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The 2025 lineup for BottleRock Napa Valley has arrived, with Green Day, Justin Timberlake, and Noah Kahan set to headline the three-day festival this May.

Hosted in Napa, California on May 23rd, 24th, and 25th, BottleRock 2025 will once again bring art, food, and wine together, with stages for musicians and chefs alike.

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Filling out the lineup will be acts like Benson Boone, Khruangbin, Cage the Elephant, Ice Cube, Sublime, Kaskade, Goose, Public Enemy, 4 Non Blondes, Remi Wolf, E-40, Flo Rida, Lauren Mayberry, Robby Krieger of The Doors, Kate Hudson, and many more. See the full lineup below.

Three-day general admission tickets for BottleRock 2025 will go on sale on Tuesday, January 14th at 10:00 a.m. Pt on the festival’s website, with details for VIP tickets and other tiers coming soon.

For more, revisit Consequence’s coverage of BottleRock 2024, which saw memorable sets from Pearl Jam and Megan Thee Stallion,...

Over the last decade, Chvrches singer Lauren Mayberry’s lyrics have grown increasingly concerned with the challenges of being a woman in a male-dominated industry. The duo’s 2021 album Screen Violence drew largely on the experiences that Mayberry has had with creeps and stalkers, and her first solo album, Vicious Creature, continues to pose difficult questions about life as a female musician in a business that forces her to admit, as she does “Change Shapes,” that “we’re all snakes.”

Vicious Creature allows Mayberry to more fully embrace the persona of a ruthless, take-no-shit diva that she adopted on Chvrches’s “Gun” and “We Sink.” On “Crocodile Tears,” she declares, “Maybe I’m a villain but find it kind of thrilling when you cry,” and she takes on the role of a femme fatale on “Mantra.” Based on an encounter with a well-known musician who spouted conspiracy theories, “Something in the Air...

In July 2023, Lauren Mayberry took the first step towards building her musical identity on her own as she announced plans to move away from Chvrches for a while. What followed was a string of singles that positioned the electro-pop band’s frontwoman as a soloist for the first time. The latest is a record titled “Crocodile Tears,” which arrives alongside the announcement of Mayberry’s solo debut album Vicious Creature, out Dec. 6.

With “Crocodile Tears,” Mayberry gave herself permission to dismiss the boundaries of expected behavior. Written with Matthew Koma and Ethan Gruska,...

Lauren Mayberry, frontwoman of Chvrches, has announced details of her debut solo album: Vicious Creature will arrive in full on December 6th via Island Records. She’s also shared a new preview of the LP in the form of “Crocodile Tears,” and announced dates for a 2025 North American tour.

“Crocodile Tears” builds out the vibe established with previously released single “Something In the Air,” where Mayberry embraces catharsis. There’s a cheeky side to this new track, though: “Maybe I’m a villain, but I find it kind of thrilling when you cry,” she admits over bright synths and an upbeat drum keeping time.

In a statement about the project, Mayberry called out “the dark, physical, and subversive sides of femininity” as key influences over Vicious Creature as a whole, citing musicals like Cabaret and Chicago. “Crocodile Tears” is now the fourth track listeners can enjoy ahead of the full project in December,...

Health have released the new song “Free To Die” featuring fellow industrial luminaries Filter.

The song touts a prominent duet by Health’s Jake Duzsik and Richard Patrick of Filter. Their higher register voices are perfectly complimentary to one another, riding over blasts of hyper-compressed guitar and a pulsing electronic beat. Musically, the track falls in Health’s court — though Patrick’s knack for cutting vocal melodies is also quite tangible.

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“Free To Die” comes as part of Health’s newly released Rat Wars Ultra Edition, an expanded reissue of their 2023 full-length.

In addition to the original 12-song tracklist, the band has attached a four-song “Addendum” EP that includes the track with Filter plus previously released singles “Ashamed” (featuring Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches), Health’s cover of Deftones’ “Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away),” and the Bad Omens/Swarm collab “The Drain.”

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Chvrches frontwoman Lauren Mayberry has shared a new solo single, “Something in the Air.” The musician previewed the anthemic track live last month before debuting it last night on BBC Radio 1.

The pop-rock number sees Mayberry crooning, “You come up with your stories/ conspiracy theories of why we’re all here/ oh, I just want to be someone/ someone who’s happy/ but why do you even care?”

“’Something in the Air’ is a song that really came out of nowhere,” Mayberry explained in a statement. “I was in...

Chvrches vocalist Lauren Mayberry is back with “Something in the Air,” her latest solo single that will appear on her forthcoming debut album Vicious Creature.

With a towering chorus and a bustling drum beat, “Something in the Air” is a cathartic, satisfying turn from Mayberry. A press release notes that in addition to ’90s icons Tori Amos, Pj Harvey, and Kathleen Hanna, Mayberry was also inspired by ’90s girl groups like All Saints and Sugababes for her solo album — “Something in the Air,” with its Britpop-adjecent arrangement, definitely feels aligned with the kind of open-hearted majesty that those girl groups boasted.

Meanwhile, Mayberry describes her frustration with conspiracy theories, rigid belief systems, and having a lack of control over the existential knowledge we crave. “You come up with your stories/ Conspiracy theories of why we’re all here/ Oh, I just want to be someone/ Someone who’s happy/ But why do you even care?...

In the summer of 2007 a group of emerging filmmakers and actors set out into the Scottish wilderness to make a low budget horror film in homage to the low budget American horror films of the 1970s. The grizzly slasher titled The Bench has never been completed, until now.

Inspired by Tobe Hooper’s original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), this team of filmmakers led by writer / director Sean Wilkie (Matter of Time) used the HD revolution to their advantage, shooting the film on Hdv tape lends a quality that’s been absent from cinema since 16mm celluloid went out of fashion some decades earlier, the film taps into elements established by the grungy guerilla films such as The Blair Witch Project.

Magic Monkey Films (Mercy Falls / Lost At Christmas) is proud to announce the revival of the long-dormant horror film, The Bench, a project that echoes the raw terror and unrelenting suspense...

If you poke around the Bloody Disgusting archives you’ll see that we wrote about an indie horror movie titled The Bench way back in 2012, a film that actually began production in 2007. The movie never ended up seeing the light of day… until now, that is.

17 years later, The Bench is available now to rent or buy on Prime Video!

The official press release explains, “In the summer of 2007 a group of emerging filmmakers and actors set out into the Scottish wilderness to make a low budget horror film in homage to the low budget American horror films of the 1970s. The grizzly slasher titled The Bench has never been completed, until now.

“Inspired by Tobe Hooper’s original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), this team of filmmakers led by writer / director Sean Wilkie (Matter of Time) used the HD revolution to their advantage, shooting the film on Hdv tape that lends...

Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival is returning to Seattle this September with a lineup led by Pavement, James Blake, Kurt Vile, Courtney Barnett, Kim Gordon, Freddie Gibbs, and Aly & Aj. The event takes place over Labor Day weekend (August 31st – September 1st) at the Seattle Center campus.

Other confirmed acts include Cypress Hill, Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry, Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird, BadBadNotGood, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Mercury Rev, Lol Tulhurst x Budgie, Hurray For the Riff Raff, Squirrel Flower, Pom Pom Squad, Pink Sifu, Moor Mother, Kassa Overall, Ladytron, and more. Check out the full lineup and 2024 festival poster below.

As with previous years, Bumbershoot features a centerpiece visual arts program curated from artists throughout the Pacific Nortwest, alongside food and beverage offerings from more than 50 regional restaurants, wineries, and breweries.

This year, Bumbershoot is also introducing the animation district as part of its visual arts celebration — the 2024 programming is set to feature visual exhibitions,...

Chvrches vocalist Lauren Mayberry is back with another solo single, “Change Shapes.”

Led by a groovy, pulsating bassline, Mayberry rails against the expectations put on her as a woman, and how her efforts as a feminist are constantly undermined by those who think she’s doing both too much and not enough. “I’m preachin’ to the choir/ I’m a body for hire,” she sings, before launching into the strutting chorus: “I change shapes to get what I want from you/ It’s your game now you’re mad that I learned the rules.”

According to Mayberry, the song revolves around the idea of performance — how she’s a performer within the context of being in Chvrches, but also performing the idea of what her audience, her peers, and the music industry at large want her to be. “How do I keep people happy enough that they’ll let...

Kate Bush was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Friday.

Outkast rapper Big Boi, who describes himself as Bush’s “biggest fan,” had the honor of introducing her into Hall of Fame. “On the surface, our music is obviously very different,” Big Boi noted. “But in important ways, it’s exactly the same. What I love about Kate’s music is that I never know what sound I’m going to hear next. She ignores everything that sounds like a formula and instead does whatever she wants to — like me. She challenges me as a listener and expands my ears and my mind.”

“[She] fills my heads with idea and expand my ambitions for what music can achieve,” Big Boi continued. “As a singer, Kate’s voice is incredibly inventive. Who sounds like Kate Bush? On stage, she’s a miracle. Her songs sound theatrical on their own,...

It’s been a decade since Chvrches first released The Bones of What You Believe. Now, the band is honoring their celebrated debut album with a 10th anniversary reissue, which features four previously-unheard songs and five live recordings from 2013.

“It feels quite strange that Bones is almost a decade old,” vocalist Lauren Mayberry said in a statement. “In some ways, it’s like it just happened, but also like that era was a lifetime ago. We are very grateful to all the fans who gave that album a special place in their heart, and still show us so much kindness today.”

One of the newly-unearthed songs is “Manhattan,” which was written right as that era from a “lifetime ago” was first beginning. As the band’s Iain Cook explained, it was the fourth song Chvrches ever worked on. “It was the first time we messed around with sampling and chopping up our vocals,...

Chvrches singer Lauren Mayberry covered Depeche Mode’s 1989 hit “Personal Jesus” during a recent solo show in Prague. Performing at the Rock Café, Mayberry and her backing band gave the tune an upbeat rendition, with live drum beats filling in for the classic synth notes.

Mayberry is a long-professed fan of Depeche Mode and Chvrches previously toured with the group. The musician has made a habit of including covers on her current tour. She has included renditions of songs like Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” and the 1975’s “Paris” on her set list,...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Bad Bunny classes up the joint, Offset enlists Travis Scott for a standout track from his new solo LP, and Tomorrow x Together slide into some smooth Eighties synths. Plus, new music from Ice Spice and Rema), Pink Pantheress, Boygenius, and more.

Bad Bunny, “Monaco” (YouTube)

Offset feat. Travis Scott, “Say My Grace” (YouTube)

Tomorrow x Together, “Chasing That Feeling” (YouTube)

Ice Spice feat. Rema, “Pretty Girl” (YouTube)

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Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry is pulling back layers of discomfort on her latest release, “Shame,” a follow-up to her recent solo debut, “Are You Awake?” The record, she explained in a statement, toys with the double meaning of its title. “I had the idea for a while of a song that had the tagline of “what a shame,” but in a sarcastic way,” Mayberry said. “The shame you feel and internalize, but what a shame you feel like that and can’t change it.”

Through hallowed percussion, Mayberry details feelings of...

Chvrches singer Lauren Mayberry has shared her second solo single, “Shame.” Listen to the track below.

You never know what you’re going to get when the frontperson of a band branches out into a solo career, but “Shame” immediately feels like a Mayberry song, beginning with disjointed, industrial-sounding synths and the vocalist’s iconic chirp. Those electronic verses slow down in the lullaby chorus, however, as Mayberry sings, “I feel schizophrenic/ How poetic/ Romanticize all the pain/ How pathetic, drinking gasoline and calling me the flame.”

The singer-songwriter explained the meaning of the single in a statement. “I had the idea for a while of a song that had the tagline of ‘what a shame,’ but in a sarcastic way,” Mayberry said. “And the word ‘shame’ having a double meaning — the shame you feel and internalize, but what a shame you feel like that and can’t change it.

Lauren Mayberry announced in July that she would be stepping away from Chvrches to embark on her own solo career. While assuring fans the band wasn’t done forever, Mayberry also set off on her first solo tour in September across the U.S., Europe, and the U.K.

“I met Iain [Cook] and Martin [Doherty] when I was 23 — a little baby of a person, in hindsight. Looking back on what we’ve achieved together, so much of it doesn’t feel real or even possible,” she wrote in a statement at the time.

Chvrches are gearing up to release a deluxe edition of their debut album The Bones of What You Believe to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Ahead of its release October 13th, they’re sharing “Talking In My Sleep,” a never-before-heard outtake from the era.

Instead of Chvrches’ usual frontperson Lauren Mayberry, “Talking In My Sleep” notably features lead vocals from band member Martin Doherty, delivering haunting lines like “Be the reason for my fear/ And the reason for my smile.” While the upbeat track boasts a lot of the same slightly glitchy, caffeinated synth-pop qualities that make up The Bones of What You Believe, “Talking In My Sleep” offers some interesting backstory of a band beginning to find their sound.

“Some of the main sources of inspiration for our first album, including ‘Talking In My Sleep’ were artists that we all share a love for, and a lot of stuff from the ’80s,...

Flashing back to 2013, Chvrches has dusted off the previously unreleased song “Talking in My Sleep” in anticipation of their debut album’s tenth anniversary. The Bones of What You Believe will receive an extended-release on Oct. 20 featuring four old but newly-released songs, including this most recent track and “Manhattan,” which was shared earlier this summer.

“Some of the main sources of inspiration for our first album, including ‘Talking In My Sleep’ were artists that we all share a love for, and a lot of stuff from the 80s,” Iain Cook shared in a statement.

The Postal Service and Death Cab For Cutie kicked off their co-headlining tour at The Anthem in Washington, DC on Tuesday night. With frontman Ben Gibbard pulling double duty, Dcfc celebrated the 20th anniversary of Transatlanticism with a full performance of the album, while The Postal Service played their lone LP, Give Up, in its entirety. To close the night, Gibbard’s two bands came together to cover Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence.” Watch fan-captured performance footage below.

The tour continues Wednesday with a second show at The Anthem, before proceeding to cities like Portland, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, Austin, and Seattle. The rotating list of special guest openers include Chvrches singer Lauren Mayberry, Warpaint, Built to Spill, and Pedro the Lion. Tickets to the tour are sold out, but you can still find tickets via Stubhub — where your order is 100% guaranteed through Stubhub’s FanProtect program.

Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry has performed her very first solo show, featuring a nine-song setlist that included new, unreleased tunes and a cover of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer.” Check out the full setlist and watch videos of the performance below.

The show took place on Monday, September 4th, at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC, and marked the first live performance from Mayberry since she announced earlier this year that she would begin releasing solo music. Joined by a three-piece band, her new songs came to life with floral stage decorations, high-energy arrangements, and plenty of space for her bright, clear voice to carry the melodies.

Some songs, like the opener “Bird,” had a driving feel, with ’80s-pop-esque instrumentation. Others, like the closing number “Sorry, Etc.” had a harder, punk-ish feel, with Mayberry shout-singing “I’m sorry, et cetera” on repeat. The Madonna cover came near the end of the set,...

Lauren Mayberry has embarked on her first solo tour, which she kicked off in Washington D.C. at 9:30 Club last night. During the set, which included a cover of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer.”

Taking the stage with mic stands adorned with flowers, she and her band gave a fairly faithful rendition of the classic title track of Madonna’s 1989 album, with Mayberry adding a tambourine, as fan footage shows.

She also debuted a number of solo songs and did not perform any tracks from Chvrches, as Stereogum reports.

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Nicki Minaj returns with a somber single off of her upcoming album Pink Friday 2, Doja Cat taps into her demonic side, and Lil Wayne drops his first solo single of the year. Plus, a collaboration that feels straight out of 2007 from the iconic trio of Timbaland, Nelly Furtado, and Justin Timberlake.

Nicki Minaj, “Last Time I Saw You” (YouTube)

Doja Cat, “Demons” (YouTube)

Lil Wayne, “Kat Food” (YouTube)

Timbaland,...

Lauren Mayberry, frontwoman of Chvrches, has released her debut solo single, “Are You Awake?” The piano-driven ballad was written with Tobias Jesso Jr. and Matthew Koma, who also produced the song.

The track came about after a writing session between Mayberry and Jesso Jr. “I was thinking a lot about loneliness and homesickness, and as soon as Tobias started playing the chords, the lyrics and melody came to me really quickly,” Mayberry said in a statement. “I finished the song with my friend Matthew Koma, who really understood what I was trying to say.

Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches has unveiled her first solo single “Are You Awake?”

The Scottish singer-songwriter co-wrote the melancholic ballad with reigning Grammy Songwriter of the Year Tobias Jesso Jr. as well as pop-punk artist Matthew Koma, who added finishing touches to the delicate arrangement.

In a video prefacing the song’s release, Mayberry shared that “Are You Awake?” was a “happy accident” and fittingly came together on “a grey, rainy afternoon in December” when she was feeling “pretty homesick and missing everyone.” Luckily, she found a kindred spirit in native Canadian Jesso Jr as “people who are not from America living in America.” Stream the single below.

Mayberry is set to embark on her first solo headlining trek in September, along with support dates for The Postal Service and Death Cab For Cutie’s joint tour. Check for tickets to all of her upcoming shows via here,

In August,...

Chvrches will release a 10th anniversary special edition of their debut album, The Bones of What You Believe, on Oct. 13th via Glassnote Records. Along with the announcement, the band has shared a previously unreleased track “Manhattan.”

The release will feature the album’s original 12 tracks along with four previously unheard songs and five live tracks. The live tracks were recorded at Ancienne Belgique in 2013.

The group — comprising Lauren Mayberry, Martin Doherty, and Iain Cook — recorded The Bones of What You Believe in Cook’s Alucard Studio in Glasgow. The...

Chvrches vocalist Lauren Mayberry has announced her first ever solo tour. It will see her trek across North America, the UK, and Europe.

The tour kicks off in Washington, DC on September 4th and will make stops in Brooklyn, Toronto, Chicago, and more before wrapping the North American leg in Los Angeles on September 29th. Then, Mayberry will head across the pond for a show in her native Glasgow and dates in Birmingham, Manchester, and London before traversing across Europe. See the full itinerary below.

The general on-sale begins on Friday, July 21st at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

In a social media statement, Mayberry looked back at the 10th anniversary of Chvrches’ debut album, The Bones of What You Believe, and also teased her upcoming solo music. “I met Iain [Cook] and Martin [Doherty] when I was 23 — a little baby of a person, in hindsight. Looking back on what we’ve achieved together,...

Lauren Mayberry is stepping away from Chvrches to make music on her own for the first time. On Thursday, the musician reflected on the 10th anniversary of the group’s debut LP, The Bones of What You Believe, as she announced plans to tour as a solo artist — but assured that Chvrches isn’t done forever.

“I met Iain [Cook] and Martin [Doherty] when I was 23 — a little baby of a person, in hindsight. Looking back on what we’ve achieved together, so much of it doesn’t feel real or even possible,...

Scottish trio Chvrches were Monday night’s musical guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, performing their latest single “Over.”

The single is their first taste of new music since 2021’s Screen Violence, a work conceptually rife with the darkness of the social moment: mortality, debilitating trepidation, and the dreariness that came with quarantining. “Over” carries some of that same weight, designated as a “miniature era” between their last work and whatever comes next, lead singer Lauren Mayberry said in an interview with Consequence. The track, which also marks the trio’s signing with their new label Island Records, isn’t indicative of a new record as of yet. Think of it more as a little snack to tide their fans over until the full course of a new album is ready.

“I’m trying to think of ‘Over’ as a little miniature era, between the Screen Violence era...

Who doesn’t want a body like Bruce Springsteen? Apparently the New Jersey rocker stays in shape by limiting his meals, a strategy Chris Martin has since adopted.

In a new interview with Conan O’Brien, Martin revealed that he eats one meal a day. “I actually don’t have dinner anymore,” the Coldplay frontman confirmed. “I stop eating at 4 [p.m.] and I learned that from having lunch with Bruce Springsteen.”

“I was lucky enough to go over there to lunch the day after we played Philadelphia last year,” Martin recounted of...

Chris Martin swapped the background vocals of Jacob Collier for Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry in a rendition of Coldplay’s 2019 song “Cry Cry Cry” at a stop in São Paulo, Brazil last week.

On Monday, both bands shared a video of the special performance that captured Martin and Mayberry duetting the sweet track. Coldplay is currently on their massive Music of the Spheres world tour and held six shows in the Brazilian city’s Estádio do Morumbi with Chvrches as an opener.

“When you cry, cry, cry, baby/ I’ll be...

Life can be a bit of a nightmare, and Chvrches just want you to wake them up when it’s over.

This cathartic portrayal of anguish is at the core of the Scottish trio’s brand new song, “Over,” and it’s one that mirrors the horror-influenced themes of their terrific 2021 LP, Screen Violence. Not only is “Over” the first new Chvrches song in over a year, it’s their first on a new label, Island Records.

“Over” also arrives with a stylish music video that features the band in a tropical climate, playing the song atop a structure with bright lights shining through it. Speaking to Consequence, the band was excited to film a new video with each member in the same place for the first time since their 2018 album, Love Is Dead. “We were all separated for the Screen Violence ones,” says lead vocalist Lauren Mayberry. “They had...

Chvrches appeared on CBS This Morning‘s “Saturday Sessions” to showcase three tracks off their recent album Screen Violence. The group performed singles “Good Girls” and “He Said She Said,” along with album cut “California.”

Screen Violence, which dropped August 27th via Glassnote Records, is Chvrches’ fourth album. Recorded remotely between Glasgow and Los Angeles during the pandemic, Screen Violence derives its title from one of the band’s early proposed names before they settled on Chvrches. A decade later, the band decided to revive the name in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown,...

In some ways, a horror-themed album seems like the farthest thing you might expect from the Glasgow band Chvrches, known for iridescent synths and lead singer Lauren Mayberry ’s practically elfin, perennially chipper voice. But on their fourth LP, Screen Violence, Mayberry and band members Iain Cook and Martin Doherty pack the stifling anxieties and roving fears of the Internet age into earnest choruses and multi-textured songs, offering a project that swings from tinselly to tense as they try their best to expand their maximalist sound,

A change in tone...

Chvrches appeared on The Tonight Show for a raucous performance of their recent song “Good Girls.” Performing from a hilltop overlooking a city at night, the group juxtaposed a televised version of singer Lauren Mayberry with the real one.

“Good Girls” comes off Chvrches’ upcoming fourth album, Screen Violence, out August 27th via Glassnote Records. Recorded remotely between Glasgow and Los Angeles during the pandemic, Screen Violence derives its title from one of the band’s early proposed names before they settled on Chvrches. A decade later, the band decided...

Chvrches have released another new song, “Good Girls,” from their upcoming album, Screen Violence, out August 27th via Glassnote Records.

“Good Girls” is a booming synth anthem that finds frontwoman Lauren Mayberry cutting down unfair and misogynistic expectations and ideals placed on women: “Good girls don’t cry,” she belts on the hook, “And good girls don’t lie/And good girls justify — but I don’t/Good girls don’t die/And good girls stay alive/And good girls satisfy — but I won’t.”

In a statement, Mayberry said...

Earlier this week, Chvrches and Robert Smith released their collaborative single “How Not to Drown,” from the group’s upcoming album Screen Violence, and have now released a music video for the song directed by Scott Kiernan (who also helmed the band’s earlier “He Said She Said” clip).

“We’ve been working with Scott on all the visual aspects of Screen Violence and this video is the second installment in a connected trilogy,” Chvrches lead singer Lauren Mayberry explains. The video builds off of the surreal, film noir-inspired imagery from “He Said She Said,...

Chvrches have announced their fourth studio album, Screen Violence, out August 27th via Glassnote Records. On Wednesday, the band also shared a new single from the LP, “How Not to Drown,” featuring Robert Smith of the Cure.

Recorded remotely between Glasgow and Los Angeles during the pandemic, Screen Violence derives its title from one of the band’s early proposed names before they settled on Chvrches. A decade later, the band decided to revive the name in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown, where many relationships were tethered together over...

Chvrches have released the music video for their latest single “He Said She Said,” directed by artist Scott Kiernan.

The clip takes place in a photography darkroom, with glowing red light and prints developing in tubs of acid. Lead singer Lauren Mayberry appears inside a giant revolving door as she fiercely recounts a manipulative relationship: “He said, ‘It’s all in your head, but keep an ear to the grapevine,’ and/’Get drunk, but don’t be a mess’/Keep thinkin’ over, over.”

Kiernan elaborated on the video: “The revolving...

Chvrches have returned with “He Said She Said,” their first new music since 2018.

The track features lead singer Lauren Mayberry recalling horrific statements made to her by men — “He said, ‘You need to be fed, but keep an eye on your waistline'” — over looming synthesizers. The track was made in quarantine, while Mayberry and Martin Doherty were in Los Angeles and Iain Cook was in Glasgow, Scotland.

“Like everyone, I’ve had a lot of time to think and reflect over the past year; to examine experiences I had previously glossed over or deeply buried,...

Best Coast have released a surprise live EP titled Live at the World Cafe via Concord Records. The collection features some of the band’s earliest live renditions of songs from their newest album, Always Tomorrow, released in February 2020, as well as songs from 2015’s California Nights.

“Today we share with you a new live EP from a show we played at World Cafe in Philadelphia in early 2020 before Always Tomorrow came out,” Best Coast singer Bethany Cosentino said in a release. “It was the first time we played new songs for fans,...

On the heels of celebrating 10 years of their debut Crazy for You, Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino hit The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday to perform “Rollercoaster,” off of the band’s new album Always Tomorrow.

Due to the pandemic, Cosentino performed the track at home, accompanied only by her electric guitar. The image harks back to how the band got its start, writing and recording songs in bandmate Bobb Bruno’s bedroom. “Our reference was doing stuff in my bedroom,” Bruno told Rolling Stone about recording their debut 10 years back.

Best Coast’s Crazy for You turns 10 Monday (July 27th), and to celebrate, the duo have announced a virtual show in which they’ll play the entire album front to back, with some special guests.

Airing on August 14th at 9:00 p.m. Et via Seated, the ticketed event will include quarantine performances from the album along with guest appearances by Hayley Williams, Mark Hoppus, Chvrches‘ Lauren Mayberry and more. Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno will also be interviewed for the show, and the duo have shared archival footage of...

Chvrches delivered a socially distanced performance of their song “Forever” — recently featured in the Netflix hit Elite — on Friday’s episode of The Tonight Show.

Although the Chvrches members were in separate homes, Lauren Mayberry and company came together virtually for a colorful, cohesive rendition that provided the surprise hit with a makeshift music video.

Initially released in May 2018 on the band’s third album Love Is Dead, “Forever” has seen a staggering resurgence in popularity in recent weeks thanks to the song’s much-coveted placement in the Netflix Spanish-language series Elite.

Chvrches frontwoman Lauren Mayberry was taking a break from making her band’s upcoming fourth album when she began a self-isolated quarantine at her home in Los Angeles the weekend of March 13 — the same weekend that Season 3 of the teen drama “Elite” debuted on Netflix to an especially binge-hungry audience.

Though Mayberry was aware that the new season of the soapy, Spanish-language series features multiple, narrative-driven uses of Chvrches’ song “Forever,” a two-year-old album cut from the band’s latest release “Love Is Dead” (featuring production from Adele/ Sia /Beck producer Greg Kurstin), she had relatively low expectations, given that the song was never worked as a single.

“We’ve had things on film soundtracks or in certain TV shows or video games where you think, ‘That’s gonna create a lot of traction,’ and it doesn’t necessarily,” says Mayberry, whose bandmates Martin Doherty and Iain Cook were quarantined elsewhere in L.

A decade after Drew Barrymore and Justin Long split, she has no problem celebrating her ex-boyfriend.

On Saturday, the exes responded to a “Justin Long appreciation post” on Paper magazine‘s Instagram page, in an interaction first captured by Comments by Celebs.

“Might get fired for this but. F—k it. Justin Long appreciation post,” the outlet wrote alongside a series of photos of the actor.

Barrymore — who dated the actor on-and-off from 2007 to 2010 — commented on the post, agreeing that he deserved the recognition.

“Your [sic] not wrong! He’s great,” the actress, 45, replied.

After seeing her comment, Long, 41, jokingly responded,...

Chvrches appeared on The Late Late Show to perform “Death Stranding,” a new track from the band written for Death Stranding: Timefall, the soundtrack to new video game Death Stranding.

Led by singer Lauren Mayberry in a bright pink wig, the band gave an impassioned rendition of the hopeful tune, which sees Mayberry singing, “You can take my heart/Hold it together as we fall apart.”

The soundtrack features eight tracks, including previously unreleased songs from Major Lazer & Khalid, The Neighbourhood and Bring Me the Horizon. Death Stranding, a highly...

Equality Now, a leading international Ngo dedicated to using the law to promote women’s equality, will hold its annual Make Equality Reality Gala in November.

The evening will feature a unique program of art, advocacy and entertainment to inspire activism and to celebrate the power words have to help Make Equality Reality.

This year’s gala will honor international best-selling author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and feature the second annual Changemaker Award presented by Gucci and Chime For Change to author and activist, Scarlett Curtis.

Event Chairs include: Susan Chokachi, Angelica Fuentes, Asha Jadeja, Chandra Jessee, Karen Lehner, Elisabeth Moss, Heather Pulier, Sue Smalley, Jennifer Allan Soros, and Gloria Steinem. Host Committee Members Include: Mo Ogrodnik & Matt Bardin, Agunda Okeyo, Paula Ravets & Paul Reiser, Julie Scelfo, Sheetal Sheth & Neil Mody. Honorary Host Committee Members Include: Carmen Ejogo, O-t Fagbenle, Nisha Ganatra, Bethany Joy Lenz, Aasif Mandvi, Laura Marano, Vanessa Marano,...

Chvrches are back with a new song “Death Stranding,” named after and inspired by the video game Death Stranding. The song is the lead single off an upcoming LP titled Death Stranding: Timefall, full of songs inspired by the highly anticipated PlayStation 4 game.

On the stunning new song, Chvrches turn saving the world into a romantic endeavor. “You can take my heart/Hold it together as we fall apart,” singer Lauren Mayberry belts on the chorus. The track is full of hope; love is the final thing worth saving. It...