Weekly News Round-Up: The Killers, Bombay Bicycle Club and more


You’re in the right place if you’ve missed any of the week’s top news stories – here Live4ever’s Weekly News Round-Up presents a recap of the biggest headlines we featured during the last seven days.

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The Killers have unveiled a stand-alone single entitled Land Of The Free which is described as a ‘heartfelt lament inspired by current events and recent national tragedies’.

It was recorded at their Battle Born Studios in Las Vegas with producer Jacknife Lee and guest vocalists Lynn Mabry, Dorian Holley, Will Wheaton, Sherree Patrice Brown, Akasha Mabry, Amanda Brown, Danielle René Withers and Erica Canales.

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Vampire Weekend will share two songs from their new double album this week.

Ezra Koenig gave his Instagram followers a lengthy update on Thursday, revealing the album’s initials are FOTB and that it will be an 18-song affair. “Is it a double album,” he wrote. “The vinyl will be double so…yes?”

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Paul Weller‘s two night stay at the Royal Festival Hall in London last October with a full orchestra is to be released as a live film and album.

The second of the two gigs has already been the subject of a Sky Arts documentary in the UK, and now the concert will be screened at select cinemas on February 28th before being released as a DVD and album entitled Other Aspects on March 8th.

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Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes‘ new album End Of Suffering has been given a release date of May 3rd.

Recorded during the UK’s unusually hot summer last year, the album will be toured around the UK next month, visiting cities such as Portsmouth, Swansea, Liverpool and Edinburgh, with mainland Europe dates following soon after.

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Bombay Bicycle Club

Bombay Bicycle Club have been back playing music together ‘since late last year’ and are now working on new material, according to an update on their socials.

The band spent the first half of this decade as one of its most prolific, but have been quiet since that hard work was rewarded in 2014 when So Long, See You Tomorrow went to number one in the UK charts.

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Idles will be playing a gig at the 100 Club in London for War Child after receiving a BRITs 2019 nomination.

Along with The 1975, Anne-Marie, Bring Me The Horizon, Jake Bugg, Tom Odell, Mabel, You Me At Six, AJ Tracey, Nick Mulvey, Enter Shikari, DJ Semtex and Frank Turner, they’ll be a part of BRITs week between February 11th-22nd.

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Foals have confirmed the release of the first part of Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost on March 8th.

As their social media postings the previous week suggested, two albums worth of material are in the pipeline this year, with the second part due in ‘autumn 2019’.

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Ryan Adams has written a love-letter to ‘the city and music of this mystical place’ that ‘shaped his entire life’.

Adams said that in a statement released to the XS Manchester radio station upon the premiere of his track Manchester, the latest from his new album Big Colors which on April 19th will become the first of three planned studio albums this year.

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