Nick Drake’s producer Joe Boyd is hosting a special event in London to celebrate the late singer-songwriter’s life and work.
Joe Boyd presents Way To Blue - The Legacy Of Nick Drake will take place at Wilton’s Music Hall on April 2 and 8pm. Boyd will talk about his relationship with Drake and also his work on Way To Blue, an album of Nick Drake covers recorded in London and Melbourne, Australia and featuring Vashti Bunyan, Green Gartside, Robyn Hitchcock and others.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse are rumoured to have filmed their March 13 show in Melbourne, Australia for a possible future release, according to an Australian music website.
Noise 11 claims that “Neil Young’s Shakey Pictures filmed this Melbourne ‘Alchemy Tour’ show for their next concert documentary.”
The distraction of a Laura Marling blog yesterday has had the knock-on effect of making this week’s playlist longer than usual: 27 tracks/albums in all.
Joanna Newsom has recorded a cover of Sandy Denny's 1971 song, “The North Star Grassman And The Ravens".
Newsom recorded the song in November as part of a promotional campaign for Wren, the Los Angeles-based fashion collection of Melissa Coker.
A Jimi Hendrix pop-up store will open in Soho, London, for the first 12 days of April.
The store, to be located at 8 Ganton St., comes as Hendrix’s posthumously-released album, “People, Hell and Angels” becomes the legend’s highest charting album since 1969. That album will be available at the Soho store, along with Hendrix’s full back catalogue in CD and vinyl, including items never released in the UK. It will also sell limited edition merchandise, including clothing, art, lyrics/chord books and guitar accessories.
Black Sabbath have confirmed that their new album '13' will be released on June 10. Scroll down to see a new behind-the-scenes clip showing the band making the album now.
David Bowie is almost guaranteed to be number one this Sunday with his new album 'The Next Day' set to become the fastest selling album of 2013 so far.
Iggy Pop unveiled new material from his forthcoming album 'Ready To Die' (March 13) at Mohawk Outdoor at SXSW in Austin, Texas.
As well as airing classic tracks 'Raw Power', 'Fun House' and 'I Wanna Be Your Dog', the tiny show saw Iggy and The Stooges playing material from their forthcoming new album, 'Ready To Die', live for the first time. Iggy calling the performances of the material "world premieres".
It’s easy – and probably useful, sometimes – to lambast major labels for what looks from the outside like chronic short-termism. The climate is, understandably I guess, a neurotic one, and those days are long gone when labels would work long-term with a select group of trophy artists, whose usefulness to the company was more silvery and nebulous, more about cachet than quick profit.
