News Round-Up: Taylor Swift, Richard Ashcroft and more News Round-Up: Taylor Swift, Richard Ashcroft and more Taylor Swift performs live at the O2 Arena in London (Photo: Alex Elms for Live4ever Media) Our recap of the biggest and best headlines we featured during the past seven days includes a quick album release from Taylor Swift and Richard Ashcroft’s live comeback. The ninth studio album of Taylor Swift’s career, ‘evermore’, was given a quick deadline of midnight (EST) Friday. Like ‘folklore’ before it, the announcement came out of the blue, Swift saying she and her ‘folklore’ collaborators including The National’s Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon ‘just couldn’t stop writing songs.