Vancouver roots and blues quartet Honeybear will release its second album, “The Cure,” on September 4, following up its 2025 debut “I Was Wrong.” The band will mark the release with two shows: September 9 at Upstairs in Victoria with Emmett Jerome, and September 10 at the Hollywood Theatre in Vancouver.

The 11-track album was recorded at Light Machine and Afterlife Studios with Jeff Zipp and John Raham, with Zipp mixing and Doug Krebs mastering. It features an expanded lineup beyond core members Beaty and Brumelle, including additional keys, drums, pedal steel, horns and background vocals from a rotating cast of collaborators. The lead single, “Just Your Fool,” nods to Slim Harpo’s “Raining in My Heart” and has passed 100,000 streams, according to the announcement.

Formed in 2023, Honeybear says its debut album surpassed nine million streams and 200,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, with placements on official Spotify editorial playlists and airplay on CBC, NPR and CKUA, per the band. The group has also picked up award nominations, including a Blues Music Award nomination from the Blues Foundation and a Blues Artist of the Year nod from the Western Canadian Music Awards, and has played festivals including Rifflandia, Vancouver Jazz Festival and Calgary Blues Fest, according to the release.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Eric Alper, thatericalper.com.

Independent country artist Christopher James has released a new single, “What If I,” via Young Outlaw Music. According to the announcement, the song addresses the idea of an artist resisting a single stylistic lane, contrasting modern production with lyrical nods to 1990s country influences.

James wrote and recorded the track at home over about three days, playing all instruments himself except for pedal steel, the announcement says. The release follows his previous single, “Shotgun County Pawn and Gun,” a more traditional country story song, which James discussed in a television appearance on Good Morning Washington alongside his military service.

James has served as a U.S. Army musician for nearly 20 years and has performed alongside artists including Chris Stapleton, Maren Morris, Train, Garth Brooks, Sammy Hagar and CeeLo Green, according to the announcement. He is based in Washington, D.C., and reports more than 90,000 streams across his independent catalogue.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Eric Alper, thatericalper.com.

Iron Maiden will release two anniversary vinyl collections in December, marking 40 years since “Somewhere in Time” and 50 years since the band’s formation. A limited-edition Oxblood color vinyl reissue of “Somewhere in Time,” featuring the 2015 remaster, arrives December 4, with an Amazon-exclusive variant that includes a full sleeve poster.

A week later, on December 11, the band will issue “50th Anniversary Studio Album Collection, Part One: 1980-1992,” a boxed vinyl set spanning the band’s first nine studio albums, from “Iron Maiden” through “Fear of the Dark.” Each title is pressed on a distinct color vinyl, according to the announcement, and the set comes in custom artwork packaging, with an Amazon variant that includes an exclusive anniversary poster.

The releases tie into the band’s ongoing Run for Your Lives Tour, on which the label says the band has been performing material from that album era.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by FunHouse Entertainment.

UK singer-songwriter Daniel Pickard, formerly of art-pop band Half Loon, will release his debut album Behaviour on October 23 via AWAL. The announcement arrives alongside the new single “Heartbeats the Flaw,” accompanied by a visualizer directed by Axel Gillot.

The Coventry-raised, London-based artist describes the single as drawing on French touch influences, exploring the highs and lows of romance and loyalty. The album features contributions from composer and violinist Owen Pallett, known for his work with Arcade Fire, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Pet Shop Boys, as well as composer Michael Stein of Stranger Things.

Behaviour spans ten tracks touching on settings ranging from a nineteenth-century brothel to a São Paulo airport, drawing on influences including French pop, Italo disco and Serge Gainsbourg-style lyricism, according to the announcement.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Vic Borlando.

Nearly half of the fan interest in Harry Styles’ 30-show residency at Madison Square Garden is coming from outside the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut area, according to data from Bandsintown. The platform found that 49.4% of RSVP interest across the full run originates outside the tri-state, including 11.5% from international fans, with Pennsylvania, California, Texas, Massachusetts and Florida accounting for nearly 18% of total RSVPs.

The pattern varies by date, Bandsintown says. Opening night skewed more local, with 60.8% of RSVPs coming from the tri-state area. By contrast, the October 31 “Harryween” show is shaping up as a major draw for out-of-town fans, with 61.2% of interest coming from outside the region — the only date in the run where outside interest exceeds local demand, according to the data. Bandsintown reports that date is tracking at roughly three times the RSVP activity and 3.2 times the ticket-click activity of a typical late-October show in the residency.

The October 30 show also ranks as the second-strongest October date by RSVP activity, which Bandsintown says points to elevated interest around the residency’s closing weekend.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Emily Bender, hustleandco.com.

Singer-songwriter Amy Speace has released her debut poetry collection, “The Cardinals,” via Red Hen Press, alongside a new single, “Days of Letting Go,” with an accompanying music video. Both projects tie into her current tour, “The Cardinals: Songs, Stories & Poetry,” which runs into 2027 and mixes performances, readings and conversations at listening rooms, venues and bookstores, including a scheduled appearance at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on Oct. 17.

The poetry collection explores themes of marriage, divorce, motherhood and mysticism. The single “Days of Letting Go” grew out of a poem Speace wrote during her MFA thesis work, originally conceived as a persona piece with a male narrator; she said a mentor and a friend, musician Vance Gilbert, encouraged her to turn it into a song. The track was recorded at Skinny Elephant Studio in East Nashville, produced by Neilson Hubbard, and features Doug Lancio on guitars, Lex Price on bass, Hubbard on drums and Danny Mitchell on keys. The video was directed by Duende Visions Productions.

Speace, who was signed to Judy Collins’ label after being discovered by the folk icon, has had her songs recorded by artists including Red Molly and Christine Lavin. Her song “Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne” won International Song of the Year from the American Music Association (UK) in 2020, according to her bio.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by monica@thinkpress.net (thinkpress.net).

Malcolm Todd opened his 38-date North American “Do That Again” tour Tuesday night in Irving, Texas, with a set drawing from his sophomore album alongside earlier singles “Earrings” and “Chest Pain (I Love).” The tour, which is sold out according to the announcement, runs through late October with stops at Radio City Music Hall in New York, The Salt Shed in Chicago and a three-night close at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.

The trek follows the release of “Do That Again” on Columbia Records, which the label says debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with all 13 tracks charting on the U.S. Spotify chart. Todd’s team says the album has generated 277 million global streams since release and that the tour sold more than 145,000 tickets during artist presale, prompting the addition of 11 dates.

Todd, who has RIAA Platinum certifications for “Earrings” and “Chest Pain (I Love),” recently made his debut on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and appeared in Gap’s Fall 2026 “Denim on Your Own” campaign with actress Inde Navarrette. He also performed at Outside Lands and Osheaga over the summer.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Genesis Salazar, LiveNation.com.

Alex Warren has claimed the No. 1 spot on Australia’s ARIA On Replay Singles Chart with “Wildchild.” The chart-topping run comes alongside a notable presence from the late Dolly Parton, who lands multiple titles in the upper reaches of the survey.

Parton’s showing marks a rare podium sweep for the country icon, underscoring her enduring commercial pull following her death. The overlap of a rising pop act at No. 1 with a legacy country star holding down other top spots reflects the eclectic mix currently shaping Australia’s singles chart.

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BLACKPINK member JISOO has released “CLICK,” a new solo single that arrives with a music video directed by Joseph Kahn. The clip casts the singer as a cyborg navigating a theme park setting, pairing a futuristic visual concept with an upbeat pop sound.

The release marks the next step in JISOO’s solo career, which she has developed alongside her ongoing work with BLACKPINK.

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