In June 1977, Allan Jones of the Melody Maker took a familiar route to the offices of Stiff Records in West London. His appointment, that day, was with a notably irascible young singer-songwriter from Hounslow. In the course of a frequently startling interview, the man who had chosen to call himself Elvis Costello railed against pretty much everything he could think of, beginning a sequence of encounters that would be among the sharpest and most volatile to appear in the music press over the next few years.
Steve Albini, Mavis Staples and Conan O'Brien are among the guest stars in the new video for "Low Key" from Tweedy, the new project from Wilco's Jeff Tweedy.
Click below to watch the video, which was directed by actor Nick Offerman from Parks And Recreation.
Other guest stars in the video include Melissa McCarthy, Andy Richter, Chance the Rapper and Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche
The song features on the album Sukierae, a collaboration with Tweedy's son Spencer who drums on the release.
Joanna Newsom is to narrate Inherent Vice, the new film from director Paul Thomas Anderson.
Anderson's film is based on a 2009 novel by Thomas Pynchon; Newsom's involvement was originally revealed last year, however a report in The New York Times confirms Newsom will play Sortilège; an "earth-goddess-like" character.
The film is Anderson's first since 2012's The Master.
Neil Young played a benefit concert on Saturday September 27 to raise funds for Bold Nebraska, the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Cowboy & Indian Alliance.
The concert took place at Tanderup Farm, Neligh, Nebraska, on the route of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The project would bring diluted bitumen from Alberta to refineries in the Gulf Coast and cross land sacred to the First Nations people.
Thom Yorke has released a new album, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes.
The album is available to download using BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file sharing software.
In a statement co-authored with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Yorke wrote, “As an experiment we are using a new version of BitTorrent to distribute a new Thom Yorke record. The new Torrent files have a pay gate to access a bundle of files. The files can be anything, but in this case is an ‘album’.”
Bruce Springsteen is to release a new box set that compiles his first seven albums.
Bruce Springsteen: The Album Collection Vol. 1 1973-1984 will be remastered by respected engineers Bob Ludwig and Toby Scott, in conjunction with the artist himself.
The albums have been newly transferred from original analogue masters using the Plangent Process playback system.
The set will also feature a 60-page book featuring vintage press clippings, photos and other memorabilia from the first 11 years of Springsteen's recording career.
