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London music

After completing the promotional run for their last album, 2017's Hug of Thunder, Broken Social Scene locked into a years-long nostalgia circuit. The Toronto collective celebrated the 20th anniversary of You Forgot It in People with an extended tour, a Record Store Day reissue, a collection of covers by the younger generation they influenced, a graphic novel reimagining the LP, and a live album recorded in 2003; then came a broader compilation of B-sides and rarities, and a full-blown documentary about the band's early years.

The title of Cabaret Voltaire's new live album, But What Time Is It Really?, emerges from that moment of confusion and gets at the heart of what the band's final shows represent: not nostalgia, not a victory lap, but a reckoning with age, memory, loss, and the passage of time.

With this album we wanted to try to make something that captured the physical space of our studios. Setting up loads of ways of processing, recording, re amping sounds.... 'The vocal isn't sitting quite right? Let's track it through an old tannoy speaker in the basement. That synth needs to twang harder? Let's play it through an old train station announcement speaker from the 1930s.' We ran tape over magnets, blew up some speakers and finally utilised that dirt cheap overclocked FX unit we snaffled years ago in Bromley.

“From the first verse's innocent rejection, to the third verse's plunge into premature adulthood, 'Little Kids' is about trying to avoid looking back in anger, and instead look back with newfound empathy and perspective on adolescent attempts at stumbling towards love, friendship and intimacy,” says Lerche. “It's about forgiving who you were and who you were with, and that feeling we get when we see photos of ourselves and realize we were so much younger than we thought at the time. It's personal, but highly universal.”

There hadn't been an NYC show on that run, but now they've announced a big one: it happens on October 9 at Radio City Music Hall, and they'll perform 2006's Dog Problems in full, along with songs from throughout their discography.

I'm very excited and honored to be working with the wonderful Harper NonFiction Team on my very own book full of lots of fun stories, anecdotes and of course my incredible experiences with some of the greatest musicians and performers from the 70s, 80s and beyond! I am blessed to be able to finally share my path to where I am today, in my own words, with the world.

The new tour dates begin August 27th in Phoenix, Arizona, hitting towns like Austin, Kansas City, and Nashville before wrapping up in Montclair, New Jersey, on September 27th. Get Black Veil Brides Tickets Here An artist pre-sale has begun using the code BVBTOUR2026 via Ticketmaster, with a general on-sale starting Friday, May 15th, at 10 a.m. local time.

KISS singer-bassist Gene Simmons has announced the Gene Simmons' Legends of Rock Expo, featuring members of KISS, Black Sabbath, The Police, The Kinks, and more. The three-day event will take place September 25th-27th at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, with tickets available here. Prices range from $249 for a premium weekend pass to $2,795 for a Black Diamond VIP pass.

In March 1968, a 25-year-old musician strode on to the stage of London's Wigmore Hall with a collection of unusual instruments. He proceeded to entertain the audience with tongue-in-cheek descriptions of a shawm, a crumhorn and a rackett the first time they'd ever been seen, let alone heard, on the Wigmore stage and he played them with breathtaking virtuosity. That concert, the London debut of the Early Music Consort, was greeted with delight, which set the pattern of things to come.

California post-hardcore band Movements release their fourth album, Happier Now, in September ( pre-order our exclusive blue smoke vinyl variant), and they've announced a fall US tour supporting it. Balance and Composure, Midrift, and Niis will join them for the shows, which run through October and November, and you can see all dates below.

It was a hard record to make. It was a very emotional time for us. I lost my mom; we went through all this turmoil with Brent, and then he passed away. It's been tough. It's all in the music, it's all in the songs, and I'm excited to release it and get it out there into the world because we've been sitting on it for a while. A lot of this stuff, at least the skeletons of what this album is, we've been sitting on for two years now. A lot was going on.

At a King’s Trust event held in London on Monday, Rod Stewart lauded King Charles for his recent visit to the United States and summit with Donald Trump, telling him: "You were superb. Absolutely superb. You put that little ratbag in his place." Charles appeared to laugh at Stewart's remark.

A.K. spends his youth growing up on unnamed Island and later moves to the city, where he lives in a dingy flat on Seven Sisters Road. There are fleeting references to Walkmans in his childhood and, later, an allusion to the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes but the writing wavers between a feverish nightmare and something much more grounded and political. We glimpse the significant figures in A.K.'s life his Indian immigrant parents, childhood sweetheart Katie, and local bully Max in tantalising flashes.

A possible solution to the many racist and prejudiced attitudes we see around us is to have another festival of Britain, but with a very different focus. One where groups of people of different races, creeds and religions show the country how they differ from each other in customs and practices, but also how similar we all are, with groups showcasing their food, music, history, interests, specialisms etc. Hopefully this might help dispel the fear and mistrust people feel when new and established immigrants settle among us.

Headbangers Boat, the festival at sea thrown by Lamb of God and Sixthman, is returning for yet another year of metal mayhem, and Consequence is giving you a chance to make it on board. We're giving away one (1) cabin for two for this headbanging voyage. Enter for your chance to win below or by heading here.