Weekly News Round-Up: The 1975, Kim Gordon 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.

The 1975 live at TRNSMT Festival 2017 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

The 1975 live at TRNSMT Festival (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

The 1975 have confirmed their fourth studio album Notes On A Conditional Form for release early next year.

It’ll be out on February 21st, 2020, while People has been picked as its first single and is available now.

Slowthai has pulled out of his UK and Ireland arena tour with Liam Gallagher.

Gallagher told his Twitter followers a new support act will be announced in due course for the November shows which visit Cardiff, Birmingham, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Newcastle, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Dublin and Nottingham, and end with two nights at the O2 in London.

There’s yet more new solo music from Thom Yorke, and you can thank Edward Norton for this one.

Featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bass player Flea, Daily Battles has been written by Yorke for Norton’s upcoming crime drama Motherless Brooklyn. It quickly follows the ANIMA album and its even more recent remix EP Not The News Rmx.

Dev Hynes has announced a new Blood Orange album shortly after the release of the Angel’s Pulse mixtape.

Fields is a collection of classical compositions written by Hynes and arranged and performed by Third Coast Percussion. It will be released on October 11th.

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Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon will release her debut solo record later this year.

While Gordon has successfully dabbled in many cultural ventures away from Sonic Youth since the band’s formation in the early 80s, it’ll be October 11th when her first solo album, No Home Record, is released, featuring lead single Sketch Artist which has a video out now directed by Loretta Fahrenholz and boasting a cameo from actress and writer Abbi Jacobson.

The National released a live film and EP via Amazon on August 23rd.

Both mediums are taken from the band’s appearance at New York’s Beacon Theatre earlier this year, part of the ‘special evenings’ they undertook there and in Paris, New York, London, Toronto and Los Angeles prior to the release of their 2019 album I Am Easy To Find.

Neil Young is ready to release a new Crazy Horse album entitled Colorado.

“The first track from Colorado, our next Crazy Horse album, is coming out this month,” Young has said via a statement posted to the Neil Young Archives.

Band Of Skulls have added a new date to the UK and Ireland tour which will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their Baby Darling Doll Face Honey album.

Russell Marsden and Emma Richardson plan on playing the record in full during previously announced gigs in Dublin, Belfast, Leeds, Sheffield, Edinburgh and Newcastle during November, and Bristol, Brighton, London and Manchester during December.