Weekly News Round-Up: HAIM, Lana Del Rey 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 and best headlines we featured during the last seven days.

Haim (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)

HAIM are back with a new single entitled Summer Girl, co-produced by Rostam Batmanglij and Ariel Rechtshaid.

The track, premiered in the UK on BBC Radio 1 as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record In The World, was first played live during a gig in Los Angeles last month, and has a video too directed by HAIM’s longtime collaborator Paul Thomas Anderson.

Now with a Mercury Prize nomination secured for their debut album Dogrel, the unflinching rise of Fontaines D.C. is continuing with news of their biggest headline show to-date.

It’ll come on February 25th next year at the Brixton Academy in London, and is confirmed as the band take an enforced break from touring due to health issues.

Chance The Rapper will embark on a long North American tour from September 14th after finally releasing his debut studio album The Big Day.

Featuring a wide range of collaborations with artists such as Nicki Minaj, John Legend, DaBaby, Megan Thee Stallion, MadeinTYO, Shawn Mendes and Ben Gibbard, the album got its release on July 26th after numerous mixtapes and other project since 2012.

Dan Wilson is ready to step back into the Semisonic fray after a prolonged absence.

A jewel of the late nineties/early noughties US alternative scene, it’s been nearly two decades since Semisonic released a studio album but after forging a new career co-writing hits for other artists – not least of which Adele’s Someone like You – Wilson has told The Day the time is right for his band to make a return.

Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey has detailed her plans for North American and European touring in support of the recently announced new album Norman Fucking Rockwell.

The LP is out on August 30th and features various tracks already released as singles such as Venice Bitch and Mariners Apartment Complex. The touring opens in North America on September 21st, followed by a European spell during the early stages of 2020.

Foals have unveiled the first taste of Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 2 after earlier last week confirming it for release on October 18th.

Black Bull points towards the heavier sound Yannis Philippakis has promised when comparing it to Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1 of earlier this year, an album which has gained the band a third Mercury Prize nomination.

A North American tour has been announced for Sam Fender as part of the promotional duties behind debut album Hypersonic Missiles.

After a summer interrupted by illness, now fighting fit a return to the US has been scheduled for September and October, including a show at the Bowery Ballroom in New York on October 17th.

Angel Olsen‘s new album All Mirrors is due out on October 4th.

After release, Olsen will be touring North America before turning her attention to Europe in the new year. She arrives in the UK from February 10th 2020 for shows in Bristol, London, Manchester and Glasgow.