What better way to kick off the final night of Club Uncut at The Great Escape than with a Brooklyn bar band – or indeed, a bar solo artist, the wily R'n'B raconteur Hans Chew.
Suede have scrapped the majority of the material their aired at their comeback gigs last year - and have returned to the studio with the man who produced their first four albums.
Ed Buller is now helming the album, which will be the reunited Britpop band's first in over a decade. Writing on the band's Facebook page, singer Brett Anderson said that the they had been "merrily chipping away at the huge block of raw stone that is, whisper it, the new Suede album" and posted a picture of them together. He added:
Occupation Records, the record label founded and run by members of the Occupy London movement, has announced it will release its debut compilation next month.
The compilation, which is titled Folk The Banks, will be released on June 4 and will feature 18 tracks in total. Among the artists set to feature on the album are Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello, Martha Wainwright, The King Blues and Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.
To accompany this month’s Uncut (Take 181, June 2012), out now, which features the Bonnie “Prince” Billy/Palace icon fielding questions from fans and musicians, here’s an illuminating Album By Album piece with Will Oldham, talking to Andrew Mueller, from Uncut’s April 2009 issue. “I feel more confident about things now,” he says. “Which frees up space for me to feel insecure about a whole new range of stuff…”
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Paul Simon has insisted that he was no regrets over the recording of his album Graceland in South Africa.
Simon was widely criticised for travelling to the country and making the 1986 with South African musicians, for effectively breaking the cultural boycott of the country due to its racist Apartheid regime.
Vampire Weekend have confirmed to Rolling Stone that they're working on the follow-up to their 2011 album, Contra.
"We've started many songs," bassist Chris Baio told Rolling Stone. "Obviously we haven't been rushing it. We take it very seriously. We'll be incredibly psyched to share it with the world when it's done."
Released in January, 2011, Contra reached No 3 in the UK album charts and No 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in America.
The Beach Boys have confirmed the track listing for their new album, That's Why God Made The Radio.
Along with the title track, the album also features "Think About The Days", "Isn’t It Time", "Spring Vacation", "Private Life Of Bill And Sue", "Shelter", "Daybreak Over The Ocean", "Beaches In Mind", "Strange World", "My Life Suite", and "Summer’s Gone".
The album will be preceded by a single, "That's Why God Made The Radio", on April 30. The album itself will be released on June 4.
A couple of years ago when I was in Woodstock to interview Simone Felice and his band, The Duke & The King, Simone drove me around the mountains where he’d grown up, pointing out places of local and historical interest. These included Big Pink, the house on Parnassus Lane in West Saugerties, where Dylan and The Band recorded The Basement Tapes.
