New Music 2026

The singer and songwriter behind Naked Eyes' 1980s hits 'Always Something There to Remind Me' and 'Promises, Promises' has died in Los Angeles at 74.

Madness will return to Australia and New Zealand in February and March 2027 for the All Abroad For The Madness Hit Parade Tour, their first Australian tour since 2017 and first New Zealand shows since 1981.

Jake Bugg will release Alamo on November 13, marking his first album as an independent artist on Thirty Tigers and a more introspective chapter in his career.

Gilbert O'Sullivan will release his 21st studio album, On The Record, on November 6, with the new single Growing Old Disgracefully leading a project recorded in five days with his long-established studio musicians.

Vicki Wickham, the influential television producer, artist manager and music executive whose career helped shape British pop culture from the 1960s onwards, has died. Best known for transforming Ready Steady Go! into Britain's defining music television programme and for guiding the career of Dusty Springfield, Wickham remained an influential figure in music for more than six decades.

The Kinks founders Ray Davies and Dave Davies will reunite for a new art exhibition, Brothers, at Gibson Garage London, revisiting a 1968 photograph of the brothers through a series of paintings created with artist Christian Furr.

Pet Shop Boys mark four decades since the release of their debut album Please, a record that captured the pulse of mid-1980s British music and established the duo as architects of a new electronic pop sound.