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Fans already frequent 3 Savile Row, a common Beatles attraction located in Mayfair, but as of 2027 they will be able to enter the exhibit and explore it all the way up to the famous rooftop where they sang their last song together.

Members of the band, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, both commented on the new project, giving it The Beatles’ stamp of approval. According to The Beatles website McCartney stated: “It was such a trip to get back to 3 Savile Row recently and have a look around. There are so many special memories within the walls, not to mention the rooftop. The team have put together some really impressive plans and I’m excited for people to see it when it’s ready.” Additionally, Starr noted “Wow, it’s like coming home,” affirming that visitors will be transported back to the 60s to re-experience the era of The Beatles.

Tom Greene, CEO of Apple Corps, also commented “We’re thrilled to bring Apple Corps back to its spiritual home and give The Beatles fans something truly special. Every single day, fans are taking pictures of the outside of 3 Savile Row – but next year they can go in and explore all seven floors of the iconic building, including the rooftop where even the railings remain the same from that famous day in 1969.”

So far, an opening date for the museum hasn’t been finalised, but you can sign up for updates and news via their website. Meanwhile, Starr’s tour with All Starr Band begins on the 28^th of May and McCartney’s upcoming album ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’  is set to come out on the 29^th of May.

The Smashing Pumpkins were one of the more interesting bands in the US’s alternative rock scene throughout the 90’s. Forming in Chicago in 1988 and breaking through with 1993’s ‘Siamese Dream’, Corgan and co. set themselves apart from the pack of American grunge bands with their ambitious approach to songwriting and theatre with ‘Mellon Collie’ in 1995. A 28-track double-album with conceptual elements, diverse instrumentation and Corgan’s iconic nasal vocals, the album brought Smashing Pumpkins seven Grammy nominations. Five singles released from the album, including hits ‘Zero’, ‘Tonight, Tonight’, and ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’ which won the Grammy in the Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal category.

Corgan, who wrote the majority of The Smashing Pumpkins’ music, gave ‘Mellon Collie’ a new lease of life in 2025 with its operatic reimagining. Working with Grammy-nominated conductor James Lowe, the music has been re-composed for the full 60-piece orchestra to back Corgan’s vocals. To give it its full title, the show ‘A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness Featuring Billy Corgan’ had a 7 show residency at Chicago’s Lyric Opera House last November.

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It was announced today that the show will be going international this September, starting with two nights at the Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre. From there, it goes to Belgium, France and Spain. Guest vocalists are arranged, with Ed Parks performing in London, Antwerp and Paris, while Madrid’s show has Sydney Mancasola, Zoie Reams, Dominick Valdes Chenes and Dean Murphy. The full list of shows is below.

September:
• 1 – Royal Festival Hall, London
• 2 – Royal Festival Hall, London
• 6 – Queen Elisabeth Hall, Antwerp (two shows)
• 8 – Salle Pleye, Paris
• 9 – Salle Pleye, Paris
• 11 – Palacio Vistalegre, Madrid

A press release describes the shows as looking to “re-imagine and pay homage to the era-defining album of the same name, whilst also expanding the definition and intention of opera”. Corgan, who is now also a popular podcaster and promotes his own wrestling company, posted on social media site X to say he was “so excited that this is finally announced! Thank you to all that have asked and are interested in attending. I guarantee you won’t be sorry if you do…”. He also took to Instagram to share his thoughts on the unique fusion of rock and opera in the concert, writing “opera and rock both tell stories of heightened emotions, and I am excited for both fans of my music and traditional opera fans to hear some truly inspired work; for the balance here is to honor both traditions in a magisterial way.”

Pre-sale tickets for the London shows go on sale tomorrow, Tuesday the 12th of May, at 10am, with general sale commencing at 10am on Thursday the 14th. A 30th anniversary reissue of ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ released in January this year, with The Smashing Pumpkins also due to drop a 35th anniversary version of debut album ‘Gish’ on the 29th of May on Corgan’s web store.

It is set to take place at the recently opened British Airways ARC venue. The residency opens on September 23 and continues on September 24, 27, 28 and 29. 

Morrison will be the first artist to complete a residency at the new British Airways ARC. It will officially open on June 16, located above the existing west exhibition hall in the Olympia, London. The venue is operated by AEG Presents. 

Lucy Noble, SVP UK Venues at AEG Presents expressed her excitement for Morrison’s forthcoming residency: “We are thrilled to welcome Van Morrison as the very first artist to have a residency at our brand-new venue. The shows are set to be incredible.” 

Morrison’s residency comes after he was recently awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Jazz FM Awards 2026. The ceremony took place in March this year where he performed his cover of Junior Wells’ ‘Snatch It Back And Hold It’ from Morrison’s 2026 album ‘Somebody Tried To Sell Me A Bridge.’  

Commenting on the Lifetime Achievement Award, Morrison said, “jazz and blues have always been at the heart of the music I love and the music I make. I’ve been fortunate to spend my life doing what I believe in, and it’s an honour to receive this recognition from Jazz FM.” 

‘Somebody Tried To Sell Me A Bridge’ was released in January this year and sees Morrison return to jazz and blues. The album features covers of icons such as B.B. King and Buddy Guy as well as original tracks. 

The London residency is not the only live appearance Morrison will be making. He is set to headline at the 60^th Montreux Jazz Festival this July alongside RAYE, Lewis Capaldi, Pinkpantheress and more. And he will also appear at Holland International Blues Festival in June. 

But the British Airways ARC shows are set to be a more intimate showing for Morrison. The venue has a capacity of only 3,800, and all of the shows will be completely seated. 

Other names already booked for the yet-to-be-opened British Airways ARC include Self Esteem (playing two nights, including the opening night, June 16), McFly, Zac Brown and Khalid. After Morrison’s residency, The British Airways ARC will have another jazz showing thanks to its programming partnership with the EFG London Jazz Festival. November 21 will see Branford Marsalis and Dianne Reeves Celebrate John Coltrane. 

Lucy Noble said, “We are very proud of our newest venue and to have this line-up of the first incredible artists set to play is a fantastic way to begin the British Airways ARC story. When fans come to see shows at British Airways ARC they are going to be able to enjoy world-class facilities across everything from sound to seating and we really can’t wait to open the doors” 

Tickets for Van Morrison’s London residency go on presale for AmericanExpress cardmembers on 9am Wednesday May 13. British Airways ARC is offering exclusive early ticket access from 9am Thursday May 14. Sign up to their newsletter at britishairwaysarc.co.uk for access. 

General ticket sale begins Friday May 15 at 9am. 

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How do you follow an album like ‘Brat’? The 2024 electropop LP was a commercial smash hit around the world, won three out of the nine Grammy Awards it was nominated for, and spawned its own cultural era with ‘Brat Summer’.

Well, Charli XCX decided to immortalise this period of her life in film, with the 2026 release of her movie ‘The Moment’, a mockumentary with her as lead star, telling a fictionalised tale of her life after the album and preparing for its massive world tour. ‘The Moment’ released in cinemas at the start of the year, around the same time as Emerald Fennell’s cinematic retelling of ‘Wuthering Heights’, which Charli XCX wrote the soundtrack for.

With her big screen break established, Charli has returned the focus to her career as a singer-songwriter. In an interview published by British Vogue in April, she made several allusions to a drastic change in style for her upcoming musical releases. Demoing a track backed by distorted guitars with a lyric “I think the dance floor is dead, so now we’re making rock music” led to rampant speculation that she would be reinventing herself as a full-blown rockstar. During the interview, Charli suggested whatever came next, it wouldn’t be like ‘Brat’, saying “If I’d made another album that felt more dance-leaning, it would have felt really hard, really sad. What’s interesting for me is to bend the possibilities of what my perspective on that could be.”

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For those who expected an immediate reinvention as a hard rock artist, you may be slightly disappointed – Charli took to social media last week with a behind-the-scenes studio clip and the playful caption “a video of me making a song called “rock music” that is not actually rock music which is funny because i never said i was making a rock album. love you xx”. The footage shows her at Rue Boyer Studios in Paris last October, working with frequent collaborators Finn Keane and A.G. Cook on the new track ‘Rock Music’.

While ‘Rock Music’, which released on the 8th of May, does feature the electric guitars and the chorus refrain “I think the dance floor is dead, so now we’re making rock music”, rock music it is not. The track centres around her trademark autotuned vocals and pop energy, but with a stomping rock beat and lyrics about headbanging. The single comes with a black-and-white music video supervised by ‘The Moment’ director Aidan Zamiri, showing Charli engaging in heavy music clichés like moshing and crowd-surfing, as well chaotic band scenes with cameos from Keane, Cook, and Charli’s husband and The 1975 drummer George Daniel.

‘Rock Music’ might not be her ‘Stairway To Heaven’, but it’s a lot of fun, and Charli XCX is clearly enjoying making music right now. You can stream the song now, with new music from her as-yet untitled seventh studio album expected later in the year.

One of the peerless founding bands of British rock music, The Rolling Stones formed in London in 1962, enjoying a career spanning 7 decades, 24 studio albums, and thousands of sold-out shows. The Stones lineup since 2021 consists of frontman Mick Jagger plus guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood – the band had been active since 1993 as a four-piece with Charlie Watts on drums before his death, but released 2023’s ‘Hackney Diamonds’ as a trio using some of Watts’ recordings. ‘Hackney Diamonds’ was their first full studio album since 2005, becoming their 14th UK number one album and winning them their fourth Grammy award.

Rumours of an album began earlier this year with the mystery emergence of ‘The Cockroaches’, a new group who released single ‘Rough and Twisted’ exclusively on a limited vinyl run this April. From snippets of the song posted during its social media campaign, the band was swiftly revealed to be The Rolling Stones acting under an alias, with the single being positively received as another strong release from the group. During the furore The Times reported that ‘Rough and Twisted’ was taken from their new album, which was due for a July release.

Their next promotional move was the plastering of cryptic messages on billboards in cities around the world, containing the phrase “foreign tongues” in various languages. As this unfolded in late April, fans quickly identified that it was the name of the new Stones album, before the band themselves confirmed everything on the 5th of May with the release of lead single ‘In The Stars’.

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‘Foreign Tongues’ will release on the 10th of July, boasting 14 tracks with appearances from Sir Paul McCartney, Robert Smith of The Cure, drummer Chad Smith of Red Hot Chilli Peppers fame, and Steve Winwood. As well as singles ‘In The Stars’ and the full release of ‘Rough and Twisted’, the LP will also feature one of the last tracks recorded by Watts, ‘Hit Me In The Head’, and country song ‘Ringing Hollow’. The whole album was completed at London’s Metropolis Studios in less than a month, and was developed with returning producer Andrew Watt, who previously worked with the band on ‘Hackney Diamonds’.

Following the announcement, the trio were guests on Conan O’Brien’s US talk show to discuss the album. Reported by The Guardian, Jagger discussed the diversity of music on the record, saying “The thing about this record is – the Stones are a rock band that also has the capacity to do ballads, country music or dance music. So we don’t get stuck in one kind of style.” They also talked about their desire to keep things interesting so deep into their careers, with Richards remarking “You don’t just want to sit on what you’ve done before. We put it together, we love to do it, and there is always something more in there.” Host O’Brien enthused that the album, which he claims to have received early and listened to “25 times”, bore similarity to 1972’s iconic ‘Exile on Main St.’ in its “vibrancy” and “urgency”.

‘Rough and Twisted’ and ‘In The Stars’ are out now, with a physical release for the latter coming on the 15th of May. ‘Foreign Tongues’ releases on Polydor and Geffen on the 10th of July, with pre-order links up now. The Rolling Stones have suggested that this won’t be their last album, and they have at least 10 songs written for a future release.

Members Jorja Douglas, Stella Quaresma, and Renée Downer are known for their contemporary take on R&B music and have a strong presence in the pop scene. FLO earned their first Grammy nomination for Best Progressive R&B Album in 2026 for their debut album ‘Access All Areas’. Although they didn’t take the title home this year, they made history being the first British girl group to be nominated in two decades. That being said, they were awarded their first MOBO for Best R&B/Soul Act in March.

Only a month after their big win, FLO revealed through a press release that they would be dropping more music. In the official statement FLO stated “We’re incredibly proud to finally share Therapy at the Club, our sophomore album, with the world. It’s a body of work that feels super personal to us; it’s been a labor of love. For us, the club is more than just a night out, it’s like therapy. I mean, where else do you feel more understood than in a girls bathroom on a night out… that’s the vibe!”

“We’ve been very hands-on with the writing and creation of this project alongside our very special collaborators, and that’s made it even more meaningful to us. This album represents where we are right now- honest, evolving, and unafraid to feel everything. We really hope you love it!”

FLO has yet to reveal their other track titles, however they have uploaded an album trailer with vivid storytelling to tease the upcoming LP. Additionally, ‘Leak it’ was released with a flashy music video featuring the girls’ dancing abilities that has given them their stellar reputation.

While they haven’t scheduled a tour for 2026, today they announced a set of dates for ‘Therapy In Session’ where they will be holding acoustic sessions. They will be going to 8 different locations in July to host a Q&A and play some of their new material. Tickets go on sale tomorrow on the 8^th of May at 11am. As well as this, they will be attending Radio 1 Big Weekend on the 24^th of May as well as Outloud Music Festival between the 5^th and 7^th of June.

The album is available to pre-order and pre-save now via their website.

When Alissa White-Gluz first joined Swedish melodic death metal group Arch Enemy in 2014, she was stepping into some big shoes – her predecessor Angela Gossow had raised the bar incredibly high for female death metal vocals. White-Gluz in turn lifted the bar higher, bringing both guttural screams and powerful clean singing in one package, providing the band a new edge to their sound across 11 years and 4 studio albums. Upon leaving Arch Enemy in November last year, White-Gluz directed her attention to her solo efforts under the simple moniker ‘Alissa’, as well as founding all-female group Blue Medusa.

DragonForce meanwhile have continued to release technical power metal albums packed with their frantic guitar noodling since breaking into the mainstream with 2006 hit ‘Through The Fire And Flames’. The song gained cult status, especially following its inclusion as one of the most difficult tracks on 2007 video game ‘Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock’, and the 2005 album ‘Inhuman Rampage’, of which it was the lead single, has been acclaimed as one of the most important power metal albums by both Metal Hammer and Loudwire. With ‘Inhuman Rampage’ marking its 20th anniversary last year, the group have been gearing up to celebrate the milestone in style.

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DragonForce announced White-Gluz’s arrival today, posting that they welcome her as “the band’s newest member and first frontwoman”. Both acts have worked together in the past, with Alissa providing guest vocals on a remixed version of DragonForce’s track ‘Burning Heart’ in 2025. She will slot in alongside their continuing lead singer Marc Hudson, her harsh growls and low singing voice complimenting his soaring melodic wails, with the post also revealing she will join them for live duties starting this week. White-Gluz’s tenure with the band begins with US shows at Welcome To Rocksville on Saturday the 9th of May, and Sonic Temple on the 17th.

In a statement, DragonForce guitarist Herman Li remarked “Alissa joining the band is an expansion of everything we’ve done up to this point. 20 years is a long time to do anything, let alone survive the music industry and still be so inspired to continue doing what we love. Together we will honour what made Inhuman Rampage matter, while showing people exactly where we’re going next. Having Alissa in the room changes everything. She doesn’t just sing, she makes all aspects of our music better. And she sounds incredible live! I can’t wait for the fans to see her and hear what we have been working on.” White-Gluz also added “I am beyond excited to be bringing such iconic music to life with these amazingly skilled musicians in such a fun and inspiring environment. It feels great to showcase all the colours of my voice and utilise all my singing styles in technically challenging, deeply energising, highly addictive songs.”

DragonForce have confirmed plans for more shows in support of ‘Inhuman Rampage’’s 20th birthday, as well as new music to be announced soon. For Alissa White-Gluz, the year is already phenomenally busy – Blue Medusa released debut single ‘Checkmate’ in March, and her first solo album is rumoured to release later this year after she dropped her debut Alissa track ‘The Room Where She Died’ last November.

The tour will showcase Townsend’s new album ‘The Moth’ which includes 24 new songs, 2 of which have already been released. So far, Townsend has dropped ‘Enter the City’ and ‘Home at Night’ which are both accompanied by music videos that can be seen on YouTube. The deluxe album will be released via InsideOut on the 29^th of May.

During his North American tour in 2025, Townsend had told his followers that he would be taking a break from touring for the “foreseeable future”. Approximately a year later, he is ready to take on the stage, but he won’t be doing this quietly. ‘The Moth’ is one of his biggest and most anticipated projects to date. He hinted to its curation almost a decade ago as he told Vice in 2017 “(The Moth) It started out as just being a symphony, but then I was like, “I can’t get ten million bucks to just do a symphony.” I needed to make it like a musical, with orchestras and choirs.” When asked when it would happen, he stated “It’s gonna take so much and I don’t want to nickel-and-dime it. If it takes a year or two, I can do another DTP record.” For nearly 10 years, Townsend has invested money and time into making his concept a reality.

In the official press release, Townsend explained the meaning behind his latest project: “I’ve heard people say that The Moth feels like my “life’s work.” Maybe that’s true on some level, but it also represents a version of my life that no longer exists, partly because of what it took to make it, and partly because of the closure that came from creating it.”

For fans that plan on attending his shows, he tells them to “Expect something different. The set will change from night to night, but the idea is simple: a modern take on a one man band. Just me, the music, a stage full of weirdness, and the stories behind it all.” Although he has yet to announce a full orchestral production for ‘The Moth’ in its entirety, fans can expect to hear different tracks from ‘The Moth’ each night, as well as other works in his discography.

Tickets for the ‘Metamorphosis’ tour go on sale on the 8^th of May at 10am while presale starts on the 7^th of May. Further information regarding tour dates and tickets can be found on his website.

2026 Tour Dates:

Sep 1 – Birmingham, UK- Glee Club
Sep 2 – Bath, UK- Komedia
Sep 3 – Southampton, UK- The 1865
Sep 4 – Exeter, UK- The Phoenix
Sep 6 – London, UK- Union Chapel
Sep 7 – Oslo, Norway- Sentrum Scene
Sep 9 – Gothenburg, Sweden- Pustervik
Sep 10 – Stockholm, Sweden- Nya Cirkus
Sep 12 – Helinski, Finland- Finlandia Talo
Sep 15 – Hamburg, Germany- Markthalle
Sep 16 – Warsaw, Poland- Klub Stodola
Sep 18 – Vienna, Austria- Simm City
Sep 20 – Zurich, Switzerland- Volkhaus
Sep 22 – Paris, France- Bataclan
Sep 23 – Marseille, France- LE CEPAC Silo
Sep 26 – Munich, Germany- Werk 7 Theatre
Sep 28 – Cologne, Germany- Stadthalle Köln-Mülheim Jülich
Sep 29 – Utrecht, Netherlands- TivoliVredenburg
Oct 1 – Brighton, UK- The Old Market
Oct 2 – Cardiff, UK- The Gate
Oct 3 – Glasgow, UK- Oran Mor
Oct 4 – Manchester, UK- RNCM
Oct 6 – Leeds, UK- Howard Assembly Rooms

Five Finger Death Punch (FFDP) formed in Las Vegas in 2005, releasing their explosive debut ‘The Way Of The Fist’ in 2007. A ferocious, fast-paced blitz of heavy metal with emotional themes, the LP and its lead single ‘The Bleeding’ won the band a large audience almost immediately. Since its release, FFDP have become one of the biggest American bands in the genre, releasing 9 hugely-popular albums and breaking a record on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay Chart for most consecutive number one singles. Last year’s ‘The End feat. Babymetal’ became their 13th chart-topper in a row, their 17th overall, and the first to use Japanese lyrics.

With 20 years passing since their inception, the band announced a massive 48-show US tour two weeks ago, as the first part of a world tour reveal. Today’s set of dates for the UK and Europe was just the second instalment in a bigger list of anniversary celebrations, as founding guitarist Zoltan Bathory says – “This World Tour is the celebration that milestone deserves. First leg is America in 2026, then Europe in 2027, and we’re not stopping there! South America, Australia, Asia are all in the talks. This is going to be a big two or three years for Five Finger Death Punch, and we’re just getting started.“

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The tour opens in January next year with five dates in Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin, Birmingham and London, before travelling across mainland Europe. FFDP will be bringing US metal veterans Lamb Of God along for all but the Prague and Copenhagen shows, as well as Scottish modern-metal titans Bleed From Within for all dates. The UK and Ireland shows for January 2027 are:

16 – AO Arena, Manchester
17 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
19 – 3Arena, Dublin
22 – BP Pulse Arena, Birmingham
23 – The O2, London

According to Kerrang, the setlist for the 20th anniversary tour will include songs from across their career, ranging from their 2007 debut to as-yet unreleased music from their rumoured 10th album. The band’s last releases were their 2025 ‘Best Of’ re-recording compilations – re-tracked and reissued after former label ‘Prospect Park’ sold the master recordings without FFDP’s consent.

Tickets for Five Finger Death Punch’s European Tour go on general sale on Friday the 8th of May at 10AM. Check the band’s website for full world tour dates and news.

At only 20 years old, she attended her first movie premiere for The Devil Wears Prada 2 and told her Instagram followers “One of my biggest dreams has always been to make music for movies, and this is my first song in a film.” She added that ‘Material Lover’ is “a song about loving real things in a world of AI, and everything digital.”

‘Material Lover’ was written by Spiro herself and has been released with a music video which can be seen on YouTube. She also told her followers, “We shot this in a few hours before the premiere. I love real things & I love New York,” a little nod to the lyrics.

While Spiro is known for her unique style and distinct voice, she explained where her inspiration really came from with Ary Russell for Interview Magazine, stating “I love the personality and character of the sixties, and how individual it is.”

“Nancy Sinatra, Barbara Streisand, and Francoise Hardy are amazing women who I just admire a lot.”

“The way I sing is the main way I pay homage to  those artists because that’s how I learned to sing.”

Prior to ‘Material Lover’, Spiro had dropped her long-awaited song ‘The Visitor’ because of popular demand from fans on social media. However, in the same interview told Russell, “’The Visitor’ I wrote nine times and I genuinely have nine finished versions of that song. I believed in it so much and everyone was sick of me.”

The ‘Die on This Hill’ singer has had an incredible year on her journey to stardom. Spiro has yet to release an album and has already performed on The Tonight Show, been nominated for BRITs Critics’ Choice Award, and made it to Forbes’ 30 Under 30. She has had an incredible run, and we hope to see her expanding her discography soon.

Spiro has currently finished the North American leg of ‘The Visitor’ tour and she is due to return to the UK for more shows on the 15^th of May. She will perform in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and London after taking on Dublin. In addition, she will be performing at the All Things Go Festival on the 27^th of September.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 came out on the 1^st of May and is currently being screened in cinemas, while ‘Material Lover’ can be streamed on Spotify and other platforms.