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Suede to release “lost” single for Record Store Day

Suede are to release their "lost" single, "Let Go", on 7" vinyl on Record Store Day 2014 (april 19). The track was originally issued as a CD single in Sweden in 1999. The Record Store Day 7” single (backed with "Heroin") coincides the release of the Suede 7” Singles Box Set on April 14, but will not be included in it. You can watch a trailer for the Singles Box Set below:

Jarvis Cocker unveils Pulp documentary

A new documentary charting Pulp's homecoming show in Sheffield in December 2012 has been unveiled at the SXSW Film Festval. The movie, simply entitled Pulp, received its world premiere in Austin, Texas, and also had a follow-up screening last night (March 12) at the city's Stateside Theatre, at which Jarvis Cocker and director Florian Habicht were present.

On Michael Head’s “Artorius Revisited”, and beyond…

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.

James Taylor announces tour dates

James Taylor has announced a 10 date UK tour with his band to take place in September/October 2014. Taylor, who last toured the UK in 2011, will play: SEPTEMBER 5 - Plymouth Pavilions 26 – Birmingham LG Arena 27 – Leeds First Direct Arena 29 – Glasgow SSE Hydro 30 – Manchester Phones 4 U Arena OCTOBER 2 – Cardiff Motorpoint Arena 4 – Brighton Centre 5 – Bournemouth BIC 7/8 – London Royal Albert Hall Book from www.ticketline.co.uk / 0844 888 9991 or from the venue direct.

An Audience With… Stephen Malkmus

Pavement frontman and solo artist Malkmus is releasing a new album, Wig Out At Jagbags, with his band, The Jicks, on January 6, 2014. Here, though, is a classic archive feature from our September 2011 issue (Take 172), in which the guitarist and songwriter answers questions from fans and celebrity admirers including Graham Coxon, Nigel Godrich, Avey Tare, Stewart Lee and Scrabble enthusiast Giles Brandreth. Prepare for confessions about ripping off The Fall, horse-racing and a pubic-hair-eating contest… Interview: John Lewis ___________________

Watch Tom Waits play his first show in five years

Tom Waits played his first live show in five years on Sunday [October 27] at Neil Young's Bridge School benefit concert. Scroll down to watch fan footage of the entire 10 song set. Waits was accompanied by David Hidalgo on guitar and accordion, Les Claypool on bass and Casey Waits on drums. Waits has played the Bridge School Benefit concerts twice before, first in 1999 and then in 2007, when he performed with the Kronos Quartet.

Arcade Fire: “We might never write a good song again”

With Arcade Fire’s new album, Reflektor, due for release on October 28, this week’s archive feature looks back to December 2005, when Uncut awards Album Of The Year to Arcade Fire’s debut, Funeral. Adored by everyone from David Bowie and David Byrne to Chris Martin and Bono, Funeral is a spectacular word-of-mouth success, and suggests whole new futures for rock music. Stephen Troussé meets the band on the eve of their Riviera Theatre set in Chicago…

Tom Waits announces acoustic set at Bridge School Benefit

Tom Waits has announced he will be playing at this year's Bridge School Benefit. Waits announced the news via his Facebook and Twitter - accounts on Saturday, September 21. He Tweeted the following message: "ALERT! Tom will perform a full acoustic set feat songs from BAD AS ME for the upcoming Bridge School Benefit." On Facebook, a longer statement read:
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