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Bryan Adams has returned with California Christmas, a warm and lively festive single that trades snowy scenes for a bright West Coast glow. The track arrives as the first preview of his upcoming Christmas album Bryan Adams & Friends: A Great Big Holiday Jam, set for release on December 8 through Bad Records. The album launch will coincide with the premiere of the matching Christmas TV special on Citytv and Citytv+ in Canada.

Singer, songwriter, and producer Braison Cyrus has released his new single “As Long As You'll Stay,” a collaboration with his sister and Grammy-nominated artist Noah Cyrus. The track is available now across all major streaming platforms.

Sam Fender has shared his newest single, “I’m Always on Stage,” a tender and deeply confessional acoustic ballad lifted from the forthcoming deluxe edition of his album People Watching, arriving December 5 via Capitol Records. The song, which first appeared on his vinyl-only Record Store Day EP Me and The Dog, returns here as part of an expanded collection that includes eight new tracks. The deluxe edition will be available digitally and on both CD and vinyl.

Meghan Trainor is officially kicking off the festive season with “Gifts For Me,” a new Christmas single that blends her signature pop charisma with a message of self-love. The GRAMMY Award winner, known for delivering some of the most cheerful holiday tracks of the last decade, returns with an upbeat reminder to treat yourself as much as you treat others.

Fresh off their sell out “From All Sides” UK arena tour, Bastille have released “SAVE MY SOUL,” their first original music in three years. The new single arrives with the familiar emotional punch of their early work, yet there is a sharpened edge to the sound, a sense of renewal sparked by the band finally being back in the same room again.

Labrinth has always thrived in the space between beauty and chaos. With his new single “Implosion,” he leans all the way in, delivering a track that sounds like it was lifted from the climax of a psychological thriller.

The intro alone sets the tone. For roughly twenty seconds, the song creeps forward through eerie, spaced out horn strikes that feel like warning signals in a nightmare. One YouTube commenter summed it up perfectly: “A serial killer is chasing me with this beat.” Another listener said, “That first chord ripped my heart out and I want it to do it again.”

Multi-platinum, BRIT Award-winning and GRAMMY®-nominated pop visionary MIKA is officially back with his new single “Modern Times,” out now via Republic Records. The song marks the start of a new chapter for one of pop’s most inventive artists, with news of a brand-new album to follow soon.

On a crisp autumn evening, fittingly Tom Petty’s birthday, the Tom Petty Preservation Society turned the intimate Barnoldswick Music & Arts Centre into a celebration of one of rock’s most beloved songwriters. The venue was rammed packed, the kind of shoulder-to-shoulder crowd where excitement hums before the first chord even rings out.

Two-time GRAMMY Award-winning quintet Ranky Tanky from Charleston, South Carolina, are back with their uplifting new single “Be Alright”, the first glimpse of their forthcoming 2026 album This Village. Known for turning the living rhythms of Gullah music into modern American grooves, the band infuses the track with the warmth, faith, and resilience that has defined their career.

Today, South African-born, Berlin-based artist Alice Phoebe Lou releases her luminous new album Oblivion via Nettwerk Music Group. Self-produced and steeped in self-assurance, the record finds Lou stripping away the noise of modern life to rediscover the raw intimacy that first defined her sound.