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Five-Time Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan Brings the Fun With New Single “Country and She Knows It”

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Five-Time Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan Brings the Fun With New Single “Country and She Knows It”

Luke Bryan kicks off touring season with exactly the kind of track he intended. “Country and She Knows It” is out today, written by Josh Miller, Parker Welling, and Matt Dragstrem, and produced by Jeff Stevens alongside co-producers Jody Stevens and Matt Dragstrem. The single hits country radio Monday March 30 with multi-chain world premieres. Bryan previewed the track to all 70,000 fans at his Houston Rodeo show earlier this month via an exclusive QR code first listen, and the response made the release feel inevitable. Listen here.

Bryan describes the intention behind the song with characteristic directness: “As I gear up for touring season and summer I really wanted to focus on releasing a song that felt fun and energetic and the moment the writers sent this one I knew it was it.” That instinct has served him well across a career that now counts 32 Number 1 singles, 27 billion global streams, and five Entertainer of the Year awards. “Country and She Knows It” is built for crowds on their feet, and Bryan will have plenty of those this summer.

The single follows “Word On The Street,” which lends its name to his 2026 headline tour launching May 29 and 30 with back-to-back shows in Gilford, New Hampshire. The run spans arenas and amphitheatres across North America through September, with openers including Drew Baldridge, Karley Scott Collins, Lanie Gardner, Randall King, Shane Profitt, Raelynn, Lauren Watkins, Jake Worthington, and DJ Rock. Tickets are available at lukebryan.com.

Bryan also returns for a second consecutive year of California Farm Tour dates on May 14, 15, and 16, a tradition he launched in 2009 that has since awarded 90 college scholarships to students from farming families near each tour stop.

Farm Tour 2026:

May 14 – Shafter, CA – Sillect Farms

May 15 – Clovis, CA – Owens Mountain Parkway

May 16 – Elk Grove, CA – Mahon Ranch

“Word On The Street” Tour Dates:

Apr 25 – Athens, GA – University of Georgia +

May 29 – Gilford, NH – BankNH Pavilion

May 30 – Gilford, NH – BankNH Pavilion

Jun 5 – Myrtle Beach, SC – Carolina Country Music Fest +

Jun 11 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena

Jun 12 – Lubbock, TX – United Supermarkets Arena

Jun 13 – Albuquerque, NM – First Financial Credit Union Amphitheater

Jun 18 – Wichita, KS – INTRUST Bank Arena

Jun 19 – Des Moines, IA – Casey’s Center

Jun 20 – Winsted, MN – Winstock Country Music Festival +

Jun 25 – Allentown, PA – PPL Center

Jun 26 – Buffalo, NY – Taste of Country +

Jun 27 – Nashville, TN – Nissan Stadium +

Jul 9 – Kansas City, MO – Morton Amphitheater

Jul 10 – Moline, IL – Vibrant Arena

Jul 11 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre

Jul 23 – Southaven, MS – Bank Plus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove

Jul 24 – Brandon, MS – Brandon Amphitheater

Jul 25 – Orange Beach, AL – The Wharf Amphitheater

Jul 30 – Rapid City, SD – Summit Arena at The Monument

Jul 31 – Billings, MT – First Interstate Arena at MetraPark

Aug 6 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater

Aug 7 – Airway Heights, WA – BECU Live at Northern Quest

Aug 8 – Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre

Aug 14 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre

Aug 15 – Long Beach, CA – Long Beach Amphitheater

Aug 22 – Charlotte, NC – Truliant Amphitheater

Aug 26 – Canandaigua, NY – Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center

Aug 27 – Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Centre

Aug 29 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Albany Med Health System at SPAC

Sep 10 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre

Sep 12 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre

Sep 26 – East Troy, WI – Alpine Valley Music Theatre

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Suki Waterhouse Kicks Off a New Era With Horn-Driven Anthem “Back in Love” Out Now

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Suki Waterhouse Kicks Off a New Era With Horn-Driven Anthem “Back in Love” Out Now

Suki Waterhouse opens a new chapter today. “Back in Love,” her first release on Island Records, is out now alongside a vibrant music video directed by Kaz Firpo, and it arrives with the kind of sound that announces itself immediately. A roaring horn section kicks everything off, rooted in grand instrumentation that blends the flair of 70s rock with 90s psychedelia, and the result is one of the most joyous and buoyant tracks Waterhouse has released to date.

Co-written with longtime collaborators Natalie Findlay and Jules Apollinaire, who also produced the track, “Back in Love” is about returning to yourself after an identity shift. Waterhouse puts it plainly: “For me, it’s about coming back to your sense of self after having an identity shift.” The music video sets that theme inside an eternal nightclub, fantastical and alive, with Waterhouse commanding every frame.

The single marks the first glimpse at her forthcoming record, the follow-up to ‘Memoir of a Sparklemuffin,’ the critically acclaimed album that earned praise from Interview Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and SPIN, and established Waterhouse as an evocative storyteller and a powerhouse live performer. That record’s success set the stage for everything that follows, and “Back in Love” makes clear the next chapter is going to be worth the wait.

Waterhouse returns to the Lollapalooza stage this summer, where fans will get an early live look at new material. “Back in Love” is out now on Island Records.

Conan Gray Releases “The Best” and Announces ‘Wishbone Deluxe’ Arriving April 24

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Conan Gray Releases “The Best” and Announces ‘Wishbone Deluxe’ Arriving April 24

Conan Gray has been playing “The Best” every night on his sold-out Wishbone World Tour, and now the rest of the world gets to hear why. The new single is out today via Republic Records, arriving alongside the announcement of ‘Wishbone Deluxe,’ an expanded edition of his most successful album to date, due April 24. Pre-orders are live now, with “The Best” available immediately as an instant grat track.

‘Wishbone’ debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard Album Sales chart and Top 3 on the Billboard 200, marking the highest-charting debut and biggest sales week of Conan’s career. Written entirely by Conan and executive produced by GRAMMY Award-winning collaborator Dan Nigro, the album showcased the signature emotional storytelling that has made him one of modern pop’s most essential voices. The deluxe edition expands that world with new material that deepens this era rather than padding it. Listen here.

“The Best” lands as a natural centrepiece for that expansion. A nightly highlight on a tour that has already sold out Madison Square Garden and the Kia Forum, the track carries the kind of weight that comes from an artist who writes everything himself and means every word. With over 12 billion global streams and a catalog that includes the two-billion-stream “Heather,” one of a handful of songs at that level written by a single writer, Conan’s connection with his audience is not incidental. It is foundational.

The Wishbone World Tour continues through Europe this spring, then hits Australia and New Zealand in the fall. ‘Wishbone Deluxe’ arrives April 24.

Loreen Delivers Her Most Personal and Expansive Work Yet With New Album ‘Wildfire’ Out Now

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Loreen Delivers Her Most Personal and Expansive Work Yet With New Album ‘Wildfire’ Out Now

Fourteen years after her groundbreaking debut ‘Heal,’ Loreen releases ‘Wildfire’ today via Polydor France, and it is the album her catalog has been building toward. Expansive, emotionally charged, and genre-fluid, ‘Wildfire’ moves through emotive ballads, pulsating electronic production, and euphoric transcendent moments across 13 tracks that reveal the full spectrum of one of global pop’s most distinctive voices. Listen here.

The album carries serious creative weight. Lead single “Feels Like Heaven” was co-written with GRAMMY-nominated Sia and produced by Jesse Shatkin. “True Love” was co-written with Ólafur Arnalds. “Lose That Light” features R&B heavyweight 6LACK. And “Tattoo,” the global phenomenon that topped charts in more than ten countries and forms part of the billion-stream pairing with “Euphoria,” anchors the tracklist as a reminder of exactly how far Loreen’s reach extends.

Loreen describes ‘Wildfire’ with the kind of directness that runs through the record itself: “This album is about truth, the kind you find when you stop running from yourself. There is power in surrender, in letting things break so something new can be built.” Raised in Sweden with roots in the Berber communities of the Moroccan Atlas Mountains, her sense of rhythm, spirituality, and connection informs every corner of this record.

The ‘Wildfire’ Tour launches September 22 in Dublin and runs through seven countries, closing October 6 at Amsterdam’s iconic Paradiso. Tickets are on sale now at loreenofficial.com. ‘Wildfire’ is available now on streaming and in multiple physical formats including CD and three vinyl editions.

‘Wildfire’ Track List:

  1. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE
  2. FEELS LIKE HEAVEN
  3. WEAPONS
  4. IS IT LOVE
  5. CAN’T PULL ME DOWN
  6. MELT
  7. WILDFIRE
  8. COMING CLOSE
  9. SET ME FREE
  10. TATTOO
  11. LOSE THAT LIGHT ft. 6LACK
  12. KISS THE SKY
  13. TRUE LOVE

Wildfire 2026 Tour Dates:

Sep 22 – Dublin, Ireland – National Stadium

Sep 24 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy

Sep 25 – Manchester, UK – O2 Victoria Warehouse

Sep 26 – London, UK – O2 Brixton Academy

Sep 28 – Cologne, Germany – Carlswerk Victoria

Sep 29 – Brussels, Belgium – Cirque Royale

Sep 30 – Paris, France – Salle Pleyel

Oct 2 – Berlin, Germany – Astra

Oct 3 – Warsaw, Poland – Stodola

Oct 5 – Hamburg, Germany – Grobe Freiheit

Oct 6 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso

British-Sudanese Vocalist Elmiene Releases Deeply Personal Debut Album ‘sounds for someone’ Out Now

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British-Sudanese Vocalist Elmiene Releases Deeply Personal Debut Album ‘sounds for someone’ Out Now

Elmiene has made his statement. ‘sounds for someone,’ the debut album from the British-Sudanese vocalist and songwriter, is out today, a 12-track record that traces two decades of familial trials and triumphs through soul, R&B, and genre-defying arrangements that refuse to stay in one place. It opens with “Moment,” a slow, piano-driven invitation to lower your guard, and earns that vulnerability across every track that follows. Listen here.

The album carries serious creative weight behind it. Production comes from Sampha, Jeff “Gitty” Gitelman, and GRAMMY Award-winning producers No I.D. and Raphael Saadiq, who also appears as a featured artist on “Light By The Window.” “Saviour,” co-written with Sampha, premiered as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record before the album’s release. Lead single “Lie With Me” showcases the soul and R&B command that has made Elmiene one of the most talked-about new voices in the genre. As Elmiene puts it: “I hope this album is a testament to the notion that people only die when they are forgotten.”

The milestones have been stacking up fast. His NPR Tiny Desk Concert has surpassed one million views. He sold out O2 Academy Brixton. He supported Stevie Wonder at British Summer Time Hyde Park. His mixtape ‘Heat The Streets’ earned nominations for Best R&B/Soul Act and Best Male Act at the 2026 MOBO Awards and Outstanding New Artist at the 2026 NAACP Image Awards. Spotify, Apple Music, MTV, NME, The Guardian, and BBC have all flagged him as an artist to watch.

A headline North American tour kicks off April 30 in Detroit, running through May 31 in Los Angeles, followed by a UK and European run starting November 29 in Amsterdam and closing December 8 at London’s Eventim Apollo. Tickets are on sale now.

‘sounds for someone’ Track List:

  1. Moment
  2. Cry Against The Wind
  3. Honour
  4. Saviour
  5. Reclusive
  6. Time Doesn’t Heal
  7. Don’t Say Maybe
  8. Special
  9. Lie With Me
  10. Light By The Window (feat. Raphael Saadiq)
  11. Lonely People
  12. Told You I’ll Make It

North American Tour Dates:

Apr 30 – Detroit, MI

May 2 – Chicago, IL

May 3 – Minneapolis, MN

May 5 – Toronto, ON

May 6 – Montreal, QC

May 8 – Boston, MA

May 9 – Philadelphia, PA

May 10 – Washington, DC

May 13 – New York, NY

May 16 – Atlanta, GA

May 18 – Houston, TX

May 19 – Dallas, TX

May 21 – Denver, CO

May 23 – Seattle, WA

May 24 – Portland, OR

May 27 – San Francisco, CA

May 30 – San Diego, CA

May 31 – Los Angeles, CA

UK / European Tour Dates:

Nov 29 – Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dec 1 – Paris, France

Dec 2 – Brussels, Belgium

Dec 4 – Berlin, Germany

Dec 5 – Manchester, UK

Dec 6 – Bristol, UK

Dec 8 – London, UK – Eventim Apollo

Yeat Delivers His Most Ambitious Statement Yet With Double Album ‘ADL (A Dangerous Lyfe / A Dangerous Love)’ Out Now

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Yeat Delivers His Most Ambitious Statement Yet With Double Album ‘ADL (A Dangerous Lyfe / A Dangerous Love)’ Out Now

Yeat has arrived with his most expansive project to date. ‘ADL (A Dangerous Lyfe / A Dangerous Love)’ is a 21-track double album out now via Lyfestyle Corporation, Field Trip, and Capitol Records, featuring an extraordinary roster of collaborators including Elton John, Grimes, NBA YoungBoy, Kid Cudi, Don Toliver, 070 Shake, Joji, Julia Wolf, and Swizz Beatz. Eight years of musical evolution converge here into what is unmistakably Yeat’s most cinematic and genre-spanning statement yet. Listen here.

The rollout matched the scale of the music. Commuters in New York City encountered a prosthetic arm hanging out of a taxi with a bumper sticker reading “LYFE IS DANGEROUS.” Yeat hosted Twizz City Night at a Portland Trail Blazers game. He sat down with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe for his first interview in five years. He became the first rapper to release official album box sets and CDs with Nike. A full-page spread in the New York Times announced the album’s features. This was not a quiet campaign.

The numbers behind Yeat make the ambition of ‘ADL’ entirely logical. Six Billboard Top 10 album debuts in under three years, including ‘LYFESTYLE’ hitting Number 1 in 2024 with 89K equivalent album units in its first week. Over 8 billion global streams. A surprise performance joining Anyma at the Las Vegas Sphere, making him the first rapper to perform at the venue. A 120K-plus crowd at Romania’s Beach, Please! Festival. His collaboration with Drake, “IDGAF,” debuted at Number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Number 1 on the Billboard Global 200.

‘ADL’ is the work of an artist who has been building toward something larger with every release. The features are not decoration. They are evidence of how far Yeat’s reach has extended, from rap’s inner circle to Elton John and Grimes, a range that few artists at any stage of their career could credibly pull off.

‘ADL (A Dangerous Lyfe / A Dangerous Love)’ Track List:

  1. Purpose General
  2. Face The Flamë (feat. Youngboy Never Broke Again, Grimes)
  3. Lose Control (feat. Elton John)
  4. Griddlë (feat. Don Toliver)
  5. What I Want (feat. BNYX)
  6. Live Likë Dis
  7. Tallër
  8. My Way (feat. Julia Wolf)
  9. Let King Tonka Talk (feat. King Kylie)
  10. Dangerous House
  11. NO MORE GHOSTS (feat. Kid Cudi)
  12. 2Nite
  13. Geek Luv
  14. Naked
  15. Went Wrong (feat. 070 Shake)
  16. Real Life Shit
  17. My Time (feat. Swizz Beatz)
  18. 2Planës
  19. Silk Facë
  20. Back Home (feat. Joji)
  21. Up From Here

Jessie Reyez Drops Surprise EP ‘$TILL PAID’ Celebrating One Year of ‘PAID IN MEMORIES’

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Jessie Reyez Drops Surprise EP ‘$TILL PAID’ Celebrating One Year of ‘PAID IN MEMORIES’

Jessie Reyez marks one year of ‘PAID IN MEMORIES’ the way only she can: with a surprise. ‘$TILL PAID,’ a five-track EP, is out today, a victory lap from one of the most respected songwriter-artists in the game right now. The project caps a massive run that included a sold-out headline world tour in 2025 and the October release of her poetry book, Words of A Goat Princess II: The People’s Purge. Listen here.

The EP’s centrepiece is “PALO $ANTO,” a collaboration with BRIT Award-winning rapper Stormzy, a pairing that makes immediate sense given both artists’ commitment to raw, unfiltered honesty in their work. The full EP sits alongside ‘PAID IN MEMORIES,’ a 20-plus track album featuring Ari Lennox, Big Sean, Miguel, Lil Yachty, 6LACK, Lil Wayne, and Deyaz, an album that cemented Reyez’s sonic range and thematic depth across themes of resilience, love, and personal healing.

The Toronto singer-songwriter’s credentials run deep. Grammy-nominated and 6x Juno-winning, Reyez has surpassed 3 billion global streams, earned her penmanship credits with Dua Lipa, Sam Smith, Kehlani, LISA of BLACKPINK, and Calvin Harris, and seen both “Imported” and “Figures” reach RIAA 2x Platinum certification. Her debut album ‘Before Love Came to Kill Us’ recently hit RIAA Gold, and ‘Yessie’ earned a Polaris Music Prize longlisting in 2023.

‘$TILL PAID’ is not a placeholder. It is a statement from an artist who has earned every moment of it.

‘$TILL PAID’ Track List:

  1. TILLPAID(FREETILL PAID (FREE TILLPAID(FREETYLE)
  2. $TAY MOODY
  3. HOT N $WEET
  4. $OFA
  5. PALO $ANTO feat. STORMZY

Spotify’s New SongDNA Feature Pulls Back the Curtain on the Creative Connections Behind Your Favorite Tracks

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Spotify’s New SongDNA Feature Pulls Back the Curtain on the Creative Connections Behind Your Favorite Tracks

Spotify has launched SongDNA, a new beta feature now rolling out to Premium users globally that maps the creative DNA behind individual songs directly inside the Now Playing view. Tap the SongDNA card on any supported track and you can explore the writers, producers, and collaborators behind it, trace samples and interpolations that shaped its sound, and browse the covers it inspired. From there, tap any collaborator to discover who else they have worked with, and keep following the thread as far as it goes.

The feature turns a single song into an entry point for genuine discovery, connecting artists, eras, and genres in ways that reward curiosity. The data powering SongDNA comes from a combination of artist and label submissions alongside community-sourced information, with artist and label teams able to review and manage their own SongDNA details directly through Spotify for Artists. Jacqueline Ankner, Spotify’s Head of Songwriter and Publisher Partnerships, describes the goal plainly: making a song’s creative lineage more transparent while giving songwriters, producers, and rights holders meaningful recognition for their contributions.

SongDNA sits alongside the existing About the Song feature, but operates differently. Where About the Song tells you the story behind a specific track, SongDNA builds an interactive world around it, one fans can explore at their own pace and in any direction. It is a meaningful step toward closing the gap between listeners and the full creative teams behind the music they love.

The feature is live now in beta for Premium users on iOS and Android, with broad availability to all Premium users rolling out through April.

Belgian Pianist Wilson Trouvé Brings Warmth and Grace to New Single “Twinkle” Off Upcoming EP ‘Three Notes’

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Belgian Pianist Wilson Trouvé Brings Warmth and Grace to New Single “Twinkle” Off Upcoming EP ‘Three Notes’

Wilson Trouvé has a new single out today, and it arrives as a preview of something quietly special. The Belgian pianist and composer releases “Twinkle” now, the first track from his upcoming EP ‘Three Notes,’ due May 1 via London independent label Bigo & Twigetti. A contemporary piano waltz built on warmth, flowing triple time, and melodic hooks that linger, “Twinkle” is a confident, glowing piece of work from an artist operating with real creative momentum.

‘Three Notes’ is a three-track collection of contemporary waltzes, each piece distinct but unified by the graceful, unhurried sensibility that has made Trouvé’s music connect with listeners in a genuine way. His catalog has surpassed 20 million streams across platforms, drawing on influences ranging from Erik Satie and Philip Glass to Ludovico Einaudi. The EP follows last year’s ‘Delight,’ itself inspired by Trouvé’s relocation from France to Bali with his family, a move that has clearly opened up new creative territory.

‘Three Notes’ also arrives ahead of his full-length album ‘Hidup,’ due in June, making this a particularly rich stretch for an artist who composes for film, TV, and advertising alongside his solo work. Trouvé is also a practicing visual artist working across drawings and large-scale installations, and that multidisciplinary sensibility runs through everything he creates.

“Twinkle” is out now. ‘Three Notes’ arrives May 1 via Bigo & Twigetti.

‘Three Notes’ Track List:

  1. Twinkle
  2. Zest
  3. Whirl

Malvern Indie Rockers Linkwells Drop Anthemic New Single “Can’t Chase Yesterday” Out Now

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Malvern Indie Rockers Linkwells Drop Anthemic New Single “Can’t Chase Yesterday” Out Now

Linkwells are not slowing down. The Malvern four-piece have released “Can’t Chase Yesterday” today on Flip Flop Records, an uplifting, melody-driven indie rock anthem about releasing the past and meeting the present head-on. The accompanying video is out now, and the song lands with the kind of Britpop-rooted energy that has drawn comparisons to The Stone Roses, Oasis, The Verve, and Stereophonics.

The band, comprising Keith Forde on vocals and guitars, Mike Bannister on guitar, Andy D on bass and vocals, and James Elliot-Williams on drums, signed to Flip Flop Records, the label run by legendary producer Nick Brine, whose credits include Oasis, The Stone Roses, and Bruce Springsteen. That association speaks to the serious sonic territory Linkwells are operating in. “Can’t Chase Yesterday” is reflective and rousing in equal measure, the kind of track that earns its optimism rather than simply declaring it.

With six singles and an EP already in the catalog, Linkwells have built an international audience spanning England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, Australia, Indonesia, Canada, and the United States. BBC Introducing has called them “an incredible band.” The momentum is real and growing with each release.

More music is coming from Linkwells throughout the year. “Can’t Chase Yesterday” is out now on Flip Flop Records.

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