I was struck by a couple of tweets this morning from Peter Watts (@peter_watts and the author of this month’s Ramones cover story in Uncut). The first ran, “I read the word 'liminal' in the Standard the other day. I think that's psychogeography's 'hippie wigs in Woolworths' moment.”
Neil Young has released a new video for his song "Mother Earth".
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The video opens with footage from Young's January 19, 2014 show at the Jack Singer Hall in Calgary, Alberta as part of his recent Honor The Treaties run of dates.
Historic music club Friars Aylesbury is the focus of a major new rock music exhibition featuring rare memorabilia from David Bowie, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop, Queen, Genesis, Blondie and more.
Entitled The Evolution of Friars (1969-2014), the exhibition runs from March 1 – July 5, 2014 at the Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury, and will feature rare posters, photographs and memorabilia from Friars archive as well as unique items on loan from artists who have performed there.
Brett Anderson has revealed that Suede are working on a new album.
Speaking to NME at the launch of the Teenage Cancer Trust's annual series of gigs, he said that they are currently working on a follow-up to 2013's Bloodsports.
"We're busy writing at the moment," he said. "I'm very proud of Bloodsports, and the best thing about it is that it showed us that we can write new music, and relevant new music."
Roger Daltrey says he will reunite with Pete Townshend this year to make a new Who album.
Speaking to NME as he announced the line-up for this March's annual series of Teenage Cancer Trust gigs, curated by Daltrey, he revealed that Townshend has been working on new material.
Beck, speaking in the new issue of Uncut, explains that he wasn’t sure if he would make another album before recording Morning Phase as he felt “on the sidelines”.
Syd Barrett's back catalogue has been made available on Spotify.
The music streaming service is now hosting the two studio albums The Madcap Laughs (1970) and Barrett (1970), the rarities album Opel (1988), a 1970 John Peel Session and the 2010 An Introduction To Syd Barrett, which compiles Barrett material, solo and with Pink Floyd.
The release follows the launch of Pink Floyd’s entire catalogue on Spotify in June 2013.
Bruce Springsteen paid tribute to Pete Seeger last night [January 28] at his show with the E Street Band at the Bellville Velodrome in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Springsteen said, "I lost a great friend and a great hero last night, Pete Seeger," before covering "We Shall Overcome".
"He was a courageous freedom fighter. I took this song to heart and once you heard this song you were prepared to march into hell's fire," Springsteen said.
Slowdive has confirmed they are to reunite.
The band's original line-up - Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell, Christian Savill, Simon Scott and Nick Chaplin - will perform at London'sVillage Underground on May 19. Tickets will be available here from Friday, January 31 at 9am.
They will also play the Primavera Festival in Barcelona on May 30 on a bill that includes Pixies, The National and Slint.
