Weekly News Round-Up: Foals, Record Store Day 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 the biggest headlines we featured during the last seven days.

Foals’ Yannis Philippakis performing at Wembley Arena (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)

Foals have premiered Sunday, the latest track due to appear on their new album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost.

Out on March 8th will be ‘Part One’ of the album set, while this premiere on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show comes soon after Everything Everything bass player Jeremy Pritchard was confirmed as their touring bass player for this year.

New Order have been confirmed as the fourth and final headliner for Victorious Festival.

They join The Specials, Rudimental and Two Door Cinema Club at the top of the bill for the event which is to be held in Portsmouth, UK between August 23rd-25th.

Little Comets will start the build-up to their fifth studio album with the release of a new single entitled The Sneeze on March 7th.

As the year progresses, this is due to be followed by more new music and ‘very special touring news’ with the album expected towards the end of 2019. The Sneeze is another track built around Little Comets’ wonderfully independent nature; recorded as it was in a garage ‘amidst the angst of a neighbour’s lawn mower’ on drums ‘pulled from a Lichfield skip’.

The death of Mark Hollis, lead singer of Talk Talk, has been confirmed by his former manager Keith Aspden.

The BBC quotes Aspden as saying that the news which began circuating yesterday is ‘sadly true’, and that Hollis passed away at the age of 64 ‘after a short illness from which he never recovered’.

Special releases for this year’s Record Store Day have been revealed and will include one-offs from artists such as David Bowie, Noel Gallagher, John Lennon and Janis Joplin.

Gallagher’s is an EP entitled Wait And Return which will carry remixes of his Who Built The Moon? tracks She Taught Me How To Fly, Keep On Reaching and Black & White Sunshine from the DJ/producer Nicolas Laugier, aka The Reflex, and Richard Norris.

The first preview of Morrissey‘s covers album California Son has been revealed.

Originally announced last December, the LP has now been given a release date of May 24th and is being led by Morrissey’s take of It’s Over by Roy Orbison.

Liverpool has been picked to host the 2019 edition of BBC 6Music Festival.

As always, a brilliant cast of the UK radio station’s regulars have agreed to perform, with The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Anna Calvi, Jon Hopkins, Hot Chip, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Ex:Re, Little Simz, Bodega, Gang Of Four, Villagers, Idles, Slowthai, Fontaines D.C., The Cinematic Orchestra, Chali 2na & Krafty Kuts, Jungle and Marika Hackman all on the bill.

Roskilde has secured Bob Dylan for 2019.

The songwriting legend will be making his first appearance at the Danish festival when it is held this year between June 29th-July 6th, joining previously confirmed acts such as The Cure, Robyn, Christine And The Queens and Parquet Courts.