Behind The Candelabra reminds me a little of a Scorsese film, with Michael Douglas’ toupe in particular bringing to mind the extraordinary hairpieces worn by the elderly Midwestern crime bosses in Casino. This is Steven Soderbergh’s frequently hilarious biopic about Liberace and his 6-year relationship with the much younger Scott Thorson. It is a world of palatial kitsch, excess and small dogs, Lear jets, plastic surgeons and boogie woogie piano.
Paul Simonon has spoken about recording with Bob Dylan.
Interviewed by Rolling Stone about the forthcoming Clash box set, the bassist also discussed his work on Dylan's 1988 album, Down In The Groove.
Brian Wilson has announced he is working on a new solo album.
Wilson is currently recording and self-producing the album at Ocean Way Studios in Hollywood, he revealed in a press release on his official site. He has been joined in the studio by musicians including Jeff Beck and two of his former The Beach Boys bandmates, Al Jardine and David Marks.
Television and Heartbreakers legend Richard Hell’s autobiography, I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp, is reviewed by editor Allan Jones in the new issue of Uncut (dated July 2013 and out now) – in this piece from Uncut’s September 2009 issue (Take 148), Hell and his bandmates explain how they created “Blank Generation”, the nihilistic, coruscating punk anthem first written as a “My Generation” for the ’70s New York scene. Words: Damien Love
Around this time in 2012, I came up with 40 records, released between January and June, that I liked enough to include in a six-month Best-Of list. Either I’m being more diligent, or less discerning, or else 2013 is shaping up to be a better year: as you can see, I’ve managed 67 here.
Joey Covington, who played drums with Jefferson Airplane, has died aged 67 following a car accident in Palm Springs, California.
Covington replaced Spencer Dryden in Jefferson Airplane during the recording of 1969′s Volunteers album.
He later played on the band's albums Bark - for which he wrote and sang the track "Pretty As You Feel" - and Long John Silver. He left the group in 1972 to pursue a solo career.
He helped form the Jefferson Airplane side project Hot Tuna in 1969, along with Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and Paul Kantner.
Suede have added a trio of new shows to their October tour of the UK and Ireland.
The band will now play additional shows in Southampton, Southend and Bristol, as well as previously announced dates in Leeds, Glasgow, Dublin, Manchester and Birmingham. Tickets for the new shows go on sale May 17 at 9am [BST].
Smashing Pumpkins' 1996 box set The Aeroplane Flies High is to be reissued on July 23 with 90 bonus tracks.
The original 1996 edition was a five-disc set featuring expanded versions of the five singles from the band's Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness album, which came out the previous year. The bumper reissue adds a total of 90 unreleased demos, alternate versions and live recordings and everything has been fully remastered.
Tim Burgess has compared The Charlatans’ ‘One To Another’ to Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ in the new issue of Uncut (dated July 2013 and out now).
