DJ Cummerbund dropped “Fat Thumping Girls” on April Fool’s Day, and it’s exactly as committed and ridiculous as that implies. The mashup locks Chumbawamba’s 1997 anthem “Tubthumping” together with Queen’s 1978 classic “Fat Bottomed Girls,” then keeps going, folding in Sade, Madonna and John Mayer, a well-timed appearance from the Shake Weight, and the obligatory Randy “Macho Man” Savage cameo that Cummerbund fans have come to expect. It shouldn’t work as well as it does, but that’s precisely the point, and the editing here is sharp enough to make the whole chaotic thing feel inevitable.
DJ Cummerbund Mashes Up Chumbawamba and Queen in Gloriously Unhinged “Fat Thumping Girls”
Marc Anthony Adds Eight New Dates to His “Vegas…My Way!” Residency at Fontainebleau Las Vegas
Marc Anthony’s Las Vegas residency isn’t slowing down. Following sold-out shows and overwhelming demand, Fontainebleau Las Vegas has announced eight new dates for “Vegas…My Way!” at the BleauLive Theater, with Anthony returning September 11, 12, 13, 16, 18 and 19, timed to Mexican Independence Day weekend, plus two Race Week performances on November 20 and 21.
Presales open today, with general on-sale hitting Friday, April 10 at 10am local time. A limited number of tickets also remain for previously announced July and August dates, July 24, 25, 29 and 31, plus August 1, for anyone who hasn’t locked in their spot yet.
The residency has earned its reputation fast. Anthony performs with his full live band, moving through more than three decades of chart-topping material in both English and Spanish, shifting from high-energy anthems to emotionally charged ballads with the kind of command that only comes from doing this at the highest level for as long as he has. The four-time Grammy and eight-time Latin Grammy winner brings something to a residency format that most performers simply can’t match.
The experience continues after each show with “Vegas…My Way! Late Night Sessions” at Nowhere Lounge, where Motif, a member of Anthony’s band, curates live music sets that keep the night going in a more intimate setting. It’s a thoughtful extension of what’s already one of the Strip’s most in-demand live experiences.
Silverstein and Story Of The Year Team Up for the “Camp Screamo” Co-Headline Tour This Summer
Two of post-hardcore’s most enduring acts are finally sharing a stage together. Silverstein and Story Of The Year have announced the Camp Screamo Tour, a co-headline run kicking off July 12 in Asbury Park, NJ, with special guest Origami Angel along for the ride. Remarkably, despite years of mutual respect and a shared scene, this marks the first time the two have toured the U.S. together.
Silverstein frontman Shane Told isn’t underselling it. “This tour is going to be nostalgic, loud, chaotic, fun, wild, emotional, slightly unhinged, sweaty, mildly dangerous, and a little irresponsible,” he says, adding that the setlist pulls from across the band’s catalog, classics alongside deep cuts. Story Of The Year come in equally loaded, drawing from their recent ‘A.R.S.O.N.’ material alongside ‘Tear Me to Pieces’ and the songs that built their following two decades ago.
Both bands bring decades of catalog and hard-won live credibility to this run, and the mutual admiration here is genuine. “They are a really important band to the scene, and their records just keep getting better,” Story Of The Year say of Silverstein, and that kind of honest respect tends to translate directly into how a tour actually feels from the floor. Camp Screamo has the right energy before a single note is played.
The tour runs through August 7, with additional festival appearances at Vans Warped Tour in Long Beach, Montreal and Orlando rounding out the full run.
Camp Screamo Tour Dates:
July 12 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony Summer Stage
July 14 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore
July 15 – Norfolk, VA @ The Norva
July 19 – Kansas City, MO @ VooDoo at the Harrah’s
July 22 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
July 23 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Rockwell at The Complex
July 25 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
July 26 – Long Beach, CA @ Vans Warped Tour
July 28 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
July 29 – El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace
July 31 – San Antonio, TX @ The Espee
August 1 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
August 2 – Dallas, TX @ The Bomb Factory
August 4 – Fayetteville, AR @ Ozark Music Hall
August 5 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl
August 7 – Buffalo, NY @ Terminal B at the Outer Harbor
August 21-22 – Montreal, QC @ Vans Warped Tour
November 14-15 – Orlando, FL @ Vans Warped Tour
Chicago Industrial Supergroup The Joy Thieves Erupt With Blistering New Single Feat. Chris Connelly
The Joy Thieves have opened their ‘Apocalypse Pending’ album campaign with a track that doesn’t ease you in. “The Wrong End of Your Rifle,” featuring Chris Connelly (Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Pigface, Fini Tribe) on vocals, is out now via Armalyte Industries, a jagged, industrial-rooted broadside aimed squarely at corporate impunity, state violence and the screen-numbed culture that lets it all happen in plain sight. The full album lands June 5.
The track’s foundation is a modern re-recording of one of hip hop’s most iconic breakbeats, “Ashley’s Roachclip” by The Soul Searchers, rebuilt by producer-drummer Dan Milligan with contemporary drum sounds and layered into something that hits with both sonic force and political edge. God Is In The TV Zine called it “blistering and unrelenting,” adding that it “lingers long after the noise fades.” That’s exactly the right read.
Connelly doesn’t soften the message. “When the billionaires are accountable for nothing and force their will by suppression in the streets, we have to become inventive,” he says. “We can’t argue or reason with bullets.” It’s confrontational language for a confrontational track, and it fits the moment The Joy Thieves are clearly trying to capture across ‘Apocalypse Pending.’
The Joy Thieves revolve around Dan Milligan and James Scott, drawing from an 80-plus member roster that includes current and former contributors from Ministry, Stabbing Westward, Killing Joke, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, KMFDM, Nitzer Ebb and more. Their approach produces something they describe as made by “all of us. And yet, none of us,” and the result is aggressive, precise and layered with melody in ways that pure industrial rarely manages.
Produced, engineered and mixed by Joy Thieves Productions at Populist Recording + Mastering in Wheaton, IL, “The Wrong End of Your Rifle” is available now on Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp.
Bill McClintock’s Latest Mashup Pairs “Roxanne” and “She Works Hard for the Money” in Surprisingly Perfect Fashion
Video editor Bill McClintock has done it again. His latest mashup locks “Roxanne” by The Police together with Donna Summer’s “She Works Hard for the Money,” and the result is one of those combinations that makes you wonder why nobody tried it sooner. McClintock’s quiet thesis, that both songs share more than just a time signature, lands immediately once the tracks start weaving together. Guitars from L.A. Guns’ Tracii Guns (“Never Enough”) and Ratt’s Warren DeMartini (“Round and Round”) add another layer of unexpected muscle to the whole thing.
Head Automatica Hit the Road This June With a New Album on the Way
Head Automatica are touring again, and a new album is coming. The Daryl Palumbo and Dan the Automator project has announced a seven-date run through the western United States this June, kicking off June 1 in Seattle and wrapping June 11 in Denver, with a September date at the Bolero Block Party in Meadowlands, NJ also on the books.
The band launched in 2004 as Palumbo’s vehicle to push beyond his punk roots into new wave, synth-heavy electronics and garage. They toured with The Cure, Gary Numan and Interpol, hit main stages at Coachella and Riot Fest, collaborated with El-P and Del the Funky Homosapien, then went on indefinite hiatus in 2012 after two albums. In the years since, the catalog quietly accumulated 42 million-plus streams.
The current lineup brings back original guitarist Craig Bonich, Glassjaw drummer Chad Hasty and longtime Palumbo collaborator Richard Flesh. They’ve released two singles in the past two years, most recently the industrial-leaning “Annulment,” which followed “Bear The Cross,” their first new music since the ‘Popaganda’ era. Both tracks signal a band that’s retained its electronic DNA while pushing into heavier, more textured territory.
A third full-length is expected later this year. These June dates are the lead-up.
Head Automatica Tour Dates:
June 1 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza
June 2 – Portland, OR @ Holocene
June 4 – Sacramento, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post
June 6 – Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
June 7 – Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge
June 9 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
June 11 – Denver, CO @ Marquis
September 25 – Meadowlands, NJ @ Bolero Block Party
Haircut 100 Announce First Album in 43 Years With ‘Boxing The Compass’ Due This May
Haircut 100 have a new album coming, and that sentence alone carries real weight. ‘Boxing The Compass’ arrives May 29 via October is Orange Ltd, distributed in North America by BFD/The Orchard, with a vinyl release following June 26. It’s the band’s first full-length with the classic lineup since ‘Pelican West’ in 1982, a Platinum-certified, chart-topping debut that defined a moment in British pop and never really left the conversation.
The reunion gathered momentum when single “The Unloving Plum” became BBC Radio 2’s Record of the Week, followed by sold-out shows across North America and the UK. Nick Heyward, Graham Jones, Les Nemes and Blair Cunningham reconvened at Famous Times Studio in East London with producer Sean Read (Dexys), and what came out sounds unmistakably like them. The groove-driven, horn-laced melodic pop that made “Love Plus One” and “Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)” instant classics is still fully intact.
Heyward frames the album around navigation and return. “Boxing the Compass is the traditional way of finding out where you are on land or sea,” he says. “We’re arriving back at the port we left 43 years ago with a log of songs from our personal travels.” Nemes puts it more simply: “We are best mates but also a band. We light a spark inside each other as soon as we switch on the amps.” That’s not nostalgia talking. That’s a group of musicians who still trust each other completely.
‘Boxing The Compass’ is ten tracks of melodically rich, warmly produced pop from a band that earned its reputation the hard way and apparently hasn’t lost a step. On CD, digital and vinyl.
‘Boxing The Compass’ Tracklist:
- “Come Back To Me”
- “Vanishing Point”
- “Soul Bird”
- “Raincloud”
- “Sunshine”
- “The Unloving Plum”
- “Someone”
- “That’s a Start”
- “Dynamite”
- “A Wonderful Life”
Post Malone, Kenny Chesney and Riley Green Headline Tortuga Music Festival on Fort Lauderdale Beach
Tortuga Music Festival is back on the sands of Fort Lauderdale Beach this weekend, and its 13th edition arrives with one of its strongest headline slates yet. Post Malone, Riley Green and Kenny Chesney are leading a three-day event that runs deeper than most festival lineups, with Dwight Yoakam, The Fray, Colbie Caillat, Amanda Shires, Lukas Nelson, Flatland Cavalry, G. Love & Special Sauce, Uncle Kracker and Brittney Spencer among the acts filling out the bill across three stages.
Chesney will also receive the festival’s inaugural Ocean Legacy Award this weekend, a recognition of his longstanding ties to Tortuga and his commitment to ocean conservation. It’s a meaningful moment for a festival that has built its identity around exactly that mission. Since launching, Tortuga and its attendees have raised more than $6 million for marine research, education and advocacy through the Rock The Ocean Foundation.
The conservation infrastructure here is real. Tortuga just earned a 2-Star Seal from Oceanic Global’s Blue Standard for its work reducing single-use plastics and managing waste responsibly. The festival’s Conservation Village gives attendees direct access to marine protection initiatives, hands-on programming and environmental experts throughout the weekend.
The setting makes all of it land harder. Three stages of live music directly on Fort Lauderdale’s coastline, with a sustainability framework that shapes every operational decision, from energy solutions to waste management. Tortuga isn’t tagging conservation onto a music event. It’s built around it.
Limited weekend and single-day tickets are available now at tortugamusicfestival.com.
Suwannee Hulaween 2026 Returns With Pretty Lights, My Morning Jacket and Three Nights of String Cheese
Suwannee Hulaween is back for its 13th edition, and the 2026 lineup is built to make a statement. Pretty Lights, My Morning Jacket, Excision, Geese and three nights of The String Cheese Incident lead the bill, with the festival returning to its home at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida from October 22 to 25.
The supporting lineup spans electronic, jam, Americana and rock with real range. Ben Böhmer, Big Gramatik (Big Gigantic and Gramatik together), STS9, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Green Velvet, Lettuce, Karina Rykman, Manic Focus, Of The Trees and Daily Bread are among the acts filling out the weekend. First-time Hulaween performers include Dope Lemon, Greyboy Allstars, Guerilla Toss, Jerro and Kasablanca, with curated takeovers from Green Velvet (LaLaLand), Of The Trees (Memory Palace) and the Def: Off Limits Stage adding another layer to the programming.
The festival has also made a deliberate move on pricing. Four-day GA passes start at $469, more than $75 less than 2025, a direct signal to the community that accessibility matters here. The Spirit Lake 360° Experience returns in full after attendee feedback, restoring the immersive walking path that’s become one of Hulaween’s most defining features alongside the forest-set Amphitheater Stage.
New for 2026 are glamping and preset RV pass options, expanded VIP access including a dedicated gate from Meadow Field camping, and an increased shuttle program across the park. Hulaween isn’t just maintaining what works. It’s actively improving the experience for everyone on the grounds.
Tickets and full pass details are available now at hulaween.com.
2026 Lineup (A-Z):
A Hundred Drums
Ahee
AK SPORTS
Anthill Cinema w/ Jon Ditty
Baalti
Ben Böhmer
Big Gramatik feat. Big Gigantic & Gramatik
Caitlin Kristo & the Broadcast
Casey Club
Close Friends Only
Costa
Crankdat
Curra
Daily Bread
Daniel Allan
Dope Lemon
Drama (DJ Set)
Effy
Eggy
EOTO & Friends
Excision
Geese
Gravagers
Green Velvet
Greyboy Allstars
Guavatron
Gudfella
Guerilla Toss
Hamdi
HerShe
Heyz
Hhunter
INVT
Jackie Hollander
Jerro
Jon Stickley Trio
Joy Wagon
KARAN!
Karina Rykman
Kasablanca
LaMP
Lettuce
Levity
Lewis OfMan
Lyny
Maddy O’Neal
Magoo
Manic Focus
Midnight Generation
Minim
Moonstone Riders
Motifv
Mountain Grass Unit
My Morning Jacket
Natalie Brooke
Of The Trees
Opiuo
Playlunch
Pretty Lights
Richard Finger
Riordan
Rudashi
Saka x Fly
Salute
Sneezy
Steller
STS9
Supertaste
Taper’s Choice
The Ain’t Sisters
The String Cheese Incident (3 Nights)
The Yeah Babys
Tini Gessler
Tire Fire
True Loves
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Willis
Austin Electronic Collective XANIMAL and Nagavalli Deliver Hypnotic New Single “The Awakening”
XANIMAL have released their second single, and it lands in a completely different sonic space than their debut. “The Awakening,” featuring Austin collaborator Nagavalli, is a downtempo trip-hop track that weaves hypnotic tablas, lush atmospheric synths and funky breakbeats into something that feels genuinely cinematic. It’s available now on Bandcamp via New Human Music, with wider digital release on April 21.
The Austin-based trio, Claude McCan, Noëlle Hampton and Ken Christensen, built this one around a deliberate emotional shift. Their debut single ‘Love Axis’ leaned into bright 80s synth-pop energy. This track goes darker, more searching, and the addition of Nagavalli’s Eastern Soul vocals gives it a dimension the group couldn’t have reached on their own. Hampton’s lead vocals carry disillusionment and loss; Nagavalli’s layered vocalizations push the track toward something closer to transcendence. The contrast works.
“She is truly magical and brings so much emotion and expression with her singing,” says Hampton of Nagavalli. “With her vocals, our vision was complete.” McCan adds that the track pulls from deep in his musical history while reflecting the emotional weight of the current moment, a pivot from an earlier disco-influenced direction that no longer fit what the project needed to say.
The video, created by Fumihito Sugawara of Fumanstudios (who also designed the cover artwork), matches the track’s meditative intensity. God Is In The TV Zine called it “electro-pop with a passport and a pulse,” and that reads exactly right. XANIMAL aren’t chasing a lane. They’re carving one.
“The Awakening” is mastered by Max Lorenzen at Rare Ear Studio. More releases from XANIMAL are expected later this year.