News Round-Up: Billie Eilish, Little Simz and more

Billie Eilish playing Leeds Festival 2019 (Gary Mather for 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…

Billie Eilish has released her new single ‘my future’.

The track was written and recorded with her brother Finneas as Los Angeles ground to a halt, and comes with a video directed by Australian artist Andrew Onorato. It’s the latest offering from Eilish following the breakout of her 2019 debut album When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go?.

Bastille have enlisted Graham Coxon on their new single WHAT YOU GONNA DO???.

“We finished the song and it felt urgent, we didn’t want to sit on it,” frontman Dan Smith has said of the track which follows 2019’s Doom Days album – one which the band apparently see as the final part of a trilogy which started with their debut Bad Blood six years earlier.

With other ventures falling by the wayside, Sam Fender is set to play the UK’s first large-scale socially distanced concert at Newcastle’s Gosforth Park on August 13th.

“Absolutely buzzing for this, getting the band and crew back together for probably our only gig of the year,” Fender says.

Little Simz by Jack Bridgland

Little Simz will be honoured with the Pioneer Award when this year’s AIM ceremony takes place, virtually, on August 12th.

“Delighted to receive the Pioneer Award this year and excited to perform,” she responds. “Big thank you and love to AIM Awards!”

Phoebe Bridgers has posted the third video of her Punisher campaign – the second studio album which was released last month.

Alissa Torvinen has directed the promo for I Know The End, the final track of an album which Live4ever said is, ‘not the only unexpected item in an emotional baggage area heard this year, but stands up to be counted proudly’.

Run The Jewels have posted an animated video for JU$T, a track which features Pharrell Williams and Zack de la Rocha and is one of the undoubted highlights of their recent RTJ4 album.

“In the past, the pair had been seen in some quarters as taking themselves either too seriously or not seriously enough, but whilst they scratch the itch for making party rap on ‘ooh la la’, with its monstrous kick break, an almost mania grips everything else,” our review reads.