Fenian, their new album, will get fans and foes talking about the music for once. From its cover art to its title, this is an album that is confrontational and controversial.
The opener "Man Overboard" quickly signals the shift. Its knotty, almost dizzying drum pattern and swelling walls of sound feel alien in this context, culminating in Mike Kinsella's blunt admission, "It's hopeless."
On her 18th studio album, In Time of Dragons, Amos draws on the long tradition of reptilian imagery to symbolize the elite, from ancient myth to David Icke's conspiracy theories. She casts Trump and his tech-feudalist allies as reptilian dragons, singing on '23 Peaks': 'I want to be, so this dragon/Half dragon, half woman thing/Take this burden from me.'
The contemporary music, thanks mostly to WindSync's commissions, arrangements and varied stage performance, lifted the show even further.
"So much changed in our lives and in the world while we were making this record, and somehow, it all pulled us deeper into the band and deeper into our friendship. Twenty years in and this is the most connected we've felt to what we're doing."
Arvo Part ranks among the most frequently performed living composers of contemporary music worldwide. His technique, known as the 'tintinnabuli' method, crafted a musical language that is distinctive, minimalist and deeply spiritual.
Maypole dancing is a springtime pagan ceremony thought to originate from medieval Europe, originally based around a big tree or bush. Traditionally on May Day people would skip around it and sing to the blossoming snowdrops and hellebores, celebrating fertility and the awakening of nature after winter.
Knats started as DIY bedroom experiments, with Woodward self-taught on a Tesco guitar and Elechi learning drums at church, evolving into a project that has taken them to the BBC Proms.
The show's centerpiece is the video 'Jeanetta and Alex' (2026) featuring poet Jeanetta Rich and artist Alex Hubbard playing guitar together. In a walkthrough of the show, Gordon described the instrument as 'phallic,' but she explained that the work is less about the cliched sexuality of rock and roll than a meditation on electricity.
The girls of Huntr/x ruin a group of demons' night with 'How It's Done,' an absolute banger full of swagger and fierce wordplay. Fans were excited for a live performance of this song during a McDonald's collaboration.