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like seriously, i swear the things shrink every generation. i lost one of mine last week and spent an hour tearing apart my apartment only to find it stuck to the bottom of my sock (dont ask). its not even like they sound better for being tiny, they just get more annoying to handle. and dont get me started on the 'tap to control' nonsense — half the time im accidentally pausing my music when i try to adjust them. bigger isnt always better but maybe we could stop at 'still fits in my hand without vanishing into another dimension'? anyone else think this is getting ridiculous or am i just cursed with butterfingers?

Kelsey Lu‘s first album in seven years, So Help Me God, is out this Friday, and ahead of its release, they’ve given us a final early taste with the majestic, orchestrated “Cutting Off the Head of a Ghost.” They originally wrote it with Patrick Wimberly for the animated series Arcane, and it features a children’s choir. Watch the video below.

Lu also announced a fall tour, with North American shows in September and October followed by a European run in November. See all dates below.

The NYC show is at Pioneer Works on October 3. Tickets to that and all dates go on sale Friday, June 12 at 10 AM local, with various presales starting Wednesday, June 10 at 10 AM local.


KELSEY LU: 2026 TOUR DATES
Sep 30 26 – Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry
Oct 3 26 – Brooklyn, NY – Pioneer Works
Oct 4 26 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
Oct 6 26 – Washington, DC – Union Stage
Oct 8 26 – Chicago, IL – Outset
Oct 10 26 – Vancouver, BC – Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Oct 12 26 – Seattle, WA – Neumos
Oct 13 26 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
Oct 15 26 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
Oct 16 26 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre
Nov 3 26 – Paris, FR – Foundation Cartier
Nov 4 26 – Paris, FR – Foundation Cartier
Nov 6 26 – Amsterdam, NL – Tolhuistuin
Nov 7 26 – Utrecht, NL – Le Guess Who
Nov 9 26 – Manchester, UK – New Century Locker
Nov 10 26 – London, UK – KOKO
Nov 11 26 – Brussels, BE – Botanique (Museum)
Nov 13 26 – Cologne, DE – CBE
Nov 15 26 – Hamburg, DE – Bahnof Pauli
Nov 16 26 – Berlin, DE – Saalchen
Nov 17 26 – Warsaw, PL – Oczki
Nov 18 26 – Prague, CZ – Meet Factory
Nov 20 26 – Bern, CH – Full Of Lava

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Alex Orange Drink (So So Glos, Bright Eyes‘ live band) and Michael Ian Cummings (Skaters, The Dead Trees) have launched an intimate new show series in NYC. The inaugural “Sunday Sessions” happened at Lower East Side bar VICTORIA! On Sunday (6/7), with Alex, Michael, Maya Luz and Rob Mastrianni all performing. They also welcomed a special guest, Conor Oberst, who was in NYC for Bright Eyes’ Forest Hills Stadium show the night before. He joined Alex on his track “Queen Victoria,” Bright Eyes’ “Victory City” and “Bells and Whistles,” and also did “Cape Canaveral,” “We Are Nowhere and It’s Now,” and “Land Locked Blues,” with Emma Ogier (who sang with the band at Forest Hills) and Harrison Whitford (a collaborator of Conor, Phoebe Bridgers, Matt Berninger and more) each joining them at points.

Alex told us:

We’re starting a Sunday acoustic series at Victoria for songwriters to play deep cuts, try out new material, anything really. Michael Ian Cummings and I have been throwing around this idea for a while, he finally got the ball rolling on it.

Miwi La Lupa is also doing a series at Victoria on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month. Last night was the first of a very DIY impromptu get together. I played some songs off of my album victory lap (#23) which was written and recorded during cancer treatment in ‘23, the first in series of five albums recorded during that time.

Micheal played some songs off his masterful new album Godzilla. The great Maya Luz played beautiful songs and Rob Mastrianni blew minds. Conor joined me for a few songs that we wrote together and then he played a few more along with Harrison Whitford and Emma Ogier. It was very organic, it just kind of happened. It came together an hour before the show. We’re looking forward to having more community get togethers of this kind. People in a room in 3D. Positive energy.

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Stay tuned for more of these shows, and watch attendee-taken video below.

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Porches today shared a new song, “Angel,” that is a tribute to Baby’s All Right owner Billy Jones, who died last July (Jones was also Porches’ manager). Band founder Aaron Maine wrote, “Uploaded a song i wrote for Billy last july to the porches bandcamp. lots of love to everyone missing him today. i feel like he’s with us all the time.”

“Angel” is a spare piano ballad and Aaron sings, “i guess now you’re an angel / but you always have been / and the only difference / is that now you’re in heaven.” You can listen to the song below.

Porches released a new mixtape in May, MASK, and are on tour this month. There’s also NYC rooftop show on July 2 (address TBA), and they play Just Like Heaven fest in August. All dates are listed below.

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PORCHES – 2026 TOUR DATES
Jun 20, 2026 – Portsmouth, NH – 3S Artspace
Jun 21, 2026 – Portland, ME – SPACE
Jun 26, 2026 – Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen
Jun 27, 2026 – Indianapolis, IN – HI-FI
Jul 2, 2026 – Brooklyn, NY – [untitled] Rooftop (address TBA)
Aug 22, 2026 – Pasadena, CA – Brookside at the Rose Bowl

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Show Me The Body release their fourth album, Alone Together, next month, and they’ve announced a tour supporting it. They’ll be on the road in North America in September and October, with Whispers, Jivebomb, and Holder each joining them, varying by date, and Lip Critic also on the last two shows of the run. See all dates below.

The NYC show wraps up the tour, on October 15 at Webster Hall. The ticket page specifies that it’s a “NO BARRICADE SHOW,” and it’s with Lip Critic and Jivebomb. Tickets to that and all dates go on sale Friday, June 12 at 10 AM local, with various presales starting Wednesday, June 10 at 10 AM local.

Lip Critic released their new album Theft World last month, and they’re on their “Theft Destiny Tour” through the end of July, which wraps up with a Brooklyn show at Music Hall of Williamsburg on July 16 with fantasy of a broken heart and Public Circuit.








SHOW ME THE BODY: 2026 TOUR DATES
Jun 19, 2026 Letnia Scena Progresji Warszawa
Jun 20, 2026 Pink Whale Bratislava, Bratislava Region
Jun 21, 2026 TOO, Via 24 Maggio 51 Piacenza, Italy
Jun 23, 2026 Im Wizemann Halle Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
Jun 24, 2026 Le Transbordeur Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Jun 25, 2026 Exil Zürich, Zurich
Jun 26, 2026 Abyss Festival Hauteville, Switzerland
Jun 27, 2026 Kesselhaus Berlin, Berlin
Aug 13, 2026 Vodafone Paredes de Coura Coura, Portugal
Aug 15, 2026 Bike Jesus Prague, Prague
Aug 16, 2026 Metastadt Open Air Vienna, Austria *
Aug 17, 2026 Turbina Budapest
Aug 19, 2026 Kesselhaus Wiesbaden, Hessen #
Aug 20, 2026 Sputnikhalle Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia #
Aug 21, 2026 Doornroosje Nijmegen, Netherlands #
Aug 23, 2026 Outbreak Fest London, England
Aug 25, 2026 Amager Bio Copenhagen, DK #
Aug 26, 2026 Slaktkyrkan Stockholm, Stockholm County #
Aug 27, 2026 Rockefeller Music Hall Oslo, Norway #
Sep 4, 2026 – Sep 6, 2026 ZAP Outdoorz High View, WV
Sep 15, 2026 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA %^
Sep 16, 2026 East End United Basement Toronto, ON %^
Sep 17, 2026 Tangent Gallery Detroit, MI %^
Sep 18, 2026 Grog Shop Cleveland Heights, OH %^
Sep 18, 2026 – Sep 20, 2026 Riot Fest Chicago, IL
Sep 20, 2026 Fine Line Minneapolis, MN %^
Sep 22, 2026 Idle Free Kansas City, MO %@
Sep 23, 2026 Gothic Theatre Denver, CO %@
Sep 25, 2026 Grey Witch Las Vegas, NV %@
Sep 27, 2026 Hawthorne Theatre Portland, OR %@
Sep 28, 2026 El Corazón Seattle, WA %@
Sep 30, 2026 August Hall San Francisco, CA %@
Oct 1, 2026 Strummer’s Fresno, CA %@
Oct 3, 2026 The Fonda Theatre Los Angeles, CA %@
Oct 4, 2026 Nile Theater Mesa, AZ %@
Oct 7, 2026 Mohawk Austin, TX %@
Oct 9, 2026 WorkPlay Theatre Birmingham, AL %@
Oct 10, 2026 Terminal West Atlanta, GA %@
Oct 11, 2026 The Broadberry Richmond, VA %@
Oct 12, 2026 Black Cat Washington, DC %@
Oct 14, 2026 Union Transfer Philadelphia, PA !@
Oct 15, 2026 Webster Hall New York, NY !@

* with Deftones
# with Deafheaven
% with Whispers
^ with Holder
@ with Jivebomb
! With Lip Critic

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Rush began their first tour in over a decade on Sunday night with their first of four shows at The Forum in LA. The venue was also the site of their last show — August 15, 2015 — which also turned out to be the final show with their original power trio lineup — drummer Neil Peart died in 2020 from an aggressive form of brain cancer.

On the drums is German virtuoso and viral sensation Anika Nilles, who has been almost unanimously accepted by Rush’s fan community, and surviving members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson were also augmented by keyboardist Loren Gold who has also played with The Who and Chicago.

Sunday’s show began with a satirical short film, “Where’s Rush?,” where some teenagers trying to find Rush in a haunted castle and featured frontman Geddy Lee as his sausage maker character, Jason Segel and Paul Rudd (reprising their Funny or Die Rush fan characters) as well as South Park characters as “Lil’ Rush.” The band then kicked off the night with “Xanadu” which has has never been a show-opening song before. The first set included “Limelight,” “Far Cry,” “Subdivisions,” “Caravan,” “Vital Signs,” and more with a Neil Peart tribute collage shown during “Bravado.” The first set ended with “The Spirit of the Radio.”

The second set opened with the three-part “2112,” and also included Aimee Mann welcomed to the stage to perform 1987’s “Time Stand Still” which she sang on the studio version. This was the first time she’d ever performed the song live with the band, though. There was also “Distant Early Warning,” “YYZ,” “Dreamline,” and more, plus another tribute to Peart, more pre-recorded sketches, and the South Park kids return to intro the second set’s final number, “Tom Sawyer” which they call “Huckleberry Finn.”

Rush then returned for a two-song encore of “By-Tor & The Snow Dog,” which they hadn’t played live since 2004, and finally “Working Man.” As the night ended there was a final Neil Peart tribute.

Check out video and setlist from Sunday’s show below.

Rush’s tour hits NYC for four sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden on July 28 & 30 and August 1 & 3.

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SETLIST: Rush @ Kia Forum 6/7/2026
Set 1:
Xanadu
Limelight
Far Cry
(with touring band introductions)
Subdivisions
Freewill
Bravado
Caravan
La Villa Strangiato
Vital Signs
The Spirit of Radio

Set 2:
2112 Part I: Overture
2112 Part II: The Temples of Syrinx
2112 Part VII: Grand Finale
Distant Early Warning
Red Barchetta
Dreamline
Natural Science
Time Stand Still (with Aimee Mann)
Red Sector A
YYZ
The Garden)
Tom Sawyer

Encore:
By-Tor & The Snow Dog
Working Man

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Phoebe Bridgers announced her fall tour last week and she’s now added more shows in some cities, including Indianapolis, Chicago, NYC, LA, Toronto, Boston, San Francisco, London and Dublin. North American dates are with Alex G, while UK/EU shows are with former Black Country, New Road frontman Isaac Wood. All dates are listed below.

The Brooklyn additional show is at Barclays Center on September 24, which is her third at the venue in addition to September 25 & 26. Tickets for all dates of the tour go on sale Friday, June 12 at 10 AM with artist presales beforehand — register for the presales here.

This will be a “no phones” shows tour. Phoebe has been playing lots of new songs but there’s been no official word on a new album. Stay tuned.



PHOEBE BRIDGERS – 2026 TOUR DATES:
09.14.26 — Indianapolis, IN @ Gainbridge Fieldhouse* (NEW DATE)
09.15.26 — Indianapolis, IN @ Gainbridge Fieldhouse*
09.17.26 — St. Paul, MN @ Grand Casino Arena*
09.18.26 — Chicago, IL @ United Center* (NEW DATE)
09.19.26 — Chicago, IL @ United Center*
09.22.26 — Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena*
09.24.26 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center* (NEW DATE)
09.25.26 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center*
09.26.26 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center*
09.28.26 — Philadelphia, PA @ Xfinity Mobile Arena*
09.29.26 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena*
10.01.26 — Toronto, ON @Scotiabank Arena*
10.02.26 — Toronto, ON @Scotiabank Arena* (NEW DATE)
10.03.26 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena*
10.06.26 — Boston, MA @TD Garden*
10.07.26 — Boston, MA @TD Garden* (NEW DATE)
10.09.26 — Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center*
10.10.26 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena*
10.13.26 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena*
10.16.26 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center*
10.17.26 — Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena*
10.19.26 — Denver, CO @ Ball Arena*
10.21.26 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Delta Center*
10.23.26 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena*
10.24.26 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena*
10.27.26 — San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center*
10.28.26 — San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center* (NEW DATE)
10.30.26 — Los Angeles, CA @ Intuit Dome*
10.31.26 — Los Angeles, CA @ Intuit Dome*
11.01.26 — Los Angeles, CA @ Intuit Dome* (NEW DATE)
11.23.26 — Dublin, Ireland @ 3Arena #
11.24.26 — Dublin, Ireland @ 3Arena # (NEW DATE)
11.26.26 — Manchester, United Kingdom @ Co-op Live #
11.27.26 — Glasgow, United Kingdom @ OVO Hydro #
11.28.26 — Birmingham, United Kingdom @ bp pulse LIVE #
12.1.26 — London, United Kingdom @ The O2 #
12.2.26 — London, United Kingdom @ The O2 # (NEW DATE)
12.4.26 — Paris, France @ Adidas Arena #
12.5.26 — Brussels, Belgium @ Forest National #
12.7.26 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome #
12.8.26 — Düsseldorf, Germany @ Mitsubishi Electric Halle #
12.9.26 — Berlin, Germany @ Velodrom #
12.11.26 — Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Arena #
12.12.26 — Stockholm, Sweden @ Avicii Arena #
(* with Alex G)
(# with Isaac Wood + Anaïs)

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Charli XCX has announced the Music, Fashion, Film Tour which happens this fall across a few major US cities and Toronto. Underscores will be along for the ride and all dates are listed below.

There are two Brooklyn shows at Barclays Center on September 14 & 15 and tickets for all dates go on sale Friday, June 12 at 10 AM local time.

For this tour, Charli is introducing ‘Angel Tickets’ — “a limited number of $20 tickets, which will be made available in August. Once the purchase window for these tickets opens in August, tickets must be purchased in pairs, with a maximum of two per order. Seats will be assigned together, with locations revealed on the day of show at venue box office pickup. Ticket locations may include limited view, lower and upper levels, as well as GA Floor.”

Charli’s album Music, Fashion, Film will be out July 24 and you can preorder the vinyl in the BV shop.

Underscores’ summer tour hits NYC on Saturday at Terminal 5 (which was moved from Webster Hall). She has canceled her fall headline dates to join Charli’s tour.



Charli XCX – 2026 Tour Dates
Sep 11, 2026 – Philadelphia, PA – Xfinity Mobile Arena
Sep 14, 2026 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
Sep 15, 2026 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
Sep 21, 2026 – Toronto, ON
Sep 24, 2026 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
Sep 28, 2026 – Washington, DC – Capitol One Arena
Oct 02, 2026 – Austin – ACL Fest
Oct 06, 2026 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
Oct 09, 2026 – Austin – ACL Fest
Oct 14, 2026 – San Diego, CA – Vejas Arena
Oct 17, 2026 – Los Angeles, CA – KIA Forum
Oct 18, 2026 – Los Angeles, CA – KIA Forum
Oct 21, 2026 – Glendale, AZ – Desert Diamond Arena
Oct 23, 2026 – Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena

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Beastie Boys‘ Mike D has announced his debut solo album, Thank You, which will be out August 28 via Capitol. You can preorder it on clear vinyl and CD in the BV shop. He made it at his home studio with sons Skyler and Davis Diamond — who are in his backing band 5D — along with Carter Lang, Jared Solomon, Ging, Jason Lader, Eddie Ruscha, Tyran Donaldson and others.

“It’s been so much fun making this music with people I love and I have grown to really appreciate in our collaboration,” says Mike D. “And I just hope it’s fun for others and not overly serious, because let’s be real, I’m releasing this music into a very strange and dark and power-fixated world that really devalues art and feelings and compassion and empathy and equality.

The album includes singles “Switch Up” and “What We Got,” and he’s just released a third single, “True Colors.”

Check out the cover art and tracklist below.

Mike D and 5D have been playing shows and they’re currently on tour in Europe. They’ll play San Francisco’s Portola festival in September and all dates are listed below.






Thank You
Switch Up
What We Got
True Colors
That’s Right
Secrets Pt. I
Secrets Pt. II
I Don’t Care
Make It Stop
Crypto
Here We Are
Back To Start
It’s Time
Thank You

Mike D – 2025 Tour Dates
Jun 10, 2026 – Berlin, Germany – Saalchen
Jun 13, 2026 – Porto, Portugal – Primavera Sound Porto 2026
Jun 14, 2026 – Wicklow, Ireland – Beyond The Pale 2026
Jun 16, 2026 – Eixample, Spain – La [2] de Apolo
Jun 18, 2026 – Kortrijk, Belgium – Bolwerk
Jun 19, 2026 – Sint-Niklaas, Belgium – De Casino Concertzaal
Jun 20, 2026 – Paris – L’Espace Peripherique
Sep 26, 2026 – San Francisco – Portola Festival

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Jon Batiste has released “Shine,” the latest single from his forthcoming album Black Mozart (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 2). The album is set for release August 14 on Decca Records US and will arrive alongside Monk Meditations and Monk Movements, the third and fourth volumes in the Batiste Piano Series, on Verve Records.

“Shine” follows the advance tracks “Alla Blues,” “Alla Turc Movement,” and “Facile-Batiste,” with “Gospel Andante” scheduled to follow June 19. Black Mozart will be available on streaming, download, CD, standard vinyl, and two opaque cream vinyl editions, including one with a signed art card. The album’s tracklist also includes “Twinkle,” “Processional,” “Country Zart,” “Molto,” and “Molto in Cayo Hueso.”


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Batiste said the three new volumes are intended to create a musical conversation between Mozart and Thelonious Monk at the piano. In the announcement, he described Mozart as a composer who made his own musical language while honoring predecessors, and drew a parallel to Monk as a later figure with similar command. Batiste also said he reimagined Mozart through influences from jazz, rags, stride, blues, and stomps while keeping a connection to modern classical music.

The releases follow Beethoven Blues (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1), which reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Classical Albums chart for five consecutive weeks and No. 1 on Classical Crossover Albums for nine consecutive weeks. Batiste recently began his “Jon Batiste Live: A Fantastical Musical Journey” tour, which includes symphonic concerts with the Colorado Symphony and Boston Pops, plus dates at KOKO in London, Umbria Jazz Festival, Rock in Rio, Forest Hills Stadium, and the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. His 2025 album Big Money won Best Americana Album at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, marking his eighth Grammy win.

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