When you’re in the business of writing about/codifying/making up a musical scene, it always helps if you can locate its nexus. Reading the small print on record sleeves, a good few of the American musicians negotiating the space between roots music and avant-garde jamming these past few years - part of what used to be called free folk, for a while - all turn out to have recorded at Black Dirt Studios in upstate New York.
The Hold Steady are set to release their new album, 'Teeth Dreams', on March 25.
The Hold Steady are set to release their new album, Teeth Dreams, on March 25.
The US rock band will put out the follow-up to 2010's Heaven Is Whenever this spring, reports Billboard. The LP will be released Stateside on Razor & Tie's new imprint, Washington Square.
Paul McCartney has paid tribute to Phil Everly, who died last week aged 74.
In a statement on his website, McCartney said that Everly was one of his "great heroes" and cited the Everly Brothers as a key influence on The Beatles.
Robert Plant Presents the Sensational Space Shifters has announced the first of their 2014 European tour dates.
The tour will support a new album out this year, with dates beginning June 10 in Gothenberg, Sweden and across Europe including Russia, Ireland, Germany and more, with a special date at Glastonbury Abbey on August 9.
The Dead Weather are to release two new songs next week.
According to a Tweet from their Third Man label, "Open Up (That's Enough)" and "Rough Detective" will be available for purchase digitally worldwide next Tuesday [January 14].
Scroll down to hear "Open Up (That's Enough)".
The Surrey mansion where John Lennon wrote the songs for The Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is up for sale.
The six-bedroom property in Weybridge, Surrey, where Lennon lived between 1964 and 1968 is on the market for £14 million, The Times reports.
Lennon bought the property, known as Kenwood, for £20,000 on July 15, 1964 and lived there with his first wife Cynthia. He is believed to have penned a number of songs for the album while living there.
One of the last ever interviews with The Doors' keyboard player Ray Manzarek will be broadcast on Friday (January 10).
The footage will be aired as part of a new three-part BBC4 series Born To Be Wild: The Golden Age Of American Rock, which charts the rise and fall of US classic rock from the 1960s to the early 1990s. The first hour-long episode, which will feature interviews with Manzarek as well as Alice Cooper, Tom Petty, and John Densmore, will be shown at 9pm.
A "definitive" biography of Lou Reed is in the works, it has been confirmed.
Titled Lou: A New York Life, the biography will be written by Rolling Stone writer Will Hermes, who has promised the book will tell the "full, definitive" story of the former Velvet Underground frontman's life. The book will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and has no current release date.
