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3 days ago
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Conan Gray Teases New Album With ‘This Song' — and Sets Fall Tour
Conan Gray took a detour into retro, bombastic synth-pop with last year's Found Heaven, and his new single, 'This Song,' is yet another evolution — a melancholy, indie-ish, string-enhanced mid-tempo track with production by Phoebe Bridgers collaborator Ethan Gruska. The song is the first release from Gray's next album, Wishbone, executive-produced by Dan Nigro. Gray also announced a new tour with opening act hemlocke springs, which begins Sept. 11 in Ohio and ends in Mexico in October. In a recent social media post, Gray explained that he had been secretly writing the songs on Wishbone, out Aug. 15, for two years. 'After shows in the basements of the venues, in the sheets of my hotel beds, in narrow gaps between tours, I'd come back home and write all the things I felt nobody wanted to hear,' he wrote. 'Maybe even the things I didn't want people to hear… I didn't know I was making anything, and I had no plan to release any of it.' Eventually, he started playing the songs for his friends, who liked them, and then took them to Nigro and began recording. More from Rolling Stone Conan Gray Announces New Album 'Wishbone' Blink-182 Crack Dick Jokes, Melanie Martinez Enters 'Portals' at Lollapalooza Day Four How Conan Gray Turned the Wreckage of Heartbreak Into His 'Very First Love Song' With 'Alley Rose' 'Over time, I began to feel something I'd never felt before,' Gray continued. 'I started to need the music… . It felt like the music was reminding me who I am, at an experimental time in my twenties where 'who I am.' had no definition at all. Slowly I started to see myself in full picture. The slivers of myself I'd always been, but never faced. The songs I'd always been writing, but never singing. Before I knew it I was surrounded by an album.' The Wishbone Pajama Show Tour DatesSep. 11 — Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music CenterSep. 13 — Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music CenterSep. 14 — Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 AmphitheatreSep. 16 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Petersen Events CenterSep. 17 — Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music TheatreSep. 19 — Bridgeport, CT @ Hartford HealthCare AmphitheaterSep. 20 — Fairfax, VA @ EagleBank ArenaSep. 22 — Hollywood, FL @ Hard Rock LiveSep. 24 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend AmphitheaterSep. 26 — Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music PavilionSep. 28 — St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino AmphitheaterSep. 29 — Kansas City, MO @ Starlight TheatreOct. 1 — West Valley City, UT @ Utah First Credit Union AmphitheatreOct. 3 — Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline AmphitheatreOct. 4 — San Diego, CA @ Viejas ArenaOct. 6 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks AmphitheatreOct. 16 — Mexico City, MX @ Palacio de los DeportesOct. 17 — Guadalajara, MX @ Auditorio TelmexOct. 19 — Monterrey, MX @ Auditorio Banamex Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Yahoo
08-05-2025
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Lorde announces 'Virgin' world tour — including her first Milwaukee concert in seven years
Buzz is building around Lorde's forthcoming album "Virgin" out June 27 — co-produced by recent Bon Iver collaborator Jim-E Stack and Dan Nigro, the producer behind Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan's blockbuster albums. And on May 8, the seminal pop star from New Zealand announced she'll be touring behind the new music, revealing dates this September through December in Europe and North America — including Milwaukee. Lorde will perform at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena Oct. 10, with The Japanese House and Empress Of opening. It will be her first Milwaukee concert since kicking off her "Melodrama" North American tour at the Bradley Center in 2018. Featuring choreography from Milwaukee native Andrew Winghart, that show ended up on the Journal Sentinel's list of best concerts of the year. Tickets for Lorde's Milwaukee concert go on sale at 10 a.m. May 16 at the box office (400 W. Wisconsin Ave.) and with presales beginning at 10 a.m. May 14 at Prices have yet to be announced. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Lorde announces 'Virgin' world tour, first Milwaukee show since 2018
Express Tribune
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Lorde's 'What Was That' ushers in vulnerability
After nearly four years of silence since Solar Power, Lorde has re-emerged with a shimmering new single, What Was That; a track that plays like a heartbroken recollection wrapped in synth-pop elegance. Released on Thursday, the song marks the first taste of her forthcoming album expected later this summer, and it carries the weight of personal upheaval and sonic rebirth. Co-written with Jim-E Stack and co-produced by Stack and Dan Nigro (known for his work with Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan), the single offers a tight, emotionally charged glimpse into Lorde's inner world, one shaped by a breakup, hormonal shifts, and creative resurgence. Musically, What Was That returns to the layered, electronic textures reminiscent of her Melodrama era, though it feels more mature and less theatrical. The opening synths hum like distant city lights, before Lorde's voice slices in, cool and bruised. The lyrics detail a collapsing relationship in sharp snapshots: "MDMA in the back garden," "the best cigarette of my life," and waking from a dream only to ask, "Well, baby, what was that?" Her words flicker between romance and disillusionment. The song builds like a breath held too long. The chorus explodes with layered harmonies and bass-thick synths, echoing her emotional unrest. Dan Nigro's production choices shine, subtle but tactile, with a sense of space that lets Lorde's confessions land hard. Cue Lorde summer The music video adds another layer of intimacy. Directed by Lorde herself and shot across New York City, the visuals are disarmingly simple: Lorde walking, biking, glancing up at trees and over her shoulder like she's remembering something that never fully made sense. The most electrifying moment arrives when the video shifts to Washington Square Park. After announcing a pop-up appearance via fan text, "Meet me in the park tonight, 7PM," a massive crowd gathers. The police shuts it down due to safety concerns, but Lorde returns hours later to play the song from a small speaker, dancing among her fans as if nothing had been scripted. That footage, raw and grayscale, makes it into the video and feels like a metaphor for the song itself. The fan reactions online have been effusive, emotional, and, in true Lorde fashion, poetically unhinged. YouTube commenters quickly lit up the video's comment section with praise, declaring the track a return to form. "And when the world needed her most, she returned," wrote one fan. Another said, "She really captures the feeling of ending your shift and walking back home through the streets and urban cities." Multiple commenters zeroed in on the lyrics: "Since I was seventeen, I gave you everything," echoing Lorde's familiar themes of growing pains and emotional sacrifice. Others praised the understated but evocative visuals, with one fan writing, "The simplicity of her just walking around NYC hits harder than a million-dollar set." In fan discourse across social media, there's also mounting excitement around what this single might signal for Lorde's next full-length project. While an official album title or tracklist hasn't dropped yet, speculation is strong that the album will land by mid to late summer 2025. Collaborations with Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) are rumoured, and if What Was That is any indicator, the album will blend electronic textures with diary-level honesty. The cultural tone also seems to be shifting. With Charli xcx having announced at Coachella that "brat summer is over," she pointed directly to her onstage collaborator, Lorde, as the next torchbearer. It's an unofficial but poetic handoff: brat summer giving way to something more introspective, more emotionally feral. Maybe we're headed for "Lorde summer," filled with moody synths and existential walks through city streets.
