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David Byrne travels the world

Posted in Tours on April 22, 2026

Fresh off Coachella and the late night circuit, one-time Talking Heads frontman David Byrne has announced new North American dates, to be followed by a trip to Asia.

Byrne resumed an active music life again last year with the release of Who Is The Sky? (Matador).

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Tour dates:

04/28/2026 - St. Louis, MO - Stifel Theatre

04/29/2026 - St. Louis, MO - Stifel Theatre

05/01/2026 - Indianapolis, IN - Murat Theatre

05/02/2026 - Indianapolis, IN - Murat Theatre

05/03/2026 - Milwaukee, WI - Miller High Life Theatre

05/05/2026 - Kansas City, MO - Starlight Theatre (Outdoors)

05/07/2026 - Cleveland, OH - Playhouse Square - KeyBank State Theatre

05/09/2026 - Nashville, TN - Ascend Amphitheater

05/11/2026 - Durham, NC - Durham Performing Arts Center 

05/12/2026 - Durham, NC - Durham Performing Arts Center 

05/13/2026 - Virginia Beach, VA - The Dome

05/15/2026 - Bridgeport, CT - Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater

05/17/2026 - Baltimore, MD - Hippodrome Theatre

05/18/2026 - Baltimore, MD - Hippodrome Theatre

06/07/2026 - Dublin, Ireland - St. Anne’s Park

06/12/2026 - Oslo, Norway - Piknik I Parken Festival

06/14/2026 - Stockholm, Sweden - Rosendal Garden Party

06/17/2026 - Prague, Czech Republic - O2 Universum

06/18/2026 - Budapest, Hungary - Budapest Arena

06/21/2026 - Athens, Greece - Release Athens x SNF Nostos

06/23/2026 - Bari, Italy - Fiera del Levante

06/25/2026 - Lucca, Italy - Lucca Summer Festival

06/26/2026 - Marostica, Italy - Marostica Summer Festival

06/28/2026 - Pula, Croatia - Arena Pula

06/29/2026 - Reykjavik, Iceland - Laugardalshöll

07/01/2026 - Gdynia, Poland - Open’er Festival

07/03/2026 - Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival

07/04/2026 - Beuningen, Holland - Down The Rabbit Hole

07/05/2026 - Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter

07/09/2026 - Bilbao, Spain - Bilbao BBK Live

07/10/2026 - Barcelona, Spain - Cruïlla Festival

07/11/2026 - Madrid, Spain - Mad Cool Festival

07/14/2026 - Cascais, Portugal - Ageas Cooljazz Festival 

07/18/2026 - Halifax, UK - The Piece Hall

07/20/2026 - Edinburgh, UK - Edinburgh Playhouse

07/21/2026 - Edinburgh, UK - Edinburgh Playhouse

07/22/2026 - Edinburgh, UK - Edinburgh Playhouse

07/24/2026 - Suffolk, UK - Latitude Festival

07/26/2026 - Depot Live at Cardiff Castle - Cardiff, UK

07/29/2026 - Reykjavik, Iceland - Laugardalshöll

08/07/2026 - Singapore, Singapore - The Star Theatre

08/10/2026 - Bangkok, Thailand - UOB Live

08/15/2026 - Tokyo, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival 

08/16/2026 - Osaka, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival 

08/21/2026 - Seoul, South Korea - Kyunghee University Peace Hall

08/27/2026 - San Diego, CA Cal Coast Union Open Air Theatre 

08/28/2026 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl

08/29/2026 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl

09/17/2026 - Saratoga, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center

09/19/2026 - Queens, NY - Forest Hills Stadium

The Rheia (Redux)

Posted in Records on April 22, 2026

Oathbreaker's 2016 album Rheia -- reviewed at SPB a decade ago -- will be reissued as a Rheia (Redux) by Deathwish Inc on Ma9 29, with a full remaster and redesign The band recently performed the album at Roadburn Festival. Read more Live dates: May 29-31 Toronto, ON — Prepare … Read more

Franklin Go Kid Go gets bigger

Posted in Records on April 22, 2026

Franklin, sometimes written as !franklin during their 1992-2000 run, will have their 1995 album Go Kid Go reissued in deluxe form by Solid Brass. The new 2xLP collection included all of the band's recorded material form 1993-1996 and come sout on July 17. The band straddled the line between indie, … Read more

Modest Mouse comes with An Eraser and a Maze

Posted in Records on April 21, 2026

Modest Mouse returns with another single and news of a new LP. The band is going to release An Eraser and a Maze on June 5 on vocalist Isaac Brock's Glacial Pace Recordings imprint of Virgin Music Group. The band last released The Golden Casket in 2021. In addition, they … Read more

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See The Action in Canada

Posted in Tours on April 21, 2026

The Action, billed as "Canada's first punk band," has announced a ''The 50th anniversary Tour!" in 2026 tour, featuring original vocalist Ted Axe joined by a new lineup of musicians, who will play the band's 1978 set list. After touring with the Ramones and The Stranglers in 1978, the band … Read more

The Slow Shiv trio

Posted in Records on April 21, 2026

Slow Shiv from Nashville, TN, just shared the single "Ridiculous Beast" from their upcoming EP, II, out next month. The band features a lineup of Jordan Smith, Dan Diaz, and Jordan McGee, with members previously playing in Diarrhea Planet and Advent, generally describing the goal of this band to be … Read more

A Wilhelm Scream heard across the world

Posted in Tours on April 20, 2026

A Wilhelm Scream released Cheap Heat (Creator-Destructor) earlier this year and now the New Bedford, MA based band plans to tour the US, Canada, Europe, and Latin America in support. They also shared this new video today: Read more A WILHELM SCREAM Tour Dates: 4/23/2026 Foufounes – Montreal, QC 4/24/2026 … Read more

A new Ceremony song

Posted in Bands on April 20, 2026

Ceremony, coming off a set at Coachella 2026, has sahred their first new song in five years: "Other Hells." “‘Other Hells’ started as a meditation on the dualistic arts and the interplay of opposing forces in our lives: awake/asleep, physical/spiritual, inhale/exhale," vocalist Ross Farrar says in a statement from Relapse … Read more

See You Next Tuesday and Chop X 7 are Brothers

Posted in Records on April 18, 2026

See You Next Tuesday and Chop X 7 have a new collaborative EP out on Monday, Brothers. It releases physically on April 20, then digitally on May 15 via Sundown Records. Out of Michigan, See You Next Tuesday formed in 2004 and reformed in 2022, whereas the copy-paste enabling CHOP … Read more

Fictional Days by Birth (Defects)

Posted in Records on April 18, 2026

Noise-rock band Birth (Defects) recently shared news of a live cassette on Anathema Editions and now another collection is on the way: Fictional Days. Fictional Days is slated as the band's final release, a compilation of unreleased material, including a couple of covers. It comes out on May 22 via … Read more

Armor For Sleep w/ Spanish Love Songs & Flycatcher

Posted in Tours on April 18, 2026

Armor For Sleep will be on tour this summer, playing US dates with Spanish Love Songs and Flycatcher. The band released There Is No Memory recently on Equal Vision. Read more live dates: JUNE 11 — Richmond, VA — The Canal Club * 12 — Wilmington, DE — The Queen … Read more

Si Dios Quiere EP

Posted in Records on April 18, 2026

New Morality Zine just released a new 3-song EP from Si Dios Quiere of Chicago, IL, a self-titled EP with multiple guest spots too. You can stream the short-play metallic hardcore record below. Read more tracklisting: 1. EL INFIERNO TE ESPERA ft Victor Campos of Barrio Slam @barrioslamhc 2. BEEN … Read more

Meet A-100s

Posted in Bands on April 18, 2026

A-100s are a new band with familiar faces from Flogging Molly and Throw Rag -- specifically Matt Hensley (accordionist of Flogging Molly) and Sean Wheeler (vocalist of Throw Rag) -- coming together in their latest project to play ska/reggae/rocksteady alongside a collaborative group of friends who have also played in … Read more

There's a "New Jesus" online this week

Posted in Records on April 17, 2026

Noisy Canadian band Truck Violence just announced the release of their second album, which has the lengthy title of The weathervane is my body. It will release on June 26 on The Flenser. The band, now based in Montréal, has shades of Chat Pile and it's a notable (perhaps coincidence) … Read more

KLONNS and Innumerable Forms forthcoming

Posted in Records on April 17, 2026

With a new album out on May 1, KLONNS recently shared the single "Parasite." It's the second single from their second record, G.A.M.E.S., out via Iron Lung Records. The band will also be touring Europe at that time. A week later, Iron Lung is set to release Innumerable Forms' Fossilized … Read more

Black Flag in photos (1983)

Posted in Music News on April 17, 2026

Bazillion Points Books has announced My War on Wilshire: Black Flag vs. the Wilshire Federal Building...and the Vex. The Michael Pearson book is primiarily composed of photography from two 1983 shows: On Independence Day, 1983, Black Flag spread out under a blue sky on the terrace of FBI headquarters in … Read more

The Dead Milkmen: the book

Posted in Music News on April 16, 2026

J-Card Press just announced the publishing house's eighth book: The Dead Milkmen by Tyler Sonnichsen, about the Philadelphia, PA band of the same name. Formed in 1983, the band is arguably best known for their 1985 debut Big Lizard in my Backyard. The band broke up in 1994 and reunited … Read more

Musth sounds

Posted in Records on April 16, 2026

Mathy noise rock band Musth just announced a new EP called Jollysad, out May 22. It will be released digitally, and on vinyl in a special pairing with the band's earlier Under Nature's Skirt EP. The new single “Disposable Income in the Hands of Teenagers” premiered online today. Read more

The Sound Sanctuary Series of improvised human sound

Posted in Labels on April 15, 2026

Joyful Noise Recordings has a new seasonal collaboration series called The Sound Sanctuary Series, which launches with a new effort between collective The Sound Sanctuary and Deerhoof. The series will issue four releases this year, beginning with the spring Deerhoof effort, later followed by collaborations with Kishi Bashi, JD Pinkus … Read more

The Claudettes introduce Garage Glamour

Posted in Records on April 15, 2026

Out of Chicago, SPB faves The Claudettes have a new album on the way: Garage Glamour, which summarizes the band in just a couple of words. It comes out on Pravda Records this spring -- the official dates still to be announced. It's the first album to feature vocalist Rachel … Read more