“Flash points everywhere/ And everybody’s scared/ Complex systems failure/ And the lord of chaos is in,” Coleman sings on the song’s fiery chorus.

You can check out the new track below:

‘Lord Of Chaos’ arrives on March 25. You can pre-order/pre-save it here – see the tracklisting below.

‘Lord Of Chaos’ tracklist:

1. ‘Lord Of Chaos’
2. ‘Total’
3. ‘Big Buzz’ (Motorcade Mix)
4. ‘Delete In Dub’ (Youth’s Disco 45 Dystopian Dub)

Killing Joke are also gearing up to head out on their ‘Honour The Fire Tour’ this spring, marking their first UK tour in over three years.

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The band will visit Nottingham, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, London and more. You can see the full list of dates below and buy tickets here.

MARCH 2022

27 – Cheltenham. Frog And Fiddle
28 – Cardiff, Tramshed
29 – Nottingham, Rock City
31 – Bristol, O2 Academy Bristol

APRIL 2022

1 – Liverpool, O2 Academy Liverpool
2 – Birmingham, O2 Institute
4 – Manchester, Albert Hall
5 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, Boiler Shop
6 – Glasgow, Barrowland
8 – Leeds, O2 Academy Leeds
9 – London, Eventim Apollo

Meanwhile, Foo Fighters recently shared a cover of Killing Joke‘s ‘Requiem’ on their ‘00979725’ EP.

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“If I could pick what people saw and heard it would be: seeing the beauty of confrontation and the necessity of rebellion,” she added.

Watch the ‘Midnight Sun’ video below.

The singer will hit the road in support of ‘Painless’ this spring, with the tour beginning in Glasgow on March 3 and including stop-offs in Dublin (March 12), Manchester (14) and Bristol (15). Yanya’s UK stint will conclude with a performance at Electric Brixton in London on March 16.

See the full list of dates below.

MARCH
03 – St Luke’s, Glasgow UK
12 – Whelans, Dublin IE
14 – Band On The Wall, Manchester UK
15 – Trinity, Bristol UK
16 – Electric Brixton, London UK
20 – Trabendo, Paris FR
22 – Bogen F, Zurich CH
23 – Ampere, Munich DE
24 – Grelle Forelle, Vienna AT
26 – Säälchen, Berlin DE
27 – Nochtspeicher, Hamburg DE
28 – Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam NL
30 – Botanique Orangerie, Brussels BE

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APRIL
26 – Antone’s, Austin TX
28 – Basement East, Nashville TN
29 – Shaky Knees, Atlanta GA
30 – Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro NC

MAY
01 – Grey Eagle, Asheville NC
03 – Black Cat, Washington DC
04 – Underground Arts, Philadelphia PA
06 – The Sinclair, Cambridge MA
07 – Webster Hall, New York NY
09 – L’Astral, Montreal QUE
10 – The Axis Club, Toronto ONT
12 – El Club, Detroit MI
13 – Thalia Hall, Chicago IL
14 – Fine Line, Minneapolis MN
17 – The Fox Theatre, Boulder CO
18 – Commonwealth, Salt Lake City UT
20 – Fortune, Vancouver BC
21 – Crocodile, Seattle WA
22 – Wonder Ballroom, Portland OR

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“An intersection I hadn’t remembered for 30 years would trigger a flood of hidden memories,” Bazan said in a press release. “I was there to soak in it as much as possible.”

‘Havasu’ was made with co-producer and engineer Andy D. Park, who also worked on ‘Phoenix’, and Bazan wrote, arranged, and performed most of the music himself, with help from PTL live drummer Sean T. Lane on every track and synths from longtime collaborator Andy Fitts.

Album opener ‘Don’t Wanna Move’ features the same guitar riff from PTL live guitarist Erik Walters that appeared on ‘Phoenix’ closer ‘Leaving The Galley’.

“I was psyched to open this record with it,” Bazan said. “I’m trying to have a flow between the records, so if people want to engage with that, there’s something there.”

You can listen to ‘Havasu’ below:

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Pedro The Lion are gearing up to head out on the road for a US tour in support of ‘Havasu’ this spring. The trek starts on April 12 in Kansas City, Missouri and concludes on June 3 in Seattle, Washington.

You can see the full list of tour dates below:

APRIL 2022
12 – Kansas City, MO – Record Bar
13 – Tulsa, OK – The Vanguard
14 – Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
15 – Austin, TX – Mohawk
16 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
18 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn
19 – Nashville, TN – Basement East
20 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
21 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
23 – Washington, D.C. – Black Cat
24 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
25 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
26 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
28 – Millvale, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre
29 – Columbus, OH – Skullys
30 – Indianapolis, IN – The HI-FI

MAY 2022
1- Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
3 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
22 – Boise, ID – Neurolux
23 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
25 – Denver, CO – The Gothic
27 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
28 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
29 – Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory
31 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent

JUNE 2022
2 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
3 – Seattle, WA – Showbox

You can get tickets here.

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She explained: “For me, this experience was very troubling. It confronted me with the fact that I am also married. What does that detail from my private life say about me as an artist?  ‘Year of Love’ asks, who am I as an artist? Do my private actions betray my work and voice?”

The song’s video was directed by Hval, Jenny Berger Myhre, and Annie Bielski.

Speaking about the video, which you can watch below, the three said: “A sense of loss and joy intertwines in a world of disconnected rooms. The artist inhabits these rooms. She is frozen in time, space, and mid-vowel. She is aware of her immediate surroundings. She is aware that there is more beyond what she can see.

“A version of her exists in a compressed, compromised, and objectified state. She is sitting in a room, in a house, in a neighbourhood, in the art industry.”

Tracklist for ‘Classic Objects’
1. ‘Year of Love’
2. ‘American Coffee’
3. ‘Classic Objects’
4. ‘Cemetery of Splendour’
5. ‘Year of Sky’
6. ‘Jupiter’
7. ‘Freedom’
8. ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Owned’

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Hval’s new album was mixed by Heba Kadry and is described in a press release as “a map of places; past places, like the old empty Melbourne pubs Hval’s band used to play in, public places Hval missed throughout lockdown, imagined, future places, and impossible places where dreams, hallucinations, death and art can take you. It is interested in combining heavenly things and plain things.”

Speaking about the ideas behind the album, Hval said: “In 2020, like everyone else, I was just a private person. No artists were allowed to perform. I was reduced to ‘just me.’”

The experience led Hval to reflect on her life, including when she was 24 in Australia and diagnosed with celiac disease. The diagnosis affected the beginnings of her musical career.

“Although I would not say I have a disability, just an invisible complication, this revealed to me the impossible expectations of physical ableness from the music industry, or any industry relying upon a precarious workforce,” Hval explains. “It revealed to me how little the human experience and its diversity is valued in music, which in turn revealed that it’s not really a very sustainable or even relevant form of expression.”

The album will see Hval reflecting on her life after the pandemic hit, a time where her past and stories felt “completely stripped of value.”

Hval continues: “This made me want to write simple stories. My problem was that I found that the music component in the writing process made the words stray from their path and even jump into the absurd. I think it is just bound to happen when there is music involved. After all, a song isn’t just words, it has a melody, and the reason we have melodies is to step into the dark and jump off cliffs.”

Hval has also announced a series of tour dates – you can see the full dates below and buy tickets here.

MARCH
11 – OSLO, Munchmuseet
17 – BERGEN, NO, Kulturhuset | Bergen
18 – STAVANGER, NO, Tou Scene
26 – TRONDHEIM, NO, Dokkhuset

APRIL
5 – STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Fasching
6 – COPENHAGEN, Enmark, Bremen Teater
7 – BERLIN, Germany, Columbia Theater
9 – BRUSSELS, Belgium, BRDCST Festival
11 – LONDON, UK, EartH
13 – PARIS, France, La Gaîté Lyrique

MAY
9 – BOSTON, Arts at the Armory
10 – BROOKLYN, Elsewhere
11 – PHILADELPHIA, PhilaMOCA
13 – WASHINGTON, Miracle Theatre
14 – COLUMBUS, Skully’s
15 – CHICAGO, Constellation
16 May – CHICAGO, Constellation
17 May – TORONTO, Lee’s Palace
20 May – SEATTLE, Neumos
21 May – PORTLAND, Holocene
24 May – OAKLAND, Starline Social Club
25 May – LOS ANGELES, Lodge Room

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You can listen to it here:

Speaking about the track, Kerr said: “Over the years people have asked: ‘When did you think Simple Minds had the potential to make it?’ My stock answer was always: ‘Oh, we didn’t really think about that’. But I realise now that I wasn’t telling the truth. I believed we had something special as soon as I heard Charlie play the riff on ‘Act Of Love’.”

He added: “I was thinking about the excitement of what we were setting out to do. We would rehearse in the afternoon in a derelict building in the Gorbals and I’d walk past Govanhill Library, thinking about the idea of the muse: a voice within that will appear and provide inspiration.

“That’s what the song was about originally. Now I’m looking back, reflecting on how the belief was real. When Charlie played that riff, it made me think we could do this. From that belief becomes your attitude, your body language, the whole culture of the band.”

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The group are set to celebrate their 40th anniversary with a tour beginning this spring.

The full list of UK 2022 dates are listed below and you can buy tickets for the shows here.

MARCH
31 – London, SSE Arena Wembley

APRIL
1 – Bournemouth, Bournemouth International Centre
3 – Brighton, Brighton Centre
5 – Aberdeen, P&J Live
6 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
7 – Birmingham, Resorts World Arena
9 – Leeds, First Direct Arena
10 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, Utilita Arena
12 – Nottingham, Motorpoint Arena
14 – Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena
15 – Hull, Bonus Arena
16 – Liverpool, M&S Bank Arena
17 – Dublin, 3Arena

JUNE
18 – Woodstock, Blenheim Palace

AUGUST
09 – Belfast, Custom House Square Belfast
12 – Edinburgh, Princes Street Gardens

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He added: “I don’t want any of you to get sick either. The best chance I have to play live shows this tour is to push it out as far as I can in hopes that some shows can happen. I hate this. I know you do too.”

The tour will now begin on February 15 in Atlanta, Georgia, and in the time when the tour would have just begun, he’s now announced details of the new livestream.

T”HE GOOD NEWS? I’m doing what kinda show I can for the time being… so on Feb. 3rd, I’ll be doing the entire ’59 SOUND album front to back live at home!

“I’ll tell you stories and keep you company from my house to yours,” he added.

THE GOOD NEWS?
I'm doing what kinda show I can for the time being… so on Feb. 3rd, I'll be doing the entire '59 SOUND album front to back live at home! I'll tell you stories and keep you company from my house to yours.

Livestream tickets available at https://t.co/WajtgzZBKG

— Brian Fallon (@thebrianfallon) January 14, 2022

The Gaslight Anthem’s breakout album ‘The ’59 Sound’ came out in 2008, and a decade later, the New Jersey four-piece reunited to play it in its entirety on a world tour.

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Fallon’s last solo album, meanwhile, came in 2020 with ‘Local Honey’, a collaboration with Grammy Award-winning producer Peter Katis, known for his work with the likes of The National, Death Cab For Cutie, Interpol and Frightened Rabbit.

He will tour the album in the UK and Europe this spring, with dates beginning in Frankfurt in late April and a London date set for Shepherd’s Bush Empire on May 26.

See the dates below:

APRIL 2022
26 – Frankfurt, GER – Batschkap
27 – Hamburg, GER – Edel-Optics.de Arena
28 – Gothenburg, SWE – Pustervik
29 – Stockholm, SWE – Debaser Strand
30 – Copenhagen, DK – Lille Vega

MAY 2022
2 – Cologne, GER – Carlswerk Victoria
3 – Berlin, GER – Huxley’s
4 – Wien, AT – Ottakringer Braueri
5 – Stuttgart, GER – LKA Longhorn
6 – Munich, GER – Neue Theaterfabrik
7 – Nurnberg, GER – Loewensaal
8 – Milan, IT – Circolo Magnolia
10 – Zurich, CH – Komplex 457
12 – Barcelona, SP – Sala Apolo
13 – Madrid, SP – OCHOYMEDIO (Sala But)
14 – Cascante, SP – Estaciones Sonoras
16 – Paris, FR – Backstage
17 – Antwerp, BEL – Trix
18 – Utrecht, NL – TivoliVredenburg
20 – Norwich, UK – Waterfront
21 – Manchester, UK – Academy
22 – Leeds, UK – O2 Academy
24 – Glasgow, UK – SWG3
25 – Bristol, UK – O2 Academy
26 – London, UK – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
27 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Institute
28 – Nottingham, UK – Rock City

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Le Bon said of the song: “‘Remembering Me’ is a neurotic diary entry that questions notions of legacy and warped sentimentalism in the desperate need to self-mythologise.”

Its accompanying, sparse music video is directed by Juliana Giraffe and Nicola Giraffe of Giraffe Studios and features costumes by Monica Adriana Rowlands.

Of her sixth album, Le Bon said: “‘Pompeii’ was written and recorded in a quagmire of unease. Solo. In a time warp. In a house I had a life in 15 years ago. I grappled with existence, resignation and faith. I felt culpable for the mess but it smacked hard of the collective guilt imposed by religion and original sin.

“The subtitle is: You will be forever connected to everything. Which, depending on the time of day, is as comforting as it is terrifying. The sense of finality has always been here. It seems strangely hopeful. Someone is playing with the focus lens.”

She continued: “The world is on fire but the bins must go out on a Tuesday night. Political dissonance meets beauty regimes. I put a groove behind it for something to hold on to. The grief is in the saxophones.”

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Cate Le Bon also heads out on a UK and European tour later this year – see dates below.

MARCH
15 – London, UK @ Hackney Empire
16 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
17 – Glasgow, UK @ Queen Margaret Union
18 – Belfast, IE @ Empire Music Hall
19 – Dublin, IE @ The National Concert Hall
21 – Liverpool, UK @ Arts Club
22 – Leeds, UK @ Irish Centre
23 – Birmingham, UK @ The Mill
28 – Lille, FR @ L’Aeronef
29 – Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie
31 – Lyon, FR @ Epicerie Moderne

APRIL
01 – Zurich, CH @ Bogen F
02 – Schorndorf, DE @ Manufaktur
03 – Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz
05 – Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club
06 – Hamburg, DE @ Nochtspeicher
07 – Hus 7 / Slaktkyrkan @ Stockholm, SE
08 – Oslo, NO @ Parkteatre
09 – Copenhagen, DK @ Small Vega
11 – Brussels, BE @ AB Box
12 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso

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The band’s new single ‘Endless Summer’ was written on New Year’s Day 2020 and sees Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley of Teenage Fanclub provide harmonies.

Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan said of the track: “‘Endless Summer’ was written on New Year’s Day 2020 which was unseasonably warm here in North Carolina. Of course, by the time we recorded it, ‘Endless Summer’ had other meanings… The 7” sleeve features Roe Ethridge’s beautiful photos of broken beach umbrellas which capture the vibe of the song perfectly.”

You can listen to ‘Endless Summer’ below:

Teenage Fanclub released their 11th studio album, ‘Endless Arcade’, earlier this year, marking their first without founding bassist Gerard Love, who quit the band in 2018 after nearly three decades. It’s also the first to feature Euros Childs from Welsh alt-rock heroes Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, who joined Teenage Fanclub the same year.

“I think of an endless arcade as a city that you can wander through, with a sense of mystery, an imaginary one that goes on forever,” McGinley said of the album in a statement. “When it came to choosing an album title, it seemed to have something for this collection of songs.”

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The band will head out on a UK and Ireland tour next year, starting April 8th at Sheffield’s Leadmill. See the full list of dates below.

APRIL 2022
Friday 8 – Sheffield, Leadmill
Saturday 9 – Leeds, Beckett’s
Sunday 10 – Nottingham, Rock City
Tuesday 12 – Birmingham, Institute
Wednesday 13 – Norwich, Waterfront
Thursday 14 – Bath, Komedia
Saturday 16 – Brighton, Chalk
Sunday 17 – Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms
Wednesday 20 – Belfast, Empire Music Hall
Thursday 21 – Dublin, Academy
Saturday 23 – Gothenburg, Pustervik
Sunday 24 – Oslo, Vulkan
Monday 25 – Copenhagen, Pumpehuset
Wednesday 27 – Hamburg, Knust
Thursday 28 – Berlin, Columbia Theater
Friday 29 – Dusseldorf, Zakk

MAY 2022
Sunday 1 – Munich, Strom
Monday 2 – Mannheim, Alte Feuerwache
Wednesday 4 – Lyon, Epicerie Moderne
Thursday 5 – Nantes, Stereolux
Friday 6 – Rouen, Le 106
Saturday 7 – Paris, La Gaite Lyrique
Sunday 8 – Eindhoven, Effenaar
Monday 9 – Utrecht, De Helling

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Fans are already being encouraged to sign up for pre-sale tickets from today at 6am PST using Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan service.

Adele. CREDIT: Apple Music.

The Verified Fan Presale will begin next Tuesday, (December 7) at 10am PST. Fans can register here.

Rumours of a Las Vegas residency had been circulating in recent months, with the star said to be deciding between either the Park Theater at the Park MGM Las Vegas or the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

Reports of Adele’s potential Las Vegas residency first emerged in August, with a source telling the Mail On Sunday that the shows would be “hugely lucrative” for the singer. “It would make her a lot of money but it would also mean she could have a routine,” they said.

But she recently shot down rumours that she would be embarking on a Las Vegas residency in an interview with Rolling Stone, claiming at the time that there was “fucking nothing available” anyway.

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Meanwhile, the singer-songwriter’s new album ’30’ has opened at the top of the US charts, with 839,000 equivalent album units sold, according to MRC Data.

Adele will play:

JANUARY
21 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
22 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
28 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
29 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum

FEBRUARY
4 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
5 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
11 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
12 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
25 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
26 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum

MARCH
4 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
5 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
11 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
12 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
18 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
19 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
25 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
26 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum

APRIL
1 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
2 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
8 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
09 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
15 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum
16 – Las Vegas, The Colosseum

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The party will include games, performances, workshops, a tombola and the chance to win special prizes.

The #Merky books team are also donating 500 copies of their first children’s book, Superheroes: Inspiring Stories Of Secret Strength.

The comic strip-style book is a celebratory collection of modern-day heroes curated by Stormzy, including athlete Dina Asher-Smith, comedian Mo Gilligan, writer Candice Carty-Williams, Great British Bake Off star Liam Charles, and former footballer Ian Wright.

Tickets are only available to Croydon residents and there’s a limit of four tickets per household here.

Stormzy launched his charity in 2019, which followed the Stormzy Scholarship, an annual grant to fund black British students to go to the University of Cambridge.

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Meanwhile, the rapper rescheduled his UK and Ireland dates on his ‘H.I.T.H World Tour’ to 2022, last month.

The London MC had initially been set to tour in support of his 2019 second album ‘Heavy Is the Head’ in September 2020 but those dates were moved to April 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Those April dates were, however, postponed earlier this year due to the pandemic, and Stormzy has now confirmed that the gigs will take place in 2022.

Original tickets will remain valid for the new dates, with final and limited tickets available now from here and here. You can see Stormzy’s rescheduled live dates for 2022 below.

MARCH 2022
13 – Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff
15 – Utilita Arena, Newcastle Upon Tyne
16 – First Direct Arena, Leeds
18 – Utilita Arena, Sheffield
19 – AO Arena, Manchester
20 – M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool
21 – Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham
23 – Utilita Arena, Birmingham
24 – BIC, Bournemouth
27 – The O2 Arena, London [tickets from April 12, 2021 are valid]
28 –The O2 Arena, London [tickets from April 13, 2021 are valid]
29 –The O2 Arena, London [tickets from April 14, 2021 are valid]

APRIL 2022
01 – 3Arena, Dublin [tickets from April 2, 2021 are valid]
02 – 3Arena, Dublin [tickets from April 3, 2021 are valid]
04 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow

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• Stormzy

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