CARLY RAE JEPSEN DROPS NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO “AFTER ALL”

CARLY RAE JEPSEN DROPS NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO “AFTER ALL”   SONG IS FROM DAY AND NIGHT, A 24-TRACK DOUBLE ALBUM, SET FOR SEPTEMBER 18 RELEASE VIA INTERSCOPE RECORDS     July 16, 2026 (LOS ANGELES, CA) – Today, multi-platinum, GRAMMY® Award-nominated pop singer/songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen shared “After All,” a glistening celebration of love, penned as she contemplated how motherhood impacts one’s identity, choices and perceptions. Jepsen wrote the song with frequent collaborators Kyle Shearer, who also produced, and Nate Cyphert. Listen to “After All” HERE.   In the official video for “After All,” Jepsen performs the song, reveling in the gently filtered daylight of a room as she surveys the reminders of the previous night’s joyous dinner party. As the piano amps up, images from celebrations across the decades flicker across the screen with the intensity of a fireworks display. View the video, which was directed by Aerin Moreno (Tate McRae, KATSEYE), HERE.   “After All” is from the “day” period of Jepsen’s forthcoming album, Day and Night, a 24-track double album that captures a blurred, dreamlike sense of time where nights stretch into mornings and days dissolve into nights, creating a feeling of being suspended inside a moment. Set for release on September 18 via Interscope Records, Day and Night is available for pre-order / pre-save HERE. Jepsen will launch Day and Night with a headline performance at NYC’s All Things Go Festival on Sunday, September 27 – her first live performance of 2026.   “On Wires,” the album’s lead single, won widespread acclaim. Praising the song as “playful and powerful,” Consequence said, “The organic warmth makes it a fitting preview of the album’s Day half.” Clash hailed it as “a moment of subtle, understated bravado…A song that revels in tension and release, the vocal can be both coy and carnal, flirtatious and positively feral.” Listen to “On Wires” HERE. View the official video HERE.   Over the past 15 years, Jepsen has established herself as a true pop titan, carving out her own unique path with confidence and intention. She first rose to international prominence in 2012 with the irresistible global phenomenon “Call Me Maybe.” That blockbuster hit from her breakthrough album, Kiss, topped charts in over 47 countries and earned her two Grammy® nominations – for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.   Jepsen’s 2015 masterpiece E•MO•TION has become a modern pop landmark, amassing more than one billion streams worldwide and earning recognition as one of the defining albums of the 2010s from publications including Pitchfork and Billboard. She expanded her artistic range with 2019’s Dedicated, a sophisticated and emotionally rich collection that The Atlantic praised as “brilliant.” She emerged from a period of isolation in the fall of 2022 with The Loneliest Time, further showcasing her evolution as a songwriter and performer. Her B sides projects (E*MO*TION Side B, Dedicated Side B and The Loveliest Time) have offered fans a deep dive into her creative process. With nothing left to prove, Jepsen brings a sense of freedom and self-assurance to Day and Night.

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Hank Heaven announces new EP + shares new single + signs to Nice Life

HANK HEAVEN ANNOUNCES NEW EP WELTERWEIGHT + UNVEILS SIGNING TO NICE LIFE  SHARES NEW SINGLE “I WANNA BE YOUR MAN” WELTERWEIGHT OUT AUGUST 14TH Hank Heaven by Isaac Namias  “I Wanna Be Your Man” WATCH: https://youtu.be/KnSt3AU1Yjg LISTEN: https://drop.cobrand.com/d/HankHeaven/iwannabeyourman Welterweight  PRE-SAVE: https://drop.cobrand.com/d/HankHeaven/welterweight (July 16, 2026) - New York City trans nonbinary artist Hank Heaven announces their new EP Welterweight, out August 14th via their new label partner Nice Life Recording Company. Hank’s first body of work at their new label home marks a watershed moment for the burgeoning songwriter. Working with acclaimed producer Phil Weinrobe (Adrienne Lenker, Big Thief), Hank hammered out an earnest, plaintive collection of songs that grapples with love and addiction with the wry sense of humor that can only come from a voice that has experienced it for themselves. Hank first introduced listeners to this new project with the yearning and frustrated lead single “Thread”, and today, shares new single “I Wanna Be Your Man”. A tenderly plucked meditation on coming to terms with a maturing spirit and falling in love, the new song centers Hank and their guitar with crescendoing swells of strings that roll in and recede with Hank’s melody. The new single is accompanied by a visual, directed by Weston Borg, that mirrors the song’s intimacy, with the camera closely following Hank as they sing the track while walking down Wall St. in a perfectly tailored suit. Welterweight captures the intimacy of Hank, the person, and Hank, the artist, with an alignment of life and craft. Hank embraced simplicity – getting sober, ridding their apartment of a TV and installing an alarm clock that forced them to do pushups to turn it off. Silencing that outside noise, along with transitioning and fully changing their name, led Hank to writing pointed, direct and slyly humorous snapshots and observations of the 28-year-old’s life to-date. They balance writing pained reflections of mistakes, missed opportunities and lost love like an Orwellian memoir, with the gleaming optimism of a coming-of-age story. Hank is growing up, finding love and finding their own way, and that confidence and optimism channels itself into Welterweight. Sonically, the project embodies the scrappy storyteller Hank becomes on stage, stripping away the filters, effects and programmed drums of their conceptual 2024 EP Loaded Dice, telling evocative stories of love and addiction through the lens of an out of luck gambler. On Welterweight, Hank and Philip Weinrobe eliminate those comfortable spaces and distractions, recording all the instrumentation and vocals live to harness the imperfections and make each of the project’s six songs feel lived-in and raw, like the words Hank is singing. Hank first emerged as an in-demand working guitarist, touring the world as a jazz guitarist in various bands before settling in Brooklyn and becoming a go-to session and touring guitarist for Samia, Del Water Gap and Gus Dapperton. Learning from peers led to Hank honing their own songwriting voice, which culminated in their self-explorative first EP Call Me Hank. That unflinching analysis of self, balanced with a wry sense of humor that cut through the confusion, led to Loaded Dice in 2024, which sought to unveil more about Hank’s identity, not only as a young trans songwriter, but a person growing up in the world we’ve been saddled with.  Check out “I Wanna Be Your Man” above, see below for more info on Welterweight and stay tuned for more from Hank Heaven coming soon.

Hank Heaven Welterweight Nice Life Recording Company August 14, 2026 1. I Wanna Be Your Man 2. Thread 3. Daddy’s Gonna Buy You A Car 4. Seinfeld 5. Hank Heaven’s 113th Wet Dream 6. Dog Needs Man  Connect with Hank Heaven: Instagram | TikTok | Twitter | Substack | Website | YouTube

WU LYF share new live performance of unreleased song "Robe of Glory"

WU LYF SHARE NEW LIVE PERFORMANCE OF UNRELEASED SONG  WATCH ‘ROBE OF GLORY: LIVE FROM MANCHESTER’S ALBERT HALL’ NORTH AMERICAN TOUR BEGINS TODAY WITH SOLD-OUT BROOKLYN SHOW

Press Image by Anthony Harrison  “Robe of Glory” Live at Albert Hall WATCH: https://youtu.be/J6o8gZ60CNg?si=1sm6cunQMK4_weNA  TICKETS: https://www.worldunite.org/  (July 16th, 2026) - WU LYF  unveil a brand new live performance video of “Robe Of Glory”, an unreleased song taken from the band’s acclaimed second album A Wave That Will Never Break. Filmed during their triumphant hometown performance at Manchester’s Albert Hall last month, the footage was initially shared exclusively via WORLDUNITE.ORG, the band’s own community platform. Within hours, fans had already begun sharing the performance beyond the site, with one member uploading the video to YouTube for the world to see.  The arrival of “Robe Of Glory” offers a glimpse of the life beyond A Wave That Will Never Break, while capturing the intensity of WU LYF’s celebrated Albert Hall performance, where the band played both their new album and 2011 debut Go Tell Fire To The Mountain in full. The video arrives as WU LYF begin their first North American headline tour in more than a decade tonight in Brooklyn, following overwhelming demand that has already seen their first Los Angeles performance sell out, prompting the addition of a second show the following evening. Since the band made their triumphant return, they’ve completed an intimate series of European residencies in Milan, Copenhagen, Berlin, Amsterdam and Barcelona, a sold-out run of UK outstore performances and a celebratory hometown show at Manchester’s Albert Hall, WU LYF’s live activity continues throughout 2026. Earlier this month, they traveled to Australia and tonight marks the start of their North American headline tour before returning to Europe and the UK this fall for their most extensive run of shows since reforming. Visit https://www.worldunite.org for tickets. Listen to “Robe of Glory,” above, see below for more tour information, and stay tuned for more from WU LYF. Tour Dates 07/16/26 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere 07/17/26 - Washington, DC @ Union Stage 07/18/26 - Philadelphia, PA @ Ruba Club 07/19/26 - Boston, MA @ The Sinclair 07/21/26 - Toronto, ON, Canada @ Adelaide Hall 07/23/26 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall 07/25/26 - Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room 07/26/26 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo 07/27/26 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent 07/29/26 - Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater 07/30/26 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos 07/31/26 - Vancouver, BC, Canada @ Rickshaw Theatre 08/13/26 - Paredes de Coura, Portugal @ Paredes de Coura Festival 09/05/26 - Dublin, Ireland @ Button Factory 09/17/26 - London, UK @ Islington Assembly Hall 09/18/26 - Brighton, UK @ Patterns 09/20/26 - Le Havre, France @ Le Tetris 09/21/26 - Lille, France @ Aéronef 09/23/26 - Cologne, Germany @ Gebäude 9 09/24/26 - Berlin, Germany @ Lido 09/27/26 - Oslo, Norway @ John Dee 09/28/26 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Nalen Klubb 09/29/26 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ Pumpehuset 10/01/26 - Prague, Czech Republic @ Subzero 10/03/26 - Zurich, Switzerland @ Bogen F 10/04/26 - Bologna, Italy @ Locomotiv Club 10/06/26 - Lyon, France @ L’Épicerie Moderne 10/07/26 - Reims, France @ La Cartonnerie (Club) 10/09/26 - Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix Club 10/10/26 - Paris, France @ Trianon 10/11/26 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Tolhuistuin

Alexander Hacke & Danielle de Picciotto (hackedepicciotto) INTERVIEW 2026

Few artists have forged a creative partnership as adventurous and uncompromising as Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto. As hackedepicciotto, the duo has spent the past two decades creating music that defies genre, blending experimental, electronic, industrial, classical, and spoken-word elements into deeply immersive works. Their tenth album, LICHTUNG, marks both a milestone and a new beginning—reflecting a period of transformation following years of living as nomadic artists and their recent decision to settle near Berlin. We spoke with Alexander and Danielle about the inspiration behind LICHTUNG, artistic freedom, creative evolution, and what continues to drive them after ten albums together. #TPII64 Website: https://www.hackedepicciotto.de/ Bandcamp: https://hackedepicciotto.bandcamp.com/

SOFT CELL announce new single "In Heaven (When I Dance With You)'" a summery poppy second cut from final album 'Danceteria'.

SOFT CELL  Announce New Single "In Heaven (When I Dance With You)" a summery poppy second cut from final album Danceteria Listen here The sixth and final studio album from Marc Almond and Dave Ball will be released on September 25, 2026 via Republic of Music Pre-order Danceteria on vinyl, CD and digital here Danceteria is both a love letter to early '80s New York and a tribute to the late, great Dave Ball "In Heaven (When I Dance With You)" Link/Embed: https://youtu.be/AMMEqfv6tk4?si=aeSQT9MVo_yXQA0u JULY 15, 2026 (New York, NY) -- Electronic music legends Soft Cell, aka singer and frontman Marc Almond and multi-instrumentalist and producer Dave Ball, have announced a new single in "In Heaven (When I Dance With You)." Out today digitally on all platforms, this summery, poppy cut is taken from Danceteria, Soft Cell's sixth and final studio album, which will be released on September 25th via Republic of Music. The song has just been premiered on Vernon Kay's BBC Radio 2 show this morning.   Over to Marc for further insights into the new single:   "'In Heaven (When I Dance With You)' is a celebration of the early '80s joyful disco scene.  A coming together of the sentiments of the time.  I wanted it to be that moment when you run to the dancefloor"   "In Heaven (When I Dance With You)" is out today alongside a UK-only Luv Foundation remix and the album version of "Danceteria" title track. Listen to the track above.   Danceteria the album is a big, classy and playful farewell to 47 years of Marc and Dave making music as Soft Cell and features career-defining performances from our electronic pop legends. Reminiscent of Sparks, Pet Shop Boys and with lyrics Lady Gaga would kill for, the album takes you on a vivid journey through a day in early '80s New York, bouncing round the clock from night to bleary daybreak and headlong back into the club. The 12-track album is available to pre-order now on vinyl and CD, with the CD expanding to 14 tracks including 2 bonus tracks in form of "Crackland" and "What Is Your Morality."   SOFT CELL Photo credit: Mike Owen  Marc provides a snapshot into the album:   "Danceteria is a love letter to New York in the early '80s.  The time we spent in New York - where we recorded our first three albums - shaped us both as artists and people. To celebrate this period is a fitting farewell to Dave Ball and the final Soft Cell studio album."   Danceteria is equally a tribute to the late, great Dave Ball. The final album is one of the last bodies of work Ball co-wrote and produced before his sad, untimely passing on October 22, 2025. Almond led the obituaries, describing Dave as a "brilliant musical genius". The world's media followed, hailing him as an electronic music pioneer, plus music stars including Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe from the Pet Shop Boys, Mute Records' Daniel Miller, Cabaret Voltaire and Richard Norris from Dave's techno duo The Grid contributing an outpouring of elegiac praise. Dave finished Danceteria two days before he passed away and it is in full tribute to him that the album release went ahead as planned.   It is also because of Dave's passing that Danceteria simply has to be the last Soft Cell album, as Marc explains:   "There can be no more recordings of Soft Cell without Dave, it would not be possible. The sad reality is that Dave Ball was half of Soft Cell, and live work aside, I can't write Soft Cell songs without him."   The new single follows on from last month's launch including "Danceteria" as the lead single, watch the dazzling discotastic video made by artist Vicki Bennett. The single is a joyous, celebratory burst of disco pop and as the album opener, it is a statement of intent. It is Soft Cell at their very best, with Almond's iconic vocals soaring over Ball's masterful John Barry-esque minor chord progressions. There couldn't be a more fitting disco banger to pull back the dusty velvet curtain and beckon you into the heady, romantic and deliciously dark world of "Danceteria."    "Danceteria" is set in the legendary Manhattan nightclub where young Marc and Dave would party until the small hours after the recording sessions for their seminal 1981 debut Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. This was a life-changing moment for the two art school students from Leeds Polytechnic: Marc and Dave stepped into a world of unbridled creativity and total self-expression in New York, swiftly fitting in and making friends with the most up for it in-crowd at Danceteria. Mirroring its eclectic musical style, Danceteria provided a home for party people from all walks of life, sexualities and recreational appetites, drawn together by the desire to simply be themselves. More than most, the queer community thrived under the disco ball lights, falling in and out of love and dancing until dawn - essential solidarity against well-worn societal prejudices and the existential threat from the burgeoning AIDS epidemic. Within these sweaty club walls, Marc saw Madonna's first ever performance on the Danceteria floor, following a hot tip by a certain Seymour Stein - a moment the queen of pop is also playing tribute to on her own new album Confessions On A Dance Floor: Part II. During that time, Marc and Dave also met Andy Warhol a few times, the subject of "Polaroid" on Soft Cell's fifth studio album, 2022's Happiness not included. The duo recorded their second album 1982's The Art of Falling Apart and the majority of third album 1984's This Last Night In Sodom in New York City, working with engineer and producer Mike Thorne at Mediasound for the first two and Dave Ball producing the third. Additionally, Marc Almond lived in New York periodically over 25 years from the early '80s.   “Soft Cell have always had a strong connection with New York, and my Soft Cell lyrics often look at America through British eyes,” says Marc. “New York in the 1980s was a particularly creative place for me. It was a pivotal era in terms of changes in my personal life and changes in the city itself. New York shaped Soft Cell, as it opened up a whole new world of possibilities. It was dirty, dark and dangerous – a real Wild West – but it was also deeply inspiring and exciting. A lot of our original influences came from America anyway: New York punk, Devo, Suicide, Lou Reed, disco and 1960s soul. But New York was like nowhere else on earth. There were 24-hour nightclubs, music, art and underground theatre. It offered a cornucopia of energy and edge, and the lyrics on ‘Danceteria’ reflect that time of my life.”   Earlier in March this year, the first new music released from Danceteria in form of "Out Come The Freaks," a cover of Was (Not Was)' 1981 mutant disco classic, and the album closer no less. The track conjures the hedonist spirit of early '80s Manhattan, captured in this Danceteria floor filler spun by DJ Mark Kamins. The final flourish of glitter to Soft Cell's "Out Come The Freaks" comes courtesy of guest vocals from Nona Hendryx, the iconic singer and one third of Labelle of "Lady Marmalade" fame. "Danceteria," was initially released as an extended mix on limited white 12" vinyl for Record Store Day 2026, along with a classic house rework by Mark Moore and Dan Donovan, plus a dub version.   Danceteria is a love letter to the cultural vibrancy of New York in the 1980s, it’s a fitting tribute to Soft Cell’s creative inception in NYC, Dave’s pioneering electronic genius and an outrageously great, 47-year musical career as one of Britain’s trailblazing sonic forces. Danceteria  tracklisting:   Vinyl: Side A   1) Elusive (Vinyl Edit) 2) Danceteria 3) The Space Inside (Vinyl Edit) 4) Times Square (Vinyl Edit) 5) Two Of A Kind 6) The Rainbow Room (Vinyl Edit) 7) In Heaven (When I Dance With You)   Side B 1) Decadence Is Hard Work 2) Losing Yourself 3) After Hours 4) Wave To America 5) Out Come The Freaks   CD: 1) Elusive 2) Danceteria 3) The Space Inside 4) Times Square 5) Two Of A Kind 6) The Rainbow Room 7) In Heaven (When I Dance With You) 8) Decadence Is Hard Work 9) Crackland 10) What Is Your Morality 11) Losing Yourself 12) After Hours 13) Wave To America 14) Out Come The Freaks

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