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One Liners: DJ Semtex, Tom Morello, Charli XCX, more

By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 8 October 2018

Other notable announcements and developments today…

• Having recently departed BBC Radio 1Xtra after fifteen years, DJ Semtex presented the first edition of a new Friday night show on commercial station Capital Xtra last week. “It’s an honour to be at Capital Xtra”, he says. “I think what they’ve been doing is amazing, it typifies the UK experience”.

• Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello has released new solo track ‘Every Step That I Take’, featuring Portugal The Man and Whethan. “‘Every Step That I Take’ deals with the haunting voices of fear and love on the steps of the emotional gallows”, he says. “We are honoured to be partnering with SAVE, a suicide prevention organisation, with this track. You are not alone and there is always help available”.

• Charli XCX and Troye Sivan have released a single together called ‘1999’.

• Blood Orange has released the video for ‘Chewing Gum’, from his new album ‘Negro Swan’.

• Pond have released the video for new single ‘Sixteen Days’. “‘Sixteen Days’ is about, once upon a time, being jealous and paranoid, too ground down and mad to enjoy love and Genoa”, says frontman Nicholas Allbrook.

• Dave has released new single ‘Funky Friday’, featuring Fredo.

• IAMDDB has released the video for ‘Kurr£ncy’ from her recent EP ‘Flight Mode Vol 4’.

• Gary Numan will release new EP ‘The Fallen’ and a live album recorded at Brixton Academy on 9 Nov. Numan is set to tour the UK with The Skaparis Orchestra next month. From the new EP, this is ‘It Will End Here’.

• Fyfe and Iskra Strings have released new single ‘Gold’, taken from their second EP, due out later this year. They will play their debut live show next month at St Pancras Old Church in London on 15 Nov.

• Tolliver has released new single ‘Twisted’ from new EP ‘Rites’. “‘Twisted’ is about a great night turned suddenly dark, a night when Courvoisier and kissing strangers is the only solution”, he says. “A post-show argument sent me spiralling into what was admittedly a turnt party, only to face my fractured and fucked relationships the next morning”.

• Richard Ashcroft has announced a tour of the UK and Ireland in April and May next year. The run will conclude with a show at London’s Olympia on 4 May.

• She Drew The Gun has announced UK tour dates for February and March next year. Their new album, ‘Revolution Of Mind’, was released on Friday.

• Check out our weekly Spotify playlist of new music featured in the CMU Daily – updated every Friday.