Charlatans UK Share New Remix; North American Headline Tour Begins Sept 3rd

THE CHARLATANS UK RELEASE DELUXE EDITION OF LATEST ALBUM WE ARE LOVE (DELUXE) FEATURES NEW REMIX OF "DEEPER AND DEEPER" BY FADERS DOWN (LOZ COLBERT OF RIDE & JAMES HOCKLEY OF CHICAINE) "DEEPER AND DEEPER - FADERS DOWN 'DEPTH CHARGE' REMIX" STREAMING NOW - LISTEN *** MUCH-BELOVED BRITISH BAND RETURN TO NORTH AMERICA TO CELEBRATE NEW ALBUM WITH UPCOMING HEADLINE RUN   DATES GET UNDERWAY SEPTEMBER 3 IN SANTA ANA, CA   HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE VERY SPECIAL PAIR OF WEST COAST HEADLINE SHOWS FEATURING SUPPORT FROM THE DANDY WARHOLS AND ADDITIONAL GUESTS SET FOR SANTA ANA, CA’S THE OBSERVATORY (SEPTEMBER 3) AND LOS ANGELES, CA’S ICONIC HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM (SEPTEMBER 4) TORONTO SHOW SOLD OUT

The Charlatans UK have released the deluxe edition of their latest album. Out now on all streaming services via BMG, We Are Love (Deluxe) features the newly released "Deeper and Deeper - Faders Down Depth Charge Remix." Faders Down is the remix team comprised of Loz Colbert from Ride and James Hockley of Chicaine. A full drum kit was re-recorded by Colbert for the remix in the studio, while Hockley played additional keyboards. The deluxe edition of the album also has a remix of acclaimed first single "We Are Love," by Ride's Mark Gardner. "Loz Colbert (from Ride) joined us on percussion for our last two tours," says The Charlatans lead singer Tim Burgess. "In between times, we’d talk about music we loved and what we were up to. From that came the idea for a remix, and we knew he loved 'Deeper and Deeper.' What he’s done with it is amazing. I’d got a new set of headphones and couldn’t quite believe what I was hearing. He’s a jedi master of the remix, and I never knew." LISTEN TO "DEEPER AND DEEPER - FADERS DOWN 'DEPTH CHARGE' REMIX" AND "WE ARE LOVE - MARK GARDENER OX4 SOUND REMIX" PURCHASE/STREAM WE ARE LOVE (DELUXE) # # # To celebrate the release of We Are Love (Deluxe), The Charlatans UK are about to embark on the North American leg of their tour, beginning September 3 at The Observatory in Santa Ana, CA, and concluding on September 26 at Brooklyn, NY’s Brooklyn Steel. Highlights include a pair of Golden State headline shows featuring support from The Dandy Warhols and additional special guests to be announced soon, slated for Santa Ana, CA’s The Observatory (September 3) and Los Angeles, CA’s iconic Hollywood Palladium (September 4). The Toronto show at Danforth Music Hall is sold out. For complete details and ticket information, please see thecharlatans.net.   We Are Love is The Charlatans UK’s acclaimed 14th studio album, and stands as the latest milestone in an extraordinary career spanning 13 albums, 22 Top 40 UK singles, three #1 UK albums, and an array of era-defining anthems like “The Only One I Know,” “North Country Boy” and “One to Another,” the album launches a bold new era for the much-beloved British band – Tim Burgess (vocals) Martin Blunt (bass), Mark Collins (guitar), Tony Rogers (keyboards) and Pete Salisbury (drums) – one that finds them at peace with their past while looking forward to a bright future. Recorded at Wales’s legendary Rockfield Studios and their own Big Mushroom in Middlewich, Cheshire with producers Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange and Lightspeed Champion), Fred Macpherson (Spector, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man), and Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, The Cranberries), the album honors the highs and the lows of The Charlatans UK’s own mighty legacy, whilst not being defined by it, a career-long drive to be progressive and innovative.

Photo Credit: Cat Stevens

Hailed by Mojo in a four-starred rave as “joy-sparking…it works beautifully, gently distorting (The Charlatans UK’s) songwriting surfaces with sudden psychedelic sun-spots and experimental flares,” We Are Love includes such instant classic singles as the Hammond organ-driven “Deeper and Deeper” and the celebratory statement of intent and title track, “We Are Love,” both joined by official music videos and electrifying live performances on the UK’s Later…with Jools Holland. WATCH “WE ARE LOVE” (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) WATCH “WE ARE LOVE” LIVE ON LATER...WITH JOOLS HOLLAND   WATCH “DEEPER AND DEEPER” (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) WATCH “DEEPER AND DEEPER” LIVE ON LATER...WITH JOOLS HOLLAND   One of the most enduring UK bands of the last four decades, The Charlatans UK are currently poised to embark on the UK/EU leg of their tour in support of We Are Love, with sold-out dates beginning this Friday, April 24 at Norwich’s Norwich UEA and then continuing into early May. A number of top-billed festival performances are also scheduled, including Grenada, Spain’s Degusta Fest Armilla (May 15-16), Emo, Ireland’s Forest Fest Music Festival (July 24), Herefordshire, UK’s Lakefest (August 6), and Wellingborough, UK’s Roseshire Festival (August 29).   THE CHARLATANS UK - 2026 TOUR   JULY 24 – Emo, Ireland – Forest Fest Music Festival †   AUGUST 6 – Herefordshire, UK – Lakefest † 29 – Wellingborough, UK – Roseshire Festival †   SEPTEMBER 3 – Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory ^ 4 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium ^ 5 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues 7 – San Francisco, CA – The Castro Theatre 10 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom 11 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom 12 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox 16 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line 17 – Chicago, IL – Park West 19 – Detroit, MI – El Club 20 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall (SOLD OUT) 21 – Montreal, QC – Fairmount Theatre 22 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club 23 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer 25 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore Silver Spring 26 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel   † Festival Appearance ^ w/ The Dandy Warhols and Special Guests TBA CONNECT WITH THE CHARLATANS UK WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | X

After announces fall North American headline tour

AFTER ANNOUNCES FALL NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR DEBUT ALBUM FELL ASLEEP IN THE SUN  OUT SEPTEMBER 18TH VIA MOM + POP MUSIC NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO “TAKE ME TO SUNRISE” OUT NOW

After by Dreamweaver “After… feels like a memory you can’t quite place”  Rolling Stone “nothing short of electric onstage” People Magazine TICKETS: https://drop.cobrand.com/d/After/NorthAmerica Fell Asleep in the Sun PRE-SAVE: https://after.lnk.to/fellasleepinthesun  (July 20th, 2026) - After, the LA Pop Rock duo, comprised of Justine Dorsey and Graham Epstein, announce a North American headline tour kicking off this September. The tour announcement arrives on the heels of “Take Me to Sunrise,” which coincided with last week’s announcement of their debut album Fell Asleep in the Sun, arriving September 18th via Mom + Pop Music.  The 16-date run kicks off in Denver before making its way across North America and concluding in the duo's home base of Los Angeles. Artist presale begins Wednesday, July 22nd at 10am local, with general onsale starting Friday, July 24th at 10am local. Purchase tickets HERE. Formed in 2023 after meeting on the dating app Hinge, After quickly discovered that their relationship wasn't meant to be romantic and instead transformed into a musical partnership. The duo has since built a reputation for infectious pop music that, as The FADER described, blends "moody drum and bass, grungy guitars, and shadowy trip-hop amid the bright mall-pop chords and flourishes."  In April of last year, the band released their first extended play, After EP, preceded by singles "Obvious," "Ever," and "300 Dreams" that had first gained them attention and early praise from outlets like Rolling Stone, People Magazine, The FADER, and CLASH. After EP 2, the band's second EP, was released later in 2025, under Mom + Pop Music, featuring the singles "Deep Diving" and "Outbound," the latter of which was featured on Zane Lowe’s 26 for ‘26 playlist. Since then, After has launched their Gap campaign and had their music featured in Apple ads.  Listen to “Take Me to Sunrise,” pre-save Fell Asleep in the Sun, and stay tuned for more from After coming soon. tour poster Tour Dates 9/28 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird 9/29 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court 10/10 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom  10/13 - Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Art Co.  10/13 - Austin, TX @ Brushy Street Commons  10/17 - Atlanta, GA @ Vinyl  10/18 - Nashville, TN @ The Basement East 10/19 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle  10/21 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom  10/23 - Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom 10/25 - Washington, DC @ Atlantis  10/26 - Philadelphia, PA @ Foundry  10/28 - Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall 10/29 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz 11/1 - Toronto, ON @ Mod Club  11/5 - Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey

Listen to Sweeping Promises’ New Single “Accent”

Listen to Sweeping Promises’ New Single “Accent”

Sweeping Promises share the pulsating ripper “Accent”, 

available now on all streaming services from Sub Pop.

The band describes “Accent” as a, “…cacophony of routine, the plight of a lowly drone who dreams of breaking out of an instinct-born & increasingly restrictive flight path. It’s got a flapping, insectoid rhythm, which is misery to play. We call it ‘cicadence.’ It’s a succession of bee-sting realizations from an individual dangerously at risk of becoming feral, independent, an outsider.”

“Accent” follows previously released singles “Cocoon” and “Shooting Shadows” from their forthcoming album, You Say I Romanticize, available Friday, August 14th from Sub Pop.

Sweeping Promises has also confirmed a four-date run of in-store appearances at independent record stores across the Midwest. In-store performances begin on August 13th at Euclid Records in St. Louis, followed by performances at Goner Records in Memphis, Feel It in Cincinnati, and Bric-a-Brac Records & Collectibles in Chicago. These in-store performances are FREE to the public, and you can grab a Loser Edition of the new record on Black and Yellow Confetti vinyl while supplies last.

Sweeping Promises embark on a North American headlining tour in the fall of 2026. The first leg begins on Wednesday, September 9th, in Oklahoma City, OK, and runs through September 29th, culminating in a hometown show at White Schoolhouse in Lawrence, KS. The second leg begins on October 27th in Omaha, NE, and ends on November 18th in Nashville, TN. Further live dates, including international touring, will follow soon. Tickets available at sweepingpromises.com.


YOU SAY I ROMANTICIZE IN-STORES WITH LIVE PERFORMANCES
Thu. Aug. 13 - St. Louis, MO - Euclid Records @ 6:00 PM
Fri. Aug. 14 - Memphis, TN - Goner Records @ 6:00 PM
Sat. Aug. 15 - Cincinnati, OH - Feel It @ 5:00 PM
Sun. Aug. 16 - Chicago, IL - Bric-a-Brac Records & Collectibles @ 4:00 PM

YOU SAY I ROMANTICIZE
NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR
Wed. Sep. 09 - Oklahoma City, OK - Resonant Head
Thu. Sep. 10 - Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves
Fri. Sep. 11 - Austin, TX - LEVITATION
Sat. Sep. 12 - San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger
Tue. Sep. 15 - Phoenix, AZ - Rebel Lounge
Wed. Sep. 16 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
Thu. Sep. 17 - Los Angeles, CA - Sid the Cat Auditorium
Fri. Sep. 18 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop
Sun. Sep. 20 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
Tue. Sep. 22 - Vancouver, BC - Fox Cabaret
Wed. Sep. 23 - Seattle, WA - Baba Yaga
Fri. Sep. 25 - Boise, ID - Shrine Social Club Basement
Sat. Sep. 26 - Salt Lake City, UT - The DLC at Quarters
Sun. Sep. 27 - Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
Tue. Sep. 29 - Lawrence, KS - White Schoolhouse
Tue. Oct. 27 - Omaha, NE - Slowdown
Wed. Oct. 28 - St Paul, MN - Turf Club
Thu. Oct 29 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club
Fri. Oct. 30 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
Sat. Oct. 31 - Detroit, MI - Lager House
Tue. Nov. 03 - Toronto, ON - Monarch
Wed. Nov. 04 - Montreal, QC - La Sala Rossa
Thu. Nov. 05 - Boston, MA - Deep Cuts
Fri. Nov. 06 - Boston, MA - Deep Cuts
Sun. Nov. 08 - Troy, NY - No Fun
Tue. Nov. 10 - New York, NY - Night Club 101
Wed. Nov. 11 - Brooklyn, NY - Baby’s All Right
Thu. Nov. 12 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
Fri. Nov. 13 - Washington, DC - Union Stage
Sat. Nov. 14 - Richmond, VA - Cobra Cabana
Mon. Nov. 16 - Durham, NC - The Pinhook
Tue. Nov. 17 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade (Purgatory)
Wed. Nov. 18 - Nashville, TN - DRKMTTR

Lizzy McAlpine returns with new album Angel out September 18th

LIZZY MCALPINE RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM ANGEL OUT SEPTEMBER 18

“THE LIGHT IN THE PAINTING” OUT THIS THURSDAY, JULY 23

Press photo, credit Keith Oshiro

July 20, 2026—Much-lauded songwriter, vocalist and producer Lizzy McAlpine will unveil her fourth album, Angel, on September 18 via RCA Records—pre-save/pre-order here. The album’s first single, “The light in the painting,” is out this Thursday, July 23—pre-save here. Recorded and produced with longtime collaborators Mason Stoops (Miley Cyrus, ROLE MODEL, Mumford & Sons) and Taylor Mackall (ROLE MODEL, Tiny Habits) in and around Los Angeles over nearly two years, Angel marks a clear sonic expansion for McAlpine—a rich tapestry of classic and contemporary influences, from ‘70s Laurel Canyon folk to 21st-century indie. Written during a period of profound self-discovery, the album chronicles McAlpine’s return to self through the themes of love, heartbreak and the endurance of community and friendship. “I wrote ‘The light in the painting’ about the euphoric beginning of a new connection. It’s the first song I wrote for the album, almost two years ago now, and feels like the perfect introduction to the world we’ve built for Angel.” “The light in the painting,” the first single from the new album, lands this Thursday alongside a music video directed by McAlpine and Neema Sadeghi, another longtime friend and collaborator. Written backstage at a tour stop in San Francisco, the album’s opening track was also the first song McAlpine created for the record. Angel follows the success of McAlpine’s 2024 album Older, which received widespread critical acclaim and saw her sell out an extensive international tour, performing sold-out nights at Radio City, the Greek Theatre and venues across the U.K., Australia and Europe. The deluxe edition, Older (and Wiser), featured Platinum-Certified "Spring Into Summer," Gold-Certified "Pushing It Down and Praying" and Gold-Certified “Staying.” Since her last album, McAlpine has broadened her artistic scope across the screen and stage. Earlier this year, she made her first-ever film appearance in Jamie Adams’ Only What We Carry, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. In 2025, she made her Broadway debut in the much-lauded Floyd Collins at Lincoln Center Theater opposite Jeremy Jordan, with a performance The New York Times called “a vocal wow of a Broadway debut.”  Born outside Philadelphia, Lizzy gained early recognition for her original songs and covers online before releasing her debut album, Give Me A Minute, in 2020. Solidifying herself as a rising force and amassing thousands of devoted fans, Lizzy’s widely successful second studio album, five seconds flat, was released to critical acclaim in the spring of 2022 and featured Platinum-certified track “ceilings.” More from Lizzy is imminent.

album art; TIDY (Gianne Garcia

www.lizzymcalpine.com

Strawberry Hands, the project of Weyes Blood / Karl Blau collaborator Jacob Brunner, announces new LP & shares "Dream of Water"

Strawberry Hands, the project of Weyes Blood / Karl Blau collaborator Jacob Brunner, announces new LP & shares "Dream of Water"

 

VIDEO: "Dream of Water" (Dir. by Jim Strong) -

YouTube

 

“Nylon string tendrils curve around delayed vignettes like vines, large sweeping moments stomp and rattle the sacral rib cage - asymmetric lyrics - a small beautiful voice coming out of a huge man - A Jazz Blessing for the Animal is at once ephemeral and earth shattering . Somewhere between Terrance McKenna and Gregorian chant. Folk with swagger.” -Natalie Merring, Weyes Blood  

An American DIY lifer, Strawberry Hands is what Philadelphia poet, baller, mystic, songwriter Jacob Brunner does. A Jazz Blessing for the Animal, his first widely distributed release, arrives September 18, 2026 on Otherly Love Records. Today he shares the single / video for "Dream of Water," which Brunner describes as: "My ode to Ikkyū Sōjun, the Zen outlaw whose poems on unfettered human nature shocked his more dogmatic contemporaries. It is also an ode to my photographer father, whose bookshelf mashup of Henry Miller, Krishnamurti, and Lee Friedlander nudes forged me into a guerrilla of the sacred profane."

Brunner has long been a mainstay of the Mid-Atlantic house show circuit as Strawberry Hands, as well as a collaborator with fellow world-builders Weyes Blood, Karl Blau, Frank Hurricane, and Little Wings. 

The genesis of Strawberry Hands extends back to an early-2000s moment in what used to be meaningfully called "indie rock" — Romantic, ramshackle independence shaped by Blakean utopian residue and a pre-financial-collapse network of songwriters across New England and the Pacific Northwest who were experimenting with the scale and scope of the form. Phil Elverum, Dave Longstreth, Fred Thomas, the Weisman brothers, and Olivia Tremor Control are touchstones and kindred spirits, extending the tradition toward total art: studio-as-instrument experimentation, fluency with non-rock musics, elaborate arrangements, and sustained investigations into the mysteries of selfhood and reality. 

But where Brunner's transcendentalist forebears often tilt outward toward wilderness, Strawberry Hands is more closely aligned with someone like Grouper’s Liz Harris or conceptual artist Jacolby Satterwhite — more concerned with finding a balance (or not) between dreams, spirit, memory, alchemical darkness, and a reverence for eros and the disorienting yearnings of the body. 

A Jazz Blessing for the Animal, due September 18th on Otherly Love, is the third album in this ever-expanding universe, a crepuscular record made during the small hours in a Germantown bedroom over nine months, by a libidinal, literary mind moving through the back-end of a major depression. It lives at the tenuous borders of things — haunted and sensuous, profane and ethereal, quotidian and transcendent, controlled chance. "It depends on what you mean by ‘real’," as Brunner puts it. 

Built on strange doublings, the album features tripled vocals, bass tracks recorded blind and discovered in collision, elements bounced to cassette and folded back into the digital signal, live and MIDI versions of the same part playing simultaneously, slightly out of phase. Brunner's methodology is similarly doubled: random phrases plucked from the wild, reframed as poetry, their meanings reverse-engineered and traced back to some imaginary source. "Gas No" from a note found on the ground; "A Jazz Blessing for the Animal" from a church marquee; "Erroneous Donut Holes" turns his mother's emails into found poetry, then auto-tunes the cut-ups into speech synth liturgy.

There's always been a subtle androgyny to Strawberry Hands, smearing the line between the spectral and the corporeal without resolving it. The governing philosophy, as Brunner tells it, comes from basketball: "It's okay to want to be Dr. J — to have an ascendant, upward-striving philosophy. But don't lose yourself. Stay rooted. Don't disregard the spiritual possibilities in matter, in food, in fucking. It's okay to yearn too high, to learn to fly, so long as you learn to play under the rim." 

The nine tracks move through this cosmology with dream logic — trauma and ambiguous loss, manic swagger dissolving into self-doubt, lust as sacrosanct, death as return. The Strawberry Hands sound expands into new territories: "Nude Aria Pissant" floats above a Y2K Timbaland booty beat; "Gas No" is a Bowie-esque torch song; “Song of Descent" flirts with a Chopped & Screwed purple haze, like Mellow Gold on codeine, to evoke Brunner’s descent into himself, a meditation on impermanence and death as a return to peace. 

"Dream of Water" is a celestial, country-fried ode to sensuous desire, with pedal steel and strings that recall Townes Van Zandt's Our Mother the Mountain. Lyrics and title were inspired by Zen monk and poet Ikkyu Sojun, whose portrait adorns Brunner's bicep. "Ikkyu was famous for his red thread zen — the red thread of passion running through everyone. He's a classic holy fool, a spiritual rascal, one of those thinkers who engages seriously with questions of taboo and sensuality." 

"What Plant Jumps Over Me" finds Brunner's falsetto at its most plaintive, uncovering the fork between It Was Hot So We Stayed in the Water, "Drop It Like It's Hot," and Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom. The title — scrawled on artist friend Jim Strong’s childhood bedroom wall — asks the album's central question: why must I have the burden of consciousness? "I associate mania with a kind of grandiose spiritual merger with the world," Brunner explains, "but also with talking shit and nearly getting into fistfights on the basketball court. It's not all delusional positivity." 

The title track closes with Brunner's wager: no consciousness without suffering, no art without consciousness — a Faustian bargain, a jazz blessing. Then the refrain: 

I'm some words, I'm some songs, I'm some drums, I'm some dogs, I'm some dishes, I'm some pills, I'm some fish, I'm some cash, I'm some woods loops and half-finished lyrics… 

The record moves furthest from autobiography toward a broader struggle for meaning, curious about something approaching the divine, not as religion but as great mystery. Sacred uncertainty — this is the jazz blessing. 

We are all the Animal. 

Press photo by Garvin Kelly

TOUR DATES:

East Coast w/ full band:

8/26/2026    Hamden, CT    Best Video    
8/27/2026    Amherst, MA    Belchertown UCC   
8/28/2026    Brattleboro, VT    Buoyant Heart    
8/29/2026    Brooklyn, NY    Sunview Luncheonette    
8/30/2026    Brooklyn, NY    Flower Love World (house show)   
9/13/2026    Philadelphia, PA    Johnny Brenda's (record release show!)

West Coast (solo):

9/18/2026    Los Angeles, CA    Permanent Records    
9/19/2026    Santa Cruz, CA    Sub Rosa    
9/20/2026    San Francisco, CA    Adobe Books    
9/21/2026    Portland, OR    Turn Turn Turn