The Pop Group have announced their first ever UK tour.
The Bristol group - who formed in 1978 and split in 1980 before getting back together again in 2010 - will head out on a seven date tour this October, in support of the reissue in October of their 1980 album We Are Time and Cabinet Of Curiosities, a nine-track compilation of rarities and previously unreleased material.
A tree planted in memory of George Harrison has died after being infested by beetles.
The pine in Los Angeles' Griffith Park was planted in 2004 as a tribute Harrison, who passed away in 2001 in the city. A plaque on the tree read: "In memory of a great humanitarian who touched the world as an artist, a musician and a gardener." It also featured a quote from Harrison: "For the forests to be green, each tree must be green."
Robert Plant, Tom Petty, King Crimson and Bobby Womack all feature in the new issue of Uncut, dated September 2014 (Take 208) and out tomorrow (July 29).
We track Plant, on the cover, from the Welsh Marches to the nightclubs of Paris to hear about bee colonies, mountain lions, altercations with Moroccan traffic cops, Bron-Yr-Aur, Jimmy Page, and Plant's extraordinary new solo album.
Jack White's Third Man Records company have launched a publishing offshoot, Third Man Books.
Third Man Books' first commercially available release will be Language Lessons: Volume I, which comprises a 321-page book of poetry and prose as well as two vinyl LPs of "jazz, psychdelic-punk, poetry, blues and pop" and five "frameable" poems. The package – which is pictured above – will be released in a hard-case clothbound sleeve and is available to buy from August 5.
A hotel named after Bob Dylan has opened in Woodstock, New York.
The Hotel Dylan is located Route 28, just southwest of the town where Dylan and The Band recorded and not far from where the festival took place in 1969. It has been designed by owner Paul Covello and architects Cortney and Robert Novogratz.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse played an unreleased track dating from 2001 during their show at Piazza Colbert, Barolo, Italy last night [July 21].
"Standing In The Light Of Love" was debuted on June 9, 2001 at the Sheffield Arena and played a further 26 times during the band's European and Japanese shows that year.
It was last played on July 28, 2001 at the Fuji Rock Festival, Japan.
Young and Crazy Horse have already aired a number of deep rare cuts during their current European tour.
One of the many privileges and occasional disorientations of working for a monthly music mag is that we hear some music so far ahead of release that it can be easy to forget when the albums actually come out. So while the world of Ty Segall-related projects might have moved on here to the monstrous Wand album (out on Segall's God imprint in late August), it's instructive to remember that Segall's own "Manipulator", which we've had for a while, isn't out 'til then, either.
After an otherwise mediocre start to the year, the second half of 2014 looks set to be more promising for aficionados of music films. For a start, fans of Big Star who’ve been waiting for Nothing Can Hurt Me to arrive on UK screens will finally have their patience rewarded when Drew DeNicola and Olivia Mori’s film about Alex Chilton and co finally gets a UK release next month.
