Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers have nearly completed their new album, according to Benmont Tench.
The Heartbreakers' keyboard player has been speaking to Uncut ahead of the release of his solo album, You Should Be So Lucky.
When asked about the status of the new Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers album, Tench told Uncut: "I think we’re virtually done. We cut a lot of stuff; Tom just wants to get the right batch of songs. That’s the scoop on it."
Twelve years after he was pulling pints in a pub in London Bridge, Brian Burton is perhaps busier than ever – he has a new Broken Bells album out on Monday (January 13), he’s been working with U2 and is rumoured to be producing the next Black Keys record. It’s been a whirlwind decade for the writer and producer better known as Danger Mouse: after making his name by daring to cross-breed The Beatles with Jay-Z, he’s gone on to work with everyone from Damon Albarn to David Lynch.
Liverpool Sound City has confirmed John Cale and Thurston Moore as keynote speakers.
The event, which takes place from May 1-2 at the Liverpool Hilton Hotel and Liverpool ONE will see Cale and Moore joined by a third keynote speaker, former Chief Executive of The Premier League and former CEO of Liverpool Football Club, Rick Parry.
Sometime last autumn, maybe, an EP called “Artorius Revisited” by Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band was quietly released in limited quantities. Last time he surfaced around 2006/2007, in a quixotic, thwarted and mostly transcendent musical career that now stretches back some three decades, Head and his longest-lasting configuration, Shack, were signed to Noel Gallagher’s Sour Mash label. It didn’t last.
St Vincent is streaming 'Digital Witness', the second track to be taken from her forthcoming new album, 'St Vincent'. Listen to it below.
The release of the song follows the premiere of 'Birth In Reverse', the first track to be taken from the album which will be released on February 24.
'St Vincent' was recorded in Dallas, Texas with Dap-Kings drummer Homer Steinweiss, McKenzie Smith of Midlake and producer John Congleton.
Of the album, Clark has said: "I knew the groove needed to be paramount... I wanted to make a party record you could play at a funeral."
According to a post on Reddit, Jack White has used the Third Man Records chat room to reveal that he's finishing a new record.
In the screen-grab of the chat, White says: "I'm producing two albums this month, and finishing them."
He then adds: "One of them is mine."
White's band The Dead Weather are not due to release their album until 2015, leading fans to speculate that the album he's referring to would be a follow-up to 2012's solo release 'Blunderbuss'.
Happy new year, everyone. Since we’re into 2014 now, and (perhaps more pertinently) since all of our 2013 charts generated so much traffic to www.www.uncut.co.uk last month, I thought it’d be useful/cynical to post a Best Of 2014 (Thus Far) list.
