Hayley Williams has shared her new single ‘Why We Ever’, alongside the track’s official lyric video.
Lifted as the ninth song from the Paramore-frontwoman’s debut solo album ‘PETALS FOR ARMOR’, which lands next month, ‘Why We Ever’ follows on from ‘Over Yet’ and ‘My Friend’. Williams released the record’s opener ‘Simmer’ at the turn of the year to huge acclaim.
Watch the ‘Why We Ever’ video below:
Duke Dumont has shared his highly-anticipated debut album, ‘Duality’, a 10-track project which sees the producer deliver both an introspective yet also dancefloor-orientated look at his vision for club-culture and dance music.
Featuring previous single ‘The Power‘ alongside 2015’s mammoth ‘Ocean Drive‘, ‘Duality’ also hears the Duke connect with the likes of Ry X, Roland Clark and Say Lou Lou.
Listen to the record in full below:
Organisers of this year’s Bluedot Festival in Cheshire have announced the postponement of their 2020 event, whilst also confirming 2021 dates and headliners.
Releasing the news on their official channels, Bluedot organisers said “It is with incredibly heavy hearts that we are announcing the postponement of bluedot to 22-25 July 2021… We are happy to confirm that our three Lovell Stage headliners – Björk, Groove Armada and Metronomy – will join us on these new dates, and we are working to transfer as many of 2020’s artists and speakers to bluedot 2021 as possible.”
Attendees will have their tickets automatically transferred to 2021’s session, though refunds are also available for those who cannot make the new dates next summer.
Unsurprisingly, the decision to postpone by a year was down to the coronavirus pandemic that has caused countless deaths across the globe. Organisers said – “Our teams have been working with partners and authorities to assess the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the festival. Although bluedot may still seem some time away, the virus and its associated effects are unlikely to ease for some months and it is important to us that any additional or unnecessary strain on medical services is avoided”.
For more information, check out bluedot’s official website here.
Florence and The Machine have announced their new single ‘Light Of Love’.
Revealing the news on the band’s social channels, frontwoman Florence Welch confirmed the track will be released in support of The Intensive Care Society. It will mark the group’s first piece of new music since last year’s ‘Jenny of Oldstones’ which appeared in the Game of Thrones episode ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’.
Check the artwork for ‘Light of Love’ below; the song will be released on 17th April.
Jamie xx has announced his first piece of solo material in 5 years, returning with the frantic ‘Idontknow’.
Revealed as the man behind the song (which has been doing the club circuit over the past couple of months), ‘Idontknow’ marks The xx-producer’s first release since his acclaimed 2015 record, ‘In Colour’.
Debuted back in autumn 2019 as a white-label release, the song has taken a life of its own around the globe, with support from the likes of Ben UFO, Four Tet, Caribou, HAAi and Bicep (to name but a few).
Alongside digital, the song will also receive a 12″ vinyl release on 1st May.
Listen below:
YUNGBLUD has announced the second part of his series of live-streamed events, with ‘The YUNGBLUD Show’ confirmed to return on 16th April.
Set to kick off on his YouTube channel from 3pm GMT (7am PST), the special event will also see guest spots from Travis Barker, Kelly Osbourne, Ashnikko, 24kGoldn and Machine Gun Kelly. A host of “extra surprises” have also been teased.
The first episode of the live-streamed gig saw YUNGBLUD become the number one trend worldwide on Twitter, with the 22-year-old creating the series as a response to a host of cancelled global gigs in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
You can subscribe to YUNGBLUD’s channel here; watch the teaser-trailer below:
Mike Skinner has announced his long-awaited new The Streets mixtape, ‘None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive’.
Set to land in July, the 12-track project has already been preceded by Skinner’s collaboration with Chris Lorenzo on ‘Take Me As I Am’; today he’s now dropped the second cut from the project, teaming up with Tame Impala on ‘Call My Phone Thinking I’m Doing Nothing Better’.
Both songs will appear on the new tape, which drops on 10th July – additional features include IDLES, Donae’O, Ms Banks and Jesse James Solomon.
Watch the video for ‘Call My Phone Thinking I’m Doing Nothing Better’ below:
Gorillaz have announced their third new single of the year, teaming up with Joy Division’s Peter Hook and newcomer Georgia for ‘Aries’.
Set to land on Thursday 9th April, ‘Aries’ follows a string of tracks from their new ‘Sound Machine’ project, including ‘Momentary Bliss’ which featured SlowThai and Slaves.
Watch the trailer for ‘Aries’ below:
The Weeknd has shared his new video for ‘Until I Bleed Out’.
Lifted from his recently-released record ‘After Hours’ (which landed last month), ‘Until I Bleed Out’ marks the fourth song from the album to receive a visual treatment, following in the footsteps of ‘Blinding Lights’, ‘Heartless’ and ‘In Your Eyes’.
Watch below:
Charli XCX has announced a brand new album, set to be recorded whilst in isolation from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Revealing the working title ‘how i’m feeling now’ on an intimate Zoom call with fans, Charli revealed she would be using “this isolation time to make a brand new album from scratch”. The project is set to land on 15th May and arrives a year on from her third studio album, last year’s ‘Chari’.
All tracks and artwork will be created by the singer from her home – “The idea of the album is that’s it’s going to be very DIY, very indicative of the times we’re in. I’m basically going to be making it live, from scratch. I’m only really going to be using the tools that I have at my fingertips, the people I can reach online, the things I have in my house, to create my music, my artwork, my videos, everything”.
Watch the full reveal below:
