Paul Weller live in Dundee (Paul Smith for Live4ever)
will release a covers album entitled Find El Dorado on July 25th.
Produced by his long-time collaborator Steve Cradock, the record will also feature another Weller’s regulars, Noel Gallagher, as well as the likes of Robert Plant, Amelia Coburn and Seckou Keita.
The LP is being previewed with a 7″ single consisting of Lawdy Rolla and Pinball, and is following last year’s ’66’ solo record.
has returned with a brand new single entitled Of The Sorrows.
Four years on from his self-titled debut album – one of the true high touchstones of this decade so far – Balfe is focusing on Dublin and the conflicting pulls of emigration on this track, the precursor to more new For Those I Love material as 2025 progresses.
“When I wrote Of The Sorrows it felt like I was bargaining with myself,” he’s said.
The will release an expanded edition of Employment on July 18th.
B-sides, bonus tracks and two previously unreleased songs have been added on to the 2LP version, while a Big Nurse remix of one of the LP’s many hit singles, I Predict A Riot, is streaming online now.
“20 years ago, a brand new song by a brand new band was released,” they’ve said.
Richard Ashcroft performing at the London Palladium on October 17th, 2021 (Alessandro Gianferrara for Live4ever)
has made his comeback with the new single and video Lover.
It’s acting as an appetizer for a new studio album from the Verve man later this year, as well as his big summer of headline outdoor gigs and main support on the UK leg of Oasis’ reunion tour.
“I can say with no exaggeration that the songwriting talent of Noel and Liam’s pure spirit as a lead singer helped to inspire me to create some of my best work,” Ashcroft has said. “It was the perfection of ‘Live Forever’ that forced me to try and write my own.”
have returned with their new single Nothing On Me.
“This track welcomes you into the collaborative present mind of White Lies,” the band said.
It’s somewhat reckless, unhinged, full of competing ideas. There is a disregard for any external influences, pressures, or expectations. We’re driving with no brakes or seat-belts. Lyrically and conceptually it’s a rebirth, and an introduction.
is out of The Who again and is seemingly at odds with Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend over the reasons why.
Townshend took to social media last week to announce the band’s drummer since 1996 has departed for a second time in mere weeks, citing other projects as the main reason.
However, Starkey was quick to counter the claims and added that he had been asked to go along with a narrative he believes is false.
