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Mad Cool is mapping out a return for the summer of 2021.

Spain’s Mad Cool festival has just added to its line-up for July next year in a big way with the additions of The War On Drugs, Kings Of Leon, Cardi B and Haim.

The War On Drugs released their epic new album LIVE DRUGS last week.

The first episode of the Super High Quality Podcast is up now on Spotify, a companion piece to The War On Drugs‘ recent live album.

Our pick of the albums reviewed on these pages this week is The War On Drugs’ first live LP – here’s your chance to revisit the review and check out the album via Spotify.

“Whether you gamble or not, you have to admit that the post-millennial odds of acts like Tame Impala and The War On Drugs becoming some of the planet’s most successful would’ve been pretty long.”

The War On Drugs and The Cribs are both part of New Music Friday – check out LIVE DRUGS and Night Network below.

‘Over 40 hard drives of recorded shows’ have gone into The War On Drugs’ first live album.

Whether you gamble or not, you have to admit that the post-millennial odds of acts like Tame Impala and The War On Drugs becoming some of the planet’s most successful would’ve been pretty long.

Yet here we are, TI’s Kevin Parker the global king of the sad banger, and whilst Adam Granduciel’s had to take his share of critical lumps – Direr Straits, Springsteen lite etc – the last word has unquestionably been his.

We’re in a momentous era however where the live album (the clue being in the LIVE DRUGS title) is something of a double conceit, moments ripped from an event that you probably weren’t at and, for the latter part of the year, something most could only experience remotely on a screen.

Granduciel neatly side-steps this though by relying not on one performance but many, the ten tracks here offered up from different shows stored amongst the 40 hard drives that make up a personal chronicle across continents and years.

Taken from The War On Drugs’ first live album.

The War On Drugs have premiered their cover of Warren Zevon’s Accidentally Like A Martyr which will feature on the LIVE DRUGS album when it’s released on November 20th.

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…

The War On Drugs can easily be divided into two entities; the painstakingly crafted, multi-layered sound of Adam Granduciel in the studio, and the more considered, full band rock experience of their live shows.

It’s the evolution of that live sound over the course of the past decade which will be the focus of LIVE DRUGS, a new collection to be released on Granduciel’s own Super High Quality Records label on November 20th.

Former War On Drugs colleagues Adam Granduciel and Kurt Vile have both contributed to the new Sore Eros album which will be coming early next year.

It’s the summer Bank Holiday in the UK today, and with mighty fine weather greeting it for once here’s part two of a playlist which might just add to the soundtrack for today’s activities.

50 of the best tracks to have been featured on Live4ever during the past decade have been picked out, this second installment featuring the likes of Idles, Kendrick Lamar, Laura Marling, Little Comets and A Tribe Called Red.

Check out the videos below, and find Part 1 right here.