Dolly Parton and Harry Dean Stanton are both in this month's Uncut, a bit of a dream come true. I was scheduled to interview Dolly once myself, at a rodeo in Spokane, which seemed too good to be true.
The Science Museum in London have unveiled the centrepiece of a new installation by Aleksander Kolkowski, their Sound Artist in Residence in 2012.
The item in question is the full-size reconstruction of the giant 27ft long 'Denman horn', designed in 1929 by the Museum’s then Curator of Communications, Roderick Denman, to produce the widest possible frequency range.
A popular highlight of the Museum’s daily tours in the 1930s, the horn has been rebuilt by the Museum’s Workshops team.
Wilco's Jeff Tweedy is set to release a solo album.
Details of the album are still to be announced, but, Pitchfork reports, Tweedy will be playing songs from the album on a solo North American tour, set to start at Detroit's Masonic Temple on June 5 and finishing up at the Newport Folk Festival in July.
A guitar previously owned and played by George Harrison has sold for £390,653 at auction.
The black-and-white 1962 Rickenbacker 425 was bought in Mount Vernon, Illinois in 1963 and was used by Harrison during performances that same year on shows Ready Steady Go! and Thank Your Lucky Stars. It was also played in the studio during the sessions which resulted in the recordings of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "This Boy" in October 1963.
