Bob Mould's '90s-era group Sugar have announced a full reunion tour, hitting the UK and Europe in the spring and North America in late summer and fall. The Love You Even Still 2026 World Tour is after their previously announced, sold-out shows at NYC's Webster Hall and London's O2 Forum Kentish Town in May. The fall tour includes NYC's Brooklyn Steel on October 16 and Basilica Hudson on October 18.
The track is characterised by delicate acoustic guitar and Brenda Corijn's poignant vocals, creating a finely balanced interplay of pride and melancholy. Brenda explains the song's inspiration: "During an interview I did with my mother for a theatre production, I had to ask her whether she was jealous of me. She replied, 'Jealous isn't the right word, but I would like to be that which you are.' Her words have stuck with me and resonate in this song, Orgulho, which means 'proud.'"
"As we prepare to release new music, we have to decide what we want to be a part of and what we don't," band members Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn shared in a press statement. "To that end, with Sylvan Esso being on our own label for the first time, we have decided to remove our music from Spotify. While no solution is perfect, we simply can't continue to put our life's work in a store that, in addition to all its other glaring flaws, directly funds war machines."
Having recently signed with New West Records, Ratboys have wasted little time by unveiling "Light Night Mountains All That," their first new single in some two years. Co-produced by Chris Walla (who also plays piano on the track), the single is "driven by an unorthodox time structure, exhilarating instrumentation, and the flare of extraterrestrial guitar bloops," according to a press release.
"We started work on an album this year and the way that normally goes, we write, we rehearse, we record, we mix, we get it all wrapped up tightly and then start putting songs out into the world," Britt Daniel says. "But as we finished up the first two songs for the LP, it crossed somebody's mind and eventually all of ours that these two really should come out now. Let's get them out there. And so here they are today, 'Chateau Blues' and 'Guess I'm Fallin In Love.' Two new tunes with distinct personalities that were summoned into the world the past few months in Austin TX and Providence RI."
"This song began as a poem a few years ago and was initially inspired by poet Frank Stanford. My husband and co-writer, Jeremy Ivey, found the idea I had scribbled from my abandoned notebook, and we resurrected it with a melody. The whole thing came together in ten minutes in one of those lightning bolt moments where you're tapped into something bigger than yourself. I wanted to remind people of all the places and ways that we are still allowed to dream even when the outside world seems like a nightmare."