News Round-Up: London Grammar, Dizzee Rascal and more

London Grammar at Brixton Academy, 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…

London Grammar have returned with their new single Baby It’s You.

It’s a track on which the band play again to the strengths of Hannah Reid, albeit with her unsurpassable vocals kept on a leash as the trio release their first bit of new material since last year’s Let You Know collaboration with Flume.

Big names such as Bruce Springsteen and Josh Homme came together around the world on August 21st to celebrate the music of Joe Strummer and concurrently raise money for the #SaveOurStages campaign.

“To see so many musicians and artists come forward to honour Joe is really touching,” Lucinda Tait remarked. “Community was always important to him. Whether it was playing music with friends, organising all night campfires, or hijacking festivals, Joe was always focused on bringing people together.”

Groove Armada have handed a release date to their new album Edge Of The Horizon.

Tom Findlay and Andy Cato made their return back in May with the classic nineties vibes of Get Out On The Dancefloor, featuring streams of consciousness from Empire Of the Sun frontman Nick Littlemore, and now have duly confirmed their first album in a decade will be out on October 2nd.

E3 AF

Dizzee Rascal has confirmed the full details of his seventh album after announcing its title and release date on social media earlier in the week.

We’d known for a few days then that the record is called E3 AF and due out on October 9th, but we’ve now also got a full tracklist and collaboration details, while a track is streaming too entitled L.L.L.L (Love Life Live Large) which features one of those album guests, Chip.

Taylor Swift is streaming the bonus track which was initially available on the physical form of her Folklore album when it was released at the end of last month.

‘the lakes’ sticks with the vibe of Swift’s eighth studio album – another commercial blockbuster – which Live4ever summed up as being, ‘Laced with clever intrigue and deft touches’, in our 8/10 review.

Angel Olsen has released a new track which is set to feature on her Whole New Mess album, due for release on the 28th of this month.

Waving, Smiling was recorded in the October of 2018 at The Unknown in Anacortes, Washington, one of the new songs which will feature on Whole New Mess along side three intimate reworkings of cuts from last year’s widely acclaimed All Mirrors LP – namely Lark, Summer and Chance.