The tour begins this October. Last year, they released their fourth studio album ‘Smitten’, with lyrics largely drawn from lead singer Heather Baron-Gracie’s teenage diary, offering an intimate look into her emotions surrounding her queer identity. The album’s soundscape takes inspiration from artists like Kacey Musgraves and Dolores O’Riordan of The Cranberries.

In an interview with MXDWN, Heather Baron-Gracie discussed in further detail the inspirations and creative processes behind the album. She reflects on how she’s evolved from her younger self when discussing the track ‘Miss America’, saying: “Miss America, it was kind of how my past behaviours weren’t great, I had not been the best partner to someone and I think in the moment I would justify that and give it reasoning. But I think being older and being able to reflect and now I can hold my hands up high and be like, no, I definitely was in the wrong and I should have done better, but I think in the moment I wouldn’t have admitted that. So, I think it’s all about reflection and being able to kind of admit when you are wrong and when you’ve not done right.”

Discussing the sound of the record, Baron-Gracie says: “It has those ’80s dreamy and anthemic guitars and the twinkly synths and the big choruses, and I think that’s just what we do best. So it was just naturally the kind of music that we wanted to write and what we write best.”

For the 2025 ‘Still Smitten’ tour, the band expressed a desire to perform in spots across the UK and Ireland that often go unnoticed. They said in a statement to the press: “We’re so excited to announce our new tour—this time, we’re heading to places across the UK and Ireland that often get overlooked. These aren’t your typical tour stops, but that’s exactly why we chose them. We wanted to bring the show to places that deserve more love, those underrated spots that are full of character and loyal fans we’ve been dying to play for.

“This tour isn’t about the biggest venues. It’s about the biggest feelings.”

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Check out the tour dates below:

PALE WAVES’ ‘STILL SMITTEN’ TOUR

OCTOBER

13th – Sunderland – The Old Fire Station
14th – Stoke-On-Trent – The Sugarmill
16th – Manchester – O2 Ritz
17th – Cardiff – The Tramshed
18th – Wrexham – The Rocking Chair
20th – Brighton – CHALK
21st – Southampton – Engine Rooms
22nd – Norwich – The Waterfront
23rd – Bournemouth – The Old Fire Station
25th – Oxford – O2 Academy
28th – Dublin – The Academy
29th – Belfast – Limelight
30th – Cork – Cyprus Avenue

Tickets go on sale today, 26 June, and are available here.

The fresh new track is a garage-punk thunderstorm as frontman Matt Bigland sonically fights against the difficulties he faced during the band’s six month hiatus due to his ongoing battle with ulcerative colitis. Bigland spoke to Kerrang! about his relationship with his own identity during his health issues. He said, “I was experimenting with weed again to see if I could balance my mental state a little better, and one day, I was wondering if I was in a cycle of kind of self-fulfilling cause and effect; I’m sick of being down when I’m high, cos I’m high when I’m sick of being down”, quoting the repeated lyrics ending the song.

‘I’ve Felt Better’ continues to capture empowerment through personal struggle as the band have released several hard-hitting bangers in the run up to the album’s release. Fan favourite ‘Bout To Lose It’, a thrashing release of emotion was shared this march with a simple, yet powerful music video of the band performing together, united in their frustrations.

 

With the release of their track ‘Big Dogs’ in May, the band challenged fans on TikTok to create content around the song for a chance to win two tickets to one of their London Headline shows, two merch bundles and a VIP ride to The Electric Ballroom.

@dpuofficial Think you’ve got what it takes to Live Like a Big Dog? Here’s how to join the challenge: Create your own content using our track “Big Dogs” — it can be a meme, video edit, performance, or anything wild and creative. Post it on TikTok or Instagram Reels. Make sure you use the official “Big Dogs” sound from Dinosaur Pile-Up. Tag @dpuofficial in your post. Use the hashtags: #DPU and #livelikeabigdog Competition opens Tuesday, 27th May and closes 27th June. We can’t wait to see what you come up with. Let’s get wild! #newmusic #rock #alt #ontour #dinosaurpileup ♬ original sound – Dinosaur Pile Up

Dinosaur Pile-Up are also down to be involved in the farewell show for Sheffield’s The Leadmill, set to close on June 28th. The closure of the venue comes at the heartbreak of many fans and musicians. Last month Pulp and Longpigs guitarist Richard Hawley spoke out about the issue, pleading for a change in legislation. 

Dinosaur Pile-Up will play one of the final gigs at the venue, on 24 June with support from HotWax. Find tickets on The Leadmill website.

The alt-rock band are also setting off for their UK headline tour in September, their first set of shows since 2019. The tour opens at XOYO, Birmingham, and ends with London’s Electric Ballroom. Find tickets and exciting updates from the band on their official website.

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Earlier this week, the band replied to an X post that read “had a dream last night that wolf alice announced their new album”, to which the band replied “dream or vision?”. The post left fans speculating and got them really excited with @gherkinroswell posting “Wolf Alice are BACK.”

Theo Ellis, bass player, interacted to the post with an egg timer to suggest the start of LP4 countdown.

The ‘Don’t Delete The Kisses’ songwriters were confirmed to be playing at Glastonbury festival this June and BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Liverpool this May. Front singer, Ellie Rowsell took some time away from the band last year to write the score for short film HERMIT starring Emma Corrin.

The Mercury Prize-winning indie rockers released the EP ‘Blue Lullaby’, lullaby versions of songs from their acclaimed LP ‘Blue Weekend’, in 2022. They also supported Harry Styles during his ‘Love On Tour’ world tour in 2022, with the two singer  duetting with Wolf Alice’s track ‘No Hard Feelings’ from ‘Blue Weekend’.

‘Emita Ox’ will be the follow-up to the band’s self-titled second album which was released last year to acclaim. According to a press release the upcoming LP sees them push “harder into heavy distortion and psychedelic dreamscapes”. The band co-produced the album themselves along with Alex Farrar who has worked with the likes of MJ Lenderman and Indigo De Souza. The production of the album demonstrates how the band’s tastes and influences have changed over the years, now being influenced by more progressive and experimental bands such as Swans and Black Midi. The group’s bassist, Mikaela Oppenheimer, said that “This album encompasses a lot of our inspirations. It also shows what we’re like as a trio, collectively.” 

The forthcoming project was recorded earlier this year in Asherville, North Carolina, with the band playing all the instruments heard on the record. The album sees the band’s contributions to the songwriting and production bleed into each other as well as being a showcase of their individual strengths as musicians. Drummer, Stella Wave said: “We map out all the sections beforehand, we like to write intricate parts that complement each other”.

She continued talking about how the songs on the album represent tough times for the band: “This album represents a period of time that’s very meaningful to us. The songs are related to things that we all know about, even if it’s not out on the table for everyone else. The songwriting and recording process was a very heavy time that I will never forget.” 

‘Three’ references the title of the album as it tells the fairy tale of a girl named Emita and her pet Ox. Singer, Helena Straight, said: “‘Three’ was written after I’d been in a creative rut that lasted a couple months. I wasn’t focused on getting any message across. My intention was just to write a full song, whether I ended up liking it or not.”  

The full track list and artwork for ‘Emita Ox’ is below: 

1. Float
   2. 0%
   3. Three
   4. Down My Life
   5. Knowing You
   6. Heavy Sleeper
   7. Footstep Misstep
   8. Courtesy
   9. Hiyeahi
   10. Bubble
   11. Everything We Do 

As well as releasing their new album later this year, the group are set to play a run of shows in the UK. They’ll be making their Debut in the UK, playing a set at the End Of The Road Festival later this month as well as playing Manchester Psych Fest and Edinburgh Psych Fest. They will then play two headline shows in London at The Windmill Brixton and The Shackwell Arms respectively. They will then take to the stage on a run of dates as support for American Football. You can buy the remaining tickets for their UK shows here.

Hello Mary’s full list of 2024 UK dates are below: 

Aug 30 – End of the Road Festival – Dorset, UK
Aug 31 – Manchester Psych Fest – Manchester, UK
Sept 1 – Edinburgh Psych Fest – Edinburgh, UK
Sept. 4 – The Shacklewell Arms – London, UK 
Sept 5 – Brixton Windmill – London, UK 
Sept 11 – Rock City – Nottingham, UK
Sept 12 – Barrowland Ballroom – Glasgow, UK
Sept 13 – Bristol SWX – Bristol, UK 
Sept 14 – Roundhouse – London, UK 

According to Kerrang The Struts are promising their “best show to date” which they announced in an Instagram post earlier today letting fans know they are “excited to announce The Grand Union Tour, kicking off in September!” The rest of the post reads “Join us for co-headline dates across the UK and EU. Tickets and select VIP packages are on sale everywhere starting Friday, 21st June. See you there!”

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Their fan base are beyond excited for the their return to europeoan shores however some were quick to notice that Spain was left off of the list of dates. And that isn’t the first time according to fans who flooded the comment section with fans asking “Why do you [The Struts] always leave Spain out of your tours?” And another commenting “And Barcelona? Come on guys we miss youuu.”

Loudersound magazine reported frontman Luke Spiller declaring the quartet “are really looking forward to getting back out… alongside our long-term friend and partner in rock, Barns Courtney…It truly is going to be the hottest ticket in town.” Co-headliner Courtney has opened for artists including “The Who”, “The Libertines”, “Ed Sheeran”, “The Lumineers” and “Tom Odell”. The singer has has currently released two studio albums including his debut “The Attractions of Youth” which hit the shelves in 2017 and “404” which was released two years later in 2019.

The tour will begin Leeds on September 28th and continue on until October 21st hitting 18 different European cities. “The Grand Union Tour” will kick off in the UK and the band will play such as venues such as Manchester’s Albert Hall, Birmingham’s O2 Institute and and wrapping up the UK let off the tour at London’s iconic venue Roundhouse. They will then hit the road in Europe where they will be taking on cities like Paris, Berlin, Milan, Brussels, Copenhagen and many more.

The band have invited Aylesbury’s Barns Courtney along to play alongside them who toured with the band in 2024 for their headline American tour for their fourth studio album, ‘Pretty Vicious” which was released in 2023. The Derby band formed in 2012 and just two years after their formation performed for 80,000 people as the opener for the Rolling Stones in Paris and later for the Foo Fighters in 2018. The group is made up of lead singer Luke Spiller, guitarist Adam Slack, bassist Jed Elliott, and drummer Gethin Davies.

Tickets go on sale this Friday the 21st of June and you can grab them on the Ticketmaster website from this link here. Check out the website and the promotional poster below for a list of all dates.

The news was announced in an Instagram post after the gig and stated that though the band had managed 8 years ‘dodging the unfortunate inevitable’ the window to their van was smashed whilst there were playing in Manchester.

The post shows a picture of the broken window along with the caption reading ‘Help us out if you can!’ The band are currently undertaking their first-ever headlining tour in the U.K., which kicked off on the 5th of June, when thieves broke into their van and stole many personal belongings. Fortunately, the band’s equipment was not in the van and therefore they can continue with the rest of the European tour however the luggage of their drummer Chris Enriquez, their sound engineer Terence, and their driver Ian all had their luggage stolen which contained valuable personal belongings like iPads as well and clothes and toiletries.

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On the GoFundMe page set up by frontman Mario Quintero detailed that the main priority for the band is make sure those that lost their clothes and toiletries have access to them. The description for the donation page reads ‘We’re extremely lucky that we had all of our equipment with us at the time but Chris, our sound engineer Terence, and our driver/merch Ian all had their luggage stolen. There were laptops, iPads and all their clothes and personal belongings in there.’ The band are also required to ‘pay a hefty deductible to the rental company for insurance’ due to the damages made to the vehicle.

‘Losing My Grip’ feat. @mrjasonaalon of @fever333 filmed live at Wembley Arena, U.K is out now.

+ Enter Shikari will head out on a short U.K tour of more intimate venues in November and December! Taking along the excellent @TeenageWrist for the ride. pic.twitter.com/nlO8kCscLL

— ENTER SHIKARI (@ENTERSHIKARI) June 12, 2024

While their last tour, which was their biggest UK tour to date, supported smaller venues by donating £1 of every ticket sold for the arena tour to the Music Venue Trust, this upcoming tour will see the St. Albans four-piece play at some of these smaller venues.

The band will commence this intimate tour at the Foundry in Torquay on the 26th of November before playing in Sheffield, Liverpool, Norwich and Birmingham, and will finish the tour at Lees Cliff Hall in the seaside town of Folkestone in Kent. They will be joined by Los Angeles Alt. rock band, Teenage Wrist, on all of the dates.

Speaking about this upcoming more personal tour, frontman and producer Rou Reynolds highlighted the importance of giving back to fans saying that “People often travel considerable distances to come to live shows, so we feel it’s important for us to make the effort as well sometimes and play places that your standard tour wouldn’t normally.”

He added “On this run we’ve got some smaller stops that we haven’t played in ages, sandwiched in with cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Glasgow, that we didn’t get to visit on our arena tour.”

He also told fans that this may well be the last UK tour for a little while: “As much as we love the bigger rooms it’s going to be killer to play some smaller sweatier places again, and as these will be our last UK shows for quite a while, we couldn’t go into hiding without one last visit to the Barras!”

This announcement comes alongside a video for the live performance of their recent single, ‘Losing My Grip’, at Wembley arena. The single, that was released in January, saw them collab with Fever 333’s Jason Aalon Butler and will be included in their upcoming album, ‘Dancing On the Frontline’, which is going to include various Shakari sound system mixes as well as some BBC live sessions of their songs and this will be released on the 5th of July via So Recordings.

Tickets for the band’s upcoming tour go on presale on June 17 at 10am with general sale beginning on the 19th of June at the same time. You can buy your tickets here.

The full list of dates for the tour are below:

NOVEMBER

26 – Foundry, Torquay
28 – Octagon, Sheffield
29 – Mountford Hall, Liverpool
30 – Gliderdrome, Boston

DECEMBER

01 – UEA, Norwich
03 – Barrowland, Glasgow
04 – Globe, Stockton
06 – O2 Academy, Birmingham
07 – Lees Cliff Hall, Folkestone

The all day festival first formed in 2016 and has had a hand in propelling the careers of indie artists such as Sam Fender, Holly Humberstone and Alfie Templeman. The festival has been dubbed ‘the place to discover the next big thing’. The multi-venue festival boasts 100+ artists this year and will take place on Saturday the 5th of October 2024 across 16 different Manchester venues. This year’s line-up currently includes Manchester’s own indie rock band Pale Waves who are set to headline the festival as well as the UK’s new favourite tortured poet, Seb Lowe, who has previously supported 70s rock legend Patti Smith.

Pale Waves debuted a new song at their London gig on Friday and just three days ago they announced some exciting upcoming news which fan’s are speculating will be a forthcoming album or tour considering the unreleased song which was played for fans on Friday.

We’ve got something to tell you… Sign up to be the first to hear https://t.co/4oDOdlf3gv pic.twitter.com/PonaTXbXx0

— PALE WAVES (@palewaves) May 23, 2024

The Neighbourhood Festival team posted the line up on their Instagram which you can view below. If you’re interested in seeing the next wave of acts booked to play the festival, you can keep up to date with announcements on their Instagram @nbhdfestival.

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Alongside headliners Pale Waves, the line up includes Birmingham’s ‘Overpass’ who have taken the Black Country by storm with their startling sound. The band feature in the line-up of some of the UK’s most iconic festivals this year including TruckFest and Derbyshire’s Y Not. ‘The Vamp’s’ Bradley Simpson will also be performing his solo work and you can also catch a glimpse of Liverpools ‘The Mysterines’ who released their debut album in 2022 and are currently preparing for the related of their sophomore record, Afraid of Tomorrows, which will hit the shelves on the 21st of June.

Fan’s are delighted that the city will be brimming with musicality yet again after the disappointing news that Manchester’s infamous May Neighbourhood Weekender will be put on hiatus until 2025. If you’re unfamiliar with the structure of a cross-city festival like Neighbourhood Festival, the idea is that you can collect your wristband on the day the festival which grants ticket holders access to any of the participating venues across the city allowing festival-goers  ‘venue-hop’ to catch all their favourite bands and artists in one day. Some of the venues which are set to host include including the Ritz, Gorilla and Albert Hall. The all day festival is essentially a small-scale version of the Neighbourhood Weekender which has hosted the likes of The Wombats, The Kooks, Sugarbabes and Scouting For Girls.

Tickets went on sale last Friday the 24th of may and you can get your hands on them from any of the following websites by using the links provided; Gigs and Tours, Ticketmaster, See Tickets and Dice. You can see the full list of current acts on the flyer below.

The Aussie rock band are currently touring their home country in honour of the 20th anniversary of their 2003 debut album Get Born, which they have been performing in full across their various gigs. Get Born is their highest charting work, holding the number one spot in Australia after its release and securing its rightful place in the top 20 of the UK’s charts. Following Get Born’s entrance into the world, The Rolling Stones offered Jet a supporting role on their headlining tour in 2003. As well as their own headlining shows for the debut album, the band played over 200 gigs throughout that year. Get Born’s lead single ‘Are You Gonna Be My Girl’ has dominated the scenes of house parties, adverts across the last 20 years and, most notably to much of the UK, appeared in the British classic animated film Flushed Away in 2006.

As for new music from the group, they have just released the new single, Hurry Hurry and are working on their long-awaited fourth album, which is set for release in 2025. The single released on the 9th of May came with a special announcement of a 2 track 7”vinyl in   burnt orange which was only limited to 200 copies and sold out almost instantly as noted in an instagram post from the band. The b-side features a track called Un’avventura; a cover of Wilson Picket’s cover of a song originally by Lucio Battisti. Frontman Nic Caster performs on the track in both English and Italian which is a gesture to the last 15 years he has spent living in Como with his wife Pia McGeoch. The songs are not yet released on streaming sites but you can score a free download of the track on their website by signing up to The Jet’s mailing list here.

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It’s no surprise that people are delighted at this announcement as fans have been anticipating a new album since September 2016 when the band declared they would be re-forming to support shows for Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band in February 2017 after their original 2012 disbandment. This album will arrive 16 years after the release of Jet’s third studio album Shaka Rock which came out in summer 2009. You can listen to Hurry Hurry below on the Jet’s YouTube channel.

Tickets for the shows, listed below, go on sale on the Ticketmaster website here from 10am BST on Friday the 24th of May. If you’re reading from America you can find tickets here or if you’re based in Australia, you can grab the few remaining tickets from Ticketmaster here or from the link in the @jet.theband Instagram bio, but make sure you’re quick as tickets are selling at rapid rate and the band are currently playing back to back, sold out shows weekly.

 

 

 

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Formed after the dissolution of frontman Perry Farell’s previous band, Jane’s Addiction gained attention from Warner Bros. Records in 1987 with the release of their self titled live album. Since then, the band have sporadically toured and dissolved a number of times the first being in 1991 where their farewell tour launched the first Lollapalooza – an annual four day festival held in Grant Park Chicago. Lollapalooza has since become a revered alternative rock festival evolving to include genres like hip hop and electronic dance music and even expanded outside of the US in 2010. ‘Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza’, a three part documentary on the festival, debuted at Sundance film festival in January and will premiere on May 21st on Paramount +. Give it a watch if you are curious about the member’s projects outside of the band.

The band describe themselves as a kind of farrago or ‘Hodge-Podge'; that is a mass of disorderly chaos, or a jumble. Born out of the LA underground rock scene, the band recall this space fondly as it gave them a chance to make mistakes and define who they are now. In a 2012 interview with Rhino, infamous guitarist Dave Navarro expressed that the band are just doing ‘what we want and don’t really worry about it. I mean, listen to the lyrics of “Have A Cigar.” What a direct ‘f*ck you’ to the music industry that song is.’ Unfortunately fans of the band may be disappointed as Navarro hasn’t returned to the stage due to ongoing issues with long Covid. Instead, he has been replaced by Josh Klinghoffer who, like Navarro, is best known for touring with the Red Hot Chili Peppers between the years 2009 and 2019. In 2022 speaking to Alternative Press, Farell expressed that it wasn’t easy finding a replacement for Navarro noting that ‘Jane’s is a unique band, and you can’t just grab any guitar player and they’ll pick it up. That’s Dave Navarro we’re talking about — those are big shoes to fill.’

If you’re attending the Derby festival of any of the band’s gigs then according to an article written by Niall Doherty, for Louder Magazine in April ‘what you should really do is shout out (not when Perry is talking, that would be rude) for the band to play either their epic, ten-minute 1990 single Three Days or the similarly vast Then She Did…’ or at least that’s what Farell told the journalist when speaking to him in 2021. You can listen to the lengthy piece below.

The remainder of the UK leg of their tour sees them playing at the Roundhouse in London and then onto Glasgow at the Barrowland Ballroom on the 31st of May before ending in Manchester with a show at the O2 Apollo on the 2nd of June. They will then travel to across to Europe to play shows in Germany and France before returning to this side of the pond in late June for a show at Trinity College Dublin on the 28th. You can find tickets for the Bush Hall show and any other of the band’s gigs over the coming weeks here.