Manic Street Preachers by Alex Lake
Our recap of the stories we featured during the past seven days includes new music from Manic Street Preachers and Florence + The Machine.
Manic Street Preachers have confirmed their new album The Ultra Vivid Lament for release on September 3rd.
Orwellian is the first single, described by the band as, ‘about the battle to claim meaning, the erasing of context within debate, the overriding sense of factional conflict driven by digital platforms leading to a perpetual state of culture war’.
Wolf Alice have shared No Hard Feelings before their third studio record is released on its amended date of June 4th.
“I started out trying to make a really cheesy, almost Motown-y, Ronettes kind of song about the end of a relationship, and feeling, ‘What’s the point of being miserable about it?’,” Ellie Rowsell says.
Foo Fighters, Jay-Z, Tina Turner, The Go-Go’s, Todd Rundgren and Carole King have been revealed as the 2021 inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
“This is the most diverse class of inductees in the history of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” chairman of The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Foundation John Sykes has told Pitchfork.
Florence + The Machine by Vincent Haycock
A clip of the brand new song from Florence + The Machine which will feature on the upcoming Disney film Cruella has been released.
“Some of the first songs I ever learned how to sing were Disney songs,” Florence Welch says.
Billie Eilish has been out in the desert performing a live version of Your Power for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
It’s aired with the follow-up to the superstar’s huge 2019 debut album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? set for release on July 30th, written and recorded in Los Angeles with Finneas.
slowthai has invited Idles, Pa Salieu, Beabadoobee and more to join him in Happyland later this year.
“Happyland with happy folk,” he says. “The place where we can laugh and joke. The place you can be yourself without judgment, expectations and impressions of someone else.”
