News Round-Up: Daft Punk, Wolf Alice and more


Daft Punk

Our recap of the biggest and best headlines we featured during the past seven days includes the end of Daft Punk and the return of Wolf Alice.

The music world has been hailing the influence of Daft Punk after the electronic dance duo confirmed that they have parted ways.

Amongst the many reflecting on Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo’s career together were Mark Ronson, who called their legacy ‘flawless’, and DJ Zane Lowe.

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slowthai has announced more UK tour dates off the back of his second album release.

With a run in support of small live venues already confirmed, the Hell Is Home tour has been booked in for March next year, starting at the O2 Victoria Warehouse and ending through two nights at the Brixton Academy in London.

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Organisers of the Reading/Leeds twin festivals appear to have confirmed their intention to go ahead this year.

Part, of course, of the entire cancellation of the UK’s summer festival season in 2020, as one of the last major events on the UK calendar Reading & Leeds finds itself in a more favourable position than that of Glastonbury, and it would seem Melvin Benn is prepared to take the Tories at face value in their promise to have most restrictions lifted by June.

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Wolf Alice by Jordan Hemingway

Wolf Alice by Jordan Hemingway




Wolf Alice have dispensed with the teasing and confirmed their third studio album Blue Weekend for release on June 11th.

Produced by Markus Dravs out of demos first recorded in a converted church, the LP’s first single is The Last Man On Earth – ‘about the arrogance of humans’ according to Ellie Rowsell.

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The Horrors have plans for a new EP and have announced its details along with the first cut Lout.

Described by Rhys Webb as their ‘nastiest’ music since the goth edges of 2007’s debut Strange House, Lout is the title-track of the EP and set for release on March 12th with the additional new cuts Org and Whiplash…amounting to not much more than what was once commonly known as ‘a single’.

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More artists have been added to the South by Southwest line-up for 2021 as the Austin behemoth goes remote for, hopefully, just this year.

Joining other already confirmed artists whom we’re big fans of here – such as Katy J Pearson, Squid, TV Priest and Sinead O’Brien – are more of our favourites like Black Country, New Road, Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard and Chubby & The Gang.

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