On 13 July 2017, New Order played a concert at Manchester International Festival with Liam Gillick .
” Deadcrush “, the fourth single from the album, was released on 12 July and was featured as a soundtrack in the FIFA 18 game.
The band went on to release another live album, Live at the Belly Up, in June 2017. On 9 July 2017, Erik Cartwright, who played lead guitar from 1981 to 1984, died at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, from a heart attack. He was 66 years old.
Two further releases from, ” All I Can Think About Is You ” and ” Aliens “, came out on 15 June and 6 July respectively.
In June and July 2017, he was a guest on multiple shows of the Prophets of Rage during System of a Down’s European tour, singing ” Like a Stone ” in memory of his friend, Audioslave ‘s Chris Cornell .
Immediately after the tour, the band went on a nearly year-long unannounced hiatus. O’Donoghue didn’t reveal this information until July 2017 and claimed that the hiatus occurred due to the band wanting some time off to “chill” after making four albums and going on five world tours. Shortly after this…
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In July 2017, Savages played their final show at Eurockéennes de Belfort in Belfort, France before quietly disbanding. There was no official statement from Savages about the band’s split. In an interview given the year before, however, Beth had revealed that the band had been working continuously between their two…
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Cooper released his twentieth solo studio album Paranormal in July 2017. It featured contributions from drummer Larry Mullen Jr. of U2 , Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top on guitar and Roger Glover from Deep Purple on bass guitar. Guitarists Tommy Denander and Tommy Henriksen contributed most of the guitars.
In July 2017, they held tour in USA and South America.
In July 2017, “Everything Now” became Arcade Fire’s first single to reach number one on a Billboard chart, reaching number one on the Adult Alternative Songs airplay chart.