U2 will reportedly release their new album in April 2014, according to reports which also claim the album could be announced at Super Bowl XLVIII in February.
The band are due to release their first album since 2009 next year with Adam Clayton recently confirming that the group were planning to wrap up recording by the end of this year.
A US university is offering a theology class on Bruce Springsteen.
Rutgers University in New Jersey is offering student the chance to take a semester-long class looking at the biblical references in The Boss' lyrics – from his 1973 debut'Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. to his 2012 album The Wrecking Ball.
Last year, I interviewed the film director Peter Strickland about Berberian Sound Studio, his tribute to the Heath Robinson-style endeavours of analogue sound designers. Strickland and I chatted about the influences for his main character, a tweedy sound engineer called Gilderoy; Strickland mentioned pioneering figures like Adam Bohman, Vernon Elliott and Basil Kirchin.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds have announced the release of a new album, Live From KCRW.
The album is due for release on December 2. It was recorded on April 18 this year at a live KCRW radio session at Apogee Studio in Los Angeles.
It is the band's fourth live album and will be released on CD, download and double vinyl format. The vinyl edition features two additional exclusive, un-broadcasted live recordings from the session, "Into My Arms" and "God Is In The House". The album will also be available as a digital deluxe bundle with Push The Sky Away.
U2 have posted a lyric video for their new song, "Ordinary Love", on their Facebook page.
Scroll down to watch it.
The song, which is taken from the film Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, will be available as the A-side of a limited-edition 10-inch vinyl release on Record Store Day's Back to Black Friday event on November 29.
Morrissey launched his memoir, Autobiography, at a book signing in Gothenburg, Sweden last night [October 17].
Queues began at the Akademibokhandeln bookshop on Wednesday lunchtime. The Guardian estimated that the crowd numbers peaked at 500 people.
There are many revelations in Morrissey’s Autobiography, but perhaps the most unexpected arrives on page 194. “While in Denver,” writes Morrissey, “Johnny [Marr] and I attend a concert by A-ha, whom we have met previously and whom we quite like.”
U2 are aiming to finish their new album by the end of November, bass player Adam Clayton has revealed.
The band last released an album in 2009 when they put out No Line On The Horizon. It is expected that their new record will appear in 2014 with Clayton confirming that the band are trying to wind up work and get the songs "absolutely right" prior to Christmas.
In this piece from the Uncut archive (March 2013, Take 190), the outspoken Irish singer answers questions from fans and famous admirers, recalls her violent exchange with Prince, oils up for John Grant and tweets Pope Benedict about her excommunication… Interview: John Lewis
Cat Power, Sky Ferreira, the Low Anthem and DIIV's Zachary Cole Smith will play an Elliott Smith tribute at Brooklyn's Glasslands on October 21 - the 10-year anniversary of Smith's death.
Proceeds from the show will go to the Elliott Smith Memorial Fund, which benefits two charities: Portland's Outside In and Free Arts for Abused Children.
