Frank Skinner has extended his 30 Years Of Dirt Tour into the autumn and winter.

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Alfie Templeman has shared a new single, Beckham.

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Jack Garratt has announced a live album.

Ricky Gervais has confirmed eight more Ricky Gervais & Friends new material shows.

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James Blunt has announced a run of UK and European arena shows for early 2025.

Festival season is almost upon us (again) so it’s time to dust off your tent/flags/Doc Martens/wellies/fold-away chair/cooler/camping stove/disregard for societal norms and get back in a field. Here’s our one-stop selection of the best this year has to offer.

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Kaytranada has announced a new album.

Amy and the Sniffers are back with a new track.

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We tend to become needlessly philosophical whenever a beloved musician dies just before releasing new music, joining dots in a manner that amounts to pareidolia — the human instinct to find meaning in the random. Sure, David Bowie famously made some allusions to his death on ‘Blackstar’, but that was the exception that proves the rule.

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Lindsey Stirling has announced UK and European shows for the autumn.

Jack Dee has announced a new UK stand-up tour.

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Over 50 new acts have joined the line-up for Ireland's All Together Now festival.

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Life hasn’t got any more chipper for doom metal experimentalists Pallbearer. On their previous album, 2020’s ‘Forgotten Days’, the Arkansas four-piece wrote lyrics lamenting the experience of watching family members live with Alzheimer’s and die of cancer. Four years later, ‘Mind Burns Alive’ offers even more unfettered melancholy: its six songs together form an anthology about “people in various stages of mental distress”.

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Zedd has announced his first album in nine years.

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Declan McKenna has announced a run of UK shows for the summer.

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Neil Young has announced an album of previously unreleased Crazy Horse material.

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Justin Timberlake has added nine final US dates to The Forget Tomorrow World Tour.

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Hard-Fi have scheduled the Don't Go Making Plans Tour for the autumn.

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Jet have announced a UK and Ireland tour for the autumn.

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Bob Vylan have announced the Humble As The Sun Tour of the UK for the autumn.