Hungary’s biggest summer bash Sziget Festival is pulling out all the stops for 2025, announcing a properly stacked lineup headed up by rap royalty A$AP Rocky, certified hitmaker Post Malone, and everyone’s favourite Canadian charmer Shawn Mendes. The festival’s latest drop also includes rising hyperpop force horsegiirL, experimental wizard Helado Negro, and dance music innovator Caribou. The musical extravaganza will take over Budapest’s Óbudai-sziget (that’s ‘Old Buda Island’ for those who skipped Hungarian class) from 6th-11th August 2025, joining already-announced pop powerhouse Charli XCX, icon Chappell Roan, and electronic mastermind Anyma. Early bird tickets are available now through the festival’s official website, with six-day passes starting from €289.

London Grammar have been confirmed as the latest headliner for London’s spanking new LIDO Festival, joining an already rather spiffing lineup that includes Jamie xx and everyone’s favourite party-starter Charli XCX. The trio, who’ve been known to reduce entire festival fields to emotional puddles with their atmospheric soundscapes, will be taking over Victoria Park’s Lido Field on 15th June 2025, bringing along a proper dreamy supporting cast including the magnificent Celeste and rising star Pip Millett. Tickets go on general sale at 10am on 31st January. The organised among us can hop on the artist pre-sale from 29th January, while LIDO pre-sale kicks off on 30th January.

Sam Fender is leading the charge as BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend makes its triumphant return to Liverpool, with the first wave of acts announced for this year’s fest at Sefton Park. Our Sam’s bringing his arena-filling anthems to Merseyside from 23rd-25th May, joined by PLEASE-COME-BACK-SOON-WITH-NEW-MUSIC’s Wet Leg, Blossoms, Lola Young and Myles Smith – and that’s just for starters, with more than 100 acts set to descend across four stages. The three-day extravaganza will spread across Radio 1’s Main Stage, New Music Stage, Dance Stage and BBC Introducing, with plenty more names still to be announced. Keep your eyes peeled for more headliners and ticket details coming soon via Radio 1.

An absolutely massive lineup including Paramore’s Hayley Williams, St. Vincent, Lucy Dacus, and MUNA (plus about a million others) are joining forces for a benefit show supporting California wildfire victims. The perfectly-named G*ve a F*ck LA is setting up shop at the Hollywood Palladium, withJohn C. Reilly hosting. The one-night-only event hits Los Angeles on 5th February, with proceeds supporting local organisations including Altadena Girls and Friends in Deed. If you’re not lucky enough to be in LA, you can catch the whole thing via Veeps livestream for a fiver minimum donation. Proper tickets go on sale tomorrow (28th January) at 12pm Pacific, and in a rare moment of ticketing companies not being absolutely awful, all booking fees are being waived. There’s even an afterparty with Rico Nasty and Dylan Brady, if you fancy it.

BLACKPINK’s LISA is going for it with her latest solo endeavour, recruiting none other than pop powerhouses Doja Cat and RAYE for her new single ‘Born Again’. The track, which lands on 6th February, leads into LISA’s debut solo album ‘Alter Ego’, dropping 28th February via LLOUD CO. and RCA Records. When she’s not busy conquering the music world with recent singles ‘Rockstar’, ‘New Woman’, and ‘Moonlit Floor’, she’s casually strutting down runways for Victoria’s Secret, serving face for Louis Vuitton and Bulgari, and – because apparently sleep is for the weak – making her acting debut in the next season of ‘The White Lotus’. As you do.

Jenny Lewis and co. are officially reuniting Rilo Kiley for their first show since 2008. The beloved indie outfit will join the lineup at California’s Just Like Heaven festival, sharing the bill with fellow indie royalty Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, and Bloc Party.

The one-day festival is set for 10th May 2025 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, with a supporting including Courtney Barnett, The Drums, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and “very special guests” Slowdive. The band themselves sound properly chuffed about the whole thing, noting in a statement that they’re “so very excited to come back together” in the city where it all began. While there’s no word yet on whether this might lead to more shows (please please please), we’ll take what we can get.

The ultimate pop-punk summer camp is making its return, and the first wave of bands is very much on brand. Simple Plan are leading the charge alongside Bowling For Soup and Dance Hall Crashers for the opening weekend in Washington, DC. They’ll be joined by Miss May I, Chandler Leighton and Pennywise – who are all going the extra mile by playing multiple weekends across the summer.

The full lineup reveal is getting the dramatic treatment, with ’30 Days of Warped’ kicking off today and running through February 26th. The festival will take place across three massive weekends – Washington, DC (June 14-15), Long Beach, California (July 26-27), and Orlando, Florida (November 15-16).

In what might be the most perfectly Self Esteem move yet, Rebecca Lucy Taylor is bringing her theatrical new album ‘A Complicated Woman’ to an actual proper theatre. The pop powerhouse will transform London’s Duke of York’s Theatre into her own glorious kingdom this April, teaming up with Tony Award-winning designer and director Tom Scutt for ‘A Complicated Woman Live’ – a show that promises to be part gig, part theatrical extravaganza, and entirely essential viewing.

The five-show run kicks off on 16th April and includes a matinee on the 19th, with tickets going on general sale 5th February (though you can nab them early by pre-ordering the album before 3rd February). The record itself, which drops on 25th April, features an absolutely massive roster of collaborators including Nadine Shah, Moonchild Sanelly, and Life Without Buildings’ Sue Tompkins, plus a choir featuring everyone from RLT’s mates to actual Corrie legend Julie Hesmondhalgh (obviously, right?). We’re already practicing our power poses in anticipation.