Madonna, Graham Coxon: Music News Round-Up

Madonna by Rafael Pavarotti

A brand new single from Madonna and a lost solo album from Graham Coxon brought some of Live4ever’s trending music news last week – revisit the stories right here.

Madonna has premiered her new single I Feel So Free after earlier this month confirming Confessions II for release on July 3rd.

Described as a companion piece to 2005’s Confessions On A Dance Floor, the album was co-produced with Stuart Price.

“People think that dance music is superficial, but they’ve got it all wrong,” she’s said. “The dance floor is not just a place, it’s a threshold: A ritualistic space where movement replaces language.”

The Reytons have announced a lengthy world tour which will take the band into 2027 after it opens with US gigs in Dallas, Boston, New York and Los Angeles during June.

UK and Ireland dates are booked for October, while 2026 is to close with trips to Japan and Australasia before a European run throughout the February and March of next year.

The band’s new album has been described by frontman Jonny Yerrel as, ‘the best we’ve ever done’, and will be released on July 24th.

Karol G has a year of touring laid out with global dates announced hot on the heels of her Coachella headline performances this month.

Concerts in Chicago and Toronto in July kick start North American stadium shows through to the end of 2026, while the new year will dawn with various South American appearances.

Those lead into a summer of European concerts which include a UK stop at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on July 6th.

Graham Coxon by James Kelly

A previously unreleased album will kick start a reissue series of Graham Coxon‘s solo back catalogue during the course of the next 12 months.

Entitled Castle Park, the LP was recorded in 2011 with producer Ben Hillier and is due to finally see the light of day in June along side The Sky Is Too High and The Golden D. Album opener Billy Says is streaming online now.

Coxon has marked the news with the announcement of a career-spanning headline gig at London’s Kentish Town Forum on November 28th, his first full-band solo concert in over a decade.

Beck will be on tour during September and October following the recent unveiling of his new single Ride Lonesome.

The tour of the same name has been booked to open in Vancouver on September 16th, and will later be in New York for two nights at Brooklyn Paramount on October 22nd and 23rd.

Ride Lonesome was mixed by Nigel Godrich and was written to evoke the mood of Beck’s 2015 Grammy-winning album Morning Phase and its equally modern classic predecessor Sea Change.

Modest Mouse have moved from their long standing home of Epic Records to Isaac Brock’s Glacial Pace Recordings for the release of An Eraser And A Maze on June 5th.

Featuring new single Picking Dragon’s Pockets and its recent predecessor Look How Far, the album boasts additional production credits from Jackknife Lee, Suzy Shinn and Justin Raisin, helping Brock to craft tunes which were free of any pre-conditioned themes.

“For this one, I turned off my filter and just let it all happen,” he’s said. “Even though every goddamn musician says that when they put out a record. I mean, go ahead and listen to the three-minute mark of any interview between a musician and Terry Gross.”