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Nemzzz h a s announced ‘Lock e d In (Euroluxe)’ with four Eu r opean collaborators
Nemzzz will expand his recent mixtape ‘Locked In’ with ‘Locked In (Euroluxe)’, a deluxe edition featuring Nono La Grinta, Sosa La M, Artie 5ive and La Pantera. Three new tracks and their official videos are due today, Friday 6th November, at 5pm UK time, while a fourth track will follow on 20th November.
The 2026 CMA Awards will feature Kacey Musgraves, Tim McGraw and a tribute to Dolly Parton
Kacey Musgraves, Ella Langley and Tim McGraw are among the first performers confirmed for the 2026 CMA Awards, with the ceremony also set to honour Dolly Parton. The 60th annual event will air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on ABC and Disney+ on Wednesday, 18th November, before becoming available on Hulu the following day. Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert, The Red Clay Strays, Zach Top and Tucker Wetmore complete the first wave of performers.
Remi Wolf has put her own spin on sombr’s ‘12 to 12’ in a new Live Lounge session
Remi Wolf has covered Sombr’s ‘12 to 12’ for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, alongside performances of ‘Champagne’ and ‘Covered in Mud’ from her third album, ‘Mud’. Wolf joined Jack Saunders for the session on 4th November, with the complete set now available to hear and watch. The cover takes its place in the Live Lounge’s customary left-turn slot, while Wolf’s other two performances keep the focus on ‘Mud’.
How to vote for BTS in the 2026 VMAs Best Group bracket
BTS can be voted for in the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards’ Best Group category through MTV’s Instagram Stories. The three-round, bracket-style vote opens at 11am ET on Monday 21st September and closes at 11am ET on Thursday 24th September, ahead of the Los Angeles ceremony on Sunday 27th September. Open MTV’s Instagram Stories during that window to find the voting prompt and live bracket. Where to vote for BTS Best Group is a VMA social category rather than part of the awards’ main voting page.
David Bowie's immersive London show has been extended, with an 80th birthday party planned for January
David Bowie: ‘You’re Not Alone’ will remain at Lightroom in King’s Cross until 10th April 2027, with a ‘Bowie Lates’ birthday party set for 8th January, the date on which Bowie would have turned 80. The immersive production had previously been scheduled to finish in January, extending its London stay beyond the anniversary celebrations. The 8th January event will pair a screening of the show with drinks and music in Lightroom’s bar.
Leigh-Anne has released ‘My Ego Told Me To…Do A Fan Edition’ with new track ‘Bora’
Leigh-Anne has released ‘My Ego Told Me To…Do A Fan Edition’, an expanded version of her UK top-three debut album. Out now via MadeInThe90s, it adds seven songs to the original 15-track record, including new track ‘Bora’ and this month’s single ‘Clickbait’. The Fan Edition also includes last year’s Rvssian collaboration ‘Friends’, ‘Dead and Gone Part II’ featuring Kojey Radical, ‘Ego’, ‘Home’ and an acoustic version of ‘Been A Minute’.
Swedish singer-songwriter waterbaby has shared her new Sub Pop single ‘Creek’
waterbaby has released new standalone single ‘Creek’ via Sub Pop. Written and recorded in Stockholm with her longtime musical collaborator Marcus White, the track follows the Swedish artist’s debut album, ‘Memory Be a Blade’, released earlier this year. ‘Creek’ arrives as a standalone release, rather than as part of an announced follow-up album campaign.
How Sorority Noise’s ‘Joy, Departed’ made space for pop ambition and hard truths
Sorority Noise’s 2015 album ‘Joy, Departed’ carries an apparent contradiction that was fundamental to its design. Cameron Boucher wrote about depression, suicidal thoughts and addiction, while the band reached for brighter hooks and a more expansive musical frame. Those choices did not soften the subject matter into something palatable. In Boucher’s own account, they were part of a deliberate refusal to make suffering look glamorous.
Amy Poehler and Hugh Laurie’s ‘Dig’ has released its trailer
Amy Poehler and Hugh Laurie are heading to Greece in the new trailer for Peacock comedy ‘Dig’, which premieres on 23rd November. The 10-episode series follows a group of archaeologists and college students whose summer excavation becomes considerably more complicated after they uncover a rare artefact. Poehler co-created ‘Dig’ with Michael Schur, and both are executive producers.
The Cinematic Orchestra will play KOKO, Earth Theatre and Union Chapel on consecutive nights
The Cinematic Orchestra have announced three consecutive London shows for spring 2027, bringing a brand-new live production to KOKO, Earth Theatre and Union Chapel. The dates form part of a newly announced UK and European tour for the group. The run begins at KOKO on Friday 30th April 2027, before moving to Earth Theatre on Saturday 1st May and Union Chapel on Sunday 2nd May.
U2 have announced an exclusive BBC Music concert in London
U2 will perform an exclusive BBC Music concert in central London on Tuesday 3rd November, with a limited fan-ticket ballot now open. The show will be recorded in front of a select audience and find Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. playing material from across the band’s catalogue, alongside new tracks from their forthcoming sixteenth studio album, ‘Carnaval De Luz’.
Bruce Dickinson is taking his solo show back on the road with the PsychoGod tour
Bruce Dickinson will return to solo stages in 2027 with the PsychoGod tour, a European run of headline shows and festival appearances spanning June to December. It will mark his first solo performances since The Mandrake Project Tour ended in Brazil in September 2025, after 71 shows across three continents. The summer run opens at Belfast’s Ulster Hall on 14th June before moving through Dublin, Milan, Zurich, Zagreb, Belgrade, Sofia and Istanbul.
Why ‘What’s It Like Over There?’ changed Circa Waves’ relationship with genre
Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour Circa Waves’ third album did not abandon their appetite for big hooks. It gave them permission to find those hooks in pianos, synths and arrangements that would once have seemed out of bounds.
What is Bastille’s ‘All This Bad Blood’, and how does it differ from ‘Bad Blood’?
Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour Bastille’s 2013 double album keeps their debut intact, then expands it with extended-edition tracks, B-sides, mixtape material and two new songs. Published 26 Oct 2026 • 8:55 am ‘All This Bad Blood’ is Bastille’s expanded 2013 reissue of debut album ‘Bad Blood’, not a separate second studio record.
Where to start with Harry Styles’ first three solo albums
Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour Start with ‘Sign of the Times’, then ‘Lights Up’ and ‘As It Was’ for a route through Harry Styles’ first three solo eras. Published 26 Oct 2026 • 8:15 am For a quick route through Harry Styles’ first three solo albums, go in release order: 2017’s ‘Harry Styles’ via ‘Sign of the Times’, 2019’s ‘Fine Line’ via ‘Lights Up’, then 2022’s ‘Harry’s House’ via ‘As It Was’.
Mystery Jets’ ‘Just Like Christmas’ cover was a tribute to “Mimi, Terry and all the greats”
Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour Blaine Harrison’s 2022 performance of Low’s seasonal favourite was dedicated to people Mystery Jets had lost that year. Published 26 Oct 2026 • 8:05 am Mystery Jets shared their cover of Low’s ‘Just Like Christmas’ on Christmas Eve 2022 as an “early Christmas gift”, but its accompanying message made clear that it was also a tribute.
How ‘Marie Antoinette’ inspired Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Versailles’
Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Versailles’ is inspired by Sofia Coppola’s ‘Marie Antoinette’, using the film’s heightened, modern-feeling vision of the French palace as the basis for a party fantasy. The Kanya Iwana-directed video was filmed in Los Angeles, not at Versailles: it follows Jepsen at a party as she imagines herself in the château. From Coppola’s film to the song Jepsen traced that connection in an interview published by The Hollywood Reporter on 18th September.
Touching Ice have joined Ninja Tune imprint Technicolour with new single ‘Trace me on2 u’
Touching Ice have signed to Ninja Tune imprint Technicolour and released their first single for the label, ‘Trace me on2 u’. The LA trio – Abigail Reese, Dominic Colangelo and Davis Stewart – have paired the track with an official video directed by Aaron Garcia Peretz. The band describe the release as their first “big kid” outing via Technicolour.
An Amy Winehouse West End musical is reportedly in development
A musical based on Amy Winehouse is reportedly in early development for the West End, with casting said to be under way. Broadway producer Catherine Schreiber, whose credits include ‘Cabaret’, ‘Rent’ and the stage adaptation of ‘High School Musical’, is understood to be involved. There is no confirmed title, venue, creative team, opening date or cast. It is also unclear whether the production would tell Winehouse’s life story or build an original narrative around her catalogue.
Olivia Colman has said ‘Wicker’ is less explicit than viewers expect
Olivia Colman has said ‘Wicker’ is less sexually explicit than its online reputation might suggest, despite the romance receiving an R rating in the US.
Torchwood’s Ianto shrine is set to become a lasting artwork
Torchwood’s long-standing Cardiff Bay memorial to Ianto Jones is being transformed into an artwork intended to preserve its tributes beyond the original site, Gareth David-Lloyd has said. Cardiff artist Nathan Wyburn is making the piece from objects left at the shrine.
LA rock singer DIAMANTE has shared ‘Hollywood Blvd’ ahead of new album ‘SUPERNOVA’
Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour DIAMANTE’s third full-length album arrives via Sumerian Records in January, led by new single ‘Hollywood Blvd’. Published 21 Oct 2026 • 3:13 pm The Lowdown (everything wotcha need to know) + DIAMANTE’s third album, ‘SUPERNOVA’, is due on 8th January 2027 via Sumerian Records. +New single ‘Hollywood Blvd’ and its official video arrive with the album announcement.
Why Camden’s Underworld keeps recurring in Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes’ history
Camden’s Underworld keeps appearing in Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes’ history because it was more than a convenient small London venue. For Carter and guitarist Dean Richardson, it was a room they knew as audience members before the band formed in 2015, and later one whose layout accommodated a live approach the group considered central to its performances. That made it a recurring choice at decisive moments, from an early venue move to a debut-album anniversary and a three-night residency.
How The Regrettes made ‘Dancing On My Own’ a reason to dance together
A song called ‘Dancing On My Own’ is built around a contradiction: the body is in public, the feeling is not. When The Regrettes released their cover of Robyn’s club-heartbreak fixture in 2023, they did not try to erase that loneliness. Instead, Lydia Night and the band made it an invitation: the private act of dancing through pain could happen in a kitchen, at a show, or among a roomful of people carrying their own version of the song.
NCT DREAM have unveiled ‘The Sun’ ahead of new album ‘DREAM AFTER DREAM’
Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour NCT DREAM’s new video for ‘The Sun’ arrives ahead of their sixth studio album, ‘DREAM AFTER DREAM’, due on 9th November. Published 20 Oct 2026 • 10:10 am The Lowdown (everything wotcha need to know) + NCT DREAM released the video for ‘The Sun’ on 20th October. +‘The Sun’ is the opening track on the 10-song album ‘DREAM AFTER DREAM’.
Why Fontaines D.C.’s debut is called ‘Dogrel’
Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour Fontaines D.C. named their 2019 debut after doggerel, a rough, working-class form of verse that fits the album’s poetic and distinctly Dublin perspective. Published 20 Oct 2026 • 7:00 am Fontaines D.C.’s 2019 debut is called ‘Dogrel’ after doggerel, a deliberately rough form of working-class popular verse.
Is Justin Vernon really retiring in Bon Iver’s ‘Day One’ video?
No, Justin Vernon is not really retiring from Bon Iver in the ‘Day One’ video. Released on 7th October 2025, the clip opens with the deliberately deadpan line, “In 2025, Bon Iver announced his retirement, and the search began for his replacement.” That is the video’s fictional premise: by its end, Vernon is among those auditioning for the job he supposedly left.
YAANG have shared new single ‘Leech’ and announced UK headline dates
YAANG have released new single ‘Leech’ and announced a seven-date UK headline tour for October. The run will finish with London’s Old Blue Last on 29th October and Manchester’s YES Pink Room on 30th October. The new track follows the recently released seven-minute song ‘Horsepower is God’ and will also arrive as a limited-edition 7-inch via Cracked Ankles. It was produced by Al Groves, whose credits include Bring Me The Horizon and Cast, with Death From Above 1979’s Jesse F.
NOAHFINNCE has released new acoustic single ‘WONKY’
NOAHFINNCE has released ‘WONKY’, a raw acoustic single written during a studio session with As It Is members Patty Walters and Ben Langford-Biss, alongside his long-time collaborator and producer ST£FAN. The track is available now. ‘WONKY’ is NOAHFINNCE’s first fully acoustic song since ‘Asthma Attack’, released eight years ago. “This is my first fully acoustic song since Asthma Attack came out 8 YEARS AGO and woweee this is very much another NOAHFINNCE song to cry to,” he says.
What ‘Omega’ means to Rosalía and Ralphie Choo
Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour Released for Rosalía’s birthday in September 2024, ‘Omega’ found its meaning in choosing to stay, and its collaborators in step long before they entered the studio. Published 15 Oct 2026 • 7:40 am Rosalía and Ralphie Choo’s ‘Omega’ arrived as a birthday surprise in September 2024, but its central idea was far more settled than the release itself.
What is Loaded Honey, and why did Lydia Kitto and J Lloyd take it beyond Jungle?
Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour Loaded Honey gave Lydia Kitto and J Lloyd a separate home for songs developed alongside Jungle, pairing ‘Love Made Trees’ with an 11-part visual series. Artists Published 14 Oct 2026 • 10:15 am Loaded Honey is the project Lydia Kitto and J Lloyd formed for songs that grew alongside their work in Jungle.
Is Creeper’s ‘Sanguivore II’ a direct sequel? How the two vampire albums connect
Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour ‘Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death’ returns to Creeper’s vampire universe, but begins a new story with a different cast. Published 14 Oct 2026 • 8:20 am Creeper’s ‘Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death’ is a sequel in setting and style, not a direct continuation of 2023’s ‘Sanguivore’.
How Thomas Headon redefined ambition from ‘Victoria’ to ‘Six Songs That Thomas Headon Likes And Thinks You Would Like Too’
Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour Thomas Headon’s shift from ‘Victoria’ to ‘Six Songs’ was not a retreat from ambition, but a decision to stop equating importance with seriousness. Published 13 Oct 2026 • 12:25 pm Thomas Headon redefined ambition by refusing to make seriousness its only measure.
Start with ‘Loading’: a route into the dancefloor side of James Blake’s ‘Playing Robots Into Heaven’
Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour Five tracks that map the club-facing pulse of James Blake’s 2023 album, from ‘Loading’ to the airy pull of ‘I Want You To Know’. Published 13 Oct 2026 • 12:10 pm James Blake’s ‘Playing Robots Into Heaven’ arrived on 8th September 2023 as his sixth studio album, reconnecting him with the electronic foundations of his early work.
Why Sigrid’s ‘The Hype’ remains a revealing bridge between her second and third albums
Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour Sigrid’s 2023 four-track EP used a compact format to test several songwriting directions without presenting them as a grand reinvention. Published 13 Oct 2026 • 9:50 am Released on 27th October 2023, Sigrid’s four-track EP ‘The Hype’ sits in the apparently awkward space between ‘How To Let Go’, her 2022 second album, and 2025’s ‘There’s Always More That I Could Say’.
Who contributed to Turnstile’s original ‘NEVER ENOUGH’ album?
Turnstile’s ‘NEVER ENOUGH’ arrived in June 2025 with a small, track-specific group of outside contributors: Devonté Hynes of Blood Orange, Hayley Williams, Faye Webster, A.G. Cook and Shabaka Hutchings. That is a different proposition from the enormous ensemble later announced for 2026’s ‘NEVER ENOUGH: VERSIONS’, billed by Turnstile as “a reimagined album”. The overlap is real, but the later guest list does not retrospectively become a set of credits for the original record.
What does ‘Skinty Fia’ mean for Fontaines D.C. and Irish identity abroad?
• Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour -DORK'S BEST NEW TRACKS Fontaines D.C.’s 2022 album title translates as “damnation of the deer”, framing a record about diaspora, language and seeing Ireland from London. Published 12 Oct 2026 • 7:15 am ‘Skinty Fia’ translates from Irish as “damnation of the deer”.
Cozy football adventure ‘Kick’ has set its Steam release for 3rd November
Cozy football adventure ‘Kick’ will launch on Steam on 3rd November 2026, solo developer nospacelost and publisher Shoreline Games have confirmed. The side-scrolling, slice-of-life game received its release-date reveal at the Convergence Showcase on 8th October, alongside a new trailer. Players take control of The Kid, racing through streets, beaches, parks and shaded underpasses to reach school before the bell.
Na Hong-jin has revealed how fears of war inspired ‘Hope’
Na Hong-jin has said his sci-fi thriller ‘Hope’ began with a fear that war was about to break out on the Korean peninsula. At a Busan International Film Festival masterclass, he recalled reports from around 2017 of US fighter jets and bombers flying over Pyongyang through the night, and said he expected conflict to begin in early 2018 or shortly after the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Na described that foreboding as one of the two things he needs before committing to a project.
What makes Forbidden Planet worth discovering for science-fiction viewers?
Forbidden Planet is worth discovering because its vast 1950s science-fiction setting contains a far less straightforward threat: an isolated scientist’s subconscious may be more dangerous than anything beyond Earth. Released in 1956, the film follows Commander Adams and his spaceship crew as they reach a distant planet inhabited by Dr Morbius and his daughter Altaira, who had been presumed lost.
6 modern romance novels for speculative love stories and character-led drama
For romance that reaches beyond a neat meet-cute, start with The Time Traveler’s Wife, Outlander and The Song of Achilles: love stories shaped by time, history and myth. For psychological intimacy without speculative machinery, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Call Me by Your Name and The Hating Game offer very different relationship pressures, from secrecy to rivalry.
Where Dark Horse’s Ghostbusters comics fit between Afterlife and Frozen Empire
Start with Ghostbusters: Back in Town. The four-issue Dark Horse series is set after Ghostbusters: Afterlife and before Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, making it the direct bridge for readers following the Spengler family’s recent-film story. Ghostbusters: Dead Man’s Chest is the next series to read, but is a separate New York adventure rather than an established missing chapter between two films. Begin with Back in Town Written by David M.
Jack White’s ‘Fear of the Dawn’ and ‘Entering Heaven Alive’: which album should you start with?
Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour Jack White released two sharply contrasting albums in 2022. Here’s how they connect, and the best route into each one. Published 7 Oct 2026 • 8:00 am Jack White’s two 2022 albums make most sense as a linked release rather than an unusually busy year on the calendar. ‘Fear of the Dawn’ arrived first, on 8th April, with ‘Entering Heaven Alive’ following on 22nd July.
What does Marianne offer fans of The Haunting of Hill House?
If you enjoy The Haunting of Hill House for horror in which the past keeps altering the present, Marianne offers a more openly hostile variation. The French series follows novelist Emma Larsimon as she returns to her hometown and discovers that Marianne, the witch from her books, may not have been invented after all. It is less concerned with a family’s accumulated grief than with the unnerving possibility that a story can bring its own terror into the room.
Lucy Hale will star in Roku’s romantic mystery series ‘Scarlett Holmes’
Lucy Hale will star in and executive produce ‘Scarlett Holmes’, a Roku limited series that puts a romantic-comedy spin on the Sherlock Holmes legacy. The show is slated to debut on The Roku Channel in 2027. Hale plays Scarlett Holmes, a modern descendant of Sherlock whose inherited powers of observation are turned towards mysteries of love, dating and relationships rather than crimes.
Charlie Hunnam is developing ‘Legends’, a meta ‘Sons of Anarchy’ sequel
Charlie Hunnam is developing ‘Legends’, a meta-thriller that will bring members of the ‘Sons of Anarchy’ cast together more than a decade after the FX drama ended. Rather than continuing the biker gang’s story in a conventional sequel, the project is set to place its performers at a fan convention, with the show’s legacy becoming part of the action. Hunnam, who played Jax Teller, is developing the series with producer Jonathan Groff.
Should you watch Gone Girl or Prisoners for your next mystery film?
If you want a mystery with acidic humour, unreliable public images and a sharply drawn marriage at its centre, watch Gone Girl. Choose Prisoners if you would rather follow a relentlessly tightening missing-person investigation in which every lead carries a moral cost. Both begin with an absence and make assumptions feel dangerous, but their suspense works in very different ways.
Kacey Musgraves has released Spanish-language ‘Uncertain, TX’ with Grupo Intocable
Kacey Musgraves has released a Spanish-language version of ‘Uncertain, TX’, joining Música Mexicana group Grupo Intocable to re-record the ‘Middle of Nowhere’ track entirely in Spanish. The official audio is available now. The collaboration returns Musgraves to the musical cross-currents of Texas that informed ‘Middle of Nowhere’, bringing Norteño, Tejano and Zydeco into contact with the country, bluegrass and pop elements of the original record.
Where should adult readers start with DC comics exploring darker themes?
Adult readers looking for darker DC comics should choose by theme rather than treating “mature” as one genre. Start with The Invisibles for occult conspiracy and rebellion, Preacher for a profane road story about faith and power, The Human Target for a noir murder mystery, Blackest Night for superhero horror, or Infinite Crisis for a large-scale universe in collapse. Each contains material for older readers, but each asks for a different appetite.
Hamdi and D Double E have joined forces on ‘Heart & Soul’
Hamdi has joined forces with D Double E on new single ‘Heart & Soul’, pairing the Oxford-born producer’s bass-heavy sound with the grime MC’s unmistakable delivery. The track is out now, following Hamdi’s recent signing to RCA Records UK. “Absolute honour to work with one of the goats - someone I’ve been listening to and admiring for years,” Hamdi says. “So happy with how the track came together.
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