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Reading & Leeds 2026 have teamed up with Spotify to help fans discover new artists they’ll love at the festival through personalised playlists based on their listening habits. The new launch comes just over two weeks before this year’s festival kicks off, featuring headline performances from Florence + The Machine, Charli XCX, Fontaines D.C., Dave, RAYE and Chase & Status. In the partnership, a new in-app experience has been launched on Spotify which analyses users’ listening data and reveals the five artists on the festival line-up who best suit their tastes. There is also a percentage to show how closely…

By the time the Ramones traveled to Los Angeles in August 1976 to play their very first West Coast concerts, they’d already established themselves as the vanguard act of the thriving New York City punk scene, signed a deal with Sire Records, released their groundbreaking debut album, gigged up and down the East Coast, and even played a couple of landmark gigs in London a month earlier that had a seismic impact on the burgeoning underground rock scene that had recently birthed the Clash, the Sex Pistols, the Damned, and many others.  But punk hadn’t quite made its way out…

Tooth have announced their autumn 2026 UK tour. The London grunge quartet will be embarking on a lengthy tour in support of their debut EP, ‘Restless In Bloom’. It will include the group’s largest headline show to date, taking place at London’s The Garage on October 27. They’ll also stop by Newcastle, Manchester, Swansea, Brighton and more throughout their tour, wrapping up with a final show at Milton Keynes’ Craufurd Arms. Presale begins tomorrow (August 12) at 10am BST, while general sale will follow on August 14, 10am – get your tickets here and see below for all dates: Tooth’s…

It might not seem like a glitzy Grammy afterparty — one where Jess Williamson drank champagne with Taylor Swift, no less — and a gem and mineral show in small-town Texas have much in common. But for Williamson, they both somehow ended up representing the same thing: a feeling of being welcomed yet transient, with a foot in multiple worlds but never quite settling in. “I thought, ‘I’m a tourist,’” Williamson says, calling on Zoom from her living room in Marfa with her hair in loose braids, the desert sun pouring into the airy home. “That I’m this visitor stopping…

E ven when he was alive, there was a sense of lore that surrounded Anthony Bourdain. He had the allure of someone with a true mythology, which he offered up throughout his writing and TV shows. His memoir Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, released in 2000, established much of what we know about him — his early years in New York City kitchens, his drug use, his willingness to reveal tricks of the trade. The book famously recounted the three summers he spent in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as a young man, one of his earliest legends. That time period…

Can you hear what the Rock is singing? Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson dreamed of becoming a country star when he was a teenager, but his professional music career technically dates back to “It Doesn’t Matter,” the 2000 Wyclef Jean track where he provided some shouted catchphrases. Johnson broke out his sturdy singing voice and guitar strumming on talk shows here and there over the years, but his real musical breakthrough was 2016’s Moana, where, in character as the demigod Maui, he sang the Lin-Manuel Miranda-penned “You’re Welcome” — which scored 1.8 billion streams on YouTube alone.  But Johnson is most…

Ishmael Butler will return on October 31 with a new Shabazz Palaces album for Sub Pop. It’s a Style Sport, the follow-up to his consecutive mini-albums Exotic Birds of Prey and Robed in Rareness, is produced by Butler and Erik Blood and features contributions from Marquette Miller, Thaddillac, Evan Flory-Barnes, Gerald “Tugboat” Turner, Kassa Overall, and Carlos Overall. New song “Ahh World (I Won the Alpha Bet)” leads the LP; check it out below.It’s a Style Sport:01 Ahh World (I Won the Alpha Bet)02 Field Notes03 Show Me Missouri in Mink04 Jheri Curl Jump05 Deadstock Dude06 Tongue in Chic07 Heliocentric…

The Reytons are currently fighting off FLO to nab this week’s UK Number One album. Rotherham band The Reytons are battling London girl group FLO to score their second Number 1 album with ‘A Love Letter To A Broken Town’. They previously scored their first chart-topper with their second album, ‘What’s Rock And Roll?’ FLO, meanwhile, are tailing the band at Number Two thanks to their second album, ‘Therapy At The Club’. It would mark FLO’s first Number One should they emerge victorious; their debut album ‘Access All Areas‘ peaked at Number Three when it dropped in 2024. Find the…

E ditors’ Note: This story first appeared in an exclusive true-crime issue of Rolling Stone for Apple News published on July 21, 2026. Mary Carole McDonnell swept through the glass offices of Banc of California in Los Angeles in 2018 holding two homemade pies in her well-manicured hands. The 66-year-old was dressed elegantly, though understatedly, in a white-collared button-down shirt and crisp blue jeans. Like always, she wore her signature set of pearls and went heavy on the perfume. In an endearing gesture from a multimillionaire who ran a thriving entertainment production company specializing in true-crime shows, McDonnell was coming…

My Chemical Romance played ‘Bulletproof Heart’ for the first time in four years as they kicked off the North American leg of their ‘Long Live The Black Parade’ anniversary tour. READ MORE: My Chemical Romance live in Liverpool: prodigal sons of emo make tragedy transcendental As always, on their opening night at the Citi Field stadium in New York, Gerard Way and co. performed their 2006 album ‘The Black Parade’ in full but as they moved to the B-stage in the venue, they also performed the 2010 single from ‘Danger Days’ for the first time since 2022. You can view footage below.…