A member of Handsome Boy Modeling School and Deltron3030, producer of Gorillaz’ debut album and a contributor to dozens of film and television scores, Dan The Automator brings his hazy, intergalactic-inspired West Coast hip hop sensibilities to this catchy rendition.
“It was a pleasure to work on the Foxwarren remix,” said Dan The Automator of their collaboration. “It (the track) just made sense to me and I hope that comes through in the final mix.”
Last month Foxwarren shared electronic avant-pop artist Helado Negro’s warmly pulsing remix of their song “Yvonne”. Listen to it HERE. Describing his approach to the song, Negro explained: “I wanted to create a sense of wistful dancing—a mellow bump of bouncing bass, subtle dissonance from the rearranging of the strings, and asymmetrical shapes in the phrases. A smoke screen of soft reverbs and hard-to-hold chords. Andy’s voice has a texture of its own, a beautiful landscape from a distance, and is full of delightful surprises as you listen closer.”
‘2’ became an uncanny revelation for Foxwarren, a rock band allowing itself to be sampled in order to become something else. They warped and pushed the florid folk-rock of their past until it evolved into a song cycle about the vagaries of love, where voices sampled from the past commingled with songs that sparkled with the power of their collective imagination in the present. It is a fun and surprising record, where boundaries between genre and song are constantly blurred.
By himself, Shauf has already had a stellar career; his reputation built not only by the sweetness of his melodies and sharpness of his words but also his inability to rest with past success. Foxwarren, especially here, is a crucial part of that ongoing process, but ‘2’ represents something even more significant—five friends now nearing the end of their second decade making music together, pushing against what they’ve learned how to do to venture somewhere new. It is the sound of friends who trust each other, cutting themselves loose from their past and their preconceptions to have some fun with a sampler and the very idea of songs.
Foxwarren and Dan The Automator Reimagine “Strange” in a Hazy, Intergalactic New Remix
Son Little Takes His Soulful New Album ‘CITYFOLK’ on the Road With an Extended World Tour
Son Little has a new album, ‘CITYFOLK,’ and the story behind it is as compelling as the music itself. The songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, whose real name is Aaron Livingston, followed a deep curiosity about his ancestry south to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where he connected with two-time Grammy-winning Alabama Shakes member Ben Tanner to record the album at Tanner’s home studio. What started as voice note demos with subtle instrumentation evolved through drum machine beats and live sessions with a drummer, bassist and horn players into something rooted in the musical richness of the Shoals. “I realized, in moving here, that my mother’s people all came from this area,” Little explains. “Sometimes the spirits will guide you to a place when you don’t even know why you found yourself there.”
The recently shared single “Cherry” captures the album’s emotional range well, drifting through hazy memories with a tenderness that sits comfortably alongside Little’s catalog of over 250 million streams. He’s toured with Black Pumas, Kelis and Mumford & Sons, appeared at Newport Folk and Bonnaroo, and collaborated with The Roots and RJD2. This world tour puts ‘CITYFOLK’ in front of audiences across the US, Europe and beyond, with a June East Coast run newly added to dates already underway.
Son Little Tour Dates:
April 8 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
April 9 – Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Annabel
April 10 – Brussels, Belgium @ Le Botanique Orangerie
April 11 – Hamburg, Germany @ Betty
April 13 – Berlin, Germany @ Frannz Club
April 14 – Prague, Czech Republic @ Cafe V lese
April 15 – Warsaw, Poland @ Jasmine
April 17 – Cologne, Germany @ Yard Club
April 19 – Brighton and Hove, UK @ DUST
April 20 – Bristol, UK @ The Croft
April 21 – Manchester, UK @ Band on the Wall
April 22 – London, UK @ Jazz Cafe
April 25 – Paris, France @ Alhambra
May 21 – Honolulu, HI @ Blue Note Hawaii
June 10 – Kansas City, MO @ Knuckleheads
June 12 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
June 13 – Spring Green, WI @ The Shitty Barn
June 14 – Chicago, IL @ Garcia’s
June 17 – Toronto, ON @ Great Hall
June 19 – Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theater
June 20 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
June 23 – Washington DC @ The Atlantis
June 24 – Westport, CT @ Levitt Pavilion
June 25 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
June 26 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
July 10 – York, PA @ Appell Center
Twisted Sister Announces First Shows With Sebastian Bach Stepping In for Dee Snider This Fall
Twisted Sister have announced their first shows with Sebastian Bach fronting the band, four dates this fall in Alaska, Oklahoma and Canada. Bach steps in for Dee Snider, who recently resigned from the group due to complications from degenerative arthritis, forcing the cancellation of the band’s planned 50th anniversary tour. The lineup alongside Bach includes founding guitarists Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda, bassist Russell Pzütto and drummer Joey Cassata.
The pairing came together after SiriusXM’s Eddie Trunk suggested Bach for the role, prompting a private rehearsal that French describes as immediately convincing. “Sebastian came in and just nailed it,” French told Trunk on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation. For anyone still skeptical, French points to Bach’s existing recording of “You Can’t Stop Rock ‘n’ Roll” on Spotify as proof of concept. Additional shows beyond these four are expected to be announced as the band continues its 50th anniversary year, and none of Bach’s solo dates are affected by the Twisted Sister commitments.
Twisted Sister with Sebastian Bach 2026 Tour Dates:
September 4 – Palmer, AK @ Borealis Theatre
September 12 – Durant, OK @ Choctaw Grand Theater
October 8 – Niagara Falls, ON @ OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino
October 10 – Windsor, ON @ The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor
Riley Green, Jon Pardi and Tucker Wetmore Headline the Inaugural Country Splash Festival in Cabo
Country Splash is doing something that hasn’t been done before. The inaugural edition of the first multi-day country music festival held directly on the beach in Cabo San Lucas debuts Labor Day Weekend, September 4-6, with Riley Green, Jon Pardi, Tucker Wetmore and Diplo headlining. The supporting lineup includes Dasha, LoCash, Cameron Whitcomb, Dee Jay Silver and more, with additional artists still to be announced.
This isn’t a standard festival setup. Paradisus Los Cabos serves as the host resort and festival grounds, with additional accommodations available at properties including Las Ventanas al Paraíso (A Rosewood Resort) and Montage Los Cabos. Beyond the nightly Main Stage performances, the weekend includes a daytime Pool Party with country DJ sets, sunset acoustic sets, artist-led wellness experiences and Diplo’s beach yoga. Hotel packages bundle four nights of accommodation, round-trip airport transfers, premium open bar access and festival entry. Villa packages layer on private chauffeurs, personal concierges and chef service. Pre-sale for hotel and villa packages begins April 14 at 10am PT, with general sale opening April 15 at 10am PT.
Mexican Alt-Pop Star Siddhartha Brings the “Tú y Yo y Tú” Tour to Five U.S. Cities This August
Siddhartha is heading back to the United States. The Mexican singer-songwriter has announced the Tú y Yo y Tú Tour, a five-date Live Nation-produced run hitting Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Chicago and New York City this August. Presales are underway, with general on-sale beginning Friday, April 10 at 10am local time.
The tour arrives in the middle of a productive creative stretch. New single “Escápate Conmigo” follows “Tú y Yo y Tú” and “Abrázame,” three releases that are collectively mapping out the emotional terrain of his upcoming 2026 album. Siddhartha recently debuted the new material live at Tecate Pa’l Norte in Monterrey, one of Latin America’s most significant festival platforms for rock, pop, indie and urban music. His catalog, which includes 2016’s ‘Únicos’ and 2022’s ’00:00,’ has established him as one of the most influential voices in Mexico’s indie and alternative pop scene, and these U.S. dates give North American audiences a chance to hear where he’s headed next.
Siddhartha 2026 Tú y Yo y Tú Tour Dates:
August 6 – Los Angeles, CA @ YouTube Theater
August 7 – San Diego, CA @ Observatory San Diego
August 9 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
August 16 – Chicago, IL @ The Auditorium
August 18 – New York City @ Palladium Times Square
Saliva and Thousand Foot Krutch’s Trevor McNevan Team Up on Powerful New Single “Cope”
Saliva are back with “Cope,” a new single featuring Trevor McNevan of Thousand Foot Krutch, out now via Judge & Jury Records. Produced by Cameron Pierce Mizell (Machine Gun Kelly, Sleeping with Sirens) and Luke Fiadino, the track pairs Bobby Amaru’s crisp rap cadence with McNevan’s soaring vocals to deliver something that consciously echoes the sonic territory of Saliva’s No. 1 modern rock hit “Always” and their No. 2 mainstream rock hit “Your Disease.”
Both Amaru and McNevan share a genuine passion for reaching people struggling with addiction and personal demons, and that mutual commitment shapes every line of “Cope.” “It’s for every kid who feels too much, thinks too hard, and is just trying to make it through the noise,” says Amaru. McNevan adds that the song captures the moment of hitting bottom and realizing the only way forward is surrender. That’s not easy territory to navigate in a rock song, but “Cope” handles it with honesty and directness.
Goose Announce Sprawling New Album ‘Big Modern!’ and an Equally Ambitious World Tour
Goose have announced ‘Big Modern!’, their sixth studio album, arriving June 12 via No Coincidence Records, and lead single “Good2B” is already making a strong case for the record. Fifteen tracks built on the band’s improvisational foundation, moving between heartland rock piano ballads, orchestral jazz interludes and high-octane synth rock, the album takes aim at the overstimulated, hyperconnected world and meets it with equal creative force. “It’s doing the electric slide down the grocery aisle between the Pop-Tarts and Frosted Flakes,” says Rick Mitarotonda. “Lost in the digital sauce and feeling pretty good about it.”
The rollout has been characteristically inventive, with two weeks of guerrilla marketing in major US cities, a Morse code-laden website, and Emmy-nominated actor Jake Lacy sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden between the four members of Goose, each wearing yellow hoodies spelling out “FACE,” a nod to fan-favorite track “Big Modern!” The tour is already underway with a spring run through the American South, followed by the second edition of destination festival Viva El Gonzo in San José del Cabo, Mexico (May 7-9), featuring My Morning Jacket, The Disco Biscuits, Cory Wong and more. A European headline run follows in late May, hitting London’s Electric Brixton, Amsterdam’s Melkweg and Paris’s Élysée-Montmartre, before the summer North American tour launches June 13 at RBC Amphitheatre in Toronto. One dollar from every ticket sold benefits the Western Sun Foundation.
The “Good2B” single hits with disco-funk immediacy, sun-drenched congas and slinking bass lines carrying an anxious undercurrent beneath all that joyous surface energy. It’s the right introduction to an album that promises to reward close attention across all fifteen tracks.
‘Big Modern!’ Tracklist:
(begin)
Big Modern!
Scavenger
(you are here)
((savengerspell))
Good2B
MEDIA
Torero
(faena)
POP
SALT
(again)
Good Times // End Times
((nocturne))
(((postplace)))
M.I.A. Announces Seventh Studio Album ‘M.I.7’ Featuring Sunday Service, Dropping April 17
M.I.A. has announced ‘M.I.7,’ her seventh studio album, arriving April 17 via Ohmni Music, her independent label. Seven songs, written in seven places over seven days, recorded across Ethiopia, Egypt, India, London, Australia and Los Angeles, and featuring American Gospel group Sunday Service. The lead single “Everything” is out now. This is her first release fully on her own terms, and it arrives as one of the most intentional projects of her career.
‘M.I.7’ is M.I.A.’s gospel album, not in genre but in spirit. Rooted in the Book of Revelation, the Ark of the Covenant and her own relationship with Christianity, it’s Biblical in its references and deeply personal in its delivery. She leaves politics aside here and moves toward something more ancestral and existential, channeling the production instincts and vocal presence that have defined her for two decades into a framework that feels entirely new. The album lands alongside the second launch of Ohmni, her protective-fabric clothing collection built around digital sovereignty. M.I.A. also joins Kid Cudi on his ‘The Rebel Ragers’ North American tour from April 28 through June 27.
Grammy-Winning R&B Star Ella Mai Takes ‘Do You Still Love Me?’ Tour Across the UK and Europe
Ella Mai is taking ‘Do You Still Love Me?’ global. The multi-platinum, Grammy-winning R&B singer-songwriter has announced 11 headlining dates across the UK and Europe, kicking off September 13 in Copenhagen and closing September 29 in Dublin. The run hits London’s Eventim Apollo, Paris’s Bataclan, Brussels’s Cirque Royal and Manchester Apollo along the way, and follows earlier touring through South Africa, Asia and Australia announced this year.
The European leg connects directly to a North American run that launches July 7 at Coca-Cola Coliseum in Toronto and wraps August 28 with Mai’s debut at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Presales open tomorrow, April 8, with general on-sale hitting Friday, April 10 at 10am local time.
Ella Mai 2026 ‘Do You Still Love Me?’ UK/European Tour Dates:
September 13 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Store Vega
September 14 – Oslo, Norway @ Sentrum Scene
September 15 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Fallan
September 18 – Berlin, Germany @ Huxleys Neue Welt
September 20 – Cologne, Germany @ Carlswerk Victoria
September 21 – Tilburg, Netherlands @ O13 Poppodium
September 23 – Brussels, Belgium @ Cirque Royal
September 24 – Paris, France @ Bataclan
September 25 – London, UK @ Eventim Apollo
September 28 – Manchester, UK @ Manchester Apollo
September 29 – Dublin, Ireland @ Vicar Street
London Indie Favorites World News Launch Their Biggest Tour Yet With Urgent New Single “Sidestep”
World News have a new single out and a 24-date UK and European tour already underway. “Sidestep,” released via the band’s own Pie & Mash label and recorded at RAK Studios in London with producer Tommy Bosustow (Porridge Radio, mary in the junkyard), is one of their most emotionally direct tracks yet. Jangly guitar and driving bass build steadily before collapsing into a three-minute instrumental, the whole thing anchored by frontman Alex Evans’ unflinching account of watching someone you love refuse to help themselves. “It’s about that helpless feeling of standing on the outside, seeing it all so clearly, wanting to help, and realising you can’t make the choice for them,” he says.
The timing couldn’t be better. World News spent 2025 building serious momentum, with two critically praised singles premiered back to back by DJ John Richards on KEXP, and then an organic, algorithm-free viral surge on 2023 single “The Tinman” that pushed the track into the global top 10 viral charts with millions of streams and no TikTok assist. Stereogum called them the kind of band “who would’ve been stars on 80s college radio,” and The Fader flagged “throwback indie rock of the highest order.” The London four-piece now head into their largest headline run to date, with sold-out shows already confirmed in London, Manchester and Bristol.
World News UK/EU Tour Dates:
April 10 – Luton @ The Castle
April 11 – London @ 100 Club (Sold Out)
April 17 – Bristol @ The Louisiana (Sold Out)
April 18 – Cardiff @ Clwb Ifor Bach
April 19 – Birmingham @ Hare & Hounds
April 21 – Manchester @ YES Basement (Sold Out)
April 22 – Leeds @ Hyde Park Book Club
April 23 – Sheffield @ Sidney and Matilda
April 24 – Brighton @ DUST
May 1 – Edinburgh @ The Mash House
May 2 – Glasgow @ The Flying Duck
May 15 – Brighton @ The Great Escape Festival
May 22 – Norwich @ Waterfront Studios
May 23 – Southampton @ Wanderlust Fest
May 27 – Paris @ Supersonic
May 28 – Ghent @ Ringo
May 29 – Groningen @ Simplon
May 30 – Rotterdam @ De Kroepoekfabriek
May 31 – Amsterdam @ Cinetol
June 1 – Haldern @ Pop Bar
June 2 – Hamburg @ MS Stubnitz
June 3 – Hanover @ Lux
June 4 – Berlin @ Neue Zukunft
June 6 – Cologne @ Artheater