Afghan Whigs have announced details of three UK tour dates to take place in July.
The band, who will release their first new album in 16 years later this year, will play live in London, Manchester and Glasgow this summer following the release of Do To The Beast in April. The three dates come as part of a wider European tour and will see the band play London's Electric Ballroom on July 15 before a date at Manchester Cathedral two days later. The short UK jaunt will conclude in Glasgow on July 18. Scroll down for ticket details.
Pete Seeger’s half-sister, Peggy Seeger, pays tribute to the late folk singer, songwriter and activist in the new issue of Uncut, dated April 2014 and out on Friday (February 28).
Bruce Springsteen has announced details a new EP and concert film.
The American Beauty is a special Record Store Day 12" vinyl release from Columbia Records featuring four previously unreleased original songs and due for release on April 26.
The tracklisting for American Beauty is:
"American Beauty"
"Mary Mary"
"Hurry Up Sundown"
"Hey Blue Eyes"
James will release a new album, La Petite Mort, on June 2.
It is the band's first full-length studio album since 2008's Hey Ma.
The album has been produced by Max Dingel (Killers, Muse, White Lies) and will be preceded by a single, "Moving On". Other confirmed tracks include "Curse Curse" and "Frozen Britain".
The band have been announced as headliners for Summer In The City, Castlefield Bowl, Manchester, on July 11 and Camp Bestival on August 1. More festival dates and a UK arena tour are to be announced shortly.
The National have unveiled a new trailer for their Mistaken For Strangers documentary.
The film, which premiered last year at the Tribeca Film Festival, will open in cinemas in the United States on March 25. Click below to watch the new trailer, which follows the band as frontman Matt Berninger's brother Tom joins them on tour as a roadie. Matt produced the film alongside Carin Besser and Craig Charland, and commented: "I was happy to give my brother whatever access he needed. I just didn't expect this movie to include shower scenes."
A statue of a weeping Kurt Cobain has been unveiled in the singer's hometown, Aberdeen, Washington.
The city celebrated Kurt Cobain Day on February 20, which would have been Cobain's 47th birthday. The statue, which sees Cobain crying a single tear, is situated in the Aberdeen Museum of History. The day's festivities also included a gig and an appearance from Cobain's guitar teacher, reports Consequence Of Sound.
No-one who saw Little Feat at their peak will want to contest Jon Dale's description of them later in this issue as one of the greatest American bands of their era. Their records were great, but live they were sensational - at least until a not unusual mix of drugs and personality clashes ruined them.
The Rolling Stones played the first date off their 14 On Fire tour this evening [February 21].
The show was their very first performance in the United Arab Emirates.
The band were joined by special guest, Mick Taylor.
In addition to the songs familiar for the 2012/2013 50 & Counting tour, the band played "You Got Me Rocking" from the Voodoo Lounge album, as well as "Slipping Away" from Steel Wheels.
There’s a Youtube clip of Ryuichi Sakamoto, dressed in black hunched over a piano playing the piece of music he is most famous for – “Forbidden Colours”, from the film Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. It is, I guess, the idea of Sakamoto we’re most familiar with – the artist, his instrument of choice, the music he is playing both delicate and fluid.
