Over four decades after its debut, a deluxe edition of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ groundbreaking but often overlooked 1982 album, Long After Dark, will be released via Geffen/UMe on October 18th. Pre-order/pre-save here.

The Petty Legacy archives will share previously unseen newly remastered film and audio from 1982 to 1983 this year, beginning with a new video for the French TV version of “Straight Into Darkness” featuring footage of the band performing at the Record Plant by award-winning director Alan Bibby – watch here and listen here.

“There was some music recorded for Long After Dark that didn’t get on the record, that I thought would’ve made it a better album,” said Tom Petty. “I left off…four things that I liked quite a bit. And probably a few more written that never even got in the door.”

Looking back on their third and final album together, legendary rock music producer Jimmy Iovine reflects, “Long After Dark, we thought we had it. Sounded like Positively Fourth Street, sounded like one of those records, you know. By the way, I think it is!”

Despite it being a golden era of The Heartbreakers playing at the height of their powers, it is widely known as the band’s most misunderstood and underrated success. The album features an edgy collection of rock ballads and guitar anthems backed by the unmistakable sound of The Heartbreakers, including founding members Mike Campbell (lead guitar), Benmont Tench (keyboards), Stan Lynch (drums), plus the new addition of Howie Epstein on bass and backing vocals.

Long After Dark (Deluxe Edition) will feature the songs that were lost in the debate over the album’s original direction. Notable highlights include finding Petty’s version of “Never Be You” – which was a #1 country hit for Rosanne Cash – pop anomaly “Don’t Make Me Walk the Line,” and an up-tempo version of “Ways To Be Wicked,” which was previously covered by Lone Justice, recorded at Applewood Studios in Denver, Colorado. 

Many of the additional tracks are taken from the French TV sessions, including acoustic gems, “Turning Point” and the Everly Brothers influenced “Keeping Me Alive.”

Long After Dark was a smash by the usual standards – Top 10 in Billboard, certified gold – and spawned three fan favourites, “You Got Lucky,” “Change of Heart” and “Straight Into Darkness.” Though it remains an unsung gem amongst its predecessors, Damn the Torpedoes and Hard Promises. “It’s a good little rock & roll record” but also “a tough record because I never knew if we were making the right decisions about songs,” Petty shared in Paul Zollo’s interview anthology, Conversations With Tom Petty.

Long After Dark (Deluxe Edition) features the newly remastered original album from the original analog master tapes, plus 12 rediscovered bonus tracks newly mixed by Petty’s longtime engineer Ryan Ulyate and boasts packaging designed by Grammy Award-winning designer Jeri Heiden, liner notes by legendary rock journalist and Tom Petty Radio host David Fricke, with commentary from Jimmy Iovine and Cameron Crowe and iconic archival photographs by Dennis Callahan, Neal Preston and Aaron Rapoport. The set will be released in a variety of configurations, highlighted by a limited edition TomPetty.com 2LP pressing on 180-gram red with black splatter colour vinyl, housed in a numbered foil tip-on jacket with an exclusive lithograph; a 3-disc set featuring 2 CDs, and a Blu-ray audio disc with additional hi-res stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes of the album and bonus tracks, also mixed by Ulyate; a variety of additional vinyl options includes a 2LP on 180-gram black vinyl; a limited edition 1LP 180-gram turquoise colour vinyl pressing (main album only) with double-sided lithograph of Blaze Brooks’ illustrations (available exclusively at indie record stores).

The album will also be available at all streaming, download and HD audio download partners.

For more info, complete tracklisting and to pre-order 2 LP versions and 3 disc set visit the official Tom Petty store.

LONG AFTER DARK DELUXE EDITION – TRACK LISTING
DISC 1

1. “A One Story Town”
2. “You Got Lucky”
3. “Deliver Me”
4. “Change Of Heart”
5. “Finding Out”
6. “We Stand A Chance”
7. “Straight Into Darkness”
8. “The Same Old You”
9. “Between Two Worlds”
10. “A Wasted Life” 

 DISC 2

1. “Stories We Could Tell (French TV)”
2. “Never Be You” *
3. “Turning Point (Original Drums Version)”
4. “Don’t Make Me Walk The Line” *
5. “I’m Finding Out (French TV)” *
6. “Heartbreakers Beach Party (Extended Version)”
7. “Keeping Me Alive (French TV)”
8. “Straight Into Darkness (French TV)”
9. “Ways To Be Wicked (Denver Sessions)” *
10. “Between Two Worlds (French TV)” *
11. “One On One” *
12. “Wild Thing” *

* previously unreleased

ABOUT TOM PETTY
Over his 40-year career, Tom Petty became one of the biggest cultural icons in the world. In addition to the 13 studio albums he made with the Heartbreakers, Petty recorded three solo albums, including the acclaimed Full Moon Fever and Wildflowers. Petty was also a member of the supergroup, Traveling Wilburys, and in the pre-Heartbreakers band, Mudcrutch. 

Hailed as one of the greatest rock artists of all time, Petty’s list of achievements include:

Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, multiple Grammy Award winner, over 85 million records sold, performing to over 140 million fans worldwide and Super Bowl halftime performer. Tom Petty passed away in 2017 shortly after completing his 40th anniversary tour, but his music continues to reach fans, both new and old, around the world today.

Much loved husband and wife team Babatunde and Leonie Aléshé will take listeners on a laughter-filled journey through parenting and childhood in their brand-new, Global Original podcast Then & Now with Babatunde and Leonie Aléshé. Listen to the podcast now on Global Player, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Then & Now follows one of UK’s fastest rising comic and TV stars, Babatunde Aléshé, and his entrepreneur and parenting influencer wife Leonie, as they go on a laughter-filled, cross-cultural journey through the timeless landscape that is childhood, marriage, and parenthood.

In the first episode of the podcast, Babatunde and Leonie talk about the games they played growing up and how as kids they used to disappear for hours without their parents knowing what they were up to. But skipping forward to the present day, their own children want to actually spend time with them.

Speaking about the podcast’s release, Leonie said: “In the podcast, we talk about our childhoods, how we parent our own children, and we ask, ‘when was it better: then or now?’”

Babatunde added: “Come join us in our home on this journey of nostalgia into our cultures, chatting about how the music, TV shows and games we play shaped us as parents.”

Chike Orakwue and Eleanor Lawrence are producers for Mo Gilligan’s Beginning, Middle & End and Babatunde & Leonie Aleshe: Then & Now, and both will be co-produced with the presenter’s own production houses. David Geli and Pollyanna McGirr are Executive Producers.

**Then & Now with Babatunde and Leonie Aléshé is available to listen to now on Global Player, or wherever you get your podcasts**  

Michael Ball and Alfie Boe are back, and this time it’s personal. Together At Home, the pair’s brand new sixth studio album arrives on November 8th, marking their 10th year making music together and is the much-loved collaborators’ hymn to the people and places that mean the most to them – and to their army of fans.

The chart-topping, arena-filling, multi-million-selling duo’s first taste arrives in the shape of ‘Proud’ – the timeless 2000 debut solo single from former M People singer Heather Small, here lent wings by two all-time classic male voices – listen here.

“It’s a song that was used for the 2012 London Olympics,” begins Ball. “And this summer I went to the Paris Olympics to watch Grace, my granddaughter, playing in the rugby sevens with Team GB. There’s me and [my partner] Cathy [McGowan] sat in the Stade de France, 66,000 people. On she runs and genuinely, I’ve never felt so proud in my life – or as nervous! And when she scored a try, and there’s her name up on the scoreboard, it was wonderful. The heart-bursting pride Cath and I both felt – incredible!”

“We’re proud of where we’re from. Proud of this country, of being British and welcoming people home. And welcoming people into our home,” Boe adds pointedly, “is something that I think is important.”

Each singer is long used to being away on tour for months on end, so, when it came to selecting songs for the new album, for each of them, certain songs were immediate no-brainers…

“For me the first one was probably ‘Homeward Bound’ by Paul Simon,” says Ball. “It’s obviously written by an American, and from an American perspective, but it was written in the UK, at Widnes train station. It’s about people who are on the road, far from home.” Ball could very much relate. “You get tired, you get jaded, you get homesick. Paul Simon articulately and musically describes that feeling.”

Considerably less of a familiar standard was one of Boe’s first suggestions. Trawling through Spotify, he stumbled across a song titled ‘Welcome Home’ by a little known band actually called The Welcome Home, from the college town of Athens, Georgia. With the feel of a modern, secular hymn, or Coldplay-gone-Deep South, it immediately spoke to Boe.

Home, in a geographical sense, is represented in other songs. Lifelong Liverpool FC fan Boe was keen for the inclusion of ‘Ferry Cross The Mersey’, another anthem by Kop favourite Gerry Marsden. Adoptive Londoner Ball still feels a shiver when he hears Gerry Rafferty’s ‘Baker Street’. Both have huge affection for Ewan MacColl’s folk standard ‘Dirty Old Town’, written about Salford. And staying in Manchester, Ball and Boe were equally keen to have one of the city’s great musical sons represented. Take a bow Mr. Gary Barlow, and his magisterial Take That composition ‘Rule the World’.

Boe – a son of Fleetwood, Lancashire – is thrilled to see the northwest also represented by The Hollies’ track ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’. And there’s much more, from ‘Up Where We Belong’ to a closing Irish medley that, the pair promise, will “bring the hoolie” – that is, bring the party – when they hit the road next spring. And, as Michael Ball intimated, together in the studio or on stage with Alfie Boe is where he himself feels at home.

Together At Home follows the phenomenal success of the duo’s previous five duet albums; Their debut Together, became the UK’s best-selling album of 2016, beating The Rolling Stones to the Christmas No.1 spot.

This was followed by Together Again, which brought the pair yet another No.1 album in 2017. Ball and Boe went on to release Back Together in 2019 which reached No.2, before a third No.1 album, Together at Christmas in 2020.

After decorated careers in theatre and opera, Michael and Alfie were suddenly chart superstars. As a duo, they have now sold over 1.5 million albums in the UK, received two Classic Brit Awards, sold-out three headline arena tours and presented three ITV Specials.

The duo will now take to the road in a 12-date marathon across the UK in March & April next year for a huge run of arena headline shows that will bring this special album to life, including a night at London’s The O2 on April 13th.

They are Ball and Boe, and they’re together at home, waiting to connect you with those feelings of peace and love, joy and celebration.

2025 UK TOUR DATES

March

Sat 29th CARDIFF, Utilita Arena

Sun 30th BOURNEMOUTH, International Centre

April

Tue 1st NOTTINGHAM, Motorpoint Arena

Wed 2nd NEWCASTLE, Utilita Arena

Fri 4th MANCHESTER, AO Arena

Sat 5th LIVERPOOL, M&S Bank Arena

Mon 7th ABERDEEN, P&J Live

Tue 8th GLASGOW, OVO Hydro

Thu 10th LEEDS, First Direct Arena

Fri 11th BIRMINGHAM, BP Pulse Live

Sun 13th LONDON, The O2

Mon 14th BRIGHTON, Centre

Presales for Ball & Boe’s UK tour will start Tuesday 10 September 2024 at 10am local time and will continue throughout the week with general on sale starting from Friday 13th September 2024 at 10am local time via LiveNation.co.uk. 

Access to Preferred Tickets is available to Mastercard cardholders in the UK on Friday 13th September at 10am local time. Visit www.priceless.com/music to find out more.

Together At Home – Track Listing

1. Welcome Home
2. Homeward Bound
3. Solsbury Hill
4. Baker Street
5. He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother
6. Up Where We Belong
7. Rule The World
8. Dirty Old Town
9. Going Home
10. Ferry Cross The Mersey
11. Proud
12. What’s The Craic (An Irish Medley)

“Indie pals with the bold ambition of future festival headliners” – NME
“Irresistible indie pop peppered with brilliantly surreal lyrics and infectious hooks” – Rolling Stone UK

“One of the UK’s most exciting new acts.” – The Forty-Five

After a huge summer of festivals across the UK and Europe Dolores Forever provide the antidote for summer blues with their infectiously bold new single ‘Concrete’. The track is the latest to be taken from their forthcoming debut album It’s Nothing, which comes September 27th on Sweat Entertainment.

“You can’t pick your favourite child, but this is definitely one of ours,” the duo say of the track. “It’s a defiant rager of a bop about taking rightful credit for the things we create.” Listen to ‘Concrete’ HERE.

There’s an infectiously playful, unapologetic feminist energy at the heart of the London-based band, and now, Dolores Forever are ready to release their debut album. It’s a “punchy indie-pop record about feminism, friendship and navigating a messed up world. It blows our minds that the music industry is obsessed with hearing from people who are just 21. As we’ve gotten into our thirties, we have so many more stories, and so much more to say.” 

The album is inspired by the last ten years weathering unfair treatment as female songwriters in a male-dominated industry. Julia, from Copenhagen, co-wrote the winning 2013 Eurovision entry for Denmark, Only Teardrops, while Hannah, from London, has written with Kylie and Stormzy. 

Their friendship, concludes Hannah, “really is the band’s life blood. Women connect with each other on this amazing level, even in adulthood, and we wanted to make adult female friendship a little more visible. And to say, actually, we should value friendships just as highly as romantic relationships.”

Dolores Forever are building unstoppable momentum.

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“A movingly pragmatic distinction between desire and self-respect set to pedal steel.” – THE GUARDIAN

“Razor-sharp lyrics, confiding, crystalline vocals and nods to classic country rock & soft pop, with
results that are ensnaring & bewitching” – SUNDAY TIMES

“Modern-day reflections on disco euphoria and Canyon contemplation.” – UNCUT

“Bursting with blues-rock and blissed-out psychedelia.” – PITCHFORK

One of the US’ finest rising artists Pearl Charles today drops her enchanting new single ‘Does This Song Sound Familiar?’ – listen here. The track follows her recent, fantastic, trippy offering ‘Smoke In The Limousine’.

‘Does This Song Sound Familiar?’ – an exploding serving of sun-soaked, upbeat joy right from the heart of the Mojave Desert – arrives ahead of Pearl’s forthcoming set at The Long Road Festival on Aug 24th, and comes with the announcement of an October UK headline tour, which will see shows in four major UK cities, including her biggest UK headline show to date on October 10th at London’s Omeara. 

Of the new track, Pearl explains; “On a hot summer night, sitting alone as the sun went down in its usual spectacular desert fashion, Does This Song Sound Familiar? was born on a gust of Santa Ana wind. Like the same mirages and hallucinogenic visions that have been conjured so many times before in the Mojave Desert I call home, the music and lyrics floated in like peyote-induced psilocybin dream encounters with the deeper levels of my own psyche. This quintessentially desert song explores life, identity, reincarnation and alternate dimensions, likening “the song” to the cycle of life and positing that perhaps we have all been here before, and that we will be here again.”

2021 saw the release of Pearl’s highly acclaimed album Magic Mirror, which drew high praise from the likes of The Guardian, Sunday Times, Uncut, Pitchfork and saw single ‘Givin’ It Up’ light up the airwaves on BBC 6 Music.

Pearl has been playing music since she was five years old. At 18, she formed country duo The Driftwood Singers with Christian Lee Hutson, singing and playing guitar and autoharp. After a few fun-filled years immersed in the rock and roll lifestyle, she decided it was time to pursue her own songwriting, and began developing the songs that formed 2015’s eponymous debut EP and additional debut LP that came out in 2018 on Kanine Records. She has headlined national and international dates as well as shared the stage with contemporaries Weyes Blood, Best Coast, Sunflower Bean, Mac Demarco, Conor Oberst, The Teskey Brothers etc, as well as festival plays like ACL, Pickathon and Desert Daze.

Her music career has been a chronological progression from old-time music to 60’s garage and psychedelia, and now more 70’s country and soft rock. Drawn to catchy, poppy hooks and choruses, Pearl draws on what she loves about each era while developing her unique style and voice as a musician, singer, and songwriter.

Tickets for Pearl’s headline tour are available HERE.

August
24th LUTTERWORTH, The Long Road Festival (Loose Music Stage)

31st GLASGOW, Last Night (In-Store)

October
5th GLASGOW, King Tuts

6th BRISTOL Thekla

8th MANCHESTER, Deaf Institute

10th LONDON, Omeara

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Mo Gilligan, the triple BAFTA winning comedian, actor, presenter and content creator, has today launched his brand-new podcast, Mo Gilligan: Beginning, Middle & End.

In the podcast, which is available now on Global Player, Mo asks some of the UK’s biggest stars about the moments that made them and the legacy they want to leave behind.

The podcast features an exciting variety of guests, hand-picked by stand up sensation Mo, which range from viral stars to huge household names, including Shits and Giggs, George the Poet, Aisling Bea, Joel Dommett, America Foster, and more.

In the first episode, Mo Gilligan catches up with broadcasting legend Johnathan Ross to find out how he started out, what he’s doing now, and what he wants his legacy to be. Plus, Jonathan reminisces about rapper Eminem coming round his house, playing games with Tom Hardy, and his infamous halloween parties.

Mo Gilligan: Beginning, Middle, & End is a Lucky 17 & MOMO G Production for Global, and you can watch the trailer over on Global Player now.

Chike Orakwue and Eleanor Lawrence are producers for Mo Gilligan’s Beginning, Middle & End. BAFTA winning David Geli and Pollyanna McGirr serve as Executive Producers.

LISTEN TO EPISODE ONE HERE: https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7DrjAjF/ 

**Mo Gilligan: Beginning, Middle & End is available to listen to now on Global Player, or wherever you get your podcasts** 

Following a blistering show at London’s O2 Arena in March this year, Pendulum have teamed up with hotly-tipped punk hip-hop duo Joey Valence & Brae on their abrasive new single ‘Napalm’.

The track is the first new music the band have dropped in 2024 and comes ahead of their unmissable main stage performance on Reading & Leeds Festival main stages this weekend.

A raucous drum and bass floor filler, ‘Napalm’ is Pendulum at their heaviest. Produced by Rob Swire at his London studio the track is raw, infectious and ready made for the festival main stages. Listen to ‘Napalm’ HERE.

Speaking of the collaboration, Rob Swire said, “as soon as I heard their single ‘Punk Tactics’ I knew we had to work together on a heavy DnB track”. Joey Valence & Brae continue “this is such a legendary collab for us. We’ve both been fans of Pendulum and drum and bass in general for so long, so it’s crazy to finally do a track together.” 

Undoubtedly one of the biggest electronic bands of all time, Pendulum have 3 platinum albums to their name, including renowned debut Hold Your Colour and a UK #1 and #2 for Immersion and In Silico. The drum and bass/rock band from Perth, Australia have sold over a million albums in the UK alone, as well as selling out global arena tours and playing to thousands across main stage performances from Glastonbury and Download to Reading and Leeds on top of a headline slot at Ultra Miami. 

The band returned with their EP Elemental in 2021 along with the comeback of the live band. In 2023 they followed up with their EP Anima, featuring Matt Tuck from Bullet For My Valentine and acclaimed trap metal artist Scarlxrd. The band completed their biggest UK headline tour to date in 2024, including a stop at London’s O2 and with more music slated for 2024/25 the band are back on strong form.

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“Surf-rock riffs, oddball humour, and warped Americana storytelling define the Austin band” — Pitchfork

“One of the most chaotic trios in Texas.”  — The Line Of Best Fit

“Part scuzz-rock haymaker, part paisley-coloured psychedelic singalong, ‘Firefighters’ could function equally well as a theme song for the titular emergency service members or a more universal anthem for the ever-encroaching calamity.” — The FADER

Being Dead — the Austin, TX-based project of multi-instrumentalists and best friends Falcon Bitch and Shmoofy — present a new single, ‘Nightvision’, from their new album, EELS, out September 27th on Bayonet.

‘Nightvision’ opens with an alluring voice and acoustic guitar intro before kicking into a driving, moody beat, with just enough of the band’s unhinged weirdness peppered throughout. As Paste states, “caught somewhere between garage rock and surfing castaways, [Being Dead’s] music is for the oldheads and the new guard,” and “Nightvision” is another staple in their colourful catalogue. 

Listen to Being Dead’s ‘Nightvision’

A band whose varying origin stories have been immortalised across the last seven years of being a band, Falcon Bitch and Shmoofy deliver each story with a wink, inviting you in on the joke. Something about their music suggests it’s a dispatch from both the future and the past – vocal harmonies that sound like they’re reverberating in a medieval church to surfy guitar lines, weirdo-punky cacophonies erupting into chaos. There’s the sense that these are two people who are strangers to all that is banal – there is always fun to be had, a little mischievous magic waiting around the corner, if you know how to find or make it.

Like its animal namesake suggests, the songs on EELS are malleable, the record like slithering through murky waters or strange half dreams, mysterious and beautiful in how it moves, reflective in a wavering sheen. Dipping into each song feels like uncovering a new cavern, plunging into depths unknown but fully open to what will be revealed. EELS feels like an album of possibilities, little tasters of what might be next, a vast and limitless stretching out before them.

Pre-Order EELS

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Watch the Video for ‘Van Goes’

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Follows March’s First Instalment Unheard EP

Recently Scored His First Ever UK Number 1 Single With ‘Too Sweet’
Smashing Almost 30 Million Global Streams In Its First Week
Top 10 In Spotify Charts In 17 Countries

Last Month Sold Out 45,000 Capacity London Finsbury Park & Dublin Marlay Park

World-renowned, and now UK Number 1-selling singer-songwriter Hozier today drops the powerful video for his new single ‘Nobody’s Soldier’ – taken from a new second instalment of never-heard-before treats for fans in the shape of Unaired EP – out now.

The track, highlighting the hugely problematic issues of global arms dealing, comes with a powerful music video, directed by Daniel Ryan here.

The last few weeks has seen some cryptic, exciting teasing, with an initial snippet of ‘Nobody’s Soldier’ posted to setlist.fm, whipping fans into a whirlwind of intrigue, followed by it’s global live debut in full for a thrilled audience at Lollapalooza, during Hozier’s headline set on the Bud Light Stage in Chicago on August 1st. 

Unaired EP, which arrived on August 16th, contains three unreleased songs, originally recorded during the sessions for latest chart-topping album Unreal Unearth. As well as ‘Nobody’s Soldier’, the EP includes ‘July’, produced by Jeff ‘Gitty’ Gitelman (Anderson .Paak, H.E.R.), and ‘That You Are’, produced by Gus Seyffert (Beck, Michael Kiwanuka) – featuring the enthralling Syrian-American folk artist Bedouine.

In a note to fans, Hozier says; “Dear Souls, I want to thank each and everyone of you for everything over this past year. It’s been a privilege to travel and play the music and be met with so much love and support. This has been a very special time for me, thank you all sincerely.

“Nobody’s Soldier,” which some of you may have heard live already, “July,” the sister song of “Wildflower and Barley,” written while awaiting the pandemic’s passing, and “That You Are,” a song that I was blessed to write with Bedouine in Los Angeles and record together shortly after.

I sincerely hope you enjoy these additional songs from this chapter. Thank you again for your support, I hope to see some of you at a show soon!”

Following a recent spate of career-affirming milestones that saw Hozier score his first ever UK number 1 album with Unreal Unearth, outselling the entire UK Top 5 combined in release week and also scored the top spot in Ireland, shortly followed by part 1’s release of Unheard EP and subsequent UK number 1 single ‘Too Sweet’, beating both Beyoncé & Benson Boone. The track has currently clocked up a huge 1.6 billion global streams already, and its video has been nominated for Best Alternative Song at the upcoming VMA’s.

He also cemented himself within the upper echelons of musical greats, conquering a run of huge outdoor shows selling out London’s Finsbury Park to 45,000 adoring fans – as well as Dublin’s Marlay Park to the same capacity, plus Glasgow Green and Lytham Festival.

Hozier will continue to make his way through the US & Canada throughout August and September, before heading into Australia and New Zealand in November, as his world domination continues. Visit hozier.com for full worldwide dates and tickets.

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“A classic Hives album filled with boasts, powder-keg energy and punk angst” – NY Times

“Bouncy, shouty, instantly recognisable garage-rock stompers” – The Guardian

‘Playful, juvenile and nails the brief.’ – 4* NME 

“Sounding as undiluted as ever. Their new album is filled with straight-to-the-vein rock and roll riffs and Pelle’s distinctively angular vocal shouts that even verge into rap territory thanks to his machine-gun delivery style” – CLASH

“The album unfurls via a series of taut yet infectious riffs, pummelling drums and impassioned
high-octane vocals” – Uncut

‘The Hives’ subtle reinvention thrills and thrives on The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons.’ – The Line Of Best Fit

Today, The Hives release a show-stopping video for their swaggering single ‘Rigor Mortis Radio’. The video directed by Filip Nilsson finds the band in like never before: synchronized dance decked out in their matching signature suits showing off their best boyband meets Bob Fosse moves as they strut through the streets of South London – watch here.

The video comes off the back of their Summer support tour with Foo Fighters and the announcement of their 2024 North American fall headline tour. The Hives’ largest headline arena concert of their career is coming up at Mexico City’s 20,000 cap Palacio De Los Deportes on Oct 8th. The band’s North American 2023 tour sold out entirely within 15 minutes. See list of full tour dates here.

Last year, The Hives released their first album in over a decade, The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, which earned critical praise from The Guardian, NME, Rolling Stone, New York Times, Uncut, Stereogum and more. 

​​In the twenty-five years since The Hives exploded around the world, they have sold out stadiums and shared stages with everyone from AC/DC to The Rolling Stones. SPIN calls The Hives “the best live band on the planet” and Howlin’ Pelle “the greatest frontman in rock,” and the BBC dubbed the band “a force of nature.” Rolling Stone named Veni Vidi Vicious one of the Top 100 Albums of the decade and “Hate To Say I Told You So” earned a spot on Pitchfork’s Top 500 Songs of the 2000’s. They have sold millions of albums world-wide with multiple RIAA Gold-certifications. In the time since Lex Hives, the band has released 2019’s double A-side “I’m Alive”/“Good Samaritan” as well as a live album via Third Man Records, and embarked on a series of global tours. The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons marks a true renaissance.

The Hives are Chris Dangerous, Vigilante Carlstroem, Nicholaus Arson, Howlin’ Pelle, and The Johan And Only.

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Follows March’s First Instalment Unheard EP

Recently Scored His First Ever UK Number 1 Single With ‘Too Sweet’
Smashing Almost 30 Million Global Streams In Its First Week
Top 10 In Spotify Charts In 17 Countries

Last Month Sold Out 45,000 Capacity London Finsbury Park & Dublin Marlay Park

World-renowned, and now UK Number 1-selling singer-songwriter Hozier has today released a second instalment of never-heard-before treats for fans in the shape of Unaired EP. It’s powerful lead single ‘Nobody’s Soldier’, a track highlighting the hugely problematic issues of global arms dealing, is out today – listen here.

The last few weeks has seen some cryptic, exciting teasing, with an initial snippet of ‘Nobody’s Soldier’ posted to setlist.fm, whipping fans into a whirlwind of intrigue, followed by it’s global live debut in full for a thrilled audience at Lollapalooza, during Hozier’s headline set on the Bud Light Stage in Chicago on August 1st. 

Unaired EP will contain three unreleased songs, originally recorded during the sessions for latest chart-topping album Unreal Unearth. As well as ‘Nobody’s Soldier’, the EP will also include ‘July’, produced by Jeff ‘Gitty’ Gitelman (Anderson .Paak, H.E.R.), and ‘That You Are’, produced by Gus Seyffert (Beck, Michael Kiwanuka) – featuring the enthralling Syrian-American folk artist Bedouine.

In a note to fans, Hozier says; “Dear Souls, I want to thank each and everyone of you for everything over this past year. It’s been a privilege to travel and play the music and be met with so much love and support. This has been a very special time for me, thank you all sincerely.

“Nobody’s Soldier,” which some of you may have heard live already, “July,” the sister song of “Wildflower and Barley,” written while awaiting the pandemic’s passing, and “That You Are,” a song that I was blessed to write with Bedouine in Los Angeles and record together shortly after.

I sincerely hope you enjoy these additional songs from this chapter. Thank you again for your support, I hope to see some of you at a show soon!”

Following a recent spate of career-affirming milestones that saw Hozier score his first ever UK number 1 album with Unreal Unearth, outselling the entire UK Top 5 combined in release week and also scored the top spot in Ireland, shortly followed by part 1’s release of Unheard EP and subsequent UK number 1 single ‘Too Sweet’, beating both Beyoncé & Benson Boone. The track has currently clocked up a huge 1.6 billion global streams already, and its video has been nominated for Best Alternative Song at the upcoming VMA’s.

He also cemented himself within the upper echelons of musical greats, conquering a run of huge outdoor shows selling out London’s Finsbury Park to 45,000 adoring fans – as well as Dublin’s Marlay Park to the same capacity, plus Glasgow Green and Lytham Festival.

Hozier will continue to make his way through the US & Canada throughout August and September, before heading into Australia and New Zealand in November, as his world domination continues. Visit hozier.com for full worldwide dates and tickets.

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“A future megastar” – The Guardian

“Scottish indie star-in-waiting already mingling with the greats” – NME

Following her breakout in 2023, which saw her debut mixtape Black Is The New Gold shortlisted at the Scottish Album Of The Year Awards, one of the UK’s most exciting artists Brooke Combe returns with her new single ‘Dancing At The Edge of The World’. Listen to ‘Dancing At The Edge Of The World’ HERE & watch a live version recorded at Nan’s House Studio in Liverpool HERE.

The latest taste of Brooke’s forthcoming debut album, ‘Dancing At The Edge Of The World’ sees Brooke’s beautifully captivating vocals take the front seat in this stunning, laid back soul jam.

“I wrote this after parting ways with a major label. After feeling like I wasn’t able to pursue creating music and lyrics that I felt strongly about, I ended up with a lot of self doubt and felt as though I was jumping through hoops for people that weren’t actually performing these songs themselves,” Brooke says of the single. “It was quite a crucial point in my career. I had to go through that to find my feet. I had to stay true to myself and when I finally had the freedom, my forthcoming debut album pretty much wrote itself. The title of the track came from a book my producer was reading at the time and I instantly resonated with the quote due to the feelings I had surrounding my situation.”

Known for her captivating live shows, Brooke will return to Liverpool for a very special date at The Arts Club in Liverpool on Friday December 13th. Tickets are on-sale HERE.

Tipped by Rolling Stone UK as ‘One of 2023’s defining artists’ in their ‘Ones To Watch’ and in Dork Magazine’s ‘Hype List 2023’ and already garnering support from the likes of The Guardian, NME, Clash, BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music and Radio X, Brooke Combe continues to rise as one of the UK’s hottest talents. With more music coming imminently, Brooke is an artist you should not sleep on!

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