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Fontaines D.C. recently stopped by Australian radio station triple j to offer the platform a signature Like a Version cover. They opted for a dreamy rendition of Bring Me the Horizon’s “Can You Feel My Heart,” in which they also interpolated Nirvana’s In Utero hit “Heart-Shaped Box.”

Usually a guitar-forward band, Fontaines D.C. decided on just synths, keys, vocals, and programmed drums for their Like a Version session. They brought a stirring conviction to the cover reminiscent of the Irish band’s darkest songs — especially their great 2024 album Romance — emphasized by dramatic strings, trip-hop drums, and frontman Grian Chatten’s booming baritone. Chatten cued up the Nirvana moment shortly after the two-minute mark.

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Conor Curley, the group’s guitarist, discussed their choice of Bring Me the Horizon for their Like a Version cover, telling the Australian outlet, “It was Grian [Chatten]‘s idea initially.

Nearly a year after the death of The Pogues’ beloved frontman Shane MacGowan, the band has come back together and announced a string of 2025 tour dates, celebrating the 40th anniversary of their seminal album, Rum Sodomy & the Lash.

The tour will see founding Pogues members Spider Stacy, James Fearnley, and Jem Finer take the stage alongside “special guests” across six dates in the UK next May, marking the band’s first formal outing since their 2014 tour. Among the cities they will perform in are Birmingham, London, Manchester, and others.

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Tickets for the shows will first go on sale via venue pre-sales opening on Wednesday, November 20th at 9:30 a.m. local time. The general on-sale will then open on Friday, November 22nd, at 9:30 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

The 2025 tour dates come in commemoration of The Pogues’ 1985 album, Rum Sodomy & the Lash, which...

When Shane MacGowan died in November 2023, he left a great, big, romantic poet-shaped hole in music. Now, a year later, the late Irish songwriter’s band, the Pogues, have announced their first tour without him.

The Pogues announced Tuesday that they will play seven shows in May 2025 in the U.K., with tour stops in Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow, and London. The tour is timed to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Pogues’ beloved 1985 album Rum Sodomy & the Lash — the record that built MacGowan’s legend as a brilliant,...

Devotion runs through the veins of Fontaines D.C.’s music. The Dublin group first crashed onto the post-punk scene with their 2019 debut Dogrel, a nuanced, gripping homage to their homeland; 2022’s guttural Skinty Fia unpacked the guilt they felt after relocating to London. Now, they’re considering devotion through an entirely new lens, introduced on the opening title track of their fourth album Romance. Over brooding, cinematic synths, singer Grian Chatten proclaims, “Maybe romance is a place/For me/And you.”

If there was any takeaway from the 4-single...