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David Bowie Rarity Covered By The Last Shadow Puppets

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David Bowie Rarity Covered By The Last Shadow Puppets
The Last Shadow Puppets, Arctic Monkey’s frontman, Alex Turner’s new side project, will release a cover of the David Bowie rarity “In The Heat Of The Morning” as a B-side to their debut single. The song was originally included on the early Bowie compilation album, “The World Of David Bowi...

The Last Shadow Puppets, Arctic Monkey’s frontman, Alex Turner’s new side project, will release a cover of the David Bowie rarity “In The Heat Of The Morning” as a B-side to their debut single.

The song was originally included on the early Bowie compilation album, “The World Of David Bowie”, released in 1970.

“The Age of the Understatement”, available online this week and on double 7” and CD on April 14, also includes a cover of Billy Fury’s “Wonderous Place”.

The album of the same name is the collaborative effort of Alex Turner and The Rascals frontman, Miles Kane who met when Kane’s former band supported the Arctic Monkeys on tour.

“It all started with a polo neck,” said Kane in the latest issue (May 2008) of Uncut. “Even when we joked about doing an album together, we said that’d be the cover: Alex would be at a grand piano, there’d be a bit of music manuscript, a cigarette burning in an ashtray, and I’d be wearing a cream polo neck”.

For a sneak preview of the video for “The Age of the Understatement” click here.

Pete Doherty Jailed

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Pete Doherty Jailed
Babyshambles frontman, Pete Doherty has been sentenced to 14 weeks in jail yesterday for continued drug use and missing his probation hearings at the West London Magistrates Court. According to a court spokesperson, Doherty has been jailed for "breach of time keeping, non-compliance of his order an...

Babyshambles frontman, Pete Doherty has been sentenced to 14 weeks in jail yesterday for continued drug use and missing his probation hearings at the West London Magistrates Court.

According to a court spokesperson, Doherty has been jailed for “breach of time keeping, non-compliance of his order and using different drugs”.

A spokesperson for Doherty told Uncut’s sister publication, NME.COM that he was looking into grounds for appeal.

The singer/songwriter had been warned that he faced up to four months in jail if he broke the terms of his supervision order, which had been imposed on him for possession of drugs and driving illegally in October last year.

The sentence means that he will be unable to play the sold out show at the Royal Albert Hall on April 26 and will miss the Babyshambles set at this year’s Glastonbury festival.

The one-off gig “is due to be rescheduled and all tickets will be valid for the new date once it has been announced,” according to Doherty’s label, Parlophone.

They added: “Peter was very much looking forward to the show and would like to offer his sincerest apologies to all his fans and all those concerned”.

Various Artists – On Vine Street – The Early Songs Of Randy Newman

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Various Artists – On Vine Street – The Early Songs Of Randy Newman

Long before Randy Newman became a cause celebre as a singer-songwriter (before, indeed, there was any such category), he was a plain songwriter, a jobbing composer with a piano for a desk. While Carole King toiled in New York’s celebrated Brill Building, Newman sweated on LA’s Vine Street, writing themes for TV soaps, notably Peyton Place, and cranking out B and A sides for Liberty Records’ roster; black pop acts like the O’Jays and Gene McDaniels, white balladeers like Gene Pitney and Jackie DeShannon. Under contract at 19, Newman was a precocious but well connected talent. His uncles, Alfred and Lionel, were heads of music at 20th Century Fox pictures, while the father of his friend Lenny Waronker (his future producer) owned Liberty. The earliest songs on this 24 track collection show little of the mordant wit that would become Newman’s calling card. The Fleetwoods’ “They Tell Me It’s Summer”(1962) is high school fluff, The Tokens’ “Just One Smile” generic heartache. Only “I’ve Been Wrong Before”, belted out by Cilla Black, is convincing, and gave Newman early chart success. In 1966, coincidental with Newman following Waronker to Warners, a new authorial voice arrives. “The Biggest Night of Her Life”, crooned by softcore groovers Harpers Bizarre, archly observes a teen rite of passage. “Simon Smith and His Dancing Bear”, covered by Alan Price, is jauntily surreal. “Mama Told Me Not To Come”, honked out joyfully by Eric Burdon three years before Three Dog Night made it a US number one, is pithy and playful. Such songs spilled out the flavour of New Orleans, where Newman had spent much of his childhood. The Jewish Hollywood songsmith had reinvented himself as a drawling Southern storyteller. That identity would sparkle brilliantly on 1970’s minimalist 12 Songs (originally intended as demos), on songs like “Old Kentucky Home” – here given a faux bluegrass treatment by the Beau Brummels – and the rolling “Have You Seen My Baby”, here played by Fats Domino, one of Newman’s idols. First came 1968’s Randy Newman Creates Something New Under The Sun, an ill-judged attempt to present Newman as an orchestrated balladeer. He was too acerbic, his vocals too cramped and wayward, to be any such creature. Here, Dusty Springfield delivering the bleak “I Think It’s Going To Rain Today” doesn’t come off either. It took Harry Nilsson to hit the spot with Nilsson Sings Newman, a showcase of his friend’s songwriting prowess, here represented by “So Long Dad”, from which Nilsson squeezes every ounce of pathos. The rest, as they say, is history. NEIL SPENCER

Long before Randy Newman became a cause celebre as a singer-songwriter (before, indeed, there was any such category), he was a plain songwriter, a jobbing composer with a piano for a desk. While Carole King toiled in New York’s celebrated Brill Building, Newman sweated on LA’s Vine Street, writing themes for TV soaps, notably Peyton Place, and cranking out B and A sides for Liberty Records’ roster; black pop acts like the O’Jays and Gene McDaniels, white balladeers like Gene Pitney and Jackie DeShannon.

Under contract at 19, Newman was a precocious but well connected talent. His uncles, Alfred and Lionel, were heads of music at 20th Century Fox pictures, while the father of his friend Lenny Waronker (his future producer) owned Liberty.

The earliest songs on this 24 track collection show little of the mordant wit that would become Newman’s calling card. The Fleetwoods’ “They Tell Me It’s Summer”(1962) is high school fluff, The Tokens’ “Just One Smile” generic heartache. Only “I’ve Been Wrong Before”, belted out by Cilla Black, is convincing, and gave Newman early chart success.

In 1966, coincidental with Newman following Waronker to Warners, a new authorial voice arrives. “The Biggest Night of Her Life”, crooned by softcore groovers Harpers Bizarre, archly observes a teen rite of passage. “Simon Smith and His Dancing Bear”, covered by Alan Price, is jauntily surreal. “Mama Told Me Not To Come”, honked out joyfully by Eric Burdon three years before Three Dog Night made it a US number one, is pithy and playful. Such songs spilled out the flavour of New Orleans, where Newman had spent much of his childhood. The Jewish Hollywood songsmith had reinvented himself as a drawling Southern storyteller.

That identity would sparkle brilliantly on 1970’s minimalist 12 Songs (originally intended as demos), on songs like “Old Kentucky Home” – here given a faux bluegrass treatment by the Beau Brummels – and the rolling “Have You Seen My Baby”, here played by Fats Domino, one of Newman’s idols.

First came 1968’s Randy Newman Creates Something New Under The Sun, an ill-judged attempt to present Newman as an orchestrated balladeer. He was too acerbic, his vocals too cramped and wayward, to be any such creature. Here, Dusty Springfield delivering the bleak “I Think It’s Going To Rain Today” doesn’t come off either. It took Harry Nilsson to hit the spot with Nilsson Sings Newman, a showcase of his friend’s songwriting prowess, here represented by “So Long Dad”, from which Nilsson squeezes every ounce of pathos. The rest, as they say, is history.

NEIL SPENCER

Eric Burdon: War Reissues

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Eric Burdon: War Reissues

As Eric Burdon And War: Eric Burdon Declares War (1970) 2* The Black Man’s Burdon (1970) 2* Love Is All Around (1976 compilation) 3* As War: War (1971) 3* All Day Music (1971) 3* The World Is A Ghetto (1972) 4* Deliver The Word (1973) 4* War Live! (1975) 3* Why Can’t We Be Friends (1975) 3* Platinum Jazz (1977) 2* Younglood OST (1978) 4* They jammed with Jimi Hendrix at Ronnie Scott’s a few hours before his fatal overdose. They scored a string of platinum-selling albums, and huge, million-selling singles – like 1975’s “Low Rider” – that still get played today. So why has it taken so long for the LA funk collective War to get their entire catalogue released on CD? This deluge of belated releases (which precedes a Royal Albert Hall show on April 21) shows that War, at their best, could hold their own against Sly, George, Curtis, Stevie or the Isleys. That’s not to say that this is an unblemished canon, partly due to the presence of Eric Burdon, who commandeered them as his backing band in 1969 for two decidedly patchy pub-blues albums. Burdon’s messy mid-tour divorce from the band in 1970 proved to be War’s making. If they lacked a charismatic frontman, most of them had heavenly voices and the albums started to develop their own identity. With 1971’s self-titled War and All Day Music, they patented a potent Latin funk stew – Afro-Cuban beats overlaid with big R&B hollers and the eerie harmonica playing of Lee Oskar, who sounds more like Augustus Pablo than Stevie Wonder. The World Is A Ghetto (America’s best selling LP of 1973, amazingly) is seen by some as an African-American , with its prog-soul work-outs and anthemic title track. Even better is 1973’s Deliver The Word, with the Sly Stone-ish “In Your Eyes”, the Santana-ish “Gypsy Man”, the funky-tonk of “The Southern Part Of Texas” and the dancefloor classic “Me And Baby Brother” (a belated UK hit in 1976). Best of all might be 1978’s obligatory blaxploitation soundtrack , one packed with sprightly pop-funk melodies and killer basslines that have been sampled to death by hip hop producers. If War’s failure to embrace disco made them an oddity at the time – setting them apart from likeminded funkateers Kool & The Gang, The Crusaders or EWF – it also means their final releases have not dated one jot. JOHN LEWIS UNCUT Q&A: War keyboardist Lonnie Jordan and singer Eric Burdon: There’s a very loose, improvisatory feel to the music… Lonnie: All of our songs came out of jam sessions. You’d get a guitar riff, or a bassline, and we’d all improvise over the top, and someone would start hollering – and we’d start rolling the tape. Where did the Latin feel come from? Lonnie: None of us were Cuban or Puerto Rican, but people often thought we were. Papa Dee Allen used to hang out with the Fania crowd on the East Coast, and the rest of us came from mixed neighbourhoods in LA like Compton, Long Beach, Harbor City, San Pedro and Watts, so we were always exposed to Latin music. Why did you leave? Eric: It was after Jimi Hendrix’s death that I had what was, in retrospect, a nervous breakdown. I was messed up and disgusted with the record industry and I left the tour. But I’m glad the guys carried on. They made some pretty salty music after I left! INTERVIEW: JOHN LEWIS

As Eric Burdon And War:

Eric Burdon Declares War (1970) 2*

The Black Man’s Burdon (1970) 2*

Love Is All Around (1976 compilation) 3*

As War:

War (1971) 3*

All Day Music (1971) 3*

The World Is A Ghetto (1972) 4*

Deliver The Word (1973) 4*

War Live! (1975) 3*

Why Can’t We Be Friends (1975) 3*

Platinum Jazz (1977) 2*

Younglood OST (1978) 4*

They jammed with Jimi Hendrix at Ronnie Scott’s a few hours before his fatal overdose. They scored a string of platinum-selling albums, and huge, million-selling singles – like 1975’s “Low Rider” – that still get played today. So why has it taken so long for the LA funk collective War to get their entire catalogue released on CD?

This deluge of belated releases (which precedes a Royal Albert Hall show on April 21) shows that War, at their best, could hold their own against Sly, George, Curtis, Stevie or the Isleys. That’s not to say that this is an unblemished canon, partly due to the presence of Eric Burdon, who commandeered them as his backing band in 1969 for two decidedly patchy pub-blues albums.

Burdon’s messy mid-tour divorce from the band in 1970 proved to be War’s making. If they lacked a charismatic frontman, most of them had heavenly voices and the albums started to develop their own identity. With 1971’s self-titled War and All Day Music, they patented a potent Latin funk stew – Afro-Cuban beats overlaid with big R&B hollers and the eerie harmonica playing of Lee Oskar, who sounds more like Augustus Pablo than Stevie Wonder.

The World Is A Ghetto (America’s best selling LP of 1973, amazingly) is seen by some as an African-American , with its prog-soul work-outs and anthemic title track. Even better is 1973’s Deliver The Word, with the Sly Stone-ish “In Your Eyes”, the Santana-ish “Gypsy Man”, the funky-tonk of “The Southern Part Of Texas” and the dancefloor classic “Me And Baby Brother” (a belated UK hit in 1976).

Best of all might be 1978’s obligatory blaxploitation soundtrack , one packed with sprightly pop-funk melodies and killer basslines that have been sampled to death by hip hop producers. If War’s failure to embrace disco made them an oddity at the time – setting them apart from likeminded funkateers Kool & The Gang, The Crusaders or EWF – it also means their final releases have not dated one jot.

JOHN LEWIS

UNCUT Q&A: War keyboardist Lonnie Jordan and singer Eric Burdon:

There’s a very loose, improvisatory feel to the music…

Lonnie: All of our songs came out of jam sessions. You’d get a guitar riff, or a bassline, and we’d all improvise over the top, and someone would start hollering – and we’d start rolling the tape.

Where did the Latin feel come from?

Lonnie: None of us were Cuban or Puerto Rican, but people often thought we were. Papa Dee Allen used to hang out with the Fania crowd on the East Coast, and the rest of us came from mixed neighbourhoods in LA like Compton, Long Beach, Harbor City, San Pedro and Watts, so we were always exposed to Latin music.

Why did you leave?

Eric: It was after Jimi Hendrix’s death that I had what was, in retrospect, a nervous breakdown. I was messed up and disgusted with the record industry and I left the tour. But I’m glad the guys carried on. They made some pretty salty music after I left!

INTERVIEW: JOHN LEWIS

The Felice Brothers – The Felice Brothers

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The Felice Brothers – The Felice Brothers
The Felice Brothers have a great backstory. It goes like this: three brothers from the Catskill wilderness pick up a crap-shooting runaway called Christmas, pack themselves into a rusted old schoolbus and head out for Brooklyn, busking ‘til nightfall, and living the hobo dream. It may be a tad l...

The Felice Brothers have a great backstory. It goes like this: three brothers from the Catskill wilderness pick up a crap-shooting runaway called Christmas, pack themselves into a rusted old schoolbus and head out for Brooklyn, busking ‘til nightfall, and living the hobo dream.

It may be a tad liberal with the truth (bassist Christmas was actually a family friend), but it’s all in keeping with a sound steeped in the myths of American folklore. The campfire ballads of last year’s debut Tonight At The Arizona drew from late-‘60s Bob Dylan and The Band, helped along by photos where the band appeared dressed like frontier gold prospectors. This time around, the Brothers have fully thrown themselves into an imagined den of vice.

A mad celebration of life on the margins, here the songs are peopled by the same pool of raffish drifters, outlaws and sinners as a Richmond Fontaine song. But while Willy Vlautin’s subjects often seem hopeless, The Felice Brothers make them flawed heroes of their own peculiar world. There’s the murderous master of disguise in “Helen Fry”, Tracey the junkie whore dreaming of Reno in “Don’t Wake The Scarecrow” and the jilted lover of “Whiskey In My Whiskey”, snuffing out Eleanor with three rounds in his .44, before making for the railroad tracks and doing the decent thing.

But the wonder of this music is how robustly it’s delivered. No doubt he’s tired of the comparison, but Ian Felice sings with all the nasal insouciance of ’68 Bob, aided by great splashes of bordello piano from sibling James, along with sudden gusts of brass and accordion. The marvellous “Frankie’s Gun!” sounds like a wonky New Orleans street parade, while the scratchy harmonies of “Love Me Tenderly” are direct descendants of “Million Dollar Bash”. And hats off for rhyming “fender” with “long-legged Brenda”. Rowdy, vivid, moving and playful, The Felice Brothers is just glorious.

ROB HUGHES

Glastonbury Festival Ticket Registration Re-Opens

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Glastonbury Festival Ticket Registration Re-Opens

Ticket registration for this year's Glastonbury Festival is to re-open today (April 8) at 4pm. Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis is offering festival-goers a second chance to register and buy tickets for this year’s event after tickets haven't sold out since going on sale on Sunday (April 6). Eavis commented: "We’ve had a lot of enquiries from people asking if they can register, especially now they realise it’s still possible to buy tickets. This will give them the chance to see the best line-up of any festival this summer." This year's Glastonbury Festival takes place from June 27-29, and will be headlined by Kings Of Leon, Jay Z and The Verve. You can register to buy a ticket at www.glastonburyregistration.co.uk -- all you need to send is basic information as well as a passport style photograph for ID. Ticket prices for a weekend ticket are £155, plus £5 booking fee per ticket and £4 post and packaging per order. Registration was introduced successfully last year so as to deter ticket touts from re-selling tickets.

Ticket registration for this year’s Glastonbury Festival is to re-open today (April 8) at 4pm.

Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis is offering festival-goers a second chance to register and buy tickets for this year’s event after tickets haven’t sold out since going on sale on Sunday (April 6).

Eavis commented: “We’ve had a lot of enquiries from people asking if they can register, especially now they realise it’s still possible to buy tickets. This will give them the chance to see the best line-up of any festival this summer.”

This year’s Glastonbury Festival takes place from June 27-29, and will be headlined by Kings Of Leon, Jay Z and The Verve.

You can register to buy a ticket at www.glastonburyregistration.co.uk — all you need to send is basic information as well as a passport style photograph for ID.

Ticket prices for a weekend ticket are £155, plus £5 booking fee per ticket and £4 post and packaging per order.

Registration was introduced successfully last year so as to deter ticket touts from re-selling tickets.

Richard Hawley Set For Albert Hall Gig

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Richard Hawley Set For Albert Hall Gig
Richard Hawley has announced that he will play a one-off headline show at London's Royal Albert Hall next month. The singer will play the prestigious venue on May 20, before embarking on a tour of festivals around Europe. His live appearances will showcase songs from his current album 'Lady's Brid...

Richard Hawley has announced that he will play a one-off headline show at London’s Royal Albert Hall next month.

The singer will play the prestigious venue on May 20, before embarking on a tour of festivals around Europe.

His live appearances will showcase songs from his current album ‘Lady’s Bridge’.

More shows are expected to be announced soon.

Catch Hawley at the following places:

London Royal Albert Hall (May 20)

Perth Arts Festival (22)

Territories Festival, Seville (30)

Traena Festival, Norway (July 10)

Oxygen Festival, Ireland (12)

Letterkenny Earagail Arts Fest (13)

Galway Leisureland Arts Fest (14)

V, Chelmsford (August 16)

V, Stafford (17)

Bennicassim, Spain (20)

www.royalalberthall.com

Box office tel: 020 7589 8212

Beach Boy Dennis Wilson’s Pacific Ocean Blue Reissued

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Beach Boy Dennis Wilson’s Pacific Ocean Blue Reissued

Former Beach Boy Dennis Wilson's album Pacific Ocean Blue is being reissued next month, marking the album's 30th anniversary and also 25 years since Wilson's untimely death. The double CD package features 12 bonus tracks from the recording sessions from the unfinished follow-up album Bambu, which were mixed with engineer John Hanlon. The CD set will also include a booklet with previously 'lost' photos that have been uncovered in the Sony Music archives. Liner notes come from a variety of Beach Boy scholars including award-winning television producer, director and writer David Leaf. Although hugely popular at the time of release in the late seventies, Pacific Ocean Blue has been out of print since the early eighties and survived up until now only as a collector’s item. Dennis Wilson once said, “Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me just listen.” Now comes the chance to reacquaint with the eternal Beach Boy.

Former Beach Boy Dennis Wilson‘s album Pacific Ocean Blue is being reissued next month, marking the album’s 30th anniversary and also 25 years since Wilson’s untimely death.

The double CD package features 12 bonus tracks from the recording sessions from the unfinished follow-up album Bambu, which were mixed with engineer John Hanlon.

The CD set will also include a booklet with previously ‘lost’ photos that have been uncovered in the Sony Music archives.

Liner notes come from a variety of Beach Boy scholars including award-winning television producer, director and writer David Leaf.

Although hugely popular at the time of release in the late seventies, Pacific Ocean Blue has been out of print since the early eighties and survived up until now only as a collector’s item.

Dennis Wilson once said, “Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me just listen.” Now comes the chance to reacquaint with the eternal Beach Boy.

Bob Dylan Wins Pulitzer Prize

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Bob Dylan Wins Pulitzer Prize
Bob Dylan has been awarded an honorary Pulitzer Prize at the annual ceremony hosted by Colombia University in the US. A Special Citation was awarded to Bob Dylan for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." The prest...

Bob Dylan has been awarded an honorary Pulitzer Prize at the annual ceremony hosted by Colombia University in the US.

A Special Citation was awarded to Bob Dylan for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.”

The prestigious prize is sought after by writers and journalists and Dylan’s win for his music is unprecedented in terms of his genre.

Prize administrator Sig Gissler commenting on Dylan’s honour said it: “reflects the efforts of the Pulitzer board to broaden the scope of the music prize.”.

A full list of winners and the Pulitzer Prize is available by clicking here: www.pulitzer.org

Meanwhile, Dylan has recently confirmed 29 European tour dates.

To see the full list of dates, click here.

Animal Collective’s “Water Curses”

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Strangely, Animal Collective seemed to take a mild critical poke for "Strawberry Jam" last year, perhaps due in part to the extravagant blog love for the Panda Bear solo album, "Person Pitch", which preceded it by a few months. For my own part, I couldn't quite see why there was a bit of a backlash against this generally marvellous band. Maybe it was because their nagging kindergarten melodies were given a greater prominence on "Strawberry Jam" - though to be honest, it's still an idea of pop music that's been mediated by the avant-garde. Or maybe it was because after a glut of releases over the past few years, the creepy, exuberant, yelping Animal Collective aesthetic might just have started getting on the nerves of some of their longer-serving fans. I can understand this; in many ways, AC are cursed by the relative originality of their sound. Once you've got used to that jittery, high-pitched atmosphere, to those yabbering harmonies and sloshing textures, I imagine some listeners will want Avey Tare, Panda Bear and so on to try and find a new gimmick. The thing is, I don't think this is a gimmick - it's just how they make music. And consequently, however their music evolves, their pronounced difference to other bands will make their records sound the same as each other. Does that make sense? Not sure, but my point is that I'm pleased to say that "Water Curses", the new Animal Collective EP, is more of the same, more or less. "Water Curses" itself is one of those hysterical, hyperactive AC songs that continues to tumble over itself in trying to express some random, breathless manifestation of the human spirit etc. It could have fitted in quite comfortably on "Strawberry Jam", if you're still not 100 per cent behind that record. The other three tracks, however, drift away into more spectral, even more satisfying terrain. "Street Flash", "Cobwebs" and "Seal Eyeing" - three titles that could've been concocted by an Animal Collective random name generator, for sure - have that kind of dislocated ambience that came to prominence on my favourite AC album, "Feels". These are gentle but disorienting tracks; ebbing, spacious lullabies where the band's more abrasive edges gradually dissolve into muted squelch and squiggle. Still, though, unnerving elements remain deep in the mix, so that "Street Flash"'s reverie is punctuated by distant forlorn laughs and some great primitive roars. There's something enchanted but also unanchored about Animal Collective at their best, and the hazy imprecision that they conjure up, the magical originality of their music, make them hard to write about. Here's my last stab at articulating why I think they're such a great band, circa "Strawberry Jam".

Strangely, Animal Collective seemed to take a mild critical poke for “Strawberry Jam” last year, perhaps due in part to the extravagant blog love for the Panda Bear solo album, “Person Pitch”, which preceded it by a few months.

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Wire Announce New Studio Album and Rare UK Shows

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Wire Announce New Studio Album and Rare UK Shows

Post-punk pioneers, Wire have announced details of their 11th studio album, “Object 47”. The new album sees a return to the core writing partnership responsible for the seminal 1977 release, “Pink Flag” and is due to go on sale later this year. Speaking exclusively to Uncut.co.uk, Wire's Colin Newman the new album is "part of an arc of work begun in 2006" is very different to their previous studio offering. Newman says: With Wire people normally expect the unexpected :) You can surmise from that information that this is very different to the last album "Send". Obviously people will have their own take on "Object 47" but I'm very excited about how this one will be received. I think it's a very confident statement about where Wire is right now! My gut feeling is that Wire fans are going to like it a lot. He adds: "Object 47" was produced in the same way that all pinkflag studio releases are produced. Assembled "In house" in my studio (see www.colinewman.com/studio.html for a list of all productions that have passed through this studio) neither Wire or myself have used an outside producer in years! A track from the album will soon be available to download, check back to www.www.uncut.co.uk for details. The full Object 47 tracklisting is: One Of Us Circumspect Mekon Headman Perspex Icon Four Long Years Hard Currency Patient Flees Are You Ready? All Fours The band are also about to embark on a European tour with a confirmed UK date at Manchester’s Futuresonic Festival on May 3 and news of a London show expected to be confirmed soon. The full Wire tour dates are: Belgium, Leuven, Stuk (April 29) Netherlands, Utrecht, Ekko (30) Belgium, Diksmuide, 4AD (May 1) Netherlands, Zwolle, Hedon (2) Manchester, Futuresonic Festival (3) France, Lyon, Nuits Sonores Festival (7) Canada, Calgary, Sled Island Festival (June 27, 28) For more information see the band’s website www.pinkflag.com

Post-punk pioneers, Wire have announced details of their 11th studio album, “Object 47”.

The new album sees a return to the core writing partnership responsible for the seminal 1977 release, “Pink Flag” and is due to go on sale later this year.

Speaking exclusively to Uncut.co.uk, Wire’s Colin Newman the new album is “part of an arc of work begun in 2006” is very different to their previous studio offering.

Newman says: With Wire people normally expect the unexpected 🙂 You can surmise from that information that this is very different to the last album “Send”. Obviously people will have their own take on “Object 47” but I’m very excited about how this one will be received. I think it’s a very confident statement about where Wire is right now! My gut feeling is that Wire fans are going to like it a lot.

He adds: “Object 47” was produced in the same way that all pinkflag studio releases are produced. Assembled “In house” in my studio (see www.colinewman.com/studio.html for a list of all productions that have passed through this studio) neither Wire or myself have used an outside producer in years!

A track from the album will soon be available to download, check back to www.www.uncut.co.uk for details.

The full Object 47 tracklisting is:

One Of Us

Circumspect

Mekon Headman

Perspex Icon

Four Long Years

Hard Currency

Patient Flees

Are You Ready?

All Fours

The band are also about to embark on a European tour with a confirmed UK date at Manchester’s Futuresonic Festival on May 3 and news of a London show expected to be confirmed soon.

The full Wire tour dates are:

Belgium, Leuven, Stuk (April 29)

Netherlands, Utrecht, Ekko (30)

Belgium, Diksmuide, 4AD (May 1)

Netherlands, Zwolle, Hedon (2)

Manchester, Futuresonic Festival (3)

France, Lyon, Nuits Sonores Festival (7)

Canada, Calgary, Sled Island Festival (June 27, 28)

For more information see the band’s website www.pinkflag.com

Banksy To Tag George Michael’s Mansion

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Banksy To Tag George Michael’s Mansion
George Michael has offered Bristol-based graffiti artist Banksy £2 million to paint one of the walls of his North London home. According to the Daily Mirror Michael wants the guerrilla street-artist to paint a huge wall in his Hampstead mansion to complement the two canvasses that he already owns....

George Michael has offered Bristol-based graffiti artist Banksy £2 million to paint one of the walls of his North London home.

According to the Daily Mirror Michael wants the guerrilla street-artist to paint a huge wall in his Hampstead mansion to complement the two canvasses that he already owns. The UK’s most secretive and reclusive artist has reportedly given Michael strict guidelines to follow if he is to get his wish.

An unnamed source revealed to the newspaper: “George is a huge fan of Banksy’s work and asked his representative if he would reveal himself to the singer. He also asked if Banksy would paint one wall in his house for £2million. Apparently, Banksy has insisted on remaining undercover and will only go ahead if George goes out for the duration!”

Banksy previously defaced 500 copies of Paris Hilton’s debut album in 48 record stores across the UK in 2006, memorably replacing the socialite’s head with that of a dog.

New Sex Pistols Live DVD Celebrates 30th Anniversary

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New Sex Pistols Live DVD Celebrates 30th Anniversary

A new DVD of the Sex Pistols’ 30th anniversary gigs at Brixton Academy is due for release this summer. Filmed over their five sell-out shows in London last November, “The Sex Pistols –There Will Always Be an England” is the only official concert-length DVD to have ever been endorsed by the band. The eighty-minute film is directed by Julien Temple, famed for his insightful music documentaries “The Filth and the Fury”, “Glastonbury” and “The Great Rock and Roll Swindle”. Bonus features include the Pistols’ alternative guide to London in which Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock is filmed revisiting their old haunts. The DVD, recorded in HD/5.1 surround sound, is set to appear in June to coincide with the Pistols’ European festival dates, which include headlining this year's Isle of Wight Festival.

A new DVD of the Sex Pistols’ 30th anniversary gigs at Brixton Academy is due for release this summer.

Filmed over their five sell-out shows in London last November, “The Sex Pistols –There Will Always Be an England” is the only official concert-length DVD to have ever been endorsed by the band.

The eighty-minute film is directed by Julien Temple, famed for his insightful music documentaries “The Filth and the Fury”, “Glastonbury” and “The Great Rock and Roll Swindle”.

Bonus features include the Pistols’ alternative guide to London in which Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock is filmed revisiting their old haunts.

The DVD, recorded in HD/5.1 surround sound, is set to appear in June to coincide with the Pistols’ European festival dates, which include headlining this year’s Isle of Wight Festival.

Rare Nina Simone Footage Released Today

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Rare Nina Simone Footage Released Today

A compilation of previously unseen live performances and interviews with Nina Simone is due for online release today (April 8). “Protest Anthology”, so-called because of the political nature of much of her work, features live renditions of some of Simone's best-loved songs, including “Strange Fruit”, "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" and "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free ". Digital distribution company, The Orchard, will release the five-part series on iTunes. The full listing of “Protest Anthology”: 01 By Any Means Necessary (Interview) 02 Revolution 03 Mississippi Goddam (Interview) 04 Mississippi Goddam 05 Old Jim Crow (Interview) 06 Old Jim Crow 07 Backlash Blues (Interview) 08 Backlash Blues 09 Four Women (Interview) 10 Four Women 11 Nobody (Interview) 12 Nobody 13 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free 14 Strange Fruit (Interview) 15 Strange Fruit 16 Definition of an Artist 17 Why? The King of Love Is Dead 18 To Be Young, Gifted and Black (Interview) 19 To Be Young, Gifted and Black

A compilation of previously unseen live performances and interviews with Nina Simone is due for online release today (April 8).

“Protest Anthology”, so-called because of the political nature of much of her work, features live renditions of some of Simone’s best-loved songs, including “Strange Fruit”, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” and “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free “.

Digital distribution company, The Orchard, will release the five-part series on iTunes.

The full listing of “Protest Anthology”:

01 By Any Means Necessary (Interview)

02 Revolution

03 Mississippi Goddam (Interview)

04 Mississippi Goddam

05 Old Jim Crow (Interview)

06 Old Jim Crow

07 Backlash Blues (Interview)

08 Backlash Blues

09 Four Women (Interview)

10 Four Women

11 Nobody (Interview)

12 Nobody

13 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free

14 Strange Fruit (Interview)

15 Strange Fruit

16 Definition of an Artist

17 Why? The King of Love Is Dead

18 To Be Young, Gifted and Black (Interview)

19 To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Crowded House To Headline Cornbury Festival

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Crowded House To Headline Cornbury Festival
Crowded House, Paul Simon and KT Tunstall have all been announced as headline acts for this year’s Cornbury Music Festival. Nick Lowe, Carbon/Silicon and 10CC will also play at the carnival-esque type festival which takes place on the edge of the Wychwood Forest on July 5 and 6. For full listing...

Crowded House, Paul Simon and KT Tunstall have all been announced as headline acts for this year’s Cornbury Music Festival.

Nick Lowe, Carbon/Silicon and 10CC will also play at the carnival-esque type festival which takes place on the edge of the Wychwood Forest on July 5 and 6.

For full listings tickets and information visit cornburyfestival.com

New Velvet Revolver Front Man To Be Announced

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New Velvet Revolver Front Man To Be Announced
Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash has revealed to Rollingstone that a replacement front man for the recently departed Scott Weiland is very close. Slash has said: “We actually worked with a guy, before we left to go to the UK and there just wasn’t enough time to break him in, so we’re gonna wor...

Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash has revealed to Rollingstone that a replacement front man for the recently departed Scott Weiland is very close.

Slash has said: “We actually worked with a guy, before we left to go to the UK and there just wasn’t enough time to break him in, so we’re gonna work with him again some more, and maybe some other guys as well.”

Slash has also publically dismissed Scott Weiland’s suggestions that former Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach should be hired “I thought [Weiland] could be a little bit more imaginative. I’m not sure if that was meant to be a pot shot or what. Whatever, it’s not worth any real drama.”

Weiland in the meantime has annouced that his former group Stone Temple Pilots will tour the US this year.

Rodrigo Y Gabriela Announce One Off UK Show

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Rodrigo Y Gabriela Announce One Off UK Show
Rodrigo Y Gabriela have announced that they will return to the UK this June, with a one-off performance in 2008. The duo will play London's Roundhouse venue on June 25, 2008 - their only performance in the UK this year. The Mexican instrumental pair have recently completed a sell out series of sho...

Rodrigo Y Gabriela have announced that they will return to the UK this June, with a one-off performance in 2008.

The duo will play London’s Roundhouse venue on June 25, 2008 – their only performance in the UK this year.

The Mexican instrumental pair have recently completed a sell out series of shows in Australia, Japan and the US, as well as performing their first ever show in their home country.

Tickets for the show go on sale this Wednesday (April 9)

Roundhouse box office is available here: www.roundhouse.org.uk

Tel : 0844 482 8008

www.rodgab.com

So do I really want to know what happens at the end of Lost In Translation..?

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After the sad news of Charlton Heston's death yesterday morning, I had hoped that the rest of my Sunday would pan out in a more genteel manner -- The Archers omnibus, a mooch round Borders, maybe a pint, that kind of thing. That was until an email from our web queen, Farah, pinged into my inbox. The email contained a link to a Youtube page. Clicking on the link, up came these words: Lost In Translation (Bill Murray's WHISPER revealed) I must admit to having found myself, in the odd quiet moment, wondering exactly what it is that Bill Murray does indeed whisper into Scarlett Johansson's ear in the final moments of Lost In Translation, just before the Jesus & Mary Chain's "Just Like Honey" kicks in. I wouldn't say I've exactly been kept awake at night thinking about this, but I have, at least once, and admittedly slightly drunkenly, skipped through the DVD, put the sound up full, and tried to discern, through the hubub of Tokyo street noises, what The Whisper is. I think I've even watched the film with the Subtitles option on, and been slightly disappointed when all that happens is that the words "He whispers something into her ear" flash up on screen. I've occasionally mulled and mused and generally pontificated over The Whisper, but that's been fine. It's like, say the end of Cache, or No Country For Old Men, when Things are Left Open. It's sort of satisfying, it suggests you're an adult and you can deal with these loose ends and bewitching digressions -- hey, that's Life, right? I don't need everything spelt out for in black and white -- after all, I can tie my own shoe laces. And now, apparently, someone claims to have digitally buggered around with the soundtrack and revealed The Whisper. With slightly shaky fingers, I clicked on the link and watched as Tokyo flickered to life... Then hit the pause. No -- wait -- what the Dickens was I thinking? Did I really want to know what Bill says to ScarJo? Would my enjoyment of the film be better off by maintaining this current state of ignorance? And can you imagine if, prompted by a glass or two of sherry, I, delirious with the joy of knowledge, took it upon myself to announce to my friends, family or work colleagues -- "Gather round, for this, this is what Bill whispers in Scarlett's ear!" I could, conceivably, look like a fool. So, anyway, I walked away from the computer. I went off and did something else. I shuffled some shoes around in the hallway. I looked out of the window at the remnants of the snow melting off the daffodils in my garden. I watched a squirrel snuffling around in a flower bed. I whistled a tune. But the computer was still there, nagging away at me, I could almost hear a spectral voice whispering "Click play... Click play..." So I emailed the Youtube link to my friend Bumble, Sofia Coppola's former publicist, who's always maintained The Whisper wasn't scripted and she has no idea what The Whisper was. She emailed me back -- "Oh that's so brilliantly enigmatic!" which, in itself, seems to open another can of worms. You see, what if it's a lie? What if I click on the Play button, learn what The Whisper is, and then find out later it's a work of fiction, concocted by some smart arsed yoot in Boyse, Idaho who's merrily going around shattering the dreams of men like myself, who while not exactly obsessed about The Whisper, have, as I've said, drunkenly fumbled around with a DVD and a volume control once or twice (twice, alright? I did it twice). So, that's something else to worry about. If I learn what I believe is The Whisper, then I've crossed a line, I'm privy to a secret the film makers never intended to be out there in the public doman; if I then learn The Whisper is A Lie, I'm back at square one, but still soiled by the knowledge that I've transgressed. Oh, is it worth it? Anyway, now, today, at around 11.25 am, I finally gave in and watched it. Bumble was right -- if it's true, it is brilliantly enigmatic. And it didn't ruin the film for me. Though I am prepared for someone to email me confirming it's a fake. In the meantime, the link is here -- if you want to know (possibly) the truth about The Whisper and can, of course, live with your conscience.

After the sad news of Charlton Heston‘s death yesterday morning, I had hoped that the rest of my Sunday would pan out in a more genteel manner — The Archers omnibus, a mooch round Borders, maybe a pint, that kind of thing. That was until an email from our web queen, Farah, pinged into my inbox.

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Jay-Z Is Final Headliner Confirmed For O2 Wireless Festival

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Jay-Z Is Final Headliner Confirmed For O2 Wireless Festival
Jay-Z has been announced as the final headliner on the main stage at this years O2 Wireless Festival in Hyde Park this July. Riding on the success of the critically acclaimed American Gangster, his best album since 2001’s Blueprint, the newly married Jay Z is sure to be at his story telling best....

Jay-Z has been announced as the final headliner on the main stage at this years O2 Wireless Festival in Hyde Park this July.

Riding on the success of the critically acclaimed American Gangster, his best album since 2001’s Blueprint, the newly married Jay Z is sure to be at his story telling best.

The self proclaimed God emcee brought East Coast hip-hop to the masses in the 90s winning seven Grammies and running Def Jam records as CEO in the meantime.

Also performing will be London-born super producer and collaborator Mark Ronson who will return home off the Internationally successful Back to Black album.

Hot Chip and Roisin Murphy will also be supporting Jay-Z on the main stage. Since 2006’s Over and Over Hot Chip have become one of the UK’s most exciting bands. Their current album Made in The Dark scored the band a top five hit in the UK album chart in February. Former Moloko singer Roisin Murphy is enjoying something of a renaissance and is sure to keep dance fans happy.

“The O2 Wireless Festival continues to go from strength to strength and this year’s line-up further cements its reputation as one of the UK’s top music events.” said Sally Cowdry, marketing director of O2 UK.

Wireless takes place July 3 – 6 and tickets are on sale now.

Other headliners for O2 Wireless are Morrissey (July 4), Fat Boy Slim (July 5) and Counting Crows (July 6) and support comes from artists including Beck, The National and Bootsy Collins.

Tickets available at Click here for information at o2wirelessfestival.co.uk

Dave Gorman and Mark Thomas To Play Latitude Literary Arena

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Dave Gorman and Mark Thomas To Play Latitude Literary Arena
Dave Gorman- the man behind “Googlewhack Adventures” and “Are you Dave Gorman?”- will join comedy activist, Mark Thomas and Omid Djalili at this year’s Latitude festival. Dave Gorman and Mark Thomas join Simon Armitage, Hanif Kureishi, Irvine Welsh and Iain Banks at the literary arena. G...

Dave Gorman– the man behind “Googlewhack Adventures” and “Are you Dave Gorman?”- will join comedy activist, Mark Thomas and Omid Djalili at this year’s Latitude festival.

Dave Gorman and Mark Thomas join Simon Armitage, Hanif Kureishi, Irvine Welsh and Iain Banks at the literary arena.

Gorman will be spinning yarns around his new book, “America Unchained: A Freewheeling Roadtrip In Search of Non-Corporate USA”, which sees him trying to trying to cross the US without spending money at any corporate or chain-style businesses.

Meanwhile, award winning comic, Djalili joins an all-star line-up at this year’s comedy arena including Bill Bailey, Ross Noble, Rich Hall, Simon Amstell, Russell Howard and Phill Jupitus and friends.

The announcement comes a week after Mars Volta and the Tindersticks were revealed as the first confirmed acts on Uncut’s stage.

They will join headliners Sigur Ros, Interpol and Franz Ferdinand and Grinderman, The Breeders, Elbow, Death Cab For Cutie, M.I.A, and Amadou and Mariam at Suffolk’s Henham Park in July.

Tickets cost £130 for the four-day event or £55 for day passes. See www.latitudefestival.co.uk for more information.

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