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MARINA Releases Sixth Studio Album, Princess Of Power – Out Today
Internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist and author MARINA returns with the release of her highly anticipated sixth studio album, PRINCESS OF POWER, out today via Queenie Records/BMG. This fearless new era reclaims her power and sensuality, with PRINCESS OF POWER standing as her boldest, most unapologetic statement yet. Listen here.
Following two back-to-back performances at the Coachella Main Stage this spring, MARINA will celebrate the release of PRINCESS OF POWER, performing live tonight at WorldPride Festival in Washington, D.C. and tomorrow at Governors Ball in New York. Additional summer festival appearances include Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Osheaga, Outside Lands, All Things Go and Austin City Limits ensuring fans everywhere can experience the power of MARINA’s new era in person.
Alongside today’s release, MARINA also shares the Olivia De Camps-directed official music video for the album’s luminous, anthemic new single, “I <3 YOU,” a shimmering, synth-driven anthem about love. “One of my lessons in the last few years is that love — and showing love — is not a weak thing,” she says. “Of all the superpowers we have as humans, love is our greatest one.” Watch here.
If 2021’s Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land was MARINA’s outward gaze at a fractured world, PRINCESS OF POWER is a fearless inward journey — a manifesto of survival, resilience, and radical self-belief. “I’ve accessed this new part of myself,” she explains. “It’s really a rebuilding-my-life-from-scratch type of album. Which is probably why it has an exciting energy.”
The anthemic title track sets the tone of the album, “I lived the sweet/and I lived the sour/been living life/locked up in tower/but now I’m blooming like a flower,” she sings, while on the devastatingly honest “EVERYBODY KNOWS I’M SAD,” MARINA navigates vulnerability and strength in equal measure. Standout single “BUTTERFLY” — already boasting over 20 million global streams — captures this essence perfectly with its defiant refrain: “So I’m saying goodbye, goodbye/Watch me grow from afar as I turned into a butterfly.”
PRINCESS OF POWER marks MARINA’s first release as an independent artist on her own label, Queenie Records (in partnership with BMG) — a testament to her unwavering creative autonomy since her earliest days. The album also features the fiery “CUNTISSIMO,” a tribute to powerful women who own their sexuality, which Rolling Stone called “an anthemic pop song inspired by glamorous, brave, confident women” with Dork and NME lauding the track “empowering” and “unapologetic” respectively, and “CUPID’S GIRL,” a playful, irresistible pop banger with a psychedelic twist, hailed by V Magazine as a “seductive pop anthem.” Throughout the record, MARINA reclaims female desire and identity in a way that is wholly her own. Watch the official music video for “CUNTISSIMO” here.
Speaking about her hopes for this new album, MARINA reveals, “So often, women don’t think they’re allowed to feel their sexuality in a way that doesn’t involve how it looks for men. They feel that it’s been co-opted – I would love to be able to free younger women of that, the feeling that our bodies don’t quite belong to us. You can look or dress a certain way, but that doesn’t mean that internally, you feel free,” she says. “And that’s what I’m after.”
Stay tuned for more news and music from MARINA, coming soon. PRINCESS OF POWER is available worldwide now.
PRINCESS OF POWER – LISTEN
PRINCESS OF POWER
BUTTERFLY
CUNTISSIMO
ROLLERCOASTER
CUPID’S GIRL
METALLIC STALLION
JE NE SAIS QUOI
DIGITAL FANTASY
EVERYBODY KNOWS I’M SAD
HELLO KITTY
I <3 YOU
ADULT GIRL
FINAL BOSS
2025 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
06/06 – World Pride Music Festival – Washington, DC
06/07 – The Governors Ball – Queens, NY
06/13 – Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival – Manchester, TN
08/02 – Lollapalooza – Chicago, IL
08/03 – Osheaga Music and Arts Festival – Montreal, QC
08/08 – Outside Lands – San Francisco, CA
09/28 – All Things Go – Columbia, MD
10/04 – Austin City Limits Music Festival – Austin, TX
10/11 – Austin City Limits Music Festival – Austin, TX
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Steve Lacy Announces 27-Date Fall Tour Behind Oh Yeah?
Steve Lacy is hitting the road this fall with a 27-date tour in support of his upcoming album, Oh Yeah?
The tour kicks off September 27 in Minneapolis and will take Lacy across North America, with stops planned in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and New York. The run will wrap up in Vancouver.
Oh Yeah? marks Lacy’s first album since 2022’s Gemini Rights, the record that helped further establish him as one of R&B and alternative music’s most distinctive voices. The new album features appearances from SZA, Erykah Badu and Cecile Believe.
The upcoming tour will be Lacy’s first major run since the 2022 Give You the World Tour, which supported Gemini Rights. Four years later, he is set to return to the stage with new material and a string of dates across North America.
Steve Lacy Oh Yeah? Tour Dates:
09-27 Minneapolis, MN – The Armory
09-30 Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom
10-03 Sterling Heights, MI – Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill
10-05 Toronto, Ontario – Coca-Cola Coliseum
10-06 Laval, Quebec – Place Bell
10-10 New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall
10-13 Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
10-15 Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
10-18 Washington, DC – The Anthem
10-20 Virginia Beach, VA – The Dome by Rutter Mills
10-22 Charlotte, NC – Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre
10-23 Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater
10-26 Miami, FL – FPL Solar Amphitheatre
10-28 Tampa, FL – Yuengling Center
10-30 Atlanta, GA – Synovus Bank Amphitheater at Chastain Park
11-02 Nashville, TN – Nashville Municipal Auditorium
11-05 Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
11-07 Austin, TX – Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park
11-08 Houston, TX – Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land
11-11 Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
11-13 Las Vegas, NV – The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
11-17 Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre
11-19 San Diego, CA – Gallagher Square at Petco Park
11-21 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
11-24 San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
11-28 Seattle, WA – WAMU Theater
11-30 Vancouver, British Columbia – Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre
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Tyla Announces 34-Date Global Tour in Support of New Album APOP*
Fresh off the release of her new album APOP*, South African singer-songwriter Tyla has announced a 34-date global tour that will take her across Europe, North America, and Africa.
The tour kicks off in Paris, France, in October before moving through the UK and Europe. Tyla will then begin the North American leg in San Francisco on November 13, followed by a stop at Vancouver’s Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre on November 15.
The singer will return to Canada later in the run for a November 26 performance at Toronto’s Coca-Cola Coliseum. From there, she’ll continue through the United States before heading back to Africa for shows in Lagos, Cape Town, and her hometown of Johannesburg, where the tour will wrap up.
The run marks Tyla‘s longest stretch of North American shows to date. She had originally planned a world tour in support of her 2024 self-titled debut album, but the trek was cancelled after she suffered an injury.
Tyla‘s breakout single “Water” became a global hit and earned her the inaugural Grammy Award for Best African Music Performance in 2024. The song later received a remix featuring Travis Scott.
The upcoming tour follows the July 24 release of APOP*, Tyla‘s latest full-length project and the follow-up to her self-titled debut.
Presales for the tour begin Wednesday, July 29, at 10 a.m. local time, with tickets going on general sale Friday, July 31, at 10 a.m. local time.
Tyla 2026–2027 Tour Dates:
10-12 Paris, France – Zenith Paris
10-13 Amsterdam, Netherlands – AFAS Live
10-15 London, England – O2 Academy Brixton
10-18 Glasgow, England – O2 Academy Glasgow
10-19 Manchester, England – O2 Apollo Manchester
10-22 Brussels, Belgium – Forest National
10-24 Dusseldorf, Germany – Mitsubishi Electric HALLE
10-25 Frankfurt, Germany – Stadthalle Offenbach
10-27 Berlin, Germany – Uber Eats Music Hall
10-29 Stockholm, Sweden – Annexet
10-30 Oslo, Norway – Oslo Spektrum
11-01 Copenhagen, Denmark – K.B. Hallen
11-12 Wheatland, CA – Hard Rock Live
11-13 San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
11-15 Vancouver, British Columbia – Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre
11-17 Seattle, WA – WAMU Theater @ Lumen Field
11-20 Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
11-22 Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom
11-25 Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
11-26 Toronto, ON – Coca-Cola Coliseum
11-28 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
12-02 Washington, DC – The Anthem
12-05 Tampa, FL – Yuengling Center
12-06 Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy
12-09 Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
12-10 Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall
12-11 Austin, TX – Moody Center
12-14 Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre
12-15 San Diego, CA – Viejas Arena
12-16 Los Angeles, CA – YouTube Theater
12-19 Las Vegas, NV – Fontainebleau Las Vegas
12-22 Lagos, Nigeria – TBA
01-04 Cape Town, South Africa – Green Point Track
01-09 Johannesburg, South Africa – Expo Centre, Nasrec