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Charli XCX Confirms 'Music, Fashion, Film' Listening Parties - Including Australia

Mary Varvaris

The Listening Events take place two weeks before Charli XCX's new album, 'Music, Fashion, Film,' is released.

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British singer-songwriter and Brat superstar Charli xcx has a new album on the way, and she wants you to hear it early.

This week (Thursday, 9 to Saturday, 11 July), the Sympathy is a Knife hitmaker is hosting Listening Events at independent cinemas across the globe. She announced the events on social media, writing: “i wanna play you my album. charlixcx.com/thelisteningevents.”

Fans in Australia and New Zealand will get to be part of the fun, too. While the cinema locations and showtimes are “to be communicated,” we know that the Listening Events will take place in Elsternwick, Victoria, and Newtown, NSW, on Friday, 10 July. New Zealand fans can head to Auckland on Saturday, 11 July.

You can RSVP for access and more information here.

The Listening Events take place two weeks before Charli xcx’s new album, Music, Fashion, Film, is scheduled for release (Friday, 24 July).

Charli surprised fans by announcing Music, Fashion, Film by sharing the album cover on social media last month.

The album cover is a stylish black-and-white photo of The Velvet Underground’s John Cale, fashion designer Marc Jacobs, and legendary film director Martin Scorsese, representing each facet of the album title. The photo – real, not AI-generated – was shot by Charli’s frequent collaborator, Aidan Zamiri.

Along with the album art, Charli revealed that her forthcoming album contains eleven songs and spans “30 minutes and 5 seconds.” You can pre-order/pre-save the album here.

Fans have already heard three singles from the album: ROCK MUSIC, SS26, and Wink Wink. The album title is pulled from a verse from SS26, where Charli sings: “We’re walkin’ on a runway that goes straight to hell / Nothing’s gonna save us, not music, fashion or film.”

In May, Charli unveiled ROCK MUSIC, capturing the vibe and sounds of the 2000s indie sleaze era, particularly in the music video.

The Brat star teased her surprise musical turn in an interview with British Vogue, where she cited a lyric from ROCK MUSIC: “I think the dance floor is dead, so now we’re making rock music.”

She added, “If I’d made another album that felt more dance-leaning, it would have felt really hard, really sad. What’s interesting for me is to bend the possibilities of what my perspective on that could be.”