GRAMMY-nominated, global chart-topping and record-breaking singer-songwriter and musician Alex Warren has revealed details on his highly anticipated sophomore studio album WILDCHILD to be released on August 28 via Atlantic Records. Watch the teaser starring Kevin James
Accompanying the news of WILDCHILD comes the irresistibly joyous and soon-to-be summer smash “PASSENGER,” written by Alex Warren and produced by Adam Yaron, the rousing new single comes with an equally fun official music video directed by Blythe Thomas. Watch HERE
News of WILDCHILD follows Warren’s most recent singles “Fine Place To Die” and “Fever Dream,” and his incredible, record-breaking 2025 album debut YOU’LL BE ALRIGHT, KID, which has garnered the young artist over 9 billion streams to date, 5 iHeart Radio Awards, a 2025 MTV VMA for Best New Artist and Billboard’s Best New Artist of 2025, amongst other impressive accolades.
WILDCHILD further showcases the full spectrum of Warren’s intimate and vulnerable songwriting as well as his rich, soulful vocals which have captivated audiences around the world since he first entered the scene in 2021 and went on to become one of the highest charting and streaming artists of last year. Warren again spotlights both joyful and equally heart wrenching themes which are both deeply personal to him and universally relatable to listeners. The album explores loss, grief and the journey that follows as he navigates his new life while treasuring the gifts his dad imparted to him both throughout his life and when saying goodbye.
“Growing up, my dad used to call me Wildchild so it’s always had a special meaning and I even have it tattooed on me,” says Warren. “Creating this album was really healing, therapeutic and a way for me to continue finding out more about myself. This album really shows where I am in my life today and compared to my first album which feels like a man who is broken, this one is a man who’s trying to heal. It’s been really nice to be able to confront those feelings and also be able to share them with the world to give everyone a transparent view into my life.”
Warren is currently on his sold-out world FINDING FAMILY ON THE ROAD.
Today, GRAMMY® Award-winning English rock titans MUSE unveil their new single, “Nightshift Superstar,” and its accompanying music video. The latest glimpse into the world of their forthcoming tenth album, The Wow! Signal (out June 26), arrives as the band prepare to embark on a major North American amphitheater tour this summer, kicking off July 2 at Milwaukee’s Summerfest before concluding at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl on August 31. Fueled by an irresistible hook, driving bassline, and a collision of rock, disco, and French house influences, “Nightshift Superstar” continues the sonic expansion of The Wow! Signal. Listen HERE, watch HERE, pre-order/pre-save the album HERE, and get tickets for the tour HERE.
As deliriously urgent as anything MUSE have shared yet, “Nightshift Superstar” blurs their signature fiery rock with funky French house — sweeping up driving disco rhythms, orchestral flurries, pinwheeling guitars, and choir vocals in the process. In the midst of it all, Matt Bellamy sings about a subject who beckons him into a world of sleepless thrills: “Kiss that kills the pain, I crave again / Now I can’t stay clean, you’re my darkest dream / I need you one more time / Dancing free, you are, a nightshift superstar.”
Photo credit: Tim Saccenti
The song offers another glimpse into the world of of The Wow! Signal, which is named after an infamous unexplained interstellar event. Last month, the band shared the fourth transmission so far — the towering “Hexagons,” which fans unlocked by participating in a scavenger hunt spanning Sydney, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, Paris, and London. Rock Sound called the track “a vibrant, stratospheric expedition into the most technically bold and audaciously beautiful components of the band’s sound.”
Before that came the utterly explosive “Cryogen” — hailed by NME as “a blast of classic MUSE harking back to their ’00s days with wailing riffs, [an] arena-destroying chorus, and painting an apocalyptic sci-fi landscape” — and the epic, hopeful “Be With You,” which arrived alongside a cinematic visual directed by Nico Paolillo and starring Ella Balinska (The Occupant, Resident Evil). After MUSE literally launched “Be With You” from space for the LP announcement (watch HERE), the single earned 3 million streams in its first week and became the #1 Most Added at Alternative Radio, where it has since climbed to #5.
The band originally stirred up rampant album rumors and mounting acclaim last year with “Unravelling,” since confirmed to The Wow! Signal tracklist. With arpeggiated synths that crash into a colossal wall of barbed riffs, the single racked up praise from outlets including Rolling Stone (“transcendent”) Guitar World (“endlessly gratifying”), and DIY Magazine, who lovingly called the song “balls-to-the-wall maximalist.”
The music and visuals that MUSE have released so far are revealing The Wow! Signal’s universe bit by bit. The set’s namesake is one of the most compelling cosmic mysteries of the last century: a powerful 72-second radio burst detected in 1977 originating from the constellation Sagittarius. The astronomer who discovered the anomaly famously circled the now-iconic sequence “6EQUJ5” and wrote “WOW!” on the printout beside it — giving the signal its name and cementing its place in scientific and pop-culture lore.
Exploring themes of extraterrestrial communication, technological anxiety, existential wonder, and humanity’s search for meaning in an increasingly disconnected world, The Wow! Signal arrives June 26.
MUSE – The Wow! Signal Tour Dates
Jul 02 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest ^
Jul 05 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheater * ~
Jul 07 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center * ~
Jul 10 – Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre * ~
Jul 11 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center * ~
Jul 13 – Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre * ~
Jul 15 – Toronto, ON @ RBC Amphitheatre * ~
Jul 17 – Québec, QC @ Festival d’été de Québec ^
Jul 18 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center * ~
Jul 22 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center * ~
Jul 24 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Albany Med Health System at SPAC * ~
Jul 25 – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell at Jones Beach Theater * ~
PLAYS CMA FEST FRIDAY JUNE 5TH ALONG WITH FESTIVAL DATES THROUGHOUT THE MONTH
May 29, 2026 (Los Angeles, CA) — Today, multi-platinum country star Dasha releases her playful new single “Mad About It” via Warner Records. Listen HERE and watch the video HERE.
Written by Dasha, Bardo Novotony, and Charlotte Sands, the upbeat, sarcastic, and full of tongue-in-cheek charm track finds Dasha turning post-breakup chaos into a feel-good anthem built for dancing through the drama with a smile (even if it’s a slightly forced one).It’s less about heartbreak itself and more about the performance of pretending you’re totally fine, while absolutely not being fine at all. It’s Dasha at her most self-aware, blending humor, attitude, and pop-country energy into a track that doesn’t take itself too seriously, even if the story behind it might.
“While we were writing it, there was no pressure for ‘Mad About It’ to be a hit song; we were just genuinely having so much fun and laughing,” Dasha says. “We were joking about how petty can we make this song? How much sarcasm can we pour into this, and how much of my personality can be seen in these lyrics? We honestly had such a good time writing it, I think that’s where the magic of this song came from.”
Following a breakout year, Dasha continues her meteoric rise with a string of defining milestones, including a 2026 ACM nomination for New Female Artist of the Year, an MTV Video Music Award nomination for PUSH Performance of the Year, and a commanding performance on the Mane Stage at Stagecoach Festival.
Her breakout smash ‘Austin (Boots Stopped Workin’)’ became one of the most-streamed country songs of the year, earned Female Song of 2024 at the People’s Choice Country Awards, and officially welcomed Dasha into Spotify’s Billions Club, helping propel her into a new level of global success. stardom. Next week, Dasha will take the Riverfront Stage at CMA Fest in Nashville, followed by a string of festivals throughout the rest of the month. See tour dates below.
TOUR DATES:
June 5, 2026 – Nashville, TN – CMA Fest
June 7, 2026 – Myrtle Beach, SC – Carolina Country Music Fest
Jun 12, 2026 – Santa Rosa, CA – Country Summer Music Festival
June 20, 2026 – Wildwood, NJ – Barefoot Country Music Fest
Jun 26, 2026 – Lakes Jam at Brainerd International Raceway
Jun 27, 2026 – Ashland, NE – Country Drive Music Festival
GRAMMY® Award-winning English rock titans MUSE release their fiery new single, “Cryogen,” out now on Warner Records. Listen HERE. The explosive track is the third taste of the band’s forthcoming tenth studio album, The Wow! Signal, which they announced in a broadcast from space last month and is due to impact Earth on June 26 — pre-order/pre-save HERE. MUSE will then bring the album’s world directly to fans with an extensive North American amphitheater run, starting with a July 2 headliner at Milwaukee’s Summerfest and culminating at Los Angeles’ iconic Hollywood Bowl on August 31.Get tickets HERE.
“Cryogen” is urgent and explosive across its entire five minutes. After a squelching intro, MUSE let loose a sky-scraping spiral of guitar before plunging into a roiling pool of smashing drums, grinding bass, and dramatic vocals. Throughout it all, Matt Bellamy paints a vivid picture of a man so deep in the thrall of another that he’s envisioned his tormentor as a frozen moon of Jupiter, and himself as a lost speck on the surface: “Winter’s end, she’s Europa, I’m a cracked interloper / Icicles pierce my heart so cruel and quiet / Loneliness, she left me trembling in a polar desert / Wilderness, I’m breaking.” The falsetto-streaked chorus spells out the narrator’s doom: “Cryogen, I can never cry again / Cryogen, I’m freezing over.”
Despite the frigid theme, “Cryogen” is all fireworks, all the time. The song was written and produced by MUSE with Dan Lancaster (Bring Me The Horizon, Blink-182) — who performs keys and additional guitar in the MUSE live band — with additional production from Aleks von Korff. That’s the same team behind March’s hopeful lead single “Be With You,” a powerful swirl of driving electronica and searing stadium rock that DORK predicted will “undoubtedly become a euphoric festival favorite in the summers to come.”
MUSE literally launched “Be With You” from space for their The Wow! Signal announcement (see a snippet HERE), beaming back footage of the music video streaming on a specially designed tablet 20 miles up into the atmosphere. The cinematic visual directed by Nico Paolillo (Deafheaven, BAD OMENS) and starring Ella Balinska (The Occupant, Resident Evil) offers instant immersion into the universe of the album. Listen HERE and watch HERE. While the announcement was widely covered by the likes of Pitchfork, NME, Consequence, Kerrang!, and Billboard, “Be With You” earned 3 million global streams in the first week and became the #1 Most Added at Alternative Radio, where it has since climbed to #9.
Following the album news, MUSE made a grand live return to London with a special performance at the 5,000-capacity O2 Academy Brixton, a room they hadn’t played since 2001. The show won rave reviews from outlets including The Times (five stars), Kerrang! (“MUSE don’t miss”), and NME, who noted that fans had camped out overnight to secure a spot close to the stage. The publication also turned in an early review of “Cryogen,” which MUSE debuted that night: “A blast of classic MUSE harking back to their ’00s days with wailing riffs, [an] arena-destroying chorus, and painting an apocalyptic sci-fi landscape.”
MUSE also performed fan-favorite The Wow! Signal track “Unravelling,” which they released last year to instant acclaim and a flurry of album rumors. With arpeggiated synths that crash into a colossal wall of barbed riffs, the single racked up praise from outlets including Rolling Stone (“transcendent”) Guitar World (“endlessly gratifying”), and DIY Magazine, who lovingly called the song “balls-to-the-wall maximalist.”
The music and visuals that MUSE have released so far are revealing the new album’s themes bit by bit. The Wow! Signal takes its name from one of the most compelling interstellar mysteries of the last century: a powerful 72-second radio burst detected in 1977 originating from the constellation Sagittarius with a bandwidth and intensity that suggested a possible extraterrestrial source. The astronomer who discovered the anomaly famously circled the now-iconic sequence “6EQUJ5” and wrote “WOW!” on the printout beside it — giving the signal its name and cementing its place in scientific and pop-culture lore.
With every additional transmission from The Wow! Signal, we get a stronger sense of the forces powering MUSE’s new era: a mix of cosmic mystery, existential hope, and the exhilarating possibility of contact with something far greater than ourselves. Connect with MUSE at one of the dates below.
MUSE – The Wow! Signal Tour Dates
Jul 02 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest ^
Jul 05 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheater * ~
Jul 07 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center * ~
Jul 10 – Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre * ~
Jul 11 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center * ~
Jul 13 – Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre * ~
Jul 15 – Toronto, ON @ RBC Amphitheatre * ~
Jul 17 – Québec, QC @ Festival d’été de Québec ^
Jul 18 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center * ~
Jul 22 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center * ~
Jul 24 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Albany Med Health System at SPAC * ~
Jul 25 – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell at Jones Beach Theater * ~
Rising Dublin band Basht. are today unveiling their plans for debut album Poor Advice, which will be released on 9th October via LAB Records. Also shared today is the album’s lead single, ‘Perfume‘.
Basht. have earned themselves a devoted fanbase in the run up to their debut album announcement, in no small thanks to taking their knockout live show on tour with the likes of DEADLETTER, Everything Everything and Wunderhorse, and featuring at festivals including The Great Escape, Truck, Supersonic Block Party, Liverpool Sound City, Dot To Dot, Live at Leeds, and Other Voices. With 2025’s celebrated ‘Bitter and Twisted’ EP under their belts, the band are now sharing their first music of the year in the form of ‘Perfume’.
Produced by Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Perfume Genius, PJ Harvey), ‘Perfume’ arrives foreboding and introspective, all intoxicating vocals and pitch-black subject matter, quietly gestating before erupting to make good on the threat of its looming atmospherics. A kind of patience murmurs at the core of Basht., only showing their hand when the right moment presents itself. On ‘Perfume’ they turn the reflective and emotionally heavy into the sprawling and powerful.
Vocalist and guitarist Jack Leavey comments on the new single: “Perfume is about the relationship between father and son from the perspective of the son as he recounts his parents’ marriage falling apart.
Ireland also has a darker history, shaped by the strong influence of the Catholic Church over private life, particularly in cases of unplanned pregnancy – where young couples were often pressured into marriage to preserve respectability and avoid shame.
These unions were not always based on love or readiness, but on moral expectation and social control, with alternatives like single parenthood heavily stigmatised, especially for women. This song reflects that reality, capturing how personal lives were shaped by external pressures, where duty could outweigh desire and a single moment could determine the course of an entire future.”
Continuing about forthcoming debut album Poor Advice, he says: “Poor Advice is a bruising concept album that traces the tangled wires between power and those crushed under it.
Through 10 tracks, it maps the old dance between church and state in Ireland, where pulpits and governments traded sermons for policy and shaped a generation with guilt, silence, and obedience.
It then pulls that thread into the present, following how moral authority has been outsourced to boardrooms and barracks, with the military industrial complex running like a grim metronome: conflict brewed, weapons sold, grief managed, contracts renewed.
Poor Advice is the title because it’s all the counsel handed down from above: keep your head down, say your prayers, trust the deal.”
Apr 24 – Roisin Dubh Galway, IE
Apr 25 – Ulster Sports Club Belfast, UK, SOLD OUT
May 02 – Liverpool Sound City, Liverpool, UK
May 22 – Mi Ami Festival, Milan, IT
May 23 – NBHD Weekender, Warrington, UK
May 24 – Bearded Theory Derbyshire, UK
May 27 – Les Etoiles Paris, FR
May 28 – Ekko Utrecht, NL – SOLD OUT
May 29 – Vestrock Festival Hulst, NL
May 29 – Dauwpop Hellendoorn, NL
Jun 20 – TRNSMT, UK
Jul 02 – Rock Werchter, BE
Aug 09 – Boardmasters Festival Newquay, UK
Aug 29 – Rock N Roll Circus, Sheffield, UK
Aug 30 – Leeds Festival, Leeds, UK
Sep 05 – Zero Four Three Festival Maastrich, NE
BRIT-nominated DJ/producer, BL3SS, is back with his first single of 2026 — listen to ‘terms and conditions’ HERE.
Written as a fresh, carefree ode to summer, ‘terms and conditions’ samples Mahalia’s 2023 track of the same name, flipping her vocals to create a fizzing, next-gen anthem that feels ready-made for everything from house parties to clubs to festival stages.
Landing as his first new material since the release of rowdy, club-skewed debut EP, ‘The Afters’, last November, ‘terms and conditions’ also dials back into BL3SS’ addictive brand of audacious, bedroom-made dance music. Laced with the sort of hi-energy euphoria that resonates with both his next-gen fanbase and across big stages worldwide, ‘terms and conditions’ only adds to an already rich and rapidly expanding discography.
BL3SS, who bagged a BRIT-nomination for his UK Top 5 breakout single ‘Kisses’ alongside CamrinWatsin & bbyclose last year, also released a series of quickfire singles in 2025, including ‘Craving 4 U’, ‘R 2 ME’ with Tchami and surprise NYE anthem, ‘567AM’.
He also made debuts at Tomorrowland, Longitude and Reading & Leeds last summer, following a maiden headline tour of Australia & NZ where he also played major festivals like Beyond The Valley, Rhythm & Vines and Field Day. BL3SS also recently supported Oliver Heldens at The Roundhouse in March.
Looking ahead, BL3SS plays his first London headline show at Night Tales on May 30th, and will soon announce a run of North American shows scheduled throughout the summer and into the autumn. For Night Tales ticket information, please see HERE.
2x GRAMMY® Award winning R&B powerhouse Kehlani releases her highly anticipated self-titled fifth studio album, KEHLANI, today on her birthday, April 24, 2026. Listen HERE.
A self-titled album is often an artist’s most personal statement, and KEHLANI is no exception. The project captures her at her most honest, blending soul-baring storytelling with the lush, genre-bending sound that has made her one of modern R&B’s most influential voices.
The album was anchored by a trio of defining singles, beginning with “Folded,” a breakout anthem that has become one of the defining R&B records of the decade. “Folded” delivered major award recognition, including 2x GRAMMY® wins for Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance, an iHeartRadio Music Award for R&B Song of the Year (where she made her debut award show performance), NAACP Image Awards nominations, and three American Music Award nominations, including Song of the Year. The song has surpassed 800 million global streams, peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, and spent 43 weeks on the chart. It reached #1 across Urban (for 10 weeks), Rhythmic, and R&B radio formats, generated over 1.45 billion U.S. radio audience impressions, earned Kehlani her first solo #1 on the Billboard Rhythmic Airplay Chart, and reached #22 on Billboard’s Global 200. The “Folded Homage Pack” extended its cultural footprint with reinterpretations from R&B icons including Toni Braxton, Brandy, JoJo, Mario, Ne-Yo, and Tank. She also performed “Folded” on an episode of Amazon’s “In The Paint”, which aired during NBA Nightcap.
The momentum continued with “Out The Window,” which further showcased Kehlani’s emotional transparency and sonic direction. Most recently, Kehlani released “Back and Forth” featuring Missy Elliott. The track pairs Kehlani’s signature vulnerability with Missy Elliott’s unmistakable innovation and energy, serving as the final preview before the album’s release.
Kehlani celebrates a landmark year of cultural impact, including a surprise appearance during Giveon’s mainstage set at Coachella in addition to her solo performance at Revolve Festival.
With over 20 RIAA certifications, more than 5 billion global streams, and status as a 7x GRAMMY® nominated songwriter and artist, Kehlani continues to solidify her place as one of contemporary R&B’s most essential voices. This year she was also honored at the Femme It Forward 2025 “Give Her FlowHERS” Awards Gala, receiving the Alchemist Award, and recognized as an ASCAP Women Behind the Music Honoree. Kehlani will also be honored with the Impact Award at the upcoming Billboard Women in Music, where she will deliver a special performance in celebration of her influence on music and culture.
Kehlani will bring the album to global stages with upcoming festival performances at Essence Festival, Afronation Portugal, Roots Picnic, and more.
MAISIE ANNOUNCED A GOLDEN DISCS INSTORE FOR TUESDAY MAY 5TH IS NOW SOLD OUT
With just a handful of dates left on her sold-out global ‘Before The Bloom’ theatre tour, Maisie Peters has shared a new song, ‘Kingmaker’, featuring six-time Grammy nominee Julia Michaels. Listen HERE.
Loosely inspired by Hilary Mantel’s historical novel Wolf Hall, Maisie explains: “Kingmaker is a song about power dynamics, chiefly about being a woman and feeling like you’ve offered your time, wisdom, talent, and belief to someone who has then taken advantage of it. It’s about the sting of uplifting someone, only to find out they didn’t deserve you in the first place; about giving a man the benefit of the doubt and having it thrown in your face.”
She continues: “I loved writing this song with Julia, as I think we have both had the experience of achieving success and witnessing the impact that has on the romantic relationships in our lives – on the egos of the men who say they want a strong woman, until it “makes them bitter.” We recorded this song very intentionally as a duet, going line for line instead of verse for verse, so it could really be heard as a conversation between two friends sympathising with each other, which really is exactly what the writing process was like.
Julia is a hero of mine – her songwriting has undoubtedly been one of, if not the biggest, influences on my own writing, and it is one of the greatest honours of my career to have a song out with her. She has become not only a trusted collaborator but also a real friend, and I really am so excited for this song to be out in the world.”
Julia adds: “Working with Maisie is a dream. Her lyricism is so colorful and vibrant. When you write with her you feel completely immersed in her world. You feel like you’ve lived it yourself.”
Alongside ‘If You Let Me’ with Marcus Mumford, ‘Kingmaker’ is one of two features on Maisie’s anticipated third studio album, Florescence, due out 15 May. Co-produced with two-time Grammy winner Ian Fitchuk, the record is a meditation on how the right love can help heal the wrong ones. It’s an album about perspective, self-realisation, healing, and ultimately, learning how to flourish.
Currently fronting Cosmopolitan UK, Maisie has also just been announced for the New Music Stage at Radio 1’s Big Weekend on 24 May, as well as Reading & Leeds, where she’ll share the bill with Charli XCX, Dave, ADÉLA and SOMBR.
