Photo Credit: Dylan Cox Liverpool-born rising stars, East Exchange have today announced the release of their long-awaited EP, torn between ties. via AWAL. Spanning 6 tracks, the compelling body of work explores emotional struggle, self-reflection and connection. These songs include the previously released unspoken, lily and fall. The band worked together with GRAMMY award winning producer & mixer Adrian Bushby (Foo Fighters, Muse, Feeder), who they caught the attention of on TikTok, where they have 110k+ followers & 3.8m+ likes. Pre-save torn between ties. here. Also today, the four-piece have released their beautifully haunting new single, the aptly named ghost., which is led by frontman Sonny K's captivating and powerhouse vocals. The new track captures the tension of conflict within close relationships, and expresses the frustration of feeling misunderstood and unheard by someone you care about. The band have explained, "We were still figuring out our sound and identity when we got kicked out of our rehearsal room, and ended up moving into this freezing, run-down warehouse space on the edge of town. It was dingy and depressing but, looking back, it suited the music East Exchange were trying to make far better than the room we'd left behind. ghost. came together in that space, alongside many of the songs that would eventually make up the torn between ties. We can't wait for everyone to experience the EP the way we envisaged it, because we worked really hard together on it, and we're extremely proud of how it's turned out. Working with Adrian Bushby really helped bring our vision to life." The band are having a jam-packed and admirable first festival season so far, playing the likes of 2000 Trees, Outbreak, Great Escape, Liverpool SoundCity and Dot to Dot. East Exchange have also this year supported bands including Enter Shikari, Letlive, Return To Dust and more, rapidly expanding their fan base everywhere they go. Friends since childhood, East Exchange are swiftly becoming ones to watch with their unique and signature blend of 90s grunge, and melodic alternative rock. Follow East Exchange: TikTok Instagram Spotify YouTube

[London, 7th August 2026] This autumn an AI-driven, immersive, interactive new courtroom drama will see humanity stand trial as Lightroom London presents GAWD v. The People. The show, GAWD, created by nilor, has the audience as witnesses and advocates as the live Judge GAWD, played by an AI agent, investigates whether humans deserve to stay on the planet and get another chance. Each performance is unscripted, with multiple active AI characters and no two shows are the same. The Lightroom presentation of GAWD V. The People will be an incredible participatory audio-visual experience unlike that has ever been done before. Three audience members get the chance to testify for the fate of humanity to the AI judge by taking the stand and three agentic AI witness characters will testify against humanity - this is all 'training' the AI model and influencing the action - and the final judgement. GAWD was officially selected to debut in the Immersive Competition at Cannes 2026 and the Lightroom run will be the first presentation outside of festivals. Richard Slaney, Lightroom Chief Executive, said: "At Lightroom we love to experiment with boundaries of performance and entertainment, and so we're proud to present the public World Premiere of Gawd Vs The People. The show can be profound, hilarious or disturbing - but critically, as the show responds in real time to audience members no two shows will ever be the same - we are in the hands of both our human participants and agentic AI!" Kim Alpert, nilor Executive Producer, said: "Gawd v. The People brings a little WWE meets Court TV meets the playfulness of Mighty Boosh to audiences. GAWD bridges big concepts in a humorous and provocative way with AI talking to AI and AI talking to humans live. Our show exposes the need to have big conversations about humanity and adds the amount of levity to hopefully get us there. We are exploring ideas about ai, control, agency, and human impact with each performance. "At nilor, our work with AI has unlocked the ability to sculpt and craft characters for autonomously agentic worldbuilding. We believe these new technologies can be used in a non-reductive way—a non-subserviant way, an unexpected way—for scaling up ideas and building ideas to bring people together." To be the first to hear about the next ticket release sign up to Lightroom's mailing list here. Tickets are available via lightroom.uk

LGBTQIA+ artists and communities are invited to help co-create the identity of WorldPride 2032 - when London marks the 60th anniversary of the city's first Pride march Thousands of images from Pride's across the world will be joined together to form a single symbol for WorldPride 2032 The bid is led by Pride in London, Outernet and UK Black Pride, in partnership with the Mayor of London, Tripadvisor, The Independent and The Standard LONDON, 6 August 2026 – London is launching its bid to host WorldPride 2032 by putting the global LGBTQIA+ community at the creative centre of the campaign. In a distinctive approach to a major international and cultural bid, the London WorldPride 2032 Bid Committee is inviting artists, designers, photographers and Pride communities from around the world to help shape what could become the official visual identity of WorldPride 2032. Announced today at a special reception during WorldPride Amsterdam at the British Council, the initiative marks the first major public engagement campaign for London's bid and places community participation and creative democracy at the heart of the city's ambition to host one of the world's most significant LGBTQIA+ events. WorldPride is the premier international LGBTQIA+ event, held once every two years in a city chosen to represent the values and commitment to LGBTQIA+ equality across the globe. Hosting WorldPride positions a city as a leader in advancing LGBTQIA+ rights and celebrating the diversity of the community. If successful, London would become the first ever city to host WorldPride for a second time, having previously hosted in 2012. The bid campaign is today launching two interconnected initiatives: Design Competition: The London WorldPride 2032 Bid Committee is inviting LGBTQIA+ creatives from across the UK to submit an original logo outline that captures London's diversity, creativity and the significance of hosting WorldPride. If London is successful, the winning design will become London's official WorldPride 2032 bid logo. Global Photography Campaign: Inspired by Outernet London's record-breaking Coronation campaign, the bid is inviting members of the LGBTQIA+ community from around the world to submit photographs celebrating Pride, identity, allyship and belonging. The images will transform into a living mosaic created from thousands of community photographs that tell the story of Pride in all its forms. The winning logo outline will be selected by the London WorldPride 2032 Bid Committee. Its designer will receive a £3,000 prize and the design will be unveiled at the end of October 2026 through an immersive installation across Outernet London's world-famous digital screens. The installation will reveal how thousands of community images have come together to form a single symbol representing Pride across the world. Submissions for both the design competition and photography campaign will open immediately following this announcement via the Pride in London website www.prideinlondon.org/worldpride2032. Entries close on 25th September 2026 and the winner will be announced in early October 2026. The significance of the 2032 bid marks the 60th anniversary of London's very first Pride march in 1972. The design competition and photography campaign offer generations of campaigners, allies and communities an opportunity to leave a lasting legacy by becoming part of the official symbol of WorldPride itself. The 2032 bid brings together civic, cultural and commercial partners, including Pride in London, Outernet and UK Black Pride as co-chairs of the bid committee alongside the Mayor of London, Tripadvisor, The Independent and The Standard. Tripadvisor, Official Travel Partner of the London WorldPride 2032 Bid, has already pledged £1 million of in-kind global marketing support should London be awarded WorldPride, helping promote the event to international visitors and positioning London as a destination celebrating LGBTQIA+ inclusion. The Independent and The Standard are Official News Media Partners of the bid, and together with editorial, content, social and commercial initiatives, will contribute photography from decades of Pride coverage to help tell the story of London's LGBTQIA+ journey as part of the final artwork—creating a tangible bridge between Pride's past and its future. Rebecca Paisis, Interim CEO, Pride in London, "Pride has always been powered by community. As we launch London's bid for WorldPride 2032, we want our community to help shape its future from day one. We're looking for bold, inspiring designs that capture London's unique spirit and photographs that celebrate Pride in all its forms across the world. As we approach the 60th anniversary of London's first Pride march, this project gives every generation an opportunity to leave their mark on what could become one of the defining moments in our movement's history." Philip O'Ferrall, CEO of Outernet London, said, "Rather than designing a logo behind closed doors, we're inviting LGBTQIA+ creatives to help shape what could become the symbol of WorldPride 2032. This is about creating something that reflects the richness, diversity and creativity of our global community. If London is successful, millions of people will engage with this logo over the course of WorldPride, including experiencing the immersive story of the campaign on Outernet's world-famous screens. Every photograph submitted and every creative contribution will become part of that shared story, celebrating not only where we've come from but where we're going together." Lady Phyll, Co-Founder of UK Black Pride, Executive Director of DIVA Charitable Trust, said, "I am incredibly proud and deeply honoured to serve as Co-Chair of London's WorldPride 2032 bid. At a time when LGBTQIA+ communities across the world are facing increasing hostility, this bid is an opportunity for London to lead with courage, purpose and global solidarity. WorldPride must never be just about spectacle. It must be about people, justice, belonging and creating lasting change. Sixty years after London's first Pride march, we have a responsibility to honour those who came before us while building a future that is more representative, accessible and intersectional. This creative campaign places our communities at the heart of the bid from the very beginning. It invites people across the world not simply to witness WorldPride, but to help shape its identity and its legacy. I am proud to bring the voice, values and experience of UK Black Pride into this work and to help ensure that those who are too often pushed to the margins are visible, valued and part of the decisions we make." Tom Copley, London's Deputy Mayor for Housing and Residential Development, said, "We are hugely proud to support our capital's bid to host World Pride 2032 and mark the 60th anniversary of the very first Pride march in London. So much has changed for the better since that important day, but shockingly we continue to see efforts across the world to take away hard-won rights and freedoms. By putting LGBTQIA+ communities at the heart of this bid, we will help show why our capital remains a beacon of inclusivity and diversity around the globe, as we build a better and fairer London for everyone. Justin Reid, Senior Director of Media, Destinations, Hotels and Growth at Tripadvisor, said "Travel has the power to bring people together through shared experiences and understanding. We're proud to support London's WorldPride 2032 bid and to help showcase the city to millions of visitors around the world should the bid be successful." Beth Gordon, Director at Brand Marketing and Communications at Independent Media, notes: "The Independent and The Standard have proudly documented London's Pride movement for decades. As steadfast campaigners for LGBTQIA+ communities, we are delighted that images from our archives will help tell this remarkable story, preserving the history of Pride while contributing to its future."

Alison Moyet's 2024 career-spanning reworks album 'Key' earned critical adoration and saw her recent return to the Top 10 album chart. Cooking Vinyl are now re-releasing a limited edition, five-album reissue series of 'Hometime', 'Voice', 'The Turn', 'the minutes' and'Other' on heavyweight colour vinyl and deluxe CD formats. The albums will all be released on September 25th and are available to pre-order HERE. These five records all emerged from a defining era of creativity for Alison. 'Hometime' (2002), largely co-written with long-time collaborator Pete Glenister and produced by The Insects, represented a remarkable comeback. It was seen to be one of the most acclaimed moments of her career and the album achieved Gold certification and a BRIT Award nomination. On 'Voice' (2004) she made a radical diversion and recorded an eclectic selection of songs by other composers accompanied by a classical orchestra. The album was arranged and produced by Academy Award winner Anne Dudley, leading to another Gold certification and a Top 10 chart position. Poppy and dark, simple and soaringly orchestrated, 'The Turn' (2007), co-written and produced by Pete Glenister, inspired the BBC to hail Alison as "one of the most emotive and intoxicating British voices ever,". 'the minutes' (2013) achieved a spectacular return to the synth-pop world alongside writer/producer Guy Sigsworth, and a #5 album chart peak. That style and resurgence continued into 'Other' (2017) with another Guy Sigsworth collaboration, demonstrating intelligent, adventurous electronic pop. The five albums will be released on limited edition heavyweight vinyl, each with its own distinct colour: clear smoke and grey for 'Hometime'; white marble for 'Voice'; yellow and black smoke for 'The Turn'; turquoise marble for 'the minutes'; and red and smoke for 'Other'. Each vinyl features the original album tracklisting. The limited edition two CD formats are all boosted by an array of additional content. 'Hometime', 'Voice' and 'The Turn' feature the tracks from their previous 2015 Deluxe Editions. 'the minutes' is now reissued bringing together previous releases of Guy Sigsworth remixes, 'Live at Bush Hall', and 'minutes and seconds – live' and 'Other' is re-issued alongside 'The Other Live Collection'. In addition, Alison's official store offers a strictly limited run of 300 signed 12" prints of each album artwork. As the reissues approach, Alison will reunite with host Steve Coats-Dennis on The Alison Moyet Podcast in conversation together with the album collaborators, Pete Glenister, The Insects, Anne Dudley, and Guy Sigsworth for a new ten-part podcast series. Together they explore reflections and memories of each record over two episodes per album, with stories covering the writing, recording, context and songs from each. The series will launch HERE on August 11th with the first instalment examining 'Hometime', with subsequent episodes being released each Tuesday through to October 13th. 'Hometime' 2CD tracklist: Disc 1 1. Yesterday's Flame 2. Should I Feel That It's Over 3. More 4. Hometime 5. Mary, Don't Keep Me Waiting 6. Say It 7. Ski 8. If You Don't Come Back to Me 9. Do You Ever Wonder 10. The Train I Ride 11. You Don't Have To Go Disc 2 – Live Performances / B-sides / Bonus Tracks 1. Tongue Tied (B-side to Should I Feel That It's Over) 2. Nobody's Darling (B-side to Should I Feel That It's Over) 3. Yesterday's Flame (Insects Remix / B-side to Do You Ever Wonder) 4. Bilan (B-side to Do You Ever Wonder) 5. If You Don't Come Back To Me (Live October 2002 / B-side to More) 6. Should I Feel That It's Over (Live October 2002 / B-side to More) 7. Si Tu Ne Me Reviens Pas (Additional track to the expanded Hometime album) 8. Skipping Stones (King Britt presents Sylk130) (Taken from the album: Re-Members Only) 9. The Train I Ride (Demo) 10. More (Demo) 11. Sea Child (Demo) 12. How Long (Demo) 'Voice' 2CD tracklist: Disc 1 1. Windmills Of Your Mind 2. The Man I Love 3. Almost Blue 4. Je Crois Entendre Encore 5. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? 6. God Give Me Strength 7. The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies-O! 8. Dido's Lament: When I Am Laid In Earth 9. La Chanson Des Vieux Amants 10. Cry Me A River 11. Bye Bye Blackbird 12. Alfie (Bonus track) Disc 2 – One Blue Voice (Live) 1. Satellite (Live) 2. Mary, Don't Keep Me Waiting (Live) 3. Windmills of Your Mind (Live) 4. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? (Live) 5. La Chanson Des Vieux Amants (Live) 6. Almost Blue (Live) 7. If You Don't Come Back To Me (Live) 8. Cry Me A River (Live) 9. The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies-O! (Live) 10. God Give Me Strength (Live) 11. Dido's Lament: When I Am Laid In Earth (Live) 12. Momma Momma (Live) 13. Ski (Live) 14. This House (Live) 15. You Don't Have To Go (Live) 16. Alfie (Bonus track) 17. Only You (Bonus track) 18. That Ole Devil Called Love (Bonus track) 19. Should I Feel That It's Over (Bonus track) 'The Turn' 2CD tracklist: Disc 1 1. One More Time 2. Anytime At All 3. The Man in The Wings 4. Can't Say It Like I Mean It 5. It's Not The Thing Henry 6. Fire 7. The Sharpest Corner (Hollow) 8. World Without End 9. Home 10. Smaller 11. A Guy Like You 12. Senses Disc 2 – Live Performances / B-sides / Bonus Tracks 1. Fool, Reconsider Me (B-side to One More Time) 2. Momma Momma (B-side to One More Time) 3. A Guy Like You (Jeremy Wheatley Radio Edit) 4. The Sharpest Corner (Hollow) (Unreleased Single Edit) 5. One More Time (live - The Turn Tour 2008) 6. Wishing You Were Here (live - The Turn Tour 2008) 7. Dorothy (live - The Turn Tour 2008) 8. Can't Say It Like I Mean It (live - The Turn Tour 2008) 9. Fire (live - The Turn Tour 2008) 10. Man In The Wings (live - The Turn Tour 2008) 11. The Sharpest Corner (Hollow) (live - The Turn Tour 2008) 12. Momma Momma (live - The Turn Tour 2008) 13. Ski (live - The Turn Tour 2008) 14. You Don't Have To Go (live -The Turn Tour 2008) 15. Head (Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2010 / from the album A Concert For Kirsty MacColl) 'the minutes' 2CD tracklist: Disc 1 1. Horizon Flame 2. Changeling 3. When I Was Your Girl 4. Apple Kisses 5. Right as Rain 6. Remind Yourself 7. Love Reign Supreme 8. A Place to Stay 9. Filigree 10. All Signs Of Life 11. Rung by the Tide 12. Changeling (Guy Sigsworth Remix) 13. Right as Rain (Guy Sigsworth Remix) 14. When I Was Your Girl (Live at Bush Hall) 15. Filigree (Live at Bush Hall) 16. Nobody's Diary (Live at Bush Hall) 17. Don't Go (Live at Bush Hall) Disc 2 – minutes and seconds - live 1. Horizon Flame (Live) 2. When I Was Your Girl (Live) 3. Ordinary Girl (Live) 4. Remind Yourself (Live) 5. Is This Love? (Live) 6. Winter Kills (Live) 7. Filigree (Live) 8. Only You (Live) 9. Changeling (Live) 10. This House (Live) 11. All Signs of Life (Live) 12. All Cried Out (Live) 13. Situation (Live) 'Other' 2CD tracklist: Disc 1 1. I Germinate 2. Lover, Go 3. The English U 4. The Rarest Birds 5. Beautiful Gun 6. Reassuring Pinches 7. April 10th 8. Other 9. Happy Giddy 10. Alive Disc 2 – The Other Live Collection 1. I Germinate (Live) 2. Wishing You Were Here (Live) 3. Ski (Live) 4. The English U (Live) 5. Only You (Live) 6. Beautiful Gun (Live) 7. The Sharpest Corner (Live) 8. All Cried Out (Live) 9. The Man In The Wings (Live) 10. Other (Live) 11. The Rarest Birds (Live) 12. Right As Rain (Live) 13. Whispering Your Name (Live) Follow Alison Moyet: Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube | Facebook | X | Instagram | Website

Photo Credit: Sam Moore Ahead of a run of UK and EU festivals this summer, Brooke Combe is back with her new single 'Love Was Made Of Stone'. The track is the latest to be taken from her forthcoming sophomore album and follows her Fontana Records debut 'Tears Won't Lie'. Recorded with The Coral's James Skelly at Kempston Studios in Liverpool, 'Love Was Made Of Stone' is a soul filled tale of someone breaking from a relationship built on an illusion. "The song is about years of what was thought to be real love, but something that turns into manipulation and game playing," Brooke says of the track. "Almost like that toxic love we're all aware exists, that you know is no good for you, but you keep holding on with the hope something may change, but it never does." Brooke's knack for turning stories of heartache into soulful, dance floor fillers is once again setting her apart as one of the UK's fastest rising and essential artists. Shot in Manchester New Century Hall and directed by James Slater (Sam, Fender, Yard Act, CMAT), the retro video leans heavily into Brooke's dancehall vibes. "I wanted the video to just reflect me and the band clearly," Brooke says of the video. "We're a group of mates, who have been brought together through music. I love 'Get Back' by The Beatles and wanted it to be sort of like that. Documentary style, but also to feel like you're in the room with us". Just back from packed sets at Truck Festival and Tramlines, Brooke will continue to bring her enthralling live show across a stream of UK and EU festivals across the summer, including Victorious Festival, Boardmasters and Sziget Festival, before a run of winter dates with Jalen N'gonda across the UK and Europe later this year, including a date at London's O2 Academy Brixton on October 28th. Brooke will also support Jalen N'Gonda on his North American dates through November and December. Brooke Combe plays the following 2026 UK dates: July Fri 31st Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival August Sun 2nd Camp Bestival, Dorset Sun 9th Boardmasters Festival, Newquay Sat 15th Palace Bowl, Crystal Palace, London ** Sun 16th Salt and Tar, Liverpool Mon 17th Salt and Tar, Liverpool Sat 22nd Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh Sun 30th Victorious Festival, Portsmouth October Fri 23rd The Great Hall, Cardiff * Sat 24th O2 Academy, Bristol * Sun 25th O2 Academy, Bristol * Tue 27th O2 Academy, Bournemouth * Wed 28th Brixton Academy, London * November Sun 1st O2 Academy, Leeds * Mon 2nd Barrowlands, Glasgow * Tue 3rd O2 Academy, Manchester * *Supporting Jalen N'gonda **Supporting Lenny Kravitz Taking her brand of Northern Soul to the masses with sold-out headline shows across the UK, along with massive support slots with the likes of Benson Boone across North America and Lionel Richie in the UK, Brooke has also captivated TV crowds on either side of the Atlantic with exceptional performances on Later...With Jools Holland andJimmy Kimmel Live! After breaking through with her debut album Dancing At The Edge Of The World in 2025, which received acclaim across the board and took her to the forefront of the new wave of Northern Soul, Brooke's next chapter is set to be an exciting ride as she continues to shine as one of the UK's hottest young talents. Catch her while you can.

Photo Credit: Brendon Burton Tommy Lefroy has announced their debut album, The Precariat, due October 23 via Thirty Tigers. Alongside the announcement the band has released the album's latest cut, 'Thief'. Written over six years between itinerant stays in Nashville, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Michigan, and London, The Precariat takes its name from the economic term describing a growing class of people living with increasing instability and uncertainty. Throughout the album, Tommy Lefroy's Wynter Bethel and Tessa Mouzourakis weave together literary, artistic, and musical influences – from Virginia Woolf, tradwives and suffragettes, to Springsteen's paradoxical patriotism – balancing sharp cultural observation with warmth and emotional honesty, ultimately offering connection as the antidote to uncertainty. Co-produced by the band alongside Stephen Sesso, with executive production from Mike Crossey (The 1975, Arctic Monkeys, MUNA), the album offers an unflinching capture of the uncertainty and anxiety permeating our collective psyche, along with the universality of precarity, despite its tendency to isolate. Tommy Lefroy has also shared new single, 'Thief' alongside an official music video directed by Emmy-nominated artist and photographer Brendon Burton. 'Thief' serves as one of the album's emotional centrepieces. One of the first songs Bethel and Mouzourakis wrote together nearly seven years ago, it reflects on the visceral toll of grief and coming to terms with time spent on a lost cause. The accompanying music video, directed by Brendon Burton, finds the band in vignettes of abandoned spaces across the North American plains. Houses reclaimed by mold and moss, decaying ephemera, and relics of obsolete technology frame the band as they sing "I just wanna feel / shiny and new." "The title refers to things lost along the way, how they sometimes feel taken, by time, or by people who've left us. The chorus came to Wynter in a parking lot, while driving for Postmates in Nashville. The song always felt special to us, like a thesis of how we felt in our early twenties," says the band. "We held on to this song for years knowing we wanted it to be on our first album, and the feelings the song expresses, of perpetual strife and inadequacy, felt more relevant than ever in the context of The Precariat." Tommy Lefroy (named after Thomas Langlois Lefroy, Jane Austen's alleged inspiration for Mr. Darcy), first previewed the album with 'Slush Puppy,' a sharp-edged, satirical summer anthem that pairs euphoric guitars with existential dread. Listen to 'Slush Puppy' HERE, and read more about the inspiration behind the song on the band's Substack here. Since releasing their debut EP Flight Risk in 2021, Tommy Lefroy earned a JUNO Award nomination for Breakthrough Artist of the Year, opened for Sigrid at Wembley Arena less than a year after playing their first headline show in London, and toured internationally with Samia and Niall Horan, performing for audiences numbering in the tens of thousands. Tommy Lefroy has announced a handful of North American headline shows this autumn in support of the new album. Please visit https://www.tommylefroy.com/ for more information. https://www.tommylefroy.com/

BLOODSTOCKers! The big 25th Anniversary celebrations are here, and there's no shortage of ways to get involved - whether you're pedaling, gaming, or just feeling lucky. You can even join in if you’re not at BLOODSTOCK! Heavy Metal Truants: The "Ed To Ed" Challenge While the HMT crew makes their epic ride to Catton Park starting today (follow them here), you can get in on the action without breaking a sweat on the road. If you’re at BLOODSTOCK, head to the HMT tent in the main arena and hop on a static bike to see how fast you can generate enough real electricity to boil water - kids are racing to 5ml, adults to 10ml (a hand crank is available for differently-abled participants). It's a £5 donation to the charity to take part, and every participant walks away with a cool HMT sticker. The fastest of each pair of challengers snags an HMT pin badge, hourly leaderboard champs earn 5 raffle entries (worth £20), and whoever posts the fastest time of the entire weekend bags a massive 50 free entries (worth £100)! Multiple attempts are welcome and records can be broken throughout the weekend, but no additional participation prizes we’re afraid… one each! The HMT Charity Raffle Fancy walking away with something truly special? This awesome raffle is stacked, including: 2x Marshall Willen Cream Bluetooth Speakers 1x Signed Dixxon T-shirt 1x Killers Eddie Diorama 1x Dave Murray 50th Anniversary Fender Guitar, signed by Iron Maiden themselves 1x Pair of The Wristbands Of Destiny (2 VIP Weekend Tickets to Bloodstock for the next 10 years!) Want to see that Dave Murray guitar in the flesh before you (hopefully) win it? It's on display in the RAM Gallery all weekend.  Tickets: £5 for 1, £20 for 5, £35 for 10, £65 for 25, £100 for 50. There are 2 ways in which you can buy your stake throughout the weekend (excluding the HMT trail): Online at HMT at BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR! - GiveWheel (website will be live from Wednesday 5th August - Sunday 9th August - you do not have to be at BLOODSTOCK to enter the raffle!). In-person at the HMT Tent from one of the HMT volunteers. Winners are drawn live at 19:00 on Sunday 9th August (and texted/emailed) - if you’re on-site, come collect at the HMT Tent; otherwise, they'll follow up with you the following week to arrange delivery. Scan Computers x BattleRigs: A Beast of a Machine It’s no secret that those behind the scenes at Bloodstock are fans of all things gaming, from the highly popular gaming arena to the gaming characters fancy dress themes, which means there’s a very likely chance you are too. To celebrate both BLOODSTOCK's 25th and Scan's 40th year in tech, Scan Computers and BattleRigs have built one seriously brutal, one-off custom gaming PC - designed exclusively for BLOODSTOCK and then one lucky winner. Under the hood: AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D 8 Core AM5 CPU/Processor Gigabyte AMD B850 AORUS ELITE Wi-Fi 7 ATX Motherboard CORSAIR Vengeance RGB Grey 32GB 6000MHz Dual Profile DDR5 Memory Kit Kioxia Exceria PLUS G4 1TB M.2 PCIe 5.0 NVMe 3D BiCS SSD/Solid State Drive Gigabyte AORUS AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT ELITE Graphics Card be quiet! Pure Power 13 M 1000W 80PLUS Gold Fully Modular ATX 3.1 PSU / Power Supply be quiet! Light Loop RGB All-In-One 360mm Intel/AMD CPU Water Cooler, Black be quiet! Pure Base 501 DX Tempered Glass Window Black RGB Mid Tower PC  Sam Hibbert, Head of Pro Gaming at Scan, says: "Having just celebrated our own 40th anniversary, we're thrilled to support Bloodstock Festival in its 25th year. Music has always been closely connected to gaming, so we're excited to be giving Bloodstock attendees the opportunity to experience the awesome design and breathtaking performance of our 3XS Systems gaming PCs during the festival."  Enter online via the Bloodstock Giveaway or in person at the Gaming Arena all weekend. The Gaming Arena If the escapism of being in a field full of your best friends, musical heroes, and strangers dressed as Jesus in a banana costume wasn’t enough, the gaming tent has you covered even further. Scan will be bringing the best in PC gaming to Bloodstock, with 6 gaming PCs (specs below) powered by AMD and KIOXIA, each running with 4K 43-inch iiyama monitors. Festival goers will be able to get hands-on with the latest AAA titles as well as fan favourites each day throughout the weekend. Gaming PCs at the fest: Scan 3XS ARC RX - CPU : 7800X3D / GPU : AMD 9070 GRE | SSD Storage: Kioxia 1TB G4 Exceria Scan 3XS Edge - CPU : 9800X3D / GPU : AMD 9070 GRE | SSD Storage: Kioxia 1TB G4 Exceria Scan 3XS Lignum - CPU : 9850X3D / GPU : AMD 9070 GRE | SSD Storage: Kioxia 1TB G4 Exceria Scan 3XS Vengeance RX (M3Amb) - CPU : AMD 9850X3D / GPU : 9070 XT : SSD Storage: Kioxia 1TB G4 Exceria Scan 3XS Vengeance Air - CPU : 9850X3D / GPU : 9070 XT : SSD Storage: Kioxia 1TB G4 Exceria Scan 3XS Helios RX - CPU : 9950X3D / GPU : 9070 XT : SSD Storage: Kioxia 1TB G4 Exceria Monitors : iiyama 4K 43inch GMaster RED EAGLE ASUS & Corsair peripherals  Scan specialises in gaming PCs, pro audio, pro video, AI and robotics - if you want to visit and get your full geek on, their store near Bolton (just off the M61) also houses Bolton's largest pro audio and instrument showroom. Win even more prizes! It really wouldn’t be a birthday party without even more prizes! Music to our ears, Scan are also offering up a serious haul for guitarists worth more than £2k! Legator Ghost Super Shred 7-String Guitar IK Multimedia TONEX Pedal IK Multimedia TONEX Royal 45 Legends signature collection A year’s worth of Ernie Ball strings (24 sets) Ernie Ball Fret wrap Ernie Ball Jacquard strap (winner’s choice of design) Ernie Bal strap blocks (winner’s choice of colour) Ernie Ball Mute Noodles Ernie Ball Everlast or Prodigy Picks Ernie Ball guitar hanger Ernie Ball tool kit Ernie Ball instrument care polish kit Ernie Ball ProTune USB-C rechargeable clip-on tuner Ernie Ball Classic Eagle T-shirt To be in with a chance of winning, all you have to do is sign up to Scan’s Pro Audio mailing list. Headhere for more info. The competition closes at 12.00pm Monday 10th August. Please note, UK entrants-only. Stage Times Stage times for this weekend’s shenanigans are now live on the official Bloodstock app. The map and stage times will be viewable without internet or strong signal, so make sure you have that downloaded before you arrive! Bloodstock 2027 We're already looking ahead to BLOODSTOCK 2027! Mark your calendar now and start planning for August 5th - 8th, 2027. If you want to be first to know 27 bands playing next year’s event, don’t miss Friday evening’s announcement at the Ronnie James Dio stage immediately after MUNICIPAL WASTE! As for TICKETS FOR 2027… Early bird standard weekend tickets will be available at the main entrance box office throughout the festival, priced £210.00 with no booking fee. Once they're gone (and there’s a high chance these will sell out on site), the price rises to £235 plus booking fee, with general on-sale kicking off on Monday 10th August at 9am - so grabbing your early bird at the festival could save you a cool £34 per ticket. VIP and Campervan tickets will go on sale on Wednesday 12th August at 9am. See the website for details of all ticket types and packages available. BLOODSTOCK’s 25th anniversary is going to be truly unforgettable. BLOODSTOCK 2026 is delighted to present RJD headliners LAMB OF GOD, SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL, JUDAS PRIEST, and SAXON. Sophie Lancaster stage headliners will be CRYPTOPSY (None So Vile 30-year anniversary set), WEDNESDAY 13, LEPROUS, and CARPENTER BRUT. You’ll also be able to see BODY COUNT, SEPULTURA, MUNICIPAL WASTE, DEATH ANGEL, TESTAMENT, NORTHLANE, BLEED FROM WITHIN, VENDED, ORBIT CULTURE, THE SCRATCH, IMPERIAL AGE, LIFE OF AGONY, OF MICE & MEN, BIOHAZARD, 200 STAB WOUNDS, THE HELL, BLACK SPIDERS, SHINING, NEVERMORE, EVIL SCARECROW, HEAVYSAURUS, SKYND, PARTY CANNON, BATTLESNAKE, INHUMAN NATURE, KITTIE, CASTLE RAT, GRAPHIC NATURE, BOOTYARD BANDITS, EXCREMENTORY GRINDFUCKERS, HIDDEN INTENT, SELLSWORD, NECKBREAKKER, SEETHING AKIRA, HAMMER, STAMPIN GROUND, URNE, CELESTIAL SANCTUARY, THROWN INTO EXILE, VIKING SKULL, BOUND IN FEAR, IMPERIUM, FROGLORD, MUSHROOMHEAD, DREAM STATE, TRIVAX, MANTIS DEFEATS JAGUAR, BLOOD COUNTESS, GURT, OUTERGODS, FLAYED DISCIPLE, NOISEPICKER, ACID THRONE, ALUNAH, VOID BELOW, TEMPLES ON MARS, CONCRETE AGE, THRASHERWOLF, IMPERIAL DEMONIC, CHAINED SAINT, IMBRIUM, OVERPOWER, UNTAMED SILENCE, CHANGE PERSONA, AFTER SMOKE CLEARS, SOULRIDE, VANITAS, GOAT MAJOR, CANCEL THE TRANSMISSION, TEMPEST SAINT, TROLLMOTHER, DOSED, STITCHED, WREX, FOLLOWING THE SIGNS, THE CARTOON CARTEL, AETHORIA and more. See the full lineup at the official website. For the most up to date festival information, visit the official website at bloodstock.uk.com. BLOODSTOCK 2026 takes place at Catton Park, Derbyshire on 6th - 9th August, 2026.

Los Angeles, CA (August 4, 2026): LINKIN PARK, CJ 4DPLEX and Trafalgar Releasing today announced that LINKIN PARK: UNSHATTER, an intimate new documentary directed by band member Joe Hahn, will come to cinemas worldwide beginning September 30. Following the band's triumphant return to the global stage, the cinematic event chronicles Linkin Park's journey through loss, resilience and creative reinvention, culminating in the explosive From Zero era and unforgettable live performances in São Paulo, Brazil. Tickets will go on sale globally August 13. The official trailer for LINKIN PARK: UNSHATTER premiered today, offering audiences their first look at the deeply personal story behind one of modern music's most influential bands as they embark on a new beginning together. Blending rare archival footage, candid behind-the-scenes moments, intimate studio sessions, and electrifying live performances, UNSHATTER follows Linkin Park from early recording sessions in 2022 through the creation of From Zero and their return to the world stage. Directed by Joe Hahn, the film offers an unprecedented inside look at the band's creative process and enduring friendship while introducing the next chapter of Linkin Park with Emily Armstrong and Colin Brittain. Timed alongside the film's theatrical release, the companion soundtrack UNSHATTER (Live in São Paulo) arrives September 25, featuring transcendent performances of songs spanning their entire career, including exclusive recordings not experienced in the film. The album is available for pre-order now, and fans can listen to "Somewhere I Belong (Live in São Paulo)" today. Audiences will have the opportunity to experience LINKIN PARK: UNSHATTER in standard 2D cinemas as well as premium SCREENX, 4DX and Ultra4DX auditoriums in select locations worldwide. SCREENX expands key moments beyond the main screen with immersive panoramic imagery, while 4DX surrounds audiences with synchronized motion and environmental effects, bringing the film's unforgettable concert performances to life in entirely new ways. "UNSHATTER follows a very particular moment in Linkin Park's history and documents a path through loss, uncertainty, friendship, and reinvention," shares Joe Hahn. "I hope longtime fans see parts of our journey they've never seen before, and I hope people who are just discovering our music come away with a better understanding of how we got here. But even beyond Linkin Park, I hope people connect with it as a story about relationships, resilience, and what it really takes to move forward when you don't have all the answers." Read Hahn's full director's statement here. Title: LINKIN PARK: UNSHATTER Release Date: September 30, 2026 Director: Joe Hahn Soundtrack: UNSHATTER (Live in São Paulo), available September 25, 2026 Formats: SCREENX, 4DX and 2D Website: UnshatterMovie.com About LINKIN PARK: LINKIN PARK are one of the most influential, successful, and visionary acts of the last 25 years. The GRAMMY® Award-winning band's RIAA Diamond-certified inaugural album, Hybrid Theory, remains the best-selling debut of this century, and launched a genre-smashing juggernaut that has since amassed 21 billion YouTube views and sold over 100 million albums globally. In 2024, after a seven-year hiatus, LINKIN PARK - now comprising Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Joe Hahn, Dave Farrell, Emily Armstrong and Colin Brittain - returned with their universally acclaimed, chart-topping eighth studio album From Zero. The comeback set earned two additional GRAMMY® nods, and included Platinum single "The Emptiness Machine," which spent 15 weeks at #1 on Billboard's Rock & Alternative Airplay chart to become the biggest rock song of the year. In total, the band has now notched a staggering 13 #1 entries on the radio chart — the second-most in history. Founded in 1996, LINKIN PARK went from recording in Mike Shinoda's Agoura Hills bedroom to indelibly changing the sound of popular music in a few short years. After winning the Best Hard Rock Performance GRAMMY® for Hybrid Theory's "Crawling," they picked up Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Numb / Encore" from their groundbreaking 2004 joint EP with JÄY Z, Collision Course, and performed the song on the GRAMMY® stage with a special appearance by Paul McCartney. In between, the group's now 8x Platinum sophomore album Meteora bowed at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 — one of six times they've topped the chart. LINKIN PARK teamed with Rick Rubin for their 5x Platinum third album, 2007's Minutes to Midnight, and have pushed their sound fearlessly forward ever since. To date, LINKIN PARK have won 2 GRAMMY®s, 7 American Music Awards, 4 MTV VMA Awards, 10 MTV Europe Music Awards, 3 World Music Awards, and, in 2025, Rock Album of the Year at the iHeartRadio Music Awards for From Zero. They continue to sell out stadiums around the planet, have headlined the world's largest festivals, and are the sole Western rock band to play a five-stadium tour in China. The band has also long prioritized charity and goodwill, helping to raise millions over the years for victims of natural disasters. LINKIN PARK recently became the one and only rock band to surpass 2 billion annual streams, and their Diamond-certified 2000 smash "In The End" remains an evergreen cultural touchstone. In 2026, LINKIN PARK release the feature film UNSHATTER, about their path back to the spotlight. About Trafalgar Releasing: Trafalgar Releasing is the global leader in event cinema distribution, connecting fans through unforgettable cinematic experiences in over 15,000 theaters across 132 countries. A subsidiary of Trafalgar Entertainment, the company specializes in the production, acquisition, marketing, and worldwide distribution of live and pre-recorded content to cinemas. Trafalgar Releasing's diverse slate spans chart-topping concert films and live concert broadcasts, award-winning theatre, acclaimed opera, dance, television, podcasts, and music documentaries—featuring some of the biggest names in entertainment including Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, BTS, Metallica, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Billie Eilish, The Chosen and the Royal Ballet and Opera. For more information, visit www.trafalgar-releasing.com. About CJ 4DPLEX CJ 4DPLEX is a proud subsidiary of CJ Group, Korea's leading lifestyle and culture company. Headquartered in Sangam, Seoul, we design and develop immersive cinema technologies that inspire audiences worldwide. Guided by creativity, technology, and cultural vision, we are committed to redefining the future of cinema starting right here in Korea. CJ 4DPLEX is redefining the moviegoing experience across many countries worldwide, working with the world's top exhibitors to deliver SCREENX, 4DX and ULTRA 4DX to audiences everywhere. From the United States to Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, our global presence keeps growing driven by our mission to make immersive storytelling the standard in cinema. Innovation drives us to connect people beyond language and borders through shared experiences. About SCREENX SCREENX is the world's first multi-projection cinema technology, delivering a 270-degree panoramic viewing experience that extends select scenes beyond the main screen and onto the auditorium walls. By surrounding audiences with exclusive imagery created or specially formatted for SCREENX, the technology enhances immersion while preserving the filmmaker's creative vision. About 4DX 4DX provides the best synesthetic viewing experience that connects the audience with movies through its state-of-the-art motion-seats and 21 environmental effects that include water, wind and scents. The 4DX theater is a special theater where you can feel various environmental effects such as wind, light, fog, fragrance, and vibration, as well as motion chairs that move according to the scene of the movie. Audiences can feel a new level of 4DX effect that maximizes vividness in each scene beyond simply watching movies with limitations of existing video and sound. CJ 4DPLEX can be found at www.cj4dplex.com.

Twenty years after Louder Now transformed Taking Back Sunday from Long Island underground heroes into one of the defining bands of 2000s alternative rock, the group celebrates their landmark third album with a new 20th Anniversary Edition, arriving October 16 via Craft Recordings. The deluxe release pairs the original album with two bonus B-side tracks—"Brooklyn (If You See Something, Say Something)" and "Sleep"—presented on an exclusive 7" with the vinyl edition and added to the deluxe CD. The LP edition will be widely available on "Silver Screen" colour vinyl (shown above), with limited-edition colour pressings also offered through the Taking Back Sunday Store (Ultra-clear with Glitter + exclusive replica laminate), Craft Recordings ("Burgundy Metallic"), independent retail ("Coke Bottle clear"), Revolver/Alt. Press ("Amazonite Swirl"), and Zia Records/Seasick Records ("Umber Brown"). Select stores globally will also carry a standalone "Oxblood" 1-LP pressing of the original album. Available to pre-order today, the anniversary edition arrives amid one of Taking Back Sunday's biggest touring years yet. After appearing at all five dates of the returning Vans Warped Tour and completing a successful North American run with Bayside, the band will visit additional U.S. markets this fall with support from Thrice and Saves The Day. The run includes Louder Than Life in Columbus, OH; Shaky Knees in Atlanta, GA; and a performance of Louder Now in full at Riot Fest in Chicago, IL. The band will continue the album's 20th anniversary celebration with a special headline date at Colorado's iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre, where they will once again perform Louder Now in full. View the latest tour listings at TakingBackSunday.com. Reflects frontman Adam Lazzara, "Our record Louder Now represents a huge milestone for me, and to know it has made an impact on so many other people's lives as well is something I still struggle to get my head around. To have the opportunity to celebrate that record with both John Nolan and Fred Mascherino on stage together, along with Shaun Cooper, is incredible to me. The songs sound stronger than I can ever remember live, and I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am to share that with everyone." For a generation raised on Warped Tour summers, MySpace profiles, and late-night MTV2, few bands defined the sound of the 2000s quite like Taking Back Sunday. Emerging from Long Island's thriving scene, the band helped reshape modern rock with emotionally charged songwriting, explosive live performances, and an unmistakable chemistry that resonated far beyond the underground. Their Platinum-certified 2002 debut for Victory Records, Tell All Your Friends, introduced a new generation to songs like "Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team)," while 2004's Where You Want To Be debuted at No.3 in the Billboard 200, establishing Taking Back Sunday as one of the era's most important new voices. Released in 2006 as the band's first album for a major label, Warner Bros. Records, Louder Nowmarked another creative leap. Produced by Eric Valentine (Queens Of The Stone Age, Third Eye Blind, Good Charlotte), the album sharpened Taking Back Sunday's melodic instincts while amplifying every element that made the band unique. Bigger choruses, heavier guitars, darker textures, and arena-sized ambition resulted in a record that broadened the band's audience without sacrificing the urgency and emotional honesty that had defined its earlier work. It was the sound of a band stepping onto a bigger stage while remaining unmistakably Taking Back Sunday. The response was immediate. Louder Now debuted at No.2 on the Billboard 200, became the band's highest-charting album to date, and earned Gold certification within just two months of release. At its centre was "MakeDamnSure," the explosive lead single that dominated alternative radio and MTV, introducing Taking Back Sunday to a worldwide audience while becoming a permanent fixture of the band's live shows. Alongside enduring fan favourites like "What's It Feel Like To Be A Ghost?" and "Liar (It Takes One To Know One)," it helped establish Louder Now as one of the defining alternative rock albums of the 2000s. Named Kerrang!'s Album of the Year in 2006 and praised by Rolling Stone as "a turbocharged attack spiked with dark, catchy melodies and giant choruses," Louder Now has only grown in stature over the past two decades. Today, it is widely regarded as one of the defining alternative rock and emo albums of its era. Nearly a quarter-century into their career, Taking Back Sunday continues to prove why they remain one of alternative rock's most vital live bands. The band's Louder Now anniversary performances underscore the enduring impact of an album that remains central to their story— continuing to resonate with the fans who grew up with it while introducing Taking Back Sunday to a new generation. This year also brings an especially fitting connection to Louder Now's original era. In 2026, Adam Lazzara, John Nolan and Shaun Cooper invited guitarist and vocalist Fred Mascherino—who was part of Taking Back Sunday's lineup for both Where You Want To Beand Louder Now—to join them on the road again. Performing alongside touring musicians Nathan Cogan Post and Mitch Register, the expanded lineup's three-guitar approach has reinvigorated the band and earned an enthusiastic response from fans, adding new energy to the songs as Taking Back Sunday celebrates Louder Now's enduring legacy. Click here to pre-order Louder Now (20th Anniversary Edition), or stream the album. Track Listing Vinyl 12" Side A What's It Feel Like To Be A Ghost? Liar (It Takes One To Know One) MakeDamnSure Up Against (Blackout) My Blue Heaven 12" Side B Twenty-Twenty Surgery Spin Divine Intervention Miami Error Operator I'll Let You Live 7" Side A Brooklyn (If You See Something, Say Something) 7" Side B Sleep CD 1. What's It Feel Like To Be A Ghost? Liar (It Takes One To Know One) MakeDamnSure Up Against (Blackout) My Blue Heaven Twenty-Twenty Surgery Spin Divine Intervention Miami Error Operator I'll Let You Live B-sides Brooklyn (If You See Something, Say Something) Sleep 2026 Tour Dates Aug. 8 – Bethlehem, PA – Musikfest Aug. 21 -22 – Montreal, QC – Vans Warped Tour Montréal Sept. 5 – Royal Oak, MI – Arts Beats & Eats Sept. 12 -13 – Mexico City, Mexico – Vans Warped Tour Mexico City Sept. 16 – Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle* Sept. 18 – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life Sept. 19 – Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees Festival Sept. 20 – Chicago, IL – Riot Fest Band performing Louder Now front to back Sept. 23 – Wallingford, CT – The Dome at Toyota Oakdale Theatre* Sept. 24 – Wantagh, NY – Bay Stage at Northwell at Jones Beach Theatre* Sept. 25 – Atlantic City, NJ – Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena* Sept. 26 – Worcester, MA – The Palladium Outdoors* Sept. 27 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount* Sept. 29 – Buffalo, NY – Outer Harbour Live at Terminal B* Sept. 30 – Grand Rapids, MI – GLC Live at 20 Monroe* Oct. 2 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave/Eagles Club* Oct. 3 – West Des Moines, IA – Val Air Ballroom* Oct. 4 – Kansas City, MO – The Midland Theatre* Oct. 6 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Union* Oct. 8 – Tacoma, WA – Dune Peninsula* Oct. 10 – Stanford, CA – Frost Amphitheatre* Oct. 11 – San Diego, CA – Gallagher Square at Petco Park* Oct. 13 – Albuquerque, NM – Revel Entertainment Centre* Oct. 14 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre* Louder Now anniversary celebration, band performing the album front to back Oct. 16 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre* Oct. 17 - Highland, CA - Yaamava' Resort & Casino* Oct. 18 – Las Vegas, NV – Pearl Concert Theatre at Palms Casino Resort* Nov. 14–15 – Orlando, FL – Vans Warped Tour * Headline dates with Thrice and Saves The Day. About Craft Recordings: Craft Recordings is home to one of the largest and most essential collections of master recordings and compositions in the world. Its storied repertoire includes landmark releases from icons such as Joan Baez, John Coltrane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Celia Cruz, Miles Davis, Isaac Hayes, John Lee Hooker, Little Richard, R.E.M., and Joan Sebastian. Plus, the catalog recordings of celebrated contemporary acts including A Day to Remember, Alison Krauss, Daddy Yankee, Evanescence, Nine Inch Nails, Taking Back Sunday and Violent Femmes, to name just a few. Renowned imprints with catalogues issued under the Craft banner include Fania, Fantasy, Fearless, Musart, Nitro, Panart, Prestige, Riverside, Rounder, Specialty, Stax, Vanguard, Varèse Sarabande, Vee-Jay and Victory, among many others. Craft creates thoughtfully curated packages, with a meticulous devotion to quality and a commitment to preservation—ensuring that these recordings endure for new generations to discover. Craft is also home to the Billie Holiday and Tammy Wynette estates, which preserve and protect their respective names, likeness and music through day-to-day legacy management of these cultural trailblazers. Craft Recordings is the catalogue label team for Concord. For more info, visit Craft Recordings.com and follow on Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

On October 2, UMe will release My Aim Is True (49th Anniversary Edition), a five-CD box set telling the story of how Declan MacManus became Elvis Costello – and how his debut album, recorded in a small London studio, was the first public step in a singular and enduring career. Across 104 tracks, demos, masters, outtakes, live performances, interviews, and other rare recordings (52 of them previously unreleased), plus a new 2026 remaster of the original album from the original analog tapes (the vinyl original album is AAA all analog), the collection traces Costello's transformation from a young computer operator through his brief attempts to break into the London "singer-songwriter" scene while recording songs in his bedroom, dreaming of them being sung by other artists; to eventually recording three failed singles for Stiff Records; 'Less Than Zero,' 'Alison,' and '(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes' with members of the American band Clover, before forming the Attractions and having a U.K. hit single with 'Watching The Detectives' on which only Costello and Steve Nieve appeared. Each of its five discs – My Aim Is True, The Blue Print, The Stranger In The House, Becoming The Attractions andCovered In Clover (the only live performance of Costello and Clover) – is accompanied by extensive new writing from Costello, alongside rare and unseen photographs, handwritten lyrics from his notebooks and diary entries from 1976, and lists of songs he was performing solo, as then he was being rejected by every publisher and A&R man in London before Stiff Records heard something in his songs. The collection was produced by Elvis Costello and Steve Berkowitz. As a preview, Costello has shared a selection of highlights from the box set, illustrating the evolution of one of his most beloved early songs, 'Watching The Detectives.' Available to hear today are four previously unreleased recordings: the 'Pathway Studios Trio Version' (Costello on guitar/vocals, Andrew Bodnar on bass, Steve Goulding on drums), a mix without either the introductory 'Spy Guitar' figure or any keyboards added that would come to define the song; a formative solo electric performance from the UK television programme Good Afternoon, hosted by Mavis Nicholson, which aired on September 30, 1977, accompanied by a short excerpt from Costello's first-ever TV interview; and a swaggering live performance with The Attractions from San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom on July 8, 1978, alongside the newly remastered 2026 version of the original recording. Stream the tracks HERE. "When first proposed, I thought the whole idea of celebrating a 50th Anniversary of My Aim Is True was preposterous," Costello writes at the beginning of the collection. "It made my teeth itch." He continues: "It couldn't just be set up like a venerable object in a glass case." Instead, My Aim Is True (49th Anniversary Edition) presents the album as the beginning of a still-unfolding story. Its first disc pairs the original album with 'Watching The Detectives,' creating a hybrid of the original U.K. and U.S. track listings. Recorded with producer Nick Lowe and the Marin County band Clover during four six-hour sessions at Pathway Studios, the album emerged with little budget, limited overdubbing and Costello singing live on nearly every track. "Last night I listened to this wonderfully wonky record in its entirety for the first time in about 45 years," Lowe writes in a new note for the set, recalling Pathway's unforgettably heady atmosphere of "cigarettes, ill-laundered clothes, exposed electrical units, and urinal disinfectant." He adds that making the album gave him "the priceless opportunity to observe at close range the extraordinary work of one of the foremost composers of popular song of this or any other era." In his accompanying essay, Costello remembers slipping away from his day job at Elizabeth Arden under the pretense of illness to deliver an unsolicited demo to the newly opened Stiff Records, then encountering Lowe outside the nearby Underground station. Within weeks, Lowe was producing his first session. Soon afterward, Stiff founders Jake Riviera and Dave Robinson supplied a new name and a pair of black horn-rimmed glasses, completing what Costello calls "a Superman costume in reverse." The tweed jacket and blue suit seen on the album cover had been given to him by his office manager; the tear in one sleeve, he later claimed, came from a narrowly dodged bullet. The second disc, The Blue Print, gathers 17 recordings from 1975 and 1976, including 13 previously unreleased. The songs span bedroom tapes, early Pathway recordings and 13 performances from a 1976 session at the Hope & Anchor Studio. Also included is a recording preserved by Costello's '70s contemporary Charlie Dore, who just recently discovered a reel she taped of Costello trying out songs during a blazing London afternoon in 1976. Together, these recordings reveal ideas that would resurface throughout his work: a lyrical couplet and image which eventually found their way into 'Accidents Will Happen,' 'Watch Your Step,' 'King Horse' and 'Just A Memory,' while 'Radio Soul' - a song in praise of the power of broadcasting - later became a sarcastic song about the BBC called 'Radio Radio.' "The more I've delved into these notebooks, the more I've come to the conclusion that these handwritten notes might actually be 'The Blue Print' for a lot of the work I did over the next five or six years,"Costello writes. The Stranger In The House contains 28 demos, outtakes and early band recordings, 15 of which have never been released, including every surviving outtake and demo from My Aim Is True. Costello's early, rather unfashionable fascination with country music can be heard here, with the songs he imagined pitching as a backroom writer. The disc reaches back to Flip City, the band Costello describes as "Pre-Professional:" "In the so-called Pub Rock scene, we barely qualified as also-rans. We were ready and we were willing, but the bookings were few and our progress was slow." It also includes more of Ms. Dore's tapes, and follows the evolution of songs including '(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes' and 'Living In Paradise' through the session that produced 'Watching The Detectives.' Costello's 72-page liners include commentary and recollections from Nick Lowe and Columbia Records' Gregg Geller, while Steve Nieve recalls his first ever recording session, providing the keyboards parts on 'Watching The Detectives,' and Pete Thomas tells the story of befriending Clover when he was working in California in 1975, introducing them to Stiff Records founder Jake Riviera in San Francisco and then playing drums with Clover in the same city on their only live performance with Costello of My Aim Is True in 2007. The fourth disc, Becoming The Attractions, opens with a solo performance of 'Alison,' from Elvis Costello's U.K. television debut to his first live appearances under his new name to the sudden velocity of America in late 1977 and 1978. Its 25 tracks, 12 previously unreleased, include live recordings, broadcasts and a Nashville Room soundcheck from the summer of 1977, when Costello and the newly formed Attractions used a four-Sunday residency to sharpen their increasingly fast and ferocious set. Music journalist, television producer and author Bill Flanagan chronicles Costello's arrival in America, where listeners encountered a musical hybrid that resisted easy classification: country-rock, soul, reggae and terse British pop delivered by a singer who appeared at once confrontational and deeply romantic. Further recollections from Warren Zanes, Rosanne Cash, Peter Wolf (then of the J. Geils Band and Costello's friend of 49 years), and Jim James of My Morning Jacket (a bandmate in the 'New Basement Tapes' studio collective) accompany Costello's account of that first American trip – from seeing Iggy Pop in San Francisco and meeting Tom Waits in Los Angeles to replacing the Sex Pistols on Saturday Night Live and abruptly abandoning 'Less Than Zero' for 'Radio Radio.' The collection closes with Covered In Clover, an entirely unreleased recording of Costello's 2007 reunion with Clover at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall. Performing My Aim Is True in its original U.K. sequence before concluding with 'Watching The Detectives,' Costello and the musicians return to the songs they had recorded together three decades earlier, when he was 22 years old and had scarcely worked with players of their caliber. "Making my first record seemed like the beginning of something that I'd imagined for a long time, before I had any sense of a potential audience, let alone the expectation and the assumptions of others about songs written and performed in mere minutes," Costello writes. "Nevertheless, I raise a chaste glass to My Aim Is True and all who sail in her." My Aim Is True (49th Anniversary Edition) will be released October 2 via UMe as a 5-CD/digital box set. The new remaster of the original album will also be released on 180-gram black vinyl and CD. Pre-order all formats HERE. My Aim is True (49th Anniversary Edition) Box Set - Track List ** Denotes previously unreleased CD1: My Aim Is True 1. Welcome To The Working Week - 2026 Remaster 2. Miracle Man - 2026 Remaster 3. No Dancing - 2026 Remaster 4. Blame It On Cain - 2026 Remaster 5. Alison - 2026 Remaster 6. Sneaky Feelings - 2026 Remaster 7. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - 2026 Remaster 8. Less Than Zero - 2026 Remaster 9. Mystery Dance - 2026 Remaster 10. Pay It Back - 2026 Remaster 11. I'm Not Angry - 2026 Remaster 12. Waiting For The End Of The World - 2026 Remaster 13. Watching The Detectives - Single Version CD2: The Blue Print 1. I Turn Around - Hope & Anchor Studio** 2. Losing You - Hope & Anchor Studio** 3. Leverman - Hope & Anchor Studio** 4. Citizen Junction - Hope & Anchor Studio** 5. I Hear A Melody - Pathway Studios 6. Poison Moon - Bedroom Recording 7. Wave A White Flag - Bedroom Recording 8. Mercury Wings - Ms. Dore's Tape** 9. Jump Up - Hope & Anchor Studio** 10. No Star - Hope & Anchor Studio** 11. Walk On - Hope & Anchor Studio** 12. Radio Soul - Hope & Anchor Studio** 13. Clean Money - Hope & Anchor Studio** 14. Don't Put A Levy On My Love - Hope & Anchor Studio** 15. Play It Safe - Hope & Anchor Studio** 16. Imagination (Is A Powerful Deceiver) - Hope & Anchor Studio** 17. I Can't Turn It Off - Hope & Anchor Studio CD3: The Stranger In The House 1. Radio Sweetheart - My Aim Is True Outtake 2. Cheap Reward - Bedroom Recording 3. Mystery Dance - Bedroom Recording 4. Stranger In The House - My Aim Is True Outtake 5. Running Out Of Angels - Hope & Anchor Studio** 6. Just Like A Jukebox - Hope & Anchor Studio** 7. I Don't Want To Go Home - Pathway Studios 8. Blame It On Cain - Bedroom Recording 9. Blue Minute - Ms. Dore's Tape** 10. Pay It Back - Bedroom Recording ** 11. Exiles Road - Flip City - Hope & Anchor Studio** 12. Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Flip City - Hope & Anchor Studio** 13. Sweet Revival - Flip City - Hope & Anchor Studio** 14. Pay It Back - Flip City - Hope & Anchor Studio** 15. Imagination (Is A Powerful Deceiver) - Flip City - Hope & Anchor Studio** 16. Living In Paradise - Hope & Anchor Studio** 17. Welcome To The Working Week - Pathway Studios 18. Miracle Man - Bedroom Recording** 19. Miracle Man - Pathway Studios 20. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - Ms. Dore's Tape** 21. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - Pathway Studios 22. Waiting For The End Of The World - Pathway Studios 23. Living In Paradise - My Aim Is True Outtake 24. Call On Me - Pathway Studios 25. Watching The Detectives - Pathway Studios Trio Version** 26. No Action - Pathway Studios Trio Version 27. Poison Moon - Ms. Dore's Tape** 28. Stranger In The House - Ms. Dore's Tape** CD4: Becoming The Attractions 1. Alison - What's On Granada Reports 2. Introduction By Dave Robinson - Live, The Nashville Room 3. Mystery Dance - Live, The Nashville Room 4. Pay It Back - Soundcheck, The Nashville Room 5. Radio Sweetheart - Soundcheck, The Nashville Room 6. Sneaky Feelings - Soundcheck, The Nashville Room 7. Crawling To The U.S.A. - Soundcheck, The Nashville Room 8. Lip Service - Pathway Studios** 9. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes- with Introduction Top Of The Pops** 10. Interview No. 1 - Good Afternoon with Mavis Nicholson 11. Watching The Detectives - Good Afternoon Broadcast** 12. Interview No. 2 - Good Afternoon with Mavis Nicholson 13. Hoover Factory - Good Afternoon Rehearsal** 14. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - Live Stiffs, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. 15. Whole Wide World - Live Stiffs, University Of Leicester, Leicester, U.K.** 16. KSAN Intro - Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA 17. Pump It Up - Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA** 18. Lip Service - Unknown Field Recording** 19. Mystery Dance - Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA** 20. Blame It On Cain - Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA** 21. Less Than Zero (Dallas Version) - Warner Theater, Washington D.C. 22. Waiting For The End Of The World - The Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH** 23. Miracle Man - Warner Theater, Washington D.C. 24. Watching The Detectives - Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA** 25. I'm Not Angry - Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA** CD5: Covered In Clover 1. Welcome To The Working Week (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 2. Miracle Man (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 3. No Dancing (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 4. Intro To Blame It On Cain (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 5. Blame It On Cain (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 6. Alison (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 7. Intro To Sneaky Feelings (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 8. Sneaky Feelings (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 9. Intro To Red Shoes (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 10. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 11. Less Than Zero (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 12. Mystery Dance (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 13. Pay It Back (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 14. I'm Not Angry (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 15. Waiting For The End Of The World / Gloria (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 16. Watching The Detectives (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 17. Mr. Moon (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 18. Intro To The Love Trilogy (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 19. Love Has No Pride (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 20. Love Is Gone (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** 21. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (Live - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - November 8, 2007)** ELVIS COSTELLO ON THE WEB elviscostello.com X: https://x.com/ElvisCostello Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elviscostello/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ElvisCostello YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/elviscostello TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@elviscostello

Photo Credit Charlie Thornton Jake Isaac has made his name as an empathetic chronicler of the human condition with a voice like a modern Bill Withers. That quality has beamed brightly throughout his career, which has taken him from praise from Sir Elton John to a renowned set at Glastonburythrough to the strongest acclaim and radio play of his career so far for his previous album, 2024's 'BENJAMIN'. Now Jake takes that record's gospel/soul heart and searing conversational honesty into his next chapter as he shares his new single 'A SUMMER LONG AGO'. Listen HERE. 'A SUMMER LONG AGO' showcases Jake Isaac's ever-growing command of blurring the lines between vintage soul and modern pop. It's a song so natural it feels effortless, with laidback grooves perfect for the moment when a summer's day drifts into dusk, evocative saxophone that's both fresh and instantly familiar, and, of course, his inimitable husky voice which is as welcoming as a message from an old friend. And looking back is key to the song's theme, with a dreamlike meditation on childhood memories when the days felt eternal. Jake says, "I tried to create a song that was easy on the ears, I wanted something to put on at dinner time or to keep everyone chilled during the school run. In this day and age, where things are all over the place, I wanted to go back to the days when it was OK to play in the street as a kid. It's a nod to that innocent time." 'A SUMMER LONG AGO' was written and produced solely by Jake Isaac, who also performed the majority of its instrumentation. That earworm of a sax motif was the main exception, which was provided by Kat Deal ('Saturday Night Live UK'). Since releasing 'BENJAMIN', Jake expanded on his original vision for the album with its Deluxe Edition, and also reimagined favourites from his earlier career with the '10 YEARS LATER' album. He also features on Booshle G.'s 'I WOULD LOSE IT ALL' EP. The 'BENJAMIN' album also saw Jake return to his natural environment on stage, with highlights including a packed headline show atLondon's Village Underground (documented in a subsequent live EP), as well as playing a special Radio 2 Piano Room live show alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra. His next London show comes with a stripped-back, intimate headline performance within the beautiful setting of St. Pancras Old Church on September 10th, and he will also play the X-TRA Musikcafe in Zurich (September 8th) and the Konzerthaus Schüür in Lucerne (September 9th). Tickets are available HERE. Originally from south London where he grew up as the son of a pastor, Jake Isaac now lives outside of Manchester with his three young children. Family, faith, love and spirituality are all recurring themes in his music, while his two key songwriting influences - Paul Simonand Bill Withers - feed into a brand of soul which stretches organically from the intimate to the cinematic. Prior to launching his solo career with his debut album 'Our Lives', Jake had already learned about the realities of the music world - both in terms of both the creative and the industry aspects. He worked as a marketing manager for a record company while in his early twenties, a time when he'd sometimes witness artists with more buzz than talent. At same time, he was serving as a session musician and a songwriter for artists such as Gabrielle and Cynthia Erivo, who he credits for being able to beguile a room with her talents. He was also used to being at the back of the stage, playing drums and acting as musical director for Duffy. His own work on solo albums like 'Honesty' and 'For When It Hurts' placed him at the heart of a British soul revival. All of those experiences inspired personal reflection. As he explains, "It caused me to ask myself: what kind of artist do I want to be? There is more longevity when you try and write songs that mean something than when you chase the numbers." Follow Jake Isaac: Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok | Website

Photo Credit Atiba Jefferson Toledo, OH rock powerhouse, Citizen, are releasing their highly anticipated new album, Halcyon Blues, this Friday, August 7th, via Run For Cover Records. To mark the occasion they're sharing the album's titanic opening track, Halcyon Blues is a dynamic, confident release that draws on nearly two decades of musical and personal growth to emphatically declare what their dedicated fans already know: Citizen are one of our great modern rock bands–and they’re at the absolute top of their game. "Good Fortune" follows "I Can See You From Here," "Halcyon Blues" and "Highs and Lows" (which have drawn attention from the likes of Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Consequence, BrooklynVegan, Alt Press, VICE, and more), and roars to life with a fast-paced beat and powerful melodies courtesy of frontman Mat Kerekes unmistakably dynamic voice. It's the perfect final teaser before Halcyon Blues arrives in full on Friday. Pre-order Halcyon Blues HERE Listen to "Good Fortune" on streaming services here Citizen have always been determined to follow their own path, taking creative risks and challenging expectations at every turn, and 17 years into an impressive career the band still feel like underdogs who have never quite fit in. Citizen's unlikely rise from a group of Toledo high schoolers to long-running headliners capable of selling out shows around the world, and they got there through persistent sonic evolution. Over the years they've moved deftly through raw emo, menacing post-hardcore, anthemic alternative, garage-y indie pop, and so much more, now Halcyon Blues combines elements from throughout their entire catalog together into a singular and instantly satisfying record that just sounds like Citizen. Recorded by Kerekes then mixed by Tom Lorde-Alge (U2, Weezer, Blink182), Halcyon Blues taps into the urgency and ferocity of Citizen's early albums while embracing the epic scope and undeniable hooks of their more recent work. The group's determination and focus on pushing themselves musically has allowed them to grow steadily–and for their audience to grow with them. “A lot of bands try to do anything they can to be the hottest thing of the moment and we’ve just never operated like that,” says guitarist Nick Hamm. “We don't think in moments, or months, or record cycles. Some bands end up getting sick of whatever walls they exist in, but I see Citizen as this long term creative project where there’s always somewhere new to go, and that’s kept me exhilarated through all these years. And we’ve trusted that people who like our band will want to come along. A lot of people grew with us and we’re really thankful for that.” Citizen also have a massive run of worldwide tour dates on the books in support of Halcyon Blues. First the band will be hitting the road in North America with support from Anxious, Hotline TNT, Rocket, and Cryogeyser, followed by the UK and EU with Modern Color, then Australia with Drug Church. See full itinerary below. Citizen - 2026 UK tour dates Tickets are available here 24th Oct - Earth Hall, London, UK ^ 25th Oct - Stylus, Leeds, UK ^ 27th Oct - TV Studio, Glasgow, UK ^ 28th Oct - Academy 2, Manchester, UK ^ 29th Oct - The Prospect Building, Bristol, UK ^ ^ support from Modern Color, thistle. Citizen - Halcyon Blues tracklist: 1. Good Fortune 2. I Can See You From Here 3. Halcyon Blues 4. Is It In My Brain 5. Always The Last One to Leave 6. Either Way 7. Matador 8. Ether 9. Smooth Talker 10. Highs and Lows 11. Anne Citizen: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Bandcamp | Run For Cover Records