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Olivia Rodrigo will play a surprise set at Primavera Sound in Barcelona this evening – see all the details below.

• READ MORE: Olivia Rodrigo live at Glastonbury 2025: A Robert Smith-assisted ending to stand the test of time

The festival is taking place at the Parc del Fòrum this weekend, with headline sets from Doja Cat, Massive Attack, Bad Gyal, The Cure, The xx, Gorillaz, My Bloody Valentine, Addison Rae and Skrillex.

As revealed on the festival’s social media earlier today, another major star will also be making an appearance tonight on the festival’s penultimate day.

Rodrigo will be playing at 10:25pm on the Occident Stage tonight, with the Instagram post writing “spilling our guts”, in reference to her second album ’Guts’ from 2023. Rodrigo then confirmed the news, writing on her Instagram Stories: “Surprise!!! See you tonight @primavera_sound, 22:25 at the Occident Stage, I’m excited.”

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Olivia Rodrigo actuará HOY en el Primavera Sound de Barcelona como invitada sorpresa.

A las 22:25h en el escenario Occident. pic.twitter.com/4gukY2St82

— Pop Up Mag (@popup_mag) June 6, 2026

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Rodrigo is releasing her third album ‘You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love’ next Friday (June 12), a record she has described as “experimental” and full of “sad love songs”. It will include the recent singles ‘Drop Dead’ and ‘The Cure’, and will centre around the feelings of “jealousy” and “longing” that arose from her first “big girl relationship”.

See the full tracklist for the new album here.

Rodrigo has already cited The Cure, New Order, Joy Division, The White Stripes and Bikini Kill as sources of inspiration for the record, and also sparked rumours that Geese frontman Cameron Winter appears on the album after being seen at a restaurant with him.

Since confirming album three, the ‘Deja Vu’ singer has announced a massive ‘Unraveled Tour’, which includes support from Wolf Alice, The Last Dinner Party, Devon Again, Die Spitz, and Grace Ives.


Already, more dates have been added to the list due to high demand, including multiple nights at London’s O2. Visit here for UK tickets, here for international tickets, and find a list of shows here.

The tour is the first since the critically acclaimed ‘Guts World Tour’ which took place last year and was her biggest to date – with 95 sold-out shows and over 1.4 million fans in attendance.

Shows included an unforgettable Pyramid Stage headline set at Glastonbury 2025, where she brought out The Cure’s Robert Smith as a special guest. In a four-star review, NME wrote: “There is no doubt about the commitment that Rodrigo has put into this set. For the few naysayers doubting whether or not the 22-year-old was ready to take on the coveted Pyramid slot as the last headliner before a fallow year, this one that will stand the test of time and leave us impatient for the Glasto magic to return.”

Primavera Sound, meanwhile, has been dealing with severe weather conditions this week, which led to the cancellation of multiple sets, including Massive Attack, Doja Cat, Bad Gyal, Alex G and Mac DeMarco.

The post Olivia Rodrigo to play secret set at Primavera Sound tonight appeared first on NME.

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Deep Purple have shared the latest taste of new album ‘Splat!’ – listen to the pummelling ‘Diablo’ below.

• READ MORE: Deep Purple – ‘Whoosh!’ review: rockers’ 21st record is stupidly fun and outrageously silly

The legendary rock group will release the 24th studio record of their long career, and the follow-up to 2024’s ‘=1’, on July 3 via earMUSIC. Pre-order/pre-save the album here.

They have already shared the supercharged lead single ‘Arrogant Boy’, and now they are back with ‘Diablo’, a trippy, muscular track that sees them noodle and freak out alongside their guest, the country superstar Keith Urban, on guitar.

The track is available on streaming services now, while the video will premiere on Sunday night (June 7) here. Listen here:


Frontman Ian Gillan has said about ‘Diablo’: “It is all about taking chances. Just for once in your life, do something exciting, step out of the mould, take that curious bend in the road instead of sticking to the highway and do something that will, for the rest of your life, either guide or warn you.”

‘Splat!’ sees Deep Purple reuniting with the celebrated producer Bob Ezrin (KISS, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed), and it has been described as one of the group’s heaviest albums in several years, with the tracks having been laid down live in the studio.

According to Gillan, “where we are now with this incarnation of Deep Purple feels very much like a very ‘now’ version of Deep Purple as it was in the seventies.”

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“I have to say, now we are very much back in with material that is compatible with ‘Highway Star’, ‘Smoke on the Water’, ‘Lazy’ – the dynamics, the balance, and the fun of the music we made from ‘69 to ‘73. Deep Purple is in a great place right now.”

‘Splat!’ will be released as a 2LP gatefold 180g boxset, complete with 12-page booklet, a CD digisleeve, three exclusive 10” vinyl records featuring live recordings from their 2024 tour and an exclusive 7” featuring bonus track ‘GUINNESIS’.

Deep Purple are also heading out on an extensive 86-date world tour later this year, including a huge show at London’s Royal Albert Hall on November 25. See the full list of dates here, while tickets are on sale now and you can find yours here (UK/Europe) and here (North America).

Last year, Gillan revealed he was losing his eyesight and said that retirement was “not far off”. “It’s one of those things. I’ve only got 30 per cent vision,” he said. “That won’t get better. It makes life mysterious. The hardest thing is working on my laptop. I can’t see anything on the screen unless I use my peripheral vision – I pick up a line by looking at it sideways. But you find a way. You adapt.”

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mine was this pack of "smart" sticky notes that are supposedly reusable but i have no idea how to actually reuse them without ruining the adhesive?? now theyre just sitting on my desk looking sad lol... also yesterday i bought a book about obscure 17th century marine chronometers because of course i did... like i dont even know why i thought i needed that but here we are what about you guys?? anything you bought recently that made you go “why did i think this was necessary”?? haha

seriously, whats with names like "bassquaker" or "glitchflux"? its like they just smashed two vaguely tech-sounding words together and called it a day. dont get me wrong, some are cool, but others just scream "i used a generator." feels like no one even tries to check if it sounds dumb out loud ive seen a few threads lately about branding for new djs and this keeps coming up. like, if youre trying to stand out, at least pick something that doesnt sound like it belongs on a bad startup logo. or am i the only one who cringes at this stuff? also, quick tip for anyone picking a name: say it in a sentence. "youre listening to dj bassquaker" should not make you laugh.

Disney created a “decoy version” of Toy Story 5 to keep Taylor Swift’s involvement a secret, even from the cast and crew.

• READ MORE: Taylor Swift – ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ review: magical when the songwriter just lets herself be

Yesterday (June 5), Swift shared ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’, a song she wrote and produced alongside Jack Antonoff specifically for the film. The track is written from the perspective of cowgirl Jessie, and it sees Swift going back to her country roots.

The film is released on June 19, but Swift’s involvement was only officially confirmed in recent days, despite the project having been in production for multiple years. It had, however, been the subject of rampant speculation among Swifties in recent months, something that Swift fuelled when she posted a cryptic countdown on her website in May.

Now, Thomas Jordan, who worked as a VFX supervisor on the film, has revealed that even many of those working on the film did not know that Swift had contributed a song.

Speaking at a SXSW London panel, he said only “a very small group” knew about ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’, with Disney and Pixar showing press and staffers a version of the finished film without the song.


“The crew that made Toy Story 5 did not know about this secret until last week,” Jordan said (via Variety), explaining that a “decoy version” was used in early previews.

“Turns out, Taylor Swift is a huge Toy Story fan like many of us,” Jordan added. “She actually saw an early version of the film, she requested to see it before it was finished and she wrote the song and then asked us if we wanted it. And we said, ‘Uh, yes! Yes we do.’ That was in February, so we’ve had to keep it a secret ever since then.”

After the song was finally announced, Swift wrote: “I’ve always dreamed of getting to write for these characters who I’ve adored since I was a five year old kid watching the first Toy Story movie. I fell instantly in love with Toy Story 5 when I was lucky enough to see it in its early stages, and I wrote this song as soon as I got home from the screening. Sometimes you just know, right?”

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She added a video of herself as a child dressed as Jessie, noting: “Writing this song felt like a musical departure and coming home at the same time.

“Creating something for Jessie was a new challenge and also felt like second nature all at once. And being a @toystory kid from the age of five til now… is an adventure I plan to be on, to infinity and beyond.”

The film will pick up after Woody left to stay with Bo Peep at the end of the last movie. Jessie is now the leader of Bonnie’s room, with Buzz Lightyear her second-in-command, but Bonnie is now enamoured with her new favourite toy, a frog-like tablet named Lilypad.

Bad Bunny is another music superstar involved in the project, after it was recently revealed that he will be the voice of a talking pizza slice, ‘Pizza With Sunglasses’, who is described as a forgotten toy living in an abandoned backyard shed.

The post Disney created “decoy version” of ‘Toy Story 5’ to keep Taylor Swift’s involvement a secret appeared first on NME.

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like i get the whole tiktok era thing shortened attention spans or whatever but some of these tracks legit feel like they end before they even start. you finally get into the vibe and then it’s over. im not asking for a 10-min epic but cmon give us at least 3 solid minutes to enjoy it. feels like half the time im hitting repeat just to feel like i actually listened to the song maybe im getting old but back in the day you could at least count on a solid chorus-bridge-chorus structure. now its like intro, drop, done anyone else feel this way or am i just being a grouch

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like, i get it, nature is soothing or whatever, but every time i turn on some lo fi playlist for work theres chirping or cooing in the background. are we really that desperate to feel connected to the outdoors? i honestly just find it distracting. and dont even get me started on rain sounds mixed in, like im trying to focus not feel like im stuck in a tent during a storm. maybe im just getting old but it feels like weve gone overboard with this stuff. cant we just have nice, quiet background music without turning it into a woodland symphony?...

Spider-Noir is streaming in full now, but does Nicolas Cage’s Ben Reilly become The Spider again? Find out below.

• READ MORE: ‘Spider-Noir’ review: Nicolas Cage’s big, campy swing for the superhero crowd

The show is based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man Noir and follows Reilly, an aging private investigator and superhero in 1930s New York who grapples with his past in the aftermath of a personal tragedy.

It is set within the world of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, with Cage reprising his role from the 2018 film, and all eight episodes of the show are streaming now on MGM+ in the US and on Amazon Prime Video internationally.

It was developed by Oren Uziel, previously known for 22 Jump Street and The Cloverfield Paradox, and it also starred Brendan Gleeson, Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Poppola and Jack Huston.

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NME gave the show a three-star review, noting: “In the end, Spider-Noir may face an uphill battle for ratings – how much crossover do the modern Marvel blockbuster and pre-war crime fiction fandoms have? – but there’s a lot of fun to be had here. Much more than with any other recent Spider-Man spin-off, that’s for sure.”

The ending of Spider-Noir explained: does Ben become The Spider again?​

Throughout the season, Cage’s Ben Reilly was resisting re-embracing his superhero alter ego, choosing to run from his past following the death of his girlfriend.

At the start of the finale, Brendan Gleeson’s Silvermane and his gang have captured him and his secret identity is on the verge of being exposed. Cat Hardy (Li Jun Li) reveals that she had betrayed Silvermane, however, while Robbie Robbertson (Lamorne Morris) disguises himself as The Spider to protect Ben.

Cat kills Silvermane as his mob empire collapses, while Ben faces off with the superpowered Dirk Leyden, in his persona of Megawatt, eventually throwing him into the path of an oncoming train and killing him.

Ben finally has access to the last dose of the antidote, which could let him escape the burden of The Spider for good, but instead he gives it to Flint Marko, saving him and allowing him to be with Cat.

By giving up his own chance at freedom, Ben accepts the responsibility that he had previously been resisting, and embraces his role and destiny as The Spider.

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There are many people who always listen to radio all the time. They are kind of addicted to listening to radio. Having said that, I am not at all a huge fan of listening to radio. So, do you listen to radio very often?