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Formed in LA in 1992, Weezer are a difficult band to label – over their storied careers they’ve bounced between pop rock anthems, grunge-tinged alternative rock and more than a few bizarre cover singles. In the UK they’ve enjoyed one Top 10 hit with ‘Beverly Hills’ in 2005, as well as other Top 40 entries with ‘Buddy Holly’, ‘Hash Pipe’ and ‘Island In The Sun’.

With The Gathering tour starting in the US and Canada this September with support from The Shins and Silversun Pickups, Weezer have today announced the next stages of the tour. The first leg is five nights in Japan next February, before the European run begins in May, opening in Dublin. From there, they’ll play Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow and Birmingham, before ending with London’s Alexandra Palace and Cardiff’s Utilita Arena. After that, the mainland Europe shows hit Paris, Amsterdam, Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki. Support on all European and UK dates comes courtesy of US emo rock outfit Taking Back Sunday, who are reportedly building up to a 20th anniversary tribute to their classic 2006 album ‘Louder Now’. Full dates and venues are on the poster below:

With ‘Weezer (The Gold Album)’ due for release on August 21, the group released new single ‘C.E.O.’ and a star-studded music video for it today. ‘The Gold Album’ is their 20th studio LP and their 7th self-titled one, with all of them distinguished by the colours of their album covers. ‘C.E.O.’ is a classic Weezer jam, packed with smothering, fuzzy guitar tones and the video celebrates frontman Rivers Cuomo’s awkward, geeky charm alongside a cast including skateboarder Tony Hawk, actor Giovanni Ribisi, and Obsession director Curry Barker. It follows up earlier singles ‘Shine Again’ and ‘We Might As Well Be Strangers’.

Tickets for The Gathering tour release next week, with an early pre-sale available from purchasing the new album from Weezer’s official site – these go live at 10am BST on Tuesday August 11. General sale opens at 10am BST on Friday August 14. ‘Weezer (The Gold Album)’ releases on August 21 via Reprise and Warner Records.

The garage collective are the product of BBC mockumentary sitcom People Just Do Nothing, which followed the crew of pirate radio station Kurupt FM and its operation out of a tower block flat in Brentford, West London. Headed up by the overbearing MC Grindah and his naive best friend DJ Beats, the cohort also included DJs Steves and Decoy, and their inept manager ‘Chabuddy G’. People Just Do Nothing won accolades for Best Comedy at both the BAFTAs and Royal Television Awards, and yielded a full-length movie in People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan.

The lead cast, who also created the series, wrote and produced several authentic UK garage tracks for the show, including songs ‘Get out the Way’ and ‘Heart Monitor Riddem’. In 2015, they burst onto the scene as fully-fledged musical performers with their Sixty Minutes Live set on MistaJam’s BBC Radio 1 Xtra broadcast, and started to perform live in clubs and warehouses. Kurupt FM have played international shows and appeared at Reading & Leeds, Boardmasters and Glastonbury Festival, as well as playing a massive headliner at London’s Printworks venue. In 2021, they released their debut album ‘The Greatest Hits (Part 1)’ as a companion to the movie Big In Japan, featuring artists like General Levy and Craig David.

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In May, the group posted a comedy skit, announcing in character that MC Grindah had returned to making music and production had begun on new EP ‘Grindah Decided We’re Doing Music Again’ – or ‘GDWDMA’ for short. After collaborating with drum n bass duo Sigma and others on the track ‘Legendary Status’ in April, Kurupt FM have released two singles due to appear on ‘GDWDMA’, ‘Feelings’ and ‘Tek Time’. Last week, they released new single ‘Reload’, which sees them link up again with Australian DJ Young Franco, who they worked with on ‘Feelings’.

The 2026 UK tour in support of ‘GDWDMA’ was announced this morning on the band’s social media, with a message that read ‘GRINDAHS DECIDED WER DOIN A UK TOUR’. The four-date run across England hits Bristol, Manchester and Birmingham before ending in a big finale at the Roundhouse in London. Tickets for the GDWDMA UK Tour go on pre-sale (with access here) on Wednesday July 29 at 10am, while general sale begins on Friday July 31 – check the full dates on the poster below. Before that, they’re supporting their friend Craig David at New World 2026, taking place at Chelmsford’s Central Park on August 30.

Since breaking through with their vocal features on Disclosure’s 2012 single ‘Latch’ and 2013 UK Number One ‘La La La’ by Naughty Boy, Smith’s debut ‘In the Lonely Hour’ released in 2014. The album was the top-selling debut of the 2010s and had major chart successes, with singles ‘Money On My Mind’ and ‘Stay With Me’ hitting the top spot and ‘I’m Not The Only One’ reaching third on the UK Chart. ‘In the Lonely Hour’ was a hit with the industry as well, with Smith winning 4 MOBOs, 4 Grammys and 2 BRIT Awards. They also had the honour of recording the theme for James Bond movie Spectre – the 2015 track ‘Writing’s On The Wall’ won a Golden Globe and an Academy Award in the Best Original Song category. In total, Smith has 8 UK Number One singles and 3 Number One albums, with their last LP ‘Gloria’ topping the charts in 2023 alongside its hit single ‘Unholy’ in 2022.

With their new album ‘Hazel Eyes’ announced for release on August 21, Smith has so far revealed 3 singles – ‘Love Is A Stillness’, ‘To Be Free’, and ‘My Guy’. The latter was released in June with a message from the singer which read “A song that I feel I have been waiting a lifetime to write and sing. Written with beautiful friends on a summer’s day in New York, this one fell out of the sky. In this sometimes cold and distant world, I hope you can feel the love and the closeness of this recording. I tried to capture the glow and the warmth of love in this one, it makes me cry, maybe it will make you feel a little love too.”

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Sam Smith took to social media last week to announce the two-city residency for their To Be Free set of shows. The run kicks off in September with a pair of shows at Manchester’s Albert Hall followed by a set of eight nights at London’s Coliseum venue. Before the UK leg, Smith will be in Mexico this August performing a single show in Guadalajara at the Auditorio Telemex and a 4-show residency in Mexico City’s National Auditorium. These are the UK dates for September 2026:

03 – Albert Hall, Manchester
04 – Albert Hall, Manchester
08 – London Coliseum, London
09 – London Coliseum, London
11 – London Coliseum, London
12 – London Coliseum, London
15 – London Coliseum, London
16 – London Coliseum, London
18 – London Coliseum, London
19 – London Coliseum, London

‘Hazel Eyes’ is out on August 21 via Capitol Records, with 2026 single ‘My Guy’ available on streaming now. Tickets for the To Be Free UK residencies hit fan pre-sale at 10am tomorrow, Thursday July 9, before general sale opens at 10 am on Friday July 10.

Hailing from Bangor, Northern Ireland, Two Door Cinema Club (TDCC) formed as school friends in 2007. In 2009, they travelled to London’s Eastcote Studios to record ‘Tourist History’, before mixing it at then-new Paris studio Motorbass. On release in 2010, the record only made it to 46th on the UK Album Charts, but it later rose up to 24th and was certified platinum, selling over 340,000 copies. ‘Tourist History’ boasts a collection of upbeat, sparkly indie rock jams with well-known hits including ‘This Is The Life’, ‘Something Good Can Work’, ‘What You Know’ and ‘Undercover Martyn’. The album won the Choice Music Award for Irish Album of the Year in 2010, and earned nominations for Best New Band and Album of the Year at the 2011 NME Awards.

The group are already on the road for the 15th anniversary of their debut, which in June saw them play Glasgow’s TRNSMT and the Isle of Wight Festival, as well as a massive headliner at Crystal Palace Park Sessions. Their UK dates for the rest of this year include shows at Ipswich’s Halo Festival on the 4th of July, as well as a Cardiff Castle date on the 2nd of August, before North America, Australia and Asia tours starting in September, including a major show at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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Two Door Cinema Club announced the January 2027 tour today with a post on Instagram which read “It’s on! Ireland and the UK we can’t wait to see you in January. It’s been 7 years since we did a headline tour for you all, so we are super excited for this one, it’s going to be big!!” They also confirmed that they will be performing ‘Tourist History’ in full, alongside “other favourites.” The dates for next year visit Dublin and Belfast with support from Royston Club, and then Glasgow, Manchester and London, playing alongside Arkayla and Circa Waves.

Fan presale for the tour opens at 9am BST on Wednesday July 1, before general sale begins at 9am on Friday July 3. Here’s the poster with the venues and dates:

Since co-founding Las Vegas rock group The Killers in 2001, Flowers has released 7 albums with the band, all of which have been UK Number Ones. With their hits including ‘Somebody Told Me’, ‘All These Things That I’ve Done’, and their iconic debut ‘Mr Brightside’, The Killers have sold over 35 million records, been nominated for 7 Grammys, and won 2 BRIT Awards. The group’s shows have been celebrated as a fantastic live experience, having headlined Glastonbury in 2007 and the US’s Coachella Festival in 2009. While still active, The Killers have not released an album since 2021’s ‘Pressure Machine’, though Flowers told NME that their eighth album might release in 2027.

Flowers first stepped away from the fold to begin his solo career in 2010 with debut album ‘Flamingo’, which was again a UK Number One, as was his 2015 second album ‘The Desired Effect’. He toured ‘The Desired Effect’ extensively, including performances for Barack Obama and the British royal family.

In 2025, Flowers spoke to NME about the two “South West” styled solo albums he had recorded in Nashville, with a sound and feel inspired by Bruce Springsteen, hinting that they would be out before the next Killers album. He announced the first of them, ‘Thrasher’, earlier this week, with the lead single ‘Plans’ due to release tomorrow, the 26th of June. The full track-listing was made available this week:

1. Does It Ever Cross Your Mind?
2. One Of Us
3. Tiger’s Blood
4. Plans
5. Paradise
6. Miss America
7. Angel
8. The Red Ground
9. In A Heartbeat
10. An American Dream

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With the album’s announcement and ‘Plans’ releasing imminently, Flowers has announced his full solo tour since 2015, with September and October dates in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland. His return to the Royal Albert Hall will be his first full show at the venue since The Killers played 2 nights there in 2009, which was recorded and later released as the album and concert film ‘Live From The Royal Albert Hall’. Here are the full dates for the UK and Ireland:

OCTOBER:

14 – Bournemouth, O2 Academy
15 – London, Royal Albert Hall
17 – Bristol, Beacon
18 – Nottingham, Rock City
20 – Manchester, O2 Apollo
21 – York, Barbican
23 – Glasgow, O2 Academy
24 – Birmingham, O2 Academy
27 – Dublin, Olympia

The single ‘Plans’ releases tomorrow ahead of ‘Thrasher’, which comes out on the 21st of August. Pre-ordering the album gives you access to the live show pre-sale, which opens on the Wednesday the 1st of July at 10am. General sale opens at 10am on Friday the 3rd.

English alternative rock two-piece Royal Blood have impossible to ignore since their 2014 self-titled debut album brought them a plethora of award nominations, introduced them to TV adverts, and scored a UK Number One Album, going double platinum and selling over 600,000 copies. The duo is made up of singer and bassist Mike Kerr, who uses his instrument with a variety of effects, amps and pedals to make it sound like a low-tuned electric guitar, and drummer Ben Thatcher, whose pounding beats give the music its boisterous energy on both recording and live shows.

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With no releases since 2023, where they dropped their fourth album ‘Back to the Water Below’ and its B-side tracks ‘Supermodel Avalanches’ and ‘Everything’s Fine’, the band have flown under the radar since their last live performances in 2024. This weekend they posted a social media video of Kerr jamming on his bass with frantic drum beats blasting behind it and the simple request “sign up to the mailing list”. The snippet sounded heavy and raw compared to the slower, desert-vibes from ‘Back to the Water Below’ and the groovier, disco-inspired tracks from its predecessor ‘Typhoons’.

With the hint of new music still fresh, Royal Blood announced their mini-tour this week with the intention to play so-far unreleased songs live for the first time to UK audiences. The post reads “We are returning this summer for three special shows in Margate, Southampton and Guildford to play you a couple of new songs!” The three shows are scheduled for the end of this August, based all around the south of England where the band hails from. Check the post below for the dates and venues:

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While they wait for a new single to surface, fans looking for tickets should sign up to Royal Blood’s mailing list for pre-sale access before midnight today, Wednesday the 24th of June. Pre-sale opens on Thursday the 25th of June at 10am, before general sale goes live on Friday the 26th.

Announced with a reveal trailer earlier this week, ‘Separation From The Animals’ will be their eighth full-length release, following up from 2024’s ‘Meltdown’. So far, the group dropped single ‘Don’t Quit It’ in May, a pulsing drum and bass guitar-led hard rock anthem – now it has company in the shape of new track ‘In Your Eyes’ which came out today.

‘In Your Eyes’ is a slower, more sombre affair, an introspective indie rock ballad with deep lyrics and beautifully-pained vocal hooks. Twin Atlantic frontman Sam McTrusty explains the theme, saying “it’s about being at the other end of a relationship where you feel like no matter what you do, nothing is ever good enough.” However, he notes that it’s an optimistic message, adding “you take a step back and realise that in trying to appease that one person, you’ve blinded yourself to the fact that everything is great. Look outside of that window and life is much better.”

The album was a product of McTrusty’s relocation to Canada with his family following ‘Meltdown’ and its subsequent campaign. The massive changes allowed him the distance from his past to examine it properly, and allowed him to reset creatively. He spoke of the experience – “I’m from a family that’s fairly divided, so I’ve always been passed about from when I was six-months-old. It’s all I’ve ever known. As you grow up, you start to view life through a different lens – especially the whole struggle of going from boy to man.”

Channelling the emotions from the self-discovery journey, he also mentions how it brought new focus back to music and Twin Atlantic, saying “My experience of that is particularly painful, emotional and confusing. But because it seemed normal at the time, it didn’t really hit me until I found my tribe, my people, my band. My entire adult life is meant to have been looking ahead but my personal life is always looking back. That baggage is basically what the whole band is about. This is what we’ve always been but with the veil lifted. I hope people hear the record and it inspires them to do that and be more honest with themselves.”

The group popped up for a hometown show at Glasgow’s TRNSMT Festival this weekend as a hotly tipped secret act. Currently out on a run of summer dates, first with The Xcerts at the start of June and now with McFly, Twin Atlantic announced the October tour supporting ‘Separation From The Animals’ earlier today. The tour will see them again link up with fellow Scottish alternative rock band The Xcerts.

‘Separation From The Animals’ releases on the 2nd of October through independent label Dance to the Radio. Tickets for the October headlining tour go on sale at 10am on Friday the 25th of June. Check the poster below for the full run of dates:

Texas four-piece Polyphia broke through to the mainstream with the unique catchiness and sheer complexity of their instrumental rock music. The dizzying guitar work of Tim Henson and Scott LePage, whose virtuoso noodling on tracks like ‘G.O.A.T.’ and ‘Playing God’ have gained cult status for their difficulty to replicate by other players, is rounded off by the dynamic rhythm section of bassist Clay Gober and drummer Clay Aeschliman. Their fourth album, 2022’s ‘Remember That You Will Die’, indulged in more guitar solo heroics and delved further into their hip hop and trap influences – the LP had an appearance from guitar icon Steve Vai, as well vocal as features by Chino Moreno of Deftones plus rappers $NOT and Lil West.

Since the final singles from ‘Remember That You Will Die’ released, the group distributed their first live album in 2023, ‘Live at the Factory in Deep Ellum’.Other than a 2025 collaboration with Riot Games for ‘Let’s Go’, the main theme of fighting game 2XKO, there was little news – until last week’s surprise reveal of new single ‘Can You Feel It’. Polyphia dropped the track, a bass-heavy, metal dance-floor anthem, with an accompanying music video packed with cynical imagery about politics and world affairs, although they have now uploaded a new video with a full band performance.

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The tour dates were announced yesterday, along with the full list of support acts for the 4 month stretch. The North American leg begins in Dallas on the 5th of September and ends in Nashville on the 18th of October, with appearances from Ladrones, RJ Pasin, Intervals and Plini. It comes to Europe on the 18th of November in Zurich, visiting 17 cities, before finally reaching the UK in December. Four shows are scheduled for Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and London, where the tour finishes. Europe and UK dates feature support from Pertubator and RJ Pasin. The full list of European shows is below:

NOVEMBER:

18 – Halle 622, Zurich
19 – Le Radiant, Lyon
20 – Interference, Toulouse
22 – Razzmatazz, Barcelona
23 – Sala La Riviera, Madrid
25 – Alcatraz, Milan
27 – Zenith, Munich
28 – SaSaZu, Prague
29 – Progresja, Warsaw
30 – Haus Auensee, Leipzig

DECEMBER:

2 – Docks, Hamburg
4 – Amager Bio, Copenhagen
5 – Tempodrom, Berlin
6 – Turbinenhalle, Oberhausen
7 – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
8 – AFAS Live, Amsterdam
9 – Zenith Paris, Paris
11 – O2 Academy, Birmingham
12 – Manchester Academy, Manchester
15 – O2 Academy, Leeds
16 – O2 Academy Brixton, London

Tickets and VIP perks for all dates are on pre-sale now with the entry code ‘CANYOUFEELIT’ here, with general sale opening at 10am on Friday the 19th of June. 2026 single ‘Can You Feel It’ is available to stream and buy now.

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Electric Callboy are just wrapping up their summer festival commitments in their usual excess – last week they played sets at Germany’s Rock Im Park and Rock Am Ring, France’s Heavy Week-End and Czechia’s Rock For People before travelling to Donington for a main stage show at Download. Their shows packed with heavy pop covers, frequent costume changes, plus obscene amounts of lights and fireworks have made them highly in-demand with booking agents worldwide.

As a result of their ever-rising profile, their UK headline shows have been few and far between – their last was a single massive takeover of London’s Alexandra Palace in November last year. Now into their second year of the Tanzneid World Tour, Electric Callboy have laid down plans for the start of 2027 with the new UK and Europe run.

The arena tour was announced yesterday, and is set to start next January in Dublin, followed by shows in Manchester, Nottingham, Bournemouth and Cardiff, before heading over to mainland Europe. In the post announcing the shows on Instagram, there is dismay over the lack of a Scottish show, with commenters writing the message “No Scotland, no party“. The full tour list is as follows:

JANUARY
21 – Dublin, 3Arena
23 – Manchester, Co-op Live
24 – Nottingham, Motorpoint Arena
26 – Bournemouth, International Centre
27 – Cardiff, Utilita Arena
29 –Toulouse, Zénith Toulouse Métropole
30 – Bordeaux, Arkéa Arena
31 – Nantes, Zénith Nantes Métropole

FEBRUARY
15 – Paris, Accor Arena
16 – Brussels, Forest National
18 – Hanover, ZAG Arena
20 – Mannheim, SAP Arena
22 – IT-Milan, Unipol Forum
24 – Prague, O2 Arena
27 – Dortmund, Westfalenhalle Dortmund
28 – Nuremberg, PSD Bank Nürnberg Arena
02 – Leipzig, Quarterback Immobilien Arena

Their seventh album ‘Tanzneid’ was announced back in April, with several singles available so far including ‘Elevator Operator’, ‘Tanzneid’, their cover of Sum 41’s ‘Still Waiting’, and April release ‘Hypercharged’. The band put out lively new single ‘Let The Good Times Roll’ and its music video last week, which features pop punk heroes The Offspring, making for an upbeat, bouncy summer anthem. ‘Tanzneid’ is out on Century Media on the 7th of August, with the band celebrating it with a huge show at Berlin’s Escalation Fest on the release day.

Tickets for the Tanzneid World Tour UK and Ireland dates go on sale tomorrow, the 17th of June, at 3pm. Be quick, these will sell out!

‘The Wow! Signal’ will be the Devon trio’s tenth album, taking their ever-changing alternative rock sound into new pastures of metal, synth-rock and more, wrapped in sci-fi concepts of extraterrestrial encounters and space-faring. The LP was announced in March with a cryptic social media campaign and the release of adventurous lead single ‘Be With You’, accompanied by a cinematic music video of a celestial phenomenon which set the tone for the album’s lore.

Further singles have dropped since, starting with ‘Cryogen’ and ‘Hexagons’, both of which returned to the classic Muse sound from albums like 2001’s ‘Origin of Symmetry’ and 2006’s ‘Black Holes and Revelations’. The latest single ‘Nightshift Superstar’ released on the 7th of June – the track has a disco pulse, driven forwards by slick basslines and frontman Matt Bellamy’s breathy falsetto vocals. Continuing the neon red aesthetic of the previous media, the trippy music video depicts an alien phenomenon at an American diner in the desert, where the attendants are drawn to a UFO by a tornado.

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With impending plans to visit North America in July and August, Muse announced the new tour dates on the 12th of June, scheduling a large arena run across the UK and Europe in November and December this year. It opens with two nights apiece at Manchester’s Co-op Live and The O2 in London, before nights in Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The full tour dates are here:

November:
• 12 – Manchester, Co-op Live
• 13 – Manchester, Co-op Live
• 15 – London, The O2
• 16 – London, The O2
• 18 – Berlin, Uber Arena
• 20 – Milan, Unipol Dome
• 21 – Milan, Unipol Dome
• 24 – Dusseldorf, PSD Bank Dome
• 25 – Dusseldorf, PSD Bank Dome
• 27 – Paris, La Defense Arena
• 29 – Amsterdam, Ziggo Dome
• 30 – Amsterdam, Ziggo Dome

December:
• 03 – Montpellier, Sud de France Arena
• 04 – Montpellier, Sud de France Arena
• 07 – Zurich, AG Hallenstadion
• 08 – Zurich, AG Hallenstadion

The pre-sale begins at 10am on Wednesday the 17th of June and is accessible with a pre-order for ‘The Wow! Signal’ before 3pm on Tuesday the 16th, and general sale opens at 10am on Friday the 19th. ‘The Wow! Signal’ releases on the 26th of June through Muse’s label Helium 3 and Warner Media Group. Check the full track list below:
 
1. The Dark Forest
2. Nightshift Superstar
3. Shimmering Scars
4. Cryogen
5. Be With You
6. Hexagons
7. The Sickness In You & I
8. Unravelling
9. Hush
10. Space Debris