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Fontaines D.C. have added another date to their UK and Ireland tour.The post-punk band will now play Nottingham’s Rock City on November 22, which is half way through their 24-date tour this autumn and winter.Tickets for the new show go on general sale this Friday (September 2) from 10am BST here.

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has revealed that he composed the soundtrack for the second season of BBC drama The Capture.The first episode of the six-part season aired last night (August 28) with the second coming tonight (August 29), following on from a first season in 2019.Sharing the news of his score, Rowntree tweeted: “Watching the new series of The Capture tonight with friends. Hope you are too! Score by lil ol me and [Ian Arber].”A synopsis of the new season reads: “Escalating from the CCTV thriller of season one, this brand new six-part series sees DCI Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) in the middle of a new conspiracy – with a new target, MP Isaac Turner (Paapa Essiedu).“‘Invisible’ assassins, the terrifying rise of deepfake technology, the ever-growing tension between government and Big Tech and corruption at the heart of the British media… don’t miss the return of one of the year’s most anticipated dramas.”Watching the new series of The Capture tonight with friends.

The National played a surprise, secret acoustic set at Edinburgh’s Connect Festival in memory of Frightened Rabbit‘s Scott Hutchison – see footage below.Yesterday (August 28) festival-goers were alerted to the message, “Secret set added – 7.45pm at the Tiny Changes x Gardeners Cottage”, and soon discovered that The National’s Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner were performing at the Scottish festival’s new stage to pay tribute to their late friend.The band, who were headlining the festival, played ‘Sorrow’ and ‘About Today’, telling the crowd for the latter track, “Whenever we play this one we think of Scott,” and singing the words, “Today…You were far away…and I… Didn’t ask you why“.The Tiny Changes x Gardeners Cottage was set up at the festival in association with Tiny Changes, the charity for supporting young people’s mental health that was set up in memory of Hutchison who died by suicide in 2018.It’s Scotland’s first national children and young people’s mental health charity and raised more than £4,500 during the course of the festival weekend.Scott performed at the original Connect Festival in 2006 on a similar stage.Aaron Dessner of The National said: “Thank you so much, it’s a pleasure to support Tiny Changes. Scott was a really close friend of ours, and like you guys, we were huge fans of Frightened Rabbit.“We were devastated when he left.

The Killers on stage last night (August 27) to perform the Fleetwood Mac classic ‘Go your Own Way’.Performing at Los Angeles’ Banc of California Stadium, The Killers surprised fans by bringing out Buckingham for the encore. Together, they gave a rendition of Fleetwood Mac’s 1976 single ‘Go Your Own Way’, lifted from the iconic band’s 11th studio album, ‘Rumours’.Fan-shot footage of the performance show Buckingham and The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers sharing vocal duties.

Frightened Rabbit drummer Grant Hutchison performed live with The Twilight Sad at their Scottish festival show yesterday (August 27) – see footage below.The Scottish band – who collaborated with Frightened Rabbit on a number of occasions – were playing the Connect Festival in their homeland on Saturday, and were joined by Hutchison on drums.Back in April, The Twilight Sad covered Frightened Rabbit’s ‘Keep Yourself Warm’ with Grant, a song that the band have regularly covered at shows since their close friend, Frightened Rabbit frontman and Grant’s brother, Scott Hutchison, died by suicide in 2018.Sharing a photo from the Connect Festival performance, Grant also threw back to 15 years prior, sharing a photo of Scott performing with Twilight Sad frontman James Graham.See the post and footage of the performance at Connect below.A post shared by Grant Hutchison (@grabbit)Speaking to NME in 2019, Graham discussed how singing Scott’s Frightened Rabbit songs on stage and on record helped to keep him connected to his friend.“When Scott passed away, there were so many messages, memories and story about him on the internet,” he said. “They were beautiful things, and people said so many amazing things about Scott, but I couldn’t do it.

This story contains descriptions of attempted suicide and alleged sexual misconduct.Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler has been accused of sexual misconduct by four people, allegations which he denies.In a new investigation from Pitchfork, four people – who were between 18 and 23-years-old at the time of the alleged interactions between 2015 and 2020 and asked to use pseudonyms when sharing their stories – accused Butler of “inappropriate” actions.In a lengthy statement shared with Pitchfork – which you can read in full below – Butler said he was “very sorry to anyone who I have hurt with my behaviour” but that “these relationships were all consensual”.He added: “I fucked up, and while not an excuse, I will continue to look forward and heal what can be healed, and learn from past experiences.”Butler’s wife and Arcade Fire bandmate Régine Chassagne also shared her own statement, in which she said: “I know he has never, and would never, touch a woman without her consent and I am certain he never did.”Included in the story is an allegation from ‘Lily’ (they/them), who alleges that, after meeting him at a concert in Montreal at the start of 2015, Butler touched her non-consensually while in a car, and gave them a kiss that they “I did not ask for”.Lily then alleged that, at a further meeting at their apartment, Butler “pinned me up against the wall and was aggressively grabbing my body and sticking his tongue down my throat” which they say was “so not OK in the context” and referred to as “manipulation”.

Fontaines D.C. invited a fan to play guitar with them on stage during their Reading Festival set tonight – see footage below.The Irish band were playing on the festival’s Main Stage this evening ahead of Arctic Monkeys, and spotted a fan named Dexter in the crowd holding a sign aloft asking to play guitar with them.Granting the request, the fan then hopped on stage and joined the band for a rendition of their hit ‘Boys In The Better Land’.Elsewhere in their set, Fontaines played hits from their three studio albums, opening with ‘A Lucid Dream’ and ending with ‘I Love You’.See footage of the fan joining them on stage for ‘Boys In The Better Land’ and their full Reading Festival setlist below.A post shared by Andrew Trendell (@andrewtrendell)And then they brought on this legend to rip guitar for them.

The National returned to London last night (August 26) to headline All Points East 2022 – watch them perform new single ‘Weird Goodbyes’ with Fleet Foxes‘ Robin Pecknold below.‘Weird Goodbyes’ was released last week and features Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon on vocals. While introducing Pecknold, The National’s Aaron Dessner said that their friend and collaborator had never sung the song before.Elsewhere in the set, The National played another new song – ‘Tropic Morning News (Haversham)’ – and hits from across their back catalogue.Watch them play ‘Weird Goodbyes’ with Robin Pecknold and see the full setlist below.The National have been performing ‘Weird Goodbyes’ live since late May. They played it for the first time in Pamplona, Spain on May 28 – the first National show in three years – where it was billed on the setlist as ‘Bathwater (Mount Auburn)’.Speaking in a statement about ‘Weird Goodbyes’, The National’s Matt Berninger said: “It’s about letting go of the past and moving on, then later being overwhelmed by second thoughts.”On the process of making the single, the band’s Aaron Dessner added: “‘Weird Goodbyes’ was one of the first new songs we made.

Stranger Things star Joe Keery has shared a new single under his Djo moniker – listen to ‘Figure You Out’ below.Djo is set to release his second album, titled ‘DECIDE’, on September 16. The record follows 2019 debut album ‘Twenty Twenty’, and has been previewed by the singles ‘Gloom’ and ‘Change’.Prior to his solo Djo project, Keery was part of the Chicago rock band Post Animal, but parted ways with the psychedelic group in 2019 due to acting commitments.

Bartees Strange is the latest to drop a single exclusively on Amazon Music, putting his blues-imbued folk spin on Freddie Gibbs’ ScHoolboy Q-assisted single ‘Gang Signs’.For his new take on the song, the Ipswich, England-born, Oklahoma-raised indie-rocker locks into the feel of the original track’s gentle, groove-driven instrumental. He reappropriates the melody with crisp and roomy electric guitars, noodling away while he emulates Gibbs’ biting swagger with his rapped verses.In a Tweet shared upon the track’s release, Strange said he “loved covering this song by two of the hardest”.

Michael Kiwanuka has shared a gripping new video for track ‘Beautiful Life’ – check it out below.The song was released earlier this year and featured on the Netflix documentary Convergence: Courage In A Crisis, directed by the Oscar winning director Orlando von Einsiedel.The new video is directed by the American director Phillip Youmans. Speaking of the collaboration, Youmans said: “This story is a cautionary tale about our nation’s easy access to, and fascination with, guns.“We follow teenagers playing Russian roulette with a parent’s revolver. As each player holds the gun up to their temple, their lives flash before their eyes.

Jake Bugg has shared a video for previously unreleased track ‘It’s True’ today (August 26) – check it out below.The video is shared ahead of the previously announced 10th anniversary of his self titled debut album. The Nottingham musician released his first LP, which featured such songs as ‘Lightning Bolt’, ‘Two Fingers’ and ‘Trouble Town’, on October 15, 2012.That is now set to get a special deluxe edition release on 2LP black vinyl, Limited Edition 2LP, Gold Vinyl and a 3CD.The CD edition will feature the remastered album, 16 unreleased bonus tracks including a Rick Rubin version of ‘Broken’, and the full performance of his concert at the Royal Albert Hall from 2014, being made available physically and digitally for the first time.The special deluxe edition is released on October 14 and you can pre-order here.You can watch the new video for ‘It’s True’ here:Speaking about the anniversary release, Bugg said: “I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since album one.“Time has flown so fast so it’s been a real pleasure to go through the old unreleased tracks, videos and photographs and put this box set together. I love the end result and I hope you will too.”Bugg has also announced a special hometown show at Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena on November 26, with tickets on sale now from here.According to a press release, Bugg will play ‘Jake Bugg’ in its entirety at the gig, as well as an acoustic set and an electric set showcasing songs from his four other studio albums.

Harry Styles has extended his ‘Love On Tour’ into 2023, adding new UK and European gigs with Wet Leg – see the full list of gigs below, and find tickets here.The singer is currently on tour behind third solo album ‘Harry’s House’, and playing multi-night residencies across North America. Tonight (February 26), he plays the fourth of 15 nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden.Two new gigs (October 3 at Austin’s Moody Center and October 15 at Chicago’s United Center) have now been added to that run of dates, with new shows in Lima, Peru (November 29) and São Paulo, Brazil (December 13) also added to a subsequent South American tour.In early 2023, he will then head to Australia and New Zealand, before beginning the newly announced UK and European tour in Horsens, Denmark on May 13.Five new UK gigs have been announced for the tour, including two new dates at London’s Wembley Stadium (June 13-14), a venue Styles already played twice this summer.Support for the UK and European gigs will come from Wet Leg, with Inhaler also joining at a huge Irish show.Tickets for the new UK and European shows will go on sale on Friday, September 2 at 10am local time.

MGMT are set to return with new music this year, according to frontman Andrew VanWyngarden.The New York-based duo last released an album with 2018’s ‘Little Dark Age’, which NME named one of the best albums of that year, writing: “After more than a decade of insularity, MGMT have thrown open the doors and welcomed you back into their world. In doing so, they’ve had to engage with our messy, unpalatable reality.”Since then, the band have been largely quiet, though appeared in feature spots on The Avalanches‘ star-studded recent album ‘We Will Always Love You’ and ColaBoyy’s track ‘Kid Born In Space’.In a new post on his official Reddit account, VanWyngarden has appeared to confirm that the band’s “drought” will end this year, and that they’re on the way back with new music.After a fan on the MGMT Reddit page guessed at a title for their forthcoming fifth album, VanWyngarden replied: “We have a working title!”Of progress on the record, he added: “There are irons in the fire and we have been busy.

Manic Street Preachers have shared a previously unheard song called ‘Studies In Paralysis’ with an official video by Kieran Evans – check that out below.The song appears on the band’s forthcoming expanded and remastered version of 2001 album ‘Know Your Enemy’, which will be released on September 9 and can be pre-ordered here.The album will be divided into two albums across two disks, ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Door To The River’. The three CD format of the release, also includes a disk of unreleased demos.Of the video for ‘Studies In Paralysis’, director Kieran Evans said: “It started with an email from [Nicky] Wire (it always does!).  Would I be up for working on visualising two unheard tracks from the ‘Know Your Enemy’ sessions that were to feature in the beautifully expanded and reworked re-issue of the album?  Of course I would!  Both ‘Rosebud’ and ‘Studies In Paralysis’ landed an hour later and were stunning and took my breath away.

Noah Cyrus has teamed up with Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard on a collaborative new single, ‘Every Beginning Ends’ – listen below.The song will appear on Cyrus’ debut studio album ‘The Hardest Part’, which is due for release on September 16 via Records/Columbia.Recorded at Gibbard’s studio in Seattle, Washington, the joint track is a romantic acoustic ballad that explores the end of a relationship.“You have to wake up every morning/ And choose to love someone/ But i’m finding that harder/ The more that I’m falling out of love with you,” the pair sing together on ‘Every Beginning Ends’.In a statement (via Stereogum), Cyrus said it was a “surreal” and “daunting” experience to work with Gibbard. “I’ve always been such a huge fan,” she explained.“Once we got to work it all came very naturally.

Arlo Parks has covered Julia Jacklin‘s ‘Good Guy’ for Australian radio station triple j’s Like a Version segment.Parks’ take on Jacklin’s 2019 ‘Crushing’ cut – filmed while she was in the country for a tour that included Gang of Youths‘ A More Perfect Union festival – stays relatively faithful to the original, filling it out with warm synths.“I chose to cover ‘Good Guy’ because there’s this really distinct sense of melancholy mixed with a little touch of funniness,” the singer-songwriter said during a post-performance interview.“With this song in particular, it’s the kind of brokenness and the sense of defeat in her voice that I wanted to bring out. Also, the recording is so incredible, I wanted it to be live instruments and I wanted it to be in a band scenario.”She continued: “I guess what I did to make it my own is channel my experiences of a similar scenario when I sing it.

Girlpool have announced their imminent disbandment, confirming that their upcoming North American tour – of which they’ve also cancelled roughly two thirds – will serve as their last run of shows altogether.“After nine years, we have decided to take a break from Girlpool and go our separate ways as songwriters,” the band, consisting of Avery Tucker and Harmony Tividad (who both sang and played guitar and bass) wrote in a statement. “This upcoming tour will be our last one – it will be an ode to the past, a celebration for the future and something we will pour both of our hearts into completely.”The pair went on to assure fans that there is no bad blood between them, declaring: “We are each other’s biggest fans and always encourage each other to stretch and evolve, whether that means it’s alongside one another or not.”Girlpool were due to begin their North American tour in Sacramento, however that show (booked in for  September 6) has now been cancelled, alongside 14 other shows on the run.

Moses Sumney has unveiled details of a new concert film before announcing his break from music.Sumney was this week revealed to be part of The Weeknd’s upcoming HBO series The Idol and has now today (August 25) unveiled a new concert film called A Performance In V Acts that covers his gig at the Ford Theater in Los Angeles on October 31. After that, he also announced his upcoming break from music.He said in a statement that the new concert film “marks the official end of the græ album cycle.”He continued: “It’s a capsule of our headline show since we will not be touring the album after all,” he wrote. “This film also ushers in a new period of creativity for me – one in which I take a continued break from making albums and touring music to focus on other disciplines.”The film will be released on August 31 and you can see a clip of him from the film performing ‘Doomed’ and his cover of Björk’s ‘Come to Me’ here:Earlier this week, HBO released the second teaser for The Idol, the upcoming drama series created by “the sick and twisted minds of” The Weeknd and Euphoria helmer Sam Levinson.It was confirmed some time ago that the main cast will feature Troye Sivan, Debby Ryan and Hari Nef, while the recurring cast will include Tunde Adebimpe of TV On The Radio and Tyson Ritter of The All-American Rejects.In the latest teaser, we learn that other actors and artists set to appear.

London Grammar have covered Coldplay as a thank you for inviting them on tour.The band took to Instagram to share their acoustic cover of Coldplay’s ‘Don’t Panic’ along with a message thanking the band for asking them to support them on tour recently.“Beautiful world, beautiful summer. Thank you @coldplay for letting us tag along on the most beautiful, surreal ride.”Check out the cover here.Following their six sold-out Wembley gigs this month, Coldplay have added several new UK and European gigs in 2023 to their ‘Music Of The Spheres’ world tour.Tickets for the gigs will go on sale at 10am local time on Thursday August 25, and you can get yours here.MAY 2023 17 – Coimbra, Estádio Cidade de Coimbra 24 – Barcelona, Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys 25 – Barcelona, Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys 31 – Manchester, Etihad StadiumJUNE 20231 – Manchester, Etihad Stadium6 – Cardiff, Principality Stadium21 – Naples, Stadio Diego Armando Maradona25 – Milan, San Siro26 – Milan, San SiroJULY 20231 – Zurich, Stadion Letzigrund5 – Copenhagen, Parken6 – Copenhagen, Parken8 – Gothenburg, Ullevi9 – Gothenburg, Ullevi15 – Amsterdam, Johan Cruijff ArenA16 – Amsterdam, Johan Cruijff ArenAReviewing one of Coldplay’s recent Wembley gigs, NME said: “It’s a joyful spectacle; a masterclass in how a massive pop show can be done.

The 1975 have said that news about an upcoming UK tour will arrive in the coming week.The 1975 are gearing up to release their fifth studio album, ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, which is set to arrive on October 14 via Dirty Hit. They’ve already previewed the record with the singles ‘Part Of The Band’ and ‘Happiness’.Now, taking to Instagram, the band gave an update about when fans can expect to hear more about a UK tour.Matty Healy and co said: “UK tour news, 1 week” and asked fans to sign up via a link here.You can see the post below:A post shared by The1975 (@the1975)Meanwhile, the Manchester band will headline Reading & Leeds festival this weekend, having stepped in at the last minute to replace Rage Against The Machine.