The Weeknd by Brian Ziff
Our recap of the main stories we featured during the past seven days includes stadium concerts for The Weeknd and new music from HAIM.
The Weeknd has confirmed the first shows of his After Hours Til Dawn tour, which will visit stadiums around North America this summer.
In addition, Abel Tesfaye aka has revealed he will be donating $1 from each ticket sold to the XO Humanitarian Fund after partnering with the United Nations World Food Programme.
“The goal with this fund is to provide immediate life-saving support to people who are on the brink of starvation,” he said in a statement. “I’m so thankful to have WFP as a partner and to further expand our reach to those who need it most.”
Dave has released his first music of 2022, the brand new track Starlight.
It follows his second full length record We’re All Alone in This Together which, after the win for debut LP Psychodrama, was also nominated for the Mercury Prize last year.
“It’s a criticism though that parts for big names are sometimes phoned in with the return of a co-production credit, but it’s one that’s headed off here smartly; the jazzy, Jamaican flavours of the WizKid-featuring System a chilled-out safe space, whilst Snoh Allegra helps carve out yet another flawlessly executed musical sidestep on Law Of Attraction’s sophisticated pop,” our review reads.
Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar have been confirmed as the final two Pyramid Stage headliners for this year’s returning Glastonbury Festival.
It means only Taylor Swift won’t be making it from the three main acts who were due to appear at Worthy Farm back in 2020, her place taken this year by Billie Eilish.
Elsewhere, other artists newly announced include Noel Gallagher, who thus is likely to take up the slot just before McCartney as had been the plan two years ago, while Idles will be back too after their incredible performance in 2019.
HAIM by Yana Yatsuk
HAIM have shared a new song entitled Lost Track.
Reflecting on the lyric ‘I’ll never get back what I lost track of’ and how it eventually inspired this tune, the band have said:
“We had that line written for the last year but could never figure out what to do with it. We kept writing it down, not knowing where it should live. Cut to PTA shooting the director’s cut issue for W Mag with our baby sister on the cover!”
Belle And Sebastian’s tenth studio album, and first in seven years, will be released on May 6th.
A Bit Of Previous was recorded in Glasgow, the start of the pandemic in the spring of 2020 shelving plans to work in Los Angeles and offering the band the opportunity for studio time in their hometown for the first time since 1999 and Fold Your Hands Child.
First single Unnecessary Drama is, according to Stuart Murdoch, ‘about a young person experimenting in being a human again after a forced hiatus.
Human Crime has been given a digital-only release by Pixies after being recorded in Los Angeles during the autumn of last year, the promo also created in LA at its San Pedro and Santa Monica areas.
“The storyline is loosely based on an inside joke between Charles and me about going on tour,” Paz Lenchantin says of the video. “How we go through a door from our reality state into the altered state of becoming and being a Pixie.”
The band have some American tour dates booked for this month, but will spend most of their time through to the summer concentrating on Europe, with headline gigs and festival appearances both on the horizon.