The double Mercury Prize winner will play two dates in each city on her journey. Commencing at 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin on the 22^nd September, Polly Jean will perform at Barrowland in Glasgow, The Roundhouse in London, and The Albert Hall in Manchester on her tour. She will then travel to Europe playing in Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Zurich, Prague, Berlin, Warsaw, Copenhagen, and close the tour in Oslo on Halloween.

The alternative chamber folk singer-songwriter unveiled her plans for the tour to her community mailing list this morning (7^th June) prior to social media.

A limited number of presale tickets will be available Wednesday 14^th June 10 am BST to those who pre-order Harvey’s new album I Inside The Old Year Dying from the official store which you can access here. For members of the mailing list community tickets will be on presale at Thursday 15^th June from 10 am BST. Sign up to PJ’s mailing list here. General sale will begin on Friday 16^th June. See here for tickets.

Alongside this announcement came the haunting title track from PJ’s upcoming album. The single is accompanied by a music video directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña. Watch the video below:

“This delicate and beautiful song eluded us until the very last day in the studio,” Harvey revealed in a press release. “Over the previous five weeks we had tried so many times to capture it and failed, but then John reinvented the feel of the guitar pattern. As he was demonstrating it in the control room, Flood handed me a microphone and pressed record whilst I sat next to John trying to work out how to sing to it. The result somehow captures the ethereal and melancholic longing I was looking for.”

Back in April, PJ Harvey ended her musical hiatus by sharing the ethereal and hypnotic single “A Child’s Question, August” as well as announcing the news of her 10^th studio album. Watch the video for the track directed by Steve Gullick below:

 I Inside the Old Year Dying will be released on 7^th July via Partisan Records. The record is the follow up to 2016’s The Hope Six Demolition Project and was produced and mixed by her long-time collaborators John Parrish and Flood. On Instagram, PJ wrote, “After many years of work I am very happy to release this collection of new songs. It was a difficult album to make and took time to find its strongest form, but it has finally become all I hoped for it to be.”

See the track list for I Inside the Old Year Dying below:

1.  Prayer at the Gate
2. Autumn Term
3. Lwonesome Tonight
4. Seem an I
5. The Nether-edge
6. I Inside the Old Year Dying
7. All Souls
8. A Child’s Question, August
9. I Inside the Old I Dying
10. August
11. A Child’s Question, July
12. A Noiseless Noise

Over the last three years, Polly Jean has shared previously unheard demos for all her studio albums.

See below for all of PJ Harvey’s upcoming UK and Europe tour dates:

22/09/23 – 3Olympia Theatre – Dublin
23/09– 3Olympia Theatre – Dublin
25/09 – Barrowland – Glasgow
26/09 – Barrowland – Glasgow
28/09 – Roundhouse – London
29/09 – Roundhouse – London
02/10 – Albert Hall – Manchester
03/10 – Albert Hall – Manchester
06/10 – Paradiso – Amsterdam
07/10 – Paradiso – Amsterdam
09/10 – Cirque Royal – Brussels
10/10 – Cirque Royal – Brussels
12/10 – Olympia – Paris
13/10 – Olympia – Paris
15/10 – Volkshaus – Zurich
16/10 – Volkshaus – Zurich
18/10 – Velký sál Lucerna – Prague
19/10 – Velký sál Lucerna – Prague
21/10 – Admiralspalast – Berlin
22/10 – Admiralspalast – Berlin
24/10 – Palladium – Warsaw
25/10 – Palladium – Warsaw
27/10 – Falkonersalen – Copenhagen
28/10 – Falkonersalen – Copenhagen
30/10 – Sentrum Scene – Oslo
31/10 – Sentrum Scene – Oslo

We are pleased to announce a new UK tour! Tickets on sale Friday 10am, pre-sale tickets Wednesday 10amhttps://t.co/ibZg4VlbGX pic.twitter.com/sVsgowZDHb

— The Charlatans (@thecharlatans) June 6, 2023

Beginning in Newcastle on the 24^th November, the group will then play in Glasgow, Sheffield, Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, London, and Wolverhampton. The tour will close in Nottingham on 10^th December. Tickets will go on general sale on Friday 9^th June at 10 am BST. Click here for tickets and more information. Blonde frontman Tim Burgess joked on Twitter “Now to get us a setlist together”. He continued, “All requests considered* What’re we saying? *They stand more chance of making it if they are actually by @thecharlatans”.

Now to get us a setlist together All requests considered* What’re we saying? *They stand more chance of making it if they are actually by @thecharlatans pic.twitter.com/ZuX6FzxPXk — Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) June 6, 2023

Burgess ran a giveaway for a pair of guest list places and a signed setlist up for each date of the tour on Twitter. The randomly picked winners were announced at 9:30 AM BST on Twitter. The giveaway proved extremely popular with #TimsTicketGiveaway trending the previous evening.

Looks like #TimsTicketGiveaway is proving popular pic.twitter.com/K1i0CjP7dh

— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) June 6, 2023

Fans can also catch the band at several festivals this summer including Y Not and Victorious Festivals. The Charlatans will also be performing a one-off co-headline show at Halifax Piece Hall with fellow indie legend Johnny Marr at the end of August. For tickets see here.

With all thirteen of their studio albums charting in the top 40 in the UK, the band from the West Midlands are decade-spanning indie darlings of the UK. Their 1990 debut album, Some Friendly, reached number one in the UK upon its release and has been certified Gold by the BPI.

The current formation of The Charlatans sees Tim Burgess as lead vocalist, Mark Collins on guitar, Martin Blunt on bass, and Tony Rogers on keys. Sadly, the band’s former drummer Jon Brookes passed away back in 2014.

Different Days, the band’s last studio record, was released six years ago on BMG. The neo-psychedelia record in Chester and produced by the band and Jim Spencer (Johnny Marr, The Cribs, New Order, The Vaccines, Echo and the Bunnymen). Paul Weller, New Order’s Gillian Gilbert and Stephen Morris, Johnny Marr, The Verve’s Peter Salisbury, novelist Ian Rankin, and actress Sharon Horgan are just some of the creatives featured on the record.

Watch the video for the lead single from the album “Plastic Machinery” below:

Back in 2021, The Charlatans released a vinyl compilation entitled A Head Full of Ideas including back catalogue fan favourites such as “The Only One I Know”, “Weirdo”, “One to Another”, “How High”, and “North Country Boy”.

See below for all The Charlatans UK tour dates:

30/07/23 – Y Not Festival – Derbyshire
25/08 – Victorious Festival – Portsmouth
26/08 –The Piece Hall – Halifax
24/11/23 – O2 City Hall – Newcastle
25/11 – Barrowland – Glasgow
28/11 – O2 Academy – Sheffield
29/11 – O2 Academy – Bristol
01/12 – University Great Hall – Cardiff
02/12 – O2 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester
03/12 – O2 Academy – Leeds
05/12 – The Mountford Hall – Liverpool
07/12 – Troxy – London
08/12 – The Civic at The Halls – Wolverhampton
10/12 – Rock City – Nottingham

Happy Monday and Black Grape members Shaun Ryder and Bez have teamed up with former Oasis and The Who drummer Zak Starkey, and Oasis bassist and Ride guitarist Andy Bell to form the supergroup.

On the chaotic and fun-filled single “Gorilla Guerilla” Ryder’s cries of “Gorilla!” echo over Bez’s energetic maracas, repetitive guitar riffs, and thumping drum beats. Released alongside the hallucinogenic single is a colourful animated music video created by Ryder’s son Olli. Watch the trippy video for “Gorilla Guerilla” below:

Mantra of Cosmos features baggy icon Shaun Ryder on vocals, Welsh musician Andy Bell on guitar, Ringo Starr’s son Zak Starkey on drums, and everyone’s favourite cheeky chappy Bez on percussion.

Ryder revealed the group’s formation to The Sun in early May spilling to the publication that the band had been secretly working on a debut album that would be “coming out very soon”. The 90s star continued, “It doesn’t sound like the Mondays or Black Grape or Oasis or The Who, it’s what we’re doing all together.”

Channel 4 herded together the fantastic four for a TV interview in which Bez revealed, “for the first time ever I’ve actually got maracas solos”! Watch the whole interview here.

In a video shared to the band’s Instagram, when asked who would be in his fantasy supergroup dead or alive, Ryder replied, “John Lennon, Paul McCartney, every member of the Rolling Stones past and present. Sly Stone, the Pistols, the Kinks, both brothers and all the rest of the band. Funkadelic-Parliament! Every member of Parliament!”

The band made their debut live appearance at The Box in London on the 5^th June giving an intimate performance at the venue.

Mantra of The Cosmos will be taking Glastonbury Festival’s Glade area by storm on Sunday 25^th June at 8.20 pm.

Bez and Ryder will also be playing as part of the Happy Mondays later this year. The band will be playing Dreamland in Margate alongside Primal Scream and Crystal Palace Bowl in London with James in August. A month later they will appear at the Rock N Roll Circus festival in Sheffield.

See below for Mantra of the Cosmos UK dates:

25/06/23 – Glastonbury Festival – Glastonbury

The band announced the stretch of dates on social media with the caption, “For the first time ever – playing #Bossanova & #TrompeLeMonde in their entireties + others from the catalogue, 3 night residencies in intimate venues.”

The noisy American alt-rock band will be taking their classic 90s albums on the road in March next year. The band will start with a three-day residency at the Olympia in Dublin on the 8^th March, then play three shows at the Albert Hall in Manchester starting on the 12^th March, and before playing three consecutive dates at the O2 Forum Kentish Forum in London starting on the 16^th March.

They will then travel to Amsterdam playing three shows at the Paradiso and conclude the tour in Paris with a residency at the L’Olympia.

Tickets will be on sale from Friday 9^th June at 9 am BST / 10 am CET. For tickets see here.

Nearly 33 years ago, Pixies released their third studio album Bossanova on 4AD featuring the two energetic singles “Velouria” and “Dig for Fire”. The record reached number 3 in the UK and 70 on the US Billboard 200. Listen to the single “Velouria” below:

The following year the band released Trompe de Monde also produced by Gil Norton and released via 4AD. The critically adored album is the last Pixies record to feature bassist Kim Deal and the last album recorded before the band’s decade-long hiatus. Stand-out tracks include “Alec Eiffel” about the engineer who designed the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty, “Letter to Memphis” Black Francis’ take on Chuck Berry’s song “Memphis, Tennessee”, and the band’s upbeat cover of the Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Head On”. Listen to the cheeky single “Alec Eiffel” below:

Currently, Black Francis and the gang are embarking on the second leg of their North America in support of their latest and eighth studio album Doggerel. This March the band completed the European and UK leg of the tour at The Roundhouse in London. Released last year, the album was recorded during the pandemic in an eco-friendly studio in Gulliford and produced by English producer Tom Dalgety. The album included the three singles “There’s a Moon On“, “Vault of Heaven“, and “Dregs of Wine“. Listen to the album’s lead single “There’s a Moon On” below:

Pixies now consists of lead singer Black Francis, Joey Santiago on lead guitar, David Lovering on drums, and Paz Lenchantin on bass. In March last year, the band broke their 2 year long hiatus to drop the non-album single “Human Crime“.

See below for Pixies’ upcoming UK and Europe tour dates:

08/03/23 – Olympia – Dublin
09/03 – Olympia – Dublin
10/03 – Olympia – Dublin
12/03 – Albert Hall – Manchester
13/03 – Albert Hall – Manchester
14/03 – Albert Hall – Manchester
16/03 – O2 Forum Kentish Forum – London
17/03 – O2 Forum Kentish Forum – London
18/03 – O2 Forum Kentish Forum – London
20/03 – Paradiso – Amsterdam
21/03 – Paradiso – Amsterdam
22/03 – Paradiso – Amsterdam
25/03 – L’Olympia – Paris
26/03 – L’Olympia – Paris
27/03 – L’Olympia – Paris

Ships will be premiering on the 21st October as the centrepiece of the 2023 Venice Biennale Musica. Eno will then play shows in prestigious venues in Berlin, Paris, and Utrecht before closing the tour with two performances at 6:30 pm and 9 pm for the Royal Festival Hall in London on 30^th October.

Tickets will go on general sale from Thursday 8^th June. Members of the Southbank Centre can access the ticket presale from 10 AM BST on Wednesday 7^th June. For more information see here.

Eno will be performing with Baltic Sea Philharmonic, orchestrated and conducted by Kristjan Järvi as commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia. At the Biennale Musica, Eno will be honoured with the Golden Lion lifetime achievement award “for his research into the quality, beauty and diffusion of digital sound and for his conception of the acoustic space as a compositional instrument” according to the event’s page.

#BiennaleMusica2023 @brianeno, this year’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, has just announced his first ever solo live concert tour, starting on October 21 at the @teatrolafenice, as part of the 67th International Festival of Contemporary Music. SHIPS is commissioned by… https://t.co/LPdDpiiY8f

— La Biennale di Venezia (@la_Biennale) June 6, 2023

Eno toured with Roxy Music in the 70s but has since rarely played live only playing one-off shows or at festivals. Brian and his brother Roger played together at Acropolis, Athens back in 2021 as part of the annual Epidaurus Festival. The concert was filmed and screened in cinemas across the UK for one night only on the 2^nd March earlier this year.

Originally Eno didn’t plan on making The Ship a record. “The way the whole piece started out was not as a record but as an installation,” Eno told Entertainment Weekly back in 2016. When a friend of Eno’s asked him for a recording of the installation in Stockholm he started thinking of making The Ship an album. “It took me by surprise a little bit,” he continued. “I wasn’t planning it as my next record project when I started it.”

On the third track “Fickle Sun (ii) The Hour Is Thin”, Eno used a Markov chain generator to create the lyrics spoken by Peter Serafinowicz by mixing “dirty songs by First World War soldiers” with “accounts written from the lifeboats by people watching the Titanic sinking” and “part of a book about the blitz over London”. The result is an eerie and twisted lullaby. Listen to the track below:

Last month Eno collaborated with British DJ Fred Again.. on the surprise LP Secret Life. The album was released on electronic artist Four Tet’s label Text Records and was dubbed by the artist “the most beautiful album of 2023”.

The album Secret Life by Fred again and Brian Eno is coming out on my label Text Records on Friday

— Four Tet (@FourTet) May 2, 2023

Listen to the track “Trying” from the album below:

See below for Brian Eno’s Ships tour dates:
21/10/23 – Venice Biennale Musica – Venice
24/10 – Philharmonie Berlin – Berlin
26/10 – La Seine Musicale – Paris
28/10 – TivoliVredenburg – Utrecht
30/10 – Royal Festival Hall – London

dj sweet6teen, Ahadadream, Hannah Holland, Aloka, Nadine Noor, Niks, Retromigration Marie Malarie, and DJ Wawa are just some of the DJs also on this year’s bill. For the full line up see the poster above.

Doncaster-born London-based artist I.JORDAN will be one of the headliners and commented on Instagram that they “cannot wait”. The DJ, who has worked with Fred Again.., played sets worldwide, and appeared on the cover of NME and DJ Mag, is sure to deliver an unforgettable set. Watch their boiler room performance below:

The location of the festival will only be revealed to ticket holders. Currently, the final tier of tickets is on sale. For remaining tickets see here.

“We are gassed to announce this line-up,” The Field Maneuvers team wrote on Instagram and Twitter. “It’s our 10 year anniversary of surviving by the skin of our teeth so we thought we’d pull out all the stops… Some of our absolute FM die-hard favourites are making a return and we’ve got some names that we have admired from a distance making their debuts.”

FM2023 line-up lesssgo

It’s our 10 year anniversary of surviving by the skin of our teeth so we thought we’d pull out all the stops… Some of our FM die-hard favourites make a return and some names that we have admired for a while making FM debuts. pic.twitter.com/0N6X4JFmPq

— Field Maneuvers (@fieldmaneuvers) June 1, 2023

The organisers continued: “This party is a labour of love and to see the beautifully considered curation from each of our stage hosts come to fruition is a delight. Stage splits, exclusive b2bs and full takeover line-ups will all be revealed soon.” Several artists have shared their excitement on Twitter such as creative director at Rye Wax Rachel Williams who will be doing a takeover alongside other Rye Wax stars.

This will be my third year playing FM and maybe my 5th or 6th time attending! And I’m really excited to be doing our very own @Ryewax stage takeover Rye Wax All Stars + @yo_watson + @j_pdre + me + dj wawa is kinda the lineup of dreams no? https://t.co/Gm2ltOYZR3

— ambient babestation meltdown (@rachaelwilliams) June 1, 2023

DJ/producer Chrissy shared his joy at his spot on the bill writing “Coming back to the best rave on earth”.

Coming back to the best rave on earth FM 2023 I can’t waaaait https://t.co/9gy5dk8j2j — Chrissy (@chrissytrax) June 1, 2023

Bored Lord, aka Memphis-born multidisciplinary artist Daria Lourd, also wrote “see yall out on in the field”.

see yall out in the field https://t.co/WuAJOLYV1j

— Daria (@bored_lord) June 1, 2023

Last October, the Field Maneuvers organisers launched a Crownfunder page asking attendees and rave lovers to help save the independent festival after last year’s event failed to break even. Thankful the campaign received huge support from the community and the festival managed to reach its target of £40,000 before its deadline ensuring the future of the festival is safe.

Earlier this year, Rebecca Black received heaps of praise from the music world for her self-released debut album Let Her Burn. The former viral video star shocked listeners with her transformation from a meme to a hyperpop hero. Listen below to the single “Crumbs” below:

TikTok sensation Peach PRC will also be supporting BLACKPINK performing in the UK for the first time at the concert. “dumb dumb” singer Mazie will also be supporting as well as rising star Annika Bennett, Dublin-based singer-songwriter Sarah Crean, and fellow Dubliner punky singer SPIDER. Click here for tickets to BLACKPINK’s BTS concert.

The South Korean girl group, dubbed the “biggest girl group in the world”, consists of Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa. BLACKPINK became the first Korean group to headline Coachella earlier this year.

Their sophomore album Born Pink was released in September last year through YG Entertainment and Interscope Records. The girls dipped into hip hop, pop, rock, and EDM on the genre-spanning album. The album peaked at number 1 in several countries including South Korea, the US, Canada, Croatia, Portugal, and UK – making the band the first K-pop Girl Group to land a UK number one album.

Watch the video for “Pink Venom” below:

Also headlining the festival spanning multiple weekends from 24^th – 8^th July are Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Guns N’ Roses, Billy Joel, and Take That. For more information and tickets see here.

American superstar P!nk will be headlining British Summer Time on Saturday 24^th June and Sunday 25^th June. Support for the pop princess includes American songstress Gwen Stefani, British Eurovision contestant Sam Ryder, TikTok famed singer Gayle, and American singer Tinashe. For remaining tickets see here.

Dreamy Americana femme fatale Lana Del Rey will close the festival this year on Sunday the 9^th July. Support acts are due to be announced soon. For remaining tickets see here.

The festival taking place in the heart of London started back in 2013. Over the last decade, the festival has hosted many iconic headliners such as The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Libertines, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Blur, The Strokes, Kylie Minogue, The Cure, Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, and Florence + The Machine.

The band from Kettering will begin the tour in Leeds on the 7^th September, before playing in Manchester, Nottingham, London, Bristol, and Brighton. They’ll also be playing gigs in France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland this autumn concluding in Nürnberg on the 6^th October.

Temples will also be playing several festivals this summer including Musilac in France and Summer Well Festival in Romania. For tickets and more information see here. Last July, Temples supported Pearl Jam for their second day headlining the BST Hyde Park festival.

The band took to social media to share their excitement writing, “EUROPE our EXOTICO tour is now LIVE! we can’t wait to see you all in September & October”.

Exotico, Temples’ fourth studio album, was released on the 14^th April via ATO. The 16-track LP was produced by Sean Ono Lennon and mixed by Dave Fridmann who has previously worked with many other psych acts including Beach House, Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips, and MGMT. Full of funky, bass-heavy, synthy summery tunes, Exotico mixes “Acid House meets Arabic Dancefloor!” as bass guitarist Thomas Walmsley adequately put it to It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine.

Listen to the lead single from the album “Gamma Rays” below:

Exotico took three years to be released and was a product of the pandemic. “Writing began in 2020, around when the world stopped moving,” Walmsley said. “We’d just had a tour cut short due to the pandemic and I guess as a musician you try to alter focus and throw yourself into writing, for better or for worse, we wrapped up recording in 2022. It’s definitely longer than we’d hoped to take, but I think the process ended up making the best record.” 

Temples formed just over a decade ago as a home studio project. Lead singer James Bagshaw and Walmsley were originally in rival bands in their hometown but eventually teamed up to play in the band The Moons. The demos the duo uploaded to YouTube caught the attention of Heavenly Recordings founder Jeff Barrett who released the band’s debut single “Shelter Song” in 2012. Watch the video for “Shelter Song” below:

Their debut album, Sun Structures, reached number 7 in the UK in 2014 and their follow up three years, Volcano, later peaked at the 23rd spot.

Since then, the band has undergone a few revisions with the current lineup consisting of Bagshaw and Walmsley as well as Adam Thomas Smith on rhythm guitar and keyboards, and Rens Ottink on drums.

See below for Temples’ upcoming Europe and UK dates:

08/07/23 – Musilac – Aix-les-bains
14/07 – Festival Chauffer dans la Noirceur – Montmartin-sur-mer
11/08 – Summer Well Festival – Buftea
07/09 – Brudenell Social Club – Leeds
09/09 – Band on the Wall – Manchester
10/09 – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham
11/09 – Koko – London
13/09 – The Fleece – Bristol
14/09 – Patterns – Brighton
16/09 – Le 106 – Rouen
17/09 – Chabada – Angers
18/09 – La Cigale – Paris
19/09 – Le Botanique – Bruxelles
20/09 – Le Grand Mix – Tourcoing
24/09 – Gebäude 9 – Cologne
26/09 – THT/Paradiso Noord – Amsterdam
28/09 – SO36 – Berlin
29/09 – Ampere – Munich
01/10 – Les Docks – Lausanne
02/10 – Plaza Club and Bar – Zürich
03/10 – La Belle Electrique – Grenoble
04/10 – La Cooperative de Mai – Clermont-ferrand
05/10 – Artefact La Laiterie – Strasbourg
06/10 – Nürnberg Pop – Nürnberg

Taking to Instagram, Pitchfork announced on the 31^st May that British jazz quintet Ezra Collective will be opening the festival at the iconic Albert Hall on the 7^th November. Listen to their track with Loyle Carter “What Am I to Do?” below:

In addition, Japanese Ichiko Aboba and Cameroonian-American multi-instrumentalist Vagabon will now be supporting Weyes Blood for the closing show on the 13^th November at the Eventim Apollo.

Japanese pop band CHAI will also be performing at the renovated warehouse club Village Underground on the 10^th November. American poet and singer-songwriter Kara Jackson will be performing at Kings Place the following evening. Watch the video for CHAI’s song “Donuts Mind If I Do” below:

This year’s event will be run from the 7^th – 13^th November in various venues across the city including The Barbican, EartH, Hackney Church, KOKO, and The Roundhouse. In April, Pitchfork announced the first wave of artists performing at the festival including Crumb, Ryoji Ikeda, Porridge Radio, Sorry, Wednesday, MAVI & MIKE, Sleater-Kinney, U.S. Girls, Yaeji, yuné pinku, Youth Wagoon, and a headlining set from Weyes Blood closing the festival.

Tickets to the festival are sold individually for each event. For more information and to purchase tickets see here.

As well as in London, Pitchfork Music Festival will be hosted in Berlin and Paris this year. The Berlin edition of the festival will be held from the 1^st – 5^th November and take place in venues such as Zenner, Betonhalle at silent green, Kulturquartier, Astra Kulturhaus, and Festsaal Kreuzberg. The line-up includes sets from CHAI, Dudu Tassa and Jonny Greenwood, MAVI, MIKE, yunè pinku, Porridge Radio, and Annahstasia. For the complete line-up see the poster below.

Pitchfork Music Festival will then take place in Paris a day after the Berlin festival comes to a close and run from the 6^th – 12^th November. Held in venues such as Trabendo, Eglise Saint-Eustache, La Place, Petit Bain, the line-up will include Crumb, Dream Wife, Ichiko Aboba, Kara Jackson, Weyes Blood, and Youth Lagoon. For the complete line-up see the poster below.

This is the third year the Pitchfork Music Festival has been held in London. In previous years George Clanton, Injury Reserve, Faye Webster, Animal Collective, Courtney Barnett, Cate Le Bon, Stereolab, Black Midi, and Metronomy have played to audiences around London courtesy of the festival.

The band has also shared the first track from the album. Listen below to the dreamy “Snowman”:

The trio will begin touring their new album in the States this October and begin their 14-date European leg in mid-November starting with Genève. The band will then close the tour with 3 dates in the UK playing in Leeds, Bristol, and London.

Keeping with the theme of the album, the band will also be hosting special dinners at select restaurants in Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles in September, offering fans chance to spend some time with the band over a meal. Tickets are available through the exclusive album bundle, including a signed vinyl, a limited edition section1 magazine, and dinner with the band. For tickets and more information see here.

Sit Down For Dinner was a product of lockdown written and recorded over a five-year period. In 2020, lead singer Kazu Makino reading a passage from Joan Didion’s 2005 memoir, ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’, was struck by Didion’s reflections on her devastating experience of witnessing her husband’s sudden death at the dinner table. Makino thought of her own lost ritual of congregating for dinner with family. The line “You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends” eventually inspired the album’s title.

For the Pace brothers, family dinners also hold a cultural weight. “I know a lot of people eat and run, eat in front of their TV, or don’t care about it too much—and that’s OK—but we really do,” says Simone. “It’s a moment for us to sit down and have time with each other.” Pre-save the album here.

See below for Sit Down For Dinner’s tracklist:

1. Snowman
2. Kiss Her Kiss Her
3. Not for Me
4. Melody Experiment
5. Rest of Her Life
6. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 1
7. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 2
8. I Thought You Should Know
9. Before
10. If
11. Via Savona

Alt-rock trio Blonde Redhead first formed in New York in 1993 when Italian twin brothers Amedeo and Simone Pace met Japanese art student Kazu Makino by chance in an Italian restaurant. The band has dipped their toes in noise rock, dream pop, shoegaze, and art rock throughout its discography. They’ve cultivated a loyal following and gained a resurge in popularity after the closing track to 2000’s Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons, “For the Damaged Coda”, was used in a Rick and Morty episode and became a viral meme.

Listen to “For the Damaged Coda” below:

For all of Blonde Redhead’s upcoming European and UK dates see below:

23/09 – Montezuma Cafe – Paris
25/09 – Brilliant Corners – London
20/07 – The Lexington – London
20/11 – PTR LʼUsine – Genève
21/11 – Teatro Regio di Parma – Parma
23/11 – Gebaude 9 – Cologne
24/11 – Hole 44 – Berlin
25/11 – Bahnhof Pauli – Hamburg
27/11 – Aeronef – Lille
28/11 – La Cigale – Paris
29/11 – Stereolux – Nantes
01/12 – Antipode – Rennes
02/12 – La Sirene – La Rochelle
03/12 – Le Bikini – Toulouse
05/12 – Orangerie – Brussels
06/12 – Paradiso – Amsterdam
07/12 – De Zwerver – Leffinge
09/12 – Brudenell Social Club – Leeds
10/12 – Thekla – Bristol
12/12 – Village Underground – London