Our recap of the stories we featured during the past seven days includes US tour news for Yungblud and The Strokes.
Yungblud will have a busy time of it during early 2022 when a North American tour takes place through January, February and March.
After Georgia and Tennessee concerts at the end of January, most of February next year is taken up with gigs in cities such as Cleveland, Toronto and Boston, while an appearance at Terminal 5 in New York is booked for the 11th of that month.
Metronomy have unveiled their new album Small World and its first single ‘It’s good to be back’.
“Part of me was thinking, ‘What is the lamest platitude people are going to be saying coming out of the past two years?’, but at the same time, I was thinking how it will be true and how it might feel doing things again,” Joe Mounts says of the track.
Kasabian have picked ALYGATYR as their first piece of new music since the departure of Tom Meighan.
With the UK tour set continue in Bournemouth tomorrow night, this single doesn’t stray too far from the direction the band had been heading in prior to the loss of their frontman; squint and you can almost hear the echo of Meighan in Serge Pizzorno’s delivery.
Photo: Paul Bachmann
The Strokes have announced a show at New York’s Barclays Center on December 31st.
It’ll be another New Year’s Eve concert for the band after they said goodbye to 2019 by unveiling the New Abnormal album which was subsequently released in the April of 2020.
Adele has announced two shows for BST Hyde Park in London next summer.
They’ll take place on July 1st and 2nd, and will be the singer’s first UK shows since 2017. It comes after her fourth studio album was introduced earlier this month with the lead single Easy On Me.
Stereophonics have announced some UK tour dates starting next month which will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their Just Enough Education To Perform album.
The LP handed the band another number one upon its release in April 2001, carrying singles such as Mr. Writer, Have A Nice Day and, later, Handbags & Gladrags.