On March 14, the band announced a new song titled “The Lightning I, II”
That same day, the band played a concert benefiting the Plus 1 Ukraine relief fund at the Toulouse Theatre in New Orleans , marking their first full-band performance in over two years.
The track is one of two new songs on the greatest hits compilation Hits to the Head , which was released on 11 March 2022.
Franz Ferdinand performed at Night for Ukraine, a fundraising benefit held at the Roundhouse in north London on the evening of March 9, 2022, with the funds raised being donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal, to provide aid to people fleeing Ukraine following the Russian invasion . The event…
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In March 2022, fans received postcards marked with the band’s logo; the postcards included the note “We missed you”, musical notations, as well as an image of an eye with the word “Unsubscribe” written below.
Later that week, Will Butler announced he had amicably left the band in 2021 shortly after the completion of We .
On 7 February 2022, Everything Everything announced their sixth album, Raw Data Feel , later released on 20 May 2022. Alongside the announcement they released the single “Bad Friday” with a music video directed by Kit Monteith and Jonathan Higgs. The band incorporated text and imagery generated by artificial intelligence…
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On 13 January 2022, Muse released the single ” Won’t Stand Down “, which marked a return to their heavier early sound. On 9 March, Muse posted a 35-second clip across various social media platforms depicting large busts of the band members being torn down. Muse released their ninth album,…
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In 2022 Primal Scream played at the Victorious Festival in Portsmouth . In April, the band sold song rights of fifty percent of their back catalogue to BMG . The deal involved Gillespie, Innes and the estate of Robert Young.
The Gods We Can Touch was released in January 2022 and received critical acclaim. It achieved significant commercial success in the Greater China region, reaching 350 million streams; it also reached number one in Norway for the first time since her debut album and secured her first top-10 entry in…
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