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Smashing Pumpkins Kick Off Mellon Collie Tour with 32-Song Set Including Deep Cuts: Photos, Video + Setlist

The setlist included 16 songs from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Smashing Pumpkins Kick Off Mellon Collie Tour with 32-Song Set Including Deep Cuts: Photos, Video + Setlist Spencer Kaufman

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Kylie Minogue’s ‘Fever’ at 25

A look at the 2001 electro-pop album that cemented the Aussie’s remarkable Y2K renaissance.

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New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2026

A regularly updated guide to the new albums, EPs, mixtapes, and projects getting released in the coming weeks and months

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🎧 Approved: PROJECTOR

With Brighton quartet PROJECTOR industrial drum machines, angular post-punk and rant-pop share the same space. New track ‘I Need A Lie Down’ was designed to “make people feel sick and culminate in a horrific wall of noise” when played live, which sounds horrible but (at least on record) sounds great

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Smashing Pumpkins Kick Off Mellon Collie Tour with 32-Song Set Including Deep Cuts: Photos, Video + Setlist

The setlist included 16 songs from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Smashing Pumpkins Kick Off Mellon Collie Tour with 32-Song Set Including Deep Cuts: Photos, Video + Setlist Spencer Kaufman

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Carly Rae Jepsen Announces 2027 North American Tour

Jepsen's next run of shows in the US and Canada arrive in support of her new album, Day + Night. Carly Rae Jepsen Announces 2027 North American Tour Paolo Ragusa

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Linking songs to recordings is music data’s ‘single biggest unsolved problem.’ Expect it to come up at DDEX’s Meta-backed summit next month.

Mark Isherwood, who heads DDEX's Secretariat, explains his views on music data – and where we're headed Source

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AFEM Report: Building Audiences Post-Algorithm

Long‑form content is becoming a more sustainable way to build audiences in a post‑social era. This episode shares what’s working now: formats that retain attention, platforms that reward depth, and th

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Enter Shikari Announce Indefinite Hiatus

The band have teased "new music" and shows to come, before they "fall dormant as a recording and performing entity"

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Kylie Minogue’s ‘Fever’ at 25: Songs Ranked Worst to Best

A look at the 2001 electro-pop album that cemented the Aussie’s remarkable Y2K renaissance.

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The MusicRadar gear roundup Sep 2026 edit, featuring fresh drops from Taylor, Yamaha, ESP and more

This month's highlights include sumptuous 12-fretters from Taylor, Cesar Gueikian's Gibson DES range, a tremolo-equipped Strandberg Boden Essential and more

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Enter Shikari to go on indefinite hiatus at end of 2027

The band have teased "new music" and shows to come, before they "fall dormant as a recording and performing entity"

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Watch HALIENE perform her entire album under Ibiza’s first total solar eclipse in more than a century

Most artists would settle for a good venue. HALIENE got a total solar eclipse. On August 12, HALIENE and her husband and longtime production partner Matthew Steeper performed her second… The post Watch HALIENE perform her entire album under Ibiza’s first total solar eclipse in more than a century ap

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Positive Grid announces Sparktober sale

The Positive Grid Sparktober sale offers sizable discounts on the Spark Neo Core and Spark Cab

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Bono asked Ed Sheeran to keep politics out of their collaboration

The Rock Hall of Famer said he didn't want to "personalize" the recent fallout between Sheeran and Macklemore over the rapper's pro-Palestine statements.

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BeatStars’ new feature tracks credits and splits as songs are made

With shonky metadata and unagreed splits an enduring problem for the music industry, attention has turned in recent times to recording information from the earliest parts of the songwriting and recording processes. The post is from Music Ally.

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Resident Evil Film Soundtrack to be Released on Vinyl

The 1LP release features music from Hays and Ryan Holladay

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‘Resident Evil’ film soundtrack coming to bloody red vinyl

The 1LP release features music from Hays and Ryan Holladay

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Global Music Publishing Revenues Increased by 9.6% in 2025

2025 was a bumper year for the music-publishing sector according to Midia Research’s latest report, tracking growth of 9.6%. The post is from Music Ally.

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Spotify Sees Rise in Shared Listening and Chart Placements in India During Festive Season

September typically heralds the start of the festive season in India. The last four months of the year are when major Hindu religious festivals such as Ganesh Chaturthi, Navratri, Durga […] The post i