Jack White Announces New Album 'Frozen Charlotte'

JACK WHITE ANNOUNCES SEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM, FROZEN CHARLOTTE   LEAD SINGLE, “DOLLAR BILL,” PREMIERES TODAY – LISTEN   2026 WORLD HEADLINE TOUR CURRENTLY UNDERWAY   NORTH AMERICAN DATES BEGIN JULY 10 IN WASHINGTON, DC   FROZEN CHARLOTTE ARRIVES VIA THIRD MAN RECORDS ON FRIDAY, JULY 10   PRE-ORDERS/PRE-SAVES AVAILABLE NOW

Jack White has announced the release of his forthcoming seventh studio album, Frozen Charlotte, arriving via Third Man Records on Friday, July 10. Alongside the announcement, White released the new single “Dollar Bill” which is available on all DSPs and streaming services. The album will be available on black vinyl; a limited-edition “Zug Island Blue” as the Third Man Records exclusive vinyl; a limited-edition “Chrome” for the Jack White tour and webstore; and a limited-edition “Ice Blue” for independent record stores. The album will also be available on CD and cassette. Pre-orders/pre-saves are available now.  LISTEN TO “DOLLAR BILL” PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE FROZEN CHARLOTTE

Earlier this week, White’s label Third Man records premiered Third Man Release Lab, a free, two-part, behind-the-scenes online series that explores Third Man Records’ creative approach to record releases and demystifies the album release process. Fans tuning into each Release Lab were unknowingly teased glitching album imagery, allusions to the Frozen Charlatan character, and listened to a “Dollar Bill” audio clip for the first time. Watch the Third Man Release Lab Part 1 and Part 2. White will introduce fans to Frozen Charlotte on a wide-ranging 2026 world headline tour. North American dates begin July 10 with a sold-out show at Washington, DC’s The Anthem and continue through a two-night stand at Atlanta, GA’s Coca-Cola Roxy on November 20-21. Highlights include two-night runs in a number of cities, including Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Miami Beach, along with top-billed festival performances at East Aurora, NY’s Borderland Festival (September 19) and Richmond, VA’s Iron Blossom Music Festival (September 20). Support at Toronto, ON’s RBC Amphitheatre on July 14 comes from Angine de Poitrine. White and his longtime live band – Patrick Keeler (drums), Dominic Davis (bass), and Bobby Emmett (keys) – will also cross the Atlantic for a series of shows and headline festival appearances in Europe and the United Kingdom, including two-night stands at Paris, France’s sold-out L’Olympia (June 13-14), Brussels, Belgium’s sold-out Ancienne Belgique (June 16-17), London, UK’s Eventim Apollo (August 25-26), and Dublin, Ireland’s sold-out 3Olympia (September 1-2). In addition, White will travel to Asia for eagerly anticipated dates in Seoul, Shanghai, Istanbul, Turkey, at Babylon Soundgarden (August 23), and Almaty, Kazakhstan. For complete details and remaining ticket information, please visit jackwhiteiii.com/tour-dates.   Frozen Charlotte will also feature the two fiery songs, “Derecho Demonico” and “G.O.D. and the Broken Ribs,” which premiered earlier this year. White and his band marked the release with electrifying performances of both songs during a landmark sixth career appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live.   LISTEN TO “G.O.D. AND THE BROKEN RIBS” LISTEN TO “DERECHO DEMONICO” Produced by White, Frozen Charlotte represents White’s first new music since 2024, a year highlighted by the release of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee’s critically lauded sixth studio album, No Name. The acclaimed collection was honored with a 2025 GRAMMY® Award nomination for “Best Rock Album” – White’s 34th solo-career nomination and 46th overall, along with 16 total GRAMMY® Award wins. No Name includes the consecutive #1 U.S. radio hit singles, “That’s How I’m Feeling” and “Archbishop Harold Holmes,” the latter of which is joined by an electrically charged official music video starring legendary actor and renaissance man John C. Reilly as the ecstatic, impassioned titular character, now boasting over 3.5M worldwide views via YouTube alone.   October 2025 saw the official publication of Jack White Collected Lyrics and Selected Writing Volume 1, available now at thirdmanbooks.com, Third Man physical storefronts, and booksellers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Edited by Third Man Records co-founder Ben Blackwell, the landmark new anthology features never-before-published poems and writings by White, rare and exclusive photos, and new essays written especially for this book by Blackwell, award-winning, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-nominated poet Adrian Matejka, and award-winning, Detroit-based filmmaker and writer dream hampton. The collection also compiles lyrics from both White’s solo recordings thus far, as well as his acclaimed work with The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, and other collaborations. White discussed Jack White Collected Lyrics and Selected Writing Volume 1 during an extended interview on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, highlighted by a recitation of his original poem, “Just Suppose to Juxtapose.” White also appeared on Colbert’s surprise public access broadcast, Only In Monroe, which premiered the day after his final CBS episode. WATCH JACK WHITE ON CBS’S THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT WATCH JACK WHITE ON ONLY IN MONROE   # # # JACK WHITE – LIVE 2026   JUNE 10 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Liseberg (Concert Series) 12 – Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands – Best Kept Secret Festival † 13 – Paris, France – L’Olympia (SOLD OUT) 14 – Paris, France – L’Olympia (SOLD OUT) 16 – Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique (SOLD OUT) 17 – Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique (SOLD OUT) 18 – Lyon, France – Les Nuits de Fourviere (SOLD OUT) 19 – Camaiore, Italy – La Prima Estate † 21 – Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy – Arena Alpe Adria 22 – Zagreb, Croatia – INMusic Festival †   JULY 10 – Washington, DC – The Anthem (SOLD OUT) 11 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount (SOLD OUT) 12 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount (SOLD OUT) 14 – Toronto, ON – RBC Amphitheatre ^ 15 – Essex Junction, VT – The Midway Lawn at Champlain Valley Expo 17 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway (SOLD OUT) 18 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall (SOLD OUT) 19 – Port Chester, NY – The Capitol Theatre (SOLD OUT) 21 – Indianapolis, IN – Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park 23 – Chicago, IL – Radius (SOLD OUT) 24 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed (Outdoors) (SOLD OUT) 25 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre (SOLD OUT)   AUGUST 17 – Seoul, South Korea – Yes24 Live 19 – Shanghai, China – Red Rock Center 21 – Almaty, Kazakhstan – Park Live Almaty † 22-23 – İstanbul, Turkey – Babylon Soundgarden † 25 – London, UK – Eventim Apollo 26 – London, UK – Eventim Apollo 28 – Bristol, UK – Prospect Building (SOLD OUT) 29 – Newcastle, UK – O2 City Hall (SOLD OUT) 31 – Belfast, UK – Telegraph Building (SOLD OUT)   SEPTEMBER 1 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Olympia (SOLD OUT) 2 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Olympia (SOLD OUT) 18 – Newport, KY – MegaCorp Pavilion (Outdoor) 19 – East Aurora, NY – Borderland Festival † 20 – Richmond, VA – Iron Blossom Music Festival † 24 – San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium 25 – Pomona, CA – Fox Theater (SOLD OUT) 28 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium (SOLD OUT)  29 -- Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium (SOLD OUT) 30 – Del Mar, CA – The Sound (SOLD OUT)   OCTOBER 2 – Las Vegas, NV – Fontainebleau Las Vegas 3 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre 4 – Albuquerque, NM – Revel (SOLD OUT) 6 – Austin, TX – Moody Amphitheater 7 – Dallas, TX – The Bomb Factory 9 – Nashville, TN – The Truth (SOLD OUT)   NOVEMBER 8 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory (SOLD OUT) 9 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee (SOLD OUT) 10 – Milwaukee, WI – Landmark Credit Union Live (SOLD OUT) 12 – Pittsburgh, PA – Citizens Live at The Wylie (SOLD OUT) 13 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte (SOLD OUT) 14 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte (SOLD OUT) 16 – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live Orlando (SOLD OUT) 17 – Miami Beach, FL – The Fillmore 18 – Miami Beach, FL – The Fillmore 20 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy 21 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy (SOLD OUT)   † Headline Festival Performance ^ w/ Special Guests Angine de Poitrine

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Personal Trainer Spiral on "Moping" Single + Video | 'Human Assholes' LP out 9/4 via Bella Union

Personal Trainer Spiral With New Single + Video: "Moping" Human Assholes LP out September 4 via Bella Union Human Assholes album pre-order link “ripe with casually confident songwriting that bursts with spirit and enthusiasm.” – Pitchfork “a woozily woven, delightfully absurd tapestry.” – UPROXX “‘Punch Drunk Love’ takes on a mellower energy, injecting bits of jangly guitars and woody pianos before gliding into a resonant, plucky upright bass solo.” – The Needle Drop Singles: “Punch Drunk Love” “Moping”

Credit: Sophie Koterus Korting  Dutch collective Personal Trainer will release their new album Human Assholes on September 4 via Bella Union. Already garnering support from The Needle Drop to Under The Radar, the 15-track opus is the follow-up to the band’s critically acclaimed 2024 album Still Willing. Today, the band reveals second album preview track “Moping” alongside alongside a suitably entertaining video directed by and starring Personal Trainer frontman Willem Smit. The song figuratively and literally circles around the experience of being a musician and getting stuck inside your own loop a little bit. “The song keeps circling back on itself lyrically and musically,” explains frontman and songwriter Willem Smit. “The chorus uses this Pixies trick of looping three bars of 4/4 instead of four, so the loop never fully settles. It creates this automatic forward motion that feels exciting to me without sounding too ‘look how clever this is’. That looping feeling is reinforced by all the self-reference in the lyrics too - almost like a kind of navel-gazy meta glitch. I was listening to a lot of Callahan & Witscher, as well as They Might Be Giants - they influenced the song pretty directly.”   Watch / Share: “Moping” video There’s this funny Dutch phrase that goes “mijn ei kwijt kunnen”, which quite clumsily translates to “unloading my egg”; it more or less means having an environment or activity where all your feelings, creativity and energy can unshackle as you see fit. For the past 10 years, Willem Smit’s eggs found their baskets within Personal Trainer, the restlessly creative Dutch indie rock stalwarts who have gradually risen up from Amsterdam’s grassroots scenes to touring the world as part of the roster of UK label Bella Union.  Three years of non-stop touring brought Personal Trainer to a freeing realization: no song is ever final, and no show is ever the last. One of the bigger decisions for Human Assholes was to make the acoustic guitar the starting point. And even more importantly, pen the songs in a physical room with the rest of the band instead of cutting and pasting stuff behind a screen. It is the magic of a shared creative experience, including the accidents and breakthroughs along the way, that bring Human Assholes to life. Personal Trainer have UK & EU headline shows and festival appearances this Summer and Autumn, including a performance at London’s Scala. All dates are listed here.   Website | Instagram | X | Facebook | YouTube Apple Music | Spotify | Bandcamp

Roger Taylor of QUEEN Announces New Album

ROGER TAYLOR VIOLENCE INSANE IN A BEAUTIFUL WORLD THE NEW ALBUM FROM THE LEGENDARY QUEEN SONGWRITER, DRUMMER & SINGER

OUT SEPTEMBER 18th via COLUMBIA RECORDS   RELEASES FIRST SINGLE  “COME ON SUMMER (IT’S PARTY TIME)”   FEATURING THE NDLOVU YOUTH CHOIR

June 10, 2026 – Today, legendary QUEEN songwriter, musician & singer,  Roger Taylor, announced his new album, Violence Insane In A Beautiful World, out September 18th on Columbia Records (PRE-ORDER ALBUM HERE).  The album is preceded by the exuberant single, “Come On Summer (It’s Party Time),” featuring a stunning performance by The Ndlovu Youth Choir from Limpopo, South Africa, who first came to prominence for their incredible Zulu-language translation of “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

Listen to “Come On Summer (It’s Party Time)”

Violence Insane In A Beautiful World is Roger’s seventh album in a solo career stretching back to 1977 and is his first since 2021’s critically and fan-acclaimed top 3 album Outsider. To celebrate the release of the new record, Roger will be going on the road in the UK, and fans who pre-order the album will have exclusive first access to tickets for the shows.    While not a concept record, Violence Insane In A Beautiful World does have an overarching theme, as Roger explains, “There is a theme, you know, it's in the title really, what a beautiful world we live in, don't fuck it up. There seems to be all this insanity at the moment. The violence in the world seems to be as bad as it ever was, at any point, and certainly in my lifetime. It's just horrific, a lot of insane violence. And we do seem to be fucking up the world, plastics in the sea, you know, and all these awful wars everywhere and hatred born of different religions.”    However, the tone of the album is hopeful as Roger says, “It's a beautiful world, you know. And kindness is very important, I think, it seems to be forgotten quite a lot. So, that is basically the sort of underlying theme.”   Roger wrote, with the exception of an exquisite cover of “Jealous Guy,” which he describes as “one of the greatest, ballads ever written”, produced, sang and performed all the songs on Violence Insane In A Beautiful World himself, with help from long-time collaborator Joshua J.Macrae, members of his live band and on three extraordinary tracks, The Ndlovu Youth Choir from Limpopo, South Africa. Speaking about their contributions, Roger says, “I was really happy when I became aware of this amazing South African choir, who sing in Zulu. They're just wonderful. They did the most incredible cover version of Bohemian Rhapsody, and it's fabulous. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. So, we suddenly had the bright idea of asking them to sing on some of the tracks, which they did, and I think it's transformed those songs. It gives them a whole new dimension. I'm really thrilled with their work on that.”   While Roger was finishing the artwork for the album, there was a cosmic coincidence: Artemis II, on its mission to the dark side of the Moon, also photographed Earth from a distance. The report from the Queen fans at NASA in Houston about the sleeve is that “everyone liked it and thought it was definitely kismet.” Of the cover, Roger comments, “Well, the cover is really the story of the lead song, which is A Beautiful World, and it's really an old idea, but in a way, it's just written from the view of an alien in a spacecraft literally orbiting the world and thinking how beautiful it is. On close observation, he sees there's problems, there's infection, all the violence and horrors that occur, and then there's a list of all the great things about the earth. It’s really rather strange because it was done before we got those wonderful pictures from Artemis II.” He continues, “NASA approves! They're very nice people. We've been there. Obviously. Brian knows them very well. We went whilst we were on tour in Houston. We had a fantastic tour of the whole NASA site. It’s quite something just to be sitting in the control room with all these guys and screens, and they're actually talking to the space station, controlling it. Yeah, hell of a thing.” Roger's solo work never shied away from political statements and tracks on the album, such as “Chump,” speak for themselves. Does he feel optimistic about the state of the world? “To be honest, no, with Nigel Garage (sic) looming, no. My wife says she's leaving the country if he gets in, and I don't blame her. It's like Trump, really. You can't believe how popular he was. I'm not sure he's quite as popular now, people are finally coming to their senses, but I can't believe how popular Farage, who is intrinsically a horrible man, is, but he's a populist, demagogue, politician appealing to the lowest sort of ideals.”   As throughout his solo career, Violence Insane In A Beautiful World embraces a multitude of styles and sounds “I like the idea of eclecticism. I like the idea of different things, you know? I mean, the great example being the Beatles. I always thought that their albums were very eclectic, especially the later albums from Revolver onwards. You never knew what the next track was going to be, and it was totally different to the track before it. We always tried to do that in Queen. We tried to make a lot of different things and fearlessly tread where no sane man would. Yeah, I think people are really going to like the surreal stuff.”    The Violence Insane In A Beautiful World tour opens in Newcastle on 21st September, and fans who pre-order the album will receive exclusive first access to tickets. Roger’s extraordinary band will feature keyboardist Spike Edney, supporting drummer Tyler Warren, multi-instrumentalist Tina Keys, Neil Fairclough on bass, and Christian Mendoza on guitar. The tour will then visit Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester, Swansea, and the legendary Roundhouse in London, where Roger has performed before, as a guest of Foo Fighters, back in 2011. For more information on Roger Taylor, visit https://www.rogertaylorofficial.com/.    Violence Insane In A Beautiful World Tracklist  1. A Beautiful World – Feat. The Ndlovu Youth Choir 2. Violence Insane 3. What Really Matters 4. Don’t Photograph Food 5. I See You Now 6. Chump 7. Spit In His Eye 8. Jealous Guy* 9. Come On Summer (It’s Party Time) - Feat. The Ndlovu Youth Choir 10. A Great Big Beautiful World (reprise) – Feat. The Ndlovu Youth Choir   Produced by Roger Taylor & Joshua J. Macrae All songs written by Roger Taylor except *John Lennon   ROGER TAYLOR  VIOLENCE INSANE IN A BEAUTIFUL WORLD TOUR SEPTEMBER 2026 21st Newcastle O2 City Hall 22nd Edinburgh Usher Hall 24th Birmingham The Alexandra 25th Manchester Opera House 28th London Roundhouse 29th Swansea Building Society Arena