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The Wombats are to play their biggest ever hometown show at Liverpool’s On The Waterfront next summer.The indie trio will headline the festival at Pier Head on June 19, with other night’s lineups being topped by Irish rebel music legends The Wolfe Tones, the 50-piece Classical Ibiza Kaleidoscope Orchestra and Sting.Tickets for The Wombats’ day at the festival, which will also feature performances from Pale Waves, Sawyer Hill and other acts to be confirmed, are on sale now and you can find yours here.A post shared by On The Waterfront Liverpool (@otwfliverpool)Writing about the show on Instagram, the band have said: “Liverpool did you think we’d forgotten about you?!! As if! We’re so excited to announce that we’re playing a huge hometown show, back where it all began, on the 19th June 2025 at the Pier Head!! It’s going to be a special night.”The date joins the previously announced UK arena tour the band will be playing in March next year, which includes dates in Nottingham, London’s O2, Cardiff, Manchester, Glasgow and Leeds. See full details of the shows here and find remaining tickets here.The band are preparing to release their sixth album ‘Oh! The Ocean’ on February 21, which they have previewed with the single ‘Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come’.

The Wombats have announced a huge outdoor UK show with Doves and Hard-Fi – find all the details below.The Liverpool band, whose sixth album ‘Oh! The Ocean’ arrived in February, will perform at Englefield House in Pangbourne near Reading, Berkshire on Thursday July 17. It’ll come as part of this year’s Heritage Live summer gig series.They are joined on the line-up by special guests Doves, Hard-Fi and Alfie Templeman.Tickets go on general sale at 9am BST next Thursday (April 10) – you’ll be able to buy yours here.

PUP have announced a new album, ‘Who Will Look After The Dogs?’ and released a new single, ‘Hallways’.The band’s new single follows their recent single ‘Paranoid’ and finds frontman Stefan Babcock mourning a break-up – “The first night without you/I collapsed on the living room floor/What the hell am I gonna do if I can never see you anymore?”Babcock also references the album’s title in the second verse – “I’m losing the will to keep dragging on/But I can’t die yеt ’cause who will look after the dog?”The album, PUP’s fifth LP, will be released on May 2 via Little Dipper/Rise. It is the follow-up to 2022’s ‘The Unraveling of PUPTheBand’.“Within days of announcing our last album, coincidentally titled ‘The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND’, my life unexpectedly imploded. I wrote the lyrics for ‘Hallways’ while all that was going on.

PUP have shared their new single ‘Paranoid’ and have announced the details of their 2025 UK and European tour.Produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Lana Del Rey, Wallows), the raging track ‘Paranoid’ features trashing drums, fiery guitars and frontman Stefan Babcock’s strong vocals.

Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry has recalled how she was once surrounded onstage by a group of Hell’s Angels.Speaking in new interview with The Sunday Times, the star said that the incident culminated in her being dragged off stage by guitarist Chris Stein.She said: “I was on stage once when a bunch of Hell’s Angels took it over. I kept singing away but all of a sudden Chris yanked me off. Everyone was worried but I wasn’t.

Blondie are set to release a brand-new album in 2025, produced by John Congleton.The Debbie Harry-fronted band shared their 11th and most recent studio record, ‘Pollinator’, back in 2017.It was produced by the Grammy-winning Congleton (St. Vincent, Phoebe Bridgers, The War On Drugs), with the likes of Charli XCX, Johnny Marr, Dev Hynes and The Strokes‘ Nick Valensi credited as co-writers.Now, it has been confirmed by Blondie co-founder and guitarist Chris Stein that the NYC group have worked with Congleton once again on their forthcoming 12th LP.

The Wombats have shared their sombre new single ‘My Head Is Not My Friend’ from their upcoming album ‘Oh! The Ocean’.Featuring a slow tempo with a soft bass line and frontman Matthew ‘Murph’ Murphy’s sweet vocals singing the vulnerable and relatable lyrics: “Let’s spend the day in bed / Talk about you instead / My head is not my friend,” The Liverpudlian band’s latest single discusses one’s internal struggles with themselves and not being the nicest to ones self.Speaking about ‘My Head Is Not My Friend’ in a press release, Murphy shared: “‘My Head Is Not My Friend’ is a song about the idea that maybe I don’t actually have my best interests at heart.”The song’s accompanying visualiser features a mannequin head that has been set on fire in the middle of a winter snowstorm. Check out the video above.‘My Head Is Not My Friend’ marks the third single to be released from The Wombats’ upcoming sixth studio album ‘Oh! The Ocean’, following on from the previously released ‘Blood On The Hospital Floor’ and lead single ‘Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come’.Produced by John Congleton (St.Vincent, Death Cab For Cutie), ‘Oh! The Ocean’ marks their first since topping the UK album chart with 2022’s ‘Fix Yourself, Not The World’ and headlining the Radio One tent at Reading & Leeds 2024 and was inspired by a revelatory experience Murphy had on a beach during a family holiday this summer.Speaking to NME about the inspiration for the album, Murphy shared: “I’d had a particularly funky morning and didn’t sleep well.

Mogwai have announced their 11th studio album, ‘The Bad Fire’ – listen to new single ‘Lion Rumpus’ below.The Glasgow band are due to release the 10-track record on January 24 via Rock Action – you can pre-order/pre-save it here. Following on from 2021’s ‘As The Love Continues’, the forthcoming project has already been previewed with the song ‘God Gets You Back’.‘The Bad Fire’ was produced by Grammy-winner John Congleton (St.

The Murder Capital have shared a new single called ‘Can’t Pretend To Know’ and announced a UK headline tour for 2025.The Dublin band’s first track of 2024 is an intense burst of energy, containing electrifying guitar riffs and pummeling drums.Recorded in LA with producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten), the song ushers in a “new era” for the group – which promises newfound “focus and clarity”, according to a press release.In a statement, frontman James McGovern explained: “‘Can’t Pretend To Know’ is a whip of a tune that we made to feel like a hurricane of colour and breathlessness.“A surreal look at childhood innocence and all its replacers, those delicate bridges we burn as we move through the strangeways of our youth.

title track which arrived in August. Speaking of ‘I Don’t Know You’ in a press release, the band said: “This is simply a song about having a crush. About the excitement and playful fantasy that can come from meeting someone unexpectedly at a festival, or on the street, or in line at the grocery store.”They continued: “You don’t know when you’ll see them again but the rush of their possibility lingers, making you yearn to know more about them.” Directed by Mason Mercer and Anthony Miralles, the song’s accompanying video features the band performing in a barn.

Sleater-Kinney have shared details of their new album ‘Little Rope’ and a tour in support of it alongside the release of lead single ‘Hell’.The Washington, US-formed indie rockers release their 11th album on January 19 via Loma Vista Recordings (pre-order here).Today (October 3) the duo comprising Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein have also shared the accompanying music video for ‘Hell’ directed by Ashley Connor (The Miseducation Of Cameron Post), which stars actress and Kajillionaire filmmaker Miranda July.‘Hell’, which was recorded at Flora Recording and Playback in Portland, Oregon with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton, is being released against the backdrop of a family tragedy.In autumn 2022, Brownstein received a call from Tucker, who herself had just received a call from the American embassy in Italy. Years earlier, Brownstein has listed Tucker as her emergency contact on a passport form, and while she had since changed her phone number, Tucker hadn’t.The embassy staff were desperately trying to reach Brownstein to inform her that her mother and stepfather had been killed in a car crash while holidaying in Italy.Press material notes that although some of the album had already been written, aspects of each song (e.g. a guitar solo, the singing style, sonic approaches) were approached with grief hanging heavy.See the tracklist and artwork for ‘Little Rope’, as well as all of Sleater-Kinney’s upcoming live shows below.‘Little Rope’ tracklist:01. ‘Hell’02. ‘Needlessly Wild’03. ‘Say It Like You Mean It’04. ‘Hunt You Down’05. ‘Small Finds’06. ‘Don’t Feel Right’07. ‘Six Mistakes’08. ‘Crusader’09. ‘Dress Yourself’10. ‘Untidy Creature’Tickets for the 2024 North American tour shows go on sale this Friday (October 6)

I got heaven inside of me / And I’m an angel / I was sent here / To keep you company / I’m on an endless march to nothingness /With only breath inside my chest,” vocalist Marisa Dabice erupts in the track.The track was produced by indie rock producer John Congleton, and also comes alongside a nature-inspired music video directed by Mason Mercer and Anthony Miralles. Watch it below.“‘I Got Heaven’ is a song intended to merge the sacred and the profane and to serve as a reminder that we are all perfect exactly as we have been made and that no one gets to decide how a life should or should not be lived,” Dabice said, explaining the meaning behind the new single.“Heaven is here on a planet that gave us everything we needed to survive.

Death Cab For Cutie have released new single ‘An Arrow In The Wall’ along with a B-side remix from Chvrches.The new track, produced by John Congleton, is available to listen to now or order on a two-side, 12-inch single vinyl from here.“‘An Arrow In the Wall’ is about the warning signs all around us in the 21st century that society-at-large is in decay,” said vocalist and guitarist Ben Gibbard in a press statement. “The arrow lodged in the wall might have missed this time, but it would be naive to assume the next one won’t also.”He added of the synthy remix from the Scottish trio: “We have been good friends with Chvrches since touring together in 2019.

Tegan and Sara have shared a new single called ‘Faded Like A Feeling’ – you can listen to it below.The emotional track will appear on the Canadian duo’s 10th studio album ‘Crybaby’, which is due for release on October 21 via Mom + Pop Music.“I wrote the song last summer/fall under the spell of the changing seasons,” read a statement on the band’s official Instagram page. “It began as a love song then evolved into more of a loss song.”The message continued: “Just as the seasons can’t stop themselves from changing, nor can I; nor can anyone else.

Tegan and Sara has welcomed her first child with her partner.Taking to the duo’s official Instagram yesterday (August 2), the Canadian musician shared a photo she’d taken in the mirror of herself cradling her new baby.“My #crybaby,” she captioned the post, referencing Tegan and Sara’s recently-announced 10th album.Check out the image below.A post shared by Tegan and Sara (@teganandsara)Tegan and Sara are due to release ‘Crybaby’ – the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Hey, I’m Just Like You’ – on October 21 via Mom+Pop Music. The band have already previewed the project with the songs ‘Yellow’ and ‘Fucking Up What Matters’.

Tegan and Sara have returned with a new single called ‘Fucking Up What Matters’ – you can listen to it below.The track marks the first material from the Canadian duo since they signed to the New York indie label Mom+Pop Music, which is also home to the likes of Courtney Barnett, Sleater-Kinney and Lucius.Produced by John Congleton (Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen, Future Islands), ‘Fucking Up What Matters’ serves as a taste of Tegan and Sara’s 10th studio album, the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Hey, I’m Just Like You’.“‘Fucking Up What Matters’ felt like an ode to the moment in your life when you realise that you have most, if not all of the things you wanted and you start to think about what would happen if you just walked away from it all,” explained Tegan Quin.“It’s the moment in the middle of the night when you start to daydream about something else, something you never imagined.”She continued: “It’s the feeling you have when you think you might have hit a new low, and yet you’ve never felt so good. Sometimes it’s admitting that you can’t stop yourself from fucking up what matters, that you feel your strongest.“And as my mom would say, it’s often when we’re fucking up what matters, that we’re learning the most about ourselves.”Tegan and Sara signed to Sire/Warner ahead of releasing their fifth record, 2007’s ‘The Con’.

Ezra Furman has shared a new song – her first for the year – titled ‘Point Me Toward the Real’. The track was produced by John Congleton, and features horn arrangements by Nate Walcott of Bright Eyes along with backing vocals from Shannon Lay and Debbie Neigher.It’s a slow-burning ballad that tells a story about the narrator’s first night after being released from a psychiatric facility.

Regina Spektor has announced her new album ‘Home, Before And After’ and shared the single ‘Becoming All Alone’ – you can hear the track below.The forthcoming LP, which will be her eighth studio album, is the follow-up to the US artist’s September 2016 album ‘Remember Us To Life’.Described in a press release as Spektor’s “most quintessentially ‘New York’ [record] in decades”, ‘Home, Before And After’ was recorded in upstate New York and produced by Spektor and John Congleton.‘Home, Before And After’ is set for release on June 24 via Warner. You can hear the record’s first single, ‘Becoming All Alone’, in the below lyric video.You can see the tracklist for Regina Spektor’s ‘Home, Before And After’ below, and pre-order the album here.01 ‘Becoming All Alone’02 ‘Up the Mountain’03 ‘One Man’s Prayer’04 ‘Raindrops’05 ‘SugarMan’06 ‘What Might Have Been’07 ‘Spacetime Fairytale’08 ‘Coin’09 ‘Loveology’10 ‘Through a Door’Spektor will perform tracks from ‘Home, Before And After’ during a special live show at New York’s Carnegie Hall in April, before a run of dates in Utah and Colorado in July.

Brandon Boyd has shared a new animated video for his latest single, ‘A Better Universe’ – you can watch it below.Produced by John Congleton, the rousing new track is the fourth to be lifted from the Incubus frontman’s upcoming new solo album, ‘Echoes And Cocoons’.In a statement explaining the inspiration behind ‘A Better Universe’, Boyd said: “Did you ever encounter someone so far gone in their malignant narcissism and self aggrandizing, self assured egomania that all you could do was take a deep breath and walk away? Of course you have, you see a potential ‘them’ in the mirror each day.“Have you ever wished that that ‘someone’ would die? Would that even solve the problem? For if they found an audience so eager and ready to glutton themselves on the message, could it not be argued that there will be yet another wolf in wolf’s clothing waiting in the wings to rush in and fill that void? I found myself in the teeth of this dilemma recently and I struggled with the ethical problem that was clinging to its heels. Then, shortly after locking horns with this philosophical bull, I met the person whom I’d come to this unfortunate impasse with in a dream.”Boyd then went on to quote some of the song’s lyrics: “I met you in a dream, and in the dream you died/ I slow danced on your grave, and I got all teary eyed/ I woke up with a smile, wiped the tears away/ I wished that it were real/ So it goes, so I’ll say, I’m sorry but it’s a better universe without you in it/ Did you read the book or did you just see the movie?/ Every breath you take is just a waste of air.”“Do I wish ill upon my fomenter? I do not.

Incubus‘ Brandon Boyd has announced the release of a new solo single entitled ‘Pocket Knife’.The forthcoming track, which is set to arrive on November 19, is the lead single from Boyd’s new album ‘Echoes And Cocoons’. The follow-up to 2013’s ‘Sons Of The Sea’ is produced by Grammy Award-winning producer and engineer John Congleton.Discussing the album in a recent interview with NME, Boyd said: “It’s really cool.