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Sick New World Fest Reborn In Vegas, Fort Worth
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Sick New World Fest Reborn In Vegas, Fort Worth

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After taking 2025 off due to issues related to its lineup, the hard rock festival extravaganza Sick New World will be back with two editions next year. The first will be held at the event’s customary home of Las Vegas Festival Grounds on April 25, while an inaugural Texas version is set for Oct. 24 at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth.

System of a Down will top the bill in both cities. Other acts appearing at one or both stops are Deftones, Korn, Slayer (performing Reign in Blood), Bring Me the Horizon, Evanescence, the Prodigy, Knocked Loose, AFI, Mastodon, Ministry, Power Trip, Failure, Filter, Melvins, Acid Bath, Danny Elfman, KMFDM, Coal Chamber and Clutch.

Since launching in 2023, Sick New World has hosted some of the only System of a Down performances in the past five years and has elevated both new and cult classic acts in the hard rock genre. “I had more fun there than I had on many, many other tours, and that’s why we’re doing it again,” frontman Serj Tankian told SPIN after the inaugural edition. “It was a blast. We rehearsed just enough to know our chops and then the rest, who the fuck knows? Let’s see what happens on stage.”

Click here for full lineups and ticket on-sale details.

Sick New World was set to return to Las Vegas this April with Metallica and Linkin Park, but the event was scrapped in December 2024 due to “unforeseen circumstances” that promoter Live Nation was “unable to overcome.” According to HITS Daily Double, the event ran into trouble in part due to its former booker, Jeffrey Shuman, overpaying for talent, with the two headliners allegedly pocketing $5 million each.

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The Dodos’ Meric Long Announces Solo Album, Shares New Song: Listen
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The Dodos’ Meric Long Announces Solo Album, Shares New Song: Listen

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Two decades after co-founding the Dodos with drummer Logan Kroeber, singer and guitarist Meric Long will release his first solo album under his own name. The record, Kablooey, is out this Friday, October 24, via Polyvinyl. Below, listen to the new album’s lead single, “A Small Act of Defiance.”

Long worked on Kablooey in between shifts as an in-house engineer at John Vanderslice’s Oakland, California, recording studio, Tiny Telephone. “This album was really meant to be fun and not too purposeful,” Long shared. “I put a lot into it as one would expect, but I really just wanted to make something that was fun and allowed me to follow my more ‘amped-up kid in a candy store’ impulses.”

Kablooey follows the Dodos’ 2021 album, Grizzly Peak. It also follows Long’s true solo debut, a 2018 album called Barton’s Den that he released under the moniker Fan.

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Kablooey:

01 Split Decision
02 Exit Forward
03 A Small Act of Defiance
04 Maybe I Forgot
05 1+1
06 Closer
07 Rinse and Repeat
08 Is This It
09 Slowburn

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"It's not political – it's human"
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It’s not political – it’s human

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Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows has defended the video message he recorded for two Israeli hostages after their release.

  • Read More: Avenged Sevenfold on dividing fans: “Being willing to risk everything is the most liberating thing”

The singer recorded a message for Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal, with the latter being a diehard fan of the band and saying that their music helped him get through his time in captivity.

In the message, he said that was “so excited to hear you are home,” adding: “The things you guys have been through are unspeakable, terrible.”

Gilboa-Dalal said: “Yesterday we listened to their songs. It was overwhelming. It was so much better than imagining it for two years. It felt like my soul had left my body. I’m not even joking. I can’t believe he made this video.”

He and David are two of the remaining living hostages released by Hamas earlier this month after spending over two years in captivity in Gaza, while Israel has freed almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees (per BBC News) following a deal brokered by the US.

Shadows’ decision to send the message proved divisive – some fans have praised it while others have accused the band of not being vocal about Palestine – but he has explained to Rolling Stone that it wasn’t a political one.

The singer, who revealed that the band lost two “friends” when Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, said: “It’s not something that I’m going to worry about; I know that it’s the right thing to do. I think you have to stick to your moral compass, but I’ve definitely heard it from both sides.

“To me, that video is just a human doing something for another human. It’s not making a political stance. It’s not sticking it in someone’s eye. It really is about two human beings that have been through hell. And if we can’t agree on that, it’s really hard to agree on anything.”

He continued: “We’ve done things for a lot of different people across different cultures and different religions. And at the end of the day, if they’re fans, we really want to reach out and we want to support them in some sort of way. And so it just seems unfair — [this idea that] ‘if you’re not on my side, then you’re an enemy.’ It’s really kind of gross.”

Avenged Sevenfold has a sizable fanbase in Israel, and they’ve played there in the past, and Shadows said about David and Gilboa-Dalal: “I’ve not heard from them yet. But I’m sure we will play over there and do something for them.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Shadows said that he respected Disturbed frontman David Draiman, who has been vocally pro-Israel and signed an Israeli Defence Forces artillery shell last year.

Earlier this month, a Disturbed show was cancelled in Belgium following threats of protests outside the venue, and Shadows said of Draiman: “I really respect David, not just for where he stands, but that he believes in something and he’s full-force into it.”

Avenged Sevenfold, meanwhile, had to postpone their Latin American tour dates, scheduled to begin last month, due to an vocal injury to Shadows. The dates are rescheduled for January 2026.

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Reba McEntire Teases Retirement 'Could be in 20 Years'
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Reba McEntire Teases Retirement ‘Could be in 20 Years’

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“I think I’ll know when it’s time,” the tireless country legend said in a new interview

Reba McEntire celebrated her 70th birthday back in March, an age when many people may be thinking about retiring, but the country music and TV great still thinks she’s got another couple of decades left before retirement. 

When asked when she might retire in a new interview with People, McEntire replied frankly, “I don’t know when. It could be in 20 years.” (That would put McEntire at the ripe age of 90.) She added: “I think I’ll know when it’s time.”

McEntire went on to recall how she and Dolly Parton talked “an awful lot” about retirement way back in the early 2000s, when Parton was a guest star on McEntire’s hit sitcom, Reba. “I said, ‘Are you going to retire?,’” McEntire remembered. “[Parton] said, ‘Why would I? What in the world could I do and have as much fun as what I’m doing in this job right now?’ I agree with her a hundred percent. Slow down, maybe, but no plans of retiring.”

McEntire is, of course, as busy as ever. She’s currently doing her fourth stint as a coach on The Voice, which is in the middle of its 28th season. And the second season of her new sitcom, Happy’s Place, is about to launch its second season Nov. 7 on NBC. 

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“I love this chapter in my life. I’m very grateful,” McEntire told People.

Back in May, McEntire was also enlisted to host the 60th Academy of Country Music Awards, marking her 18th time at the helm of the awards show institution. To open the big anniversary show, McEntire performed a decade-spanning medley, saluting one Song of the Year winner from each of the last six decades.

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Ice Cube Responds to Criticism of His New Song 'Act My Age'
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Ice Cube Responds to Criticism of His New Song ‘Act My Age’

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Ice Cube took some time to fire back at a critic of his new song, “Act My Age,” and said the troll should get a sense of humor.

Cube dropped off the music video for his “Act My Age” song with Scarface on Oct. 15, and one viral post on X noted that the track is “a prime example of why, as a rapper, you just gotta know when it’s time to hang the mic up.”

“I would never listen to you and hang up my mic,” Cube wrote in response on Monday (Oct. 20). “You’ve obviously lost your sense of humor. You need to go find it and stay out of my business.”

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The song actually deals with this very topic, with Cube saying at the beginning of the track: “If you’re over 35 and still rapping, keep rapping, my boy. F—k all of that, ‘Oh, I’m getting old’ s—t. No, we need y’all, we need y’all to save music. We need the real lyricists back.”

The song originally appeared on Cube’s latest album, Man Up, which dropped on Sept. 12.

“I’ve always stood on speaking truth to power and making music that reflects reality,” Cube said in a statement. “Man Up is about accountability, resilience and reminding people where the real problems come from. Hip-hop didn’t create the struggle — it gave us the language to call it out.”

Billboard had previously talked with Cube in 2024, when he teased Man Up and said he was inspired by America’s alleged softness. “It’s about men not accepting nonsense and speaking up, and not just taking a backseat, letting other people take the lead,” he said at the time. “We gotta take the lead.”


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Shiner 2025
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Shiner’s Allen Epley Discusses Balancing Life and Art » PopMatters

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There is the cliche of the starving artist, and then there is the cliche of the rock star life after making it big, selling out arenas, and living the cliche of the rock star life. However, without the space between, music would be a whole lot less exciting, and that is the space Shiner occupy: four friends who make music together because they want to, not because they have to. Lead singer Allen Epley sees some advantages to the life of a working artist.

“For a lot of people, it’s a combination of a day job and making money with art. It’s a great feeling not to be burdened by having to make music to survive. I can make some money from music, but not fully make a living,” he shares. Some people try to make a living by music alone, trying to write scores, teaching, or other ways, but that can make it so much less enjoyable.”

Shiner are a group of working musicians who all have music careers in addition to playing in the band. Paul Malinowski is a sought-after mixer and recording engineer. Josh Newton is a guitar technician with Kings of Leon and Fall Out Boy, who has also worked with the Breeders and Band of Horses. Additionally, drummer Jason Gerkin also plays in Hum.

Epley just completed a 14-year run with the Blue Man Group live show in Chicago. “As soon as we announced the closing, the remaining shows sold out. We should have dragged it out longer like KISS does,” he jokes. “It was a unicorn gig for a musician. It’s not like we were doing Hamilton. It was a constantly evolving piece, so every show was different. It was a special thing to be a part of, and it was very good for me.”

However, it wasn’t always like that for Epley. “At one point, I told my therapist that I felt like a failure, working on Blue Man. I felt like I should be something else,” he says.

Epley turned this anxiety into something positive, creating the podcast Third Gear Scratch, where he interviews other artists who make a living at their day job so they can pursue their art. Through interviews with guests, he addresses the question many working artists have had to answer: How can I support myself while pursuing my passion? It’s a must-listen for anyone balancing the need to pay the bills with creating art, whether as a musician or not.

“I came up with the idea for the podcast through those conversations with my therapist. So many artists feel like, ‘What the fuck am I doing with my life?’ Everyone feels it sometimes, but talking to all these artists and finding out how they make it work was such a burden lifter. I credit a lot of my rehabilitation to working on the podcast,” Epley beams.

Right now, though, everyone in Shiner is focused on their recently released BELIEVEYOUME, which is another stellar release, sure to please longtime fans and likely to convert some new ones. It is their most direct and accessible collection yet, instantly gratifying, yet also filled with depth. “There are a lot of brilliant bands who stay in a lane, but that’s never been us. If we had written a big hit, I bet we would have hewn a little closer to a playbook, but that’s not me,” he explains.

The title may be an old-fashioned colloquialism, but Epley sees it in a slightly different light. “We stylized the name as we did to give it a fresh spin. It signifies believing in ourselves and believing in each other, whether that is the band or other relationships,” he explains.

The group’s mix of melodic, heavy rock with a touch of shoegaze has won them a devoted following that is a diverse lot. In an environment where algorithms guide listeners to new music, a band like Shiner, which draws from a diverse range of influences, can appeal to a wide variety of music fans. Spartan Records’ reissue of their catalog has helped them reach a whole new audience, too.

“Our crowd is all over the map, and we love that. We went a long way to keep ourselves out of a specific movement, possibly to our detriment, but the people who are into our band are into a wide range of other bands. We like to joke about lining up a group of fans based on their band tees to show the range of taste in the crowd,” Epley jokes.

Living through the major label gold rush of the 1990s without signing turned out to be great for Shiner, despite the expectations that hung heavy for indie bands during that decade. The group have been playing music together on and off for 25 years, and things are better than ever between them.

“Back in the day, we used to fight a lot,” Epley recalls. “There was that sense of the clock ticking, since lots of our friends had signed to major labels. We were surrounded by the idea that it was only a matter of time before we got signed. We were always waiting for that big payday back then. We thought we’d have a big tour, but we never got there.

“But it was a blessing in disguise, though,” they continue. “I am so glad we didn’t go through that experience. If we do have a point of contention now, we handle it more healthily. We are older and wiser, and we are doing this for the purest reasons. Really, it’s just amazing to have a group of men to have close friendships with. Plenty of guys don’t get that opportunity.”

Shiner records are always a team effort, and BELIEVEYOUME was even more collaborative than their other releases. “Even the idea of putting the opening track where it is. I would have put that as track one, side two, but Jason wanted to be more involved in the decision-making, and he insisted that ‘Asleep in the Trunk’ is the opening track,” Epley shares.

Epley credits their methods with the resulting songs. As you might expect, with a band of working musicians, there is a balance of making space for creativity and a regimented commitment to the process that goes into making a Shiner record.

“Everything we do is organic. We go with what we are feeling. I am the seed writer. I plan some writing sessions so we can have things to work on when we are together. I brought my usual Chavez-inspired music. Someone has to do it,” he laughs.

For Shiner, the time spent together in the room working on songs is critical to the process. “Lots of bands are skipping the step of being in the space together. They work remotely, and they all start to sound the same. Most of us live far apart, so it could have made sense to do the record remotely, but we committed to working together. I wrote on my guitar and kept it raw, then digitized and sent it to the band,” he shares.

BELIEVEYOUME was recorded at Malinowski’s studio, and while not every group has that type of luxury, it streamlined the process, allowing them to complete the record even more efficiently than usual. The band held a series of four-day sessions for writing and recording, which were critical to shaping the record.

“Paul and Jason had everything set up and ready to go, so we were able to think about this like we were just making the record, not just making demos. What you hear on the record all happened right there in those sessions,” he says.

His work on a solo album also shifted his approach to lyrics. “On previous Shiner records, I was writing these murky metaphors that didn’t always translate. When I did my solo record, it was a breakthrough for me for writing in a direct style. It really allowed me to focus on how to write lyrics. Usually, those come last. We get the music, and then I try to come up with something that works syllabically. But this one is primed to connect with people, musically and lyrically,” he says.

“Some people have lyric books, but I listen to the song on the drive and I let the song speak to me,” he continues. “The melody line hits, and then the lyric will fall out and present itself. One of the first things I heard was “I keep thinking that we’re still in love”. A lot of my work is historical fiction, using people and places but creating an extension of those. I try not to fight it when the line presents itself.”

Epley typically finds the common threads after writing. “I’m able to psychoanalyze myself after the record,” he jokes. “Some of the themes here are damage and escaping damage, long-term relationships. I’ve been married for 25 years. You’re never coasting, even though I know we aren’t planning on going anywhere. I still take care of myself because I want to do that for her.”

Epley loves that Shiner is now at a point where they have a multigenerational fan base, too. Epley smiles when he finds YouTube videos of younger musicians covering Shiner songs. “It’s important to me to reach younger people with our band. I am also a substitute guitarist for Sunny Day Real Estate, and those rooms are filled with younger people and older people, and kids with their parents. It’s great to see bands having that kind of reach.”

Next up is a tour to support BELIEVEYOUME, and the band is ready to play these exciting, dynamic new songs for their longtime and new fans.

“We have won the battle, making a record we love. We love playing packed-out rooms with people singing the words back to us. We aren’t putting undue expectations on what we do. It would be cool if we got picked to open a big tour, but we are in this to make ourselves happy, and if we are doing it for any other reason, it’s the wrong reason. I am too old to be fucking around with trying to figure out what an audience wants and not thinking about what would make me happy. Now we just want people to get to hear the record and to play it live for them,” he says.

“Anyone who wants to come along for the ride, please do. It’ll be a great time.”

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More Details Emerge on Limp Bizkit Bassist Sam Rivers' Death
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More Details Emerge on Limp Bizkit Bassist Sam Rivers’ Death

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More details are surfaced regarding the death of Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers. Meanwhile, the band has vowed to carry on with its upcoming tour.

TMZ has reported that authorities in St. Johns County, Florida, responded to a call this past Saturday, October 18th, for a “nonresponsive person in cardiac arrest.” The St. Johns County Sheriff’s office has not yet determined a cause of death, but deputies noted that their response was part of an “attended death” call, meaning that the deceased individual had been battling a serious or life-threatening illness with death as an expected outcome.

The new details shed light on the state of Rivers health when he passed. The 48-year-old bassist had recently been seen wearing a “Fuck Cancer” shirt while performing onstage, leading fans to speculate that he had been battling the disease. Limp Bizkit bandmate DJ Lethal also posted a photo of Rivers performing in the T-shirt with the hashtag #fuckcancer following Rivers’ passing.

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Several years ago, Rivers underwent a liver transplant after suffering from liver disease due to excessive drinking. In Jon Wiederhorn’s 2020 book Raising Hell (Backstage Tales From the Lives of Metal Legends), Rivers recounted, “It got so bad I had to go to UCLA Hospital and the doctor said, ‘If you don’t stop, you’re going to die. And right now, you’re looking like you need a new liver.’ I fought liver disease for a couple years and it won. I had to get a liver transplant in 2017.”

As for Limp Bizkit, the band appears to be carrying on with its upcoming concert dates — a Latin American run with Yungblud, 311, and more that kicks off November 29th at the Explanada del Estadio Banorte in Mexico City. The promoter of that show broke the news in a statement on Monday (via The PRP), revealing that “Limp Bizkit has decided to continue with its performance on November 29th,” implying that the nu-metal vets will complete the seven-show jaunt as planned.

Limp Bizkit announced the death of Rivers on October 18th. Frontman Fred Durst later posted an emotional tribute video, stating, “It’s so tragic that he’s not here right now, and I’ve gone through gallons and gallons of tears since yesterday, and I’m thinking, ‘Sam’s a legend.’”

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Live’s Best Moments from the Summer Unity Tour
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Live’s Best Moments from the Summer Unity Tour

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Live and Collective Soul both made massive hits in the 1990s, but it’s in the 21st century that the two veteran alternative bands have become a successful package deal on the road, first co-headlining a tour in 2008 and then reuniting this year for the Summer Unity Tour. The two bands played 30 dates from coast to coast throughout July and August, with openers Our Lady Peace and Greylin James Rue. 

The tour wrapped up a few weeks ago with a date in Grantville, Pennsylvania, just an hour from York, where Ed Kowalczyk became Live’s lead singer over 40 years ago. Before Live heads back out to play shows in Michigan and Ohio this month, SPIN reached Kowalczyk via email to find out about some of his favorite memories from spending the summer of 2025 on the road. “There were so many highlights and nights to remember on our tour with Collective Soul,” Kowalczyk says. “I felt so energized and inspired the whole time; morning, noon and night for eight weeks straight. The rapport and the vibes backstage were so chill between the crew and bands.” 

1. Biking and flying a drone in Nashville

Kowalczyk was impressed by the site of Live and Collective Soul’s Nashville show on August 10th, the FirstBank Amphitheater, which reminded him of Colorado’s most famous music venue. “The venue in Tennessee was dug out of a quarry; it has a super surreal Red Rocks vibe at night,” he says. “I flew my drone around there and got some incredible footage. It was a great summer and we got very lucky with the weather which meant we could all be outside at the venues riding electric bikes and taking it all in.” 

2. The fans who brought the whole family

“I have to say, the best part of the whole experience for me was seeing the new generation of young fans every night,” says Kowalczyk, who left Live in 2009 and rejoined the band in 2014, finding that many of the band’s original fans now have kids that they bring to the shows. “I met so many people who introduced me to their kids and said, ‘This is so-and-so’s first concert, and it had to be Live.’ It was such an emotional jubilee every night, its hard to put into words.”

3. The grub in Missouri

One of the things about touring life that many musicians relish is the chance to sample cuisine around the country, and Kowalczyk fondly remembers the food and the wine in St. Louis the week that the band played the Thunder Ridge Nature Arena in nearby Ridgedale, Missouri. “My favorite dining experience was at the Capital Grille in St. Louis on a day off. It was directly across the street from the hotel, so I popped over by myself and settled in,” he says. “My first course was a huge plate of Utz style potato chips with a bowl of gourmet chip dip and a blob of caviar on top; I inhaled it and washed it, and 3 dozen oysters, down with an entire bottle of Whispering Angel Rose…I walked out at 4pm.  Best meal and most rock-starrish day drinking day I had on the tour; unforgettable.” 

4. Embracing the Texas roots of Live’s current lineup

Kowalczyk is the only remaining member of Live’s original Pennsylvania-based lineup, and all of his bandmates are now Texans: keyboardist Nick Jay, guitarist Zak Loy, bassist Chris Heerlein, and drummer Johnny Radelat. That made the tour’s string of August dates in Irving, Houston, and Austin into a special occasion for Live.  “All of the Texas shows were bananas and it felt like the band really reconnected deeply there,” Kowalczyk says. 

Live will continue performing across North America well into 2026, including a tour of Canada with Big Wreck that begins in February. Links to tickets for all shows can be found at https://livetheband.com

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Anna Calvi and Perfume Genius Cover Bonnie Prince Billy’s “I See A Darkness”: Watch the Video
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Anna Calvi and Perfume Genius Cover Bonnie Prince Billy’s “I See A Darkness”: Watch the Video

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Anna Calvi has enlisted Perfume Genius for a cover of the Bonnie Prince Billy classic “I See A Darkness.” The song accompanies the recent launch of Calvi’s new Substack, Carving Silver in Strange Weather, a home for unreleased songs, playlists, and writings on music. Watch the cover’s Alexander Brown–directed video, about two friends on a night out in London, below.

Calvi says in a press release, “So many songs are about romantic love. But I wanted to highlight the romance of the chosen family, the depth of connection that isn’t tethered to heteronormative ideals. It’s such a powerful song about the yearning for intimacy. I love inhabiting other people’s songs. When I sing someone else’s words, I feel like I’m getting closer to myself somehow, because the songs I choose express something I can’t articulate.”

Calvi’s recent work includes scores for the final two seasons of Peaky Blinders, released in 2023. Her last albums were 2018’s Hunter and its guest-assisted companion LP Hunted. Perfume Genius release Glory this year.

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Dave adds extra London and Manchester dates to 2026 UK 'The Boy Who Played The Harp' arena tour
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Dave adds extra London and Manchester dates to 2026 UK ‘The Boy Who Played The Harp’ arena tour

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Dave has added more dates in London and Manchester to his 2026 tour. Check out the details below.

Earlier this month the Brixton-born, Streatham-raised rapper shared details of a new tour kicking off in 2026. The run of arena dates come in celebration of his new album, ‘The Boy Who Played The Harp’, and are set to kick off in Munich on February 2.

Now, due to huge demand, he had added more UK shows to the itinerary. These include extra dates at The O2 in London on March 10 and 11, and another show at the Co-op Live in Manchester on March 17.

These add onto the two previously announced shows at the London arena taking place on March 6 and 7, and to the already confirmed Manchester date on March 16.

Tickets for all dates, including newly shared shows, go on general sale at 9am local time on Thursday (October 23). Visit here to buy tickets and find an updated list of shows below.

Dave’s 2026 tour dates are:

FEBRUARY 2026
2 – Munich, Germany – Olympiahalle
4 – Paris, France – Accor Arena
6 – Brussels, Belgium – ING Arena
8 – Dusseldorf, Germany – PSD Bank Dome
10 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome
13 – Berlin, Germany – Uber Arena
15 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena
17 – Stockholm, Sweden – Avicii Arena

MARCH 2026
2 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena
4 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro
6 – London, UK – The O2
7 – London, UK – The O2
10 – London, UK – The O2 [NEW]
11– London, UK – The O2 [NEW]
13 – Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena
16 – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live
17 – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live [NEW]

Dave announced details of his new album earlier this month (October 1), with the record set to arrive this Friday (October 24). You can pre-order it here.

It follows on from his back-to-back Number One albums, ‘Psychodrama’, which was released in 2019, and ‘We’re All Alone In This Together’, which came out in 2021.

The latter featured James Blake and Stormzy, and was given five stars in a review from NME.

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“As illustrated throughout the stunning ‘Psychodrama’, Dave has always been the one to rap traditionally, using hip-hop for what it was intended to do: give a voice to the voiceless,” it read. “He has always been able to show the inner-workings of many young Londoners in a clean and universal way that can perhaps help the whole world to better understand the Black British experience, especially that of Black men.

“Always ready to tell the hard truths for those who can’t, Dave has proved again that he’s a voice of a generation, sitting pretty atop his peers when it comes to making unforgettable London rap classics.”

That record debuted at the top spot in the charts with over 74,000 chart sales – making it the highest opening week of 2021, and the chart’s biggest opening week since November 2019.

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