The Waterboys

Listen to new songs by Tkay Maidza/Kari Faux, Lupe Fiasco, Primitive Man, Cults, Land of Talk, Big Thief’s Buck Meek, Mike Polizze w/ Kurt Vile, Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside, and more…

There are also upcoming listening parties with Moloko, Supergrass, Cabaret Voltaire, Badly Drawn Boy, ABC, Kate Nash, OMD, Gruff Rhys, and more.

UK monthly Uncut’s Best Albums of 2019 list includes records from Nick Cave, Wilco, Bill Callahan, Purple Mountains, Leonard Cohen, Sharon Van Etten, Weyes Blood, Lana Del Rey, Joan Shelley and more.

Led as always by Mike Scott, The Waterboys will release new album ’Where the Action’ Is on May 24 and their tour starts in September.

Kirin’s cover of The Waterboys’ classic ”The Whole of the Moon” is the first single off his new album due later this year.

Huichica Hudson happens this weekend (August 24-26) at Chaseholm Farm in Pine Plains, NY with sets from Amen Dunes, Allah-Las, Bettye Lavette, Vetiver, Ryley Walker, Robyn Hitchcock and more.

Longrunning Scottish band The Waterboys recently released Modern Blues, their first album of entirely original songs in eight years. Their tour supporting it just passed through NYC over the weekend, stopping at Irving Plaza on Saturday night (4/25)…

The 2015 Glastonbury Festival, which sold out in 25 minutes back in October, has announced it’s initial lineup. In addition to Lionel Richie, which they confirmed a while back, this year will feature Patti Smith, Kanye West, Florence and the Machine, Pharell Williams, Motorhead, Alabama Shakes, The Fall, Alt-J, Suede, Fat White Family, The Chemical Brothers, GOAT, Caribou, fka twigs, George Clinton, Father John Misty, Kate Tempest, Run the Jewels, Future Islands and more…

The Waterboys will release their new album, Modern Blues, on April 7. Out already in the UK, it’s their first album of entirely original songs in eight years (2013’s An Appointment with Mr Yeats set music to WB Yeats’ poetry) and you can listen to the whole thing via YouTube below…

The transition from indie darlings to stadium-rockers is rarely a painless one, although a decade on from the release of its debut album “Funeral,” Arcade Fire proved that it has at least navigated that path better than most…