David Bowie has released a new single, "Where Are We Now?", this morning [January 8 - Bowie's birthday].
You can watch the video below.
The single will be followed on March 12 by THE NEXT DAY, Bowie's first new album in 10 years and his 30th studio recording. It has been produced by Tony Visconti.
The track listing for THE NEXT DAY is:
The Next Day
Dirty Boys
The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
Love Is Lost
Where Are We Now?
Valentine's Day
If You Can See Me
I'd Rather Be High
Boss Of Me
Dancing Out In Space
George Clinton has lost the rights to four of his songs after being ordered to hand the copyright over as payment of a $1million debt.
Clinton owed the money to his former lawyers, the Hendricks & Lewis law firm, who represented him between 2005 and 2008. In 2010, Hendricks & Lewis won a $1.5million case against Clinton after claiming he had failed to pay back their fees but a new court case found that Clinton only paid back $340,000 of that amount. Subsequently, a federal judge ordered that Clinton must hand over the copyrights to four of his songs in lieu of payment.
A series of 65 unpublished colour photographs of The Beatles during their 1964 sell-out US tour are to be auctioned.
The slides will go under the hammer at Omega Auctions in Stockport, Cheshire on March 22, which marks 50 years since the band released their debut LP Please Please Me, the BBC reports. They will be sold along with the copyright and are expected to fetch between £10,000 and £15,000.
A brand new Jimi Hendrix single "Somewhere" was played on the radio for the first time this morning (Jan 7).
The track, which will be released as part of People, Hell & Angels, the forthcoming album of previously unreleased studio recordings, was played by DJ Shaun Keaveny on his BBC 6Music programme.
The album will be released on March 4, 2013 and features 12 'new' songs, which see Hendrix experimenting with horns, keyboards, percussion and a second guitar.
Could be wrong about this, but I think the track I posted and tweeted most often last year was “Sunshine, No Shoes” by the Philadelphia band, Spacin’: I’m going to add it again after the jump. Spacin’, to recap - though you can follow this link to a blog about them - are a project fronted by Jason Killinger, a spin-off from a longish-established Philly psych band called Birds Of Maya; BOM’s amazing “Ready To Howl” album got a belated UK release last year on Agitated.
MIA has claimed that the release of her new album was delayed by her US record label for being "too positive".
The singer, who last year released the single "Bad Girls", was due to release her fourth album Matangi in late 2012. However, speaking to Australian newspaper Gold Coast Bulletin, she revealed that Interscope were not quite convinced by her work and were hoping for something a little different. "It's due in April, which is the Tamil new year – April 15th – and I'm still working on it," she said.
Paul Weller has confirmed that he will never reform The Jam as "it would be absurd".
The Modfather said he admires bands like The Rolling Stones who keep rocking into their late-sixties but admits he couldn't do it, as he doesn't want to be performing songs that are over 30 years old.
He told The Sun: "I take my hat off to people like the Stones but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs, it would do my head in."
Suede have given fans new song "Barriers" as a free download today (Jan 7). The track is the first to be heard from the band's brand new studio album, which will be titled Bloodsports.
Bloodsports will be Suede's sixth studio album and their first since 2002. "Barriers" is the first song to be lifted from the album, due out in March, and is available from their official website now. An official single, titled "It Starts and Ends With You", is due for release in February.
Catching a relatively straightfoward performance from Crispin Glover in Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland over the festive season reminded me to dust down this interview I did with the actor for Uncut back in 2005.
