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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.

Fontaines D.C. have pulled the plug on several upcoming tour dates in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia. The Irish rock band announced the news last night on their Instagram Stories, with singer Grian Chatten explaining that he has suffered a herniated disc.

“I have been really excited to play these beautiful countries for years and it really hurts to be here in Mexico City and not be able to go onstage, but I have been advised today, that I require urgent medical attention,” Chatten wrote. “We are very...

Irish rock favorites Fontaines D.C. are back with their first new song of 2025, “It’s Amazing to Be Young.”

The track captures the confusion and frustration of youth, but also the euphoria and overwhelming sense of possibility it can instill, even in the face of a cruel world. On the hook, frontman Grian Chatten laces his sonorous baritone over a swooning crash of guitars. “That the cost/Brings you down,” he sings, “But it’s amazing/To be young.”

“It’s Amazing to Be Young” also arrives with a...

Thanks to the enduring allure of “Fairytale of New York,” the spirit of the Pogues’ Shane MacGowan is in the air once more. But MacGowan’s impact and legacy were also heard onstage in Dublin last night.

At the city’s 13,000-seat 3Arena, surviving members of the Pogues commemorated the 40th anniversary of the band’s debut album, Red Roses for Me, by playing the album start to finish with an array of guests. At a show that found a new generation of Irish rockers and even one rapper paying...

Fontaines D.C. will head back on the road in spring 2025 for another run of North American tour dates.

The new dates arrive just as Fontaines D.C. have completed their fall 2024 North American tour, which saw them headlining their biggest shows in the US and Canada yet. They’re also about to embark on a UK/Europe tour next month. After that, they’ll continue supporting their terrific new album Romance with another run of North American dates kicking off in mid-April.

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Fontaines D.C.’s 2025 tour begins on April 17th with three rescheduled shows in Seattle, Vancouver, and Portland (the band previously cancelled those dates on their fall tour after frontman Grian Chatten dealt with an illness). They’ll continue on with shows in Salt Lake City, Denver, Dallas, Atlanta, Nashville, Raleigh, Louisville, Columbus, Washington D.C., and many more. The tour...

Lana Del Rey’s “Say Yes to Heaven” has lived many lives. It was first written in 2012 during sessions for her third album Ultraviolence, but was left off of the record. Years later, a leaked version resurfaced online and entered the TikTok musical ecosystem. Del Rey officially released “Say Yes to Heaven” last year, much to the delight of Irish band Fontaines D.C. who reimagined the track for the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge.

Singer Grian Chatten led the performance, pulling the record to deeper depths vocally as he...

Elton John has praised Fontaines D.C. as “the best band out there at the moment.”

The comment came in a recent interview John conducted with Fontaines D.C. frontman, Grian Chatten, discussing the band’s new album, Romance. “Having watched you at Glastonbury, having heard the new album — you’ve just grown every album,” John said. “You seem to have found your feet with this album in such a big way… it’s a brilliant record.”

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Chatten, for his part, agreed that the band feels like they’ve found a solid footing. “I kinda feel like it’s the first time that I haven’t been chasing it with another record, you know what I mean?” he said. “I’m going to enjoy being in this thing.”

Reaffirming his admiration, John doubled-down, saying, “I think this album takes you — and I’ve been...

Oasis officially announced their long-awaited reunion in August, and ever since, it seems as if every bloke this side of Manchester has caught Oasis fever — everyone, that is, except for select members of Fontaines D.C., who expressed disinterest in the whole affair.

In an interview with Studio Brussel, Fontaines D.C. members Carlos O’Connell and Conor Deegan III admitted they were less than enthused about Oasis’ return. When asked about their excitement level surrounding the Britpop band’s “Oasis Live ’25” comeback tour, O’Connell retorted by saying, “I couldn’t really give a shit, to be honest.”

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“I’m not excited about it, either, to be honest,” Deegan added. “I feel like we get caught in the last era — like the ’10s — and into such a nostalgic thing that we’re forgetting to make new things.”

The two went on to describe how they...

The Spanish guitar goddesses in Hinds have been through it lately, and they bet that you have, too. They begin their fabulously resilient Viva Hinds with “Hi, How Are You,” a garage-rock strut with some call-and-response about shaking off some bad luck. Ana Perrotte sings, “Hey, you okay?” Carlotta Cosials replies, “I’ve been better tbh.” Viva Hinds is their fourth and finest album, a joyful, brash half-hour of swaggering tunes about facing up to heartache by turning it into a sarcastic joke, with guitars cranked up all the way.

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Halsey has a rock-heavy ego trip, A$AP Rocky taps J. Cole for a melancholic mediation, and Camila Cabello wishes her ex well on a deluxe track from her recent C,Xoxo. Plus, new music from Fred Again.. , Mj Lenderman, Megan Thee Stallion, and Rm.

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Each week, Consequence celebrates New Music Friday by highlighting newly released albums to stream. We’ve made to September, and fall is upon us — luckily, this week gives us plenty to savor before the leaves start changing. We’re checking out new music from David Gilmour, Fred again.., Hinds, Toro y Moi, and of course, a great singer-songwriter named Mj Lenderman. Here are 10 new albums to stream today.

Blink-182 — One More Time… Part 2

Last year, the beloved 2000s pop-punk band returned with their comeback album, One More Time…. Now, they are riding the reunion excitement with an expansion of the album, One More Time… Part 2. The new album includes eight previously-unreleased songs, some of which they’ll likely bust out during the remainder of their 2024 tour this fall (get tickets here).

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David Gilmour — Luck and Strange

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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.”

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Hinds’ long-awaited LP Viva Hinds isn’t coming out until Sept. 6, but the Spanish alt-rock duo of Carlotta Cosials and Ana García Perrote have been slowly rolling out singles from it all year. The latest one, “Superstar,” centers on the pain of being ghosted after a longterm relationship.

“’Superstar’ talks about the disappointment and the pain you feel when someone you love deeply, disappears with no explanation,” the group said in a statement. “You feel worthless, you start thinking you never really knew that person and you question your shared past,...

The BBC has shared a video of Fontaines D.C. showcasing their latest single, “Favourite,” at Glastonbury last weekend. The group dropped the shimmering love song in June along with a self-directed music video for the track, which documented a recent trip to Madrid.

In the clip, the band can be seen during their headlining set on the Park Stage, during which they performed both older tracks and songs from their forthcoming LP, Romance, out Aug. 23 via Xl Recordings.

Fontaines D.C. previously debuted “Favourite” live at a show at the Brooklyn Warsaw in April.

Fontaines D.C. have shared “Favourite,” the second single from their upcoming album, Romance, and its accompanying music video.

Debuted live at their show at Brooklyn’s Warsaw in May, “Favourite” is described by Fontaines D.C. vocalist Grian Chatten as having a “never-ending sound to it, a continuous cycle from euphoria to sadness, two worlds spinning forever.”

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Indeed, the sentimental track features soaring guitars and contemplative lyrics highlighted by the repeated refrain, “You were my favorite for a long time.”

In the self-directed music video for “Favourite,” Fontaines D.C. intersperse childhood footage of the band members with clips of a recent trip to Madrid. Watch it below.

Romance is out August 23rd via Xl Recordings and features the first single, “Starburster,” which topped our 100 Best Songs of the Year (So Far) list. In support of the album, Fontaines D.C. have mapped...

Fontaines D.C. have shared a new single, “Favourite,” along with a self-directed music video for the track. The shimmering love song is the second listen off the group’s forthcoming LP, Romance, out Aug. 23 via Xl Recordings.

The music video documents a recent trip to Madrid, a city to which the band has a few personal connections. Guitarist Carlos O’Connell was born and grew up there, while the band used it as a base for their first-ever tour. Footage from the trip is intercut with childhood clips of the five band members.

Fontaines D.C. just announced a 2024 North American tour. To preview the outing, the Irish punks appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night and delivered a kick-ass performance of “Starburster.”

The television appearance also came ahead of Fontaines D.C.’s forthcoming album Romance, produced by Consequence’s 2023 Producer of the Year James Ford and due on August 23rd via Xl Recordings. Last month, along with the announcement of the album, the band shared the aforementioned “Starburster,” which earned recognition as our Song of the Week.

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As for their 2024 tour, Fontaines D.C. will kick off the outing tonight with a performance in Brooklyn, followed by a European leg of dates. Then, in September, they’ll cross the pond for a North American run, making stops in Seattle, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and more cities. In November, they’ll head back for another European leg.

Ahead of their new album Romance, Fontaines D.C. have announced a 2024 North American tour set for this fall.

The Irish rockers will begin their North American trek in September, nearly one month after the release of their fourth album on August 23rd. The tour marks Fontaines D.C.’s first headlining run in the US since 2022. New York City’s Been Stellar will open all dates.

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The 20-date tour kicks off on September 20th in Seattle and continues with shows in Vancouver, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Toronto, Brooklyn, and more. The tour concludes with a show at The Fillmore in Philadelphia on October 20th. See the full list of tour dates below.

Tickets for Fontaines D.C.’s 2024 tour will first be available via a Live Nation pre-sale kicking off on Wednesday, May 8th at 10:00 a.m. local time (use access code Soundcheck). Afterwards,...

Spanish indie rock outfit Hinds have announced a new album, Viva Hinds, which is set to drop September 6th via Lucky Number. The band has also confirmed a North American tour and dropped the Beck-featuring single “Boom Boom Back.”

Viva Hinds serves as somewhat of a rebirth for the act, as songwriters Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote faced numerous Hinds-related struggles throughout the last few years. They split with their management, label, drummer, and bassist, succumbing to something of a creative rut as a result. Four years after their last release The Prettiest Curse, though, Cosials and Perrote are set to return with a brand new project that seeks to rejuvenate Hinds and, notably, houses the band’s first Spanish language songs.

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To accompany the new record, Hinds have charted out an autumn jaunt through North America. Their 2024 American tour kicks off on October 12th in...

Good news: Your favorite Spanish rock band is back. Hinds will release their new album Viva Hinds on Sept. 6 via Lucky Number.

Ahead of the release, the duo — Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote — dropped the ultra-cool rocker “Boom Boom Back.” The track features Beck, who they spontaneously met at a film screening in Los Angeles. The self-directed video below shows Cosials and Perrote hanging around Hollywood, eating ice cream and sitting in the trunk of a car, and tossing a soccer ball back and forth.

“Boom Boom Back” follows the single “Coffee,...

The gasps in Fontaines D.C.’s new song, “Starburster,” tell its whole story: Frontman Grian Chatten suffered a panic attack in a London tube station and decided to chronicle that feeling on a funky, disco-rock track. After refrains of “It may feel bad,” he unleashes an onslaught of stream-of-consciousness worries, including “I wanna bite the phone, I wanna bleed the tone/I wanna see you alone, alone, alone.” The drums keep things going on the song, which will appear on their upcoming fourth album, Romance (out Aug. 23), until he comes to the realization,...

Fontaines D.C. have unveiled details for their fourth album, Romance, due out August 23rd via Xl Recordings. As a preview, the band has unveiled the lead single, “Starburster.” Watch the music video for the new song below.

Romance follows the band’s celebrated 2022 release Skinty Fia and seeks to further push Fontaines D.C. into new sonic and thematic territory. Incorporating elements of hip-hop, shoegaze, grunge, and more, the album continues the Irish act’s reflections on nationality, identity, and notions of idealism. Notably, Romance also marks the band’s first collaboration with Consequence’s 2023 Producer of the Year James Ford.

“We’ve always had this sense of idealism and romance,” guitarist Conor Deegan stated. “Each album gets further away from observing that through the lens of Ireland, as directly as Dogrel. The second album (A Hero’s Death) is about that detachment, and the third (Skinty Fia) is...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, André 3000 picks up his flute for a strange yet pleasant pivot; Drake gives Taylor Swift a shoutout; and Tate McRae gets spiteful with her exes. Plus, new music from Madi Diaz, Kacey Musgraves, Boygenius, and Dolly Parton.

André 3000, “I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time” (YouTube)

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Grian Chatten, lead singer of the Irish post-punk band Fontaines D.C., has announced the release of his debut solo album Chaos for the Fly, due out June 30th on Partisan Records. Chatten also shared “Fairlies,” which you can listen to below.

The announcement comes just one week after Chatten released his plucky, acoustic-driven debut single “The Score.” Meanwhile, “Fairlies” gives off Conor Oberst-type energy — vocally subdued and monotone, and instrumentally going back and forth between strongly struck chords, and accented sweeps of violin and tambourines. Watch the music video, animated by Callum Scott-Dyson, below.

According to a press release for the debut, Chatten said he wrote the track in the midst of “intense heat” in Spain and LA before the band went on tour. “It was a quick write, and I believe I celebrated each line with a beer,” he joked.

Chatten will be hitting the road with the rest of Fontaines D.

Bush have shared the new song “All Things Must Change” from the forthcoming deluxe edition of their 2022 album, The Art of Survival. The enhanced version of the LP is due out June 9th.

The single comes just as Bush kicked off a spring tour with Breaking Benjamin. The trek picks back up tonight (May 3rd) in Franklin, Tennessee, and runs through a May 23rd show in Knoxville, Tennessee. Get tickets via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

Concertgoers will likely hear “All Things Must Change” during Bush’s set, as frontman Gavin Rossdale and company gave the song its live debut on April 26th and played it last night (May 2nd) on the first date of the band’s tour with Breaking Benjamin (per Setlist.fm).

The track marries the post-grunge riffage of Bush’s 1990s output with muted electro-acoustic passages during verses. The hi-fi production is immaculate,...

Fontaines D.C. vocalist Grian Chatten is going solo. The Irish musician has shared “The Score,” his debut single under his own name.

If you’re expecting more of the type of twisted post-punk that Fontaines D.C. showed on their 2022 album Skinty Fia, “The Score” will likely disappoint you. But the song is transfixing in its own right, as Grian Chatten sheds his more menacing vocals in favor of a subtler, but equally evocative murmur.

Over fingerpicked acoustic guitar, Chatten appears to explain to a love interset why they should leave their current partner: “You know the score/ It ain’t limited to your knowing looks and touches anymore,” he sings, as the folksy tune incorporates a tinny beat towards the latter half. “You see your heart’s been tethered/ To a sinking stone.”

“‘The Score’ is a heavyweight bated breath of lust,” Chatten says in a press release.

Fontaines D.C. have released their cover of Nick Drake’s cherished “‘Cello Song.” The recording serves as first single off of a forthcoming tribute project, The Endless Coloured Ways – The Songs of Nick Drake, out on July 7th via Chrysalis Records.

Adopting a different approach than Drake’s original (first released on 1969’s Five Leaves Left), Fontaines switch out the bustling acoustics and the titular cello for a driving backbeat, a soundscape of guitars, and a haunting melody that, all combined, use Drake’s same spark to light a whole new flame. Hearing vocalist Grian Chatten croon the final verse, “So forget this cruel world/ Where I belong/ I’ll just sit and wait/ And sing my song,” it makes one reflect on how Drake would feel if he could see the impact he’s made on so many artists since his tragic death in 1974. Watch the music video for Fontaines D.

Disney+ reveals the official trailer and key art for the highly anticipated docu-special, “Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman,” is set to premiere globally on Disney+ on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, coinciding with U2’s highly anticipated album “Songs Of Surrender” ― a collection of 40 seminal U2 songs from across the band’s catalog, re-recorded and reimagined. In the docu-special, from Disney Branded Television, Academy Award(R)-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville captures Dave Letterman on his first visit to Dublin to hang out with Bono and The Edge in their hometown, experience Dublin, and join the two U2 musicians for a concert performance unlike any they’ve done before. From Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Documentaries, Neville’s Tremolo Productions, and Dave Letterman’s Worldwide Pants, “Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman” is part concert movie, part travel adventure plus...

Bono and The Edge are coming home.

Disney+ released the official trailer for its original documentary “Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman” on Thursday.

The docu-special sees Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville capturing the musicians’ return to their hometown of Dublin along with David Letterman who visits the Irish city for the first time.

The streamer released the trailer on Twitter with the caption, “Go back to the place where the music began.”

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Go back to the place where the music began.

Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman, an Original documentary special, is streaming March 17 on Disney+ Canada. pic.twitter.com/hBmzOT1G6N

— Disney+ Canada (@DisneyPlusCA) February 23, 2023

The press releases describes the documentary as an “exploration” of the city.

“Letterman,...

Today Disney+ has released a new trailer for the upcoming docu-special "Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman." Not only are we getting a chance to watch U2's Bono and The Edge head back to Dublin, but they're also taking the talk show host with them for his first-ever visit to Ireland. The band members have been friends with Letterman for 25 years, but they've never been off U.S. soil together.

The whole thing is set to coincide with the release of U2's new album "Songs of Surrender," which is "a collection of 40 seminal U2 songs from across the band's catalog, re-recorded and reimagined." The use of "reimagined" is interesting here because, in the trailer, Letterman mentions the changing of lyrics to some of the songs as things have changed in their lives. He introduces the band members to a crowd at a concert, which...