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Days ahead of the release of their new album, Life, Death & Dennis Hopper, The Waterboys have unveiled plans for a 2025 tour across North America.

The tour dates will bring the Mike Scott-helmed band to the US and Canada in September and October, kicking off on September 4th in Washington, DC. From there, they’ll perform in New York, Toronto, Nashville, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, and more cities, before wrapping in Oklahoma City on October 4th. See the full list of dates below to find a concert near you.

Tickets for the tour will first become available through an artist pre-sale opening on April 2nd at 9:00 a.m. local time, with some dates also offering a Live Nation pre-sale opening later that day at 12:00 p.m. (use code Dance). The general on-sale will then open on Friday, April 4th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

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The Waterboys have recruited Fiona Apple as the narrator of their latest single “Letter From an Unknown Girlfriend.” The record, written by Mike Scott and performed by Apple, will appear on the forthcoming Waterboys concept album Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, out April 4.

“I used to say/No man would ever strike me/And no man ever did/‘Til I met you,” Apple sings on the song. “Yeah, you had the charm/Charm enough to sweep me/Took me in your arms/Swore you’d satisfy and keep me.” It...

The Waterboys have enlisted Fiona Apple to contribute her distinctive, gritty vocals and sweeping piano to their new song, “Letter from an Unknown Girlfriend.” Stream it below.

The track is taken from their upcoming album, Life, Death & Dennis Hopper, and is written from the perspective of a woman calling out her former abuser. “I used to say/ No man would ever strike me,” Apple sings. “And no man ever did/ ‘Til I met you.”

As the album’s liner notes point out, “‘Letter from an Unknown Girlfriend’ could be addressed to a controlling, abusive partner in any decade, any century.”

This isn’t Apple’s first connection to The Waterboys. In 2019, she covered their 1985 song “The Whole of the Moon” for the finale of Showtime’s acclaimed series The Affair.

Life, Death & Dennis Hopper (pre-order here) is set for release on April 4th via Sun Records. “The arc of [Hopper’s] life...

As promised, the Waterboys have shared the first single from their upcoming concept album about the life of actor Dennis Hopper, “Hopper’s on Top (Genius).”

Stationed near the midway point of the epic, 25-track Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, the new song captures the film icon at a pivotal moment in his career, when the actor — after a string of bit parts in classics like Cool Hand Luke and True Grit — found himself behind the camera to direct the landmark 1969 counterculture hit Easy Rider.

Keeping with the spirit of that film classic,...

The Waterboys will return in 2025 with a new album revolving around the life of legendary actor Dennis Hopper, with an impressive guest list — including Bruce Springsteen and Fiona Apple — helping the long-running U.K. rockers along the musical journey.

Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, due out April 4th via the band’s new label Sun Records, is an ambitious 25-track “song cycle” that charts not only the late actor’s life story but also the past 75 years of Western pop culture.

“The arc of his life was the story of our times,...

Reviews for Renfield are in, and the movie's darkly comedic gore and Nicolas Cage's stylish new Dracula seem to have won over critics. Directed by Chris McKay and based on an original idea from Robert Kirkman (which is itself based on characters from Bram Stoker's Dracula), Universal's Renfield tells the story of Nicholas Hoult, Dracula's servant, who falls in love with a traffic cop, played by Awkwafina. His newfound love encourages him to stand up to his master and seek his freedom.

Ahead of Renfield's release date later this week, critics' reviews for the film are now pouring in. While some critics took issue with the movie's unorganized presentation or lack of character depth, most seem to agree that the film offers up enough laughs, gore, heart, and chemistry between its two leading men to make it a worthwhile trip to the theater. Some even suggest Renfield...

In one of this year’s better holiday movies, Netflix’s Let It Snow, two teens belt out the Waterboys’ “Whole of the Moon” in an empty church, their voices unskilled but sincere. Tobin (Mitchell Hope) plays the organ while “The Duke” (Kiernan Shipka) sings along — you don’t need to know much else beyond the fact that Tobin has been hopelessly in love with Angie, a.k.a. the Duke, for years — and the lyrics of this 34-year-old song are the only words that do when expressing that.

The Waterboys’ classic song,...

Forget Portland and forget Brooklyn. The best pop music in the world right now is coming out of Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland. Here are two more pieces of evidence.

We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls

It's the 21st century now, dammit. Just where are those jetpacks?

Aside from being bent out of shape about the unfulfilled promise of the technological age, Glasgow quartet We Were Promised Jetpacks are exorcised about just about everything else as well. This is the angst-ridden, anthemic side of Glasgow music (think Frightened Rabbit and The Twilight Sad, as opposed to the angst-ridden, non-anthemic music of Belle and Sebastian or Camera Obscura). As such, these young lads are basically imitating their elders. But that's fine, because the elders bear imitating, and because it's hard to improve on soaring guitars and Bono histrionics delivered in a thick Scottish brogue.

Broken Records - Until the Earth...