White Denim have announced they are recording their fifth studio album with Jeff Tweedy at Wilco’s Chicago studio, The Loft.
The sessions have so far produced two completed tracks for their as yet untitled new album, due for release later in 2013. It will be the follow-up to 2011’s album D.
“When we started, Jeff said to us, ‘I like your records but I love your live show,’” White Denim guitarist/singer James Petralli told Relix magazine. “We are hoping to change that with this record.”
The Rolling Stones have announced a slew of dates in North America as part of their 50 & Counting tour.
Scroll down to watch the band announce the dates.
Shortly after confirming they would play London's Hyde Park on July 6, the band revealed a nine-date run across America and Canada, starting in Los Angeles, taking in Las Vegas, Toronto and Chicago before winding up in Philadelphia.
The line-up for this year's Lollapalooza festival has been announced.
The Cure, Mumford & Sons, The Killers and Nine Inch Nails will headline the festival, which takes place in Chicago from August 2 - 4.
"The first time I ran into Robert Smith of the Cure was 1997 in New York City," said the festival's organiser, Perry Farrell, in a statement. "We were both going into the same club; and it was Halloween. I was dressed as myself and so was he. I am so happy the Cure have finally arrived at Lolla in Chicago!"
The Rolling Stones have been confirmed as headlining the Saturday night of this year's Glastonbury festival.
A post on the official Glastonbury festivals website appeared at 7pm today confirming the line-up of this year's festival.
Arctic Monkeys will headline on Friday and Mumford & Sons will headline on Sunday. Other bands playing include Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Portishead, Alabama Shakes, Elvis Costello, Primal Scream, Vampire Weekend, Dinosaur Jr and Cat Power.
Jeff Tweedy has had a letter printed in his hometown newspaper, The Belleville News-Democrat, asking that Illinois lawmakers pass pending legislation legalizing gay marriage.
“Over the last few decades,” Tweedy writes, “I've had the good fortune as a member of the band Wilco to play music in every state in the union and in countless other countries. In my travels, I've witnessed firsthand that gay and lesbian couples want to marry for the same reasons all of us do -- to share a lifetime of commitment.”
Daft Punk have announced the title of their new album and its release date.
Titled 'Random Access Memories', the French dance duo's fourth album is out May 21 via their Daft Life imprint on Columbia Records. The pair, which consists of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, recently announced they had left Virgin, with whom they signed to in 1996.
Jason Molina, the singer and guiding force behind Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Company has passed away due to natural causes. He was 39 years old.
"This is especially hard for us to share," his label, Secretly Canadian, wrote in a press release. "Jason is the cornerstone of Secretly Canadian. Without him there would be no us — plain and simple."
The singer had been mostly absent from the world of music since cancelling a tour with Will Johnson in 2009 to deal with alcoholism and related health issues.
We look into the touching, awkward new film about Bill Callahan, Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film, in the new issue of Uncut, dated April 2013, and out now. As a companion piece, check out this fantastic piece with Callahan, aka Smog, recalling how he made his greatest albums, from May 2010’s Uncut (Take 156).
