TREACLE · Editorial Column
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Curated round-ups. Press picks, social moments, viral clips, standout moments from elsewhere.
Justice are scoring GTA VI, and their new track features Tame Impala, SZA and King Gizzard
Rockstar has confirmed Justice as the composers of the GTA VI score. The first song out, "Flower in a Hurricane", brings back Kevin Parker, who won a Grammy with them in 2025.
Coda · 16 Oct 2026
Doechii's Swamp Sessions are back with "BOMBS". The last run ended in a Grammy.
In 2024, six Swamp Sessions led straight into Alligator Bites Never Heal. Now there is a fembot with guns in her chest, and no word yet on what comes next.
Coda · 12 Oct 2026
Apple built a 600-capacity venue in London. Its first season is booked with people who sell out arenas.
Elton John opened it on Monday with twelve songs, none released after 1983. Apple says rooms this size matter because young artists need somewhere to grow. Then it booked Burna Boy, Troye Sivan and Charli xcx.
Coda · 29 Sept 2026
The 2026 VMAs: Madonna won seven, Taylor Swift passed Beyoncé and Yung Lean smashed a Moon Person
Nirvana collected the Video Vanguard Award, and seventeen of the twenty-three categories were handed out off air. Four of the night's names have been in front of our cameras.
Coda · 28 Sept 2026
EsDeeKid heads to Berlin and Cologne
The Liverpool rapper brings his Council House Rat Tour to Germany for two shows in November 2026, on a forty-eight-date world tour across North America and Europe.
Damien Töpfl · 26 Sept 2026
Genesis Owusu has won Album of the Year twice. Now his third album is nominated.
He leads the 2026 ARIA nominations with eight, level with Tame Impala. Ecca Vandal has seven. We photographed Owusu and Vandal at Roskilde in July, one day apart.
Annelies · 24 Sept 2026
Ten 2027 tours in two weeks, and one apology
Oasis booked 38 shows. Harry Styles booked 25 and abolished dynamic pricing. Charli XCX booked six and explained herself to fans who were not happy about it.
Coda · 18 Sept 2026
FKA twigs is Josephine Baker, and the cameras are already rolling
The casting was announced back in May. Shooting started this month across Paris, the Dordogne and Sofia, with the backing of Baker's sons and the Rainbow Tribe.
Coda · 15 Sept 2026
John Coffey wrote their new single for the man who threw the beer
Niels van den Ham threw the beer that David Achter de Molen caught at Pinkpop in 2015. He died by suicide two years ago. 'Not Alone' is for him.
Coda · 12 Sept 2026
Fontaines D.C. step into the Dopamine Chamber
The Dublin band's fifth album arrives on 16 October. Grian Chatten says Romance was 60 per cent human and 40 per cent corrupted. On Dopamine Chamber those numbers have flipped.
Bobby Hogan · 10 Sept 2026
Oasis got an eight-minute ovation in Venice. The documentary is softer than either brother would admit.
Don't Look Back In Anger premiered on Saturday. Two hours on the reunion tour, the first joint interviews the brothers have given in over twenty years, and in cinemas from this week. Here is what is in it.
Coda · 6 Sept 2026
Sam Tompkins has a new album, and an open invitation from The Fray
ARE WE GONNA SING? landed this morning. By the afternoon the band whose song he has been covering since 2023 had asked him on TikTok to come to Europe.
Coda · 4 Sept 2026
Olivia Rodrigo raised $20 million in a single day. Attendees say the shade ran out.
Daisy Chain Fields raised ten million dollars on 29 August, doubled on stage by Melinda French Gates. In June we wrote that nobody on the bill was getting paid. Then the reports from the field started arriving.
Coda · 2 Sept 2026
The 2026 Mercury shortlist reads like a festival lineup
Twelve albums, announced this morning. Most of these artists have been on a stage this summer, and four of them have been in front of our cameras. Here is the full list.
Coda · 30 Jul 2026
Gut Genug, explained: why the KitschKrieg hook will not leave your head (and now Skepta is on it)
Du bist gut genuuuug. Once you have heard it, it stays. Why the KitschKrieg, Blumengarten and Shirin David hook refuses to leave your head, and what a Skepta verse does to it.
Annelies · 30 Jul 2026
Flea has a jazz band now, and it just played North Sea Jazz
The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist brought Flea and the Honora Band to the 50th North Sea Jazz on Saturday night, playing trumpet, not bass.
Annelies · 13 Jul 2026
Yungblud pulls out of tomorrow's Calgary show: "I'm working on myself"
His management pulled him from Sunday's Cowboys Music Festival slot. Behind the cancellation sits a tearful Bludfest speech and a feud over two words: industry plant.
Coda · 11 Jul 2026
Rein Me In: Sam Fender and Olivia Dean now own the longest-running British number one ever
Sixteen weeks at number one, a 32-year-old record broken. We shot both halves of the duet before the song existed.
Coda · 10 Jul 2026
Daisy Chain Fields: Olivia Rodrigo's all-women festival sold out in 30 minutes, and nobody is getting paid
An all-women bill, every artist playing for free, all the money going to women's and girls' charities. Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields revives Lilith Fair for one day in Irvine, and it sold out in 30 minutes.
Annelies · 27 Jun 2026
You Never Take Me to Bangladesh: How a 49-Second Song Took Over the Internet
A 49-second song about a country it is not really about took over TikTok. Here is why it spread, who is remixing it, and what people think it means.
Annelies · 24 Jun 2026
Little Simz joins Gorillaz for their first stadium headline show
Going to Gorillaz at Tottenham tomorrow? Little Simz is one of 23 guests. The Simz and Gorillaz history, and why Roskilde is the one to watch.
Coda · 19 Jun 2026
Ten Queer Artists, one Pride Month
Ten queer artists we've photographed, from Chappell Roan to Peaches and Gossip: our Pride Month 2026 list, with the songs and quotes that say it best.
Annelies · 10 Jun 2026
The FIFA World Cup 2026 album: 8 tracks from artists we've seen live
Eight cuts from the biggest World Cup soundtrack yet, all from artists we’ve already sweated for in festival pits and city venues across Europe.
Annelies · 8 Jun 2026
Charli XCX puts Cale, Jacobs and Scorsese on her album cover, instead of herself.
Music, Fashion, Film drops 24 July. The cover, shot by Aidan Zamiri, frames the title's three categories with one figure each. We shot Charli at Sziget last summer.
Annelies · 7 Jun 2026
Dance first, film later. Since 2017.
Solomun has been quietly running phones-down Sundays at Pacha Ibiza since 2017. Now the rest of the industry is catching up, and it changes what the pictures are worth.
Annelies · 5 Jun 2026
What you missed at SXSW London. And what is still on.
Three days down, three to go at SXSW London 2026. What already happened, and the five sets and one panel still worth catching before the music wraps on Friday night.
Colin Darbyshire · 3 Jun 2026
Festival season opens: Primavera, Governors Ball and Bonnaroo 2026
The summer run starts this week. Three festivals open the 2026 season on two continents. You know the headliners, so we skip them: here are the acts further down the bill we would not miss.
Coda Photos · 1 Jun 2026