Yo La Tengo will perform a benefit show in support of Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico Oct. 17 at The Long Time in Austin, Texas. The event will raise funds for Talarico’s Senate campaign, with each ticket requiring a $100 donation to the campaign. Attendance will be capped at 500 people.
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While fans waited in line to get into Geordie Greep’s concert at the Pearl in Vancouver yesterday, flyers with serious allegations were handed out. The flyers informed the crowd of sexual assault allegations that were made that day. An hour and forty minutes after the scheduled set time, Greep addressed the crowd with a speech about the situation before playing a solo set. The flyer read:
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Posted on October 9th 2026, 2:10pm
Nickelback have announced their 2027 Everything Under The Sun Tour, with six UK and Ireland arena dates beginning in Leeds on 22 May. Don Broco will join the Canadian rock band as special guests on the tour, which supports their eleventh studio album, Everything Under The Sun, due on 30 October 2026 through Virgin Music Group.
The extensive international run begins in North America on 6 February before reaching the UK and Europe in May and continuing through July. Australian shows follow in October.
The forthcoming album includes the single Rattle The Cage, featuring guitarist John 5, as well as Leave Me Behind and Make Me Love You. Rattle The Cage has reached No. 1 on US Active Rock radio.
Artist presales start on Tuesday 13 October at 10am local time, with general tickets going on sale on Friday 16 October at 10am local time through Live Nation. VIP packages will also be available.
Bedford rock band Don Broco will appear as direct support. The two groups recently collaborated on Nightmare Tripping, the title track of Don Broco’s Fearless Records album. Don Broco have previously played major venues including Wembley Arena and Alexandra Palace, as well as Download and Reading & Leeds festivals.
The tour follows Nickelback’s Get Rollin’ World Tour and their Netflix documentary Hate to Love: Nickelback. The group, featuring Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Mike Kroeger and Daniel Adair, have sold nearly 65 million albums worldwide.
The European itinerary includes Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne, Munich, Milan, Prague and Copenhagen. The Australian leg begins in Perth on 2 October 2027 and concludes in Pokolbin on 16 October.
Last month, Deafheaven guitarist Kerry McCoy mentioned mysterious plans for a new EP. Talking to the Spanish website Binaural, McCoy said the new record would be both “the heaviest” and “the hardest” thing that the band had ever done — a big claim when this band is the one under discussion. He also said that it would be out “before the end of the year.” Right now, Deafheaven are on tour with fellow heavy music titans Mastodon and Alcest, and we’ve been seeing reports about the band selling that new EP at the merch tables. Now, it has arrived.
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If anyone can save the world, it’s Unpeople. In their jet-propelled rise to stardom, they’ve inspired dance parties at Download at a time when any sane person is hiding in their tent with a bacon sandwich, taken over a corner of Slam Dunk’s main stage and even persuaded Metallica fans to give their indefinable grunge joy a chance. Their irrepressible energy has been compressed into their long-awaited and much-hyped debut, ‘We Are Unpeople’; twelve tracks that’ll challenge your heart and mind, and leave you feeling like maybe we’ve all got a chance at redemption.
Half the tracks are well known to the growing Unpeople fandom already. We open with the deceptively cute ‘Clouds’ that disintegrates into heavy optimism of the distinctly Britpop variety, and ‘Friends’ – the song for everyone who’s been fed the line about being better off as mates by a crush and knows the sensation of having to grit your teeth as you reply – grates with screamed frustration. There’s no pastoral idyll in ‘The Garden’, but there is a wheelbarrow full of sarcasm and grunge power, and ‘Blueprints’, the “ballad track” with accompanying adorable video, is a moment of blue skies and unchained euphoria. As a primer, the songs we already love as singles serve as a great primer to the Unpeople sound; universally appealing, with grit and joy to reach out across the dividing lines of genre.
The other fifty percent of ‘We Are Unpeople’ cements what we’ve already realised. These guys are doing something seriously interesting and original, and a song like ‘Swallow’, which swerves between singalong anthem, scream fest and snarky chanter, shows exactly why they’ve got so big so quickly. ‘Bottle It’ might be the most quintessential track on the album though, the one you’ll play people to persuade them to get on the bandwagon. It channels the grunge undercurrent that runs through this whole release into moments of bitter harmony and ferocious loveliness, and that particular flow reaches it’s crest on ‘Haunted’, with its bass boost and punk-ish tendencies. We have to love a slightly unhinged vision on a record, and that’s what Unpeople bring to the table so incredibly well. Call it retrospective hindsight if you want, but there’s so much of their future tour buddies Don Broco in the mix on ‘Look Up’, haunting the lyrics and melody with their brash ultra-realism, but also their sense of triumph. That’s the quality that makes closer ‘As You Were’ such a winner; we feel like we’ve made it along with Unpeople, and lets slip that they’ve only just begun their musical quest.
‘We Are Unpeople’ contains multitudes, not just of vibrant and original musical ideas, but also of pathways and intentions. As a debut and the culmination of two years of touring, single releases and buildup, ‘We Are Unpeople’ is a brilliant opening statement that cements Unpeople in the much coveted and elusive niche of “One To Watch”. It also presents so many options and avenues which they could explore down the line, as it feels certain at this point that they’re going to be sticking around. Will they lean into the rage, float through the grunge-scapes or sweep us away with the dreamy vocal icing sugar that they add to every tune? It’s too soon to tell, but right now: we’ve got one hell of a first record to play on repeat.
KATE ALLVEY
Judas Priest bassist Ian Hill has retired from the band because of advanced arthritis and a shoulder injury that left him unable to guarantee he could play a full show. Davey Rimmer, who also plays with Uriah Heep and Elegant Weapons, is stepping in as his replacement.
The band announced the news with a short note of its own, followed by a statement from Hill.
“It is with heavy hearts that we are sending out this personal message from our Ian….he has been the backbone of Judas Priest for so long and will be greatly missed by us all….we wish him well in his retirement and welcome Davey into the Priest Family….”
For years, Hill has had a stock answer when asked how long he could keep going: “until my performances suffer.” He now says that point has arrived. He spelled out the physical toll, explained how Rimmer ended up on stage in London, and gave his reasons for walking away.
Hill wrote, “Hello everyone, for a long time now, when asked ‘how long can you continue’ – I’ve always answered ‘until my performances suffer’….. I hate to say it, but that time has come.”
“For some years now, I’ve been struggling with the onset of the evil arthritis, which is now in an advanced state in my left shoulder and right hand, established in my right shoulder, and present in both knees. I’ve been fighting this with painkilling pills, gels, and recently with cortisone injections in my shoulder and hand.”
“Although, I was able to put bass lines to the songs for the new album, there were questions whether I’d be able to complete the recent European tour without incident, so we asked our good friend Davey Rimmer from Uriah Heep, and of course Elegant Weapons, to learn the set list to stand in for me if I had to pull out, which I did for the London show. This was due to me snapping a tendon in my left shoulder (as if I didn’t have enough problems with it!) just before the encores during the Brussels show two days before. This led to me not being able to lift my arm enough to reach the neck of my bass. So we had to call Davey to stand in for me, who put in an incredible performance at such short notice!”
“I’ve seen specialists, who suggest I might get away without surgery, but even if I don’t there’s no guarantee either way that I’ll have enough strength in my shoulder/arm to complete a whole stage show. In view of all this, and the fact that I’ve neglected my family life for fifty seven years, I’ve decided to retire and spend the remaining years making up for it, and doing things with them before it involves one of ‘em pushing me around in a wheelchair.”
“The obvious choice for my replacement is Davey. He’s a great bassist, and a genuinely nice bloke who’ll fit the job perfectly, and I wish him the very best of luck! There’s not a day goes by where I don’t give thanks for the incredible journey I’ve lived through, and it just remains for me to say that I love you all, and thank you for the life you’ve let me live.” – Ian Hill
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