Dave Grohl with Foo Fighters. Live @ Madison Square Garden , NYC (Photo: Paul Bachmann)
The return of US heavyweights Foo Fighters and Queens Of The Stone Age were two of the biggest headlines we featured last week.
Foo Fighters have set their new album But Here We Are for release on June 2nd.
Documenting what’s described as a year of, ‘staggering losses, personal introspection and bittersweet remembrances’, it comes after the band started 2023 by confirming their intention to continue following the untimely passing of influential drummer Taylor Hawkins.
“Foo Fighters were formed 27 years ago to represent the healing power of music and a continuation of life,” a statement read.
Suede have announced a 30th anniversary edition of their self-titled debut album.
Due on July 7th, it’s part of a wider anniversary project from the band entitled Suede30 and will be presented new mixed and remastered.
“It was a genuinely magical time in my life and one for which I’ll always be grateful,” Brett Anderson has said.
Noel Gallagher has premiered the official video for the title-track of his forthcoming new solo album Council Skies.
It’s the fourth cut to be heard from the record ahead of its release on June 2nd, after which extensive touring is due to get underway via a co-headline run of North American dates with Garbage.
Outdoor UK gigs will follow in July and August before arena shows in London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Glasgow and Liverpool close the year during December.
(Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
Queens Of The Stone Age have added three UK gigs to the European touring they have booked for the spring.
In-between appearances at festivals including Pinkpop, Hurricane and Roskilde, the band will play Halifax’s Piece Hall, Dreamland in Margate and Cardiff Castle on June 20th, 22nd and 23rd respectively.
Those European festival commitments continue into July, and there’s a concert at Forest Hills Stadium in New York due on August 12th.
After returning last month with her new single Boyhood, the details of the second studio album from The Japanese House have been unveiled.
The announcement of In The End It Always Does has come with another preview entitled Sad To Breathe – produced by Amber Bain with The 1975’s George Daniel and Chloe Kraemer, and accompanied by a live video version directed by Sheila Johansson.
“I wrote Sad To Breathe some time ago, it’s one of the oldest songs on the record.” Bains said.
Arlo Parks has released Blades from My Soft Machine before the follow-up to 2021’s Mercury Prize-winning Collapsed In Sunbeams hits the shelves on May 26th.
About finding the courage to reconnect with an old friend, the song was recorded with producer Paul Epworth, whom Parks described as a ‘wizard’:
“He has this childlike spirit that I’ve always really loved and he brought that to ‘Blades’. I wanted to make something that I can dance to, finally, because I feel like my songs don’t really have that quality in general. So, I took inspiration from bands like ESG, artists like Kaytranada, and a lot of the kind of 70s Zambian psychedelic rock that I love.”
