The Cure have announced their long-awaited new album.

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​Kylie has added extra dates to the UK leg of her Tension Tour due to pre-sale demand.

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Due to pre-sale demand, Coldplay have confirmed extra London shows for next summer as part of their Music of the Spheres World Tour.

If Katy Perry’s seventh album had been released in 2013, it’d have been everywhere. You’d dance to it non-stop in clubs, hear it non-stop on the radio, and slap down your hard-earned cash to sing your heart out at her mega-concerts. But ‘143’ wasn’t released back then. It’s been released now. And time isn’t kind to old ideas.

Jamie xx first appeared on the scene as one third of gloomy hipsters The xx, before establishing himself as a solo producer and DJ with his era-defining masterpiece ‘In Colour’ in 2015. As such, his second solo album has big shoes to fill, and the good news is that it pulls it off. ‘In Waves’ is a superb dance record, blending compositional chops, avant-garde arrangements and sampling to deliver a tapestry of terrific poise and hedonistic abandon.

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Shakira has released a new single, Soltera.

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The posthumous SOPHIE album has been released a little earlier than planned.

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Elisabeth Elektra has returned with a new single, Desire.

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The first line-up announcement for Hits Radio Live in Birmingham has arrived.

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Chase and Status will hit the road next spring for a UK arena tour. Chase and Status tickets go on general sale at 10am today.

With the news that Coldplay’s massive Music of the Spheres World Tour will continue into 2025 with more UK stadium shows next summer — at Hull’s Craven Park Stadium on August 18 and 19, before a record-breaking run of 10 shows at Wembley Stadium in London between August 22 and September 8 — it’s a good time to reflect on the marathon run’s place in the all-time list of blockbuster tours.

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Amyl And The Sniffers have released a new single, Big Dreams.

Jade Thirlwall has shared a new single, Midnight Cowboy.

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Rosalía has shared a new song, Omega.

Primal Scream have shared two new songs from their upcoming album.

Katherine Ryan has added three more London dates to her Battleaxe Tour.

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A new documentary titled Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will premiere on streaming services next month.

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Being one of rap’s first superstars does not make you impervious to the ravages of time and slipping taste. For the latter part of LL Cool J’s career, his stock has plummeted through a string of ropey records that failed to match the heights of early gems such as Mama Said Knock You Out or Mr. Smith. But, more than a decade on from his last offering he returns on ‘The FORCE’ — that stands for Frequencies of Real Creative Energy — sounding hungrier than ever.

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The Lumineers will return to the UK and Europe next spring.

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On ‘Someday, Now’, Katy J Pearson seems to have reinvented herself somewhat. The Bristol artist has traded the threads of Americana that held her first two albums together for bundles of ever so slightly sullen pop that have her audible self boldly sprawled across them.