“I want to be mothered,” Mark Kozelek sang in 1993 on “Mother”, one of the more startling tracks on the second Red House Painters album. “I want you to give attention to my belly button/Mother, I want to have bobby pins stuck in my ears.”
The Great Escape have revealed the first 100 artists confirmed for the 2014 festival.
Among the artists performing at this year's festival are Courtney Barnett [pictured] and Kelis - scroll down for the full line-up.
The festival will run on May 8 - 10 in Brighton across 35 venues. In total, the festival will play host to 400 bands.
Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey are to release a joint album, Going Back Home, on March 10 on the Chess label.
The album features 11 tracks, 10 of which are Johnson originals from both his Dr Feelgood days and solo years, alongside a version of Bob Dylan’s "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window".
Johnson and Daltrey will perform tracks from the album at a one off show at The O2 Shepherds Bush Empire on February 25.
Anyone who’s read any of Robert Gordon’s previous books, like Can’t Be Satisfied, for instance, his great biography of Muddy Waters, will no doubt be looking forward to Respect Yourself: Stax Records And The Soul Explosion, Gordon’s history of the legendary Memphis label, which is published this month by Bloomsbury.
Bob Dylan is to release a Deluxe Edition of The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration.
The concert took place on October 16, 1992 and included performances from Neil Young, Lou Reed, Johnny Cash, George Harrison, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Band and Dylan himself.
This Deluxe Edition will be released by Columbia Records and Legacy Recording on March 3, 2013 on Blu-ray, 2 DVD and 2 CD sets.
A rare live recording of Syd Barrett is to be released.
The performance dates from January 27, 1972, at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge.
The tapes were originally put up for auction at Bonham's in June 2010, listed as "1/4 inch reel-to-reel tape on 10inch BASF spool in Agfa PE36 box with handwritten recording details, with statement of provenance". They were later told to the Easy Action label.
Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch has confirmed that the band will record a new album inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.
Speaking to Rolling Stone at the Sundance Film Festival, where he is promoting new film God Help The Girl, Murdoch revealed that he hopes to have the album finished in time for an autumn release as well as discussing it's unusual premise.
Bruce Springsteen played his first live gig of 2014 at the 1,600 capacity Paramount Theater in Asbury Park, New Jersey on Saturday [January 18].
The event was the 14th Annual Light Of Day benefit to raise funds for Parkinson's Disease.
Scroll down to watch five songs from Springsteen's set.
Slowdive are rumoured to be close to announcing reunion details.
Former members of the band - who split in 1995 - have been Tweeting a countdown, prompting rumours of the band's reunion, according to a report in The Guardian.
