Press — 2026-09-16

The Weeknd says the "gratitude" he's felt over the last year amid his record-breaking After Hours Til Dawn tour made him reverse his decision to abandon his stage name. The Timeless hitmaker says the past year on tour convinced him to keep performing “as long as I possibly can.” He told GQ Hong Kong…

MUNA will begin their upcoming tour without bandmate Naomi McPherson while they care for their terminally ill mother. The indie pop trio - featuring Naomi, Katie Gavin and Josette Maskin - announced on Instagram on Tuesday that the guitarist and synth player will miss at least the first five shows o…

Roger Waters has blasted Ed Sheeran after Macklemore was removed from his tour over his pro-Palestine speeches. The Pink Floyd rocker has waded into the ongoing debate surrounding the decision to remove Macklemore as the opening act from Sheeran's tour after he gave a speech in support of Palestine …

Drake briefly premiered his Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) project on YouTube on Tuesday (15.09.26) - only for it to vanish shortly after its premiere. The film, which Drake labelled a “not-so-short” release, stitched together fresh music videos from his three-album summer run and included several previ…

Lily Allen has confirmed she downsized her North American tour because of low ticket sales. Back in July, the 41-year-old singer announced a significant reshuffle for her West End Girl tour, with several arena shows switched to theatres, and one gig in Montreal cancelled altogether. Asked about the …

New Order's Gillian Gilbert is "living with cancer". It was announced in June that the keyboardist and her husband, drummer Stephen Morris, would not be part of the True Faith group's upcoming concerts "due to personal health reasons", and now the 65-year-old musician has spoken out to stress it is …

American Idol is moving production from Los Angeles to the Atlanta area in Georgia. Deadline reports that the show is moving in time for its upcoming Season 25, which premieres in the new year. Its production company, Fremantle, is in final talks with a studio complex in the area but has not yet sig…

Ed Sheeran has broken his silence on the fallout from Macklemore's pro-Palestine on-stage statement. The singer distanced himself from the decision to axe the rapper from his tour, blaming "the venue and promoter" for the move. "Macklemore coming off tour was the promoter's decision, it was not mine…

Maluma has announced the arrival of his second child. On Tuesday, the Colombian superstar took to Instagram to share that his girlfriend, Susana Gómez, had given birth to a baby boy the previous day. The couple named their son Orión Londoño Gómez. In addition, Maluma - real name Juan Luis Londoño Ar…

0.0 0.0 Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 Genre: Rock Label: Merge Release Date: 2026 Owen Williams wrote the last Tubs album, Cotton Crown, in the midst of a breakdown. But the harder you squint at their catalog, the harder it is to surmise what is breakdown and what is not. The W…

0.0 0.0 Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 Genre: Electronic / Pop/R&B Label: Ghostly International Release Date: 2026 Haruomi Hosono has been at the vanguard of pop music for the majority of his nearly 60-year career. He spearheaded Japan’s folk-rock boom in the 1970s with Happy En…

0.0 0.0 Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 Genre: Rap Label: self-released Release Date: 2026 Seconds into her debut mixtape, Karrahbooo steps out of the spotlight. “I don’t want to link, I stay out the way,” she explains on “Inside the Booth,” tone unphased enough to back it up. It…

0.0 0.0 Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 Label: Kid Katana Release Date: 2026 It’s easy to forget—especially today—that being retro can actually mean being modern. Retro styles let artists treat history like a patchwork: transmuting an homage into something new, using the past to …

All remaining support acts on Ed Sheeran's US tour have quit after rapper Macklemore was dropped from the line-up for making pro-Palestinian remarks on stage. Among them are Finneas, who noted, "Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed." Irish singer-songwriter Aaron Rowe an…

Drake must be stopped. In a year when he’s already dropped two-and-a-half hours of new music—plus 18 accompanying music videos—the rapper has (at least) one more trick up his sleeve. In August, he began teasing something called “Fear of Missing Out,” which last week he described as “a not so short f…