Beastie Boys member Ad Rock is set to perform in public for the first time since the death of bandmate MCA.
Ad Rock - aka Adam Horovitz - will DJ tonight (June 12) at Death by Audio in Brooklyn, New York at a fundraising event for the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, reports Rolling Stone.
Smashing Pumpkins are streaming their new album, Oceania, online via iTunes. Visit iTunes.com to hear the record.
The album isn't formally released until next Monday (June 18), but can be heard in full now. The album is the seventh full-length effort of the band's career.
Oceania, which was originally due last September, will now be released on June 18 and has been described as an "album within an album" as it is part of their 44-song cycle 'Teargarden By Kaleidyscope', the first songs for which were released in 2009.
A while back, I read somewhere that Ben Chasny’s next Six Organs Of Admittance record would feature the heavy involvement of his old bandmates from Comets On Fire: it would be a kind of Comets reunion, was the speculation, albeit with Chasny in the driving seat rather than Ethan Miller.
Flair, grit and determination - not to mention a nine-figure outlay on players - have all been cited in recent days as the reasons why Manchester City won the Premier League over the weekend.
However, fans of the club actually have one man to thank for their first title win in 44 years - and it's apparently not manager Roberto Mancini.
Nope, ironically it's staunch Manchester United fan Mani - who infamously said The Stone Roses wouldn't reform until the Blues tasted major success.
Country music legend Willie Nelson has turned down Roseanne Barr’s offer to be her Presidential running mate.
Earlier this year, Barr – who found fame with her 1990's sitcom Roseanne – filed the official documents needed to become the Green Party's nominee for President. On her Twitter account, Twitter.com/therealroseanne, she recently stated: "My Vice President will be announced at the debate in San Francisco this Saturday. I want Willie Nelson as Vice President."
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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Robert Plant has announced details of three live dates for this summer.
Plant will debut his new band, Sensational Shape Shifters, at:
** Gloucester, Guildhall - May 8
** HMV Forum, London - July 12
** WOMAD, Wiltshire - July 29
Apart from Plant, the line-up for the Sensational Space Shifters is:
Juldeh Camara (JuJu)
ritti (one-stringed African Violin), kologo (African Banjo), talking drum, vocals.
Justin Adams (JuJu, Jah Wobble)
guitar, bendir, vocals
John Baggott (Massive Attack, Portishead)
keyboards
Liam "Skin" Tyson (Cast)
