Tom Meighan with Kasabian headlining Leeds Festival (Gary Mather / 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…
Kasabian issued a new statement following the departure of their frontman Tom Meighan.
Meighan’s abrupt split came to light last Monday, when ‘personal issues’ and a need for him to, ‘to concentrate all his energies on getting his life back on track’, were offered as vague reasons for him leaving the band he had fronted since their formation in the late nineties.
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Usher has premiered a self-directed video I Cry, the track he first aired during the Global Goal: Unite For Our Future benefit concert last month.
“This song was inspired by wanting to teach my sons that it is OK for a man to feel emotions deeply and to cry,” he wrote on Instagram at the time.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers have been revealed as the first headliners for NOS Alive when organisers hope to bring the festival back from a year’s enforced break in July 2021.
Also confirmed for Passeio Marítimo de Algés in Lisbon are alt-J, Fontaines D.C., Angel Olsen and Moses Sumney among others, as thoughts turn towards a time when live music is hopefully getting back on its feet.
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A three-track EP has been released by Massive Attack.
Eutopia contains collaborations with Young Fathers, Saul Williams and Algiers, each coming with its own visualizer after socially distanced recording sessions in three different cities.
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The UK’s record shops might have been forced to keep their doors locked for a reasonable chunk of the year so far, but vinyl collectors have still been buying up the classics according to the Official Charts Company.
The OCC reports Fleetwood Mac‘s Rumours as the biggest selling album on vinyl in the UK during 2020 so far, while other enduring favourites such as Amy Winehouse‘s Back To Black, Nevermind by Nirvana and The Beatles’ Abbey Road are also in the Top 20.
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After the live return last year and the more recent premiere of Carousels, their first piece of new music in over a decade, Doves have confirmed the details of The Universal Want.
Out on September 11th, the album is being previewed with Prisoners, which Andy Williams says is about, ‘continually chasing something and not being satisfied when you eventually get it’. “You’ve got ‘that thing’ and you find you’re not any happier,” he adds. “Be careful what you wish for.”