THE CRANBERRIES celebrates the 25th anniv. of *Wake Up And Smell The Coffee* on Jan. 29 with expanded editions in multiple formats

CELEBRATES THE 25th ANNIVERSARY OF WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE ON JANUARY 29, 2027 VIA GEFFEN/UMe WITH EXPANDED EDITIONS OF THE REMASTERED ALBUM IN MULTIPLE FORMATS INCLUDING LIMITED EDITION COFFEE LIQUID-FILLED VINYL Bonus Content Includes Plenty of Extras Including B-Sides, Previously Unreleased Live Songs Recorded At Dublin’s Vicar Street, New 2026 Stereo Mixes by Original Producer Stephen Street, Expanded Liner Notes And A Track-By-Track Retrospective From The Band OCTOBER 22, 2026 [New York, NY] -- 25 years ago, The Cranberries released their fifth album Wake Up And Smell the Coffee which will be re-released in an expanded Deluxe Edition on January 29, 2027 via Geffen/UMe in multiple configurations including 3LP, D2C, 2CD, 1 LP (color), 1CD and a limited edition 1LP “Liquid” vinyl. Recorded right after completing a 110-date tour in support of their fourth album Bury The Hatchet, the band opted to enter the studio immediately instead of taking a break. “Often at the end of a tour you feel burned out but this was the exact opposite; we were buzzing and wanted to capture that energy and togetherness in the studio,” says guitarist Noel Hogan. Praised by All Music Guide as “as reminiscent of their debut as anything they've done since” and Hot Press as “easily their best work for some seven years,” Wake Up And Smell The Coffee reunited the band with producer Stephen Street who helped usher the band into international stardom with their first two albums Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? and No Need To Argue.  “The boys were exactly the same; we just picked up where we’d left off which was wonderful,” says Street. “In Dolores [O’Riordan]’s case, there was no doubt that she’d turned into a star. On the first album, she was a very shy girl from Limerick who didn’t know much about the big bad world, but now she was well travelled and much more confident. Beneath it all, though, she was still the Dolores I knew and loved from the early days and very receptive to my ideas. She was a sweetheart.” Fueled by singles “Analyse” and “Time Is Ticking Out”, Wake Up And Smell The Coffee found the band expanding their sound, which Rolling Stone noted, “even as their sound grew edgier and punkier, they never lost their fan base.” Drummer Fergal Lawler confirms, "Creatively, Dolores was on fire.” In a “making of” documentary, Dolores expanded, “A lot of these songs are about deeper things, which you never think about when you’re a teenager and partying all the time. You really couldn’t give two tosses about the planet – well, I couldn’t anyway. I was living for the moment but then, as you become more responsible, you become aware of issues.” Wake Up And Smell The Coffee (25th Anniversary) Deluxe Edition will be released in multiple formats with extra material, including a Limited Edition liquid coffee-filled LP with a scratch & sniff coffee-scented sticker. The 3LP black vinyl and 2CD Limited Edition comes packed with plenty of extras, including B-sides, previously unreleased live songs recorded at Dublin’s Vicar Street, new 2026 stereo mixes by original producer Stephen Street, the beautiful sought-after track “7 Years,” and expanded liner notes that includes new photos, liner notes, and a track-by-track retrospective from the band. Other formats include a Limited Edition 1LP in Skyburst Blue vinyl, standard 1LP in black vinyl, 1CD, and the Digital Deluxe Edition which includes all 36 tracks. "Analyse" Link/Embed: https://youtu.be/DaBWlBknNgs?si=oBcPrK5eV-ule7H_

Cailin Russo's ethereal, romantic "Back To You"

CAILIN RUSSO'S ETHEREAL, ROMANTIC "BACK TO YOU" SOUNDTRACKS  A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES™ DRESSED BY FOR LOVE & LEMONS

Photo by Sabra Binder

Today, Los Angeles-based artist and GRAMMY-nominated songwriter Cailin Russo shares an ethereal and romantic new single, "Back To You," in partnership with Los Angeles fashion brand For Love & Lemons, for their collaboration: A Court of Thorns and Roses™ x For Love & Lemons. A labor of love and fandom inspired by Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses™ — a series that stands as one of the defining works of the BookTok era, with over 100 million copies sold worldwide — the collaboration takes the ACOTAR™ universe and filters it through the unmistakably romantic For Love & Lemons aesthetic.  Cailin Russo delivers closing-credits-worthy, string-laden alt-pop balladry to soundtrack the lace & ribbon-trimmed moment. With a magnetic, ethereal edge, the brands agreed that Russo felt like the perfect bow to wrap around the magical world of this collection. Listen to "Back To You" here.  "Look closely and you’ll find little homages, old and new, woven throughout, waiting to be discovered by those with a knowing eye. Some references are immediately recognizable. Others are subtle, offering the kind of 'if you know, you know' details and upcoming Easter eggs that longtime fans crave and theorize about. Whether you’ve been enchanted by the series for years or are simply drawn to the beauty of the world, this is our invitation to wear your passions proudly and make the world all your own.” — Gillian Kern & Laura Hall, Founders of For Love & Lemons.     Cailin's recent SCARE EP continues her ongoing experiment with genre, swinging to this darker basement corner of things from previous ventures into upbeat indie rock (see her viral hit "Bad Things," the single took off last year when it prominently featured on Heated Rivalry's closing scene; it's since taken up residence in Spotify's Viral 50 Chart), the entrancing trip-hop pulse reminiscent of Portishead on "I Can't Help You Now" and the American Cowboy/John Denver-inspired "Take Me Home" from her previous ep, DON'T.  With the influx of millions of new listeners (290% increase in total streams on Spotify, 380% increase on Apple, 1400% increase in Shazams, and millions of views on socials) appearances atop various charts (Spotify Viral 50, Billboard Emerging Artists, Shazam Most Viral), a grindr collab, and the attendant viral TikTok explanation, the surprise success of "Bad Things" has served as a table-setter for a year of artistic reinvention.  This overdue notoriety is just the latest twist in an artistic career that has continually defied convention. Cailin's own distinct projects — including her fiery debut House with a Pool and the restlessly inventive INFLUX — have allowed her to take her combination of pop futurism, and punk poise to top festivals (Lollapalooza, Reading & Leeds) and on tour with Shygirl and Madison Beer. Adjacently, She's recently been featured in Vogue, Wonderland, Office & more for her hand in the fashion side of things.  Her one-offs have had fascinating ripple effects: In 2025, her song “Triple It” became a TikTok sensation, with the likes of Julia Fox, Ellie Goulding, ADÉLA, and Suki Waterhouse all posting videos of themselves singing along. In 2021, she grabbed a GRAMMY nomination as a co-writer on Kanye West and The Weeknd’s “Hurricane." She's also on the radar of pop luminaries like Rosalía, Slayyyter, and Addison Rae.    "Back To You" is out now, listen here. Stay connected with Cailin Russo: 23 Profile | Instagram | Tiktok | Website

ANIQO shares new single/video "ANOTHER LIFE". Album ''EARTH, LOVE AND VARIATIONS' out Nov 6th via La Double Vie & UK shows announced.

ANIQO - Shares new single "ANOTHER LIFE" - Album 'EARTH, LOVE AND VARIATIONS' out Nov 6th via La Double Vie - Tour dates announced

Photo credit: Thomas Künzel Today Berlin and Lisbon-based artist Anita Goß, aka ANIQO, releases "ANOTHER LIFE", the final single ahead of her new album EARTH, LOVE AND VARIATIONS. Recorded and produced with Bill Ryder-Jones in West Kirby, UK, the album will be released on 6 November via La Double Vie. It explores love in its different forms, the bonds we carry with us, and what it means to live the light. "ANOTHER LIFE" was the first song ANIQO wrote for the album. The others followed later, during a period of introspection and inner healing. In "ANOTHER LIFE", the pain is still present, but so is an acceptance that begins to transform it into lightness. The cinematic art-pop song tells of a love that cannot find room to grow in this life, and of a peaceful farewell filled with tenderness and resilience. ANIQO’s intimate yet powerful voice, a flowing piano melody and the playful, sensitive guitar arrangements of her longtime guitarist Torsten Füchsel carry the song. The orchestral string arrangements by Maria Del Mar Ribas, Adam Goodwin and Bill Ryder-Jones take it beyond the immediate pain and give the artist’s farewell a spiritual quality. Almost as if unbidden, the musical spirits of David Bowie and Glen Hansard seem to move through the song, alongside the quiet hope that we might meet again in another life. “'ANOTHER LIFE' is the sound of letting go while the love is still there. I move through the pain towards a quiet peace with something that couldn’t find a home in this life. I believe everything is connected, that energy doesn’t disappear, and that perhaps we meet again in another form. Some people walk beside us for only part of the way, but they open a door in us. Once we step through it, we can’t be quite the same”, says ANIQO. While ANIQO’s previous film for "TIME TO HEAL" was a much more elaborate production, the video for "ANOTHER LIFE" is a quiet companion to the song. It is a poetic, understated film that brings together melancholy and acceptance. ANIQO filmed it with her good friend Svietlana Buben at one of her favourite places on the Portuguese west coast. "ANOTHER LIFE" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI6CKp9G068  "ANOTHER LIFE" on other streaming services: https://bfan.link/anotherlife ANIQO returns – quiet, clear, and with a determination born out of silence. Her new album EARTH, LOVE AND VARIATIONS, produced with Bill Ryder-Jones in the UK, is a compelling mid-career work that unfolds like an inner compass for the life of its creator Anita Goß, while at the same time offering us listeners new perspectives for our own individual paths through life. The album takes its starting point in a period of retreat and reorientation. Its opening song, I KNOW, already carries within it the insight that runs like a thread through the entire work: that everything begins in the self. Trust, love, healing – none of these can be found outside without first being anchored within. From here, EARTH, LOVE AND VARIATIONS gradually opens up, following the different movements and manifestations of love, change and connection. With EARTH, LOVE AND VARIATIONS, ANIQO opens a sonic chapter that feels both intimate and cosmic. It is not an album that follows a rigid concept, but one that has developed organically out of life phases, retreats and conscious decisions. And yet beneath the surface lies a clear idea: the connection between grounding and transcendence, between body and feeling, between individual experience and universal movement. “Earth”: earth as ground, but also as reality, as planet. “Love”: the force that often enables us to make the impossible possible. The “Variations”, finally, as the infinite forms in which the two encounter one another. While Anita Goß’s debut album BIRTH (2022) was still more strongly shaped by melancholy and searching as its primary state, the new material sounds noticeably brighter. This brightness is not an aesthetic choice, but the result of a lived transformation. ANIQO has consciously freed herself from destructive patterns, has – as the phrase goes – turned toward the “light”, not in an esoteric sense, but as a radical turn toward authenticity. You can hear it. The songs breathe more; they carry a new lightness without losing depth. Musically, ANIQO continues to move within her own highly particular coordinate system of art-folk, pop and spiritual soundscapes. Her arrangements follow a kind of calm discipline that has become rare: every element is given space, nothing pushes itself to the fore. Voice and instruments meet at eye level, circle one another, dissolve again. This openness continues in the lyrics. Reduced, almost fragmentary, they invite listeners to find their own meanings. ANIQO does not write simple answers – she opens doors to an intensive engagement with the world and with oneself. At the center remains the theme of love in all its states: self-love, romantic love, familial bonds, and the question of a universal, unconditional form. A decisive share in the sound of the album comes from the collaboration with British musician and producer Bill Ryder-Jones, with whom ANIQO recorded in West Kirby in 2024 and 2025. The two have achieved an intuitive dialogue. Ryder-Jones expands the songs carefully, adding strings, guitars and textures without overlaying their essence. It is a process of letting go – and of trust. One particular appeal of EARTH, LOVE AND VARIATIONS lies in its internal dramaturgy: the songs are not loosely strung together, but follow an emotional timeline that developed almost in parallel with the process of their creation. After the opening I KNOW, this quiet self-assurance, the album widens step by step into a multi-layered narrative about love, risk, rupture and healing. TIME TO HEAL marks a first high point – a floating, almost weightless song about being in love. Yet behind the euphoria of taking off together, a second level is already hidden: the pact with oneself to accept one’s own wholeness, light and shadow sides alike. It is a song that seeks intimacy not only in the other, but anchors it in the self. With THE TURN, the second single, the focus is on setting out, on the deliberate yes to risk, on overcoming fear. Sonically, too, the song pushes forward and is one of the album’s most driving moments. The image of sailing – wind, water, open horizon – becomes a metaphor for this state between loss of control and freedom. ANOTHER LIFE, written earlier and later inserted into the dramaturgy, feels like a link between worlds – a pause before the album enters its central phase. It is followed by WHAT DOES YOUR HEART SAY, one of the last songs written, which feels like a quiet but determined approach to this insight. At the center of the album is UNITED IN ORIGIN – a piece that formulates the idea of universal love most clearly. Here, what matters most deeply to ANIQO condenses: the idea of a connection that points beyond individual stories and the ego. With CONSTRUCTED REALITY comes the deliberate break: a “disruptor”, as ANIQO herself calls it. Distorted guitars, psychedelic elements, an almost chaotic impulse – the song calls into question everything that has been built up before. Precisely for that reason, it becomes a necessary turning point. Out of this rupture emerges DREAMS FOR REAL, one of the album’s most vulnerable moments. Here, the gaze turns back toward childhood and youth; personal memories come into sharper relief than before. It is a radical laying bare, a return to the inner core. With SUN OF GOD, the view opens again – away from the self, toward a larger whole. The song describes the letting go of roles and ego, a turn toward an open, non-judgmental other. It is one of the album’s central tracks, carried by an almost spiritual clarity. The closing track is THE SENSE IS A RIVER, a quiet, peaceful fading out. A conscious letting go that brings melancholy and calm together, a letting flow. EARTH, LOVE AND VARIATIONS will be released on La Double Vie, the label founded by Gloria de Oliveira – embedded in a loose collective of artists who support one another instead of submitting to the conventional music market. It is a fitting frame for a work that consciously turns against egocentrism and places its trust in connection instead. It is an album that eludes any quick categorization. It is personal and at the same time universal, reduced and yet multi-layered, grounded and full of a sense of departure. Or, as ANIQO puts it herself: “If I can hold myself, I can hold everything else, too. ” This is precisely where the special power of this music lies – and its loving invitation to us. EARTH, LOVE AND VARIATIONS will be released on 6 November 2026, digitally and on vinyl (black and limited coloured edition), via La Double Vie / Motor Entertainment GmbH. - Album text by Thomas Venker (Kaput Magazin) Pre-save album: https://bfan.link/EARTHLOVEANDVARIATIONS Tour dates: 30th Oct - Galiläakirche, Berlin DE (Tickets) 16th Nov - SJQ, London UK (Tickets) 17th Nov - Artefact, Liverpool UK 20th Nov - Down By Here, Swansea, UK (Tickets)

BECK “RIDE LONESOME” FEATURING THE SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

BECK
“RIDE LONESOME” FEATURING THE SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 

LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

Watch the Video HERE

Photo Credit: Mikai Karl

Beck has unveiled a stunning new video of the first ever live performance of “Ride Lonesome,” the “instant classic” (PARADE) that opens his “drop dead gorgeous meditation on heartache and solitude” (NME) album of the same name.

Performed May 7th of this year at the Sydney Opera House, the live debut of “Ride Lonesome” finds Beck accompanied by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and live band mainstays Jason Falkner (on bass and vocals), Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (on piano and vocals) and James McAllister (drums). Buoyed by an otherworldly orchestral arrangement provided by Beck and his father David Campbell, and featuring conductor Nicholas Buc, “Ride Lonesome” with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra is nothing short of a revelation — one that brings new dimensions to the new classic Beck ballad NPR proclaimed “as moving and beautifully produced as any of his most beloved work.” 

The audio track was mixed by Tom Gelissen and mastered by Paul Hicks.

In other news, Beck has been confirmed as support for the launch of U2’s The Greatest Show on Earth World Tour 2027. Sharing a stage with the band for the first time since his stint on the 2017 Joshua Tree stadium tour, Beck will be featured on U2 shows in Mexico City, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires running from late February to late March. For a full itinerary go HERE

Finally, Beck is currently in the midst of the Ride Lonesome tour, which has been making its way across North America, receiving uniformly warm welcomes to nightly assortments of material from the new album alongside hits and deep cuts from classic albums Morning Phase, Sea Change, Mutations, and more. See below for a full list of upcoming dates: 

10/15/26 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
10/17/26 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
10/18/26 – Philadelphia, PA – The Met Philadelphia presented by Highmark
10/22/26 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
10/23/26 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount (SOLD OUT)
10/25/26 – Washington, DC – The Anthem
10/27/26 – Durham, NC – Durham Performing Arts Center
10/28/26 – Asheville, NC – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium (SOLD OUT)
10/30/26 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy
10/31/26 – Nashville, TN – The Truth
11/08/26 – Seattle, WA – Benaroya Hall 
11/09/26 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre 
11/10/26 – Portland, OR – Keller Auditorium

Jon Spencer West Coast Tour Begins November 7th w/ Special Guests Genre Is Death

The legendary JON SPENCER to tour the West Coast Nov 7-16!

With support from NYC noise band GENRE IS DEATH!!

 

New album

SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST

available on LP, CD (bonus tracks), and all digital platforms 

via Shove Records

 

Jon Spencer photo by Masashi Yukimoto

 

The Man is back and ready to rock, roll, and rumble! Jon Spencer brings his high-energy rhythm & punk-blues review to the West Coast. From Vancouver to San Diego, Spencer will be playing ALL of the hits - from PUSSY GALORE to HEAVY TRASH! The BLUES EXPLOSION! HITMAKERS! And of course, selections from the brand-new, white-hot SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST.

Joining in the feedback frenzy will be support from the hottest new New York City upstarts, GENRE IS DEATH! This sexy young duo will blow minds with their limitation-destroying noise. Minimal and overwhelming sounds - cacophonous guitar shrieks of power and madness combined with bass lines that oscillate from funky to erratic dissonance. Check out their debut album, 'Attractive People’, available on In The Red Records, and get there early, as theirs is a show not to be missed! 

 

Genre Is Death photo by Ebru Yildiz

 “I’m in a time of spiritual reckoning,” Jon confides. “These past few years there has been a lot of emotional conflict and personal loss — the passing of time takes its toll.  Losing friends, losing family, and all of this set against a world gone topsy turvy where it feels like we are losing basic freedoms… I’m trying to balance a lot of things, but the answer is always rock’n’roll.”

 

Can rock’n’roll change the world?

 

Jon Spencer says YES.

 

 “I’m in a time of spiritual reckoning,” Jon confides. “These past few years there has been a lot of emotional conflict and personal loss — the passing of time takes its toll.  Losing friends, losing family, and all of this set against a world gone topsy turvy where it feels like we are losing basic freedoms… I’m trying to balance a lot of things, but the answer is always rock’n’roll.”

 

Across twelve brand new songs, Jon tears his heart out singing songs torn from the front page and beyond: futuristic power blues and garage-punk explosion-isms about the nausea and paranoia delivered by a reality show president, and the power and resilience it takes to rebel. It is all deeply personal — the fight to create and live and push back against the dark forces —  but he never loses sight that we’re all in this together.

 

 “Rock’n’roll is America’s true gift to the world — the sound of revolution! It came out of the sky, a screaming, chrome-plated flying saucer, like an outer space monster, landed here on Earth so the freaks could have their say. It  is the hip-shaking sound of rebellion. The blues is my bible, rock’n’roll is our battle cry!”

 

SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST was recorded with Jon’s super-powered touring band, and if you’ve been lucky enough to see them in the past few years — they’ve been playing non-stop, destroying audiences from Akron to Osaka, from San Jose to Santiago  – then you know that Jon is still fronting the world’s greatest rock’n’roll live show: rama-la soul-shaking set for stun, sweat-soaked, and ultimately, beautifully, uplifting.

 

SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST is the New New Super Heavy Rock for these Hard Times.

 

VIDEOS:

Knock ‘Em Out / Orange Slice Blues / Mr. Lion

LIVE SHOWS 2026:

11/7 - Olympia, WA - Ilk Lodge *

11/8 - Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre *
11/9 - Seattle, WA – The Sunset *

11/10 - Portland, OR – Dante’s *

11/11 – Eugene, OR – John Henry’s *

11/12 – Arcata, CA – The MIniplex

11/13 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill* SOLD OUT

11/14 - Santa Cruz, CA – Moe’s Alley *

11/15 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour *

11/16 – San Diego, CA - Casbah *

* with special guests Genre Is Death

 

2027:

1/14 - Syracuse, NY - Funk N Waffles

1/15 - Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place

1/16 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern

1/17 - Ferndale, MI - Magic Bag

1/18 - Grand Rapids, MI - Pyramid Scheme

1/19 - Chicago, IL - Schubas

1/20 - Cudahy, WI - X-Ray Arcade

1/21 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry

1/22 - Omaha, NE - Waiting Room

1/23 - Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck

1/24 - St. Louis, MO - Off Broadway

1/25 - Memphis, TN - Hernando’s Hideaway

1/27 - Dallas, TX 0 Deep Ellum Art Co

1/28 - Austin, TX - Continental Club

1/29 - Houston, TX - White Oak (Upstairs)
1/30 - New Orleans, LA - Chickie Wah Wah

1/31 - Birmingham, AL - Saturn

2/1 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl

2/2 - Nashville, TN - 3rd and Lindsley

2/3 - Louisville, KY - Whirling Tiger

2/5 - Cincinnati, OH - Woodward Theater
2/6 - Millvale, PA - Funhouse at Mr. Smalls

2/7 - Washington, D.C. - Union Stage
2/8 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
2/9 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
2/10 - New Haven, CT - Cafe Nine

2/11 - Northampton, MA - Iron Horse

2/12 - Portland, ME - Oxbow Blending & Bottling
2/13 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall

 

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