A quiet office these past few days, as members of the Uncut team have dispersed to the States, Morocco and Portugal on various missions and holidays. Yesterday, the rest of us finished the next issue, which goes on sale January 31, and which features, among many other things, a piece about David Bowie and Tony Visconti, relating to something happening in March which isn’t “The Next Day”…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced that their new album Mosquito will be released on April 15, 2013.
Mosquito will be the band's fourth LP and the follow-up to 2009's It's Blitz. It sees the band again working with long-time producer David Sitek and Nick Launay, and was recorded at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas, where 'It's Blitz' was recorded.
One track is produced by LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy<.strong> and features Dr Octagon. The artwork was designed by Beomsik Shimbe Shim.
I don’t have any tattoos, for many reasons, but one of the best I can think of is that I don’t trust my aesthetic tastes to remain constant. I don’t feel confident that the art I like now will all, necessarily, be the same things that I like a few years down the line.
The 2013 Academy Award nominations were announced today [January 10]. The full awards ceremony will take place on February 7.
The nominations in the key categories are:
BEST PICTURE
Amour
Argo
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life Of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Silver Linings Playbook
BEST DIRECTOR
Amour - Michael Haneke
Beasts Of The Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin
Life Of Pi - Ang Lee
Lincoln - Steven Spielberg
Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell
BEST ACTOR
Producer Tony Visconti has said that the new David Bowie album is "a rock album", saying he was surprised to hear the reflective and melancholic track "Where Are We Now?" released first.
Visconti spoke to BBC News following Bowie's surprise return yesterday with the new single and a new album, The Next Day, announced for March.
Until I woke up this morning and checked Twitter, I had planned to write something about the new Low album today. The enormously unexpected return of Bowiemania put paid to that; I’ll try again with Low tomorrow, unless in the intervening 24 hours Kevin Shields is finally shamed into pulling his finger out.
Catching a relatively straightfoward performance from Crispin Glover in Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland over the festive season reminded me to dust down this interview I did with the actor for Uncut back in 2005.
