A clip from LCD Soundsystem's forthcoming documentary, Shut Up And Play The Hits, is online.
The clip from the film - released in the UK in August - features the band performing "Dance Yrself Clean" from their This Is Happening album at Madison Square Garden last year.
I first came across the English folk singer Sam Lee just over a year ago, when I wrote about a tribute album to Peter Bellamy. Alongside more familiar names like The Unthanks and Trembling Bells, it was Lee’s version of “Puck’s Song” that stood out, as he cut a fine path through an artful mix of old folk recordings and incantatory drones.
The reunited Beach Boys' return to the stage is reviewed in the latest issue of Uncut, out now – and as their new album "That's Why God Made The Radio" is also fresh in shops, it seemed time to revisit this piece from Uncut's June 2007 issue (Take 121)… Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine guide us through their perfect ‘pocket symphony’, three minutes and thirty-six seconds of avant-garde pop. Interviews and intro by Rob Hughes.
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Ozzy Osbourne has spoken to NME ahead of Black Sabbath's headline slot at this weekend's Download Festival, promising their set will be "great".
The reunited metal legends will headline the metal festival's main stage - which has been named the Jim Marshall Stage in honour of the amp pioneer, who passed away earlier this year - on Sunday (June 10), after sets from the likes of Megadeth and Soundgarden.
Country music legend Willie Nelson has posted the video for his cover version of Pearl Jam's "Just Breathe" online.
Scroll down to watch the video, which sees Nelson singing and playing guitar alongside his son Lukas while the pair go on a road trip together. The song is taken from Nelson's latest album, Heroes, which also sees him covering tracks by Coldplay and Tom Waits, as well as collaborating with rapper Snoop Dogg on the pro-cannabis track, "Roll Me Up".
John Cale has announced details of his new album, Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood.
The album will be released on October 1 on Domino Records' Lucky Six label and is his first since blackAcetate in 2005.
The tracklisting for Shifty Adventures... is:
I Wanna Talk 2 U
Scotland Yard
Hemmingway
Face To The Sky
Nookie Wood
December Rains
Mary
Vampire Cafe
Mothra
Living With You
Midnight Feast
Sandman (Flying Dutchman)
Cale will also tour the UK in October.
Dates confirmed are:
Friday, October 5: HMV Picturehouse, Edinburgh
Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Welch has been found dead at his Nashville home. He was 66.
According to police, the musician died of an apparent suicide. Local news network WKRN reports that Welch's wife found him dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest at 12.15pm local time on June 7.
Police spokesperson Don Aaron said that a suicide note was recovered and added that Welch had recently been suffering from 'health issues'.
A brand new documentary about Glastonbury by filmmaker Julien Temple is set to premiere on June 15 on BBC4.
Glastonbury After Hours: Glastopia was shot at last year's festival on location in the Shangri-La, Arcadia, the Unfair Ground, Strummerville, Block 9 and the Common areas.
Temple directed 2006's acclaimed Glastonbury documentary film, which delved into the history of the festival, which is taking a fallow year this summer, before returning in 2013.
Ry Cooder has announced details of a new album, Election Special, due for release on August 20 on Nonesuch/Perro Verde Records.
The follow-up to last year's Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down, Cooder's album is released a few months ahead of the forthcoming US presidential election, which will be held in November 2012.
Cooder has written introductions to each of the tracks on the album:
Mutt Romney Blues
Wilco has released a new book, The Incredible Shrinking Tour Of Chicago.
The book is free and available now exclusively on Apple’s iBookstore for iPad at www.iTunes.com/iBookstore.
It documents the band’s five concerts from December 2011 in their native Chicago, with live photography, reproduction poster art and set lists.
