Michael Nesmith, the former Monkee and country rock pioneer, is to play the UK for the first time in over 30 years.
Nesmith, who left the Monkees in 1970, went on to release three albums with The First National Band between 1970 and 1971, which were later hailed as country rock classics.
One of the records I’ve been playing the absolute hell out of these last couple of weeks is The Graceless Age, the new album by John Murry, who Uncut regulars may remember from World Without End, a sensationally bleak 2006 collection of contemporary murder ballads he made with the Memphis singer-songwriter Bob Frank. The Graceless Age, like World Without End, produced by Tim Mooney, the former American Music Club drummer, at Closer Recording, the studio Tim owned in San Francisco, at 1441 Howard Street. The more I played it, the more The Graceless Age sounded like one of the best things Mooney had been involved in, as either producer or musician, a dark and festering masterpiece.
Tom Petty is a man of many guitars, most of which seem to make an appearance on stage at some point in tonight’s proceedings. Here’s a red Fender, a blonde Rickenbacker, a white Gibson, back to the Fender, and on. It seems fitting, I suppose: Petty’s first show in the UK for 13 years is very much about craft and musicianship.
Richard Hawley has unveiled the video for his new single, "Down In The Woods". Scroll down to watch it.
The heavy, psychedelic single is the second to be taken from his latest album, following "Leave Your Body Behind You". The album, Standing At The Sky's Edge, is Hawley's seventh solo LP and it debuted at Number Three in the Official UK Album Chart last month, his highest ever chart placing.
Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis have collaborated on a cover of Peter Green's guitar instrumental "Albatross" for a new Fleetwood Mac covers compilation.
To be released on August 14 via Hear Music/Concord, the compilation also features contributions from Marianne Faithful, Antony Hegarty and MGMT.
The track listing for the compilation is:
Entrance Band – 'Green Manalishi'
Crystal Ark – 'Tusk'
Best Coast – 'Rhiannon'
The New Pornographers – 'Think About Me'
MGMT – 'Future Games'
Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon has helped to design a sneaker for 'cruelty free' footwear brand, Keep.
The double Grammy winning musician has joined forces with Los Angeles based company Keep to make a 'salmon' pink canvas shoe, which features "herringbone accents" and "a black fishbone detail across the toe".
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are planning to release 18 previously unheard songs from the sessions for their last album, I'm With You.
According to Rolling Stone, the band will begin on August 14 with the release of "Strange Man" and "Long Progression", and on September 11 they will release a follow-up, "Magpies" and "Victorian Machinery".
The Rolling Stones have denied reports they will retire next year with a headline slot at Glastonbury.
It was reported "sources" close to the band had indicated that their Glastonbury appearance will be their final date in a "handful" of shows in the UK and USA in 2012. It was also suggested that, as it is part of the group's 50-year anniversary, it will be seen as a good time to call it a day on live performances.
Damon Albarn unveiled a new track at a poetry festival in London earlier this week (June 14) – scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to watch.
Consequence Of Sound reports that the singer, who was performing at the Poetry Olympics at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, included a brand new song in his set which he told the crowd he had recorded "last week".
