Royal Blood playing Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Dundee (Paul Smith)
New tour dates for Royal Blood and Alison Goldfrapp were making headlines on Live4ever last week.
Royal Blood have unveiled the details of a lengthy run of North American tour dates for the autumn.
They’ll support the release of the band’s new album Back To The Water Below and are due to open at the Sea.Hear.Now Festival in Asbury Park, NJ on September 16th.
Following those UK and Ireland shows, the duo will return to the US on October 2nd for a date at Brooklyn Steel and stay there through to November 27th and The Sound in San Diego.
The Murder Capital have shared the official video for their new single Crying – a track which, ‘steered the direction of its record’, according to the band:
“Crying was birthed in the surreal, from the art we were consuming and the environment that was summer 2020. When that direction was revealing itself, so were the first accessible A.I. visual generators.”
“Something about nature depicted in this fashion, captured what inspired us in our pursuit towards a more textured and mosaic approach. I continued to picture these distorted hills and compressed waves as the track developed. So when it was discussed that it wouldn’t be a single, I made a point of making a video myself to portray what I’d been seeing the whole time.”
Noel Gallagher shared Open The Door, See What You Find from his new High Flying Birds album Council Skies ahead of its release yesterday Friday (June 2nd).
Lyrically the premise is that, at a certain point in your life, you look in a mirror and you see all you’ve ever been and all you’re ever going to be. It’s about being happy with that. Being happy with where you are in life, with who you are, and where you’re going. Life is good!
Gallagher was to begin a co-headline tour of North America with Garbage on the day of his fourth solo record’s release, and is due back in the UK by mid-July in time for a lengthy run of outdoor summer concerts.
Alison Goldfrapp by Mat Maitland
Alison Goldfrapp will take The Love Invention out on a short UK tour during February and early March next year.
Dates have been arranged in Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol and London in support of a record which Live4ever’s review praised for, ‘casting a disco spell which you won’t want to be broken’:
“Whereas in the previous incarnation the emphasis was on constant evolution from the S&M electroclash of Black Cherry through Seventh Tree’s Pagan folk and beyond, the new brief is to head straight for the nearest party and soundtrack the hell out of it.”
Pip Blom have unveiled the details of their third album and shared its lead track Is This Love?.
“The nice thing about working with Alex, besides the fact that the atmosphere was really good, was that we both had quite different perspectives,” Pip said. “Whereas I am a bit more rock by nature, Alex is a lot funkier. And that turned out to be the perfect addition for this song, both in the verses and completely in the chorus. Never before has such a funky Pip Blom song appeared, and we all absolutely love it.”
Bobbie was produced by Dave McCracken and is set for release via Heavenly Recordings on October 20th.
The Mysterines have posted their new single Begin Again online after its premiere by DJ Clara Amfo on BBC Radio 1 – Lia Metcalfe has said:
“Written during a full moon in a barn in the west country, Begin Again felt like finding a key to the spirit realm the evening it arrived.”
“It felt like I was embarking on a surreal journey of self-dissolution; think of the first verse as a set of instructions and see how far reality stretches.”
