Listen HERE, Check Out Visualizer HERE and Pre-Order the Album HERE
“Caught In The Echo,” the third song to be released in advance of Foo Fighters’ forthcoming 12th full-length studio album, Your Favorite Toy, is now available across digital platforms.
Following in the turbulent wake of the album’s postpone-tinged banger of a title track — described by THE NEW YORK TIMES as “back-to-basics garage-rock delivered in a welter of noisy guitars” and moving VICE to rave “Unhinged Dave Grohl is my favorite version of Dave Grohl” — “Caught In The Echo” is the instantly combustible opener that sets the tone for the harnessing of the FF live fury that pervades the album. From its opening exhortation of “Do I? Do I? Do I? Do I?” to its closing plea of “Who can save us now?”, “Caught In The Echo” foreshadows the new album’s rough hewn energy with arguably the band’s most explosive opener since Wasting Light’s “Bridge Burning.”
Your Favorite Toy will be released April 24th via Roswell Records/RCA Records. Recorded at home, the album was co-produced by Foo Fighters and Oliver Roman, engineered by Oliver Roman and mixed by Mark “Spike” Stent, and consists of the following songs:
Caught In The Echo Of All People Window Your Favorite Toy If You Only Knew Spit Shine Unconditional Child Actor Amen, Caveman Asking For A Friend
Your Favorite Toy’s release heralds Foo Fighters’ massive Take Cover world tour, which just added an already SOLD OUT April 28 show at the Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport, CT. For more information on the rock ’n’ roll stadium tour of the summer, go to https://foofighters.lnk.to/ShowsPR
Last but not least, running errands in the San Fernando Valley became a lot more interesting yesterday, as 20 personally burned CDs of “Caught in the Echo,” each featuring individually hand-drawn artwork by Dave and Harper Grohl, were hidden in various locations in the area, ranging from local indie record stores to national grocery, book and pharmacy chains and more. For updates and further information on the “Caught in the Echo” scavenger hunt, check https://www.instagram.com/foofighters/
Foo Fighters are Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear, Rami Jaffee and Ilan Rubin.
REGISTER FOR FAIR AXS TICKETS STARTING ON TUESDAY, MARCH 17th AT 9AM PT
In his first live performances since the finale of his massive record-breaking Got Back Tour 2025, Paul McCartney will rock Los Angeles with an intimate two-night stand at The Fonda Theatre Friday, March 27th and Saturday, March 28th.
Registration for tickets begins on Tuesday, March 17th at 9 AM PT. For information on registration and ticket sales, go to https://www.axs.com/paulmccartney
Two tickets per customer. Extremely limited tickets available. Registering does not guarantee ability to purchase.
Avoid purchasing tickets from third-party vendors. Fake tickets will not be honored, and entry will be denied.
This show will be a phone-free experience. Phones will be secured in Yondr pouches, but guests maintain possession of their phones at all times.
Paul McCartney Rocks The Fonda is an MPL presentation in association with Goldenvoice and Marshall Arts USA.
US Orchestral Tour Begins June 2 — Seven New Dates Added
In this iconic setting, you can fully appreciate the poetry of Clark’s writing. Songs like ‘Black Rainbow’ and ‘Live in the Dream’ feel almost technicolour – painted with fresh new colours” — ROLLING STONE UK
On March 20, St. Vincent will release Live in London!, a digital album capturing last year’s majestic BBC Proms performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall in which she was accompanied by the 60-piece Jules Buckley Orchestra — a boundary-obliterating experience hailed by THE TIMES as “a performance packed with otherworldly panache.”
St. Vincent: Live in London! (Total Pleasure/Virgin Music Group) offers up the opportunity to relive or experience for the first time that enthralling evening, a historic occasion that found Annie Clark, Buckley and the orchestra reimagining 19 classics, staples and rarely played deep cuts spanning the St. Vincent catalog from 2007’s solo debut Marry Me up to 2024’s multiple-GRAMMY-winning All Born Screaming.
The complete track listing for St. Vincent: Live in London! is as follows:
• We Put A Pearl In The Ground • Hell Is Near • Reckless • Violent Times • The Strangers • Black Rainbow • Marrow • The Bed • Smoking Section • Now, Now • Live In The Dream • The Nowhere Inn • Digital Witness • Los Ageless • The Party • New York • Paris Is Burning • Candy Darling • Slow Disco
St. Vincent announced today that her limited run of North American orchestral shows will be expanded by seven newly added shows (in bold below).
See below for a list of confirmed dates—all featuring local orchestras with Jules Buckley conducting:
June 2 – Heinz Hall – Pittsburgh, PA (w/ The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) June 4 – Symphony Hall – Boston, MA (w/ The Boston Pops) June 6 – The Met – Philadelphia, PA (w/The Philly Pops)* June 23 – Atlanta Symphony Hall – Atlanta, GA (w/ The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)* June 25 – Wolf Trap – Vienna, VA (w/ The National Symphony Orchestra) June 27 – Ottawa Jazz Festival – Ottawa, ON (w/ The NAC Orchestra) June 28 – Le Festival International de Jazz – Montreal, QC (w/ orchestra) June 30 – Roy Thomson Hall – Toronto, ON (w/ orchestra)* July 2 – Lincoln Center – David Geffen Hall – New York, NY (w/ The New York Philharmonic)* July 22 – Kresge Auditorium – Interlochen, MI (w/ orchestra)* July 24 – Detroit Opera House – Detroit, MI (w/ The Detroit Opera Orchestra)* July 25 – Ravinia – Chicago, IL (w/ The Chicago Symphony) July 30 – Davies Symphony Hall – San Francisco, CA (w/ The San Francisco Symphony)* August 1 – The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park – San Diego, CA (w/ The San Diego Symphony Orchestra) August 2 – Hollywood Bowl – Los Angeles, CA (w/ The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra)
* Tickets for all newly added shows are on sale March 20 at 10am local time, with the exception of Interlochen, which will be on sale April 17
The general on-sale for all dates for Metallica’s Life Burns Faster residency at Sphere in Las Vegas begins today at 10am PT.
16shows were added this week due to overwhelming demand, extending Metallica’s Sphere residency into 2027. As with the previously announced eight-show run, the new additions to Life Burns Faster will continue the No Repeat Weekend tradition that began with the 2023 kick-off of the band’s M72 World Tour, with no songs repeated on each Thursday and Saturday. See below for a full list of dates.
Metallica’s standing at the vanguard of new and unique live experiences has seen the band play to millions of fans across all seven continents in every shape and size of venue imaginable. Their current M72 World Tour has played to more than 4 million fans from Europe and North America to the Pacific Rim and Middle East since its spring 2023 kick-off, its performances and production universally hailed as among the best of Metallica’s 40+ years of traversing the globe.
The band’s Sphere residency will see live staples and surprises spanning the Metallica catalog enhanced by the venue’s immersive technologies that will allow fans to experience the sound and fury of the band’s live performance in new experiential dimensions. Whether you’ve seen Metallica from the upper reaches of a stadium or arena, at an intimate club or theater gig or from the famed Snake Pit surrounded by the 360-degree M72 stage, Sphere’s technology, including the world’s highest resolution LED display that wraps up, over and around the audience; Sphere Immersive Sound, which delivers audio with unmatched clarity and precision to every guest; and multi-sensory 4D technology, will present a wholly unique and entirely new Metallica experience for all who attend — including James, Lars, Kirk and Robert.
Metallica co-founder/drummer Lars Ulrich commented, “About 12 seconds into the opening night of Sphere with U2 back in ‘23, I thought ‘We have to do this, it’s completely uncharted territory!’ This residency gives us another chance to reinvent how we interact with our fans in a live setting. We are beyond excited to share this with the world in six months time, and way fuckin’ psyched to go next level!”
Metallica Life Burns Faster at Sphere is produced by Live Nation and presented by inKind. inKind rewards diners with special offers and credit back when they use the app to pay at thousands of top-rated restaurants nationwide. inKind also provides innovative financing to participating restaurants in a way that enables new levels of sustainability and success. Metallica fans can learn more at inKind.com.
About Metallica Formed in 1981 by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich and including guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo, Metallica has become one of the most influential and successful rock bands in history, selling nearly 125 million albums worldwide and generating more than 25 billion streams while playing to millions of fans on all seven continents—more than 1.3 million of whom belong to the band’s fiercely loyal and consistently growing Fifth Member fan club. Metallica’s catalog of multi-platinum studio albums includes Kill ’Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, …And Justice for All, Metallica (commonly referred to as The Black Album), Load, ReLoad, St. Anger, Death Magnetic, Hardwired…To Self-Destruct, and most recently, the Grammy-winning 72 Seasons, released April 14, 2023, on the band’s own Blackened Recordings label. Metallica’s awards and accolades include nine Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, multiple MTV Video Music Awards, a 2009 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Sweden’s Polar Music Prize. In 2017, Metallica established its own charitable foundation, All Within My Hands, to give back to communities that have supported the band. To date, All Within My Hands’ collective efforts have raised over $29M to support its mission, and provided grants of $15.3M to career and technical education programs through its Metallica Scholars Initiative, $8.4M to combat food insecurity, and $5.6M to disaster relief and other critical local services worldwide. Visit AllWithinMyHands.org to learn more.
About Sphere Sphere is an experiential medium that is redefining the future of immersive experiences. Powered by advanced technologies that ignite the senses, Sphere is a venue where the foremost artists, creators, and technologists create extraordinary experiences that bring storytelling to a new level and transport audiences to places both real and imagined. The venue hosts original Sphere Experiences from leading Hollywood creatives; concerts and residencies from the world’s biggest artists; and premier brand events. The first Sphere opened in Las Vegas, with a second venue planned for Abu Dhabi. More information is available at thesphere.com
METALLICA LIFE BURNS FASTER LIVE AT SPHERE
October 1 & 3 October 8 & 10 October 15 & 17 October 22 & 24 October 29 & 31 November 5 & 7 January 28 & 30 February 4 & 6 February 18 & 20 February 25 & 27 March 4 & 6 March 11 & 13
General On-Sale Begins Monday, March 9 at 10am Local Time
Following months of speculation and anticipation — as well as a pair of L.A. shows playing new album The Mountain in its entirety and the US opening of their House of Kong exhibition — Gorillaz have confirmed details of their first extensive North American tour since 2022. Produced by Live Nation, the tour will see the world’s most successful virtual act once again brought to life on these shores by Gorillaz co-creators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, with Albarn joined onstage by the Gorillaz live band and some very special guest performers. The newly announced series of 22 sure-to-be-unforgettable arena dates across the U.S. and Canada (plus a headline appearance at the Shaky Knees festival) begins September 17 in Orlando, FL and wraps up with a Halloween night finale in Seattle, WA. Little Simz will join Gorillaz on the majority of the dates, with Deltron 3030 appearing on all shows.
The Gorillaz live experience hailed by ROLLING STONE as “an overwhelming pop spectacle, with Damon Albarn’s steady presence to keep the audience focused” draws on a quarter century of genre-bending, paradigm-shifting, consistently innovative musical brilliance. Since their creation at the hands of Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, singer 2D, bassist Murdoc Niccals, guitarist Noodle and drummer Russel Hobbs have amassed an unparalleled arsenal of classic tunes including “Feel Good Inc.,” “Clint Eastwood,” “On Melancholy Hill,” “DARE,” “Dirty Harry,” “Stylo,” “Kids with Guns,” “Tomorrow Comes Today,” “Rhinestone Eyes” and literally dozens more. The BRIT and GRAMMY Award winning band’s latest album The Mountain was released February 27 on their own new independent KONG label, preceded by joyously received singles “The Happy Dictator (featuring Sparks),” “The Manifesto (featuring Trueno and Proof),” “The God of Lying (featuring IDLES),” “Damascus (featuring Omar Souleyman and Yasiin Bey)” and “Orange County (featuring Bizarrap, Kara Jackson & Anoushka Shankar)”/ “The Hardest Thing (featuring Tony Allen).” The Mountain is the latest instalment in the towering Gorillaz discography that includes Gorillaz (2001), Demon Days (2005), Plastic Beach (2010), The Fall (2011), Humanz (2017), The Now Now (2018), Song Machine – Season One: Strange Timez (2020), and Cracker Island (2023).
A truly global phenomenon, Gorillaz have achieved success in entirely groundbreaking and unique ways, touring the world from San Diego to Syria, Montevideo to Manchester and winning numerous awards including the coveted Jim Henson Creativity Honor. The band is recognized by The Guinness Book Of World Records as the planet’s Most Successful Virtual Act.
Tickets will first be available via a KONG Card presale beginning Wednesday, March 4 at 10am local time, followed by a Citi presale at 12pm local time (details below). To participate in the Gorillaz Artist Presale on Friday, March 6 at 10am local, you must sign up at https://livemu.sc/gorillaz by Thursday, March 5 at 10am ET. No codes are needed – access is tied to your Ticketmaster account, and anyone who signs up can join the sale. The general on-sale will take place on Monday, March 9 at 10am local time at gorillaz.com/tour.
The tour will also offer a variety of different VIP packages and experiences for fans to take their concert experience to the next level. Packages vary but include premium tickets, access to The Mountain Experience VIP Space, Gorillaz tour tote bag filled with exclusive merchandise & more. VIP package contents vary based on the offer selected. For more information, visit vipnation.com.
Citi is the official card of The Mountain Tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Wednesday, March 4 at 12pm local time until Thursday, March 5 at 10am ET / 7am PT through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.
Thu Sep 17 – Orlando, FL – Kia Center*^ Fri Sep 18 – Miami, FL – Kaseya Center*^ Sun Sep 20 — Atlanta, GA — Shaky Knees Festival Wed Sep 23 – Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center*^ Sat Sep 26 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena*^ Sun Sep 27 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion*^ Tue Sep 29 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden*^ Thu Oct 01 – Boston, MA – TD Garden*^ Sat Oct 03 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre*^ Sun Oct 04 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena*^ Tue Oct 06 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Arena*^ Wed Oct 07 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena*^ Thu Oct 08 – Chicago, IL – United Center*^ Thu Oct 15 – Austin, TX – Moody Center*^ Fri Oct 16 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena*^ Sun Oct 18 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena*^ Tue Oct 20 – Salt Lake City, UT – Delta Center*^ Fri Oct 22 – Glendale, AZ – Mortgage Matchup Center*^ Sat Oct 24 – Los Angeles, CA – Kia Forum^ Sun Oct 25 – San Diego, CA – Pechanga Arena^ Wed Oct 28 – Oakland, CA – Oakland Arena*^ Fri Oct 30 – Portland, OR – Moda Center*^ Sat Oct 31 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena*^
To mark the release of new album The Mountain, out today on the band’s own KONG label, Gorillaz has shared a new eight-minute short film titled The Mountain, The Moon Cave & The Sad God. Directed by Jamie Hewlett and THE LINE studio, the animated epic follows the adventures of band members Noodle, Murdoc, 2D and Russel as they journey across India, while exploring album themes from the journey of life to the thrill of existence. Watch HERE.
The film sees artist and Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett return to the purest form of his art to bring a detailed and beautiful intricacy to his distinctive, yet ever-evolving style. Directed by Hewlett, along with Max Taylor and Tim McCourt of BAFTA-nominated London-based animation studio THE LINE, the film was made across 18 months and thousands of artist hours, a hand-crafted homage to the golden era of 2D animation that reimagines Gorillaz through a classic cinematic lens. Hewlett collaborated with THE LINE on a vision to reinterpret Gorillaz through the timeless aesthetic of 1960s animated features. The result is a richly textured short film that honors the animators who paved the way for today’s studios. The process was steered by a determination to honor traditional craftsmanship with a hybrid analogue-digital workflow favoring hand-painted backgrounds, real materials, practical effects and period-accurate limitations over contemporary shortcuts – a true celebration of 2D animation and human creativity.
Circumstances now find Murdoc Niccals, Russel Hobbs, 2D and Noodle in India, having made their way to Mumbai with the help of four fake passports courtesy of a New York business acquaintance of Murdoc. The band has turned its back on international pop stardom, with our heroes now immersed in the rhythms of mystical music-making, as they navigate the mountainous terrain of this thing called life.
PRAISE FOR THE MOUNTAIN
“Epic… Gorillaz’s White Album” —NPR Music
“One of their best, as ambitious and absorbing as anything they’ve done since 2010’s Plastic Beach.” —FLOOD
“The Mountain stands as the most rewarding and substantive Gorillaz album in more than a decade.” —ROLLING STONE
About The Mountain The Mountain is Gorillaz’ ninth studio album, the first release on the band’s own new label KONG, an expansive sonic landscape of instruments and sounds, richly layered with voices, melodies and addictive beats, spanning a collection of 15 songs that embody the very essence of Gorillaz’ collaborative ethos. The record features an extraordinary list of artists and collaborators including: Ajay Prasanna, Amaan & Ayaan Ali Bangash, Anoushka Shankar, Asha Bhosle, Asha Puthli, Bizarrap, Black Thought, Gruff Rhys, IDLES, Jalen Ngonda, Johnny Marr, Kara Jackson, Omar Souleyman, Paul Simonon, Sparks, Trueno and Yasiin Bey; as well as the voices of friends and collaborators who have gone before us, including Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Dennis Hopper, Mark E Smith, Proof and Tony Allen. The Mountain is a playlist for a party on the border between this world and whatever happens next, exploring the journey of life and the thrill of existence.
Produced by Gorillaz, James Ford, Samuel Egglenton and Remi Kabaka Jr., plus Bizarrap (Orange County), The Mountain was recorded at Studio 13 in London and Devon, various locations in India including Mumbai, New Delhi, Rajasthan and Varanasi, as well as Ashgabat, Damascus, Los Angeles, Miami and New York. The album features artists performing in five languages: Arabic, English, Hindi, Spanish and Yoruba.
The Mountain – Album Tracklisting:
The Mountain (feat. Dennis Hopper, Ajay Prasanna, Anoushka Shankar, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash)
The Moon Cave (feat. Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda and Black Thought)
The Happy Dictator (feat. Sparks)
The Hardest Thing (feat. Tony Allen)
Orange County (feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar)
The God of Lying (feat. IDLES)
The Empty Dream Machine (feat. Black Thought, Johnny Marr and Anoushka Shankar)
The Manifesto (feat. Trueno and Proof)
The Plastic Guru (feat. Johnny Marr and Anoushka Shankar)
Delirium (feat. Mark E. Smith)
Damascus (feat. Omar Souleyman and Yasiin Bey)
The Shadowy Light (feat. Asha Bhosle, Gruff Rhys, Ajay Prasanna, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash)
Casablanca (feat. Paul Simonon and Johnny Marr)
The Sweet Prince (feat. Ajay Prasanna, Johnny Marr and Anoushka Shankar)
The Sad God (feat. Black Thought, Ajay Prasanna and Anoushka Shankar)
The Mountain is available in the following formats: Digital Download; Standard CD; Deluxe 2CD (incl. booklet and 4 brand new exclusive bonus tracks recorded during album sessions); Standard Vinyl; Hardback Book Vinyl Edition; Limited Edition Collectors Box (incl. Art Prints). Listen HERE.
About Gorillaz: Created by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, Gorillaz is singer 2D, bassist Murdoc Niccals, drummer Russel Hobbs and Japanese guitar prodigy Noodle. The BRIT and Grammy-winning virtual band formed following a collision of mishaps, meetings and pure luck to blow up a pre-digital world with their colourful backstory and ground-breaking virtual ways. Based at Kong Studios, Gorillaz settled into a life of musical innovation with an eye-wateringly exciting roster of collaborators, a list that includes musical legends, geniuses and future stars from Elton John to Little Simz, MF Doom to Jean-Michel Jarre, Grace Jones to slowthai, Kali Uchis to Sidiki Diabaté, plus so many more. With nine albums to their name, Gorillaz (2001), Demon Days (2005), Plastic Beach (2010), The Fall (2011), Humanz (2017), The Now Now (2018), Song Machine: Season One – Strange Timez (2020), Cracker Island (2023), and the newly released The Mountain, Gorillaz is a truly global phenomenon, achieving success in entirely new and unique ways, touring the world from San Diego to Syria, Montevideo to Manchester and winning numerous awards including the coveted Jim Henson Creativity Honor.
About KONG: KONG is Gorillaz’ own label. The band’s ninth studio album The Mountain is KONG’s first release, with global digital and physical distribution via The Orchard.
About THE LINE: THE LINE is a BAFTA nominated studio, founded byTim McCourt, Sam Taylor, Wesley Louis, James Duveen, Bjørn-Erik Aschim and Max Taylor – who describe their dynamic as “doing what we love with the best people we know”. This high end, hand drawn 2D animation studio has an impressive portfolio ranging from collaborations with Gorillaz to Marvel to Mercedes, and the studio has spent a decade creating captivating content. For more information on THE LINE visit www.thelinestudio.com. Subscribe to THE LINE on YouTube and follow @thelineanimation on Instagram, Facebook & TikTok and @thelinestudio on X.
Following months of relentless rumors and fever pitch speculation, it was announced today that Metallica will debut its Life Burns Faster residency at Sphere in Las Vegas. The highly-anticipated eight show run will take place on October 1 and 3, 15 and 17, 22 and 24, and 29 and 31, 2026 — and will continue the No Repeat Weekend tradition that began with the 2023 kick-off of the band’s M72 World Tour, with no songs repeated on each Thursday and Saturday throughout the course of the run.
Two-night No Repeat Weekend tickets and single-night tickets will go on sale March 6th at 10am PT. To register for tickets or for further information regarding pre-sales, enhanced experiences, travel packages and more, visit metallica.lnk.to/MetallicaSphere
Metallica’s standing at the vanguard of new and unique live experiences has seen the band play to millions of fans across all seven continents in every shape and size of venue imaginable. Their current M72 World Tour has played to more than 4 million fans from Europe and North America to the Pacific Rim and Middle East since its spring 2023 kick-off, its performances and production universally hailed as among the best of Metallica’s 40+ years of traversing the globe.
The band’s Sphere residency will see live staples and surprises spanning the Metallica catalog enhanced by the venue’s immersive technologies that will allow fans to experience the sound and fury of the band’s live performance in new experiential dimensions. Whether you’ve seen Metallica from the upper reaches of a stadium or arena, at an intimate club or theater gig or from the famed Snake Pit surrounded by the 360-degree M72 stage, Sphere’s technology, including the world’s highest resolution LED display that wraps up, over and around the audience; Sphere Immersive Sound, which delivers audio with unmatched clarity and precision to every guest; and multi-sensory 4D technology, will present a wholly unique and entirely new Metallica experience for all who attend — including James, Lars, Kirk and Robert.
Metallica co-founder/drummer Lars Ulrich commented, “About 12 seconds into the opening night of Sphere with U2 back in ‘23, I thought ‘We have to do this, it’s completely uncharted territory!’ This residency gives us another chance to reinvent how we interact with our fans in a live setting. We are beyond excited to share this with the world in six months time, and way fuckin’ psyched to go next level!”
Metallica Life Burns Faster at Sphere is produced by Live Nation and presented by inKind. inKind rewards diners with special offers and credit back when they use the app to pay at thousands of top-rated restaurants nationwide. inKind also provides innovative financing to participating restaurants in a way that enables new levels of sustainability and success. Metallica fans can learn more at inKind.com.
About Metallica Formed in 1981 by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich and including guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo, Metallica has become one of the most influential and successful rock bands in history, selling nearly 125 million albums worldwide and generating more than 25 billion streams while playing to millions of fans on all seven continents—more than 1.3 million of whom belong to the band’s fiercely loyal and consistently growing Fifth Member fan club. Metallica’s catalog of multi-platinum studio albums includes Kill ’Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, …And Justice for All, Metallica (commonly referred to as The Black Album), Load, ReLoad, St. Anger, Death Magnetic, Hardwired…To Self-Destruct, and most recently, the Grammy-winning 72 Seasons, released April 14, 2023, on the band’s own Blackened Recordings label. Metallica’s awards and accolades include nine Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, multiple MTV Video Music Awards, a 2009 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Sweden’s Polar Music Prize. In 2017, Metallica established its own charitable foundation, All Within My Hands, to give back to communities that have supported the band. To date, All Within My Hands’ collective efforts have raised over $29M to support its mission, and provided grants of $15.3M to career and technical education programs through its Metallica Scholars Initiative, $8.4M to combat food insecurity, and $5.6M to disaster relief and other critical local services worldwide. Visit AllWithinMyHands.org to learn more.
About Sphere Sphere is an experiential medium that is redefining the future of immersive experiences. Powered by advanced technologies that ignite the senses, Sphere is a venue where the foremost artists, creators, and technologists create extraordinary experiences that bring storytelling to a new level and transport audiences to places both real and imagined. The venue hosts original Sphere Experiences from leading Hollywood creatives; concerts and residencies from the world’s biggest artists; and premier brand events. The first Sphere opened in Las Vegas, with a second venue planned for Abu Dhabi. More information is available at thesphere.com.
North American Tour On Sale Friday, February 27th at 10am local time
Orange County’s finest are back with a vengeance: Social Distortion’s long-awaited eighth album, Born To Kill, will be released May 8, 2026 via Epitaph Records. To pre-order the album and/or hear the hard-charging title track that’s been lighting up crowds at the band’s shows for the last several months, go to https://socialdistortion.ffm.to/borntokill
Born To Kill is more than the conclusion to a 15-year wait between Social Distortion albums, it’s a revelation: 11 songs of pure, unadulterated rock ’n’ roll fury, joy and catharsis, all imbued with the signature blend of defiance and world-weariness that has made founder Mike Ness a poet and sage to the dispossessed for more than 40 years.
The first Social Distortion album since Ness’ recovery from a bout with cancer, Born To Kill brims with aggressive optimism. The album wastes no time letting the listener know where its heart is, with its title track and mission statement dropping nods to Lou Reed (“Rock ’n’ Roll Animal gonna come your way!”) and Iggy and the Stooges (“The agenda is yeah to Search and Destroy”) and an homage to David Bowie (“It’s a Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide”) following a few songs later on “Partners In Crime.” This is a man, a band, and a record that wear their influences proudly while creating timeless anthems and ballads that both chart Social Distortion’s path forward and celebrate its storied past: “Tonight” and “The Way Things Were” are emotionally charged reminiscences in the vein of classics like “Story of My Life” from the band’s eponymous 1990 breakthrough and “I Was Wrong” from 1996’s White Light, White Heat, White Trash, the latter containing a potent distillation of the Social D ethos: “I wrote a song with a stolen riff / If you ain’t got a song you ain’t got shit.”
Co-produced by Ness and Dave Sardy, and featuring guest appearances from Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Lucinda Williams and collaborative cover art by Ness and Shepard Fairey, Born To Kill is the latest installment in a remarkable catalog that spans nearly three generations, including Mommy’s Little Monster (1983), Prison Bound (1988), the RIAA gold-certified Social Distortion (1990) and Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell (1992), White Light, White Heat, White Trash (1996), Sex, Love and Rock ’n’ Roll (2004), and Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes (2011).
As announced yesterday, Social Distortion will support Born To Kill with an extensive North American tour. The tour kicks off August 25 in Phoenix and plays a total of 23 shows in 21 cities before concluding October 3 in San Diego. For support, tickets and further information, see below or go to https://www.socialdistortion.com/tours
SOCIAL DISTORTION North America Fall 2026
August 25 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre * August 28 – Austin, TX – Moody Amphitheater * August 29 – Dallas, TX – The Bomb Factory * August 31 – Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle * September 1 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy * September 3 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz * September 4 – Washington, DC – The Anthem * September 5 – Asbury Park, NJ – The Stone Pony Summer Stage * September 8 – Philadelphia, PA – The Met Philadelphia presented by Highmark * September 9 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner * September 11 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount * September 12 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount * September 14 – Toronto, ONT – HISTORY * September 17 – Detroit, MI – The Filmore Detroit * September 20 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory * September 22 – Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom * September 23 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Union Event Center * September 25 – Las Vegas, NV – The Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas * September 26 – Reno, NV – Grand Sierra Resort – Grand Theatre * September 2 -8 San Francisco, CA – The Masonic * October 1 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium # October 2 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium # October 3 – San Diego, CA – Gallagher Square at Petco Park *
# The Descendents support * The Descendents and The Chats support
Ten years ago, in a sharehouse on Chapel Street, four 20-year-olds with zero expectations wrote and recorded an EP in a single afternoon. Those six blistering minutes of music became Giddy Up. An hour later, Amyl and The Sniffers had a name, a Bandcamp upload, and the beginnings of a legacy.
Following a year of backyard gigs, playing for friends and partying across Melbourne’s sticky carpet music scene, the band released their iconic second EP Big Attraction in 2017. Now, to celebrate a decade of raw power and reckless spirit, Giddy Up/Big Attraction returns in a definitive 10th anniversary 12-inch vinyl edition — fully remastered for maximum punch. Featuring early classics like ‘I’m Not A Loser’ and ‘Stole My Pushbike’, plus enduring live favorites ‘Balaclava Lover Boogie’ and ‘Westgate’ this is the sound of Amyl and The Sniffers before the world caught up — feral, funny, and unstoppable.
The LP is housed in a gatefold sleeve showcasing Chris Sutherland’s iconic 2017 band photo, alongside an exclusive new essay from Amy Taylor and a heap of never-before-seen behind-the-scenes shots from the band’s earliest days by Jamie Wdziekonski.
As Amy recalls: “We recorded and wrote over the afternoon… we’d never played together before that day… it’s spontaneous, and fun and achievable in that time because to us it sounded more than good and we weren’t perfectionists and it didn’t matter.”
From DIY house shows in Melbourne to international stages, it all started here.
UPCOMING 2026 US/EU TOUR DATES
Jun 4, 2026 RBC Amphitheatre Toronto, ON Jun 5, 2026 Place Bell Montreal, QC Jun 6, 2026 The Governors Ball at Flushing Meadows Corona Park Queens Jun 8, 2026 Highmark Skyline Stage at the Mann Philadelphia, PA Jun 9, 2026 MGM Music Hall at Fenway Boston, MA Jun 10, 2026 The Anthem Washington, DC Jun 12, 2026 The Factory St. Louis, MO Jun 13, 2026 Bonnaroo Manchester, TN Jun 14, 2026 The Salt Shed – Fairgrounds Chicago, IL Jun 16, 2026 Astro Theater Omaha, NE Jun 17, 2026 Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison, CO Jun 20, 2026 Surly Brewing Festival Field Minneapolis, MN Aug 7, 2026 Hot in the City – Trieste Estate Trieste, Italy Aug 7, 2026 – Aug 9, 2026 OFF Festival Katowice, Poland Aug 8, 2026 SRC Salata Zagreb, Croatia Aug 12, 2026 – Aug 15, 2026 Øya Festival Oslo, Oslo Aug 12, 2026 – Aug 15, 2026 Paredes de Coura Festival Paredes, Portugal Aug 13, 2026 – Aug 15, 2026 Syd for Solen Festival Copenhagen Aug 16, 2026 Capitol Santiago de Compostela, Spain Aug 18, 2026 Razzmatazz Barcelona, Spain Aug 19, 2026 Razzmatazz Barcelona, Spain Aug 23, 2026 All Points East Festival London, England Aug 25, 2026 Collins Barracks Dublin, Ireland Aug 26, 2026 Collins Barracks Dublin, County Dublin Aug 29, 2026 Rock en Seine Paris, France
Amyl and The Sniffers – Giddy Up/Big Attraction LP out Friday, May 22nd via Virgin Music Group
Tracklist:
Side A (Giddy Up) 1. Pleasure Forever 2. Caltex Cowgirl 3. Mandalay 4. Stole My Pushbike
Side B (Big Attraction) 5. I’m Not A Loser 6. Blowjobs 7. Mole (Sniff Sniff) 8. Balaclava Lover Boogie 9. Westgate 10. 70’s Street Munchies
ABOUT AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS
In the ten years since Amyl and The Sniffers came together in Melbourne’s sticky pub-rock scene, Amyl and The Sniffers have become masters of balancing power and playfulness. With three critically acclaimed albums under their belt alongside numerous awards and accolades – 2019’s self-titled debut and 2021’s visceral Comfort To Me and 2024’s Cartoon Darkness – vocalist Amy Taylor, guitarist Declan Mehrtens, bassist Gus Romer and drummer Bryce Wilson have achieved something unique and remarkable. They are unmistakably “Aussie”, down-to-earth and true to their roots. They are also one of the most exciting young rock bands on the planet.
The band’s live audiences have grown even faster than their reputation, taking them around the world on sold-out tours several times over, playing ever-larger venues throughout Europe, North America and beyond, with recent shows stretching from Mexico to India to Japan. From grassroots clubs shows to major concert halls, the band has become a regular mainstage and headline feature of festivals including Primavera, Glastonbury, Coachella, Green Man, Osheaga, Outside Lands, Best Keep Secret, All Points East and dozens more; and been called up for European and US stadium supports with the likes of Green Day and Foo Fighters, and more recently opening for acts AC/DC, Turnstile, Fontaines D.C & Kneecap @ Finsbury Park. As a live act, the word is well and truly out: if you need a band to decimate a stage, you call Amyl and The Sniffers.
Since the release of Comfort to Me, the band has seen their horizons broaden exponentially in every way. And it’s this attitude – bigger, brighter, smarter, sharper – that fuelled their third album, Cartoon Darkness. Recorded with producer Nick Launay at Foo Fighters’ 606 Studios in Los Angeles, on the same desk that captured Nirvana’s Nevermind and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, the latest Amyl offering is full of surprises. Musically, Mehrtens, Romer and Wilson have written The Sniffers’ most diverse album yet. It stretches from classic punk to the glammy strut of recent single ‘U Should Not Be Doing That’ to the stormy balladry of ‘Big Dreams’ (which is a sonic gear shift worthy of the title).
The band have walked away since with a Grammy-nomination for ‘U Should Not Be Doing That’, and will kick off another huge US and EU tour run starting in June.
FOO FIGHTERS YOUR FAVORITE TOY NEW ALBUM OUT APRIL 24 FIRST SINGLE / TITLE TRACK OUT NOW
Listen to “Your Favorite Toy” HERE and Pre-Order the Album HERE
Try not to choke on the glitter…
“Your Favorite Toy,” the titular first single of Foo Fighters’ forthcoming 12th full-length studio album, has been released.
The first new FF music of 2026, “Your Favorite Toy” is nothing short of an insidious earworm. Jagged guitar shards and sinister keyboard stabs bob and weave atop a relentless rhythmic pulse, as Dave Grohl unleashes a newfound sardonic vocal tone on infectious choruses:
Get back Hear that, boy? Someone threw away your favorite toy for good For good
A perfect first taste and representation of the album of the same name, “Your Favorite Toy” sounds like nothing else in the band’s monolithic discography, while instantly and unmistakably identifiable as Foo Fighters.
Dave Grohl commented, “’Your Favorite Toy’ really was the key that unlocked the tone and energetic direction of the new album. We stumbled upon it after experimenting with different sounds and dynamics for over a year, and the day it took shape I knew that we had to follow its lead. It was the fuse to the powder keg of songs we wound up recording for this record. It feels new.”
Preceded by its title track and last year’s incendiary “Asking For A Friend,” Your Favorite Toy will be released April 24th via Roswell Records/RCA Records. Recorded at home, the album was co-produced by Foo Fighters and Oliver Roman, engineered by Oliver Roman and mixed by Mark “Spike” Stent, and consists of the following songs:
Caught In The Echo Of All People Window Your Favorite Toy If You Only Knew Spit Shine Unconditional Child Actor Amen, Caveman Asking For A Friend
Your Favorite Toy’s release heralds Foo Fighters’ massive Take Cover world tour, which kicks off June 10th at Unity Arena in Oslo, following a pair of US festival headlines at Welcome to Rockville and Bottlerock. For more information on the tour, go to https://foofighters.lnk.to/ShowsPR
Foo Fighters are Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear, Rami Jaffee and Ilan Rubin.
