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By Jo D. — caffeinating about music since 2016

Måneskin are on the Coachella 2027 line-up — all four of them, together, for the first time since the summer of 2024.

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Måneskin press photo: Ethan Torchio, Thomas Raggi, Victoria De Angelis and Damiano David leaning into the camera

Wolf Alice are opening for U2 on the whole European leg of The Greatest Show On Earth tour in 2027. Twelve stadium nights, Stockholm to Milan, and yes — Lisbon is on the list.

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Wolf Alice sitting in the blue seats of an empty stadium stand, all four in black leather jackets and denim, Ellie Rowsell leaning back in the front row

An album about our glorious age of distraction, and a night in Lisbon that gave us the real high instead. Fontaines D.C. opened their European tour at the MEO Arena, and I was never going to miss it.

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Fontaines D.C. on stage at the MEO Arena: the singer standing on a giant screen bathed in orange light on the left, the band small on a lit stage in front of a shimmering green curtain with fontaines dc projected across it, the crowd in the foreground

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Tour poster for U2’s The Greatest Show On Earth, World Tour 2027: the title stacked in rusted neon letters of every colour in a desert graveyard of old signs at dusk, under a red arrow reading Carnaval De Luz presents and a neon devil in a top hat. A red and gold U2 sign glows in the bottom corner, next to the words with special guest Beck

The Greatest Show On Earth Got Me On First Listen

Roasted on: 16 Oct 2026
Brew time: 3 min

Twelve photos of the band in a grid, duotone yellow and black, portraits and live shots on a scratched black background

Unshatter: A Love Letter Written in Gold

Roasted on: 12 Oct 2026
Brew time: 25 min

Seen from behind the singer at the front of the stage, one arm raised, facing a packed room with the balcony above, black and white

Stars aligned to seize the power with Yonaka

Roasted on: 06 Oct 2026
Brew time: 13 min

Album artwork: a four-panel collage of scratched photocopies in pink, grey, cream and olive, overwritten with mirrored handwriting and a cross of black tape, Stray Dogs scrawled in blue

Stray Dogs Took Me For A Walk

Roasted on: 30 Sep 2026
Cup score: 84
Brew time: 12 min

The band walking a shoreline in suits, ghosted images of their younger selves layered across the sky behind them

Fifty Songs For Fifty Years Of U2

Roasted on: 25 Sep 2026
Brew time: 16 min

Blood Cells single artwork: red blood cells seen through a microscope, framed in the screen of a camera with its playback controls, between BLOOD CELLS and K.FLAY in heavy black capitals on white

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K.Flay

Released: 2026
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