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Glass Animals announce tour dates and tease space-age new music video: “Incoming…”

Glass Animals have announced their 2024 tour dates and teased a brand new music video.

The Oxford band have wiped their social media and replaced it with three videos announcing live shows, and seemingly hinting at a space-age music video.

“Testing…1…2…3,” they wrote. “Greetings humans of Earth. We’ve missed you, and can’t wait to see you all.” They went on to name two locations for shows in ‘The Wild West, CA, USA’ and ‘Mexico City, Mexico, Earth’. No dates have been given so far.

Then, Glass Animals posted a video with the caption: “incoming…”. The video takes us through the cosmos, narrowly avoiding floating eyeballs and dolphins through the ‘International Shame Station’, before landing on the top of a building with ‘ILYSFM’ graffitied on its roof. Vocalist Dave Bayley can be heard singing: “What do you think about when you think about love?”. Watch the mysterious trailer below:

Glass Animals’ last new music was 2020’s ‘Dreamland’, a record which NME gave four stars: “’Dreamland’ is stuffed with effervescent nuggets of pop gold. It’s a sun-drenched record of summer tunes that will sound even better when heard at festivals with a tinnie in hand. Yet look behind the glittering shells of

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Watch Shakira play free pop-up show in New York’s Times Square to 40,000 fans

Shakira played a free pop-up show in front of a huge crowd in New York’s Times Square last night (March 26).

The Colombian star only announced the show on her social media channels hours before the show. By the time he took to the TSX Stage, around 40,000 fans had flocked to the square.

Opening the show with her 2006 smash ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, she went on to feature a number of tracks from her recently-released album ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran’, including ‘Te Felicito’, ‘TQG’, ‘Como Donde y Cuando’ and ‘Punteria’. She rounded out her performance with a version of the 2023 viral hit ‘BZRP Music Sessions #53’.

Check out footage from the show below:

“I’m happy to be here surrounded by my Latin people,” Shakira told the crowd before leaving the stage. “Thank you, New York! Until next time. I love you very much!”

Shakira played the following songs at Times Square, NYC:

‘Hips Don’t Lie’
‘Te Felicito’ / ‘TQG’
‘Como Donde y Cuando’
‘Punteria’
‘BZRP Music Sessions #53’

Shakira’s 12th studio album was released last week (March 22). In a four-star review, NME wrote: “With a career that spans four decades, she continues to push the envelope