Simon Anders

AUDIENCES OF OVER 3 MILLION FOR A PROGRAMME WITH LOCAL PEOPLE AT ITS HEART

[Los Angeles, CA] – Regional Mexicano powerhouse Los Gemelos De Sinaloa today have released their most emotional and sonically ambitious project to date, Bendecido. Out now on Desvelada Records via Cinq Music Group, the eight-track album is a powerful statement, seamlessly blending themes of love, heartbreak, street life, gratitude, and celebration. Bendecido showcases a bold rhythmic fusion incorporating Regional Mexican, Cumbia, urban textures, and even bachata, that expands their sonic palette while remaining rooted in the authentic style that has made them one of the fastest-rising acts in the genre.

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Jayden Rainnie is nothing if not a storyteller first. Nothing/Nowhere is the Canadian singer songwriter’s debut single. It follows the story of Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar, characters of the 2005 cult classic film Brokeback Mountain. She wrote the song in her childhood bedroom immediately after watching the film for the first time. “I dont remember writing it.” quotes the singer, “it just flew out of me”. Although she could not take credit for coming up with the story herself, at the time of writing she had been grieving certain people and places just as the characters were in the film. In the summer of 2024, Rainnie had just graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy, an arts boarding school hidden in the mountains of Southern California. While recording and releasing the song over a year later the artist began to realize how universal the concept of the song was. How we’ve all been stuck with someone somewhere for a period of time, and what that experience does to us can be both magnifying and earth shaking.

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Mumford & Sons are pleased to share a new track, The Banjo Song from their forthcoming sixth album, Prizefighter. The new album is released 20th February 2026 via Island Records. The Banjo Song makes for an excellent start to what promises to be a very hectic year for the band both on and off stage.

North Carolina songwriter / vocalist / guitarist / producer Chris Stamey will be playing a string of EU dates plus a UK show this Spring (dates below). He’s releasing a new album this Summer, Modernism. Conceived as a companion piece to 2025’s lauded Anything Is Possible, the new album is a further “love letter” to the kaleidoscopic variety of music heard on AM and free-form FM radio in the 1960s and early 70s, and features many of his favorite songs from that era. The title is a wink and a nod to the fact that it was made primarily at Modern Recording (Chapel Hill, NC). Modernism is being released by Flatiron Recordings on 12” LP vinyl, CD, digital download and streaming services on June 19. I hope you’ll be interested in advancing his show with an interview, feature, news story or album review. Please let me know if you need a download or streaming link.

Credit: Kelly Christine Sutton WELCOME TO THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE EIGHT TIME GRAMMY-WINNING SUPERSTAR KACEY MUSGRAVES

Fresh from their sold-out 2026 UK dates and a hugely successful tour in Australia earlier this year, Fisherman’s Friends have announced a new UK tour for 2027.