MEMORIALS @ The Pearl Friday May 8th 2026 (Vancouver)

All photos taken in Vancouver by BEV DAVIES

HOLY FUCK @ The Pearl Friday May 8th 2026 (Vancouver)

All photos taken in Vancouver by BEV DAVIES

Lykke Li Releases Sixth and Final Album "The Afterparty" Out Today

LYKKE LI RELEASES SIXTH AND FINAL STUDIO ALBUM THE AFTERPARTY — OUT NOW

LISTEN | WATCH “HAPPY NOW” LISTEN THE AFTERPARTY (ALBUM) Not Gon Cry Happy Now Lucky Again Famous Last Words Future Fear So Happy I Could Die Sick Of Love Knife In The Heart Euphoria Today, Lykke Li unveils THE AFTERPARTY, her sixth and final studio album and a stunning, 24-minute dusk-to-dawn odyssey that distills the chaos of the human experience into something euphoric and confrontational. Written in Los Angeles and recorded in Stockholm with a 17-piece string section, multiple drummers, and a full chorus of voices, the album is her most sonically expansive to date, disco-glowing, gospel-bright, and Balearic in spirit, while lyrically plunging into shame, revenge, mortality, and the void. “This is an album dealing with your lower self,” Li explains. “Your need for revenge, your shame, despair… a journey through the night, hoping to find dawn—the dawn of yourself.” Across a career that has quietly but definitively reshaped the emotional language of modern pop, from her breakthrough debut Youth Novels to the global, generation-defining success of “I Follow Rivers,” and the stark intimacy of Wounded Rhymes, I Never Learn, So Sad So Sexy, and EYEEYE, Lykke Li has built a reputation as one of music’s most devoted melancholics, a master at navigating the space where love, loss, and longing collide. With THE AFTERPARTY, she moves beyond heartbreak and into something more existential, trading romantic fantasy for what she calls “Ram Dass for fuckboys”: a spiritual reckoning filtered through ego and chaos. The album unfolds as a single continuous scene, the afterparty itself. It’s 4am. The music is still playing. The bodies are still moving. But beneath the surface, something is shifting. Opening moments feel cinematic and expansive, introducing a world suspended between life and death, where swelling choruses clash against percussion. From there, Li moves fluidly between emotional extremes. Songs that shimmer where ABBA-esque stacked harmonies suddenly rupture into raw, unfiltered rage, anger pushed into the void, only to echo back in cycles of destruction and rebirth. Elsewhere, cascading disco strings and relentless, maximalist arrangements create a sense of lift, of survival as spectacle, before collapsing inward again into moments of stark intimacy: a single voice and a a slightly detuned piano. Visually and conceptually, THE AFTERPARTY marks a new chapter for Li. On the album artwork, she appears as a warped, Cindy Sherman-esque figure—her face distorted, her identity unstable, her role somewhere between performer and fool. It’s a deliberate rejection of perfection, an embrace of the grotesque and the embarrassing as pathways to truth. “Especially in pop music, no one really talks about this,” she says. “It’s too disgusting and vulnerable and embarrassing. This passing of time. Having had something and lost it.” And yet, even in its darkest moments, the album pulses with life.  THE AFTERPARTY is not just an album about the night. It’s about what comes after: the comedown, the reckoning, the fragile, flickering possibility of becoming something new. THE AFTERPARTY is out now. Listen HERE 2026 TOUR DATES 05/22 - Vivo Rio - Rio de Janeiro 05/24 - C6 Festival - São Paulo 06/10 - Malahide Castle - Dublin, Ireland* 06/11 - Koko - London 06/19 - Metronome Festival - Prague 06/22 - Odeon of Herodes - Athens ,Greece 06/28 - Live is Live Festival - Belgium 07/02 - Roskilde Festival - Denmark 07/05 - Finsbury Park - London^ 07/10 - Pohoda Festival - Slovakia 08/14 - Way Out West Festival - Sweden 08/16 - Flow Festival - Finland 08/22 - Pstereo Festival - Trondheim, Norway 08/27 - Rock en Seine Festival - Paris 08/31 - Superbloom Festival - Munich Germany 09/19 - Palacio de los Deportes – Mexico City, MX** *w/ Nick Cave ^ w/ Wolf Alice ** w/ Robyn

The Afterparty -  Track List Not Gon Cry Happy Now Lucky Again Famous Last Words Future Fear So Happy I Could Die Sick Of Love Knife In The Heart Euphoria Album artwork HERE Press shot HERE photo credit: Chloé Le Drezen

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WIRE pinkflag news - 08.05.26 - Read & Burn 03 PLUS

Read & Burn 03 PLUS – PF16LP / PF16PLUSCD / PF16D

LP
Side One
23 Years Too Late – alternate intro (9:46) // Our Time (4:33) // No Warning Given (5:26)
Side Two
Desert Diving (5:31) // Our Time (original mix) (4:23) // Desert Diving (alt mix) (5:32) // Dip Flash (7:20)
 
CD / digital
23 Years Too Late – original intro (9:44) // Our Time (4:33) // No Warning Given (5:26) // Desert Diving (5:31) // 23 Years Too Late (24 Years Later Edit) (3:17) // Our Time (original mix) (4:23) // Desert Diving (alt mix) (5:32) // Dip Flash (7:20)

Deconstructing the narrative whilst remaining two steps ahead, Wire are both the mavericks and yet the outer limits of a certain kind of pop. Their endless reinvention and longevity underlines their innovation and yet only Wire can revisit their own past and make it still sound like a future shock.

For Record Store Day, they curated their own museum and revisited 2007’s Read and Burn 03, the third EP in a series started in 2002 – the first two instalments of which had been partly compiled onto the Send album (2003) and later released on the PF456 Deluxe vinyl/book collection (2021).

The album, now entitled Read & Burn 03+, which has not been properly released on vinyl before now, is also distinguished as the last non-historic release by the original Wire lineup of Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Bruce Gilbert and Robert Grey. This 2026 version brings the original four tracks and adds three more.

Releases like this used to be the core of the Record Store Day experience: deep cuts, curveballs and chances to release lesser-known moments in catalogues. Wire’s music defines this hidden gem collector’s cut status with its timelessness. And each Wire release from whichever period somehow still sounds like ‘the now’ because the band always seemed to create in an everlasting present, with this EP being the last hurrah from the original lineup – the ultimate art-rock fab 4.

One of the more overlooked moments in the band’s career, Read & Burn 03+ is a timely reminder of the riches to be found in Wire’s deep cuts. In 2007, the band were already thirty years into their creative adventure and had taken full advantage of carving out their own space for a creative freedom and playful deconstruction of their own sound.

Read & Burn 03+ is both memory and a future nostalgia and a constant template of what can be done with rock music – and is now almost a decade later than 23 years too late…

JOHN ROBB MCR 2026

Read John’s full text and check out Colin’s essay, Some Words about 23 Years Too Late.

Wire in 2003, photographed by Alex Vanhee in Antwerpen during the tour for which they were 23 years too late.

Annie DiRusso Announces Tour Dates Supporting Hayley Williams In Latin America

ANNIE DIRUSSO ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES SUPPORTING HAYLEY WILLIAMS IN LATIN AMERICA DELUXE VERSION OF HER CELEBRATED DEBUT ALBUM SUPER PEDESTRIAN OUT NOW

Annie DiRusso recently joined Hayley Williams in Nashville to perform her song “Wearing Pants Again” and this week DiRusso announces tour dates opening for Williams in Latin America in cities including Bogotá, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Mexico City and more (full dates below). DiRusso shared about these dates, “opening for hero of all time Hayley Williams in Latin America this November… can’t believe it. Means more than can I say right now. First time playing all of these cities - I can’t wait <3” Tickets for these dates will go on sale here on Thursday May 14th at 10am Local Time.   Recently, Annie DiRusso released Super Pedestrian (Deluxe), an expanded edition of her celebrated debut album which NPR Music called “an awesome debut full length…it’s fantastic start to finish” and Paper Magazine hailed as a “brilliant, visceral and vulnerable first album.” The album includes four new songs, “Muck” – which gave Annie her highest first day streaming ever upon release, and videos using the song totaled over 5M views— “Rotting Ripe,” “Hudson Line,” and “Back In Town – (Stripped With Samia).” DiRusso says of her debut, “a lot of the album is about this push and pull of acceptance and resistance. It's me learning to surrender and about not being in the passenger seat of your own life (even though I never officially got my driver’s license). I feel like a much more balanced, fully formed version of myself," DiRusso says. "I'm so excited to just show people where I'm at and how I'm feeling. I want this album to show people it's okay to have fun."  Super Pedestrian (Deluxe) is available on all formats here. Annie DiRusso recently shared her performance on NPR Music’s Tiny Desk. NPR Music says of her debut album, “Super Pedestrian, an album crammed full of funny, charismatic, bittersweet pop-rock songs about doomed Gen-Z romance and the joy of movies, sports, and other distractions from… well, doomed Gen-Z romance. Whether or not 2025 ever gave you the exact song of the summer you craved, DiRusso gave some of us our album of the summer.” DiRusso performed her songs “Back in Town,” “Hybrid,” “Legs,” “Coming Soon,” and “It's Good to Be Hot in the Summer,” and watch her Tiny Desk performance here. Super Pedestrian, produced by Caleb Wright (Hippocampus, Samia) follows DiRusso’s critically acclaimed EP God, I Hate This Place, and two straight years on the road, a surreal adventure that involved two sold out headlining tours, opening for Haim and beabadoobee, and debuting her EP on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Prior to this album, DiRusso was touring songs she originally wrote as a teenager and over time, felt like she was playing a past version of herself onstage. "I totally lost touch with my taste in a lot of ways," she reveals. So when the tour ended, DiRusso began "Party July." She moved to a new apartment in East Nashville and made herself available for all the friend hangouts, wine nights, and dance parties she'd missed while on the road. This era of joyful abandon and radical openness suffuses the new album, and the party-stoic mindset unlocked something in her. By the end of Party July, she already had three new songs including her first single. "Legs” is a sexy summer anthem, born from a wine-fueled dinner party and a casual "I don't give a shit if we fuck" proclamation. "I Am the Deer,” another Party July track, is what happens when you surrender to hooking up with someone you shouldn’t and "Wet" is DiRusso trying not to drown in her feelings, but when she fails and the dam breaks loose on the chorus, she sounds more alive than ever. "Hungry" raised the emotional stakes. "That was written during 'Angry October,'" DiRusso says. The song is about the power dynamics between a predator and victim, she said, reflecting on her past experience in an abusive relationship and with sexual assault, and how naturally it felt to turn the blame on herself. It filled her with rage. The song's chorus echoes advice from her mother, a domestic violence prosecutor: "Nothing makes someone a victim other than their proximity to a predator. If you were in a cave with a hungry bear, it's going to eat you." DiRusso's craft also evolved during this period. She dabbled in alternate guitar tunings on "Ovid" and "Back in Town," and read straight from her journal to Nashville singer-songwriter and producer Ruston Kelly, for whom she had previously opened. "I was just sitting there with him, reading lines from my journal, and he was like, 'yep, yep, yep,' and then we would kind of shape it," she explained. This is how the striking rocker, "Wearing Pants Again," took such vivid form, and showcases DiRusso's ability to channel impossible-to-articulate sentiments and craft them into songs that feel universal, despite their deeply personal confessions. Annie DiRusso Tour Dates May 23                      Shadow of the City with Bleachers           Asbury Park, NJ Aug 28- 29                South Sound Block Party                            Olympia, WA Nov 6                          Movistar Arena                                             Bogotá, Colombia* Nov 10                       Qualistage                                                     Rio de Janeiro, Brazil* Nov 12                       Espaço Unimed                                            São Paulo, Brazil* Nov 13                       Espaço Unimed                                            São Paulo, Brazil* Nov 15                       PARQUE SARMIENTO                               Buenos Aires, Argentina* Nov 18                       Movistar Arena                                             Santiago, Chile* Nov 20                       Costa 21                                                        San Miguel, Peru* Nov 23                       Auditorio Nacional                                        Mexico City, Mexico* Nov 27                       Coca-Cola Music Hall                                  San Juan, Puerto Rico* *Supporting Hayley Williams

SOCIAL DISTORTION “The Way Things Were” Third Advance Track From Born To Kill Available Now

SOCIAL DISTORTION
“The Way Things Were”
Third Advance Track From Born To Kill Available Now

New Album Out May 8th on Epitaph Records

Appearing May 7th on JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!Check Out the Lyric Video HERE

Photographer Credit: Jonathan Weiner

Social Distortion has released “The Way Things Were,” the third and final song to be released in advance of the band’s long-awaited eighth album, Born To Kill, out May 8th via Epitaph Records.

An emotionally charged reminiscence in the vein of classics “Story of My Life” and “I Was Wrong,” “The Way Things Were” is a potent distillation of the Social D ethos, featuring lyrics like “I wrote a song with a stolen riff / If you ain’t got a song you ain’t got shit.”

“The Way Things Were” can be heard alongside the anthemic “Partners In Crime” and the album’s previously unveiled title track at https://socialdistortion.ffm.to/borntokill

Social Distortion will give that title track its network television debut, when the band returns to JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! on Thursday, May 7th. Check local listings for further details.

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 fury, joy and catharsis, all imbued with the signature blend of defiance and world-weariness that has made Ness a poet and sage to the dispossessed for more than 40 years.

Hailed by ROLLING STONE as “still full of piss and vinegar,” Born To Kill wastes no time letting the listener know where its heart is: its hard-charging title track — surpassing 4 million streams in the month since it dropped — paying respects 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 lionizing David Bowie (“It’s a Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide”) 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 chart Social Distortion’s path forward while celebrating its storied past.

The track listing for Born To Kill is:

Born To Kill
No Way Out
The Way Things Were
Tonight
Partners In Crime
Crazy Dreamer
Wicked Game
Walk Away (Don’t Look Back)
Never Goin’ Back Again
Don’t Keep Me Hanging On
Over You

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).

Social Distortion will support Born To Kill with an extensive North American tour, featuring support from The Descendents and The Chats. The tour recently added four new shows in July, and runs through October 3 in San Diego. The Descendents and The Chats support August 25—October 3. Support for the July dates is TBD. For tickets and further information, see below or go to https://www.socialdistortion.com/tours

SOCIAL DISTORTION
North American Tour 2026

July 17 — Montreal, QC — MTELUS
July 19 — Burlington, VT — Higher Ground Ballroom
July 20 —  Portland, ME — State Theatre
July 22 — New Haven, CT — Toad’s Place
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  (SOLD OUT)
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 (SOLD OUT)
September 15 – Toronto, ONT – HISTORY
September 17 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit (SOLD OUT)
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  (SOLD OUT)
September 26 – Reno, NV – Grand Sierra Resort – Grand Theatre (SOLD OUT)
September 28 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic  (SOLD OUT)
September 29 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
October 1 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium (SOLD OUT)
October 2 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium (SOLD OUT)
October 3 – San Diego, CA – Gallagher Square at Petco Park

K Á R Y Y N - Intimate LA show details | New album, out May 29 on Mute

K Á R Y Y N  ANNOUNCES INTIMATE LOS ANGELES SHOW  15 MAY, 2220 ARTS + ARCHIVES    AHEAD OF NEW ALBUM ‘PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL)’ OUT 29 MAY ON MUTE

[KÁRYYN, credit Jenna Marsh]

GET TICKETS   KÁRYYN announces a rare, stripped-back performance in Los Angeles on Friday 15 May, in what is her only US show announced so far. Following a powerful run of European dates with Apparat, the performance offers a singular opportunity to experience her work in a close, immersive setting.   Taking place at 2220 Arts + Archives, the evening is presented by Silk Road Secret Agents as a fully seated, intimate show centered on deep listening and presence. KÁRYYN will reinterpret material from across her catalogue in a fluid, improvisational format, breaking down and reshaping her compositions in real time. The performance will draw inspiration from the listening practices of Pauline Oliveros, prioritising intuition, awareness, and immediacy.   The night also features Los Angeles-based artist RIŽIK, who opens with a live set using ‘THE MACHINE’, a custom-built system of analogue synthesizers, drum machines, and signal processors designed for spontaneous creation. His work explores the tension between human expression and artificial systems, guided by the principle of “taming the machine”. Discotchari will contribute a selection of experimental sounds rooted in global folk traditions and electronic music.   The performance arrives just ahead of her forthcoming album, PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL),released 29 May via Mute. Introduced by the singles ‘COLLAPSE PHASE’ and ‘END TO KNOWING YOU’, the record explores themes of transformation, connection, and release, earning early support from Pitchfork, The Line of Best Fit, and MusicTech. Executive produced by KÁRYYN and James Ford, with contributions from Hudson Mohawke, Jacques Greene, Steve Nalepa, Luca Perry, and Duncan Fuller, the album brings together voice, strings, and modular synthesis, shaped by both experimental structures and traditional influences.   WATCH COLLAPSE PHASE | WATCH END TO KNOWING YOU    With limited capacity and a deliberately minimal format, the show places KÁRYYN’s voice and presence at its core. The show is a rare chance to experience her music up close and in its most direct form.

PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL) is released on limited edition white vinyl, CD and digital on 29 May 2026 via Mute.    Pre-order the album HERE

TRACKLISTING (CAT #STUMM 479):  01 - COLLAPSE PHASE 02 - ELSEWHEN  03 - FURTHER WE FALL  04 - GROUND 05 - END TO KNOWING YOU 06 - PULL  07 - the 6TH 08 - KEEPER 09 - MIND OVER HEART 10 - FWD Connect with KÁRYYN   INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | SOUNDCLOUD | BANDCAMP  Connect with Mute INSTAGRAM | WEB | TIK TOK | FACEBOOK | BLUESKY | X