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While You Were Away: Bring Me Horizon Cover Oasis Classic, Warped Tour Reveals 2025 Bands, Lady Gaga’s Next Album, And More

Monday blues got you down? Kick off your morning with the music news you missed on this week’s While You Were Away featuring Bring Me the Horizon, Lady Gaga’s new LP, the bands of Warped Tour 2025, and more.

Bring Me the Horizon share cover of Oasis staple ‘Wonderwall’

BRING ME THE HORIZON Might Have New Music In 2025, Might "Go Away For A Bit"

Bring Me the Horizon have shared their take on Oasis‘ iconic song “Wonderwall” as a “Spotify Singles” exclusive. The song is paired with a remix of “YOUtopia” from their 2024 album, POST HUMAN: NeX GEn.

Listen to the cover below.

Bring Me the Horizon will play the Rock Am Ring/Rock Im Park festivals in Germany in June followed by Reading/Leeds festivals in UK in August. See all their dates here.

Lady Gaga announces new album ‘Mayhem’

Lady Gaga announces industrial dance music-inspired album, ‘MAYHEM’

Lady Gaga has announced her new album, Mayhem, out March 7th.

The 14-track album features “Disease” and the Bruno Mars collab single “Die With a Smile.” The record’s third single, “Abracadabra,” debuted during a commercial break at the 2025 Grammy Awards. Watch the video below.

Gaga discussed the album with Vogue back in November saying:

“The album is chaotic from a genre perspective — it is genre-bending, and I think in that way is a deeply personal look into my mind as a producer and the way I think about music,” she explained. “When I write and produce and sing songs, I am always drawing upon my knowledge of the history of music, and so many artists and producers that came before me. In that way, this album is a celebration of a lot of the music that made me who I am, because when I returned to a darker pop style of pop, all my early experiences with music came out.”

“The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved,” Gaga added in a statement. She described the creative process as her “reassembling a shattered mirror: even if you can’t put the pieces back together perfectly, you can create something beautiful and whole in its own new way.”

Pre-order Mayhem here.

Warped Tour announce first headliner and bands for 2025 festival

Vans Warped Tour Disappeared—But A Comeback Is Planned

Warped Tour has revealed the first wave of bands for its 2025 return. This year’s lineup includes Simple Plan, Bowling For Soup, Blessthefall, Pennywise, Lacey Sturm, We Came As Romans, State Champs, Miss May I, Dance Hall Crashers, Chandler Leighton, Drain, Lolo, Cobra Starship, Saturdays At Your Place, The Maine, Senses Fail, Fever 333, and Fishbone.

Additionally, 311, one of this year’s headliners, will close out the festival’s Long Beach, California shows on July 26th and 27th.

Warped Tour will continue revealing bands over the next 3o days up to February 26th.

Warped Tour takes place in Washington DC on June 14 –15 at the Festival Grounds at RFK Campus, Long Beach CA on July 26 – 27 at Downtown Long Beach Shoreline Waterfront, and Orlando FL on November 15 – 16 at Camping World Stadium Campus. Get all the details here.

Jinjer unveil new single ‘Duél’

Jinjer have dropped a cool animated video for the title-track of their new album, Duél

Ahead of the release of their fifth album, Duél, Jinjer have shared the title track along with its accompanying animated music video.

“First of all, it‘s hard to believe that we’re about to release our fifth full length album,” says bassist Eugene Abdukhanov. “After all the releases we’ve made, finally having Duél in our hands and ready to be shared with the world, makes us very proud that our band still hasn’t run out of creativity and inspiration. The fact that we still challenge ourselves to release the best music we have ever made with each new release, is what keeps Jinjer moving forward.”

Talking about the making of the new album Abdukhanov says:

“This upcoming album was the longest songwriting process we’ve ever had and it took almost two years to complete. We worked very hard with every free minute we weren’t on tour, recording demos over and over again and always searching for the perfect sound for guitars, bass and drums.

“It was also the first time that Tatiana [Shmayluk] did vocal pre-productions, so it’s safe to say that none of our releases were so well thought out and calculated as this one. It pulverizes the boundaries of the modern progressive metal genre but still remains sophisticated, exciting and extreme all at the same time. We took up the challenge to expand our musical horizons even wider than before in order to cement Duél to be the next step in Jinjer’s musical growth and hopefully the evolution of metal music in general.”

Watch “Duél” below. The album comes out on February 7th via Napalm Records.

Tours on sale this week

Hozier will embark on a North American tour this summer. After headlining Governors Ball on June 8th, Hozier’s tour will start on June 10th in Camden, New Jersey, and wraps up on September 19th in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Tickets go on sale Thursday, February 6th at 2 PM local time. See all the dates here.

Incubus will continue their “Morning View + The Hits” tour this year with a new North American leg. The band will perform their 2001 album in full across 13 dates starting on June 25th in Nashville, Tennessee, and wraps up October 4th in Los Angeles, California. Manchester Orchestra joins as a special guest. See all the dates here.

Modest Mouse have announced a summer North American tour. The trek kicks off on June 9th in Lake Buena Vista, Florida and concludes with their appearance at the Inaugural Zootown Music Festival in Missoula, Montana from July 4th – July 5th. Get all the details here.

Bruno Mars has extended his Las Vegas residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM. The new shows will take place May 21st, 24th, 25th, 28th, 30th, 31st, and June 2nd. See all the dates and buy tickets here.

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Ashley Perez Hollingsworth

Ashley Perez is a freelance music journalist based in Chicago. Her work has appeared on AXS, Chicago Innerview, New City, The Millions, and Illinois Entertainer. She also runs her own music blog at Musical Fiction. Some of her favorite bands include Nirvana, The Cure, Muse, Creeper, and Green Day.

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