ST. VINCENT AND MON LAFERTE

“TIEMPOS VIOLENTOS”

SINGLE OUT NOW

“I must have been dreaming… I fell down the well.”

That surreal refrain, whispered in the unmistakable voice of St. Vincent, embodies the tone for “Tiempos Violentos” – a striking reimagining of her song “Violent Times” now reinterpreted as a bilingual duet featuring Latin alternative powerhouse Mon Laferte.

Released May 23, “Tiempos Violentos (featuring Mon Laferte)” doesn’t just translate the original – it expands it. With Mon’s unmistakable emotional grit and St. Vincent’s sharp-edged lyricism in dialogue, the song becomes something new: a tense, hypnotic meditation on time, identity, and longing across two languages and two visions.

Says St. Vincent: “Collaborating with Mon gave the song new shape, new blood, new depth. Like a dream falling into another dream.”

Originally appearing on All Born Screaming – one of 2024’s most critically lauded albums – “Violent Times” took on a second life with Todos Nacen Gritando, the Spanish-language edition of the record. It was that version that caught Mon Laferte’s attention and ignited what would become one of the year’s most inspired cross-cultural pairings.

“When I first heard the Spanish version, I felt a deep pull,” Mon recalls. “It was beautiful and haunting. I wanted to give it my own voice, to make it mine too – and to do it alongside an artist I’ve long admired.”

And she does just that. In “Tiempos Violentos,” Mon delivers a stirring, intimate Spanish verse that reframes the song’s emotional arc from within, while St. Vincent’s English refrains echo like distant memories, creating a spectral call and response that’s as cinematic as it is raw.

“Tiempos Violentos” is much more than a remix. It’s a rare artistic exchange rooted in mutual admiration, two distinct artistic voices expanding their sonic worlds together. The result is refreshingly organic, soul-stirring and utterly unique.

ABOUT ST. VINCENT
St. Vincent (Annie Clark) is a six-time GRAMMY-winning musician, songwriter, and producer known for confounding expectations with every album. Her fearless and ongoing sonic and visual reinventions have continually reaffirmed her status one of the most innovative and influential artists in contemporary music, with acclaimed works including MASSEDUCTION, Daddy’s Home, and All Born Screaming.

ABOUT MON LAFERTE
Mon Laferte is a multi disciplinary audio-visual artist whose fearless songwriting, genre-defying catalog, and deeply emotional performances have earned her multiple Latin GRAMMYs and a devoted global following. Blending boleros, rock, folk, and protest music, her work stands at the intersection of tradition and rebellion – always with a voice that resonates far beyond borders.

GORILLAZ
ANNOUNCE A NEW EXHIBITION 
TO CELEBRATE 25 YEARS

HOUSE OF KONG

August 8th – September 3rd 2025
COPPER BOX, LONDON
Exhibition Tickets On Sale Now 
www.gorillaz.com/houseofkong

PLUS
FOUR VERY SPECIAL CELEBRATORY 
ONE-OFF LIVE GORILLAZ  SHOWS 
AT COPPER BOX ARENA, LONDON
August 29th – August 30th – September 2nd – September 3rd

DETAILS COMING SOON!

WATCH EXHIBITION TRAILER HERE

This summer, the iconic gates of Kong – the fabled home of Gorillaz – will open for the very first time when a celebratory new exhibition House of Kong comes to London’s Copper Box for a limited run from August 8th to September 3rd 2025. Exhibition tickets are on sale now. 

Visitors to House of Kong will take a jaunt behind the curtain of Gorillaz’ extraordinary world. A journey through the band’s life of misadventures, musical innovation and ground-breaking virtual ways since these four outsiders – bassist Murdoc Niccals, singer 2D, drummer Russel Hobbs and guitarist Noodle – first came together to blow up a pre-digital world with the release of “Tomorrow Comes Today” in 2000. An exhibition like no other, House of Kong is an experience for the brave and bold. 

Watch exhibition trailer here.

Today’s announcement comes with even more exciting news for fans. House of Kong exhibition ticket holders will have exclusive presale access to four very special standalone one-off limited-capacity live Gorillaz shows at Copper Box Arena taking place on August 29th, August 30th, and September 2nd and 3rd. More details on the shows will be announced very soon. 

House of Kong will be open from 10:30 am to 10pm daily, from August 8th to September 3rd 2025.

House of Kong exhibition tickets are priced from £25 and are on sale now. 

For tickets, information and FAQs, visit: www.gorillaz.com/houseofkong

About Gorillaz:

Created by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, singer 2D, bassist Murdoc Niccals, drummer Russel Hobbs and Japanese guitar prodigy Noodle, Gorillaz were formed following a collision of mishaps, meetings and pure luck to seize the title of biggest virtual band in the world with the release of their eponymous debut album Gorillaz in 2001. Based at Kong Studios in West London, the band settled into a life of musical innovation with an extraordinary 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 Bad Bunny, Kali Uchis to Sidiki Diabaté, plus so many more. Gorillaz is a truly global phenomenon, achieving success in entirely new and unique ways, touring the world and winning numerous awards including the coveted Jim Henson Creativity Honor, along the way. The band is recognised by The Guinness Book Of World Records as the planet’s Most Successful Virtual Act

The band has released eight studio albums: 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).

www.gorillaz.com

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE: 
ALIVE IN THE CATACOMBS 
TO BE UNEARTHED JUNE 5

Photo credit: Andreas Neumann

“If you’re ever going to be haunted, surrounded by several million dead people is the place. I’ve never felt so welcome in my life.” —Joshua Homme  

http://qotsa.com/

Queens of the Stone Age will unveil the cinematic realization of a dream with the June 5 premiere of Alive in the Catacombs, an audiovisual document of the band’s long-rumored performance in the tunnels of the famed Catacombs of Paris.

Filmed and recorded in July 2024, Queens of the Stone Age: Alive in the Catacombs captures QOTSA as you’ve never seen or heard them before. This utterly unique once in a lifetime experience features a carefully selected setlist spanning the QOTSA catalog, each song chosen and epically reimagined for the Catacombs. The result is an unprecedented incarnation of QOTSA at their most intimate, yet surrounded by literally millions of human remains—“the biggest audience we’ve ever played for,” says Joshua Homme. 

The Catacombs of Paris is a sprawling 320km (200 miles) ossuary beneath the surface of Paris. With a foundation of several million bodies buried in the 1700s, skeletal remains are largely exposed, with much of the walls built of skulls and bones. 

Homme had dreamt of staging a QOTSA performance in the Catacombs since his first visit nearly 20 years ago. The city of Paris, however, had never granted permission to any artist to play within the sacred tunnels. QOTSA, being law-abiding citizens, waited until their vision was sanctioned. 

Hélène Furminieux (Les Catacombes de Paris) said: 

“The Catacombs of Paris are a fertile ground for the imagination. It is important to us that artists take hold of this universe and offer a sensitive interpretation of it. Going underground and confronting reflections on death can be a deeply intense experience. Josh seems to have felt in his body and soul the full potential of this place. The recordings resonate perfectly with the mystery, history, and a certain introspection, notably perceptible in the subtle use of the silence within the Catacombs.”

Every aesthetic decision, every choice of song, every configuration of instruments…  absolutely everything was planned and played with deference to the Catacombs—from the acoustics and ambient sounds — dripping water, echoes and natural resonance — to the darkly atmospheric lighting tones that enhance the music. Far from the sound-insulated confines of the studio or the comfort of onstage monitors, Alive in the Catacombs sees the band not only rise to this challenge, but embrace it. 

Homme recalls, “We’re so stripped down because that place is so stripped down, which makes the music so stripped down, which makes the words so stripped down… It would be ridiculous to try to rock there. All those decisions were made by that space. That space dictates everything, it’s in charge. You do what you’re told when you’re in there.”

The result is QOTSA distilled down to their most elemental form—Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore augmented by a three-piece string section, employing chains and chopsticks as makeshift percussion instruments.  Alive in the Catacombs is Queens of the Stone Age stripped to their barest essence by necessity (you can’t call it “unplugged” if there are no actual electrical outlets to plug into), McGyver-ing a car battery to power an electric piano. And unfiltered, as every song was recorded live in a complete take with no overdubs or edits. 

Words fail to convey the magnificence of Queens of the Stone Age: Alive in the Catacombs. Its truly stunning balance of subtlety and grandeur must be experienced to be appreciated. The beauty is in the struggle (both internal and external). This is Joshua Homme at his most physically vulnerable yet ultimately his most triumphant.

Queens of the Stone Age: Alive in the Catacombs was produced by La Blogothèque and directed by Thomas Rames, and is being released by Queens of the Stone Age and Matador Records. The film will be available to rent or purchase via qotsa.com where pre-orders are currently available. Fans who purchase Alive In the Catacombs by June 7th will receive exclusive access to behind the scenes footage in addition to full streaming and download access. An audio only version will be announced in the coming weeks. 

Trailer Available HERE

To learn more about the Catacombs of Paris visit: https://www.catacombes.paris.fr/en

RILO KILEY ADDS SIX NEW DATES TO THE SOMETIMES WHEN YOU’RE ON YOU’RE REALLY F**KING ON TOUR

LOS ANGELES, BERKELEY, SAN DIEGO AND MORE CONFIRMED

TICKETS ON SALE MAY 16th

WATCH THE BAND PERFORM “SILVER LINING” ON JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE

THAT’S HOW WE CHOOSE TO REMEMBER IT OUT NOW VIA SADDLE CREEK

“Rilo Kiley Sound Better Than Ever” –– ROLLING STONE

“One of the defining Los Angeles rock bands of the last quarter-century…Rilo Kiley played with more muscle and panache than it needed to on Saturday in an hour-long set that showcased the band’s impressive versatility.” — LOS ANGELES TIMES

“…the biggest moment of the day…Very good things happened at Just Like Heaven as Rilo Kiley roared back to life on Saturday…feels like the comeback could be just as good, if not better, than the first time around.” — OC REGISTER

Fresh off their triumphant performance at Just Like Heaven Music Festival and the release of That’s How We Choose To Remember It ––a  band-curated, career-spanning collection of songs released May 9th via Saddle Creek––Rilo Kiley is pleased to announce a new round of dates just added to the highly anticipated Sometimes When You’re On You’re Really F***king On Tour.

These latest additions include stops in Asbury Park, NJ (The Stone Pony), Port Chester, NY (Capitol Theatre), Northampton, MA (The Pines Theater), Berkeley, CA (The Greek Theatre), San Diego, CA (Gallagher Square), and Los Angeles, CA (The Greek Theatre).

Tickets go on sale this Friday, May 16th, at 10am local time…grab them HERE  and be sure not to miss this once-in-a-lifetime experience live, described by Rolling Stone as “magic and energy was palpable throughout the evening…It was chill-inducing to hear those opening notes in total darkness as they entered the stage, ready to start this new era.” 

Additionally, the band has added special guests throughout the tour including Waxahatchee, The Faint, Dean Johnson, Natalie Bergman, Benjamin Gibbard and more. See below for further details and the full tour itinerary.

Rilo Kiley recently made a show-stopping appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as they performed a “faithful and jubilant” (CONSEQUENCE) rendition of “Silver Lining”, with Stereogum praising the band as: “total pros, as if they haven’t been apart for the better part of two decades…sharp and clean…This looks like a band that’s in it for the long haul.”  Watch “Silver Lining” HERE.

And ICYMI, the band had the great pleasure of speaking with The New York Times about their grand return…read all about it HERE.

WHEN YOU’RE ON YOU’RE REALLY F**KING ON TOUR DATES

New dates in bold

5/12/25 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren *sold out
5/14/25 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre ^
5/16/25 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Block Party
5/17/25 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall *sold out !
5/19/25 – Jackson, WY – Center for the Arts *sold out !
5/21/25 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom *sold out !
5/23/25 – Forest Grove, OR – McMenamins Grand Lodge *sold out !
5/24/25 – Seattle, WA – Chateau Ste. Michelle *sold out !
8/30/25 – Asbury Park, NJ – The Stone Pony &
8/31/25 – Port Chester, NY – The Capitol Theatre &
9/01/25 – Northampton, MA – The Pines Theater &
9/03/25 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall *sold out &
9/04/25 – Philadelphia, PA – The Met Philadelphia *sold out &
9/05/25 – New York, NY – The Rooftop at Pier 17 *sold out &
9/07/25 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway *sold out &
9/08/25 – New York, NY – SummerStage @ Central Park *sold out “
9/10/25 – Washington, DC – The Anthem “
9/11/25 – Pittsburgh, PA – Roxian Theatre *sold out “
9/13/25 – Louisville, KY – Bourbon & Beyond
9/14/25 – Grand Rapids, MI – Meijer Gardens Summer Series *sold out “
9/16/25 – Saint Paul, MN – Palace Theatre *sold out “
9/17/25 – La Vista, NE – The Astro “
9/19/25 – Chicago, IL – Riot Fest 2025
9/21/25 – St. Augustine, FL – Sing Out Loud Festival
9/23/25 – Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle %
9/24/25 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater + 
9/26/25 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern *sold out  %
9/27/25 – Asheville, NC – Asheville Yards %
9/28/25 – Birmingham, AL – Avondale Brewing Company %
10/10/25 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Music Festival
10/10-12/25 – Las Vegas, NV – Best Friends Forever 2025
10/16/25 – Berkeley, CA – The Greek Theatre #
10/17/25 – San Diego, CA – Gallagher Square #
10/18/25 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre #

^ w/ Ben Gibbard
! w/ Morgan Nagler
& w/ Natalie Bergman
“ w/ Dean Johnson
% w/ The Faint
+ w/ The Mountain Goats
# w/ Waxahatchee

CYPRESS HILL
with the
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

BLACK SUNDAY 
LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL
Live Album / Home Video Out June 6

Third Advance Track Out Now
“(Rock) Superstar”

Pre-Order / Pre-Save HERE

Cypress Hill has unveiled “(Rock) Superstar (Live at the Royal Albert Hall),” the third and final track to be released in advance of the eagerly anticipated Black Sunday Live at the Royal Albert Hall, a full length live album and concert video immortalizing the hip hop icons’ now legendary collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra-to be released June 6 via Mercury Studios, and available for pre-order now at https://mercury-studios.lnk.to/CypressHillLSO.

Cypress Hill and the London Symphony Orchestra: Black Sunday Live at the Royal Albert Hall will be released on multiple physical and digital formats, with physical formats including DVD+2CD, Blu-ray+2CD, limited edition 2CD, 180g Half-Speed Mastered black vinyl, 180g Half-Speed Mastered Gold colored vinyl (limited edition D2C exclusive available for all territories), and limited edition cassette. Fans watching the film on Blu-ray can experience the concert in Dolby Atmos audio, offering a sonic experience that puts the viewer right in the Royal Albert Hall.

Cypress Hill and the London Symphony Orchestra: Black Sunday Live at the Royal Albert Hall brings the unprecedented collision of the trio’s 1993 masterpiece with one of the world’s most renowned orchestral ensembles to the eyes and ears of music lovers everywhere. A historic spectacle previously witnessed only by the thousands of Cypress devotees who packed Royal Albert Hall on July 10, 2024, the live album and feature-length video release of Black Sunday Live at the Royal Albert Hall will allow the world at large to witness the intoxicating dark magic conjured when Cypress Hill and the 70-strong LSO bring this multi-platinum opus to life together-an unforgettable audiovisual experience that has already elicited critical raves including:

“It’s an astonishing version of an already acclaimed album. B-Real and Sen Dog jam at the front of the stage, while DJ Lord rips away at his turntable and Bobo beats up on the drums. At the orchestra’s front is Troy Miller, who commands his musicians like an army… it’s a testimony to Cypress Hill’s ever-alluring sound.” – The Los Angeles Times

“A blistering, badass collaboration that’s no joke… CH’s reefer-drenched repertoire is not only elevated to a higher level by the LSO, it’s reworked, recharged and reimagined without losing its edge” – Los Angeles Magazine

The tracklist for Cypress Hill and the London Symphony Orchestra: Black Sunday Live at the Royal Albert Hall is as follows (all formats):

I Wanna Get High
I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That
Insane in the Brain
When the Shit Goes Down
Lick a Shot
Cock the Hammer
Interlude
3 Lil’ Putos
Legalize It
Hits From the Bong
What Go Around Come Around, Kid
A to the K
Hand on the Glock
Break ’em off Some
Dr. Greenthumb
Illusions
Money
Cuban Necktie
How I Could Just Kill a Man
(Rock) Superstar

GHOST

SKELETÁ

#1 ON THE BILLBOARD 200
First Hard Rock Album to Top the Chart in More Than Four Years 

Transcending genre and defying trends, GHOST’s SKELETÁ has debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. The #1 album in the country, SKELETÁ accrued sales of 86,000 in the week since its April 25 release via Loma Vista Recordings.

Currently the world’s biggest-selling album and the week’s lone Top 10 debut, SKELETÁ’s first week haul bests the nearly 70,000 moved by its predecessor IMPERA in its first week of release. SKELETÁ also landed at #1 on the U.S. Album, Vinyl Album, Indie Store Album, Independent Album, Rock Album, Rock and Alternative Album, and Hard Rock Album charts. Internationally, the album bowed at #1 in the GRAMMY-winning theatrical rock outfit’s native Sweden as well as Germany, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Finland, #2 in the UK, Netherlands and Norway, #4 in France and #6 in Ireland, among others.    

In addition to being the first time a hard rock album has topped the Billboard 200 since 2020, SKELETÁ has racked up the biggest sales week for a rock, hard rock or alternative album in 2025—as well as the biggest vinyl sales week for any hard rock LP since the dawn of the Luminate era in 1991 and the most for any rock album since 2023.

The coming of SKELETÁ was heralded by three singles/videos that trended Top 10 on YouTube, as GHOST garnered #1 spots on Tik Tok’s #NewMusic, iTunes and Amazon’s Best Sellers. First up was “Satanized”—dubbed a “catchy goth-rock epic” by VICE, followed by the  “Lachryma”—a fixture on Spotify’s Viral Charts, both globally and in key territories like the US, UK, Germany, and more deemed “economical, vicious, and contemporary, but tinged by ‘80s rhapsody” by PASTE and “phantasmagoric” by REVOLVER, and “Peacefield,” the monolithic anthem opening both the new record and GHOST’s massive live rituals on its current SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025. 

Featuring the flesh and bone debut of frontman Papa V Perpetua and having sold half a million tickets and counting, the SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025 kicks off a North American swing that will begin July 9 in Baltimore and include GHOST’s historic first-ever headlining show at New York’s Madison Square Garden on July 22. With more shows to be announced soon, the SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025 ritual experience promises to expand the GHOST community to attract its largest and most diverse audiences to date. From lifelong disciples to the curious uninitiated first-timers to the outcasts and others who find solace in the ritual, all are welcome to escape the travails of daily life and to become one with the enthralling GHOST ritual. Tune into the band’s own GTV for exclusive coverage of all things GHOST and SKELETOUR, as host Vanessa Warwick welcomes any and all to join the Ghoulbangers’ Ball for in-depth and behind the scenes coverage available only HERE.

LIVERIGHT/W. W. NORTON UNVEILS COVER AND FURTHER DETAILS FOR UPCOMING RELEASE OF NEW BOOK

WINGS: The Story of a Band on the Run

By Paul McCartney

Edited and with an Introduction by Ted Widmer

A landmark account of Paul McCartney’s triumphant musical reinvention in the 1970s and the subsequent rise of one of the decade’s most iconic bands—told by Paul and the people who were there.

Publishing November 4, 2025

A unique oral history.

“Suddenly Wings has found its moment. We have a generational shift at work, and it’s like being transported back on a magic carpet. Working on the book has awakened so many beautiful memories of our times back then.”
– Paul McCartney, from the foreword of WINGS: The Story of a Band on the Run

One of music’s greatest adventures told by a cast of incredible characters who were there, including: Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Mary McCartney, Stella McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, George Martin, Sean Ono Lennon, Chrissie Hynde, Dustin Hoffman, Twiggy and all the members of Wings—Denny Seiwell, Henry McCullough, Jimmy McCulloch, Geoff Britton, Joe English, Steve Holley and Laurence Juber.

This remarkable cast tells the story of a band who made history—selling over 22 million albums worldwide, spawning singles including #1 hits “My Love,” “Band on the Run,” “Listen to What the Man Said,” “Silly Love Songs,” “Let ‘Em In,” and “With a Little Luck,” and an Oscar nomination for “Live and Let Die” (the first James Bond theme to receive that nod). A band who pushed the boundaries in both the studio and in live performances, from their first university tour through to pioneering large scale concerts, long before stadiums and arenas were commonly used for rock shows. 

The book includes a foreword written by Paul McCartney and is compiled from over 42 hours of brand-new interviews, plus historical interviews, and newly discovered, previously unheard interviews from Paul’s personal archive. WINGS: The Story of a Band on the Run features over 150 photographs capturing Wings throughout the years—many previously unseen—and shot by an array of photographers including Linda McCartney, Mike McCartney, Clive Arrowsmith, Henry Diltz, Robert Ellis and Paul himself. The book also includes memorabilia, including some of Paul’s diary page entries from the time and handwritten lyrics.

WINGS: The Story of a Band on the Run is an international story that moves through space as well as time, including adventures in Scotland, New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Nashville, Lagos, Japan, the Virgin Islands, Morocco, Montserrat and other memorable places, against the backdrop of political and social timelines of the 1970s.

Notes to the editor

Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run by Paul McCartney, edited by Ted Widmer 
Publishing Tuesday November 4, 2025 in hardback and e-book 

Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company

Hardback ISBN: 9781324-096306; $45; 528 pages 

About the author and editor 

Born in Liverpool in 1942, Paul McCartney was raised in the city and educated at the Liverpool Institute. Since writing his first song at 14, McCartney has dreamed and dared to be different. He lives in England. 

Ted Widmer is a prize-winning historian, a former White House speechwriter, and a lifelong music fan. His most recent book is Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington. 

For US publicity inquiries:
Steve Martin at steve@nastylittleman.com
Peter Miller at pmiller@wwnorton.com

Downloads of the book cover and other related digital assets can be retrieved at: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/wydsxe49erus4tgpbi4e9/AP9Rnb9cWSLkcyhsfD_pDiI?rlkey=a62qgj9136z051ofeim61a5y2&e=2&dl=0

METALLICA 
LOAD (REMASTERED) 
LIMITED EDITION DELUXE BOX SET OUT JUNE 13

FEATURING PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MATERIAL INCLUDING DEMOS, ROUGH MIXES, VIDEO, LIVE RECORDINGS & MORE

PRE-ORDERS LIVE NOW AT https://www.metallica.com/store/load-remastered/

“Until It Sleeps (Remastered)” Lyric Video Live Now

Metallica has announced the definitive re-release of the band’s 5x platinum sixth studio album Load, out June 13 via the band’s own Blackened Recordings.
 
Remastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering with Greg Fidelman overseeing, the Load Remastered Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set is available now for pre-order at https://www.metallica.com/store/load-remastered/ where full package details and track listings can be viewed. Pre-orders of the Deluxe Box will receive instant grat tracks “Until It Sleeps (Remastered),” “Until It Sleeps (Herman Melville Mix),” “F.O.B.D. (“Until It Sleeps” Rough Chorus Vocal Idea Mix),” and “Until It Sleeps (Live at Slim’s, San Francisco, CA – June 10th, 1996).”
 
Load (Remastered) will be released in formats including standard 180g 2LP, CD, cassette and digital (including a Spatial Audio mix using Atmos). Standard pre-orders receive “Until It Sleeps (Remastered)” IG, Expanded Edition pre-orders receive “Until It Sleeps (Remastered)” and “F.O.B.D. (“Until It Sleeps” Rough Chorus Vocal Idea Mix)” IGs. The 2LP, 3CD Expanded and Deluxe digital versions for the first time ever feature the extended version of “The Outlaw Torn,” originally edited for release due to time constraints of the CD format.
 
The Load Remastered Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set is an ambitious and comprehensive time capsule of 1995-97 era Metallica, jam-packed with exclusives including previously unreleased demos, rough mixes, live performances, on-air and television appearances, and much more. The one-time pressing will include the remastered Load album on 180g double vinyl, a “Mama Said” picture disc, and Loadapalooza ’96, a 140G triple album recorded live during Metallica’s Lollapalooza headlining run at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre on August 4, 1996. The set’s 15 CDs range from the remastered Load album to never-before-released collected riffs, demos and rough mixes, B-Sides and rarities, and a wealth of live material, while its 4 DVDs offer a plethora of behind the scenes, in-studio and live footage, on-air and television appearances, the band’s Polar Beach Party visit to Tuktoyaktuk, Canada, and more. Rounding out the box’s content are memorabilia including a pack of 14 Rorschach Test cards, a Pushead patch, an 11×17 Lollapalooza poster, an Rolling Stone cover reproduction, a 5-pack of guitar/bass picks, lyric sheets, two laminated tour passes and a deluxe 128-page book.
 
Originally released June 4, 1996, Load was the second Metallica album to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200, where it would remain for four straight weeks. The 1995 sessions at The Plant in Sausalito CA that resulted in Load (as well as 1997’s ReLoad) would find James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Jason Newsted creating yet another landmark of the Metallica catalog. Currently, two of Load‘s four singles—“Until It Sleeps” and “King Nothing”—have been lighting up crowds the world over in regular rotation on the setlists of the band’s M72 World Tour. 

ARCADE FIRE
“PINK ELEPHANT”
TITLE TRACK & VISUALIZER OUT NOW
NEW ALBUM OUT MAY 9

APPEARING MAY 10 ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

Arcade Fire has unveiled “Pink Elephant,” the title track of the band’s forthcoming seventh studio album, out May 9, 2025 via Columbia Records. Available now across all digital platforms and accompanied by a visualizer that can be seen HERE, “Pink Elephant” is the second brand new song to be made available from the album of the same name, following the “thrumming bass line and anthemic glimmers” (BILLBOARD) of “Year of the Snake.”

Arcade Fire will appear May 10 on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. Taking place the day after Pink Elephant’s arrival, the performance will mark the band’s sixth time as musical guest. 

The term “pink elephant” refers to that paradoxical effect where the effort to suppress a thought leads to it being impossible to avoid— as exemplified in the song “Pink Elephant” by the impassioned futility of the repeated refrain of “Take your mind off me.”

The first full-length collection of new Arcade Fire music since 2022’s GRAMMY-nominated international #1 album WE, Pink Elephant is comprised of 10 new tracks of cinematic mystical punk clocking in at 42 minutes. Pink Elephant is produced by Win Butler, Régine Chassagne and Daniel Lanois and was recorded at Win and Régine’s own Good News Recording Studio in New Orleans.

When experienced in its entirety, Pink Elephant invites the listener on a sonic odyssey – a quest for life – that exists within the perception of the individual, a meditation on both darkness and light, the beauty within. The layers of this condensed epic unfold to reveal new dimensions with each successive listen.

In the lead-up to Pink Elephant’s release, Arcade Fire has embarked on a limited series of special gigs in select cities — including tonight at New Orleans’ Saenger Theater and London’s Royal Albert Hall on 14th May — performing the upcoming new album in its entirety. Visit Arcade Fire site and socials for more information on these intimate sold out shows, or alternatively download the Circle of Trust app – a resource for Arcade Fire news, music, videos, early access to tickets, exclusive merch, and episodes of Santa Pirata Radio, where the band speak directly to fans and offer personal insights and behind the scenes info on all things Arcade Fire.

The Circle of Trust app can be downloaded HERE

Pink Elephant will be available in multiple formats. Pre-Order HERE

Photo Credit: Danny Clinch

GHOST

SKELETÁ

NEW ALBUM OUT NOW

“Peacefield” New Single Live Now

Following what seemed an interminable wait to its global legion of fans, GHOST’s excruciatingly anticipated new album, SKELETÁ, is at long last out today, April 25, via Loma Vista Recordings.

The lead up to SKELETÁ’s full release has been punctuated by a cavalcade of world-spanning events that have only elevated the fervor of the album’s exuberant welcome. This week alone witnessed the unveiling of the recorded version of “Peacefield,” the monolithic anthem opening both the new record and the sold-out arena performances comprising the first leg of the SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025. The faithful also assembled in full regalia for SKELETÁ-Eve Midnight Sales celebrating the arrival of the band’s sixth psalm at close to 150 record stores around the globe. With demand for the midnight mass events far exceeding the number of suitable physical locations, GHOST’s added live-streamed SKELETÁ Rockin’ Eve event took the invocation of the new offering to devotees in all corners of the world, ensuring that not a single fan was left out of the festivities. 

The coming of SKELETÁ was previously heralded by first single “Satanized”—dubbed a “catchy goth-rock epic” by VICE—and the rapturously received “Lachryma”—deemed “economical, vicious, and contemporary, but tinged by ‘80s rhapsody” by PASTE and “phantasmagoric” by REVOLVER. Both advance tracks have remained perched atop streaming music and video charts, thanks to GHOST’s singularly passionate following that includes more than 10 million combined Spotify monthly listeners and YouTube subscribers.

As if all of the above was not enough, GHOST’s blockbuster SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025 opened to overwhelmingly ecstatic critical and popular reception from the moment the first notes of “Peacefield” filled the AO Arena in Manchester UK with deafening applause on the tour’s April 15 opening night. Featuring the flesh and bone debut of frontman Papa V Perpetua, the SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025 is the most staggeringly ambitious incarnation of the GHOST live ritual to date. Having completed a string of sold out arena shows across the UK, the tour is currently making its way through the European territories, presaging a North American campaign that will begin July 9 in Baltimore and include GHOST’s historic first-ever headlining show at New York’s hallowed Madison Square Garden on July 22. With more shows to be announced soon, the SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025 ritual experience promises to expand the GHOST community to attract its largest and most diverse audiences to date. From lifelong disciples to the curious uninitiated first-timers to the outcasts and others who find solace in the ritual, all are welcome to escape the travails of daily life and to become one with the enthralling spectacle hailed by KERRANG on opening night in Manchester as “bones and wings and sparkling and bedazzled macabre glory… f***ing brilliant.”

The tour’s kick-off also marked the world premiere of GTV, the new channel dedicated to exclusive coverage of all things GHOST and SKELETOUR. Join host Vanessa Warwick as she welcomes any and all to join the Ghoulbangers’ Ball for in-depth and behind the scenes coverage available only HERE