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Jeremy Erlich’s Alta Music Group launches publishing division led by Zeb Berg
Sony Music Publishing will support and administer Alta Publishing worldwide. Source
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Fussell announces new album The Old Beloved Path with September release
Jake Xerxes Fussell has announced a new album, The Old Beloved Path, due for release on 18 September via Fat Possum, and unveiled “Rock Island Line” as its lead single. The news matters because it marks the follow-up to When I’m Called, his fifth album and first for the label, while showing him taking on…
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Nickelback unveil fifteenth studio album Everything Under the Sun
Nickelback have announced their fifteenth studio album, *Everything Under the Sun*, which is due for release on 30 October via Virgin Music Group. The record follows 2022’s *Get Rollin’* and is being presented as a broad statement of the band’s identity after 25 years together. That matters because the announcement positions the album as both…
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Reading & Leeds boss talks biggest-ever arena overhaul and “strength of UK and Irish music” on line-up: “We’re buzzing with ideas for the future”
“I’m as excited about Reading & Leeds as I’ve ever been,” said Melvin Benn, who also told NME what Charli XCX will bring to her headline show, teased a potential four full days of music in the years to come, and revealed the fate of Wireless Festival after the Kanye West controversy The post Reading…
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Twin Temple Announce New Album Doomed Lovers: Hear The Title Track
Over the past week, the LA act Twin Temple have gotten a whole lot more famous. The duo, comprised of married couple Alexandra and Zachary James, have a kitschy take on early-’60s pop music, which they combine with lyrics about Satanic blood orgies. After being booked to open a pair of shows on outlaw country…
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‘Fun, propulsive, full of queer joy’: readers’ favourite albums of 2026 so far, from Muna to Raye and J Cole
After the Guardian’s music critics chose their best of the half-year, we asked you for your picks – from Brian Jackson and Arlo Parks to Maya Hawke, Flea and more • The best albums of 2026 so far • ‘I saw it seven times in the cinema’: readers’ favourite films of 2026 so far The…
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Lily Seabird – “Portal To The Past”
A seven-minute-long alt-country dirge, let’s go. “Portal To The Past” is the newest single from Lily Seabird’s highly anticipated upcoming album, Lightspheres On Their Way. Seabird’s previous tracks — the non-album loosie “Demon In Me” and lead single “Election Day” — both made our lists of the best songs of the week, and “Portal To…
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Michael Browning (Morbid Angel, Nocturnus), RIP
The drummer and vocalist was 61 years old.
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Tricky – Different When It’s Silent
Now three decades on from his groundbreaking debut ‘Maxinquaye’, you’d be forgiven for expecting Tricky to be slowing down. No such luck. On album fifteen — and that’s just under his own name — we get a taut, exhilarating dose of his unique nocturnal world. Here, the Bristol icon leans… The post Tricky – Different…
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Future Can’t Quite Freshen His Formula on ‘The Real Me’
One of the most interesting rappers alive dives deeper and works up an idiosyncratic mix that will please longtime fans — but the results aren’t as satisfying as you’d hope