News Round-Up: The Strokes, Rage Against The Machine and more

The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr. performing solo in New York (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

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…

Bernie Sanders’ rally in Durham, New Hampshire last week delivered the news Strokes fans have been waiting for as the band confirmed their new album is to be released on April 10th.

Just as it was at their new year gig in Brooklyn, it was left to Julian Casablancas to directly give the audience the update, while like that night in New York a new song, this time Bad Decisions, was aired, and a video for another entitled At the Door was premiered. If the band’s social media is anything to go by, the follow-up 2013’s Comedown Machine is likely to be called The New Abnormal.

Emily Eavis has revealed Lana Del Rey will be performing at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.

Eavis broke the news on Twitter, adding Lana Del Rey to the confirmed headliners for June – Paul McCartney and Taylor Swift – and this year’s Sunday afternoon legend Diana Ross.

The Blinders have announced their new album Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath, the follow-up to 2018’s debut Columbia.

Its first single, Circle Song, is out now ahead of the album’s release on May 8th after recording sessions at Manchester’s Eve Studios with producer Rob Ellis, while mixing was undertaken by Foo Fighters and Muse cohort Adrian Bushby.

(Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Rage Against The Machine have confirmed the full details of the reunion tour which will bring Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commferford back together after nearly a decade.

Coinciding with the announcement of the band’s headline appearance at Reading/Leeds in the UK, and adding to the already-known outing at Coachella, are North American tours through to August, starting with dates close to the Mexican border next month.

The 1975 went home with some big prizes from last week’s NME Awards in London.

Among those was Best British Band and Band Of The Decade, though the always-consistent nature of these ceremonies meant it was Slipknot who were crowned Best Band In The World. Elsewhere, Little Simz’s Grey Area won Best British Album and, as previously announced, Emily Eavis was named Godlike Genius.

Bjork is to make a UK festival exclusive appearance at Bluedot in July.

Performing along side the Halle Orchestra, Björk will end the Sunday evening after performances over the weekend of July 23rd-26th at Jodrell Bank Observatory from today’s other confirmed headliners, namely Groove Armada and Metronomy.