Last week, just as I was finishing off the 25th playlist of the year, the new Steve Gunn album arrived. This week, the last-minute radical guitar hero is Chris Forsyth, whose first studio album with the Solar Motel Band is absolutely killing it as I type.
I've been playing the new Jeff Tweedy album, "Sukierae", a good deal these past few weeks - or, I should say, the new Tweedy album, since these quietly wired tracks are, strictly speaking, collaborations between the Wilco man and his eldest son, Spencer. I'm slowly beginning to think it might be the best studio album he's been involved with since "A Ghost Is Born".
A Motörhead fan had to be treated for a blood clot on the brain after headbanging at a recent gig by the metal band.
The unnamed German man developed the condition after attending a gig by the band with his son, though doctors at the Hanover medical school where the 50 year old was treated were keen to stress that they do not believe that headbanging is a dangerous activity.
One of those weeks when the office playlist is taken to a whole new level at the very last moment, thanks to the arrival this morning of the new Steve Gunn album. A couple of previously redacted records can now be revealed, too, as the new efforts by Ryan Adams and Goat…
In this month's Uncut, I reviewed the deluxe edition of The The's Soul Mining, which has been reissued as a box set with additional material. I was fortunate enough to speak to Matt Johnson for a Q&A to run with the review. In the end, we ended up talking for about an hour, so I thought I'd post the full transcript of my interview here. I hope you enjoy it. I'll endeavour to post the review itself in the next week or so; better still, you can find it in the issue on sale now... (apologies for the shameless plug...)
Beck has covered Prince's classic song "1999" during a live performance.
Beck played a portion of the track during his show at last month's Montreal International Jazz Fest, reports Consequence Of Sound . Click below to watch fan-shot footage of the rendition, which follows the singer's cover of Arcade Fire's "Rebellion (Lies)" at Coachella Festival in April.
“Glastonbury! Are you seeing clearly now the rain has gone?” Guy Garvey bounds onto the Pyramid Stage, flooding the festival with avuncular game-show cheer, like that favourite teacher who always managed to get the kids on his side at school.
Daft Punk are to be the subject of a new TV documentary next year.
French subscription channel Canal Plus have commissioned BBC Worldwide Production France to make a one-hour film about the famously elusive electro duo. It will air in 2015.
It’s not a situation I could have predicted 20 years ago, I’ll admit, but there’s a point I reach quite often on Friday afternoons when all I really want to hear is The Grateful Dead. As default, I’ll cue up something from 1972 – the Wembley Empire Pool set from that year, say – mention it on Twitter, then receive a lot of static from my Dead friends who see me as something of a lightweight for clinging so conservatively to that year.
