Thom Yorke has released a new album, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes.
The album is available to download using BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file sharing software.
In a statement co-authored with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Yorke wrote, “As an experiment we are using a new version of BitTorrent to distribute a new Thom Yorke record. The new Torrent files have a pay gate to access a bundle of files. The files can be anything, but in this case is an ‘album’.”
As AC/DC announce Malcolm Young's retirement and the release of a new album, Rock Or Bust, we look back at the life of former frontman Bon Scott in a piece taken from Uncut's December 2013 issue (Take 199). A street poet who’d been inside for ‘carnal knowledge’? A teenybop idol and hippy seer? A tearaway who swam with jellyfish and rode motorbikes naked? “A fantastic guy, a real human, so different to what people thought…” Words: Peter Watts_________________________
No point in messing about this week: scroll down to hear new music from, among others, Neil Young, Cool Ghouls, Bryan Ferry, Frazey Ford, Kendrick Lamar, Joan Shelley and the extremely promising D.D. Dumbo, plus a couple of amazing full gigs from Hiss Golden Messenger and a Purling Hiss/Spacin' supersession, both courtesy of the invaluable www.nyctaper.com.
Bruce Springsteen is to release a new box set that compiles his first seven albums.
Bruce Springsteen: The Album Collection Vol. 1 1973-1984 will be remastered by respected engineers Bob Ludwig and Toby Scott, in conjunction with the artist himself.
The albums have been newly transferred from original analogue masters using the Plangent Process playback system.
The set will also feature a 60-page book featuring vintage press clippings, photos and other memorabilia from the first 11 years of Springsteen's recording career.
Laura Marling has covered Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" with singer songwriter Eddie Berman.
Click below to watch the pair's rendition of the classic track, which will feature on Berman's forthcoming new album Polyhymnia, which is out October 21.
The video was recorded at Kingsize North Studios in Los Angeles.
The pair have previously covered Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark".
Earlier this year Marling covered Townes Van Zandt’s "Colorado Girl" for the eTown programme on US radio station NPR.
Neil Young has confirmed that his new album, Storeytone, will be released in November.
The news came via a press release from his record company, Reprise, who also released on their official Soundcloud three versions of Young's new song, "Who's Gonna Stand Up?".
The versions - live with Crazy Horse, orchestral and acoustic - had originally been streaming on Young's website. The
