Commencing the tour in mid-July, Mac will play in LA (his first tour show since 2022) before playing three consecutive dates at Webster Hall in New York. He will then travel to Paris to play at Cabaret Sauvage for three shows and end the tour with a three-date residency at Hackney Empire, London.

Sharing the announcement on his Facebook Mac wrote that the tour “Should be nice, should be different, hopefully, it will be special. Hope to see you there”.

Mac dropped his fifth studio album Five Easy Hot Dogs on the 20^th January. Though, unlike his previous albums, it’s comprised of instrumental numbers Mac’s laidback and mellow signature style is still present. It received generally positive reviews from critics.

In true chilled-out drifter attitude, Mac had no set plan when recording the record instead taking inspiration from his time on the road. “The plan was to start driving north, and not go home to Los Angeles until I was done with a record,” said Mac in a press release. “Kind of like being on tour, except there weren’t any shows, and I’d just be burning money.”

He expanded to say that the people he met shaped the album: “Some places I stayed longer in than others, some of them I knew from the past, others not so much.  I tried to keep things busy all the time. If I didn’t know what was up in a city, I’d just walk around ‘til someone recognized me and go from there. I met a lot of interesting people this way, and had a bunch of cool experiences.”

Watch the accompanying visuals to the album below:

The slacker-rock icon is adored by Gen Z for his viral TikTok hits such as “Heart to Heart” and “Chamber of Reflection”. MacBriare Samuel Lanyon DeMarco first began recording as a solo artist in 2011 after moving to Montreal. His second album, Salad Days, peaked at number 30 on the US Billboard 200 and 90 on the UK Album Charts and from there, Mac’s fame has only risen.

Last weekend was a busy time for Mac with the singer clambering onto the Coachella stage not once but twice to the surprise and delight of attendees. The Garden brought out the singer to add their chaotic performance on the 14^th April. DeMarco and iconic bassist and vocalist Thundercat also joined the Jazz duo DOMi and JD BECK on the same day.

For tickets and more information on Mac DeMarco’s tour see here.

See below for all Europe and UK dates:

24/07/23 – Cabaret Sauvage – Paris
25/07/23 – Cabaret Sauvage – Paris
26/07/23 – Cabaret Sauvage – Paris
30/07 – Hackney Empire – London
31/07 – Hackney Empire – London
01/08 – Hackney Empire – London

Red Sun Titans will include 12 new tracks alongside the singles “A Ladder” and “In The Moment”. It’s the band’s first album since 2020’s Sanctuary. Click here to pre-order the album.

For the album’s full track list see below:

1. Alkali
2. Red Sun Titans
3. From Beruit (Interlude)
4. A Ladder
5. In The Moment
6. Heels To The Moon
7. Floating In The Undercurrent (Interlude)
8. White Lightning
9. Suburbia
10. In My Way
11. The Interview
12. Haunted Spaces (Interlude)
13. Napoleon
14. Collapse

Frontman Felix Bushe described the album as “caught in between two worlds” in a press release. Red Sun Titans was mixed and produced by British recording engineer Matt Glasbey, who has worked alongside alt-J, Ed Sheeran, Maisie Peters, and Coldplay, and executive produced by Charlie Andrew, who has worked with Wolf Alice, London Grammar, Bloc Party, and alt-J.

The UK tour was announced via the band’s Instagram on the 21^st April. “We cannot wait to see you and play songs old and new”, the band captioned the post. Starting with Leicester in late September, Gengahr will play nine dates around the country concluding in London in October. Gengahr is also on the bill for several festivals this summer including Truck, Ventnor Fringe, Brighten the Corners, Live at Leeds, The Great Escape, Kendall Calling, and Secret Garden Party. For tickets see here.

So far two singles have been released from the album. Sunny single “A Ladder” dropped back in February giving fans a first taste of the album’s poppy psychedelic sound. The music video for the track (directed by Billy Howard Price, founding member of three-piece alt-rock band Puppy, and childhood friend of Bushe) sees the band donning lab coats and examining fuzzy pastel-coloured bacteria under microscopes.

The second bliss-filled melodic single from the album, “In The Moment”, was released on the 13th April. The video (also directed by Price) was shot on an iPhone in Mallorca featuring Bushe wearing a suit made for Brad Pitt’s role in the film The Councillor (2013).

“In The Moment” reflects upon the necessity to break away from our daily routine and create meaningful memories,” said the singer in a press release. “As much as sunny days and laughter with friends, “In The Moment” celebrates the late hours without inhibition, where dreams lead and tomorrow lingers“.

Watch the video for “In The Moment below:

The band from Stoke Newington first formed in high school back in 2013 naming themselves after the adorable purple Pokémon Gengar. They quickly caught the press and public’s attention with their comforting and trippy psych-pop sounds and stood out thanks to Bushe’s unique falsetto. Their debut LP, A Dream Outside, was heralded as one of the best UK indie pop albums of 2015 by the likes of The Guardian, DIY Magazine, Far Out Magazine, Clash Magazine, and The Line of Best Fit.

For all Gengahr’s upcoming UK tour and festival dates see below:

13/05/23 – The Great Escape Festival – Brighton
27/05 – Live at Leeds in the Park – Leeds
09/06 – Brighten the Corners – Ipswich
20/07 – The Secret Garden Party – Huntington
21/07 – Truck Festival – Oxfordshire
27/07 – Kendall Calling – The Lake District
28/07 – Ventnor Fridge Festival – Isle of Wight
25/09 – Academy2 – Leicester
26/09 – Hare & Hounds – Birmingham
27/09 – Wardrobe – Leeds
29/09 – Band on the Wall – Manchester
30/09 – Garage G2 – Glasgow
01/10 – Cluny – Newcastle
03/10 – Trinity – Bristol
04/10 – Concorde 2 – Brighton
06/10 – Electric Ballroom – London

The track is the third part of a trilogy of songs and music videos that will be found on Eyes of Others, with the debut album scheduled to be released on May 19th. The first song and music video, “New Hair New Me“, was released on February 28th, while the second, “Big Companies Large Tentacles”, came out on March 27th.

Watch the music video for “Once, Twice, Thrice” below:

This will be the first chance Eyes of Others will have to showcase his astonishing talent and love of different music genres. These three teaser tracks alone incorporate a hugely diverse set of sounds that will undoubtedly leave his listeners mesmerised and blissfully dizzied. “New Hair New Me” brings with it elements of indie, psychedelic and folk rock, combining joyful and hopeful lyrics with an uplifting energy.

“Big Companies Large Tentacles“, conversely, contains a different kind of energy with its abstract lyrics accompanied by a gritty, darker, Suicide-esque dub/techno sound. The track suddenly transforms with vibrant electricity towards the end with a spray of energetic acid techno, before returning once more to base.

“Once, Twice, Thrice“, the album opener, returns to positivity with its upbeat loops, dreamy vocals, and sounds of a psychedelic nature lurking in the background.

The artist behind Eyes of Others is John Bryden, who has been using the moniker since 2017 and the release of his first track “I See You in the Shrubs“. Prior to this, he had been in various bands, toiling away without much success. He thus decided to pursue a solo career, seeing music, as stated by his bandcamp biography, as a vehicle of freedom and a “space for expressing yourself”, and the extent of this new-found musical freedom is extravagantly illustrated within his genre-breaking debut LP. He describes his music as “post-pub couldn’t get in the club music”, thereby effectively confirming his contentment with his place in the music world and the freedom said place allows him to enjoy.

Listen to “I See You in the Shrubs” below:

Pre-order Eyes of Others now here.

You can also catch Eyes of Others live, listed below are his tour dates:

30/04/23 – Sounds From The Other City Festival – Salford (tickets here)
15/05 – The Social – London (tickets here)
20/05 – Get Together Festival – Sheffield (tickets here)
27/05 – Sea Change Festival – Totnes (tickets here)
04/06 – Hidden Door Festival – Edinburgh (tickets here)
10/06 – Kite Festival – Kirtlington, Oxford (tickets here)

‘Squeaky Wheel’ – new from James Ellis Ford

Listen now ↓https://t.co/NMnXeW6HdF

— Warp Records (@WarpRecords) April 12, 2023

Ford initiated his music career in 2000 as a founding member of rock band Simian before teaming up with Jas Shaw from the aforementioned group and forming the spin-off duo Simian Mobile Disco in 2003, this time with a focus on electronic music. The duo have enjoyed a fair deal of success since, even amassing somewhat of a cult following, but have been on hiatus ever since Shaw was diagnosed with AL amyloidosis in 2018, which has in turn afforded Ford the chance to think about producing music solo on his own terms.

Watch the video for “It’s The Beat”, the lead single from Simian Mobile Disco’s first album Attack Decay Sustain Release, below:

Ford is also a founding member of The Last Shadow Puppets, formed in 2008 with Alex Turner, Miles Kane and Zach Dawes, yet his musical exploits do not stop there. He has producing credits on 55 albums, most notably Klaxon’s Myths of the Near Future (2007), Florence and the Machine’s Ceremonials (2011), Gorillaz’ The Now Now (2016), and all of Artic Monkeys’ records to date, and plays a multitude of instruments on many, mainly on drums, keyboard and percussion.

Quite the CV then. With this quite frankly stupendous amount of musical prowess Ford naturally sets the bar sky high, and fans of Simian Mobile Disco and The Last Shadow Puppets, and possibly even Artic Monkeys themselves, will undoubtedly be tremendously excited by what Ford has to offer in his first solo outing.

If we are to judge the rest of the album by the two singles released from it already (“I Never Wanted Anything” is the other track), we should expect dreamy, partly funky, partly Pink Floyd-esque vibes. Tape loops are used immaculately in both songs, lending an ethereal touch that allows them to float on and along flawlessly whilst simultaneously giving the tracks a satisfying cohesive arc.

Listen to  “Squeaky Wheel” below:

Pre-order your copy of The Hum now here.

Filmed at the deserted London concert hall, Hackney Earth, Bayley’s performance takes place where the Heat Waves music video was recently shot. The performance features Bayley sitting alone, tenderly picking at his electric guitar, delivering a hazy rendition of the track. 

Bayley is bathed in blue and pink stage lights, his hypnotic voice enveloping the entirety of the empty gig venue. The camera slowly turns between various close-up shots, giving the performance an intimate feel. Bayley’s astounding vocals carry just as powerfully in the unoccupied Hackney Earth as they would in a packed-out Glass Animals gig, conveying the musician’s vocal versatility.

Where Heat Waves is a pop-psyche, synthesised sensation, Bayley’s solo performance is a divergent reworking of the vibrant, percussively charged original. Singing the track’s wistful lyrics, “Sometimes all I think about is you/Late nights in the middle of June”, Bailey’s stripped down rendition allows the track’s poignant lyricism to resonate all the more deeply. 

Within the YouTube livestream Glass Animals also included a direct link to make donations for Crew Nation. Formed by Live Nation to combat Covid-19’s strain on the music industry and its live performance workers, Glass Animals shared their support for Crew Nations and independent music venues with the following statement: “Hackney Earth is one of my favourite local independent venues here in London…one of the many live music institutions at risk of closure. Miss you all and hope to be playing live again soon. Donate here if you can.” Donations to Crew Nation can be made here. 

Dropping after the recently celebrated singles Your Love (Déjà Vu), Tokyo Drifting and Dreamland, Heat Waves is the fourth treasure from Glass Animals in the wake of their highly anticipated third album. Also entitled Dreamland, the band postponed its release from 7th July to the 7th August out of respect and solidarity for the Black Lives Matter movement. Glass Animals said of the album’s postponement: “All eyes and minds need to be focused on civil rights…the fight for civil rights is so much bigger than any single piece of music.”

Formed in Oxford, Glass Animals is made up of members Dave Bayley, Drew Macfarlane, Edmund Irwin-Singer and Joe Seaward. Meeting each other during secondary school, Glass Animals have been making eclectic music together since 2010. After drummer Joe Seaward experienced a horrific bike accident, Glass Animals took a creative hiatus, but are now back and geared for Dreamland’s release. Seaward said to NME of his return: “There is no better feeling in the world than writing and recording a song and feeling proud of it”.

Heat Waves is out now.