Yeah Yeah Yeahs by David Black
Our recap of the main stories we featured during the past seven days includes long-awaited new album news from Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the inevitable headaches brought on by this year’s Glastonbury timetable.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have confirmed the details of their comeback album Cool It Down.
Spitting Off the Edge Of The World features Perfume Genius and is the first taste of the band’s long awaited follow-up to 2013’s Mosquito ahead of its release on September 30th.
“To all who have waited, our dear fans, thank you, our fever to tell has returned, and writing these songs came with its fair share of chills, tears, and euphoria when the pain lifts and truth is revealed,” Karen O says.
With their summer well underway, Kasabian are now making some live plans for the autumn.
UK arena dates have been arranged for when the nights will be closing in, opening in Manchester on October 28th.
London’s Alexandra Palace is next up, while the start of November is to bring more arena-sized gigs in Cardiff and Birmingham.
Muse are continuing the build-up to the release of their new album Will Of The People on August 26th.
The video for its title-track has been directed by Tom Teller and, according to Matt Bellamy, takes the band on a fictional intergalactic journey once again:
“Will Of The People is fictional story set in a fictional metaverse on a fictional planet ruled by a fictional authoritarian state run by a fictional algorithm manifested by a fictional data centre running a fictional bank printing a fictional currency controlling a fictional population occupying a fictional city containing a fictional apartment where a fictional man woke up one day and thought, fuck this’.”
Sir Paul McCartney live at Citifield , NYC (Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
Glastonbury organisers have revealed the stage-times for next month as final preparations are made for the festival’s return after an enforced break since 2019.
As noted in a statement at the time of her announcement, Billie Eilish will both be the event’s youngest solo headliner and play her first UK festival headline when she takes to the Pyramid Stage on the Friday night at 22:15, while Noel Gallagher is to begin his main support for Paul McCartney the following evening at 19:15.
Check out the full Pyramid and Other Stage times right here, and the full schedule over on the festival’s official website.
As their inaugural In The Park event was all set to take place at Temple Newsam yesterday (June 4th), organisers revealed Pale Waves will be headlining Live At Leeds when it returns to the more familiar metropolitan ground of Leeds’ city centre on October 15th.
The likes of Working Men’s Club, Sea Power, W. H. Lung, Los Bitchos and Sprints have also been confirmed for In The City, and promoter Joe Hubbard is happy to see the line-up reflect the progression of its headline act:
“It’s been formative for so many artists’ careers and we’re excited to be criss-cross across Leeds City Centre this October to discover more of our favourite new artists who are set to takeover in 2023 and beyond!”
Liam Gallagher has topped the latest UK Record Store Chart with his new album C’MON YOU KNOW.
The Oasis frontman’s accompanying live album Down By The River Thames also debuts inside the Top 3, while Just Mustard are in at #5 with Heart Under.
Elsewhere, Wet Leg’s self-titled first record continues going strong at #15, as does Fontaines D.C’s latest Skinty Fia which has a sixth week on the chart.