Weekly News Round-Up: Arctic Monkeys, Gaz Coombes and more

You’re in the right place if you’ve missed any of the week’s top news stories – here Live4ever’s Weekly News Round-Up presents a recap of ten of the biggest headlines in British music we featured during the last seven days.

Arctic Monkeys (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)

The widely expected return of the Arctic Monkeys has just kicked into gear.

The band have been confirmed on the Firefly Festival line-up to start a year which should eventually bring more live dates and a new album.

Gaz Coombes, Sunflower Bean and The Strypes are some of the new names confirmed for this year’s South By Southwest Festival.

Hundreds of acts have been added by organisers to an already typically huge list of names who’ll be tirelessly exploring a few blocks of downtown Austin, Texas this coming March.

The death of Edward Allan ‘Fast Eddie’ Clarke has been revealed today.

Clarke’s sad passing means the classic Motorhead trio which played such a role in introducing the world to hard rock have now all left us after Lemmy and ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor both died in 2015.

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats will release their new album Tearing At The Seams on the iconic Stax Records label in March.

The band’s response to their breakthrough self-titled debut of 2015 is out on March 9th, while lead single You Worry Me is streaming online.

Field Music have shared Time In Joy with their new album Open Here due to be with us from February 2nd.

“People have a sort of romanticised idea of feelings that are painful or dark, that they are more meaningful, but when I’ve been through dark times, I find that there isn’t a lot of romance in that, that I function better and get more meaning out of positive experiences,” Peter Brewis says of the LP’s latest teaser.

Gaz Coombes (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)

Gaz Coombes has announced the details of a new album entitled World’s Strongest Man.

His follow-up to Matador – one of Live4ever’s albums of 2015 – is due on May 4th and is being trailed by Deep Pockets.

Static Resistance is the latest preview of Hookworms‘ new album Microshift.

“Static Resistance is the oldest track on the album, we wrote and recorded the first version of it early 2015, not very long after The Hum had been released,” the band explain.

The release of Pulsar last November showed Ride were not intent on basking in the glory of Weather Diaries, their first studio album in more than twenty years, for too long, and to prove the point the details of a brand new EP have now been unveiled.

Tomorrow’s Shore has had a release date of February 20th set, and is being previewed with a lead track entitled Catch You Dreaming.

The Manic Street Preachers have posted an official video for International Blue whilst confirming the tracklist for its parent album Resistance Is Futile.

The album will be the band’s first since the 2013/14 one-two of Rewind The Film and Futurology when it is released on April 6th.

Franz Ferdinand have picked Feel The Love Go as their next single from the upcoming new album Always Ascending.

Playing closely within the same ball park as the title-track, Feel The Love Go will be out as part of the LP on February 9th, by which time the band will have resumed their touring in Japan.