Flying Lotus has announced a bicoastal Blue Note residency, happening at the NYC and Los Angeles locations of the venue. He'll be joined by a live band for the shows, which happen on July 8 and 9 at Blue Note Jazz Club in NYC and July 11 and 12 at Blue Note in LA, with early and late shows each night. Tickets go on sale Thursday, May 14 at 10 AM local.
KeiyaA has announced a tour of the United States and Europe behind forthcoming album Hooke's Law. In the "Thirsty" video that accompanies the news, the New York-via-Chicago singer, songwriter, and producer puts her talents in service of the song's theme-helped along by a Gucci Mane interpolation -by dancing and drinking a lot of milk. Watch it go down below.
There hadn't been an NYC show on that run, but now they've announced a big one: it happens on October 9 at Radio City Music Hall, and they'll perform 2006's Dog Problems in full, along with songs from throughout their discography.
'Starting Over Again' is our first new music in over a decade, and it came from the fans calling for it and us realizing the timing finally felt right. The chemistry in this lineup is undeniable, and everything just clicked. This song is exactly what the title says. A reset, but with more clarity, more urgency, and way more fire behind it. It feels like the start of something big for us, not a throwback, but a step forward.
With our music, I particularly like to be on the extremes of things. So if it's supposed to be pretty in your face, I like to be fairly in your face. And then at the same time, if it's kind of warm and gentle, I like that to be as warm and gentle as possible. I'm interested in those juxtapositions and making those, that's how we want it to come across.
That whole year I just felt awful and like I was dying. I didn't feel right, and mentally I was off, like there really was something wrong the whole time. So I think the reason some of these songs feel the way they do is because I felt that way, even though I didn't know something was wrong yet.
LA band The Sophs are gearing up to release their debut album, GOLDSTAR, which will be out March 13 via Rough Trade. It was produced by the band's guitarists, Austin Parker Jones and Seth Smades, and you can hear two tracks from it now: the title track, which has Spaghetti Western vibes, and "SWEETIEPIE" which is closer to country by way of Bright Eyes.
The album, he added, "changed our lives. It put us on a map. It gave us a new, broad audience of people that found something in it that they connected with. People have grown up with this record, right alongside us growing up, and I feel like it's important to celebrate it. It's important to acknowledge to people that we appreciate that, despite the obvious commerce involved."
The Hold Steady's classic third album, Boys and Girls in America, turns 20 this year, and they recently announced dates and cities for the celebrations. They've now revealed full details for the spring dates of Constructive Summer 2026. The Chicago shows are on June 11-13, with a seated "Storytellers Set" at Thalia Hall on June 11, a rock show at Empty Bottle on June 12, and an all-day outdoor show at Salt Shed Fairgrounds on June 13 with Built to Spill, Bully, and Titus Andronicus.
Art-punk/new wave icons DEVO announced the first, Coachella-surrounding shows of their "Mutate Don't Stagnate" tour back in December, and now they've expanded the run. The new shows happen in June in the US, and you can see their updated schedule below. The new additions include a Port Chester, NY show at The Capitol Theatre on June 9, and an Atlantic City, NJ show at Borgata Event Center on June 12.
"By the time this tour begins, it will have been just under three years since our last US headliner, and we are absolutely shooting for the moon to celebrate our return," Motionless in White stated in a press release. "We could not be more excited to visit our American fans who have been incredibly patient with us, and can't wait to give them the first performances of new material from our upcoming album. See you this summer!"
