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Mexican Alt-Pop Star Siddhartha Brings the “Tú y Yo y Tú” Tour to Five U.S. Cities This August

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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”

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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

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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

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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

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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”

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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

Balaam And The Angel Return With New EP ‘Love Death Wealth Water’ and a 40th Anniversary Tour

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Balaam And The Angel Return With New EP ‘Love Death Wealth Water’ and a 40th Anniversary Tour

Balaam And The Angel have a new EP coming, and they’re pairing it with a tour marking four decades since one of the most important albums in British alternative rock. ‘Love Death Wealth Water,’ a four-track follow-up to their 2024 comeback EP ‘Forces Of Evil,’ arrives May 1 on all digital platforms, with a limited-edition coloured 12-inch vinyl available via the band’s own Darklands Recordings label. It’s their second release of new material since returning after a 30-plus year silence, and the momentum is clearly building.

Recorded at Oxygene Studios in Manchester with Christoph Bride (The Chameleons, Spear Of Destiny), the EP pushes into territory that blends the atmospheric darkness of the band’s early work with the punch of their later albums. Guitarist Jim Morris describes a recording process driven by renewed confidence and deliberate attention to detail, with an openness to contemporary sounds that keeps the material from feeling like a nostalgic exercise. Alongside the EP release, the Morris brothers, Mark, Jim and Des, one of the few acts of their era still running with the original lineup, will play a series of UK dates in May and July. Then in November, they take ‘The Greatest Story Ever Told’ on a 40th anniversary tour, performing the 1986 Virgin Records debut in full across Leeds, London and Birmingham, with more dates to be announced.

‘Love Death Wealth Water’ EP Tracklist:

“Wealth”

“Fear Of Poison Water”

“You Are Dead To Me”

“Love Me Too”

EP Release Shows:

May 9 – Woking @ Fiery Bird

May 10 – Brighton @ Concorde 2 (Kindred Spirits Day Fest)

July 9 – York @ The Fulford Arms

July 10 – Edinburgh @ La Belle Angele (Deadinburgh Festival)

“The Greatest Story Ever Told” 40th Anniversary Tour:

November 20 – Leeds @ Warehouse

November 27 – London @ Bush Hall

November 28 – Birmingham @ O2 Institute2

Greek Symphonic Metal Ensemble Mystfall Unleash Cinematic New Album ‘Embers of a Dying World’

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Greek Symphonic Metal Ensemble Mystfall Unleash Cinematic New Album ‘Embers of a Dying World’

Greek symphonic metal ensemble Mystfall have released their second full-length album, ‘Embers of a Dying World,’ out now via Scarlet Records. Led by soprano Marialena Trikoglou, the band builds on the foundation of their 2023 debut ‘Celestial Vision’ with ten tracks that push deeper into dark, cinematic atmospheres, exploring the weight of human consequence through a conceptual lens where dreams and nightmares collide to keep the human spirit intact. The lead single “Sleeper In The Abyss” is out now with an official video on YouTube, and it’s a strong entry point into a record that rewards the full listen.

Radiohead’s “Kid A Mnesia” Becomes a Live Audiovisual Installation Debuting at Coachella This Weekend

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Radiohead’s “Kid A Mnesia” Becomes a Live Audiovisual Installation Debuting at Coachella This Weekend

Radiohead’s presence at Coachella this weekend isn’t a performance. It’s something more unusual. The band has announced Motion Picture House, a 75-minute audiovisual installation built around ‘Kid A Mnesia,’ their 2021 combined reissue of ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac.’ The project debuts inside a 17,000 square-foot underground bunker at Coachella before moving to a North American run through Brooklyn, Chicago, Mexico City and San Francisco. You’ve got to sign up to enter.

The installation features artwork created by Thom Yorke and longtime visual collaborator Stanley Donwood during the original ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’ recording sessions, alongside a new spatial audio mix drawn from the multitracks, rendered in 6-point surround sound. The project first launched in 2021 as a virtual-only exhibit, directed by Sean Evans, after COVID restrictions shut down the original physical concept. This is the version it was always meant to be. Yorke describes it as “a Monster is trapped in a derelict museum of the lost and forgotten.” Presale registration is open now through April 12 via Fair AXS, with public on-sale beginning April 24.

Motion Picture House Presents ‘Kid A Mnesia’ Dates:

May 6 – May 31, 2026 – Brooklyn, NY @ Agger Fish Building

July 30 – August 23, 2026 – Chicago, IL @ Cinespace Studios

October 27 – November 15, 2026 – Mexico City, MX @ La Maravilla Studios

January 14 – February 7, 2027 – San Francisco, CA @ Palace of Fine Arts

Olivia Rodrigo, Matt Damon, Will Ferrell and Paul McCartney headline Saturday Night Live’s Star-Studded May Lineup

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Olivia Rodrigo, Matt Damon, Will Ferrell and Paul McCartney headline Saturday Night Live’s Star-Studded May Lineup

Saturday Night Live is closing out Season 51 with a May lineup that delivers on every level. Olivia Rodrigo kicks things off on May 2, pulling double duty as host and musical guest for her hosting debut and third SNL appearance overall. She arrives promoting her upcoming third album, ‘You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,’ due June 12, with lead single “Drop Dead” dropping April 17.

Matt Damon returns to host for the third time on May 9, with Noah Kahan as musical guest ahead of his fourth studio album ‘The Great Divide,’ arriving April 24. The season finale on May 16 brings Will Ferrell back for his sixth hosting appearance alongside Paul McCartney, performing on SNL for the fifth time as he prepares to release ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’ on May 29. Before all of that, Colman Domingo hosts this Saturday, April 11, with Anitta as musical guest. Saturday Night Live airs live on NBC at 11:30pm ET and streams on Peacock.

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Eric Alper is a 6-time nominee for Publicist of the Year during Canadian Music Week and has overseen the publicity campaigns for over 183 JUNO Award-nominated albums (and 16 in 2025), 45 Grammy-nominated albums, including 47 JUNO Award, 58 Canadian Folk Music Award, 126 Maple Blues Award-winning albums and is also truly honoured to work with some of the biggest and most important artists of our time.

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