16-time GRAMMY and Emmy Award winner Lady Gaga and 2-time GRAMMY Award winner Doechii today released their new song “Runway,” the first piece of music unveiled from 20th Century Studios’ forthcoming The Devil Wears Prada 2.The collaboration was announced earlier this week when the song was teased in the final trailer for the film. Built for the dance floor, “Runway” arrives ahead of the highly anticipated sequel, which debuts in theatres May 1. Listen here.
Performed by Lady Gaga and Doechii, “Runway” was written by Bruno Mars, Jaylah Hickmon, Gaga, Andrew Watt, Henry Walter, Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II and Jayda Love, and produced by Bruno Mars, Andrew Watt, Cirkut and D’Mile.
The song marks the first collaboration between Gaga and Doechii, who share a mutual respect and admiration for one another. Last year, Doechii presented Gaga with the Innovator Award at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, calling Gaga “a lifeline” and reflecting on her impact on young queer fans around the world. In a recent interview with British Vogue, Gaga praised Doechii’s artistry, writing, “You don’t often see someone come out of the gate with a pen that feels immediately legendary. That’s Doechii to me.”
Paul Savage has always done things his own way, and ‘Miles Away’ is no different. The Irish alternative artist, known to audiences as Whozyerman? and formerly of Choice Music Prize-winning Waterford-via-Cork act O Emperor, releases his reflective new single today, a carefree, alt-rock drift through the hazy boredom of teenage summers. Bopping along with the loose, unhurried energy of Pavement or Lambchop, the track is warm, idiosyncratic, and immediately his own.
The song carries a double lens. On one level it’s pure nostalgia, days spent swaying in the breeze and doodling away the summer malaise. On another it’s a quiet reckoning with where the older self now finds itself, “falling again and again through those smudged screens, waiting for life to begin.” Savage describes it as “a call back to a much loved and missed pursuit, a need to play music and collaborate with fellow musicians in a shared space.” That need gave the song its band: Matthew Houston on guitar, Michael Liffey on bass, and Daniel Nestor on drums, the core of his forthcoming album lineup.
‘Miles Away’ won’t be found on Spotify. Savage has pulled his music from the platform entirely, citing exploitative royalty structures, AI-generated music concerns, and the platform’s broader ethical record. “The best way to support new music right now is to buy it directly from the artist on Bandcamp,” he says. It’s a principled stand from an artist who earned four stars in The Irish Times for his 2022 debut album ‘Blink,’ and whose work under the Whozyerman? moniker has drawn comparisons to Air, Stereolab, and Broadcast.
The single is available now on Bandcamp and all other streaming services. Whozyerman? supports Pádraig Cooney and Bedtime Now at Curveball, Dublin this Saturday, April 11.
2ŁØT move at their own pace, and “Tread” is exactly the point. The five-piece Electronic Jam Music innovators release their third single from the forthcoming album ‘RE/SOLVE,’ due July 31, and it’s their most immersive preview yet. Built on a rolling groove and fluid, jazz-leaning instrumentation, the track features Ben Bohorquez of Funky Knuckles on flute and Evan Weiss of Funky Knuckles and Polyphonic Spree on trumpet, unfolding through subtle interplay and tonal color that rewards attention without demanding it. Listen live.
The song trades structure for feel, holding tension without forcing resolution and creating momentum without excess. It’s a head-nodder at its core, but one that pulls you deeper the longer you stay with it. Vocalist Rudy Love Jr. describes the album’s larger vision as mythologizing “the cyclical process of self-reflection, transformation, and self-actualization through a Campbellian archetypal lens.” That ambition is audible in “Tread” without ever becoming heavy-handed.
‘RE/SOLVE’ is the band’s second album and a more inward-facing follow-up to their debut ‘Entropy.’ Where that record confronted chaos head-on, this one shifts the lens toward identity, transition, and the quieter work that follows survival. The band describes it as a “Second Hero’s Journey,” with songs specifically written and ordered to take the listener through uncertainty, reflection, and renewal. Together with lead single “Favorite Star,” produced by Ry-X, and the emotionally charged “Come Together,” “Tread” helps sketch the full emotional landscape of what’s coming.
2ŁØT have spent the past year expanding their reach through collaborations with Aloe Blacc, Steve Aoki, Paul Oakenfold, and Albert Harvey, landing multiple releases on the dance charts while building a live reputation that bridges genres with ease. ‘RE/SOLVE’ arrives July 31.
‘RE/SOLVE’ Tracklist:
Entro
Die Empty
Tread (ft. Frank Moka)
Favorite Star (produced by Ry-X)
RE/SOLVE
I Hurt Myself Again (ft. Elise Truow & Cure For Paranoia)
Peter Frampton’s first album of all-new music in 16 years just got its most powerful preview yet. “Lions at the Gate,” out now, is a protest song featuring guitar from Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and vocals from Morello’s son Julian, drawn from Frampton’s upcoming album ‘Carry the Light,’ due May 15. Inspired by the lion statues that once guarded Hollywood mansions in the 1920s, the track carries a sharp political edge and a sonic weight that matches it. “Tom’s playing took it to another level,” Frampton says simply, and he’s right.
‘Carry the Light’ arrives with a remarkable guest list. Sheryl Crow, Graham Nash, H.E.R., Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and jazz saxophonist Bill Evans all appear across the ten-track album, each bringing a distinct dimension to what engineer and co-producer Chuck Ainlay describes as possibly “the best album Peter’s ever made.” That’s a significant claim for a catalog that includes ‘Frampton Comes Alive!,’ still one of the best-selling live albums ever recorded, and it’s one the music appears to be backing up.
“Lions at the Gate” is a track that reminds you what Frampton does when he’s working with players who match his ambition. It’s charged, purposeful, and built around one of rock’s most distinctive guitar voices meeting one of its most politically urgent ones. The combination lands with real force.
San Jose Jazz Summer Fest turns 36 this August, and the lineup matches the occasion. The three-day festival returns August 7-9 to Plaza Park in downtown San Jose, spreading more than 100 performances across eight indoor and outdoor stages spanning jazz, Latin jazz, salsa, funk, soul, R&B, and global sounds. It’s the West Coast’s premier Latin jazz gathering, and this year’s bill is one of the strongest it’s assembled.
Headliners include Patti LaBelle, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, Zapp featuring Tuxedo, Adi Oasis, The Soul Rebels, Afro-Cuban All Stars, and Lakecia Benjamin. Standout performances from Thee Sinseers, Bria Skonberg, Taimane, the Cyrus Chestnut Trio, and the Nicole Zuraitis Quartet round out a deep and varied program. One additional major main stage headliner will be announced April 25, adding another significant name to an already stacked weekend.
The PG&E Latin Tropical Stage anchors the dance-driven heart of the festival, with full days dedicated to salsa and cumbia curated in part by acclaimed radio journalist Betto Arcos. The walkable downtown footprint makes it easy to move between stages, discover emerging artists, and take in the full range of what the festival delivers across three days.
Three-day GA passes start at $100 early bird, with All Stages passes from $140, Priority Access and VIP packages available, and children 5-12 at $30. The festival takes place at Plaza Park, 1 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose, CA.
The Klezmatics didn’t approach “Deportee” as a cover. They approached it as a responsibility. The Grammy-winning Yiddish band shares their stunning reimagining of Woody Guthrie’s “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)” today, featuring Grammy-nominated vocalist, songwriter, and producer Sofia Rei, as the second single from their upcoming album ‘We Were Made For These Times,’ due May 1 via Shamus Records. Nearly 80 years after Guthrie wrote it to restore names and dignity to migrant workers reduced to statistics, the song keeps returning to the moment we’re living in with renewed urgency.
The version The Klezmatics and Rei have built is trilingual, weaving English, Yiddish, and Spanish through a shared musical tradition that spans klezmer, Latin American rhythms, and diasporic memory. Band member Lorin Sklamberg puts it plainly: “I never imagined that an 80-year-old song would mean so much more in these challenging times.” Rei adds that the collaboration felt like “weaving many strands of resistance into a shared voice across cultures and borders.” The accompanying live video captures their time in the studio, with an additional video featuring Nora Guthrie exploring the track’s historical weight and its connection to the present day.
‘We Were Made For These Times,’ out on International Workers’ Day, draws from protest songwriters including Guthrie, Holly Near, Dovid Edelstadt, and Chaim Zhitlovsky, addressing migration, labor, war, belonging, and collective responsibility. The album brings together an extraordinary cast, including gospel powerhouse Joshua Nelson, the Lavender Light Gospel Choir, Crimean Tatar guitar virtuoso Enver İzmaylov, jazz visionaries William Parker and James Brandon Lewis, Janis Siegel of The Manhattan Transfer, and Colombian percussion collective La Manga.
The Klezmatics have been pushing klezmer forward since emerging from New York City’s East Village in 1986, fusing Yiddish song with punk energy, gospel intensity, jazz improvisation, and global rhythms. They remain the only klezmer act ever to win a Grammy, taking home Best Contemporary World Music Album for ‘Wonder Wheel – Lyrics by Woody Guthrie.’ Thirteen albums, five continents, and now their most urgent statement yet.
A North American tour runs May through August, with stops in Washington D.C., Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brooklyn, and beyond.
Tour Dates:
May 16 – Theatre J, Washington, DC
May 20 – The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO
May 21 – City Winery Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 28 – City Winery Boston, Boston, MA
June 2 – City Winery Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
June 6 – Los Angeles, CA (TBD)
June 7 – Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
June 20 – Crown Hill Theatre, Brooklyn, NY
June 21 – The Falcon, Marlboro, NJ
July 12 – Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music, Amherst, MA
Anika Louise knows exactly what she’s writing about, and ‘Thorns’ makes sure you feel it. The Boorloo/Perth-based indie-folk singer-songwriter releases her second single today, a tender and cutting track about the slow realization that someone you trusted was never quite who they appeared to be. Built on softly strummed acoustic guitar, warm electric lines, twanging banjo, and subtle piano, the song earns every emotion it reaches for.
The metaphor at the song’s centre is deceptively simple. “Something beautiful on the surface that was hiding thorns underneath,” Anika Louise explains. That image unfolds across the track with confessional lyricism and lilting melodies that swell and soften in turns, making ‘Thorns’ feel like a journey rather than a single moment. It’s achingly real, grounded in vulnerability without losing its shape.
The single follows her 2025 debut ‘Pearl’ and arrives with genuine local momentum behind it. Anika Louise has performed on national television for Telethon at RAC Arena, earned a WAM Song of the Year nomination, and opened for the Perth Symphony Orchestra at the Pop’N’Rock Symphony Concert. For just her second release, the attention is well-earned and the foundation is already solid.
‘Thorns’ is out now. Anika Louise celebrates with a single launch show Sunday, May 3 at Perth’s Four5Nine.
ROREY doesn’t flinch. The New York-based singer-songwriter releases “Dying Fire” today alongside an official music video, a cathartic dream pop track built on bittersweet melodies, lush arrangements, and the kind of radical acceptance that only comes after sitting with something painful long enough to understand it. “The song doesn’t blame or excuse,” she explains. “It simply states that what once was can never be again.” That restraint is what makes it hit.
“Dying Fire” follows “Temporary Tragedy,” her raw and poignant 2026 single about the cost of self-abandonment in intimacy, accompanied by a cinematic video rooted in her first queer relationship. Both singles are drawn from her forthcoming album ‘Temporary Tragedy,’ a project she describes as being about two people who couldn’t make it work no matter how much they loved each other, because what they wanted and what they needed were at odds. “It holds space for both peoples’ experience,” she says, “almost as a shared ache.”
ROREY has built her sound across her 2025 sophomore EP ‘Dysphoria,’ a fearless plunge into the contradictions of mental illness co-written and produced with longtime collaborator Scott Effman. The project drew acclaim from Zane Lowe, LADYGUNN, and Atwood Magazine, and landed on Spotify editorial playlists including New Music Daily and Fresh Finds Indie. She’s an artist who transforms raw confession into something that unsettles as much as it heals, and “Dying Fire” is another strong entry in a catalog that keeps deepening.
Ricky have been doing this their way since 2020, and ‘What’s The Point’ is the clearest picture yet of what that sounds like. The San Diego slacker rock outfit’s third full-length album is out now via DHCR Records, rooted in punk, blues, and psych, and covering the wide range of Southern California life from the ground level up. It’s the kind of record that sounds lived-in because it is.
The album builds on two previous full-lengths and a handful of singles, and it finds the group pushing into new sonic territory without losing the grit that defines them. Ricky write about the parts of life that most people recognize but rarely hear in music, the relatable, unglamorous, everyday stuff that slacker rock was built to carry. ‘What’s The Point’ delivers that with confidence and a sharp sense of humor about the whole thing.
The group has earned their road credentials touring alongside The Frights, Worriers, Tiny Stills, and Decent Criminal, and they’re putting those miles to use again with a full record release run already underway. The tour wraps April 14 back home in San Diego, giving the album a proper send-off in the city that made them.
‘What’s The Point’ is out now on vinyl pre-order and available digitally.
11x Grammy Award-winner Brandi Carlile returned to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, where she performed “Church & State” solo on piano and spoke with the host. Carlile also performed a special web exclusive version of Alphaville’s “Forever Young.”
The appearance adds to another triumphant year for Carlile, who will continue her extensive “The Human Tour” through the fall, including stops at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre (three nights), Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena, Austin’s Moody Center and Santa Barbara’s Santa Barbara Bowl among many others. She will also headline Newport Folk Festival on July 26 and return to The Gorge Amphitheatre this spring with her “Echoes Through the Canyon” weekend on May 29, 30 and 31, with The Highwomen headlining night three.
Additionally, the eighth edition of Carlile’s Girls Just Wanna Weekend will take place in Riviera Maya, Mexico January 14-18, 2027. Blind Faith tickets are on-sale starting today at 1:00PM ET. Full details can be found at www.girlsjustwannaweekend.com.
In the midst of yet another groundbreaking year, Carlile’s renowned new album, Returning To Myself—produced by Carlile, Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon—debuted at #7 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart this past fall. Stream/purchase HERE (Interscope Records/Lost Highway).
Carlile was also recently honored as one of TIME’s 2026 Women of the Year, performed a “gorgeous” (Billboard) rendition of “America The Beautiful” at Super Bowl LX (watch HERE), appeared on NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert series and NBC’s Saturday Night Live as musical guest for the fourth time, was featured on Good Hang with Amy Poehler, The Howard Stern Show, NPR’s Wild Card with Rachel Martin and The Drew Barrymore Show, and spoke with The New York Times for an in-depth profile. Additionally, Carlile’s song, “You Without Me,” from Returning to Myself was featured twice in the season three finale of Shrinking, out now on Apple TV.
Carlile is an Oscar-nominated and 11x Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, performer and producer, 2x EMMY-winning composer, lyricist and writer, #1 New York Times Bestselling author and activist, who is known as one of music’s most respected voices. Throughout her acclaimed career, Carlile has released eight studio albums including Who Believes in Angels?, the universally acclaimed, Grammy-nominated collaborative album with her childhood hero, Elton John, which debuted at #1 in the U.K. and top 10 in the U.S.
Additionally, Carlile is a renowned producer with recent Grammy-winning projects from Joni Mitchell and Brandy Clark. She also produced and recorded a rendition of Indigo Girls’ “Closer To Fine” with her wife, Catherine, which was included on Barbie The Album as well as a version of “Home,” which was featured in the final season of Ted Lasso. She received her first Oscar nomination in the Original Song category in January 2025 for “Never Too Late,” a Grammy-nominated track written alongside Elton John, Bernie Taupin and Andrew Watt for the Disney+ documentary of the same name.
Beloved by her peers, Carlile has collaborated with artists such as The Highwomen, Soundgarden, Sam Smith, Alicia Keys, Hozier, Noah Kahan, Jacob Collier, P!nk and Dolly Parton. Carlile was named OUT Magazine’s 2023 “Icon of the Year,” awarded Billboard’s Women In Music “Trailblazer Award,” CMT’s Next Women of Country “Impact Award” and NMPA’s 2023 Songwriter Icon Award and received multiple recognitions from the Americana Music Association. On top of being a musician and writer, Carlile is a founder of the Looking Out Foundation, which has raised over $9 million for grassroots causes to date. Carlile lives in rural Washington state with her wife and two daughters, Evangeline and Elijah.
BRANDI CARLILE UPCOMING TOUR DATES May 20 /// Bend, OR /// Hayden Homes Amphitheater< May 21 /// Bend, OR /// Hayden Homes Amphitheater< May 29 /// George, WA /// The Gorge Amphitheatre* (SOLD OUT) May 30 /// George, WA /// The Gorge Amphitheatre† (SOLD OUT) May 31 /// George, WA /// The Gorge Amphitheatre‡ June 6 /// Greenville, SC /// Peace Center Concert Hall‡‡ June 7 /// Charleston, SC /// College of Charleston Cistern Yard (SOLD OUT) June 9 /// Savannah, GA /// Johnny Mercer Theatre‡‡ June 10 /// Asheville, NC /// Thomas Wolfe Auditorium‡‡ July 26 /// Newport, RI /// Newport Folk Festival (SOLD OUT) August 13 /// Portland, ME /// Cross Insurance Arena+ August 14 /// Uncasville, CT /// Mohegan Sun Arena+ August 16 /// Bethel, NY /// Bethel Woods Center for the Arts+ August 18 /// Lenox, MA /// Tanglewood – Koussevitzky Music Shed+ August 20 /// Canandaigua, NY /// CMAC# August 21 /// Rochester Hills, MI /// Meadow Brook Amphitheatre# August 23 /// Grand Rapids, MI /// Acrisure Amphitheater# August 24 /// Madison, WI /// Breese Stevens Field# August 26 /// Highland Park, IL /// The Pavilion at Ravinia# August 29 /// Nashville, TN /// Bridgestone Arena^ September 1 /// Charlotte, NC /// Spectrum Center§ September 3 /// Duluth, GA /// Gas South Arena§ September 5 /// Fort Worth, TX /// Dickies Arena§ September 6 /// Austin, TX /// Moody Center§ September 11 /// Morrison, CO /// Red Rocks Amphitheatre|| September 12 /// Morrison, CO /// Red Rocks Amphitheatre|| (SOLD OUT) September 13 /// Morrison, CO /// Red Rocks Amphitheatre|| September 17 /// Vancouver, BC /// Rogers Arena** September 19 /// Stanford, CA /// Frost Amphitheater** September 20 /// Santa Barbara, CA /// Santa Barbara Bowl** (SOLD OUT) September 22 /// San Diego, CA /// The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park** October 15 /// Dublin, Ireland /// 3Arena†† October 18 /// Manchester, U.K. /// Co-op Live†† October 19 /// Glasgow, U.K. /// OVO Hydro†† October 21 /// London, U.K. /// The O2†† October 23 /// Paris, France /// La Seine Musicale†† October 24 /// Zurich, Switzerland /// The Hall†† October 26 /// Dusseldorf, Germany /// Mitsubishi Electric Halle†† October 27 /// Amsterdam, Netherlands /// AFAS Live†† October 29 /// Oslo, Norway /// Spektrum†† October 30 /// Stockholm, Sweden /// Annexet†† November 1 /// Lisbon, Portugal /// Sagres Campo Pequeno†† January 14-18, 2027 /// Riviera Maya, Mexico /// Girls Just Wanna Weekend 8
*with special guests Indigo Girls and I’m With Her †with special guests Bonnie Raitt and Sara Bareilles ‡with The Highwomen, Sheryl Crow, Wynonna Judd and Brittney Spencer +with special guest Jensen McRae #with special guest I’m With Her ^with special guest Gregory Alan Isakov §with special guest The Head and The Heart ||with special guest Stephen Wilson Jr. **with special guest CMAT ††with special guest KT Tunstall ‡‡An Acoustic Evening with Brandi Carlile
