Editors found the perfect setting for their darkness among the lakes and forests of the Netherlands. The British indie rockers played Best Kept Secret 2016 at Beekse Bergen park in Hilvarenbeek, one of Europe’s most atmospheric festivals, and the scenic backdrop suited their blend of melancholy and dramatic energy. Led by the charismatic Tom Smith, the band let each chord ring out through the forest stillness, their dark synth lines and guitar swells pulling the crowd into a world where longing and hope intertwine. The set arrived as Editors promoted their fifth studio album ‘In Dream’, and it was among the first to showcase the new material and its turn toward a more electronic sound. The performance stands as a striking display of the band’s command of mood and crowd.
Video: Editors Bring ‘In Dream’ to the Dutch Forest at Best Kept Secret 2016
Canada Basketball Names 23-Player Pool and Gordie Herbert’s Staff for World Cup 2027 Qualifiers
Canada Basketball has announced a 23-player athlete pool, and coaching staff, for the Senior Men’s National Team ahead of Window 3 and Window 4 of the FIBA Men’s Basketball World Cup 2027 Americas Qualifiers this summer.
The announcement was made Monday at the OVO Athletic Centre in Toronto by Rowan Barrett, Executive Vice-President and General Manager, Men’s High Performance, and Senior Men’s National Team Head Coach, Gordie Herbert.
Canada will open Window 3 at TD Coliseum in Hamilton, Ont., hosting Puerto Rico on July 3 before facing Jamaica on July 6, returning to Hamilton for the first time in four years.
Window 4 will include an away fixture before Canada returns home to host at Videotron Centre in Quebec City on Aug. 31, marking the Senior Men’s National Team’s first game in the province of Quebec in eight years.
Tickets to all home games are on sale now at Ticketmaster.ca.
Canada enters the summer following a historic bronze-medal performance at the FIBA Men’s Basketball World Cup 2023 — the best finish in program history — highlighted by an overtime victory over the United States in the bronze-medal game.
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was named to the First Team All-Star Five All-Tournament team, while Dillon Brooks earned Defensive Player of the Tournament honours in 2023.
“This quad, our expectation is to get to the top of the podium,” said Barrett. “We believe that we have the athletes, we believe we have the experience, and now we believe we have the coaching set in place for us to take that next step.”
Monday also marked the first official media availability for Gordie Herbert since being appointed head coach last summer.
“It is an unbelievable honour to have the opportunity to coach this country,” said Herbert. “I don’t know if there’s a bigger honour for a coach, than to be able to coach your country.”
Herbert joins the program with a winning track record and a reputation as one of international basketball’s most accomplished coaches. He guided Germany to a historic FIBA Men’s Basketball World Cup title in 2023 and followed it up with a fourth-place finish at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
“When I start with a national team program, I give a vision. It’s not where we were, it’s not where we are, but where we’re going. And the vision I have for us, going forward, is a gold medal at the World Cup, and Gold at the Olympics.”
Herbert also unveiled his coaching staff for the summer, featuring a strong Canadian contingent alongside international experience. Joining Herbert on the bench will be Jama Mahlalela, Nathaniel Mitchell and Hanno Möttölä.
Mahlalela currently serves as an assistant coach with the Toronto Raptors and brings extensive NBA and international experience, including previous stints with the Golden State Warriors during their championship run, and the Raptors 905.
Mitchell has been part of Canada Basketball’s high performance pathway for several years, most recently serving as head coach during the program’s previous two FIBA Men’s Basketball World Cup 2027 Americas Qualifier windows, in addition to leading Canada to a fourth-place finish at the FIBA Men’s AmeriCup 2025.
Möttölä, a former Finnish national team player and coach, brings extensive international experience to the staff, and coached along with Mitchell in window 1 and 2 and the World Cup Qualifiers.
Senior Men’s National Team – Athlete Pool
Nickeil Alexander-Walker — Toronto, Ont.
RJ Barrett — Mississauga, Ont.
Charles Bediako — Brampton, Ont.
Aaron Best — Scarborough, Ont.
Khem Birch — Montréal, Que.
Dillon Brooks — Mississauga, Ont.
Marcus Carr — Toronto, Ont.
Nate Darling — Halifax, N.S.
Luguentz Dort — Montréal, Que.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander — Hamilton, Ont.
Kyshawn George — Montreal, Que.
Kur Jongkuch — London, Ont.
Mfiondu Kabengele — Burlington, Ont.
Thomas Kennedy — Windsor, Ont.
Bennedict Mathurin — Montréal, Que.
Leonard Miller — Scarborough, Ont.
Andrew Nembhard — Aurora, Ont.
Ryan Nembhard — Aurora, Ont.
Kelly Olynyk — Kamloops, B.C.
Will Riley — Kitchener, Ont.
Kassius Robertson — Toronto, Ont.
Jackson Rowe — Toronto, Ont.
Kyle Wiltjer — Portland, Ore.
Coaching Staff
Gordie Herbert — Head Coach
Jama Mahlalela — Assistant Coach
Nathaniel Mitchell — Assistant Coach
Hanno Möttölä — Assistant Coach
Final rosters for Window 3 and Window 4 training camps will be announced at a later date.
Canada currently sits fifth in the latest FIBA Men’s world rankings presented by NIKE. Single-game tickets for Canada’s games in Hamilton and Quebec City are available at ticketmaster.ca.
Hamilton Hammers Ink Forward Matthew Highmore as First Signing in Franchise History
The Hamilton Hammers have their first-ever player. The club announced today that it’s signed forward Matthew Highmore to a two-year AHL contract, making him the inaugural signing as the team gears up for its first season this October.
Highmore, 30, comes from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and steps into his ninth season of pro hockey. The 5-foot-11, 185-pound forward played 70 games with the Bridgeport Islanders last season, putting up 15 goals and 25 assists for 40 points, third on the team in scoring.
His résumé runs deep. Across 301 career AHL games, Highmore has racked up 76 goals and 130 assists for 206 points, earning two AHL All-Star nods along the way. He’s also logged 187 NHL games with the Vancouver Canucks, Chicago Blackhawks, St. Louis Blues, and Ottawa Senators. Back in his junior days in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, he won a 2017 QMJHL championship with the Saint John Sea Dogs.
The Hammers open their inaugural season in October 2026 at TD Coliseum. Season seat membership deposits for 2026-27 are available now at HamiltonHammers.com.
Deadmau5, Alesso, Griz and Martin Garrix Saddle Up for Goldrush: Midnight Riders Festival
The west is calling, and electronic dance music is answering the call. Goldrush returns to Rawhide Western Town with its Midnight Riders edition on September 11-12, and Relentless Beats has stacked the bill with four headliners it’s billing as the four horsemen of dance music. Swedish progressive house producer Alesso, pioneering Canadian DJ Deadmau5, future-funk multi-instrumentalist Griz, and high-energy Dutch anthem-maker Martin Garrix top a festival that turned sold-out crowds out to the old west town in 2025.
The supporting posse runs deep. AC Slater, Airrica, Boogie T, Broken Hill, CID, Deathpact, Delta Heavy, DJ Pauly D, Dømina, Green Velvet, Idemi, It’s Murph, Joust b2b Mongrel, Kaivon, Know Good, Lady Faith, Midnight Tyrannosaurus, Mitis, Ray Volpe, Riordan, Rossy, Rsquared, Silva Bumpa, Sullivan King, Surf Mesa, Valentino Khan, and Zoey808 fill out the across multiple stages, with top-level production framing the western backdrop. More names, plus silent disco and regional talent, land soon.
The pre-show pool party is back too. Held at Gila River Resorts & Casinos minutes from Rawhide, the daytime bash runs Saturday, September 12, from 11 am to 7 pm in partnership with the Oasis Pool Party Series, one of the Valley’s most celebrated. The setup spans 17 cabanas, day beds, stage tables, and a large VIP area with private bars. Benny Benassi headlined the party last year, and this year’s lineup arrives later.
Two-day tickets across GA, GA+, VIP, and Platinum tiers are on sale now, along with extras like shuttle passes, lockers, parking, and hotel packages. Premium options from Gila River Resorts & Casinos at Wild Horse Pass throw in complimentary Oasis Pool Party tickets and festival shuttle service.
Yes Unearth 50-Year-Old Jersey City Set on ‘Yes: Live At Roosevelt Stadium’
A legendary night from 1976 is finally getting its official due. Yes will mark the 50th anniversary of one of their most storied performances with ‘Yes: Live At Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, 17 June 1976’. The show captured the formidable Relayer lineup of Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Alan White, and Patrick Moraz playing to a capacity crowd at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, New Jersey.
The recording catches the band at a creative high point on the “Solo Albums Tour.” After the success of ‘Relayer’ in 1974, the members spent 1975 cutting five individual solo projects, and this 1976 run marked the first time those new arrangements folded into the live set. The result is a snapshot of five players stretching out in every direction at once.
The set balances full-band epics like “The Gates Of Delirium” and “Ritual” with staples including “Siberian Khatru” and “Heart Of The Sunrise.” It also makes room for rare individual spotlights, Anderson’s ethereal selections from ‘Olias of Sunhillow’ and Moraz’s rhythmic explorations from ‘The Story of I’, alongside Howe’s acoustic signature “Clap.” The night closes with a rare run through “I’m Down,” the high-energy classic originally by The Beatles, a fitting jolt to send everyone home.
The quintet was captured mid-tour during a live broadcast on New York’s WNEW-FM. The performance has circulated as one of the band’s most beloved bootlegs for decades, and this release brings it into the catalog officially for the first time.
Jazz Saxophone Titan Joe Lovano Convenes Paramount Quartet with Julian Lage on New ECM Set
Joe Lovano hears something new in the air, and he’s named his latest project after it. The saxophone titan has announced ‘Paramount Quartet’, a striking new ECM set that teams him with guitarist Julian Lage, bassist Asante Santi Debriano, and drummer Will Calhoun, the last known for his work in American rock outfit Living Colour. “I feel like at this point I’m on the rise,” Lovano says, brushing past decades of experience and dozens of leader dates. “We’ve arrived at this unique place with this quartet, it’s very special. It’s a new thing. Recording this with Manfred [Eicher] in the studio, I was really thrilled with the way the group continuously developed. And those cats, they play with a real global awareness.”
The group came together by chance. Lovano met Debriano and Calhoun at a 2023 fundraiser for Puerto Rican hurricane relief, and the connection was instant. “Sometimes you meet, and it’s like you’ve known each other your whole life,” he says. “That happened with Will, Asante and I.” Adding Lage was the natural next move, the two having talked about collaborating since Lage played in one of Lovano’s Berklee ensembles around 2006.
The record moves freely across moods. It opens with Charlie Haden’s “First Song,” a refined invocation full of soulful yearning, a tune Lovano fell for while subbing in Haden’s Quartet West years ago. His own compositions carry the rest, from the rubato unisons of “Amsterdam” to the groove-laden post-bop of “Fanfare For Unity,” the extended forms of “The Great Outdoors,” and the easy mid-tempo sway of “Congregation.”
The band adapts to anything, dropping to chamber-music quiet on “The Call” and lighting up “Fanfare For Unity” with electricity. Lovano adds his own dimension by switching instruments mid-song, moving between tenor sax, tarogato, and soprano as the music calls for it. The interplay is constant and alive.
Lovano is effusive about his bandmates. “Will Calhoun has a way of playing that is so expansive and beautiful in so many directions,” he says, going on to praise Debriano’s Panamanian roots and his history with Archie Shepp and Randy Weston, and calling Lage among the most gifted players in the music. The set marks Lage’s first recording for ECM, and his solos throughout are agile and precise, full of harmonic double stops and elegant phrasing that lock right into Lovano’s winding lines.
The two go back decades, ever since Lovano met a teenage Lage at a McCoy Tyner gig at Yoshi’s in California in the early 2000s. That history shows in the music’s ease. The set’s other non-original, Wayne Shorter’s “Lady Day,” gets a graceful reading, with Lovano breathing fresh life into a melody he first heard on Shorter’s ‘Soothsayer’. “Just the theme alone is haunting,” he says. “There’s so much possibility in the harmonies and the harmonic rhythm.”
Recorded in February 2025 at La Buissonne Studios in Southern France and produced by Manfred Eicher, ‘Paramount Quartet’ captures four players locking into something rare.
Punk Firebrands Amyl and the Sniffers Tear Through Hometown KEXP Session in Melbourne
Amyl and the Sniffers prove they can level a room with nobody in it. Recorded at Soundpark Studios in Melbourne in October 2021 for the celebrated “KEXP at Home” series, the Australian punk firebrands rip through a set built on the snarling energy that has turned them into a global phenomenon, with vocalist Amy Taylor at her magnetic, wonderfully chaotic best. The setlist leans on their then-recent album ‘Comfort to Me’, with “Guided By Angels,” “Hertz,” and “Security” delivered at ferocious intensity, Dec Martens’ gritty riffs locking in with the driving rhythm section of Bryce Wilson and Gus Romer. An interview with KEXP’s Troy Nelson rounds it out, offering a window into the band’s creative process and a pure, unapologetic dose of rock and roll.
Introspective Folk-Pop Newcomer Jessie Mazin Goes Acoustic on ‘untitled.jpeg (Live From Medium Sized Backyard)’
Jessie Mazin is pulling the curtain back on her debut, trading studio polish for something quieter and closer. The rising folk and alternative pop voice has released ‘untitled.jpeg (Live From Medium Sized Backyard)’, a live acoustic set out now via Atlantic. The release follows the runaway success of her Medium Sized Backyard performance, which racked up more than 1.7 million views and made the case for hearing these songs stripped to the bone.
The EP captures a raw, intimate side of Mazin’s work across stripped-back takes on three songs from ‘untitled.jpeg’, including the breakout “the man with money in his hands,” plus “the precipice” and “alive.” She also folds in a reimagined cover of Calvin Harris’ “How Deep Is Your Love,” reshaping a dance-floor anthem into something hushed and personal.
The original ‘untitled.jpeg’, produced by Carlos de la Garza and Adam Melchor, follows Mazin through political unrest, heartbreak, and the emotional disorientation of early adulthood, all filtered through the lens of a generation raised online. Having grown up on the internet, she channels that digital coming-of-age into every track, charting the move from online adolescence to adult reality. The title nods to both the permanence and the performance of life lived on screen.
Critics caught on fast. Ones to Watch called the record a meeting with Mazin at her most vulnerable and her most unapologetic, bold and willing to divide. The live versions only sharpen that intimacy, letting her voice carry the room.
untitled.jpeg (Live From Medium Sized Backyard) Tracklist:
- “the man with money in his hands” (Live from Medium Sized Backyard)
- “the precipice” (Live from Medium Sized Backyard)
- “alive” (Live from Medium Sized Backyard)
- “How Deep is Your Love” (Live from Medium Sized Backyard)
- “the man with money in his hands”
- “the precipice”
- “alive”
Opera Royalty Renée Fleming and Banjo Master Béla Fleck Unite on ‘The Fiddle and the Drum’
Two virtuosos from opposite ends of the musical map have found common ground in the hills of Appalachia. Renée Fleming, the five-time Grammy-winning soprano, and Béla Fleck, the 19-time Grammy-winning banjo master, have released their collaborative album ‘The Fiddle and the Drum’, out now via Thirty Tigers. Timed to the United States’ 250th anniversary, the record digs deep into America’s musical heritage across mountain songs, haunting ballads, and folk hymns, pairing Fleming’s expressive voice with Fleck’s banjo and a roster of bluegrass and country’s finest.
The roots of this run back years. Fleming and Fleck first floated the idea of an Appalachian album when they met, then let it sit until 2023, when they finally pulled it off the back burner and into the studio. “I was fascinated by the long, trans-Atlantic history of American and Appalachian folk music from an early age,” shares Fleming. “The themes of loss in songs like ‘Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies’ were perfect for my teen melancholy. I have always felt that the direct simplicity of this tradition is universal.”
Fleck, who produced the album, came to the music just as early. “I was thrilled to join Renée on a project to honor her love of folk music,” he adds. “Like her, I have been hearing that music since I was young, and the folk boom (or folk scare as some call it) put it front and center in New York City where I grew up. Pete Seeger and Joan Baez were superstars there. The music is deceptively simple, but there is enormous depth. And because the music is simple, it can be manipulated and expanded very naturally.”
Recorded in Nashville with Fleck producing, the album surrounds the duo with world-class players and a guest list to match. The pair announced the project in March with lead single “In The Pines,” featuring 11-time Grammy winner Dolly Parton, then followed last month with “My Epitaph,” featuring three-time Grammy winner Aoife O’Donovan. Vince Gill, Jerry Douglas, Sierra Hull, and Sarah Jarosz all turn up across the tracklist. The focus track, “The Scarlet Tide” with Vince Gill, lands as one of the record’s warmest moments.
The collaboration already hit the stage this month, with debut performances at Nashville’s historic Grand Ole Opry and Charleston’s Spoleto Festival, backed by Fleck’s all-star band My Bluegrass Heart and joined by Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan. More dates follow through the year, including marquee nights at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Carnegie Hall, with album guests dropping in along the way.
The Fiddle and the Drum Tracklisting:
- “He’s Gone Away / Storms Are on the Ocean”
- “In The Pines” (feat. Dolly Parton)
- “The Fiddle and the Drum” (feat. Jerry Douglas)
- “My Epitaph”
- “The Scarlet Tide” (feat. Vince Gill)
- “The Cuckoo” (feat. Jerry Douglas)
- “Blackest Crow” (feat. Aoife O’Donovan)
- “Scarlet Ribbons”
- “he’s gone away (reprise)”
- “Pretty Bird” (feat. Sierra Hull & Sarah Jarosz)
Renée Fleming with Béla Fleck Tour Dates:
June 19, 2026, Telluride, CO, Telluride Bluegrass Festival
August 20-22, 2026, Chautauqua, NY, Chautauqua Institution
September 22, 2026, Los Angeles, CA, Walt Disney Concert Hall
December 3, 2026, New York, NY, Carnegie Hall
Video: Psych-Rock Marvels King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Close Lisbon Residency with ‘Live in Lisbon ’25’
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard turned the final night of their Lisbon residency into a full-blown showcase of everything that makes them one of the most relentless live acts going. On May 20, 2025, the Australian psychedelic outfit led by Stu Mackenzie capped a three-day Portugal stay with the third night at Coliseu dos Recreios, a historic 2,800-capacity room in central Lisbon. The set pulled from recent releases including ‘Flight b741’ (2024) and ran through their signature blend of garage rock, psychedelia, and krautrock motorik, with Ambrose Kenny-Smith and Cook Craig’s guitar riffs riding Michael Cavanagh’s drums and Mackenzie’s vocal intensity into one long, hypnotic jam. Captured professionally and released as part of the official bootleg ‘Live in Lisbon ’25’, the recording catches the group at full strength, and it ranks among the standout European tour moments of the year.