News Round-Up: Arcade Fire, Kings Of Leon and more

Arcade Fire live in London (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)

You’re in the right place if you’ve missed any of the week’s top news stories – here Live4ever’s News Round-Up presents a recap of the biggest and best headlines we featured during the last seven days…

Arcade Fire might be close to putting out some new material.

Win Butler gave his Instagram followers a short, 8-second clip of new music with the caption, ‘Sometimes it takes 20 years to write a song’. If the full thing does emerge soon, it would signal Arcade Fire’s first moves after the release of Everything Now in 2017, though they did more recently contribute to the Dumbo soundtrack last year.

So Solid Crew have premiered a remastered version of their 21 Seconds video as part of their own 21st anniversary celebrations.

The garage classic remains the collective’s staple track, and its original promo has been given a new lick of paint to go with the re-release of their 21 Seconds EP – including previously unheard session tracks – digitally on April 24th and on limited edition vinyl in June.

Bill Withers has died at the age of 81.

Withers leaves behind a timeless body of work which includes soul classics like Lean On Me, Lovely Day and Ain’t No Sunshine, his passing confirmed in a family statement after he succumbed to heart complications in Los Angeles. “We are devastated by the loss of our beloved, devoted husband and father,” it reads.

Kings Of Leon performing for NBC’s Today Show (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)

“Stay safe. Stay home. We will see you as soon as we can,” Kings Of Leon have said after posting a video of Caleb Followill acoustically performing a new song called Going Nowhere.

It’s probably not being pessimistic to say the band’s UK touring is under threat, but right now the gig at Finsbury Park in London on June 28th is going ahead as planned.

The 1975 have shared Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America, featuring Phoebe Bridgers, from their upcoming fourth studio album Notes On A Conditional Form which has a new release date of May 22nd.

The band’s European touring, meanwhile, is currently due to restart at the the Rock For People festival in June, and will take in headline dates during October.

Grimes has released her video for You’ll Miss Me When I’m Not Around, and is inviting fans to customise their own version.

Using online tools, the unfinished green screen footage can be used to make endless alternatives of the track which features on Grimes’ recent Miss Anthropocene album.