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Alternative rock band back with new album and two German shows in spring 2026

When The Neighbourhood appeared on the internet in 2012 with their song "Female Robbery", nothing was known about the band from California. With their second song "Sweather Weather", the band had already established themselves as mythically pretentious with a sound that struck a chord between modern indie and alternative rock with an audible hip-hop influence. It wasn't until mid-2012 that band founder Jesse Rutherford revealed his identity, further confirming the band's early hype. The Neighbourhood are now undoubtedly one of the most successful bands in their genre worldwide, which triggered even more hype when some of their songs went viral at the end of 2020. "Sweater Weather" has since become the most popular song with over 4.1 billion streams on Spotify, while the songs "Softcore" (1.4 billion streams) and "Daddy Issues" (1.9 billion streams) have also entered the exclusive circle of 10-digit streamed Spotify songs. Following the release of their debut album "I Love You." (2013), the band followed it up with three more albums and, five years after the release of their fourth album, are once again making people sit up and take notice with a new album and a world tour. "(((((ultraSOUND)))))" will be released on November 14, 2025 and will take The Neighbourhood to the LANXESS arena in May 2026 on their The World Tour 2026.

After a brilliant start with their first two singles, the debut album "I Love You." followed in April 2013, which took The Neighbourhood to number 25 on the Billboard 200 and revealed their laid-back indie pop sound for the first time. In 2015, the band followed this up with their album "Wiped Out!" and their hit "Daddy Issues", placing influences from alternative rock and R&B at the heart of their indie sound. Their third album "The Neighbourhood" was released in 2018 and landed three more successful tracks with "Softcore", "You Get Me So High" and "Reflections", which once again put the band's sound in a new light with influences from electropop and ambient. After the release of their fourth album "Chip Chrome & the Mono-Tones" in 2020, the band initially went quiet and officially went into hiatus in 2022. After a creative radio silence of five years, The Neighbourhood returned with a signing to Warner and their new album "(((((ultraSOUND)))))" - which feels less like a comeback for the musicians and more like a renewal. The band's growth is already evident in the artwork, which acts as a metaphor for their 2013 song "No Grey" and represents a departure from The Neighbourhood's black-and-white pop melancholy of the 2010s. "(((((ultraSOUND)))))" is the 15-track result of a band that has nothing to prove without pressure or expectation, but everything to say. This is also what "Private" - the album's title track, so to speak - stands for, as Jesse Rutherford explains: "Sometimes I didn't have the words. You'd need an ultrasound to see what I was feeling - to look inside and see: oh, this is what happened."