Clouds News

ATTEMPT TO FLY is playing from January 31st to March 21st, 2019 at the National Theatre in Bulgaria.

Platinum-selling UK music collective Rudimental released a brand-new album on Friday, 'Toast To Our Differences' - having debuted three huge international singles so far – including UK #1 and RIAA certified Gold US hit'These Days' ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen, the biggest-selling UK record of 2018, 'Let Me Live' (prod. with Major Lazer) ft. Anne Marie & Mr. Eazi and 'Walk Alone' ft. Tom Walker. Written as an emphatic celebration of difference and a coming together of cultures, styles and sounds, 'Toast To Our Differences' (Major Toms/Big Beat Records) is the product of the four-piece band's past three years of work and boasts an extraordinary list of collaborators.

Do You Love This Planet? by the playwright and philosopher Alexander Matthews will premiere at Covent Garden's Tristan Bates Theatre in February 2019. Directed by Antony Law with design by Adrian Gee, the play will star Christian James as 'Alan', Lucy Lowe as 'Rachel' and Chris Porter as 'Schumann'. Do You Love This Planet will run from 27 February to 23 March, with a press night at 7pm on Tuesday 5 March.

​​​​ Opera stories thrive on the tension of good versus evil, of light versus darkness, and although the outcomes are not always happy, there's always an interesting tale to be told.

Newton Faulkner has announced new single 'Don't Leave Me Waiting' will be released through Battenberg Records via The Orchard today (25 January), listen here. Faulkner has an exciting year ahead having previously announced his new album 'The Very Best Of Newton Faulkner…So Far' which will be released in March with a major UK headline tour taking place this Spring. Tickets are on sale now from seetickets.com or newtonfaulkner.com with the album available to pre-order here.

'The most scintillating, inspiring collective moments of my life have been outdoors in the summer exploding with music,' says Third Eye Blind frontman, Stephan Jenkins. 'Those sensations travel from when I was a little kid and rock music was brand new to our last Summer Gods tour, when everything is magically new again. I seek to create that exact blissed-out state of aliveness on tour this summer.'

The UC San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance presents MIKO, a space between, a graduate dance performance directed by Aurora Lagattuta.

CABARET, with music by Kansas City's own John Kander and his partner Fred Ebb, is the next production of The Lewis and Shirley White Theatre at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City with eight performances Feb 2-17.

In a revival version never before staged on the West Coast, David Henry Hwang's audacious, Tony Award-winning M. BUTTERFLY - inspired by a bizarre true story of illusion, obsession and betrayal - will open at ArtsWest on January 24. Performances will run Today through Sunday until February 17.

The UC San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance presents MIKO, a space between, a graduate dance performance directed by Aurora Lagattuta.

Town Stages is proud to announce the 2019 slate of recipients of the annual Sokoloff Creative Arts Fellowship: Charlotte Arnoux & Alex Parrish, Nikko Benson, Eamon Boylan, Maximus DeFrancesco, Molly Powers Gallagher, Tess Howsam, Rachel Lin, Anna Lublina, Lacy Marie Meyer, Ben Moniz, Marina Montesanti, Zach Morris, Mark Murray, Tara O'Con, Noah Reece, Tidtaya Sinutoke, Alex Spieth, Jeff Tang, Greg Taubman, The Mother Line Story Project, Will Thomason, Isaac L. Thompson Jr, Rebecca Vineyard, and Emma Rosa Went.

THE PALACE OF ETERNAL YOUTH & THE PEONY PAVILION is playing in China at National Centre for the Perforiming Arts on January 30th and 31st, 2019.

Finnish melancholy death-doom metal masters Swallow The Sun release their second single and video, 'Firelights', off of their forthcoming album When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light. Watch the music video, directed and produced by Aapo Lahtela below! 'Firelights' is the second track released off of the band's upcoming full-length out on January 25th via RED MUSIC.

Reggae star Mighty Mystic is set to release his new album Enter the Mystic on February 1, 2019. Enter the Mystic is his fourth studio album. Enter the Mystic is available now for pre-order https://vpal.lnk.to/MightyMysticETMID at digital retailers and in CD. 

The Adelaide Fringe is getting classy this year, with Hartstone-Kitney Productions brining seven incredible shows to the Noel Lothian Hall. They are once again transforming the Noel Lothian Hall into a bespoke black box theatre, and are introducing a Rose Garden Bar, turning the already unique garden location into an elegant oasis amongst the East End chaos.

As they head into this new year, one of today's hottest Pop/Latino/Underground groups around is continuing to turn up the heat on 2019! Off the album “BASS PA$$I”, Monsieur Job's latest “La Melancholic Happy” feat. Clindistino combines hypnotically entrancing beats with grooving dancehall that has already gotten fans on their feet and ready for more!

Critically-acclaimed rapper Lil Skies is kicking off his 2019 with a brand new track, “Real Ties” (produced by Etrou & Taz Taylor), now available at all DSPs and streaming services (listen HERE). Skies also dropped an accompanying video, directed by Xandros and filmed in Skies' hometown of Waynesboro, PA (watch HERE).

Horizon Theatre Rep (Rafael De Mussa, Artistic Director) Announces its Winter/Spring Season. The season is led by Seven Jewish Children by Caryl Churchill . Dates & Cast to be announced soon.

Finnish melancholy death-doom metal masters Swallow The Sun have just announced their direct support slot on theChildren Of Bodom's upcoming North American tour. Additional support will come fromWolfheart. Summer's Circle, Hollow Cry, and Fragmentum as openers for select dates. The tour starts March 13th in Quebec City and wraps on April 19th in New York City. Tickets are available for purchase HERE.