Saint Etienne have previewed their first new album since 2005's 'Tales From Turnpike House' album.
The trio, made up of Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, have made the song 'Tonight' available to download for a limited period of time from their website – www.saintetienne.com – before the single's official release on March 5. Scroll down to listen to the track.
Peter Hook has said he feels it is "quite a compliment" that Disney have been "inspired" by Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures' artwork for their latest Mickey Mouse T-shirt.
The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger has pulled out of an event due to be hosted by British Prime Minister David Cameron, after complaining that he was being used as a "political football".
Whatever it was meant to be, it wasn’t fun. In the closing years of the 1960s, the Kinks’ managers Robert Wace and Grenville Collins cajoled Dave Davies into recording material for a putative solo album - long known to fans as A Hole In The Sock Of Dave Davies. Hard-pressed and still heartbroken from being parted from his school sweetheart, what the Kinks guitarist delivered was too gloomy for anyone to handle.
As I mentioned the other day, after a grim 2011 it looks like 2012 has the makings of a good year for film. Later this week, I’ll be posting Jonathan Romney’s review of Alexander Payne’s tremendous The Descendants. But meantime, I hope you’ll indulge me while I throw forward to one of February’s best releases, Young Adult – a terrific sort-of-comedy from the Juno team of director Ivan Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody.
