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The Who caught up in One Direction Twitter storm

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The Who have found themselves inadvertently embroiled in a row with fans of boyband One Direction on social media site, Twitter. The row stems from comments made by Click Music, which saw certain similarities between the intro on One Direction's new single, "Best Song Ever", and The Who's track, "...

The Who have found themselves inadvertently embroiled in a row with fans of boyband One Direction on social media site, Twitter.

The row stems from comments made by Click Music, which saw certain similarities between the intro on One Direction’s new single, “Best Song Ever”, and The Who’s track, “Baba O’Riley“.

Fans of the boyband immediately took to Twitter, hitting out at unsubstantiated suggestions that The Who want to “delete” the song.

Comments from One Direction fans included “Who The Hell are The Who they have the Perfect Name cuz No One really Cares and Knows About Them!” and “The Who is just too jealous with our boys bcause our boys can sing a better song that The Who did.”

One Direction fans marked their protest with a Twitter hashtag, #donttouchbestsongever.

In a moment of solidarity between rival fans, Justin Bieber followers have also waded in to support the One Direction fans.

Meanwhile, One Direction’s producer Julian Bunetta admitted similarities between the two songs, but denied copyright violation, saying: “At a certain point we recognised it had the same type of intro where there’s a synth and a piano, but we really tried to make sure that there was no intellectual property stolen or anything like that.”

The Who have yet to comment.

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Joy Division and New Order master tapes to be sold

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Original copies of early recordings by both Joy Division and New Order that were found after they had been thrown away have now been put up for sale. Julia Adamson discovered the original masters and outtakes from albums including Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures as well as music by New Order, The Psychedelic Furs, Magazine and many more years ago, but is now selling the physical copies after digitising them in 2008. The tapes originally belonged to producer Martin Hannett - who died in 1991 - but were found abandoned by Adamson, who was his assistant and now runs independent label Invisible Girl Records. Writing on her Facebook page, Adamson says: "I have looked after these tapes for a long time and when I approached the artists (who were my first port of call) I was subjected to accusations and abuse… so I don’t really care any more. I know they are worth something to a collector… and good luck to them. The quality of Unknown Pleasures far surpasses the mastering from vinyl over the years (they lost the master tapes long ago… these are copy masters… and outtakes… that I assure you are quite splendid)." Adamson has extended the deal to all the artists and their record companies saying: "Tried the other band members, too, to no avail, and the record companies". She is keen for a collector to take them from her following discussions with Peter Hook, who she describes as "not a happy bunny". .

Original copies of early recordings by both Joy Division and New Order that were found after they had been thrown away have now been put up for sale.

Julia Adamson discovered the original masters and outtakes from albums including Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures as well as music by New Order, The Psychedelic Furs, Magazine and many more years ago, but is now selling the physical copies after digitising them in 2008. The tapes originally belonged to producer Martin Hannett – who died in 1991 – but were found abandoned by Adamson, who was his assistant and now runs independent label Invisible Girl Records.

Writing on her Facebook page, Adamson says: “I have looked after these tapes for a long time and when I approached the artists (who were my first port of call) I was subjected to accusations and abuse… so I don’t really care any more. I know they are worth something to a collector… and good luck to them. The quality of Unknown Pleasures far surpasses the mastering from vinyl over the years (they lost the master tapes long ago… these are copy masters… and outtakes… that I assure you are quite splendid).”

Adamson has extended the deal to all the artists and their record companies saying: “Tried the other band members, too, to no avail, and the record companies”. She is keen for a collector to take them from her following discussions with Peter Hook, who she describes as “not a happy bunny”.

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White Stripes confirm full release for Elephant reissue

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The White Stripes have confirmed that Jack White's Third Man label will reissue the band's fourth album, Elephant. Originally released in 2003, Elephant was given a limited edition vinyl re-release in April this year for Record Store Day. Now, Third Man have confirmed a full re-release for the vin...

The White Stripes have confirmed that Jack White’s Third Man label will reissue the band’s fourth album, Elephant.

Originally released in 2003, Elephant was given a limited edition vinyl re-release in April this year for Record Store Day.

Now, Third Man have confirmed a full re-release for the vinyl edition.

According to the Third Man website, the vinyl is “mastered direct from the original, analog source from the 2002 recordings at Toe Rag Studios,” and it will come as two 180-gram LPs, a double gatefold, printed inner sleeves and an MP3 download card. The package is currently available for pre-order here.

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Hear rare Alex Chilton tracks

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A live performance by Alex Chilton recorded on February 13, 1997 at The Knitting Factory in New York is to be released on October 21. The venue suffered a power cut, although Chilton stayed on and entertained fans for an hour with an acoustic set consisting of cover versions. The 18-song set is to be released as the Electricity By Candlelight album on the Bar/None label. Scroll down to hear four tracks: "I Walk The Line", "Motel Blues", "Someone To Watch Over Me" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice". The full tracklisting for Electricity By Candelight is: Last Bouquet Step Right This Way Let's Get Lost D-I-V-O-R-C-E Raining In My Heart Lovesick Blues Girl From Ipanema My Baby Just Cares For Me Motel Blues Someone To Watch Over Me Footprints In The Snow Case Of You Wouldn't It Be Nice Surfer Girl Solar System I Walk The Line If I Had A Hammer You Can Bet Your Heart On Me (Bonus Track) .

A live performance by Alex Chilton recorded on February 13, 1997 at The Knitting Factory in New York is to be released on October 21.

The venue suffered a power cut, although Chilton stayed on and entertained fans for an hour with an acoustic set consisting of cover versions.

The 18-song set is to be released as the Electricity By Candlelight album on the Bar/None label.

Scroll down to hear four tracks: “I Walk The Line”, “Motel Blues”, “Someone To Watch Over Me” and “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”.

The full tracklisting for Electricity By Candelight is:

Last Bouquet

Step Right This Way

Let’s Get Lost

D-I-V-O-R-C-E

Raining In My Heart

Lovesick Blues

Girl From Ipanema

My Baby Just Cares For Me

Motel Blues

Someone To Watch Over Me

Footprints In The Snow

Case Of You

Wouldn’t It Be Nice

Surfer Girl

Solar System

I Walk The Line

If I Had A Hammer

You Can Bet Your Heart On Me (Bonus Track)

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Enter our exclusive Morrissey competition

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Ahead of the imminent release of the Morrissey 25: Live concert film, we're very pleased to be able to offer some fantastic prizes to give away in our exclusive competition. We're giving away to one lucky winner: Three Morrissey albums on CD: Viva Hate, Vauxhall & 1, Ringleader Of The Tormenters One Morrissey 25: Live souvenir poster One Morrissey 25: Live badge One copy of Len Brown's book - Meetings With Morrissey To be in with a chance of winning, just tell us the correct answer to this question: What song appeared on the 7" b-side of Morrissey's debut solo single, "Suedehead"? Send your entries to UncutComp@ipcmedia.com by noon, Friday August 23. A winner will be chosen by the Uncut team from the correct entries. The editor's decision is final. You can watch an exclusive clip from Morrissey 25: Live here. Morrissey 25: Live is in cinemas from August 24. Meanwhile, we celebrate Morrissey's quarter century as a solo artist in the current issue of Uncut, where collaborators including Stephen Street, Mike Joyce, Clive Langer and Steve Lillywhite remember working with Morrissey on his early solo albums. .

Ahead of the imminent release of the Morrissey 25: Live concert film, we’re very pleased to be able to offer some fantastic prizes to give away in our exclusive competition.

We’re giving away to one lucky winner:

Three Morrissey albums on CD: Viva Hate, Vauxhall & 1, Ringleader Of The Tormenters

One Morrissey 25: Live souvenir poster

One Morrissey 25: Live badge

One copy of Len Brown’s book – Meetings With Morrissey

To be in with a chance of winning, just tell us the correct answer to this question:

What song appeared on the 7″ b-side of Morrissey’s debut solo single, “Suedehead”?

Send your entries to UncutComp@ipcmedia.com by noon, Friday August 23. A winner will be chosen by the Uncut team from the correct entries. The editor’s decision is final.

You can watch an exclusive clip from Morrissey 25: Live here.

Morrissey 25: Live is in cinemas from August 24. Meanwhile, we celebrate Morrissey’s quarter century as a solo artist in the current issue of Uncut, where collaborators including Stephen Street, Mike Joyce, Clive Langer and Steve Lillywhite remember working with Morrissey on his early solo albums.

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Bruce Springsteen to extend Wrecking Ball tour into 2014?

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Bruce Springsteen may be about to extend his Wrecking Ball tour into next year, according to a report on Rolling Stone. Springsteen was due to finish the tour at Brazil's Rock In Rio festival on September 24. However, Australian radio station Triple M posted a run of six new dates planned for Febr...

Bruce Springsteen may be about to extend his Wrecking Ball tour into next year, according to a report on Rolling Stone.

Springsteen was due to finish the tour at Brazil’s Rock In Rio festival on September 24.

However, Australian radio station Triple M posted a run of six new dates planned for February 2014, taking in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, the Hunter Valley and Brisbane. The dates reportedly run from February 7 – 26.

The webpage was swiftly taken down, although it was first captured and posted on a Springsteen fansite – you can see it here.

As yet, there has been no comment from Springsteen’s management.

You can read our review of Springsteen’s recent show at London’s Hard Rock Colling festival here.

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The 31st Uncut Playlist Of 2013

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No sooner has one Mark Kozelek album turned up than, ridiculously, another one is announced. www.caldoverderecords.com claims another Sun Kil Moon album is due January 14 next year, also featuring Steve Shelley, Jen Wood, Will Oldham and Owen Ashworth. In even less a shock, it promises that Kozelek “sings about his childhood years and his life today.” This week’s playlist, meanwhile, isn’t a match for Playlist 30, and it seems a good time to add one of my regular caveats that this is merely a rundown of the things we’ve played in the office, not things that we’re necessarily endorsing. I think my favourite new arrival is the Kelley Stoltz, at the moment… Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JohnRMulvey 1 Kelley Stoltz – Double Exposure (Third Man) 2 Hush Arbors – Much Older, I Arrive (www.hush-arbors.bandcamp.com/releases) 3 Steve Hauschildt – S/H (Editions Mego) 4 Alex Chilton – Electricity By Candlelight/ NYC 2/13/97 (Bar None) 5 Deltron 3030 – Event II (Caroline) 6 Arctic Monkeys – AM (Domino) 7 Ronnie Lane’s Slim Chance – One For The Road (Island) 8 Jessy Lanza – Pull My Hair Back (Hyperdub) 9 Kenny Feinstein – Loveless: Hurts To Love (Fluff & Gravy) 10 Lemonheads – Lick (Fire) 11 Hieroglyphic Being – A Plutonian Love Affair EP (Modelhart) 12 Bill Orcutt – A History Of Every One (Editions Mego) 13 Country Parish Music – Introducing Country Parish Music (Stone Tape) 14 Cavern Of Anti-Matter –You're An Art Soul EP (Associated Electronic Recordings) 15 Polica – Shulamith (Memphis Industries) 16 Lee Ranaldo & The Dust – Lecce, Leaving (Matador) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPBFyjmLGk8 17 Bardo Pond – Peace On Venus (Fire) 18 White Denim – Pretty Green (Downtown) 19 Bill Callahan – Dream River (Drag City) 20 Bill Callahan – Rough Travel For A Rare Thing (Drag City) 21 Prince – Groovy Potential (www.3rdeyegirl.com) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpgpxJ7qodA 22 Joni Mitchell – Court And Spark (Asylum) 23 Various Artists - Theo Parrish's Black Jazz Signature: Black Jazz Records 1971-1976 (Snow Dog) 24 Mike Donovan – WOT (Drag City) 25 Mark Kozelek & Desertshore - Mark Kozelek & Desertshore (Caldo Verde)

No sooner has one Mark Kozelek album turned up than, ridiculously, another one is announced. www.caldoverderecords.com claims another Sun Kil Moon album is due January 14 next year, also featuring Steve Shelley, Jen Wood, Will Oldham and Owen Ashworth. In even less a shock, it promises that Kozelek “sings about his childhood years and his life today.”

This week’s playlist, meanwhile, isn’t a match for Playlist 30, and it seems a good time to add one of my regular caveats that this is merely a rundown of the things we’ve played in the office, not things that we’re necessarily endorsing. I think my favourite new arrival is the Kelley Stoltz, at the moment…

Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JohnRMulvey

1 Kelley Stoltz – Double Exposure (Third Man)

2 Hush Arbors – Much Older, I Arrive (www.hush-arbors.bandcamp.com/releases)

3 Steve Hauschildt – S/H (Editions Mego)

4 Alex Chilton – Electricity By Candlelight/ NYC 2/13/97 (Bar None)

5 Deltron 3030 – Event II (Caroline)

6 Arctic Monkeys – AM (Domino)

7 Ronnie Lane’s Slim Chance – One For The Road (Island)

8 Jessy Lanza – Pull My Hair Back (Hyperdub)

9 Kenny Feinstein – Loveless: Hurts To Love (Fluff & Gravy)

10 Lemonheads – Lick (Fire)

11 Hieroglyphic Being – A Plutonian Love Affair EP (Modelhart)

12 Bill Orcutt – A History Of Every One (Editions Mego)

13 Country Parish Music – Introducing Country Parish Music (Stone Tape)

14 Cavern Of Anti-Matter –You’re An Art Soul EP (Associated Electronic Recordings)

15 Polica – Shulamith (Memphis Industries)

16 Lee Ranaldo & The Dust – Lecce, Leaving (Matador)

17 Bardo Pond – Peace On Venus (Fire)

18 White Denim – Pretty Green (Downtown)

19 Bill Callahan – Dream River (Drag City)

20 Bill Callahan – Rough Travel For A Rare Thing (Drag City)

21 Prince – Groovy Potential (www.3rdeyegirl.com)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpgpxJ7qodA

22 Joni Mitchell – Court And Spark (Asylum)

23 Various Artists – Theo Parrish’s Black Jazz Signature: Black Jazz Records 1971-1976 (Snow Dog)

24 Mike Donovan – WOT (Drag City)

25 Mark Kozelek & Desertshore – Mark Kozelek & Desertshore (Caldo Verde)

Throwing Muses return with first new material in ten years

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Throwing Muses are to return with their first new material in ten years. The 32 track Purgatory/Paradise album will be available on October 29, 2013 as a deluxe 64-page book and a full studio album on CD, published by the experimental HarperCollins imprint, The Friday Project. The book edition con...

Throwing Muses are to return with their first new material in ten years.

The 32 track Purgatory/Paradise album will be available on October 29, 2013 as a deluxe 64-page book and a full studio album on CD, published by the experimental HarperCollins imprint, The Friday Project.

The book edition contains photography and artwork from the band’s Kirstin Hersh and David Narcizo, as well as notes and handwritten lyrics for each song by Hersh. Narcizo has designed the book and artwork. Content also includes a commentary track for the album by Hersch and Nacizo, an instrumental version of the album and MP3 versions of all tracks complete with embedded data, artwork and lyrics.

A vinyl version of Purgatory/Paradise book will also be released.

Throwing Muses tour the UK in October.

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Site of Led Zeppelin’s first concert rehearsal to be honoured

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A primary school in Denmark where the members of Led Zeppelin rehearsed for their first ever gig, is to be honoured with a commemorative plaque. Fullflling some contractual Yardbirds dates, the band - who were then billed as The New Yardbirds - were booked to play a short tour of Scandinavia, beginning at the Gladsaxe Teen-Clubs in Copenhagen on September 7, 1968. This was the first time Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham had performed together publicly. Earlier in the day, the band had rehearsed at the nearby Gladsaxe School - and a plaque commemorating the event will be unveiled on Saturday, September 7, 2013. Speaking about the gig in 1968, Jimmy Page said: "We were really scared, because we only had about fifteen hours to practice together. It was sort of an experimental concert to see if we were any good. I guess." The set list included "Train Kept a Rollin'", "Dazed And Confused" and "White Summer", "Communication Breakdown", "I Can't Quit You Baby", "You Shook Me", "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", "How Many More Times". .

A primary school in Denmark where the members of Led Zeppelin rehearsed for their first ever gig, is to be honoured with a commemorative plaque.

Fullflling some contractual Yardbirds dates, the band – who were then billed as The New Yardbirds – were booked to play a short tour of Scandinavia, beginning at the Gladsaxe Teen-Clubs in Copenhagen on September 7, 1968.

This was the first time Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham had performed together publicly.

Earlier in the day, the band had rehearsed at the nearby Gladsaxe School – and a plaque commemorating the event will be unveiled on Saturday, September 7, 2013.

Speaking about the gig in 1968, Jimmy Page said: “We were really scared, because we only had about fifteen hours to practice together. It was sort of an experimental concert to see if we were any good. I guess.”

The set list included “Train Kept a Rollin'”, “Dazed And Confused” and “White Summer”, “Communication Breakdown”, “I Can’t Quit You Baby”, “You Shook Me”, “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”, “How Many More Times”.

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Prince reveals new song ‘Groovy Potential’ – listen

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Prince has revealed a brand new song, "Groovy Potential". A one minute, 22 second clips of the song was posted to YouTube yesterday (August 13), with the full track available for purchase at Prince's official website. Prince has released a slew of new music online in recent months via his 3rdeyegi...

Prince has revealed a brand new song, “Groovy Potential”.

A one minute, 22 second clips of the song was posted to YouTube yesterday (August 13), with the full track available for purchase at Prince’s official website.

Prince has released a slew of new music online in recent months via his 3rdeyegirl website. Earlier this year, Prince and his band 3rdEyeGirl embarked on a theatre tour of North America, with gigs in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Las Vegas, San Diego, Anaheim and Denver. They played two shows a night at most venues.

Prince will also appear on Janelle Monáe‘s forthcoming album The Electric Lady, which is released in September. The Purple One will appear on a track named “Givin Em What They Love”. Monáe has said of Prince: “We are great friends, and he is a mentor to us, to me. It’s a beautiful thing to have a friend – someone who cares about your career, and wants to see you go far and to push boundaries and shake up the world – give whatever they possibly can to the cause.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpgpxJ7qodA

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Tom Waits, Raging Bull, Lou Reed, Scarface, Talking Heads, Blade Runner and the music and films of the 1980s

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First of all this week, let me quickly plug our most recent Ultimate Music Guide, which is dedicated to Depeche Mode. As with previous specials in the Ultimate Music Guide series on David Bowie, the Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul Weller, The Clash, Nick Cave, The Kinks, U2, REM and The Smiths – all of which you can order online at www.uncut.co.uk/store or order digitally at www.uncut.co.uk/download – Depeche Mode – The Ultimate Music Guide features brand new reviews of all Depeche’s albums, written by a stellar team of Uncut scribes, plus a ton of vintage interviews from the archives of Melody Maker and NME, reprinted for the first time in years and covering the whole of the band’s career from their first stirrings in deepest Basildon in the early 80s. Depeche Mode – The Ultimate Music Guide is on sale now. By happy coincidence, as part f the special promotional feature in the current Uncut that we produced in association with hmv celebrating six decades of music and films, we have reached the 80s, for which I’ve compiled the following playlist. Have a good week. Music Dexys Midnight Runners Searching For The Young Soul Rebels 1980 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnoUlZnwYy4 Talking Heads Remain In Light 1980 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU The Replacements Let It Be 1984 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7elBRPU2IdE Tom Waits Rain Dogs 1985 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVaEPx_VyXs Paul Simon Graceland 1986 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_T3XvzPaM Pixies Surfer Rosa 1988 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idtE7MkHlW0 The Waterboys Fisherman's Blues 1988 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIil8k5QnFU NWA Straight Outta Compton 1988 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgInoVbM77E Lou Reed New York 1989 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJIOl8i9Kdg Films Raging Bull Directed by Martin Scorsese 1980 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wwItkoapuA Mad Max 2 George Miller 1981 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLCmcV4gC_0 Blade Runner Ridley Scott 1982 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_saUN4j7Gw The Thing John Carpenter 1982 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjIXwkX1e48 Scarface Brian De Palma http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_z4IuxAqpE 1983 Once Upon A Time In America Sergio Leone 1984 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzhX2PD6Srw Spinal Tap Carl Reiner 1984 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll7rWiY5obI Platoon Oliver Stone 1986 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue8VS-bcj88 Withnail And I Bruce Robinson 1987 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6LhZJdCQY Die Hard John McTiernan 1988 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEOVNmSR7_c

First of all this week, let me quickly plug our most recent Ultimate Music Guide, which is dedicated to Depeche Mode. As with previous specials in the Ultimate Music Guide series on David Bowie, the Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul Weller, The Clash, Nick Cave, The Kinks, U2, REM and The Smiths – all of which you can order online at www.uncut.co.uk/store or order digitally at www.uncut.co.uk/download – Depeche Mode – The Ultimate Music Guide features brand new reviews of all Depeche’s albums, written by a stellar team of Uncut scribes, plus a ton of vintage interviews from the archives of Melody Maker and NME, reprinted for the first time in years and covering the whole of the band’s career from their first stirrings in deepest Basildon in the early 80s.

Depeche Mode – The Ultimate Music Guide is on sale now.

By happy coincidence, as part f the special promotional feature in the current Uncut that we produced in association with hmv celebrating six decades of music and films, we have reached the 80s, for which I’ve compiled the following playlist.

Have a good week.

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Dexys Midnight Runners

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

1980

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnoUlZnwYy4

Talking Heads

Remain In Light

1980

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU

The Replacements

Let It Be

1984

Tom Waits

Rain Dogs

1985

Paul Simon

Graceland

1986

Pixies

Surfer Rosa

1988

The Waterboys

Fisherman’s Blues

1988

NWA

Straight Outta Compton

1988

Lou Reed

New York

1989

Films

Raging Bull

Directed by Martin Scorsese

1980

Mad Max 2

George Miller

1981

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLCmcV4gC_0

Blade Runner

Ridley Scott

1982

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_saUN4j7Gw

The Thing

John Carpenter

1982

Scarface

Brian De Palma

1983

Once Upon A Time In America

Sergio Leone

1984

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzhX2PD6Srw

Spinal Tap

Carl Reiner

1984

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll7rWiY5obI

Platoon

Oliver Stone

1986

Withnail And I

Bruce Robinson

1987

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6LhZJdCQY

Die Hard

John McTiernan

1988

Charlatans drummer Jon Brookes dies aged 44

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Jon Brookes, the drummer with the Charlatans, has died aged 44. Brooks - in the centre of the above photograph - had undergone several operations after being diagnosed in 2010 with a brain tumour, and had still been working on new material with the band over the summer. He died in hospital on Tuesd...

Jon Brookes, the drummer with the Charlatans, has died aged 44.

Brooks – in the centre of the above photograph – had undergone several operations after being diagnosed in 2010 with a brain tumour, and had still been working on new material with the band over the summer. He died in hospital on Tuesday morning with his family at his bedside.

The band’s singer, Tim Burgess, Tweeted: “Jon Brookes, my friend, our drummer and inspiration to so many, passed away this morning. We are torn apart. Love & thoughts to Jon’s family”.

In a statement the band said, “It is with great sadness that we have to announce that Jon Brookes, the drummer with The Charlatans, died this morning aged 44.

“Following a seizure on tour in Philadelphia in 2010, Jon had been receiving treatment for a brain tumour and had undergone several operations, although he had been working on new material with the band over the summer.. He passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning with his family at his bedside.

“Jon was a founding member of The Charlatans, who formed in the West Midlands in 1989. He was much loved by those who knew him and regarded as one of the finest drummers of his generation and will be dearly missed by all who knew him.

“Jon was a brilliant drummer, an inspiration, a founding member of The Charlatans, part of our family and a friend to everyone in and around the band. Losing someone who was always so full of life is a tragedy that will be shared by so many. Our thoughts are with Debbie and all of Jon’s family. – The Charlatans”

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Portlandia Seasons 1 & 2

US show takes affectionate aim at alt.culture... Portlandia takes place in a version of the Nineties where the Bush administration never happened, where vegan bakeries, feminist bookstores and artisan lightbulb companies thrive and where, according to the show’s anthem “Dream Of The 90s”, all the hot girls wear glasses, people aspire to attend clown school and the preferred mode of transport is the unicycle. Portlandia – which debuted on American television’s Independent Film Channel in January, 2011 and is now on its third series – is the creation of former Saturday Night Live cast member Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, the guitarist/vocalist with Sleater-Kinney and Wild Flag. An improvised sketch-based comedy, Portlandia is a satire on the hyper-local alternative culture that began in the Nineties as a response to globalization and which has now become as homogenous as the mainstream itself. Although notionally set in Portland, Oregon, Portlandia is familiar to anyone who’s ever been to Broadway Market, Brighton or Williamsburg: hipster enclaves comprising militant cyclists, urban hairdressers and microbreweries, where a café is not simply a café but also an interactive art installation and Scandinavian deli. In a Portlandia restaurant, a couple require detailed assurances about the provenance of the menu’s “heritage breed, woodland raised chicken”. A couple set free a pet dog that’s been tied to a chair leg outside a restaurant – “Who puts their dog on a pole like a stripper?” – and where the mayor also plays bass in a dub reggae band called King Desmond And The Accelerators. Although many of Armisen and Brownstein’s characters reflect the self-regarding culture of hipster one-up-manship – my vintage artisan coffee roaster is more vintage and artisan than yours – it never feels like Portlandia is entirely mocking its subject. Perhaps its because Brownstein was herself part of the Nineties’ alt.culture in her Sleater-Kinney days that the show has good insider observation but doesn’t feels as disdainful of its subject as Nathan Barley, another hipster satire. In spirit, Portlandia reminds me of The Dirty Garage – a brilliant parody trailer of mumblecore films that while accurate was never snide. Amisen and Brownstein play most of the characters themselves, with occasional guests – Kyle MacLachlan has a recurring spot as the mayor, while elsewhere in the 16 episodes that comprise the show’s first two seasons you’ll spot Gus Van Sant, Steve Buscemi, Eddie Vedder, Robin Pecknold, Joanna Newsom and Johnny Marr. But beyond celebrity cameos, at the core of Portlandia is the acknowledgement that the Nineties alternative dream failed. It’s become as commodified and predictable as the culture it sought to escape from. It’s all gone straight to hell in a vintage artisan handcart. EXTRAS: Audio commentaries, bloopers, extended and deleted scenes, videos and featurettes. 7/10 Michael Bonner .

US show takes affectionate aim at alt.culture…

Portlandia takes place in a version of the Nineties where the Bush administration never happened, where vegan bakeries, feminist bookstores and artisan lightbulb companies thrive and where, according to the show’s anthem “Dream Of The 90s”, all the hot girls wear glasses, people aspire to attend clown school and the preferred mode of transport is the unicycle.

Portlandia – which debuted on American television’s Independent Film Channel in January, 2011 and is now on its third series – is the creation of former Saturday Night Live cast member Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, the guitarist/vocalist with Sleater-Kinney and Wild Flag. An improvised sketch-based comedy, Portlandia is a satire on the hyper-local alternative culture that began in the Nineties as a response to globalization and which has now become as homogenous as the mainstream itself. Although notionally set in Portland, Oregon, Portlandia is familiar to anyone who’s ever been to Broadway Market, Brighton or Williamsburg: hipster enclaves comprising militant cyclists, urban hairdressers and microbreweries, where a café is not simply a café but also an interactive art installation and Scandinavian deli.

In a Portlandia restaurant, a couple require detailed assurances about the provenance of the menu’s “heritage breed, woodland raised chicken”. A couple set free a pet dog that’s been tied to a chair leg outside a restaurant – “Who puts their dog on a pole like a stripper?” – and where the mayor also plays bass in a dub reggae band called King Desmond And The Accelerators.

Although many of Armisen and Brownstein’s characters reflect the self-regarding culture of hipster one-up-manship – my vintage artisan coffee roaster is more vintage and artisan than yours – it never feels like Portlandia is entirely mocking its subject. Perhaps its because Brownstein was herself part of the Nineties’ alt.culture in her Sleater-Kinney days that the show has good insider observation but doesn’t feels as disdainful of its subject as Nathan Barley, another hipster satire. In spirit, Portlandia reminds me of The Dirty Garage – a brilliant parody trailer of mumblecore films that while accurate was never snide.

Amisen and Brownstein play most of the characters themselves, with occasional guests – Kyle MacLachlan has a recurring spot as the mayor, while elsewhere in the 16 episodes that comprise the show’s first two seasons you’ll spot Gus Van Sant, Steve Buscemi, Eddie Vedder, Robin Pecknold, Joanna Newsom and Johnny Marr. But beyond celebrity cameos, at the core of Portlandia is the acknowledgement that the Nineties alternative dream failed. It’s become as commodified and predictable as the culture it sought to escape from. It’s all gone straight to hell in a vintage artisan handcart.

EXTRAS: Audio commentaries, bloopers, extended and deleted scenes, videos and featurettes. 7/10

Michael Bonner

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Nirvana’s In Utero: deluxe edition track list revealed

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The track listing has been revealed for the deluxe edition of Nirvana‘s In Utero reissue. The package is to be released on September 23 and will include a remastered version of the band's third and final studio album, alongside previously unreleased recordings and demos, B-sides and compilation tracks and live material featuring the band's final touring line-up of Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl and Pat Smear. It will also include the Live And Loud show from Seattle's Pier 48 on December 13, 1993. A separate DVD release of that show will also be released on September 23. The set also includes a recently unearthed instrumental track, "Forgotten Tune", as well as Steve Albini mixes of "Heart-Shaped Box" and "All Apologies". The original Dave Grohl solo demo of "Marigold" from December of 1990 will also be included. The full tracklisting for the re-issue of 'In Utero' is as follows: CD 1 - original album remastered plus all B-sides & bonus tracks recorded at Pachyderm 'Serve The Servants (Albini mix/original release)' 'Scentless Apprentice (Albini mix/original release)' 'Heart-Shaped Box (Litt mix/original release)' 'Rape Me (Albini mix/original release)' 'Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle (Albini mix/original release)' 'Dumb (Albini mix/original release)' 'Very Ape (Albini mix/original release)' 'Milk It (Albini mix/original release)' 'Pennyroyal Tea (Albini mix/original release)' 'Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (Albini mix/original release)' 'Tourette's (Albini mix/original release)' 'All Apologies (Litt mix/original release)' 'Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip (ex-U.S. bonus track)' 'Marigold (B-side; "Heart Shaped Box)' 'Moist Vagina (B-side; "All Apologies")' 'Sappy (from "No Alternative" compilation)' 'I Hate Myself And Want To Die (from "The Beavis And Butthead Experience" compilation)' 'Pennyroyal Tea (Litt mix)' 'Heart-Shaped Box (Albini mix/unreleased)' 'All Apologies (Albini mix/unreleased)' CD 2 – 2013 album mix plus pre-album demos 'Serve The Servants (2013 mix)' 'Scentless Apprentice (2013 mix)' 'Heart-Shaped Box (2013 mix)' 'Rape Me (2013 mix)' 'Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle (2013 mix)' 'Dumb (2013 mix)' 'Very Ape (2013 mix)' 'Milk It (2013 mix)' 'Pennyroyal Tea (2013 mix)' 'Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (2013 mix)' 'Tourette's (2013 mix)' 'All Apologies (2013 mix)' 'Scentless Apprentice (Rio demo)' 'Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle (Laundry Room demo)' 'Dumb (Word Of Mouth demo)' 'Very Ape (Rio demo)' 'Pennyroyal Tea (Word Of Mouth demo)' 'Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (Word Of Mouth demo)' 'Tourettes (Word Of Mouth demo)' 'Marigold (Upland Studios demo)' 'All Apologies (Music Source demo)' 'Forgotten Tune (Rehearsal)' 'Jam (Word Of Mouth demo)' CD 3 - Live & Loud: Live At Pier 48, Seattle - 13/12/93 'Radio Friendly Unit Shifter' 'Drain You' 'Breed' 'Serve The Servants' 'Rape Me' 'Sliver' 'Pennyroyal Tea' 'Scentless Apprentice' 'All Apologies' 'Heart-Shaped Box' 'Blew' 'The Man Who Sold The World' 'School' 'Come As You Are' 'Lithium' 'About a Girl' 'Endless, Nameless' .

The track listing has been revealed for the deluxe edition of Nirvana‘s In Utero reissue.

The package is to be released on September 23 and will include a remastered version of the band’s third and final studio album, alongside previously unreleased recordings and demos, B-sides and compilation tracks and live material featuring the band’s final touring line-up of Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl and Pat Smear. It will also include the Live And Loud show from Seattle’s Pier 48 on December 13, 1993. A separate DVD release of that show will also be released on September 23.

The set also includes a recently unearthed instrumental track, “Forgotten Tune”, as well as Steve Albini mixes of “Heart-Shaped Box” and “All Apologies”. The original Dave Grohl solo demo of “Marigold” from December of 1990 will also be included.

The full tracklisting for the re-issue of ‘In Utero’ is as follows:

CD 1 – original album remastered plus all B-sides & bonus tracks recorded at Pachyderm

‘Serve The Servants (Albini mix/original release)’

‘Scentless Apprentice (Albini mix/original release)’

‘Heart-Shaped Box (Litt mix/original release)’

‘Rape Me (Albini mix/original release)’

‘Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle (Albini mix/original release)’

‘Dumb (Albini mix/original release)’

‘Very Ape (Albini mix/original release)’

‘Milk It (Albini mix/original release)’

‘Pennyroyal Tea (Albini mix/original release)’

‘Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (Albini mix/original release)’

‘Tourette’s (Albini mix/original release)’

‘All Apologies (Litt mix/original release)’

‘Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip (ex-U.S. bonus track)’

‘Marigold (B-side; “Heart Shaped Box)’

‘Moist Vagina (B-side; “All Apologies”)’

‘Sappy (from “No Alternative” compilation)’

‘I Hate Myself And Want To Die (from “The Beavis And Butthead Experience” compilation)’

‘Pennyroyal Tea (Litt mix)’

‘Heart-Shaped Box (Albini mix/unreleased)’

‘All Apologies (Albini mix/unreleased)’

CD 2 – 2013 album mix plus pre-album demos

‘Serve The Servants (2013 mix)’

‘Scentless Apprentice (2013 mix)’

‘Heart-Shaped Box (2013 mix)’

‘Rape Me (2013 mix)’

‘Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle (2013 mix)’

‘Dumb (2013 mix)’

‘Very Ape (2013 mix)’

‘Milk It (2013 mix)’

‘Pennyroyal Tea (2013 mix)’

‘Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (2013 mix)’

‘Tourette’s (2013 mix)’

‘All Apologies (2013 mix)’

‘Scentless Apprentice (Rio demo)’

‘Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle (Laundry Room demo)’

‘Dumb (Word Of Mouth demo)’

‘Very Ape (Rio demo)’

‘Pennyroyal Tea (Word Of Mouth demo)’

‘Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (Word Of Mouth demo)’

‘Tourettes (Word Of Mouth demo)’

‘Marigold (Upland Studios demo)’

‘All Apologies (Music Source demo)’

‘Forgotten Tune (Rehearsal)’

‘Jam (Word Of Mouth demo)’

CD 3 – Live & Loud: Live At Pier 48, Seattle – 13/12/93

‘Radio Friendly Unit Shifter’

‘Drain You’

‘Breed’

‘Serve The Servants’

‘Rape Me’

‘Sliver’

‘Pennyroyal Tea’

‘Scentless Apprentice’

‘All Apologies’

‘Heart-Shaped Box’

‘Blew’

‘The Man Who Sold The World’

‘School’

‘Come As You Are’

‘Lithium’

‘About a Girl’

‘Endless, Nameless’

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David Bowie Is… exhibition in cinemas tonight

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The David Bowie Is... exhibition is being broadcast live from the Victoria And Albert Museum tonight. The event is taking place at 200 cinemas throughout the UK and begins at 7pm. A limited number of tickets are still available - you can find more information about screenings and how to get tickets here. The film will be a behind-the-scenes tour of the exhibition in the company of the curators and influential creatives who have collaborated with or been inspired by David Bowie. The film will include exclusive footage never seen outside the exhibition, including footage of the Diamond Dogs tour, rehearsals for Station to Station, plus rare BBC radio archive interviews with Bowie. Contributors will include Japanese designer Kansai Yamamoto, who designed Bowie's Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane costumes, and Terry O’Neill, the renowned celebrity photographer who is perhaps best known for his striking images of Bowie for the Diamond Dogs tour, author Hanif Kureshi and Jarvis Cocker. For those who can't make tonight's screening, there will be an "encore" event on August 20. You can find more details here You can read our original review of the exhibition here. .

The David Bowie Is… exhibition is being broadcast live from the Victoria And Albert Museum tonight.

The event is taking place at 200 cinemas throughout the UK and begins at 7pm.

A limited number of tickets are still available – you can find more information about screenings and how to get tickets here.

The film will be a behind-the-scenes tour of the exhibition in the company of the curators and influential creatives who have collaborated with or been inspired by David Bowie.

The film will include exclusive footage never seen outside the exhibition, including footage of the Diamond Dogs tour, rehearsals for Station to Station, plus rare BBC radio archive interviews with Bowie.

Contributors will include Japanese designer Kansai Yamamoto, who designed Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane costumes, and Terry O’Neill, the renowned celebrity photographer who is perhaps best known for his striking images of Bowie for the Diamond Dogs tour, author Hanif Kureshi and Jarvis Cocker.

For those who can’t make tonight’s screening, there will be an “encore” event on August 20. You can find more details here

You can read our original review of the exhibition here.

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REM to release fan club singles as charity boxset?

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REM are apparently keen to put out their rare, fan club-only single releases as a charity boxset. Peter Buck has told BBC News that he would like to put out the band's special releases. REM produced a limited edition two-track single every year from 1988 - 2011. Only 6,000 of each were pressed, an...

REM are apparently keen to put out their rare, fan club-only single releases as a charity boxset.

Peter Buck has told BBC News that he would like to put out the band’s special releases. REM produced a limited edition two-track single every year from 1988 – 2011. Only 6,000 of each were pressed, and they were given away to members of the band’s fan club.

Buck commented: “There were like 24 of them, which makes about 50 songs. We’ll put them in a big boxset for charity one day… I just liked the idea. I was never in the Beatles fan club but… I really liked the fact you would get a weird thing in the mail every year. So every year, REM put out a record. It was all material that had never been released anywhere else.” The releases included spoof Christmas songs, covers and collaborations.

Peter Buck last year released a self-titled solo album, of which only 6,000 copies were made. “I probably met everyone that bought the thing, but I like that. That’s the level I’m working on. It’s very non-professional.” He told the BBC that he had recently finished his second LP, which he will play live. “It’ll be out maybe before Christmas, maybe in the spring. It’ll be vinyl only – no interviews, no photos, no video. I’ll do shows, but just sporadically.”

Meanwhile, Michael Stipe recently told NME that he was “thrilled” that Jay-Z chose to include lyrics to REM’s “Losing My Religion” on his latest album, Magna Carta Holy Grail. “I’ve known Jay for a long time, he’s super cool, super grounded, super smart and super talented,” he said. “I’ve always had the deepest respect for him, and his music and choices. We’re thrilled (for our lyrics) to be included, it’s a really great honour.”

Bruce Springsteen to re-release landmark box set of rare material

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Bruce Springsteen is to re-release his landmark four disc box set, Tracks, on September 30. The box set, which has been unavailable for five years, contains unreleased songs, outtakes, demos and alternative versions taken from throughout his career. Tracks was originally released in 1998, and will...

Bruce Springsteen is to re-release his landmark four disc box set, Tracks, on September 30.

The box set, which has been unavailable for five years, contains unreleased songs, outtakes, demos and alternative versions taken from throughout his career.

Tracks was originally released in 1998, and will be re-issued as a DVD-sized bookset through Sony Music/Legacy Recording. The tracks have been digitally remixed and remastered, and this repackaged set comes with a 56 page colour booklet of photos, lyrics and complete session information.

The track listing for Tracks is:

Disc 1

“Mary Queen of Arkansas” (4:30) Recorded May 2, 1972

“It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City” (2:57) Recorded May 2, 1972

“Growin’ Up” (2:42) Recorded May 2, 1972

“Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?” (2:03) Recorded May 2, 1972

“Bishop Danced” (4:23) Recorded live at Max’s Kansas City, NY on February 19, 1973

“Santa Ana” (4:34) Recorded June 28, 1973 (The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle outtake)

“Seaside Bar Song” (3:36) Recorded June 28, 1973 (The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle outtake)

“Zero and Blind Terry” (5:59) Recorded June 28, 1973 (The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle outtake)

“Linda Let Me Be the One” (4:29) Recorded June 28, 1975 (Born to Run outtake)

“Thundercrack” (8:30) Recorded June 28, 1973 (The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle outtake)

“Rendezvous” (2:53) Recorded live at Nassau Coliseum, NY on December 31, 1980

“Give the Girl a Kiss” (3:57) Recorded November 10, 1977 (Darkness on the Edge of Town outtake)

“Iceman” (3:20) Recorded October 27, 1977 (Darkness on the Edge of Town outtake)

“Bring On the Night” (2:42) Recorded June 13, 1979 (The River outtake)

“So Young and in Love” (3:51) Recorded 1974 (Born to Run outtake)

“Hearts of Stone” (4:33) Recorded October 14, 1977 (Darkness on the Edge of Town outtake)

“Don’t Look Back” (3:00) Recorded July 2, 1977 (Darkness on the Edge of Town outtake)

Disc 2

“Restless Nights” (3:49) Recorded April 11, 1980 (The River outtake)

“A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Pittsburgh)” (3:19) Recorded May 5, 1982 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake)

“Roulette” (3:57) Recorded April 3, 1979 (The River outtake; B-Side to “One Step Up” single)

“Dollhouse” (3:36) Recorded August 21, 1979 (The River outtake)

“Where the Bands Are” (3:47) Recorded October 9, 1979 (The River outtake)

“Loose Ends” (4:05) Recorded July 18, 1979 (The River outtake)

“Living on the Edge of the World” (4:21) Recorded December 7, 1979 (The River outtake)

“Wages of Sin” (4:56) Recorded May 10, 1982 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake)

“Take ’em as They Come” (4:32) Recorded April 10, 1980 (The River outtake)

“Be True” (3:43) Recorded July 21, 1979 (The River outtake ; B-Side to “Fade Away” single)

“Ricky Wants a Man of Her Own” (2:49) Recorded July 16, 1979 (The River outtake)

“I Wanna Be With You” (3:25) Recorded May 31, 1979 (The River outtake)

“Mary Lou” (3:24) Recorded May 30, 1979 (The River outtake)

“Stolen Car” (4:33) Recorded July 26, 1979 (The River alternative version)

“Born in the U.S.A.” [Demo Version] (3:13) Recorded January 1982 (Nebraska outtake)

“Johnny Bye-Bye” (1:54) Recorded January 1983 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake ; B-Side to “I’m On Fire” single)

“Shut Out the Light” (3:51) Recorded January 1983 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake ; B-Side to “Born In The U.S.A.” single)

Disc 3

“Cynthia” (4:17) Recorded April 20, 1983 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake)

“My Love Will Not Let You Down” (4:28) Recorded May 5, 1982 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake)

“This Hard Land” (4:52) Recorded May 11, 1982 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake)

“Frankie” (7:26) Recorded May 14, 1982 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake)

“TV Movie” (2:48) Recorded June 13, 1983 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake)

“Stand on It” (Alternative Version) (3:09) Recorded June 16, 1983 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake)

“Lion’s Den” (2:21) Recorded January 25, 1982 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake)

“Car Wash” (2:10) Recorded May 31, 1983 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake)

“Rockaway the Days” (4:43) Recorded February 3, 1984 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake)

“Brothers Under the Bridges ’83” (5:10) Recorded September 4, 1983 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake)

“Man at the Top” (3:26) Recorded January 12, 1984 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake)

“Pink Cadillac” (3:38) Recorded May 31, 1983 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake ; B-Side to “Dancing In The Dark” single)

“Two for the Road” (2:02) Recorded February 1987 (Tunnel of Love outtake ; B-Side to “Tunnel Of Love” single)

“Janey, Don’t You Lose Heart” (3:29) Recorded June 16, 1983 (Born in the U.S.A. outtake ; B-Side to “I’m Goin’ Down” single)

“When You Need Me” (2:59) Recorded January 20, 1987 (Tunnel of Love outtake)

“The Wish” (5:20) Recorded February 22, 1987 (Tunnel of Love outtake)

“The Honeymooners” (2:09) Recorded February 22, 1987 (Tunnel of Love outtake)

“Lucky Man” (3:30) Recorded April 4, 1987 (Tunnel of Love outtake ; B-Side to “Brilliant Disguise” single)

Disc 4

“Leavin’ Train” (4:09) Recorded February 27, 1990 (Human Touch outtake)

“Seven Angels” (3:30) Recorded June 29, 1990 (Human Touch outtake)

“Gave It a Name” (2:53) Recorded August 24, 1998 (Human Touch outtake, rerecorded for “Tracks”)

“Sad Eyes” (3:52) Recorded January 25, 1990 (Human Touch outtake)

“My Lover Man” (4:01) Recorded December 4, 1990 (Human Touch outtake)

“Over the Rise” (2:42) Recorded December 7, 1990 (Human Touch outtake)

“When the Lights Go Out” (3:09) Recorded December 6, 1990 (Human Touch outtake)

“Loose Change” (4:24) Recorded January 31, 1991 (Human Touch outtake)

“Trouble in Paradise” (4:45) Recorded December 1, 1989 (Human Touch outtake)

“Happy” (4:56) Recorded January 18, 1992 (Lucky Town outtake)

“Part Man, Part Monkey” (4:33) Recorded January 1990 (Human Touch outtake ; B-Side to “57 Channels (and Nothin’ On)” single)

“Goin’ Cali” (3:06) Recorded January 29, 1991 (Human Touch outtake)

“Back in Your Arms” (4:44) Recorded January 12, 1995

“Brothers Under the Bridge” (’95) (4:55) Recorded May 22, 1995 (The Ghost of Tom Joad outtake)

My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields: “I regret not making more music”

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My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields has spoken about how he wishes he'd made more music in his career. In an interview with Pitchfork, his first since the release of the band's third album mbv earlier this year, 22 years after its predecessor Loveless, he said he didn't care how long it had taken ...

My Bloody Valentine‘s Kevin Shields has spoken about how he wishes he’d made more music in his career.

In an interview with Pitchfork, his first since the release of the band’s third album mbv earlier this year, 22 years after its predecessor Loveless, he said he didn’t care how long it had taken to write the follow-up just that he regrets not making more music at this point.

He said: “As I get older, I realise a lot of the things I could have done – things that I didn’t think were so great at the time – actually would have been enjoyable. I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That’s the intention.”

He went on to speak about his future plans for the band.

“The next step is to make an EP of all-new material,” he said. “I’m also going to remaster ‘Loveless‘ and ‘Isn’t Anything’ and all the EPs in analogue to make pure analogue cuts, which has never happened before.

“And I hate to say this because we haven’t set it up yet, but we want to do a site where everyone who bought a record would be able to stream various other things we put up, like an old recording of when I first experimented with pitch-bending back in ‘81. People could get a clearer version of how we wound up where we did. It seems more mysterious based on the records that were released because it seems like we went from a Cramps/Birthday Party band to a noisy Jesus And Mary Chain indie pop band, to what we became in ‘88.”

Elsewhere in the interview, he revealed he’s a fan of Daft Punk and dubstep producer Skrillex, having been to see him in concert recently. He said: “I like electronic music. I saw Skrillex the other night. The first half wasn’t so great to me, but the second half was really good – more dubstep-y and broken up and crazy. I love when things bend out of shape. There’s a sense of freedom when you hear music like that. That’s why I love drum and bass music.”

‘The Rolling Stones played the loudest ever Hyde Park gig and only had one complaint,’ say promoters

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The Rolling Stones apparently played the loudest gig ever to take place in London's Hyde Park, according to Jim King of concert promoters AEG. King added that despite this, only one complaint about the noise was recorded. Speaking to Music Week, King commented: "The Rolling Stones played the loudes...

The Rolling Stones apparently played the loudest gig ever to take place in London’s Hyde Park, according to Jim King of concert promoters AEG.

King added that despite this, only one complaint about the noise was recorded. Speaking to Music Week, King commented: “The Rolling Stones played the loudest anybody’s ever played in Hyde Park before and we had one complaint. The music could have been off and we’d have still had that complaint anyway.”

The band played the park twice last month to mark the end of their 50th anniversary tour. King explained that in order to get the sound right for the shows, following complaints in the past from attendees – who have said previously that the volume at gigs in the park was too quiet – and nearby residents – who said that the volume was too loud – the company re-created Hyde Park in a country estate outside of the city. He said: “We put cranes in where all the noise-monitoring points were around Park Lane and Bayswater Road and we ran a show for three days. We took nearly 10,000 noise measurements and ran it through five different sound systems – all the best sound systems that are out there.”

Mick Jagger recently said that he would love to play Hyde Park again. A live album recorded during the shows is available now on iTunes.

Speaking to NME about the gigs, Jagger said they were not a time to think about the last time the band played Hyde Park in 1969 at a huge, free concert shortly after the death of their bandmate Brian Jones. Jagger famously wore white and read from Shelley’s poem Adonaïs, and hundreds of white butterflies were released in Jones’ memory. Comparing the 2013 date to 1969, he said: “Well the stage was less crowded. The funny thing is when you see the ’69 one it’s all your mates onstage sitting down. But this time I saw some of my kids sitting on the side of stage. It’s like chalk and cheese really.”

When asked if he would play Hyde Park again, Jagger replied: “Not this year… I haven’t given it any thought and nor has it been offered. But I’d love to do it. It’s a great gig. I did enjoy it. It was beautiful… It turned out to be so wonderful with the sun going down behind the park. It was a perfect London evening.”

Johnny Marr says people who want The Smiths to reform ‘need to get a hobby’

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Johnny Marr has said that people who are obsessed with The Smiths reforming "need to go and find a hobby". The guitarist, who released his first solo album The Messenger in February of this year, has repeatedly been asked to comment on reports that the band he formed with Morrissey will ever get b...

Johnny Marr has said that people who are obsessed with The Smiths reforming “need to go and find a hobby”.

The guitarist, who released his first solo album The Messenger in February of this year, has repeatedly been asked to comment on reports that the band he formed with Morrissey will ever get back together. At the NME Awards in 2012, he joked that the band would reform when the current Government steps down, but he has since insisted that fans of the group need to accept that there won’t be some “big happy ending” for the group.

Now, talking to the Japan Times, he has said: “If people get genuinely upset and frustrated that four men that last played together 25 years ago are doing other things, then those people need to go and find a hobby.

“If the band only split up two years ago it might be a different matter, but 25 years?” he added. “Come on. It’s a long time. If you like The Smiths, the records, photographs and memories are all plenty to be getting along with.”

Earlier this week, Marr told NME that he has already started work on his next solo album and that he could collaborate with Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner in the future. The singer said he has already recorded tracks that he thinks will make it onto his follow-up LP and revealed: “I’ve got four good songs already and I’m working on demos right now.”

Johnny Marr will tour the UK in October. He plays:

Gloucester Guildhall (October 4)

Wrexham Central Station (5)

Newcastle O2 Academy (6)

Manchester Academy 1 (12)

Leeds Metropolitan University (13)

Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall (14)

Nottingham Rock City (16)

Bristol O2 Academy 1 (17)

London Roundhouse (18)