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Charlatans UK Announce New Dev Hynes Co-Produced Album; Share First Single
THE CHARLATANS UK ANNOUNCE 14TH STUDIO ALBUM
WE ARE LOVE ALBUM PRODUCED BY DEV HYNES,
FRED MACPHERSON AND STEPHEN STREET
FIRST SINGLE, "WE ARE LOVE," OUT TODAY - LISTEN
ANNOUNCE DECEMBER UK TOUR DATES
WE ARE LOVE ARRIVES OCTOBER 31, 2025 VIA BMG
PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE NOW
Photo Credit: Cat Stevens
The Charlatans UK kick off a new era today with the news of their 14th studio album, We Are Love, out Friday, October 31, via BMG. The announcement comes accompanied by the album's first offering, the title track "We Are Love," which the Manchester band debuted live this month at a landmark hometown show at Castlefield Bowl.
"We Are Love" is a celebratory statement of intent, an urgent, limber, clattering love song to the human race. Propelled forward by driving drums and anthemic guitar, frontman Tim Burgess describes it as "like an open-top car ride in the credits of your favorite movie, driving along the coast to somewhere amazing."
One of the first tracks to emerge as they were writing, it became a pathfinder for the record, as guitarist Mark Collins explains: "Early on, we thought it felt right. And it turned out that way: first single, title track, second song on the album. And things started forming around 'We Are Love.' There was a certain energy to it that drove us forward.”
LISTEN TO "WE ARE LOVE"
PRE-ORDER WE ARE LOVE
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One of the best-loved UK bands of the last four decades, The Charlatans UK's career spans 13 albums, 22 Top 40 UK singles, three Number One UK albums and era-defining anthems like "The Only One I Know," "North Country Boy" and "One to Another" – We Are Love launches a bold new era, one that finds them at peace with their past whilse looking forward to a bright future.
An eight-year gap between albums is the longest ever for one of the UK’s most enduring bands. A combination of covid, solo projects, life’s complexities and the fact that its five members - Tim Burgess (vocals) Martin Blunt (bass), Mark Collins (guitar), Tony Rogers (keyboards) and Pete Salisbury (drums) - live scattered across Europe, meant that it took longer than usual for the stars to align at the right place, right time, right vibe. They took the time to carefully select a recording A-team of production duo Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange and Lightspeed Champion) and Fred Macpherson (Spector, Rachel Chinouriri, Jessica Winter, Taahliah), plus legendary producer Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, The Cranberries), alongside a list of engineers, mixers and collaborators that reads like a who’s who of alt rock greatness. The result has been well worth the wait.
Recorded at two places that are totemic in The Charlatans UK's history - Rockfield in Wales and their own Big Mushroom space in Middlewich, Cheshire - Burgess cites hauntology and psychogeography as two concepts that swirled in his head as the band dug into the album making. For one thing, their return to storied farm studio Rockfield for the first time in almost 30 years, since they made their fifth album Tellin’ Stories, was an important step. As a band, they hadn’t been there since keyboard player Rob Collins was killed, in the middle of that album’s sessions, in a car crash at the bottom of the track leading to the farm. Throughout the record, you can hear The Charlatans UK's awareness of the stuff that’s made them – the highs and the lows; the desire to honor their own mighty legacy, whilst not being defined by it; a career-long drive to be progressive and innovative.
“The whole idea of hauntology and psychogeography is represented by us going back to Rockfield, where so much history has happened for The Charlatans," says Burgess. "That was important as a way of honoring every member who's played in the band. So we’re honouring ourselves, our past, feeling that energy and reincarnating it, doing something fresh, brand new.”
This introspection brought home the fact that love is the glue that has held The Charlatans UK together for so long, and that’s reflected in the 11 tracks that make up this forward-thinking, future-facing album. Alongside the album announcement, The Charlatans UK have also shared plans for a December UK tour, playing headline shows in Leeds, Stoke, Bath, London, Manchester, and Glasgow.
We are The Charlatans.
We Are Love.
THE CHARLATANS UK
WE ARE LOVE
(BMG)
Release Date: October 31, 2025
Tracklist
Kingdom of Ours
We Are Love
Many A Day A Heartache
For The Girls
You Can’t Push The River
Deeper and Deeper
Appetite
Salt Water
Out On Our Own
Glad You Grabbed Me
Now Everything
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THE CHARLATANS - TOUR 2025
DECEMBER
6 - Leeds, O2 Academy
7 - Stoke, Victoria Hall
8 - Bath, Forum
10 - London, Roundhouse
11 - Manchester, Academy
12 - Glasgow, Barrowland
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X the band CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF AIN'T LOVE GRAND + Tour 2025
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OFAIN'T LOVE GRAND This month, we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of
Ain't Love Grand
, released in July of 1985. We have some leftover artist copies of our previously sold out Black Friday Version that includes the 7" of Wild Thing. Those are available now on Bandcamp! Come hear these songs and more at the upcoming shows with Los Lobos. Tickets on sale now.Buy Now
Jul 19 - Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre #Jul 20 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Red Butte Garden #Aug 3 - Costa Mesa, CA @ OC Fair/Pacific Amphitheatre *#Sep 19 - Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall #Sep 20 - Detroit, MI @ Fisher Theatre #Sep 21 - Heuber Heights, OH @ Rose Music Center at the Heights #Sep 24 - Baltimore, MD @ The Lyric Baltimore #Sep 25 - NYC, NY @ Town Hall #Sep 27 - Boston, MA @ Boch Center Shubert Theatre #Sep 28 - Philadelphia, PA @ Miller Theater #Oct 7 - Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium #Oct 9 - Atlanta, GA @ Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre #Oct 10 - Memphis, TN @ Minglewood Hall #Oct 11 - St. Louis, MO @ The Factory #Oct 12 - Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater #Oct 15 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Pabst Theater #
Oct 16 - Chicago, IL @ The Auditorium #
Oct 17 - Indianapolis, IN @ Clowes Memorial Hall #
Nov 3 - Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall #
Nov 4 - Seattle, WA @ The Moore Theatre #
Nov 8 - Oakland, CA @ Paramount Theatre #Nov 13 San Diego, CA @ Balboa Theatre #
Nov 14 - Riverside, CA @ Fox Performing Arts Center #Nov 15 - Phoenix, AZ @ Orpheum Theatre #
Nov 19 - Austin, TX @ ACL Live at the Moody Theatre #
Nov 20 - Dallas, TX @ Music Hall at Fair Park #
Nov 22 - Houston, TX @ Smart Financial Centre # *w/Ozomatli#w/ Los LobosBuy Tickets
Real Estate Announce A Celebration of Atlas - The Eleven Year and 7 Month Anniversary Tour
REAL ESTATE
Announce A Celebration of Atlas - The Eleven Year and 7 Month Anniversary Tour
This September & October
[image error]Martin Courtney at Wilco’s Loft studio recording Atlas in summer 2013; photo credit: Charles Poekel
Real Estate is pleased to announce A Celebration of Atlas - The Eleven Year and 7 Month Anniversary, a commemoration of their beloved 2014 LP. The tour will kick off September 10 at the Bellwether in Los Angeles and includes dates in Brooklyn (Brooklyn Steel), Toronto (The Concert Hall), Washington, DC (Lincoln Theatre), and Philadelphia (Union Transfer). All dates are listed below. Artist presale is this Wednesday, July 16 at 10am local time; local presale is this Wednesday, July 16 at 12pm local time; and general on-sale is this Friday, July 18 at 10am local time.
The band shares, “Atlas was a pretty big record for us, and chances are if you’re reading this, it’s a pretty big record for you too. Nobody ever said, ‘I love Real Estate, but I hate their third LP, Atlas.’ And if they did say that, they never said it anywhere around us - and we read everything you guys write on the internet; some of it can get pretty weird. And so, on this momentous occasion, we will be bringing A CELEBRATION OF ATLAS to a city near you, to honor its 11 year and 7 month anniversary. We’ll be playing almost the entire album in its entirety (basically) and other lesser known tunes from the Atlas era. We’ll also be playing a selection of our greatest hits, because we know you love those too. Please come and celebrate with us - we can’t wait to see you.”
[image error]A Celebration of Atlas - The Eleven Year and 7 Month Anniversary Tour
9/10 - Los Angeles @ The Bellwether
9/11 - Ventura, CA @ Ventura Music Hall
9/12 - Felton, CA @ Felton Music Hall %
9/30 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel ^
10/1 - Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theater ^
10/3 - Lakewood, OH @ The Roxy at Mahall’s ^
10/4 - Toronto, ON @ The Concert Hall ^
10/6 - Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre ^
10/7 - Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom ^
10/8 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer ^
10/10 - Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom ^
10/11 - Boston, MA @ Royale ^
w/ Jawdropped
% w/ Subtle Orange
^ w/ Trace Mountains
Atlas was released in March of 2014; written as frontman Martin Courtney was on the verge of starting a family, the album was praised for its gorgeous evocation of intimacy and reverie. Atlas was recorded at Wilco’s The Loft studio in Chicago and Magic Shop in New York City and produced by Tom Schick; Stereogum called it “a triumph of craftsmanship.” “Courtney’s tenor is soft and even, and the room tone is bruised-ripe like an October sunset,” wrote Pitchfork. “In this soft light, the band sounds like the platonic ideal of themselves.” Atlas peaked at number 6 on Billboard’s Independent Albums chart and spawned some of their biggest hits, including “Had to Hear” and “Talking Backwards,” which NPR called “a sunbeam shooting through the clouds.”
Real Estate online
Ora the Molecule Shares Lindstrøm Remix Of "Intergalactic Dance" || Announces Fall US Tour Supporting Cut Copy
ORA THE MOLECULE SHARES LINDSTRØM REMIX OF “INTERGALACTIC DANCE”
ANNOUNCES FALL US TOUR
SUPPORTING CUT COPY
NEW ALBUM DANCE THERAPY
OUT NOW ON MUTE
Today Ora the Molecule has shared a cosmic new remix of “Intergalactic Dance” by acclaimed Norwegian producer Lindstrøm. The standout track is taken from her recently-released album Dance Therapy which is out now via Mute.
Additionally, she has announced news of a November US tour supporting Cut Copy. All dates are listed below.
Listen to “Intergalactic Dance (Lindstrøm Remix)” HERE.
Purchase or stream Dance Therapy HERE.
Speaking on the remix, she says: “Super excited to have Lindstrøm, whom I’ve admired for many years, give us the gift of his take on "Intergalactic Dance". I remember him commenting on the chord progression of the chorus of this song some years ago while we were playing together at SildaJass, where I played it in public for the first time. It meant a lot to me then, and even more so now that he has put his own twist on it.”
US TOUR DATES:
11/10/2025 - Seattle, WA - Showbox*
11/11/2025 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom*
11/13/2025 - San Francisco, CA - The Regency Ballroom*
11/14/2025 - Los Angeles, CA - Bellwether*
11/18/2025 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer*
11/19/2025 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club*
11/20/2025 - Buffalo, NY - Electric City*
11/21/2025 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel*
11/22/2025 - Pittsburgh, PA - Roxian Theatre*
11/23/2025 - Chicago, IL - Ramova Theater*
11/25/2025 - Miami, FL - ZeyZey (Zaku Stage)*
*supporting Cut Copy
Tickets are on sale now. See more info HERE.
Nora Schjelderup, the creative mind behind the Ora The Molecule moniker, comments: "It was written from a dark place, and a light place, it gives some sort of solution for when you tend to nihilistic thinking. The song is about letting go of fear and the self-awareness that dictates and controls our experience on this planet. I hope you find the song as you need it."
Dance Therapy is Schjelderup as a lone mastermind, conceiving a new world all her own. On this album, she wrote, recorded, and produced everything, save a handful of co-production contributions from Mathias Risdal.The driving force behind Dance Therapy stems from Schjelderup’s experience as a DJ, a career that has steadily ascended since the pandemic. She imagined herself being behind the decks, while simultaneously seeing herself in the audience, and asking: “What would I play for that Nora in the crowd to make her day just a little bit better?” Fueled by classic late ‘70s club sounds and Italo-disco, this became the retro-futuristic fever dream of Dance Therapy.
As in the past, she decamped to her studio, located in a cabin in the woods outside of Oslo. There, she processed a series of severe losses, the therapy of the album’s title becoming literal.
Dance Therapy became deeply conceptual, with Schjelderup working off a prompt: If we encountered intelligent life in outer space, how would she present herself? “Would I be this mundane shit — I’m constantly heartbroken, I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up,” she says. “Or will I try to rise and be the highest version of myself possible? To be as glamorous and fabulous as I could?”
Schjelderup’s intergalactic vision drew upon a broad array of references. While exploring a “study” of electronic pioneer Mort Garson’s Mother Earth’s Plantasia, she began favoring digital reproductions of various modular synths and theremin. Italo disco star Raffaella Carrà inspired Ora The Molecule becoming a more full-blown character separated from but symbiotic with Schjelderup herself, while the music of Annie Lennox helped shape Dance Therapy’s narrative heft.
The resulting body of work is rife with ebullient, infectious dance music, but also remarkably complex meditations on grief, mortality and heartbreak - all transmuted through the lens of Ora’s cosmic inner journey to discover her own sense of self, human or otherwise.
And, at the end, Schjelderup has finally created a new transcendence: both Nora and Ora but neither, a deeper sense of herself and the disco superhero she has willed into being, a new identity from everything that came before.
Dance Therapy is out now on limited edition hand-numbered white vinyl, black vinyl, cassette and digitally. Purchase it HERE.
Dance Therapy track listing:
1. Becoming A Human
2. Intergalactic Dance
3. Løveskatt
4. Prince Of The Rhythm
5. Is This Love?
6. Nobody Cares
7. If I Believed
8. Cyber Fever
9. Evig Ung
10. New Years
11. Let Me Dance
12. Becoming Ora
Purchase or stream Dance Therapy HERE.
Watch the video for “Løveskatt” HERE.
Watch the video for “Intergalactic Dance” HERE.
Watch the video for “Nobody Cares” HERE.
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MICROCORPS - Alexander Tucker's new album launches with collab with Justin K Broadrick - Clear Vortex Chamber, out 19 Sep on Downwards Records
LISTEN TO LAUNCH TRACK, ‘ FEDBCK ’ FEAT. JUSTIN K BROADRICK
LONDON LIVE SHOW – 17 JULY AT ALL IS JOY , SOHOSUPPORTING CABARET VOLTAIRE AT BRIGHTON ACCA ON 22 NOV
[MICROCORPS credit Agnes Haus]
Alexander Tucker’s electronic guise MICROCORPS returns with CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER , set for release on Downwards Records on 19 September 2025.
Featuring collaborations with Justin K Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu, J K Flesh), Phew, Regis (Sandwell District, British Murder Boys, Eros), Elvin Brandhi, Karl D’Silva and JJOWDY, the album follows up 2021’s debut, Xmit (Alter Records) and 2024’s Macrocorpse tape (The Tapeworm). On the new album Tucker continues to develop work around modular systems, cello, bass guitar and voice, creating tracks of heavy electronics, that meld machine rhythms with acoustic samples. CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER combines techno, contemporary composition, drone and vocal manipulations to create a dense and often psychedelic world.
Listen to ‘Fedbck’ ft. Justin K Broadrick HERE
CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER charts a new period of exploration and discovery for Tucker both as musician and producer. After discarding a year’s worth of material, Tucker sought the advice of Downwards Records label boss Karl O’Connor aka Regis who advised him on production techniques and approach. Along with further support form Freddy Lomas of Kinn and Emptyset’s James Ginzburg, Tucker got to work on a new set of material with a heightened sense of clarity and density. Tucker explains “Making this album really tested me, it was the outcome of a long period of hard lessons and harsh realities, but I had some good friends to guide me along the way and pull me out of the mire.”
At the core of MICROCORPS is Tucker’s complex modular systems, knitted into the tracks are triggered samples of his own cello and bass guitar playing, which meld into the electronic fabric of each track. Tucker expands “I wanted the album to sit somewhere between machine technology with something primitive, where synthetic and acoustic sources become intertwined. I like the idea of different dimensions phasing in and out of one another, creating new areas where I can explore sound, structures and imaginary spaces”
These imaginary spaces play a key role in the construction of CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER. Tucker’s background in fine art and his current work with experimental comics bleeds into the unspoken landscapes of his music. “I want to trigger parts of the brain that can dream up imagery whilst at the same time focus of the sonic structure of the music itself, I guess I’m still obsessed with trying to create some sort of psychoactive environment” The architecture of each track presents itself in the form of massive kicks, sonar clicks and kinetic percussive rhythms, supported by pulsing bass drones. Cello and bass guitar samples initially bowed, plucked and hit by mallets are triggered creating dense wooden timbres that punctuate the electronic field. Voices and vocals both treated and untreated weave throughout the album in the form of cryptic dialogues and unspooling wordless singing, adding to the cross pollination of something human, machine and a space in-between.Collaboration is a key element to MICROCORPS. Justin K Broadrick’s heavy spidery guitar lines and processed screaming rip wormholes in ‘FEDBCK’, Regis lends his distinct vocal work to ‘ZONA’, Japanese artist Phew injects organ drones, vocals and fried electronics throughout ‘SANSU’. On penultimate track ‘FEBCK 2’, Karl D’Silva’s droning saxophone joins Broadrick’s feed backing guitar noise and improvising lyricist, producer and sound artist Elvin Brandhi spits out cut up diatribes across final track ‘MALLETS’. Throughout the album Tucker’s own processed voice sits alongside singer JJOWDY’s eerily gentle laments.
MICROCORPS will perform for the OBLIQUE_FUTURES Soho Series on Thursday 17 July at All Is Joy, Soho on a bill with Atom Truck and Xylitol, and is set to support Cabaret Voltaire at Brighton ACCA on Saturday 22 November.
CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER tracklisting 1. UDUG2. FEDBCK ft. JUSTIN K BROADRICK 3. FOLDED4. VAV5. ZONA ft. REGIS6. SANSU ft. PHEW7. FEDBCK 2 ft. JUSTIN K BROADRICK & KARL D’SILVA8. MALLETS ft. ELVIN BRANDHI
MICROCORPS LIVE17 July – London, OBLIQUE_FUTURES, All is Joy, Soho22 Nov – Brighton, ACCA, with Cabaret Voltaire (SOLD OUT)
Pre-order the album HERE
High res artwork and press photographs HERE
Press assets HERE
CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER’s artwork, created by Tucker, uses cryptic imagery to symbolise both process and imaginary spaces. The cover uses a mixed media of pencil, ink, pen work, and digital blurring of ink paintings.
MICROCORPS CLEAR VORTEX CHAMBER is released by Downwards Records on vinyl and digitally on 19 September 2025
RECENT PRAISE FOR MICROCORPS
“MICROCORPS strikes a delicate balance between perfect order and utter chaos...” - The Quietus
“High-concept electronics innovator” - Electronic Sound
“Tucker’s solo work often explores territories that are closer to the urgent disarray of MICROCORPS but… the presence of vocals - however heavily processed - usually ensures that vast electronics never descend into disorder.” - The Wire
“Built from microprocessed vocals, strings and electronics, driven by beats with a chilly, pulsar sweep… suggests decidedly alien terrain…” - 7/10 Uncut
“XMIT’s unsettling, perversely enthralling world is such that comparison with H.R. Geiger’s biomechanics art is almost unavoidable…” - 4/5* NARC
“Tucker evokes a very ritualistic and eerily anachronistic feel… all still guided by an eldritch psychedelic muse that’s at the root of everything he touches” Boomkat
ALEXANDER TUCKER - SELECT DISCOGRAPHY MICROCORPS – Macrocorpse 2021-2024 (The Tapeworm 2024)Alexander Tucker & Keith Collins, Fifth Continent (Subtext, 2023)Brood X Cycles - , with Nik Colk Void (State51, 2022)NONEXISTENT - S/T - with Astrud Steehouder and Luke J Murray (Downwards, 2021)MICROCORPS - XMIT (Alter, 2021)Alexander Tucker - Guild of the Asbestos Weaver (Thrill Jockey, 2019)Astral Social Club and Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra - Plasma Splice Trifle (VHF Records, 2019)Alexander Tucker - Don’t Look Away (Thrill Jockey, 2018)Charlemagne Palestine and Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra - Omminggg and Schlomminggg (Important Records, 2017)Grumbling Fur Furfour (Thrill Jockey, 2016)
Connect with Alexander Tucker:Instagram – Bluesky – Twitter – Bandcamp
OK Go Announce Additional Dates for their And the Adjacent Possible Tour 2025
OK GO ANNOUNCE ADDITIONAL DATES FOR THEIR
AND THE ADJACENT POSSIBLE TOUR 2025
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY HERE
BAND UNVEILS OFFICIAL VISUALIZER FOR
“FANTASY VS. FANTASY”
WATCH HERE
“The California-based quartet return with And the Adjacent Possible, their first album in over a decade — and it’s bursting with energy….It’s impossible not to smile as it plays.” London Times
Los Angeles, CA (July 14, 2025) – GRAMMY-Award-winning rock band OK Go have announced additional North American headline dates in support of their new album, And the Adjacent Possible. The latest leg of the tour kicks off September 11 in Kansas City and wraps up December 8 in Nashville, with stops along the way at Denver’s Levitt Pavilion for Indie102.3’s Indieverse, the legendary Stubb’s BBQ in Austin, and Atlanta’s most popular new venue, The Eastern. Once again, LA Exes will provide support.
Pre-sale tickets will be available beginning tomorrow (subscribe to the band's official email list at okgo.net to receive a code), and general on-sale begins this Friday, July 18 at 12:00pm ET HERE.
OK Go have also unveiled a dazzling official visualizer for And the Adjacent Possible track “Fantasy vs. Fantasy.” Created in collaboration with acclaimed visual artist PosterLad, the dreamy clip is available to watch on the band’s YouTube channel beginning today HERE.
“'Fantasy vs. Fantasy,’ is a plunge into the romantic deep end, a Phil Spector take on gloriously indulgent crooning a la Sinatra or Morrissey. We thought it deserved an equally nostalgic lyric video in the classic visual language of Saul Bass-style movie titles, so we reached out to PosterLad — social media's modern master of midcentury graphic design. What he made is perfect for the song — playful, elegant, and oozing with fantasy,” shares OK Go frontman Damian Kulash.
"It’s been such an honor to work with OK Go on this,” adds PosterLad. “‘Fantasy vs. Fantasy’ is exactly the kind of song that aligns with my artistic approach — I had plenty of room to be creative with both the typography and the graphic elements throughout the video. I sincerely hope OK Go’s fans enjoy it, and I truly hope this won’t be the last time we work together."
Building upon their vast catalog of groundbreaking visuals – they've danced on treadmills and with dogs; in time-lapse and slow motion; in zero-gravity, Rube Goldberg machines, and Super Bowl commercials – OK Go has already unveiled two stunning official music videos for And the Adjacent Possible’s lead singles. The moving mosaic for “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill” was created using 64 videos playing across 64 phones. The single-take video for “Love” features complex choreography between the band, 29 robots, and over 60 mirrors to create an extraordinary spectacle of infinite reflections and human-scale kaleidoscopes. Watch the band deliver the song’s network television debut performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert HERE.
And the Adjacent Possible was released in April this year, and is available now HERE. Produced by OK Go and longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Spoon, Tame Impala, MGMT), the LP marks the band’s most diverse and accomplished collection of songs to date. Upon release, The AV Club declared, “Beyond their eye-catching music videos, OK Go have always been adept at crafting catchy alt-pop tunes, a fact that continues to be proven true with And the Adjacent Possible.” Rolling Stone praised, “OK Go are back with more proof that they remain the masters of power-pop gems and high-concept music videos,” while Fast Company proclaimed, “OK Go, the band that defined art in the YouTube era, is back to shake up the internet all over again.” The band recently discussed the album and their career with ABC’s Nightline. Watch HERE.
OK Go - And the Adjacent Possible Tour 2025
September 11, 2025 - Kansas City, MO - The Truman
September 12, 2025 - Omaha, NE - The Admiral
September 13, 2025 - Denver, CO - Levitt Pavilion: Indie 102.3’s Indieverse Festival*
September 14, 2025 - Salt Lake City, UT - Red Butte Gardens*
November 06, 2025 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
November 07, 2025 - Houston, TX - House of Blues
November 08, 2025 - Austin, TX - Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheatre
November 09, 2025 - Oklahoma City, OK - Tower Theatre
December 05, 2025 - Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel
December 06, 2025 - Raleigh, NC - The Ritz
December 07, 2025 - Atlanta, GA - The Eastern
December 08, 2025 - Nashville, TN - Brooklyn Bowl
*previously announced / on sale now
^LA Exes not appearing
+with support from Bartees Strange
July 13, 2025
LAWNDALE @ HB Pier (Surfin' Sundays) July 13th 2025
All photos by Alexander Laurence
July 11, 2025
OASIS DELIVER TRIUMPHANT HOMECOMING SHOW AT MANCHESTER’S HEATON PARK
OASIS DELIVER TRIUMPHANT HOMECOMING SHOW AT MANCHESTER’S HEATON PARK
UK CHARTS TAKEOVER CONTINUES
TIME FLIES… 1994-2009 REACHES #1 FOR FIRST TIME
DEFINITELY MAYBE & (WHAT’S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY?
RE-ENTER TOP 5 OF UK ALBUM CHART
14 OASIS SONGS IN TOP 100 OF UK OFFICIAL SINGLES CHART
“SLIDE AWAY (LIVE AT CARDIFF, 4 JULY 2025)”
OUT NOW
Tonight, Oasis mania hit Manchester as the band made a triumphant homecoming in front of 80,000 fans, the first of five Heaton Park shows which will see Oasis play to a combined audience of 400,000 people at this venue between now and next Sunday, July 20th.
Oasis walked on stage at 8:15pm at Manchester’s Heaton Park and were met with a hero’s welcome. Fans had traveled from as far as Japan, Costa Rica, North America, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Ireland, Italy and Australia to witness the opening show of Oasis’ five-night homecoming.
Stepping to the mic, Noel Gallagher announced, “This is the place” as Liam Gallagher confirmed, “Oasis vibes in the area. Manchester vibes in the area.” The crowd went wild.
When introducing “Half The World Away” Noel dedicated the song to co-creators of comedy classic The Royle Family, “This next one’s for Caroline and Craig.”
Before performing “D’You Know What I Mean?” Liam said, “I’d like to dedicate this next song to the greatest manager of all time, Mr. Pep Guardiola.”
After Noel led Heaton Park in an all-in singalong of “Don’t Look Back In Anger,” Liam introduced “Wonderwall,” telling the crowd, “I adore you all. You’re beautiful!”
Tonight’s show took the Oasis Live ‘25 production to the next level, with the Heaton Park screens measuring 84 meters by 12 meters, a full 20 meters bigger than those fans were wowed by at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium last weekend. The screens are the largest ever used at a concert in the UK.
Beyond the Live ‘25 tour, Oasis fever continues to grip the nation as the band dominate the UK Official Charts with three albums in the Top 5. Singles compilation album Time Flies… 1994-2009 shot to #1 this week for the first time since its original release in 2010. Their classic second album, 1995’s (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? leaps 12 places to Number 2, while their iconic 1994 debut Definitely Maybe vaults 22 spots to Number 4.
Oasis also send three songs into the Top 20 of this week’s Official Singles Chart. Fan favourite “Acquiesce” – originally released as the B-side to the band’s first Number 1 single, 1995’s “Some Might Say” – climbs to a new peak at Number 17 this week. It made its Official Singles Chart debut at Number 40 last week. And returning to the Top 20 are the band’s 1996 chart-topper “Don’t Look Back in Anger” (18) and 1994 Top 10 hit “Live Forever” (19).
(What’s The Story) Morning Glory? has now been certified 18x Platinum by the BPI in recognition of more than 5.4 million domestic sales.
The Oasis Live ‘25 tour has received a rapturous response from fans and media alike. A newly released live version of “Slide Away” recorded at the opening night in Cardiff on July 4th, serves a thrilling taste of what fans can expect. Listen HERE.
(What’s The Story) Morning Glory? Deluxe 30th Anniversary Edition will be released on October 3rd. The Complete Studio Album Collection box set will be released on August 22nd. Both releases are available to pre-order HERE.
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BAND MEMBERS
Liam Gallagher (vocals), Noel Gallagher (guitar, vocals), Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs (guitar), Gem Archer (guitar), Andy Bell (bass) and Joey Waronker (drums).
ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS
Christian Madden (keyboards), Alastair White (trombone), Steve Hamilton (saxophone), Joe Auckland (trumpet).
Oasis - Heaton Park, Manchester - July 11th, 2025 - Setlist
“Hello”
“Acquiesce”
“Morning Glory”
“Some Might Say”
“Bring It On Down”
“Cigarettes & Alcohol”
“Fade Away”
“Supersonic”
“Roll With It”
“Talk Tonight” (Noel lead vocals)
“Half The World Away” (Noel lead vocals)
“Little By Little” (Noel lead vocals)
“D’You Know What I Mean?”
“Stand By Me”
“Cast No Shadow”
“Slide Away”
“Whatever”
“Live Forever”
“Rock ‘n’ Roll Star”
“The Masterplan” (Noel lead vocals)
“Don’t Look Back In Anger” (Noel lead vocals)
“Wonderwall”
“Champagne Supernova”
The Sunday Times "The biggest rock comeback in history. This is the start of Oasis summer.”
The Guardian ★★★★★ “A triumph.”
The Times ★★★★★ “Fantastic.”
NME ★★★★★ “This is all you ever would have wanted from Oasis in 2025.”
BBC News “The best they’ve been since 1995.”
Rolling Stone UK ★★★★★ “The cultural moment of the year – possibly even the decade.”
Uncut ★★★★★ “Impossibly euphoric.”
Pitchfork “The biggest reunion in our lifetime.”
Variety “Oasis is miraculously, thrillingly back.”
Billboard “The sound was ginormous, with every inch of this 74,500-capacity arena being filled completely.”
Vulture “They’ve never sounded better.”
Associated Press “A punchy, powerful trip through one of Britpop’s greatest songbooks.”
People “A triumphant return.”
CLASH 10/10 “The best they’ve ever been.”
The Sun ★★★★★ “The gig of a lifetime.”
Manchester Evening News ★★★★★ “A moment in history”
Daily Mail ★★★★★ “Swagger, edge and attitude… simply electric.”
Daily Star ★★★★★ "A Supersonic celebration of their legacy"
Daily Mirror "The greatest rock n' roll reunion of the decade."
Daily Telegraph ★★★★★ “The second coming of Britpop's biggest stars was magical.”
The i Paper ★★★★★ “The best band in the UK.”
Independent ★★★★★ “The rock reunion to end them all.”
The London Standard ★★★★★ “Biblical.”
Wales Online ★★★★★ “Intense and immense”
MOJO “Joyous”
The Observer "The emotional reality of their long awaited reunion dawns. It's like a dam breaking."
The Sunday Mirror "Best Night Ever."
The New Cue “So beautiful, so joyous.”
OASIS LIVE ‘25 TOUR DATES
Saturday, July 5 – Principality Stadium, Cardiff, UK (SOLD OUT)
Friday, July 11 – Heaton Park, Manchester, UK (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, July 12 – Heaton Park, Manchester, UK (SOLD OUT)
Wednesday, July 16 – Heaton Park, Manchester, UK (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, July 19 – Heaton Park, Manchester, UK (SOLD OUT)
Sunday, July 20 – Heaton Park, Manchester, UK (SOLD OUT)
Friday, July 25 – Wembley Stadium, London, UK (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, July 26 – Wembley Stadium, London, UK (SOLD OUT)
Wednesday, July 30 – Wembley Stadium, London, UK (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, August 2 – Wembley Stadium, London, UK (SOLD OUT)
Sunday, August 3 – Wembley Stadium, London, UK (SOLD OUT)
Friday, August 8 – Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, UK (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, August 9 – Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, UK (SOLD OUT)
Tuesday, August 12 – Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, UK (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, August 16 – Croke Park, Dublin, IE (SOLD OUT)
Sunday, August 17 – Croke Park, Dublin, IE (SOLD OUT)
Sunday, August 24 – Rogers Stadium, Toronto, ON (SOLD OUT)
Monday, August 25 – Rogers Stadium, Toronto, ON (SOLD OUT)
Thursday, August 28 – Soldier Field, Chicago, IL (SOLD OUT)
Sunday, August 31 – MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ (SOLD OUT)
Monday, September 1 – MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, September 6 – Rose Bowl Stadium, Los Angeles, CA (SOLD OUT)
Sunday, September 7 – Rose Bowl Stadium, Los Angeles, CA (SOLD OUT)
Friday, September 12 – Estadio GNP Seguros, Mexico City, MX (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, September 13 – Estadio GNP Seguros, Mexico City, MX (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, September 27 – Wembley Stadium, London, UK (SOLD OUT)
Sunday, September 28 – Wembley Stadium, London, UK (SOLD OUT)
Tuesday, October 21 – Goyang Stadium, Seoul, South Korea (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, October 25 – Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan (SOLD OUT)
Sunday, October 26 – Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan (SOLD OUT)
Friday, October 31 – Marvel Stadium, Melbourne, Australia (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, November 1 – Marvel Stadium, Melbourne, Australia (SOLD OUT)
Tuesday, November 4 – Marvel Stadium, Melbourne, Australia (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, November 7 – Accor Stadium, Sydney, Australia (SOLD OUT)
Sunday, November 8 – Accor Stadium, Sydney, Australia (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, November 15 – Estadio River Plate, Buenos Aires, Argentina (SOLD OUT)
Sunday, November 16 – Estadio River Plate, Buenos Aires, Argentina (SOLD OUT)
Wednesday, November 19 – Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, November 22 – Estadio MorumBIS, São Paulo, Brazil (SOLD OUT)
Sunday, November 23 – Estadio MorumBIS, São Paulo, Brazil (SOLD OUT)
Wolf Alice Release New Single and Video, "The Sofa." Forthcoming Album "The Clearing" Out August 22.
WOLF ALICE RELEASE BRAND NEW SINGLE & OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO, ‘THE SOFA’ - OUT NOWNEW ALBUM THE CLEARING OUT AUGUST 22 – PRE-ORDER/ADD/SAVE
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR STARTS SEPTEMBER 10
LISTEN | WATCH‘THE SOFA’
PRE-ORDER/ADD/SAVE
THE CLEARING (ALBUM)
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
Sep 10 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead
Sep 12 - Washington, DC - 930 Club
Sep 15 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
Sep 19 - Brooklyn, NY - Paramount
Sep 20 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
Sep 22 - Montreal, QB - Beanfield Theatre
Sep 23 - Toronto, ON - History
Sep 25 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall
Sep 26 - Chicago, IL - The Vic
Sep 27 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
Sep 30 - Austin, TX - Emo's
Oct 1 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
Oct 3 - Denver, CO - Ogden
Oct 4 - Salt Lake City, UT - Complex
Oct 6 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
Oct 7 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
Oct 8 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
Oct 10 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theatre
Oct 11 - Pomona, CA - Fox Theatre
Oct 13 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
Today, British band Wolf Alice have released their new single, ‘The Sofa,’ accompanied with an official music video, offering another dimension to their highly anticipated fourth studio album The Clearing set for release on August 22.
Shot on the streets of the band's native North London in homage to the lyrics, the video for "The Sofa" captures the day-dreamy spirit of the song in boldly-colored slow motion. Inspired by classic street photography, these vignettes capture the blissed out interactions of people from all walks of life, celebrating the shared joy we feel with strangers on a sunny day. The video was directed by Fiona Jane Burgess (Christina Aguilera, girlinred, Gucci) and features numerous easter eggs for the band's up-coming album. Watch HERE.
Following a triumphant return to the stage with headlining festival performances at Primavera this summer and a critically lauded Glastonbury set last week; this new era sets Wolf Alice in a league entirely of their own. This fall, the band will be heading to North America for their headline tour which starts on September 10 in Atlanta, GA. For more details and tickets, go to https://www.wolfalice.co.uk
Unspooling like a daydream on an idle afternoon, ‘The Sofa’ is a piano ballad fortified by the best songwriting of Ellie Rowsell’s career - radical in its unflinching honesty. “Didn’t make it out to California / Where I thought I might clean the slate / Feels a little like I’m stuck in Seven Sisters / North London, oh England / And maybe that’s ok,” Rowsell sings. In abandoning the self-consciousness which weighs down your twenties, Wolf Alice reach a point of hard-won serenity.
Rowsell shares: “It’s about not trying so hard to figure everything out, reflecting on getting older and trying not to agonize over things that have or haven’t happened in your life. It’s also about trying to get to grips with the polarising aspects of one’s life when you’re in a band. You’ve just played a huge tour - and you come home, and you have your dinner on the sofa. For me, it’s summed up in how I treat TV. I used to never watch the same thing twice because I thought I’ve got so much to discover! And now I’m like, It's okay if I just want to rewatch Peep Show for the thirteenth time.”
‘The Sofa’ follows on from the album’s forerunner, ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ . A fiercely powerful and fervent introduction to The Clearing , it’s an arresting ode to growth, evolution and expansion in life, music and art. With its rolling bass riff, this first piece of music in three years, is a whip-smart de-testosteroned twist on heavy rock. It arrived alongside a video by noted alt-pop directorColin Solal Cardo, famous for collaborations with Charli XCX, Robyn, Christine & The Queens and Phoenix. The video deconstructs a classic rock performance by drawing on Bob Fosse and All That Jazz, featuring a brilliant performance from Ellie in the middle of a host of dancers choreographed by Emmy Award-winning choreographer Ryan Heffington (Euphoria, Sia, Kenzo + Margaret Qualley). Watch Bloom Baby Bloom HERE .
The Clearing is a truly timeless record. Written in Seven Sisters and recorded in LA with Grammy-winning, master producer Greg Kurstin, Wolf Alice’s fourth album finds them at the peak of their powers, grown into a band of generational importance. Both playful and serious, ironic and straight-talking, The Clearing is a progressive shift from a band whose exploration of love, loss and human connection has already articulated the coming-of-age experience for a whole generation. It’s a classic pop/rock album that nods to the ‘70s while remaining rooted firmly in the present. If Fleetwood Mac wrote an album today in North London, you’d get somewhere close to this run of effortlessly grand tracks, each as distinct as the last. Sonically, there is no waste, no fuss, with more authoritative melodies than the band has ever crafted before. This is a new beginning, and each of the band feels it as keenly as listeners will. Front and center of The Clearing is Rowsell’s ever-evolving poetic storytelling alongside an innate desire for Ellie, Joff, Theo and Joel to have fun, secure in their ambition and ability at this unique moment in time. The Clearing encapsulates that freeing feeling of finding a moment of peace and clarity, having survived the freewheeling frivolity of your 20s, emerging into your future and is a portrait of Wolf Alice standing on the precipice of a new decade in both life and art.
Wolf Alice have come a long way since the North London quartet first emerged in 2013 as a young band holding a mirror up to their own emerging generation. While the bruised euphoria of their debut My Love Is Cool, which featured the Grammy-nominated ‘Moaning Lisa Smile,’ both captured and perfectly soundtracked the experience of youth first cutting their musical teeth, 2018’s follow up Visions Of A Life cemented their rise with a Mercury Music Prize, before the precious hurt of 2022’s Blue Weekend and its resultant UK number 1 and Brit Award for Best Group. In the process, lead singer Ellie Rowsell has grown into a storytelling icon, weaving cautionary tales of how your twenties will hurt you, but in valuable ways. Wolf Alice have also toured the world multiple times headlining sold out tours, gracing numerous festival stages and supporting an array of key artists including pop icon Harry Styles.
Now, The Clearing reveals where Wolf Alice stand sonically in 2025, delivering a supremely confident collection of songs bursting with ambition, ideas and emotion.
The Clearing is out everywhere on August 22. – Pre-order/add/save HERE.
UNITED KINGDOM
May 24 - Liverpool, UK - Radio 1’s Big Weekend
Jun 29 - Somerset, UK - Glastonbury Festival
EUROPE
Nov 5 - Stockholm, Sweden, Annexet
Nov 6 - Copenhagen, Denmark, KB Hallen
Nov 7 - Hamburg, Germany, Georg Elser Halle
Nov 9 - Warsaw, Poland, Progresja
Nov 10 - Prague, Czech Republic, Lucerna Great Hall
Nov 11 - Budapest, Hungary, Barba Negra Red Stage
Nov 13 - Milan, Italy - Alcatraz Club
Nov 14 - Lyon, Villeurbanne, France - Le Transbordeur
Nov 15 - Toulouse, France - Bikini
Nov 17 - Cologne, Germany - Palladium
Nov 19 - Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle
Nov 20 - Munich, Germany - Tonhalle
Nov 21- Luxembourg City, Luxembourg - Den Atelier
Nov 23 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - AFAS Live
Nov 24 - Brussels, Belgium - Forest National
Nov 25 - Paris, France - Le Zénith
UNITED KINGDOM/IRELAND
Nov 28 - Manchester, England - AO Arena
Nov 29 - Birmingham, England - Utilita Arena
Dec 1 - Cardiff, Wales - Utilita Arena
Dec 3 - London, England - The O2
Dec 5 - Leeds, England - First Direct Arena
Dec 7 - Glasgow, Scotland - OVO Hydro
Dec 10 - Dublin, Republic of Ireland - 3Arena
Pre-save/order/add The Clearing HERE
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