What to watch this week: From Single Drunk Female to The Ultimatum

Damon Albarn and Flume have collaborated on a new single, ‘Palaces’, giving the slick track its live debut at Coachella over the weekend.During the second weekend of the festival, Albarn – who had joined Billie Eilish onstage the previous weekend – joined Flume to deliver the live debut of ‘Palaces’, an atmospheric and emotive tune defined by its warbling, reverberant melody and warm piano chords.Take a look at fan-shot footage of the pair performing ‘Palaces’ at Coachella below:And watch the single’s official music video here:Flume also brought out Toro y Moi for a performance of their 2020 single ‘The Difference’. On weekend one of Coachella, Flume also brought out the likes of Caroline Polachek, Kučka, May-A, Beck and Tove Lo to the stage.‘Palaces’ is lifted from Flume’s forthcoming album of the same name.

Foals gave their latest single ‘Looking High’ its live debut during a show in Edinburgh this week – check out the fan-shot footage below.The song is set to appear on the Oxford band’s seventh studio album ‘Life Is Yours’, which comes out on June 17.On Wednesday (April 20), Foals performed ‘2am’ and the as-yet-unreleased cut ‘2001’ for the first time as they kicked off their 2022 UK headline tour at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall.The trio returned to the venue the following night (April 21) where they debuted ‘Looking High’. Tune in here:‘Looking High’, frontman Yannis Philippakis explained, “is looking back to a more hedonistic time in my life, and a more innocent time in society in general, pre-pandemic and before the existential threat of climate change”.He continued: “It takes place in an alley in Oxford with two clubs – The Cellar and The Wheatsheaf – that all the city’s nightlife gravitated towards.”Foals’ current run of UK gigs continues in Birmingham tonight (April 23) ahead of various festival appearances this summer.

Liam Gallagher has shared the video for his new single ‘Better Days’ – you can watch the clip below.The song is the latest to be taken from the former Oasis frontman’s upcoming third solo album ‘C’mon You Know’, which is set for release on May 27 via Warner.After sharing a preview of the clip on his social media channels yesterday (April 21), Gallagher has now released ‘Better Days’ – described by the singer as “the sound of the summer” and featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner – and its accompanying video.The clip sees Gallagher and his live band performing on the roof of Manchester’s Midland Hotel – a location Gallagher previously teased in a tweet to fans last month.Directed by multiple Grammy nominee Paul Dugdale, you can watch Liam Gallagher’s video for ‘Better Days’ above.All UK proceeds from ‘Better Days’ will be donated to War Child for the rest of this year. “We could not be more grateful to Liam for his incredible, continued support for the charity,” Rich Clarke, Head of War Child Records, said in a statement.

Bob Vylan have shared the video for their latest single ‘Wicked & Bad’ – watch below.The clip arrives on the same day as the duo’s new album ‘Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life’, which was announced last year and is the follow-up to 2020’s ‘We Live Here’.‘Wicked & Bad’ follows previously released singles ‘Pretty Songs’, ‘GDP’ and ‘Health is Wealth’, arriving with a video directed by Yannick Reid.The track is heavily influenced by jungle music, which has roots in reggae and dancehall, so the band wanted to pay homage to its birthplace by filming in Jamaica.Speaking about the video and single, they said: “‘Wicked and Bad’ is a mosh pit, festival ready banger and when we were thinking about what the video would look like we just knew it had to be shot in Jamaica, and having complete creative control and being in complete control of the budget, we were able to just get up and do exactly that!”They continued: “I [Bobby] reached out to Yannick Reid who is an incredible director in Jamaica and works with Koffee, Protoje, Lila Ike to name a few, he loved the track and came back with a vision that matched perfectly with what we were thinking, even down to the DIY flame thrower which is a cultural staple of dancehalls in Jamaica, it just fits with the song perfectly.“We used a completely local crew and I styled the outfits. Being a jungle type of track I knew I had to pull out some vintage Moschino pieces which were popular in the UK jungle raves back in the day.

Shakira and Rauw Alejandro have teamed up for a new song!

covering Rosalía’s ‘Hentai’ during the first of her two shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, Lorde has followed it up at the second by performing a rendition of ‘The End Has No End’ by The Strokes.“We’re in New York, you know? Got to do it,” Lorde told the crowd on night two before beginning a stripped-back rendition of the local indie rockers’ ‘Room On Fire’ cut, singing along to a dreamy guitar backing.Watch Lorde cover ‘The End Has No End’ at Radio City Music Hall below:LOOK AT OUR GIRL!!! Another video of Lorde covering The Stroke’s “The End Has No End” tonight in NYC #SolarPowerTour pic.twitter.com/j050eVFx8i— Lorde Updates ☀️ (@LordeUpdatesBR) April 20, 2022Lorde is currently on the North American leg of her current world tour in support of her 2021 album, ‘Solar Power’. The New Zealand artist will head to the UK and Ireland in May and June – tickets can be found here.Following that run, she’ll perform a string of European headline dates, as well as festival appearances at Primavera and Glastonbury, before wrapping up the tour in New Zealand and Australia in 2023.‘Solar Power’, Lorde’s third studio album, arrived back in August of last year after being previewed with its title track – which recently won Best Song In The World at this year’s BandLab NME Awards 2022 – along with ‘Stoned At The Nail Salon’ and ‘Mood Ring’.

Rico Nasty has shared the video for her new single ‘Vaderz’, featuring Bktherula.The trippy clip, which you can view below, sees the duo referencing everyone from Gordon Ramsay to Marilyn Manson.“This ain’t no double life, bitch it’s really the way that I live/ Talk down on us then you might lose a limb/ I be stepping on bitches like I’m wearing Timbs,” raps Nasty.It comes after the rapper teamed up with Doja Cat at Coachella over the weekend for ‘Tia Tamera’, a single taken from the deluxe version of Doja Cat’s debut album ‘Amala’.Earlier this year, Nasty spoke out out about how she finds fans encouraging her to twerk on stage during a performance “disrespectful”.Discussing how fans often hold their phones up to her with the word “twerk” while she’s on stage performing, she said: “This is probably the worst thing that you could put up while a female rapper is performing, even if she is gonna twerk, even if that’s what she does. This is so disrespectful.”She continued: “It’s pointing to this ever being why I’m on stage or pertaining to anything I’ve ever done in my career.

SM Entertainment has released a remastered version of the music video for SHINee’s debut single, ‘Replay’.‘Replay’ was initially released on May 22, 2008, as part of the boyband’s debut mini-album of the same name. Notably, the music video featured choreography by Japanese dancer Rino Nakasone and then-future f(x) member Victoria Song as the female love interest.The music video’s remaster and re-release is part of SM Entertainment’s “SM x YouTube Remastering Project”, which aims to reintroduce the history of K-pop given the genre’s widespread popularity today.The project will include remasters of music videos and tracks by past SM Entertainment acts, as well as remakes and covers of early K-pop hits by the agency’s current roster of artists.Prior to the remastered version of ‘Replay’, aespa released their rendition of S.E.S.’s 1998 hit ‘Dreams Come True.’ Their cover of the song was accompanied by a music video that combined the dreamy aesthetics from S.E.S.’s original music video with their own edgy, futuristic signature style.

Lizzo‘s back, and it’s “About Damn Time”!

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor“Cheesin’,” the charity single released at the beginning of the global pandemic in 2020, has raised more than $175,000 for MusiCares, the song’s distributor announced on Wednesday. The song, a collaboration between Cautious Clay, Remi Wolf, Still Woozy, Sophie Meiers, Claud, Melanie Faye, and HXNS was released via JJ Corsini’s label, Slowplay, in partnership with Republic Records/ Imperial.Since the song’s release, 100 percent of net profits from every stream and download has been donated to MusiCares, the Recording Academy’s charity that supports artists and those in the music community.

Witch Fever have returned today (April 12) with a thundering new track, ‘Blessed Be Thy’ – check it out below.The Manchester band appeared on NME’s 2021’s ‘Essential Emerging Artists’ list where they were described as “bringing the horror-show back to rock without any gimmickry because real life is scary enough after all” and “looking cool as fuck, they sound like a reckoning and they really mean it.”The new track was produced by Pigs x7’s Sam Grant at Blank Studios in Newcastle.Check out the new track here:Bassist Alex Thompson said of the track, “it just goes heavy”, adding: “it was literally the last song we wrote before we went into the studio but came together really quickly.“I think it still has an essence of some of our older material, so it’s a good way to bridge the gap.”According to a press release, the song’s video has been inspired by the likes of “Blur’s ‘Song 2’, The White Stripes’ ‘Seven Nation Army’, and early noughties music channels like Kerrang and Scuzz.”The band will also embark on a number of festival dates this summer. See the full list of dates below.

Chance The Rapper has performed new song ‘Child Of God’ on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert – watch the moment below.Chance’s latest single arrived last month (March 24) and features Moses Sumney on vocals.In the video for the new track, Chance is seen rapping in the same room from his 2021 music video, ‘The Heart & The Tongue’. In the background, artist Naïla Opiangah paints on a canvas behind him.

English-Irish pop band New Rules are really ready to Go The Distance (see what we did there?) on their brand-new single. 

Chloe x Halle, has shared her new solo single ‘Treat Me’ – watch the video below.The track follows on from her debut single ‘Have Mercy’, which was released last September. A snippet of the track had previously gone viral on TikTok before its official release.Chlöe gave her debut live performance of the song at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards, and was widely praised for the memorable set, which included dramatic green screen visuals and dynamic choreography.‘Treat Me’ is the second single from the artist’s as-yet-unannounced debut album.

Nick Grad, president of original programming at FX, announced on Thursday that the network has ordered the pilot of an untitled half-hour comedy written by writer/director Lauren Ludwig. The project is a metaphysical comedy about a group of queer 20-somethings forced by the most unlikely source to confront their generational anxieties and unpack their emotional baggage. Ludwig will executive produce along with Chris & Paul Weitz through their production company Depth of Field.

Carla Woodcock and Callum Kerr are starring in Hulu pilot History Of A Pleasure Seeker.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCarla Woodcock and Callum Kerr are set to star in the Hulu pilot “History of a Pleasure Seeker,” Variety has learned.The project is described as a a musical drama set in Amsterdam in 1907, a tale of a charismatic young man’s explosive adventures through all the temptations of the Belle Époque.Woodcock will play Constance, the most magnetic girl in Amsterdam and the undisputed queen of the city’s gilded youth. Kerr will play Piet, tutor to a very troubled child and an extreme empath, with the confidence to back himself against the odds.

Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper's sons may have just pulled off the most adorable April Fool's joke ever!The host took to Instagram on Friday and posted a picture of his 3-year-old son, Ben, and the CNN anchor's almost 2-year-old son, Wyatt, taking over the famous Bravo set.Ben looked adorable sitting in his father's chair while donning a blue flannel shirt, emerald green corduroy pants and brown shoes. Wyatt sported a denim coat over his grey sweatshirt and sweatpants.