Los Angeles duo Bahari releases their new EP titled Forget You which continues to create a niche for themselves with their brand of expansive alt-pop, with the five-song collection revealing an even sharper and more affecting intimacy in their songwriting and soundscape moulding. Comprised of Ruby Carr, a singer/keyboardist who hails from Lamu an island off the coast of Kenya, and singer/bassist Natalia Panzarella, Nashville born but Southern California raised, Bahari is a collision and melding of many different experiences and influences. Bahari shares, “We wanted to make a body of music that we felt was our truest selves. The writing process was incredibly honest. We wanted to open up about things we have gone through. The past year, we have spent so much time reflecting and writing from our hearts; these songs really embody that. Though these songs have different meanings, whether about a heartbreak, loss of a loved one or dealing with mental health, the vulnerability of each song is really what brings the Forget You EP together as a collection.”

New Zealand-born, London-based artist BAYNK returns with the sensual dance/R&B tune "Esther" and announces a new 23-date tour across North America and Canada. This comes one year since the release of his iconic audio-visual "A Study In Movement" EP and the first taste of his debut album set for release later this year. On the new track, BAYNK enlists the velvet vocals of Tinashe, interplaying with his own to create a heavenly balance. BAYNK has seen a meteoric rise since his debut just 5 years ago, amassing over 250 million collective streams across his three independently-released EPs. An instinctive creative, writer, producer, performer, director and above all a thoughtful curator, BAYNK has not only collaborated with Sinead Harnett, GLADES, Tei Shi, Shallou, and Golden Vessel but also shone with his own vocal performances on his anthemic singles "Poolside" and "go with u." In addition to selling out headline performances across the US, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, BAYNK has wowed audiences at festivals such as Coachella and Lollapalooza.

After a four-year break between recordings, the long-time popular Canadian band The Barenaked Ladies returns with their new album titled "Detour De Force." The band recorded the album in Robertson's living room in Northern Ontario and at Toronto's Noble Street Studios before the pandemic outbreak; the first new record from the band since 2017’s "Fake Nudes" took on an entirely new life after the world hit pause. The 14-tune set still showcases the clever lyrics, sharp musicality and pop melodies upon which the quartet built a career. Yet, the majority of the songs’ subject matter is surprisingly sombre. This band could never leave its tongue-in-cheek humour behind, but its new material is decidedly mature. Produced by Juno award-winner Eric Ratz with Mark Howard, Detour de Force demonstrates the benefits of the so-called “pandemic pause effect” that has resulted in so many excellent recordings in the past year. Faced with a working environment completely at odds with the standard record-release-tour model, many artists became immersed in making their albums in a way they hadn’t before with positive results. Barenaked Ladies were scheduled to perform their Last Summer On Earth tour this June; however, they had to reschedule their tour to Summer 2022.

John Mayer resides in the Gen-X realm of being raised on radio and MTV, and he’s filtered those influences in his newly released eighth studio album, “Sob Rock." Nearly 20 years after his debut album “Room for Squares” and the idealism of debut single “No Such Thing,” Mayer continues to explore. “Sob Rock” is Mayer’s first album in four years, as he’s committed to touring with Dead & Company. His last album, “The Search for Everything” (2017), was a musical rendering of a psychiatrist’s couch, while “Born and Raised” (2012) tapped into his interest in Americana. But for this latest effort, he’s dedicated to revisiting the ‘80s, not through tinny synthesizers or with overwrought flamboyance, but pleasant, pillow-soft rock. Inspired, he’s said, by Quentin Tarantino’s casting various OGs in his movies, Mayer recruited ’80s studio standouts like keyboardist Greg Phillinganes and percussionist Lenny Castro to complement his usual players; their work provides just the right sparkle and groove to conjure the moment when blues-based rock was giving way to something shinier and more synthetic.

Los Angeles trio LANY has announced that their fourth album, "gg bb xx," will be released on September 3 via Interscope Records. The album is now available for pre-order. Today, they’ve shared two new thrilling tracks, “Up To Me” and “DNA [demo].” The album comprises of 12-track, produced by Andrew Goldstein, John Ryan and LANY. The two new songs follow the first offering, “Dancing In The Kitchen”—which showcases the group’s knack for penning relatable pop tunes, emphasizing the importance of enjoying life’s little moments over a joyous beat”—and LANY’s first new music of 2021, “I Quit Drinking,” a duet with country superstar Kelsea Ballerini which debuted with a live performance at this year’s CMT Awards last month. LANY’s breakthrough came with its 2017 self-titled debut, which built an international fanbase and led to sold-out arenas across the world. The heartbreak anthems on their 2018 follow-up "Malibu Nights" cracked the Billboard Album Chart and connected in a huge way across the globe, with their 2019 collaboration with Lauv, “Mean It,” garnering further attention.

Grammy Award-winner dropped two brand new tracks, “Sweet Dream” and “Shapeshifter,” as it marks a new era for the Brampton-born singer-songwriter, as they will be part of her upcoming third album. The first single, “Sweet Dream,” is candied pop and sounds like a natural progression of Cara’s other songs, such as “Trust My Lonely.” Despite its downcast themes, the upbeat, addictive melodies are a playful and fun side of Cara that listeners don’t always get to hear. Cara also explains that “Shapeshifter,” which is smoother and jazzier than most of Cara’s previous releases, is “witty and sophisticated in a way that I feel represents the more mature and light-hearted parts; of the album.” The track is a clear nod to Amy Winehouse, one of Cara’s inspirations. There are lush harmonies, and the harp gives it a serene, sparkling feel. The music video for “Shapeshifter” will be out on July 23. She will also be part of an upcoming Metallica tribute album and will join the band alongside Billie Eilish, The Weeknd, BTS more on September 25 for their Global Citizen concert. In addition, Cara is set to perform “Sweet Dream” on the “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on July 19, and then again on “Live with Kelly & Ryan” on Wednesday, July 21.

Tones and I will be releasing her debut album "Welcome to the Madhouse," the Australian singer’s first official LP following a string of singles that includes her hits “Dance Monkey” and “Fly Away,” with the latter appearing on the upcoming album. Today two more tracks have surfaced online from her debut album, one titled "Dark Waters" and the second being "You Don't Know My Name." This album for me is very up and down and reflects the forever changing emotions in me,” Tones and I — a YouTube busker-turned-hitmaker — said in a statement of "Welcome to the Madhouse." “There are songs on the album written before ‘Dance Monkey,’ about not knowing if busking was right for me. There are songs about my good friend T passing away and not wanting to deal with those emotions. The ups and downs of life in lockdown and the mental challenges/struggles. Some songs make me laugh, and some make me cry, but there is no running theme or vibe to the album — the songs are unique to how I was feeling the day I wrote them.” The album also features Tones and I’s 2021 single “Won’t Sleep.” Tones and I wrote and co-produced every track on "Welcome to the Madhouse," which is available to preorder now ahead of its July 16th arrival via Bad Batch.

Bastille has unveiled their new song, “Give Me The Future,” from their upcoming fourth studio album. Additionally, featured in Jeep’s new campaign video, “Life Electrified,” is also out today. Following last month’s ‘Distorted Light Beam,’ Dan Smith says of their sci-fi-inspired latest, “‘Give Me The Future’ is a song about plugging into endless possibilities. It literally feels like everything is out there for the taking, all tastes catered for. The spaceship sound at the start? It’s us crash landing in the future. The reality we live in at the moment was the science fiction of not that long ago. Take a film like Minority Report. The technology in that seemed so far off, a fantasy. But it’s here; we’re way beyond it already. Had someone told you that 20 years ago when the film came out… you’d have laughed. Or been terrified.” Last month, Bastille returned with their latest single, “Distorted Light Beam.” The song, a gleaming, metallic rush of retro-futuristic pop, was co-written and co-produced with Ryan Tedder alongside the band’s long-time collaborator Mark Crew. It marks the beginning of a new chapter for the band—one that revolutionizes their sound—and hints at a new sonic and visual world to come.

Scottish electro-pop trio CHVRCHES is releasing a new album, Screen Violence, on August 27 via Glassnote. Now they have shared its third single, “Good Girls." The new track works as a sort of statement of intent. Mayberry starts the track off like this: “Killing your idols is a chore/ And it’s such a fucking bore/ ‘Cause I don’t need them anymore.” It’s a song about the frustration of waiting a long time for the rest of the world to catch up to where you are and about the exhaustion of having to explain yourself over and over. Mayberry had this to say about the song in the press release: “The opening line (killing your idols is a chore) was something I wrote after listening to some friends arguing about the present-day implications of loving certain problematic male artists—I was struck by the lengths that people would go to excuse their heroes and how that was so juxtaposed to my own experiences in the world. Women have to constantly justify their right to exist and negotiate for their own space. We’re told that Bad Things don’t happen to Good Girls. That if you curate yourself to fit the ideal—keep yourself small and safe and acceptable—you will be alright, and it’s just not fucking true.” "Screen Violence" is the band’s fourth album and the follow-up to 2018’s "Love Is Dead." Screen Violence is set to be released on August 27, 2021, Glassnote Records.

Colombian singer and songwriter Shakira has dropped her first taste of new music titled "Don't Wait Up." The track will serve as the Latin pop superstar's first English-language single in five years and the lead single from her fifth English studio album. Don't Wait Up was trailed by a wipe of Shakira's social media accounts before a teaser image hinting at the song's release through a text conversation via the singer's Instagram. Shakira has been working on new music since early 2020 when she reassured fans that she was productive in quarantine. “‪I’ve read your tweets, bosses!” the 44-year-old joked in an Instagram post after fans trended #ShakiraReleaseNewMusic. “I’m on it!” While four years have passed since the release of Shakira’s Grammy-winning “El Dorado,” the pop icon has maintained a high profile. In 2019, Shakira released “Shakira In Concert: El Dorado World Tour,” a documentary film documenting a career-threatening vocal cord injury and her triumphant comeback. That film also shone a light on the superstar’s philanthropic endeavours in the developing world. She doubled down in 2020, urging world leaders to donate supplies and vaccines to those who need them most. “Don’t Wait Up” is reportedly the lead single from Shakira’s yet-untitled 12th studio album.

After unveiling the first single with Naill Horan titled "Our Song," Anne-Marie has delivered her next single, "Beautiful." The track, co-written by Ed Sheeran, Max Martin and Elvira Anderfjärd, also features vocals at the end of the track from Anne-Marie's godson and his little sister. A self-empowerment anthem about accepting yourself as you are, “Beautiful” ends with a guest appearance by the children of one of Anne-Marie’s friends. The chorus goes, “Darling when they put you down like that/Yeah, you can reply right back/You are beautiful/I know, I know, you are.” On Twitter, Anne-Marie wrote that the song "Beautiful" is such an important song for me, so it was extraordinary to create it with Ed Sheeran. I hope that when you listen to this, it makes you realize how magnificent you are. Let’s spread love and kindness." Her new album "Therapy," which will follow Anne-Marie's 2018 debut album "Speak Your Mind," will include collaborations with Little Mix and Rudimental and will feature previous singles including "Way Too Long" with Nathan Dawe and MoStack and "Don’t Play" with KSI and Digital Farm Animals. "Therapy" will land on July 23 via Major Toms/Asylum and can be pre-order now.

Will Young has released his new single "Crying On The Bathroom Floor," a cover of the MUNA song and the title track from his upcoming album. The track comes accompanied by an official video that the renowned Andrew John “W.I.Z also directed prequels the video for "Daniel." "Crying on The Bathroom Floor was destined not only to be a single but the title of the album. For me, there is humour in the album title as well as sadness. My respect for MUNA is super high – they are just the sort of exciting, authentic act that makes music worth listening to. It was a privilege to put my own spin on their song, as well as a privilege to work with Richard X again on production. I also worked with Wiz on the video, a director who I have returned to time and time again. Both of whom I have a huge creative affinity with. I am looking forward to sharing the rest of the album with everyone. These are all songs written by strong, authentic and challenging, individual women that I find utterly inspiring,” shares Young. This September, Will embarks on a series of intimate live shows, performing several new tracks alongside classic songs acoustically and chatting with audiences across the country.

Joshua Bassett lets go of his onscreen relationship with Olivia Rodrigo in a new song titled "Let You Go" that will be featured on the next High School Musical: The Musical: The Series episode. The ninth episode of season 2, titled "Spring Break," features the East High Wildcats on break and Ricky (played by Bassett) contemplating his breakup with Nini (played by Rodrigo). While visiting his mother in Chicago, Ricky sings a heartfelt anthem from the piano titled "Let You Go." Earlier this season, Bassett and Rodrigo performed their specially orchestrated romantic ballad "Even When/ The Best Part," which marked how the onscreen high school love birds navigated their relationship as a long-distance couple after Nini departed to the Denver-based Youth Actors Conservatory, leaving Ricky behind in Salt Lake City, Utah. In early 2020, Bassett signed with talent and entertainment company United Talent Agency, as well as signed a recording contract with Warner Records. Bassett released his self-titled debut EP on March 12, 2021, with the lead single, "Lie Lie Lie," being released on January 14, 2021.

Legendary ’00s girl band Atomic Kitten have released their new single, written to drum up the football fever in anticipation of the England vs Denmark Euros game tonight. “Southgate You’re The One (Football’s Coming Home Again)” is performed by Jenny Frost, Liz McClarnon and Natasha Hamilton and has been inspired by England manager Gareth Southgate and his team of players. The song has been released following a live version being performed at a gig by the band last week. There were calls on Twitter for a full studio version, and the girls have delivered. “It’s been a whirlwind couple of days, but we are super excited and grateful to be able to contribute to the awesome energy and patriotism that is filling the streets with a brand new version of Whole Again,” the band wrote on Instagram. “This has made me the happiest person in the world #ENGLAND,” wrote one very enthusiastic listener, with another saying, “can’t believe atomic kitten have actually gone and recorded a southgate version of whole again I'm screaming.” Atomic Kitten landed 13 U.K. Top 10 hits in the late ‘90s and 2000s, including leaders with “Whole Again,” “Eternal Flame,” and “The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling)."

San Diego’s Switchfoot is getting near the release of their twelfth studio album "Interrobang," so in anticipation, they have dropped a new single titled "The Bones Of Us." Working with producer Tony Berg (Paul McCartney, Phoebe Bridgers, Andrew Bird) at both Sound City studio in Van Nuys, CA and the band’s own studio in Carlsbad, CA, Switchfoot: Jon Foreman, Tim Foreman, Chad Butler, Jerome Fontamillas, and Drew Shirley recorded the album in a burst of pent-up mid-pandemic creativity throughout last year and into 2021. Fearlessly marrying 60’s experimentalism and synth-driven new wave swagger, the band pushed past its comfort zones and retooled its sound. “More than ever, we want our music to be a bridge, reaching out with melody and lyrics to sing an honest song for anyone who’s got ears to hear,” says Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman. “interrobang is an album that celebrates the journey, even when the arrival is unsure. interrobang is the sound of joy and pain, faith and doubt against the backdrop of the strangest, most difficult year we’ve ever experienced.” "Interrobang" will be the follow-up to 2018’s "Native Tongue" and last year’s "Covers" EP. "The Bones Of Us" is the follow-up to “Fluorescent” and “I Need You (To Be Wrong).” "Interrobang drops on August 20, 2021.

British-born pop singer Ed Sheeran has released an acoustic version of his latest single, "Bad Habits" which is his first new release since 2019's "No.6 Collaborations Project." The global pop star's newest single is uptempo, '80s-indebted, decidedly nocturnal pop song that's already off to a dynamite start at radio and has earned no shortage of comparisons to the man behind the biggest radio hit of the past decade. But while the song debuts at number 5, "Bad Habits" is the first taste from Sheeran's upcoming fifth album. The song incorporates more aspects of electronic music, and its accompanying music video is anything but conventional; it shows Ed flying around dressed as a vampire. The meaning, however, seems to be close to home for many. The song is partially about reflecting on bad decisions, often made late at night. For the lead single off of his upcoming album rumoured to be called "Minus," Ed addresses vices and their effect on people. As he paints a picture of how impulsive decisions can lead to less-than-ideal outcomes.

Singer/songwriter born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Nina Nesbitt, has released a new song titled "Summer Fling" from her upcoming new album. The 26-year-old has been dropping hints on her social media channels all week and has finally revealed the new tune. Livingston-born Nina also said she has been 'training in the gym' for eight weeks, especially for this video. Nina can be seen sitting on a red toad stool wearing a blue crochet dress and some killer Marc Jacobs boots in the preview. Captioning the post, Nina said: "The music video for summer fling is premiering this Friday. I’m sooooo excited for you all to see it; I trained for 8 weeks to be able to do some of the stuff. It’s definitely my favourite that @wolfjamescreative and I have made yet… leave me a (heart) if you’re excited!" Nina forced her way into the music industry at the age of 17 after performing her song “Standing on One Leg” for pop sensation Ed Sheeran in 2011. After that, Ed asked her to go on tour with him, and she accepted. Nina released her second album, “The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change,” in 2019. Nina released a deluxe edition of her second album entitled “The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change & The Flowers Will Fall.” on November 22, 2019.

A newly released track has been shared by seven-time Grammy award winner Billie Eilish titled "NDA." The singer also teased fans with a snippet of the track back in April, along with a full tracklist for the forthcoming album. Despite being called “Happier Than Ever,” song titles listed in the preview she shared seem anything but, with names like “Everybody Dies” and “NDA.” She also shared what appears to be a still from the "NDA" video, which features a blurry, double image of the singer against a black background. The new track "NDA" follows "Lost Cause" and will serve as the fifth single released from her forthcoming album ‘Happier Than Ever,’ via Darkroom/Interscope Records, which is slated to drop on July 30. Billie Eilish told Rolling Stone about the album, “Almost none of the songs on this album are joyful. I went through some crazy shit, and it really affected me and made me not want to go near anyone ever. I don't know how to explain this, but all the songs on the album feel like a specific time because they feel like when I wrote them and made them. It's so funny that it's going to feel like a certain moment for them to the rest of the world, and it's going to be so different than mine. That's such a weird, weird thing to wrap my head around. And I will fucking love it. I love it. That's the reason you do this. It's for that.”

Jakob Dylan has released his first album with The Wallflowers in almost a decade titled, "Exit Wounds" which comes nine years after 2012’s "Glad All Over." Dylan typically takes several years between releases. Even The Wallflowers' hit-spawning 1996 breakthrough, "Bringing Down the Horse" with hits "One Headlight" and "6th Avenue Heartache," didn't produce a follow-up for four years ("Breach"). Dylan wrote the songs for ‘Exit Wounds’ “when the world felt like it was falling apart.” He said, “That changes the way you address even the simplest things because you have panic in your mind all the time. You have anxiety. And you also have hope. And it’s all in there”. Recorded in Los Angeles at producer Butch Walker’s studio, the 10 tracks were wrapped in a couple of weeks in early 2020. As with past Wallflowers records, Dylan fronts a rotating cast of musicians. The majority of the players on “Exit Wounds” are members of Walker’s regular band: bassist Whynot Jansveld; keyboardist Aaron Embry; drummer Mark Stepro and Walker himself on guitars, keyboards and, on the rollicking “Who’s That Man Walking ‘Round My Garden,” the all-important cowbell.

Canadian singer and songwriter Olivia Lunny has released her debut self-titled album, led by the first single, "Sad To See You Happy," which is a nostalgic, melodious bop we didn’t know we needed. This song will have fans singing along and pondering ex-lovers from their past through peppy guitar strokes and cheeky chorus lyrics. The 22-year-old artist who won an episode of The Launch has not stopped moving forward in the industry since then. "The Launch" is a Canadian singing competition TV series where an artist is selected each episode to record a song produced by famous musicians. In Lunny’s case, winning meant having “I Got You” as her debut single after winning the fourth episode of the series’ second season. Here is what Lunny had to say about the new record, "I’m beyond excited to put this project out! I’ve never released a grouping of songs like this before, so I feel that listeners will truly understand who I am as an artist! This album is an authentic representation of the different sides to my artistry!" Lunny released her first EP, "To The Ones I Love," and a few singles, including "Bedsheets" and Think of Me."