News Round-Up: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Longitude 2022


Red Hot Chili Peppers




Our recap of the main stories we featured during the past seven days includes a new album announcement from Red Hot Chili Peppers and Longitude 2022 line-up details.

Red Hot Chili Peppers have confirmed their new album Unlimited Love, their first since the return of guitarist John Frusciante.

“We (John, Anthony, Chad and Flea) spent thousands of hours, collectively and individually, honing our craft and showing up for one another, to make the best album we could,” a statement from the band reads.

“Our antennae attuned to the divine cosmos, we were just so damn grateful for the opportunity to be in a room together, and, once again, try to get better. Days, weeks and months spent listening to each other, composing, jamming freely, and arranging the fruit of those jams with great care and purpose.”


Liam Gallagher’s new single Everything’s Electric has been released online.

It was co-written by Dave Grohl and Gallagher’s more regular collaborator Greg Kurstin, and is out with C’MON YOU KNOW due to follow on May 27th.

It will be performed at the Brit Awards ceremony next week as the Oasis frontman returns after the 2019 record Why Me? Why Not..


Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever will release their new album Endless Rooms on May 6th.

The band took advantage of some respite in Melbourne’s lockdown restrictions to self-produce the album two hours north of the city in a mud-brick house.

It was there where The Way It Shatters morphed from a simple home-recorded jam to the lead single we hear today.

Dave

Dave, Tyler, The Creator, A$AP Rocky, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion and The Kid Laroi have been confirmed as the main artists for this year’s Longitude Festival.

They lead a line-up which at the moment also includes Central Cee, D-Block Europe, Pa Salieu, Aitch and Baby Keem to name a few, Dave due there after the release of We’re All Alone In This Together last year – a Live4ever album of 2021:

“At the centre of the maelstrom though is a coming to terms with place and belonging, the deliberate authoritarian obstacles for people just wanting safety from mortal danger exposed on Three Rivers, the generational experiences it sets out also serving as a bleak reminder of Dave’s own father’s deportation,” our review reads.


Arlo Parks has made her first move since winning the Mercury Prize last year for the debut album Collapsed In Sunbeams.

Softly has been shared with visuals directed by Zhang and Knight, who explain:

“We were instinctively drawn to the warm toned, hazy nostalgia of the 1960s, as we loved the idea of something universally romantic being slowly stripped away throughout the film.”


Black Country, New Road singer Isaac Wood has announced his departure from the band.

Immediate tour dates have been cancelled, but in a statement the remaining members have signalled their intention to continue on as a six-piece, with new music already being written.

“I have bad news which is that I have been feeling sad and afraid too. And I have tried to make this not true but it is the kind of sad and afraid feeling that makes it hard to play guitar and sing at the same time,” Wood has said.


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