ review: an arresting album of astonishing scope and ambition Released today (Friday November 7), ‘LUX’ is Rosalía’s fourth studio album and the long-anticipated follow-up to 2022’s ‘Motomami’. Earlier this week, fans began to speculate that Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo – one half of Daft Punk – could be involved, after the album was […]

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Garbage and Skunk Anansie announce summer 2026 UK co-headline tour

Garbage and Skunk Anansie have announced a co-headline tour for summer 2026. Find all the details below. READ MORE: Garbage’s Shirley Manson: “I don’t have to be young, I don’t have to be sexy – if you cancel me, you cancel me” The ’90s alt-rock pioneers will be uniting for a string of shows next June. Things are set to kick off in Halifax, before they play across the UK, with […]

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Creator of controversial Billboard-charting AI artist Xania Monet speaks out: “I look at her as a real person”

The creator of AI artist “Xania Monet” has spoken out in her first interview. READ MORE: Keir Starmer tells us about “protecting creativity” in the UK AI creation Monet has now become the first known AI artist to earn enough radio airplay to debut on a radio chart, per Billboard. In an article shared late last month, they pointed to a trend that so far has seen at least one AI artist debut […]

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Tributes paid as Squeeze drummer Gilson Lavis dies, age 74: “A giant of a drummer in one of the greatest ever British groups”

Squeeze drummer Gilson Lavis has died, aged 74. The drummer was a longtime member of the British rock band, and also a part of Jools Holland’s Rhythm And Blues Orchestra. News of his death was shared by Holland in a new social media update. “I’m very sad to report that Gilson Lavis, my dear friend and long-standing drummer passed away at his home in Lincolnshire last night,” Holland wrote yesterday […]

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