Poet Michael Horovitz has teamed up with Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon and Paul Weller for a pair of Record Store day releases.
The quartet will appear on Horovitz' single, "Ballade Of The Nocturnal Commune" / "Extra Time Meltdown", which will be released by London-based vinyl-only jazz label, Gearbox Records.
Weller, Albarn and Coxon will also appear on Horovitz' album Bankbusted Nuclear Detergent Blues, the title track of which was commissioned by Weller, who printed the text in the artwork for his 2012 album Sonik Kicks.
Three weeks and a few hours ago, I found myself on a small plane from Richmond, Virginia, to Washington DC. Most of the other passengers were members of the Harvard baseball team, who had spent the past three hours being harassed by schoolgirls making innumerable Harlem Shake videos. I, though, was sat next to a woman from Colorado, who was studying the use of horses in Gestalt therapy.
Scott Walker will present his most recent album, 2012’s Bish Bosch, as a unique three-dimensional experience at the Sydney Opera House.
Running from May 24 to June 10, Bish Bosch: Ambisymphonic has been developed by Walker with mixed media artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.
The distraction of a Laura Marling blog yesterday has had the knock-on effect of making this week’s playlist longer than usual: 27 tracks/albums in all.
Yo La Tengo are streaming a live, request-only performance today to support a pledge drive for WFMU.
WFMU, a New Jersey station whose broadcast range extends to areas of New York and Pennsylvania is the longest running freeform radio station in the United States. It is almost wholly listener supported.
The concert will take place between 9 am and 12 pm EST (1 pm to 4 pm in the UK), and is physically being performed in Berlin amid a European tour. For a $100 donation, listeners can make a request.
Alvin Lee, co-founder and guitarist with Ten Years After, has died aged 68.
According to a statement posted yesterday (March 6) on his website, Lee died from complications following surgery.
Born in Nottingham in 1944, Lee played in a number of local bands before he founded Ten Years After in 1966 with bassist Leo Lyons. They released their self-titled debut album in 1967. In 1969, they played the Newport Jazz Festival and, notably, Woodstock, where Lee led the band through a memorable version of "I'm Going Home" that you can watch below.
