This summer’s inaugural London edition Outbreak Fest, in association with LIDO Festival, saw Turnstile top the bill with a UK-exclusive performance. Other names on the line-up included Knocked Loose, Alex G and Glassjaw.
All Points East 2025 welcomed the likes of The Maccabees, Raye, Cleo Sol, SAULT, Chronixx, Chase & Status and Barry Can’t Swim.
Earlier this month, Deftones headlined the 2025 edition of their annual festival, Dia De Los Deftones, in San Diego, California. The show saw Chino Moreno and co. debut more tracks from their 10th and latest studio album, ‘Private Music’, and perform ‘White Pony’ deep cut ‘Street Carp’ live for the first time since 2019.
The band will head out on a UK and European headline tour early next year. The upcoming run of dates features a gig at The O2 in London, as well as stops in Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Dublin and Cardiff. Find any remaining tickets here.
This summer, Deftones played a huge career-spanning gig at London’s Crystal Palace Park – just one day after pulling out of their Other Stage slot at Glastonbury 2025 at the last minute.
In a glowing five-star review of ‘Private Music’, NME wrote: “Rather than just hang off the legacy of the immaculate classics ‘Around The Fur’ and ‘White Pony’, the Sacramento art-metallers have spent the 21st Century boshing out banger after banger as arguably the most reliable band in rock.”
It added: “‘Private Music’ once again finds the band as masters of beauty and brutality rolling over the horizon in one stunning but powerful storm. Batten down those hatches, throw up those horns, and lean in close.”
Meanwhile, Moreno recently looked back on Deftones’ 1997 second album, ‘Around The Fur’, saying it is possibly his “favourite record” from Deftones. “That record definitely stood the test of time,” he explained.
Speaking to NME this summer, the frontman said Deftones’ music had always been vulnerable, pointing back to ‘Mascara’ on ‘Around The Fur’ as proof. He also admitted that his confidence to lay himself out in a love song had grown.
“Honestly, I’m no expert in mental health, but speaking for myself, doing therapy and sobriety as well – which has been a big thing for me to achieve in these last few years – obviously it was kind of scary in the beginning,” Moreno told us. “Then once you break that wall down and realise, ‘Oh, I’m probably more creative than I’ve been in the past and a little bit more in tune with what’s going on, with my emotions’. Now I think it’s easier. I used to believe that maybe I had to be in an altered state of mind to have this creative thing.
“Overall, having a bit of clarity and still being able to be creative – it feels more pristine. It’s more polished and it’s more honest, in a weird way.”
In other news, Deftones have joined forces with Dickies to launch a new range of collaborative merchandise.