Nas & The Roots, Robert Glasper & Questlove, Common, and Anthony Hamilton will headline the first ever international edition of iconic Philadelphia hip-hop festival Roots Picnic, coming to Crystal Palace Bowl on Saturday 8 – Sunday 9 August 2026. Nas & The Roots will headline the first day with a special two-hour joint performance, as well as Sasha Keable, J.PERIOD Live Mixtape Feat Black Thought & Yasiin Bey & Benny The Butcher, and Nia Smith. The second day will feature a Sunday Jam featuring Robert Glasper & Questlove with special guest Common & Bilal, as well as headliner Anthony Hamilton. Support will come from Musiq Soulchild, Floetry, and Gotts Street Park with Olive Jones. Anthony Hamilton and Floetry will be performing in the UK for the first time in a decade. Both days will feature sounds by Benji B.

Roots Picnic is part of Palace Bowl Presents, a new festival series featuring an eclectic lineup of global headliners from Friday 31 July to Sunday 16 August.

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Today, multi-platinum artist and creative polymath Melanie Martinez announces Hades:The Sacrifice, her new North American and European tour in support of Hades, her fourth studio album. Produced by Live Nation, the global run will begin with a first leg across North America and Mexico this summer before heading overseas for a series of arena dates across the United Kingdom and Europe. See full tour routing and ticketing info below.

On the tour, Melanie shares: “When writing HADES, I knew the tour for this album had to be immersive and cinematic. Creating a new character and thinking of how she’ll be performing in this new world is so exciting. This tour is very different to anything I’ve done before and involves more practical elements and camera illusions that I’m really excited about. We’re working on making sure each song gets their moment. I hope it can bring people together under these strange dystopian times we’re living in.”

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The Strokes today add an additional London date to their upcoming global tour, with a second night confirmed at The O2 on October 7, 2026, following strong demand.

The newly added show joins an extensive run across North America, the U.K., Europe and Japan, kicking off in June and running through the fall. The tour will see stops including two nights at Red Rocks, London’s The O2, Toronto’s RBC Amphitheatre, Paris’ Accor Arena, Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome and more. Thundercat, Cage the Elephant, Hamilton Leithauser, Fat White Family, Alex Cameron and ÖLÜM will support select dates across the tour.

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Nordoff and Robbins, the UK’s largest music therapy charity, and LW Theatres have today announced a new partnership, running until 2028.

Uniting performance with purpose in support of Nordoff and Robbins’ life-changing music therapy services, LW Theatres has committed to raising awareness of the charity in front of audiences across its globally renowned theatre portfolio, including The London Palladium, His Majesty’s Theatre and Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

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The Strokes unveil global dates across North America, the U.K., Europe and Japan, kicking off in June and running through the fall.

The tour will see stops including two nights at Red Rocks, London’s The O2, Toronto’s RBC Amphitheatre, Paris’ Accor Arena, Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome and more. Thundercat, Cage the Elephant, Hamilton Leithauser, Fat White Family, Alex Cameron and ÖLÜM will support select dates across the tour.

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With zero announcements or teasers from the band, Enter Shikari have surprise released their brand new album! Lose Your Self (released via So Recordings) spans 12 tracks exploring themes of desolation, futility and complete despair at the state of the world, but with glimmers of hopefulness and optimism threaded throughout. Whilst the likes of major pop stars including Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber who have famously released albums out of the blue over the years, Enter Shikari have managed to not only release Lose Your Self digitally, but also physically, unlike their predecessors. As of right now (from midnight on Friday 10th April), this accomplished and ingenious body of work is available to stream and also buy in CD and vinyl format worldwide. Listen here.

Frontman Rou articulates, “We’re delighted to present LOSE YOUR SELF, and give people the chance to hear a Shikari record like never before – as a cohesive whole.
We want people to go on a proper journey with this album, and see where it takes them.
No lead up, no singles, and no explanation. Forcing the listener to actually listen, without being drip-fed ideas out of context, or spoon-fed explanations.
We simply present it all, for the listener to immerse themself in.
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The winners of the Olivier Awards 2026 with Cunard were revealed this evening at London’s Royal Albert Hall, in a ceremony hosted by Nick Mohammed. Marking their 50^th anniversary, the Olivier Awards celebrate the very best of London’s world-leading theatre industry. This year’s most awarded production was Paddington The Musical, with seven wins. Musicals Evita and Into The Woods, and plays All My Sons, Kenrex, and Punch, each received two awards.

Paddington The Musical’s seven wins included the coveted Cunard Best New Musical award for writers Tom Fletcher & Jessica Swale. James Hameed & Arti Shah took home the Best Actor in a Musical award for their joint portrayal of the musical’s title character, whilst Victoria Hamilton-Barritt received the Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical award, and Tom Edden the Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical award. The show’s creatives triumphed, with Luke Sheppard receiving the Sir Peter Hall Award for Best Director, Tom Pye (Set Design) & Ash J Woodward (Video Design) taking home the award for Best Set Design supported by Blue-i Theatre Technology, and Gabriella Slade (Costume Design) & Tahra Zafar (Paddington Design) winning Best Costume Design, a second win in a row for Gabriella Slade, who won the same award for her work on Starlight Express last year.

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Jack White has announced plans for a wide-ranging 2026 headline tour. North American dates begin July 10 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 several cities, including Brooklyn, Chicago, Los Angeles, Charlotte, and Miami Beach. Special guests will be announced soon.

White and his band will also come to the UK and Ireland for a series of shows, including two-night stands at London’s Hammersmith Apollo (August 25-26) and Bristol’s The Prospect Building (August 28). Vault presales and Artist presales for all newly announced North American, UK, and Ireland dates begin Monday, April 13, at 10 am and 12 pm local time, respectively. General on-sale follows on Friday, April 17, at 10 am Local.

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Multi-Platinum, Grammy-Winning R&B Singer/Songwriter Ella Mai, has announced 11 headline dates across the UK & Europe following the release of her third studio album, Do You Still Love Me?. This announcement follows a run of headline and festival appearances throughout South Africa, Asia, and Australia announced earlier this year.

The newly announced UK & Europe leg of the Do You Still Love Me? Tour kicks off on September 13^th at Vega in Copenhagen, Denmark, making stops at Cologne’s Live Music Hall, and London’s Eventim Apollo, among others, before wrapping on Tuesday, September 29^th.

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Tomora, the duo of Aurora and Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers, have announced further European tour dates following their first-ever live shows this week.

Tomora will perform at SWG3 Galvanizers in Glasgow on 26 October, London’s Roundhouse on 28 October, Amare in Den Haag, Netherlands on 31 October, and UFO Velodrom in Berlin on 1 November.

The announcement follows Tomora’s live debut at Manchester’s New Century Hall and  London’s EartH Hackney – with their first festival performance to follow at Coachella in April. Visual direction at the shows will come from Adam Smith, long time collaborator of The Chemical Brothers and more recently of Aurora.

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