A tempestuous week for The View and a new video from Lana Del Rey were among our biggest headlines from the past seven days.
The View have apologised to fans and said they intend to resume touring during the summer festival season after footage of an onstage fight between Kyle Falconer and Kieren Webster in Manchester made headlines last week.
A statement posted on social media reads:
“Sorry to the fans at our show in Manchester and everywhere else that we’ve upset – we had a brotherly bust-up that went too far, and we cannae wait to get back to touring in November and throughout the festival season with yous lot.”
Killer Mike has premiered the official promo for his latest single Motherless.
“These aren’t meant to be sad videos or eulogies,” he said. “This is a celebration of a bad ass Black girl from the westside of Atlanta. She’s been affectionately called OG Mama Niecy by the many people she helped stay on their path.”
Both this and Don’t Let The Devil are previewing the Run The Jewels man’s new album Michael which is out on June 16th – his first solo record since 2012’s R.A.P. Music sparked that hugely successful RTJ collaboration with El-P.
Queens Of The Stone Age have announced their new album In Times New Roman… will be released on June 16th.
Described as, ‘the sound of a band creating the music its own members want to hear, while giving the rest of us a sonic forum in which to congregate’, the album was recorded primarily at Josh Homme’s Pink Duck studios.
Meanwhile, QOTSA are due in the UK next month for outdoor gigs in Halifax, Margate and Cardiff.
Lana Del Rey by Chuck Grant
Lana Del Rey has premiered the official video for Candy Necklace, taken from her recently released Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd LP.
The album has got some major live commitments coming up, including a headline spot on the Other Stage at Glastonbury next month – an event she described as ‘unfathomable’ when interviewed on BBC Radio 1:
“I’ve been excited to tell people. I wanted to tell people because as we started to announce some festivals. It’s unfathomable to me to headline the second stage of Glastonbury. They had asked me to play Glastonbury the last three years but we just weren’t ready. I didn’t want to say yes before we had a big band.”
The Pretenders will release their fourteenth studio album on September 1st.
Relentless is being previewed with the lead track Let The Sun Come In after recording sessions at Battery Studios in London.
“I enjoy seeing the various meanings and origins of a word,” Chrissie Hynde said of the title. “And I liked the definition: ‘showing no abatement of intensity’. It’s the life of the artist. You never retire. You become relentless.”
Local Natives will release their new album Time Will Wait For No One on July 7th.
Time was spent at various Los Angeles studios with producer John Congelton, and NYE has been picked as the lead single.
“This record was made during a time of metamorphosis for us. Former selves melting away as some of us became fathers, endured periods of isolation, loss, and identity crisis,” the band said.