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Reading & Leeds has announced a second wave of artists set to perform at the 2025 edition, with new names including Limp Bizkit, D-Block Europe and Heartworms. Check out the updated bill below.This year’s edition of the dual-festival is set to take place between August 21 and 24.

The Beta Band have been teasing some kind of reunion after appearing to be active on social media this past month.Formed in 1996 by Scottish musicians Steve Mason and Gordon Anderson, The Beta Band would go on to release three albums: 1999’s ‘The Beta Band’, 2001’s ‘Hot Shots II’ and 2004’s ‘Heros To Zeros’. They eventually broke up in 2004, explaining that they were £1.2 million in debt to their record company.Since the start of this month, The Beta Band have been active on social media.

Green Man Festival has announced its line-up for 2025 – see the poster and find all the details below.The independent music, science and arts event is due to take place in the Brecon Beacons, Wales between August 14-17. Tickets sold out in just one hour last September.Today (February 27), organisers unveiled the “mighty” bill for this year’s edition.

Latitude Festival has announced another wave of acts for its 2025 edition – check out the line-up below.The event is due to take place at Henham Park in Suffolk between July 24 and July 27. Sting, Fatboy Slim and Snow Patrol will headline, with Basement Jaxx billed as “very special guests”.Elsewhere on the bill are the likes of Elbow, Maribou State and Sigrid (who were all confirmed last November), as well as more recent additions like Air, Kaiser Chiefs and Reggie Watts.Today (February 27), organisers have revealed yet another batch of names for this summer’s Latitude.

LCD Soundsystem have announced a live London residency for this summer – you can find all the details below.The New York band are set to return to the capital in June for a run of eight shows at the O2 Academy Brixton. James Murphy and co.

Doves have shared a new single titled ‘A Drop In The Ocean’ – you can listen to it below.The track serves as the final preview of the band’s sixth studio album ‘Constellations For The Lonely’, which is set for release tomorrow (February 28) via EMI North (pre-order here).In a statement, drummer Andy Williams explained: “It’s a song about us being insignificant, which can be helpful to remember when you’re going through a tough time.“A problem can be so big in your head, but it can be comforting to remember how small we are in the grand scheme of things.”Guitarist Jez Williams added: “I brought the music but Jimi [Goodwin, frontman] completely did the verses.“I knew he had it in him, because he always has the words in him. He’s a great lyricist, the real deal.

Shack have announced their first gig in over a decade – check below for more details.The Liverpudlian outfit, made up of Michael Head and his brother John on guitar, Peter Wilkinson on bass and Mick Hurst on drums, debuted in 1988 with ‘Zilch’. Follow-up ‘Waterpistol’ arrived several years later in 1995 after all the masters of the album were destroyed in a fire at the band’s then-record label.They re-formed after a split, releasing ‘H.M.S Fable’ and ‘Here’s Tom With The Weather’, and later signed to Noel Gallagher’s Sour Mash label where they released ‘The Corner Of Miles and Gil’ in 2007.Head has since shared music with Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band, whose album ‘Dear Scott’ was released on The Coral‘s record label Modern Sky UK.After teasing an announcement earlier today (February 26), the band – who last played together again at a charity event in 2010 – took to social media to announce their first gig back in over a decade.A post shared by Shack (@shackbandofficial)They are set to play the Liverpool Olympia on Friday April 25.

New Order performed their classic single ‘State Of The Nation’ live for the first time since 1987 at a show in Japan last night (February 25). See the footage and setlist below.The Manchester band played an 18-track gig at the Zepp Namba venue in Osaka yesterday, ahead of a date at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo tomorrow (February 27).Midway through the main set, Bernard Sumner and co.

Pete Doherty has dropped a new song called ‘Calvados’ and announced a run of initiate in-store shows across the UK. Find out more below.Shared today (February 26), the new single marks the latest preview of the singer-songwriter’s upcoming solo album ‘Felt Better Alive’.

Everything Is Recorded have shared a new single featuring Florence Welch and Sampha – listen to ‘Never Felt Better’ below.The blissful track will appear on the third studio album from Everything Is Recorded – the collaborative music project of Richard Russell. Titled ‘Temporary’, the record is due for release this Friday (February 28) via XL (pre-order/pre-save here).‘Never Felt Better’ is described as a “transcendent, hymnal piece of music”, and is accompanied by an official music video by Kristian Mercado and Mela Murder.

The 1975 cannot be held personally and individually liable for the the losses sustained by Malaysian festival Good Vibes in 2023 – find out more below.The ruling comes amidst a court hearing between the band and festival organiser Future Sound Asia (FSA) – an argument for The 1975 being cleared of individual liability was heard by the Malaysian High Court last week.Per AP, London judge William Hansen has now said that FSA’s demand that The 1975’s members be liable for the losses they faced after the entire festival was shut down following The 1975’s performance and on-stage kiss are “bad as a matter of law and that there is no good reason why the matter should go to trial”.Judge Hansen has also allowed the case to proceed between The 1975’s company The 1975 Productions LLP – not as individuals – and FSA, but has order FSA to pay £100,000 in legal costs.Last summer news arose that the band were being sued for $2.4million (£1.9 million) by the festival organisers, Future Sound Asia (FSA).

Sparks have shared the latest single from their upcoming album ‘MAD!’ in the form of ‘JanSport Backpack’ – check it out below.The duo announced their 28th studio album last month and they have now confirmed that it will be released on May 23rd via Transgressive Records (pre-order/pre-save here). They had previously released the lead single ‘Do Things My Own Way’.Now, they have given fans a second taste of the record with the typically whimsical and infectious ‘JanSport Backpack’, a bittersweet tale of a woman dealing with a relationship that is on the rocks.

Marlon Williams has joined forces with Lorde for his new single ‘Kāhore He Manu E’ – check it out below.The track marks the latest preview of the singer-songwriter’s upcoming album ‘Te Whare Tīwekaweka’ – which is his first studio record to be recorded exclusively in Māori.For the single, he is joined by Lorde – real name Ella Yelich-O’Connor – and the song is described as a track that comes as “an ode to the colourful but grim wormhole of road life”, as well as the friends “made and lost” along the way.“‘Kāhore He Manu E’ was one of those gentle labours. It played itself out to me, easily and near complete from the first.

The Enemy have announced a massive 2025 UK tour set to kick off later this autumn as a way to “experiment with some of the new tunes”.The indie giants are set to kick off their run of dates with a gig on October 10 at the O2 Academy in Oxford. From there, they will make their way across the UK with stops in Margate, Cardiff, London, Wolverhampton and more.They will wrap up with a show on November 14 at HMV Empire in Coventry.

Lucy Rose has dropped the euphoric new single called ‘Pale Blue Eyes’, and shared details of a tour for next year. Check out the details below.Arriving today (February 25), the new track marks the singer-songwriter’s first material of 2025, and was recorded at Paul Weller’s studios in Surrey – the same space where she recorded much of her last album.Largely composed of piano, drums and bass, the song takes on a breezy jazz feel, and captures a sense of weightlessness and euphoria.“On the surface/ Was it worth it? / Under heartache. Underwater/ Cause you left me/ Left me stranded/ On an island/ Now I’m an island,” Lucy Rose sings in the atmospheric opening verse, gradually building to an uplifting chorus.“Pale blue eyes They don’t deceive me now/ They show me who I really am/ Not broken just begun/ Talk to me my pale blue eyes/ They see me crystal clear/ Never been so grateful for/ Those pale blue eyes.”Discussing the song in a new statement, she said: “The song, it’s a tricky one, took me a while to figure out what I wanted to say.“The chorus is very much about that one person who kept me believing in myself at my lowest time, who was of course, my little boy.

Franz Ferdinand have shared their orchestral rendition of Britney Spears‘ ‘Toxic’, marking the second time they have covered one of the pop icon’s tracks.While appearing as the latest guest on BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room at Maida Vale Studios in London, the ‘Take Me Out’ hitmakers covered Spears’ 2003 hit track with an orchestral section adding a theatrical element to the classic pop track.It comes roughly 16 years after Franz Ferdinand took on her track ‘Womanizer’ for BBC Radio 1 as part of their Live Lounge series.Speaking to Stereogum about their approach to taking on a cover, frontman Alex Kapranos said: “I like a good song. It’s that simple. I don’t care if the song is 60 years old or six days old — a good song is a good song.

Lush frontwoman, have returned with the acerbic new single ‘Big I Am’ – check it out below.The band, which also includes KJ ‘Moose’ McKillop and Oliver Cherer, are preparing to release their first album ‘Tripla’ on April 4 via Bella Union and so far have shared the singles ‘Vertigo’ and ‘8th Deadly Sin’.Now, they have given another teaser in the form of ‘Big I Am’, a dreamy, lightly psychedelic track that sees Berenyi take aim at toxic masculinity and the corrosive impact of social media influencers such as Andrew Tate.See the video for the song, directed by Sébastien Faits-Divers here:Explaining the inspiration for the track, Berenyi has said: “I’ve witnessed 50+ years of the trends in masculinity and frankly, nothing much changes – as ever, there are good men and there are shit men, and there are boys who can be misguided but easily mature into the best of their sex. But this latest incarnation of ‘winning’ the sex war is a laughably infantile and willfully regressive new low.”Berenyi recently spoke about Lush splitting up after their reunion gigs in 2016, saying that the difficult relationship she had with singer/guitarist Emma Anderson led to a falling out.“Sometimes it was great.

LCD Soundsystem appear to be teasing an upcoming London show with a series of projections. See the posts below.The promos have popped up in Shoreditch, east London.

Liam Gallagher jokingly teasing the length of the upcoming Oasis reunion shows.Since the tour was announced at the end of the summer, fans across the world have been eager to nab tickets to the upcoming Oasis comeback shows, and the intense scramble for tickets has even led to discussion around pricing going to the UK parliament.Now, with the first leg of the tour set to kick off across the UK and Ireland later this summer, fans have begun debating how long each set will last for. With a new update on social media, the frontman has gotten involved in the discussion, and posted an update jokingly providing an exact plan.On X/Twitter, a fan got in touch with Gallagher to write: “Liam some people believe Oasis gigs will last only one hour, tell em you were joking”.

English Teacher have announced their biggest UK headline tour yet for 2025. Find all the details below.The Leeds band, who are nominated for Best New Artist at this weekend’s BRITs, are due to hit the road again this November.They’ll take to the stage in Nottingham, Newcastle, Glasgow and Manchester before playing a homecoming show at Leeds’ O2 Academy on November 22.

Billy Corgan has addressed his previous claims he didn’t “get the credit” for being the creator of the musical landscape for bands such as Muse.Back in 2015 while speaking to Gigwise, the Smashing Pumpkins legend opened up about how he felt that he didn’t get the respect he deserved as a musician.“I wrote more hits than anybody of my generation, and I am not seen as a songwriter,” he said at the time. “I helped launch a bunch of people playing in guitar bands, Muse being a perfect example.”Corgan continued: “I don’t get credit for that.