Arcade Fire have announced plans for a huge UK show set to take place at London's Earls Court on June 6, 2014.
The band revealed the date via a 15-second long video on YouTube. Scroll down to watch the video. Tickets for the show go on sale November 28. Meanwhile, Win Butler has hinted that the band will also play UK festivals next summer.
A new Wes Anderson tribute album is set for release next year.
I Saved Latin! is a two-CD collection of songs taken from director Anderson's films, including tracks by bands such as The Rolling Stones, John Lennon, David Bowie and The Velvet Underground. Artists contributing covers include Black Francis and Kristin Hersh.
All of the songs included on the album are taken from the soundtracks to Anderson’s films: The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr Fox and Bottle Rocket.
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PJ Harvey has been named as one of the five guest editors who will take over Radio 4's Today programme during the festive period.
The other guest editors will be: Sir Tim Berners Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium; Eliza Manningham Buller, former Director General of MI5; broadcaster Michael Palin; and Antony Jenkins, Group Chief Executive of Barclays.
Morrissey has written a 2,000 treatise, which has appeared on his quasi-official fan site, True To You.
The post included his criticisms of cruelty to animals and the royal family. Titled The World Won't Listen, the post [dated November 18], is critical of "the depressive psychosis of modern Britain, which has become a most violent and melancholic country, with no space for measured debate."
Pixies have revealed the video for "What Goes Boom", the latest track from their EP-1 release to be given a music video.
The video, which you can see below, features guitarist Joey Santiago and is set in the desert. It follows videos the band have made for the tracks "Indie Cindy" and "Andro Queen", which also feature on EP-1, released earlier this year.
Moving swiftly through another craven plug for our Neil Young Ultimate Music Guide, a mostly decent list this week, with a few strong new entries from Rosanne Cash, Africa Express, Matt Baldwin, and Thee Oh Sees, plus a welcome expanded reissue from Hiss Golden Messenger.
The Rolling Stones have announced their first live date of 2014.
According to a report in the Herald Sun, the Stones will play the Adelaide Oval on March 22, 2014.
The show will come at the tail-end of the city's festival season, which includes the Fringe and Adelaide festivals, as well as the Clipsal 500 V8 supercar race.
It will be the Rolling Stones first show in the city since 1995.
Bob Dylan has released a video for "Like A Rolling Stone".
The video for the 1965 track went live on Dylan's website at 4pm GMT today [Tuesday, November 19].
Created by Israeli artist and director Vania Heymann - who has also made commercials for Pepsi and American Express - the video allows viewers to use their keyboards or cursors to flip through 16 channels that mimic TV formats such as games shows, shopping networks and reality series. People on each channel, no matter what TV trope they represent, are seen lip-syncing the lyrics.
You are, I guess, never finished with Neil Young. A few weeks ago, as we were wrapping up an Uncut Ultimate Music Guide special dedicated to him, the news came through that Young was moving on again. Just as we thought we’d put together a comprehensive survey of all his recorded work, another Archives Performance Series release crept onto the schedules.
