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The Cure to perform first three albums live at Royal Albert Hall

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The Cure to perform first three albums live at Royal Albert Hall
The Cure are set to perform their debut album 'Three Imaginary Boys' (1979) and its follow-up records 'Seventeen Seconds' (1980), and 'Faith' (1981), in their entirety at London's Royal Albert Hall on November 15. Following similar shows entitled Reflections in Australia earlier this year, the band...

The Cure are set to perform their debut album ‘Three Imaginary Boys’ (1979) and its follow-up records ‘Seventeen Seconds’ (1980), and ‘Faith’ (1981), in their entirety at London‘s Royal Albert Hall on November 15.

Following similar shows entitled Reflections in Australia earlier this year, the band will also take the special concert to Los Angeles Pantages Theatre for November 21-23 and to New York Beacon Theatre for November 25-27.

Each album set will last approximately 40 minutes and the evening will be concluded with a 30-minute encore of other songs from the band’s early career. The shows will see former members of the band appearing in the line-up. The current line-up of the band headlined Bestival earlier this month.

Tickets for the show go on sale at 9am on September 30.

It was announced earlier today that The Cure have been shortlisted for next year’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

Guns N’ Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, Joan Jett And The Blackhearts, The Faces, The Spinners and Donovan have also been nominated for entry next year. Between five and seven of the nominees are likely to make it for inclusion at a ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 1, 2012.

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November 2011

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November 2011
14 brilliant tracks, including Grizzly Bear, Ganglians, Plush, Van Dyke Parks, Gruff Rhys and Sufjan Stevens The day in October 1987 that the issue of Melody Maker comes out with a review I’ve written of Bob Dylan at what’s now Wembley Arena, I get a call from someone I can barely hear even thoug...

14 brilliant tracks, including Grizzly Bear, Ganglians, Plush, Van Dyke Parks, Gruff Rhys and Sufjan Stevens

The day in October 1987 that the issue of Melody Maker comes out with a review I’ve written of Bob Dylan at what’s now Wembley Arena, I get a call from someone I can barely hear even though he’s shouting over the constant squawk of announcements being made over a startlingly loud public address system. It turns out to be someone I’ve never met called Larry Eden – “As in ‘Gates Of. . .’” he tells me. Larry, it turns out, is a big Dylan fan and he’s calling because he’s just read the new issue of MM and was surprised to find a review of Dylan in it and even more startled to discover that at a time when Dylan’s critical standing is at perhaps an all-time low, the review describes the concert as one of the most exciting, if contrary and confrontational I’ve ever seen.

Larry asks me if I’d like him to send me some live tapes he’s made of recent Dylan shows. Larry, it further transpires, doesn’t miss many Dylan concerts, is in fact at Heathrow, hence the background hubbub, waiting for a flight to Spain, where Dylan that night starts a European tour, Larry with tickets for every show, all of which he intends taping. “I have quite a collection,” he says with what turns out to be considerable understatement.

Anyway, as much as a month later, the IPC post room calls to say they’re in receipt of a special delivery for me that someone will bring up to my office. Not much later, a couple of burly fellows stagger into my office with an enormous cardboard box, big enough to pack a horse in.

What’s in the box, finally revealed after much hacking at the layers of sticky tape mummifying its contents, are hundreds of C90 cassettes, each one of a bootleg of different Dylan show, going back I don’t know how far, possibly from the sheer quantity of tapes all the way to Greenwich Village.

This is how I generally think of bootlegs at the time – clandestine recordings made at concerts by obsessive fans and then put into circulation for similarly obsessed types. There is, however, a greater bootleg sub-culture that amounts almost to a secret history of rock, the most famous example being The Beach Boys’ Smile.

With Smile finally getting an official release, like famous bootlegs before it, including records by Dylan, Bowie, The Beatles, Prince and The Who, we wondered if there were any great albums still only available bootlegs. The answer was a resounding yes and the 50 best are listed in this month’s cover story. As ever, let me know if we’ve missed out any records you think we should have included, via email to the usual address.

In other news, Uncut has teamed up with Sonic Editions, who specialise in high quality limited edition music photography, to host Sonic Editions Present The Uncut Collection At The Royal Albert Hall, an exhibition that runs at the iconic London venue from October 5 to November 1, 2011, which Sonic Editions rather kindly asked me to curate for them. Readers who aren’t attending any concerts at the RAH during the exhibition’s run can view it on special Open Days on October 8, 22 and 23, from 11-3pm

REM to release three brand new songs

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Despite announcing their split last week, REM are set to release three brand new songs on a greatest hits album, which is out on November 14. 'We All Go Back To Where We Belong', 'A Month Of Saturdays' and 'Hallelujah' will feature on the 40-song collection 'Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982 – 2011'. The three tracks were recorded in the band’s hometown of Athens, Georgia over the summer with producer Jacknife Lee, after the release of their final album 'Collapse Into Now'. The album will cover their 31 years as a band from their early days on the IRS label (1982-1987) to their time with Warner Bros. Records (1988-2011). Before their split the band had sold more than 85 million albums across the world. Of compiling the album Mike Mills said: "Working through our music and memories from over three decades was a hell of a journey. We realised that these songs seemed to draw a natural line under the last 31 years of our working together." The tracklisting for 'Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982–2011' is: Disc 1: 'Gardening At Night' 'Radio Free Europe' 'Talk About The Passion' 'Sitting Still' 'So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)' '(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville' 'Driver 8' 'Life And How To Live It' 'Begin The Begin' 'Fall On Me' 'Finest Worksong' 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)' 'The One I Love' 'Stand' 'Pop Song 89' 'Get Up' 'Orange Crush' 'Losing My Religion' 'Country Feedback' 'Shiny Happy People' Disc 2: 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite' 'Everybody Hurts' 'Man On The Moon' 'Nightswimming' 'What's The Frequency, Kenneth?' 'New Test Leper' 'Electrolite' 'At My Most Beautiful' 'The Great Beyond' 'Imitation Of Life' 'Bad Day' 'Leaving New York' 'Living Well Is The Best Revenge' 'Supernatural Superserious' 'Überlin' 'Oh My Heart' 'Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter' 'A Month Of Saturdays' 'We All Go Back To Where We Belong' 'Hallelujah' Latest music and film news on Uncut.co.uk. Uncut have teamed up with Sonic Editions to curate a number of limited-edition framed iconic rock photographs, featuring the likes of Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan and The Clash. View the full collection here.

Despite announcing their split last week, REM are set to release three brand new songs on a greatest hits album, which is out on November 14.

‘We All Go Back To Where We Belong’, ‘A Month Of Saturdays’ and ‘Hallelujah’ will feature on the 40-song collection ‘Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982 – 2011’.

The three tracks were recorded in the band’s hometown of Athens, Georgia over the summer with producer Jacknife Lee, after the release of their final album ‘Collapse Into Now’.

The album will cover their 31 years as a band from their early days on the IRS label (1982-1987) to their time with Warner Bros. Records (1988-2011). Before their split the band had sold more than 85 million albums across the world. Of compiling the album Mike Mills said: “Working through our music and memories from over three decades was a hell of a journey. We realised that these songs seemed to draw a natural line under the last 31 years of our working together.”

The tracklisting for ‘Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982–2011’ is:

Disc 1:

‘Gardening At Night’

‘Radio Free Europe’

‘Talk About The Passion’

‘Sitting Still’

‘So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)’

‘(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville’

‘Driver 8’

‘Life And How To Live It’

‘Begin The Begin’

‘Fall On Me’

‘Finest Worksong’

‘It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)’

‘The One I Love’

‘Stand’

‘Pop Song 89’

‘Get Up’

‘Orange Crush’

‘Losing My Religion’

‘Country Feedback’

‘Shiny Happy People’

Disc 2:

‘The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite’

‘Everybody Hurts’

‘Man On The Moon’

‘Nightswimming’

‘What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?’

‘New Test Leper’

‘Electrolite’

‘At My Most Beautiful’

‘The Great Beyond’

‘Imitation Of Life’

‘Bad Day’

‘Leaving New York’

‘Living Well Is The Best Revenge’

‘Supernatural Superserious’

‘Überlin’

‘Oh My Heart’

‘Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter’

‘A Month Of Saturdays’

‘We All Go Back To Where We Belong’

‘Hallelujah’

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Laura Marling adds four matinees to her UK cathedral tour

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Laura Marling adds four matinees to her UK cathedral tour
Laura Marling has added four matinees to her UK cathedral tour next month. The singer, who released her third album 'A Creature I Don't Know' on September 12, will set out on the tour, which is entitled the When The Bell Tolls Tour, in October. Marling, who has largely sold out the tour, will no...

Laura Marling has added four matinees to her UK cathedral tour next month.

The singer, who released her third album ‘A Creature I Don’t Know’ on September 12, will set out on the tour, which is entitled the When The Bell Tolls Tour, in October.

Marling, who has largely sold out the tour, will now play matinee performances at her shows in Gloucester on October 18, York on October 21, Sheffield on October 22 and Birmingham on October 29, the tour’s final day.

Earlier this year, Marling won both the Shockwaves NME Award for Best Solo Artist and the BRIT for Best British Female.

Laura Marling will now play:

Exeter Cathedral (October 14)

Winchester Cathedral (15)

Guildford Cathedral (17)

Gloucester Cathedral (18)*

York Minster (21)*

Sheffield Cathedral (22)*

Manchester Cathedral (24)

Bristol Cathedral (25)

London Central Hall Westminster (26)

Liverpool Anglican Cathedral (28)

Birmingham Cathedral (29)*

Dates marked with a * feature two shows a day, one with doors opening at 12.40pm and another at 7.30pm.

Tickets for the matinees will go on sale on Friday (September 30) at 10am (BST). To check the availability of [url=http://www.seetickets.com/see/event.asp?artist=laura+marling&filler1=see&filler3=id1nmestory]Laura Marling tickets[/url] and get all the latest listings, go to [url=http://www.nme.com/gigs]NME.COM/TICKETS[/url] now, or call 0871 230 1094.

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Lou Reed and Metallica debut first full song from ‘Lulu’

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Lou Reed and Metallica debut first full song from ‘Lulu’
Metallica and Lou Reed have unveiled the first full track from their new joint album 'Lulu'. The metal titans and former Velvet Underground man had previously made 30-second and 90-second previews of new track 'The View' available, but have now debuted the full version of the track, which you can ...

Metallica and Lou Reed have unveiled the first full track from their new joint album ‘Lulu’.

The metal titans and former Velvet Underground man had previously made 30-second and 90-second previews of new track ‘The View’ available, but have now debuted the full version of the track, which you can hear by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking.

‘Lulu’, which is based around German playwright Frank Wedekind’s 1913 play about the life of an abused dancer, is due for release on October 31, with the North American release following a day later on November 1. Both parties have been secretive about the album’s contents so far.

The promotional poster for the album was recently banned on tube trains and in stations by London Underground after bosses ruled that the artwork for the album, which you can see on the right of your screen, looked too much like graffiti.

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Suede’s Brett Anderson: ‘Our next album will be damned’

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Suede’s Brett Anderson: ‘Our next album will be damned’
Suede singer Brett Anderson has admitted the band will be "damned" for recording a new album. The frontman, who recently revealed the band would record a new album as soon as he finishes promotional duties on his new solo album 'Black Rainbows', told the Daily Star that fans will always criticise a...

Suede singer Brett Anderson has admitted the band will be “damned” for recording a new album.

The frontman, who recently revealed the band would record a new album as soon as he finishes promotional duties on his new solo album ‘Black Rainbows’, told the Daily Star that fans will always criticise a future record no matter what happens.

“There are people who will inevitably say it sounds too much like we did in the 90s, others who will say it’s too modern,” he said. “We’re damned both ways. We just have to make a record we think is great and can be proud of.”

Following a series of gigs last year, Anderson said over the summer it was important the band move forward rather than just continue to “play the same set from the 90s year after year”.

“We’re going to give it a go,” he now added. “It would have to be as exciting and challenging as making a solo record for me, but we will dip our toes in the water.”

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Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason: ‘We will only ever reform for an event like Live 8’

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Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason: ‘We will only ever reform for an event like Live 8’

Former Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has said the band will only ever play together again for a major global event. The sticksman backed up Roger Waters' comments earlier this year that he had "no wish" to work with the band again despite the fact the remaining members all played together for Waters' 'The Wall Live' tour in May. The performance was the band's first since they performed at Live 8 six years ago, although between those events keyboard player Rick Wright died, in 2008. Mason said it is unlikely the band will ever play together again unless it is a similar global event to Live 8. "There are two elements to it, really," he said. "One is how Roger and Dave actually felt about working with each other, and whether there was some advantage in it that they would get something from it or achieve something they can't on their own. "And the other thing would be wanting to do something that could be a real force for change, a grander version of Live 8 driven by someone even more major than Bob Geldof - someone who could say, 'Look, we could put this event on and it would transform the Middle East peace process.'" The drummer also said he had regrets over late member Syd Barrett and he wishes the band had done more to help him with his reported use of psychedelic drugs. "Looking back on it, we didn't know any better," he told Jam.canoe.ca. "We should have just cut him free at the point when he didn't really want to be in a pop star band. It still might not have saved him. There still might have been a big drug problem or a psychosis." Barrett left the band in 1968 and became a recluse after a short-lived solo career. He died in 2006 aged 60 from pancreatic cancer. All 14 of Pink Floyd's studio albums have been remastered and repackaged for a new re-issue campaign which begins today (September 26). The band marked the occasion by re-enacting the artwork for their 1976 album 'Animals', by flying a pig over Battersea Power Station. Latest music and film news on Uncut.co.uk. Uncut have teamed up with Sonic Editions to curate a number of limited-edition framed iconic rock photographs, featuring the likes of Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan and The Clash. View the full collection here.

Former Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has said the band will only ever play together again for a major global event.

The sticksman backed up Roger Waters’ comments earlier this year that he had “no wish” to work with the band again despite the fact the remaining members all played together for Waters’ ‘The Wall Live’ tour in May. The performance was the band’s first since they performed at Live 8 six years ago, although between those events keyboard player Rick Wright died, in 2008.

Mason said it is unlikely the band will ever play together again unless it is a similar global event to Live 8. “There are two elements to it, really,” he said. “One is how Roger and Dave actually felt about working with each other, and whether there was some advantage in it that they would get something from it or achieve something they can’t on their own.

“And the other thing would be wanting to do something that could be a real force for change, a grander version of Live 8 driven by someone even more major than Bob Geldof – someone who could say, ‘Look, we could put this event on and it would transform the Middle East peace process.'”

The drummer also said he had regrets over late member Syd Barrett and he wishes the band had done more to help him with his reported use of psychedelic drugs. “Looking back on it, we didn’t know any better,” he told Jam.canoe.ca. “We should have just cut him free at the point when he didn’t really want to be in a pop star band. It still might not have saved him. There still might have been a big drug problem or a psychosis.”

Barrett left the band in 1968 and became a recluse after a short-lived solo career. He died in 2006 aged 60 from pancreatic cancer.

All 14 of Pink Floyd‘s studio albums have been remastered and repackaged for a new re-issue campaign which begins today (September 26). The band marked the occasion by re-enacting the artwork for their 1976 album ‘Animals’, by flying a pig over Battersea Power Station.

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Ryan Adams: ‘I threw out 80 per cent of my album when I heard Laura Marling’

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Ryan Adams: ‘I threw out 80 per cent of my album when I heard Laura Marling’
Ryan Adams has admitted Laura Marling helped inspire his forthcoming new album Ashes & Fire'. The singer-songwriter said he ditched most of the songs he wrote for his 13th studio album after producer Glyn Jones passed on her 2010 LP 'I Speak Because I Can'. [quote]'I thought: 'For fuck's sake. ...

Ryan Adams has admitted Laura Marling helped inspire his forthcoming new album Ashes & Fire’.

The singer-songwriter said he ditched most of the songs he wrote for his 13th studio album after producer Glyn Jones passed on her 2010 LP ‘I Speak Because I Can’. [quote]’I thought: ‘For fuck’s sake. I literally threw out 80 per cent of what I had. And it felt good to ask: ‘What am I really capable of? I felt competitive again to write great songs.[/quote]

Recorded at Hollywood‘s Sunset Sound Factory, the album will be released on his own label, PAX-AM. Jones worked on Adams‘ albums ‘Heartbreaker’, ‘Gold’ and ’29’. He is the son Ethan Johns, who worked with Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones.

Adams also revealed how he slipped into a period of heavy drug taking after he was diagnosed with Ménière’s disease in 2006. This disease is a degnerative condition which affects hearing and balance.

“All the stuff I was doing exacerbated the disease,” he told The Guardian. “You’re not supposed to smoke, you’re not supposed to drink alcohol, be stressed, eat salty foods. You’re probably not supposed to do speedballs.

“I didn’t know this at the time, but people have since said they were certain I would die.”

But the singer, who has since become sober, said taking opium helped him to write some of his songs. “I fully understand when people say Edgar Allen Poe used to smoke this stuff and have visions,” he said. “I wrote the entire song ‘How Do You Keep Love Alive’ [from 2005’s ‘Cold Roses’] without writing a word down, and I played it on piano. And I’ve tried to understand the chord pattern ever since, because I can’t fucking play it.”

Ashes & Fire’ is released on October 10 and coincides with a series of UK dates.

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Smashing Pumpkins announce tracklisting for new album ‘Oceania’

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Smashing Pumpkins announce tracklisting for new album ‘Oceania’
Smashing Pumpkins have revealed the tracklisting for their ninth studio album 'Oceania'. The band's frontman Billy Corgan announce the album's final running order on his Twitter account Twitter.com/billy and wrote of the album: "I'm really, really proud of the work we've done. Our hearts are on th...

Smashing Pumpkins have revealed the tracklisting for their ninth studio album ‘Oceania’.

The band’s frontman Billy Corgan announce the album’s final running order on his Twitter account Twitter.com/billy and wrote of the album: “I’m really, really proud of the work we’ve done. Our hearts are on the line for sure. No cuts. 14 songs it will be.”

The Smashing Pumpkins, who now consist of Corgan, Jeff Schroeder on guitar, Nicola Fiorentino on bass and Mike Byrne on drums, will tour the UK later this year.

The tour takes in seven dates in November. These begin in Manchester at the O2 Apollo on November 11 and end at the O2 Academy Birmingham on November 19. The run also includes two nights at London‘s O2 Academy Brixton on November 15 and 16.

The tracklisting for ‘Oceania’ is as follows:

‘Quasar’

‘Stella P And The People Mover’

‘Panopticon’

‘The Celestials’

‘Violet Rays’

‘My Love Is Winter’

‘One Diamond, One Heart’

‘Pinwheels’

‘Oceania’

‘Pale Horse’

‘The Chimera’

‘Glissandra’

‘Inkless’

‘Wildflower’

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Los Angeles school renames itself Carlos Santana Arts Academy

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Los Angeles school renames itself Carlos Santana Arts Academy

A Los Angeles elementary school has renamed itself Carlos Santana Arts Academy after the legendary axeman. The school, which was previously known as the Valley Region Elementary School No. 12, will now be known as the Carlos Santana Arts Academy after the school's board decided to honour the guitarist for his longstanding musical achievements and for philanthropy with his Milagro Foundation, which works to provide education and health care for children. The Santana guitarist has thanked the school for the honour and wrote of his pride at receiving the accolade in a letter to the school's board, reports Fox News. Santana recently made headlines as one of the artists protesting against the changes to the Grammy Awards. In another letter, this time to the organizers of the awards, he described the decision to remove over 30 categories from the proceedings as doing "a disservice to the brilliant musicians who keep music vibrant." Santana's particular concern was the culling of category which celebrated Latin jazz. Latest music and film news on Uncut.co.uk. Uncut have teamed up with Sonic Editions to curate a number of limited-edition framed iconic rock photographs, featuring the likes of Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan and The Clash. View the full collection here.

A Los Angeles elementary school has renamed itself Carlos Santana Arts Academy after the legendary axeman.

The school, which was previously known as the Valley Region Elementary School No. 12, will now be known as the Carlos Santana Arts Academy after the school’s board decided to honour the guitarist for his longstanding musical achievements and for philanthropy with his Milagro Foundation, which works to provide education and health care for children.

The Santana guitarist has thanked the school for the honour and wrote of his pride at receiving the accolade in a letter to the school’s board, reports Fox News.

Santana recently made headlines as one of the artists protesting against the changes to the Grammy Awards. In another letter, this time to the organizers of the awards, he described the decision to remove over 30 categories from the proceedings as doing “a disservice to the brilliant musicians who keep music vibrant.”

Santana‘s particular concern was the culling of category which celebrated Latin jazz.

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REM split up after 31 years

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REM have split up after 31 years. The band, considered one of the most influential groups of all time, as well as one of the most successful, announced their decision today (September 21) via their website REMhq.com. Their joint statement read:"To all our fans and friends: as REM, and as lifelong ...

REM have split up after 31 years.

The band, considered one of the most influential groups of all time, as well as one of the most successful, announced their decision today (September 21) via their website REMhq.com.

Their joint statement read:”To all our fans and friends: as REM, and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening.”

The band members went on to add their own personal messages.

Singer Michael Stipe wrote. “A wise man once said: ‘The skill in attending a party is knowing when it’s time to leave. We built something extraordinary together. We did this thing. And now we’re going to walk away from it. I hope our fans realize this wasn’t an easy decision; but all things must end, and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way. We have to thank all the people who helped us be REM for these 31 years; our deepest gratitude to those who allowed us to do this thing. It’s been amazing.”

Guitarist Peter Buck added: “One of the things that was always so great about being in REM was the fact that the records and the songs we wrote meant as much to our fans as they did to us. It was, and still is, important to us to do right by you. Being a part of your lives has been an unbelievable gift. Thank you.

“Mike, Michael, Bill and Bertis [Downs, manager] and I walk away as great friends. I know I will be seeing them in the future, just as you know I will be seeing everyone who has followed us and supported us through the years. Even if it’s only in the vinyl aisle of your local record store, or standing at the back of the club; watching a group of 19 year olds trying to change the world.”

Bass player Mike Mills concluded: “During our last tour, and while making ‘Collapse Into Now’ and putting together this greatest hits retrospective, we started asking ourselves, ‘what next?’ Working through our music and memories from over three decades was a hell of a journey. We realised that these songs seemed to draw a natural line under the last 31 years of our working together.

“We have always been a band in the truest sense of the word. Brothers who truly love, and respect, each other. We feel kind of like pioneers in this – there’s no disharmony here, no falling-outs, no lawyers squaring off. We’ve made this decision together, amicably and with each other’s best interests at heart. The time just feels right.”

REM formed in Athens, Georgia in 1980 and released 15 studio albums, from 1983’s ‘Murmur’ to this year’s ‘Collapse Into Now’. Drummer Bill Berry quit in 1997 to become a farmer, having suffered a brain aneurysm two years earlier. He was never officially replaced.

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Neil Young’s ‘revealing and intimate’ autobiography to hit shelves in 2012

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Neil Young’s ‘revealing and intimate’ autobiography to hit shelves in 2012
Neil Young's forthcoming autobiography will offer a "revealing [and] intimate" insight into the legendary singer-songwriter's career, according to its publisher. Titled Waging Heavy Peace, the tome is due to be published by Blue Rider Press - a new imprint of Penguin - in autumn 2012. In a stateme...

Neil Young‘s forthcoming autobiography will offer a “revealing [and] intimate” insight into the legendary singer-songwriter’s career, according to its publisher.

Titled Waging Heavy Peace, the tome is due to be published by Blue Rider Press – a new imprint of Penguin – in autumn 2012.

In a statement, Young said that sitting down to write his memoirs fit him “like a glove”. He remarked:”I started and I just kept going. That’s the way my daddy used to do it on his old Underwood up in the attic. He said, ‘Just keep writing, you never know what will turn up’.”

Blue Rider Press president David Rosenthal added that the book will “provide the window into Neil’s life and career that fans and admirers have always wanted”.

Young released his 33rd studio album, ‘Le Noise’, last year. He lost an estimated $850,000 worth (£540,000) of musical equipment and memorabilia in a fire at his San Francisco warehouse last November.

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Coldplay’s Chris Martin: ‘Mylo Xyloto’ is like a musical’

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Coldplay’s Chris Martin: ‘Mylo Xyloto’ is like a musical’
Coldplay singer Chris Martin has compared their forthcoming album 'Mylo Xyloto' to a musical. The frontman said their fifth studio effort is loosely based on a love story, which is similar to a jazz musical. He told The Sun: "Our new record is sort of a story – it's not quite a musical, but it's ...

Coldplay singer Chris Martin has compared their forthcoming album ‘Mylo Xyloto’ to a musical.

The frontman said their fifth studio effort is loosely based on a love story, which is similar to a jazz musical. He told The Sun: “Our new record is sort of a story – it’s not quite a musical, but it’s dangerously close.”

Martin also said drummer Will Champion almost ended up singing on ‘Princess Of China’ before they roped Rihanna in. Champion previously sang on the track ‘Death Will Never Conquer’ during the their ‘Viva La Vida Tour’.

He said: “There’s a bit of a love story thread so we really needed someone to sing even higher than me,” he added. “For all Will’s good intentions, he can’t do it. You need to be a female.”

His comments come after he said the track was his “favourite bit” on the record. “When the song came out, it sort of asked for her to be on it,” Martin said. And I think at this point, we have nothing to lose, and so we’ve been trying some new things and trying to break down the perceived boundaries between different types of music.”

‘Mylo Xyloto’ is released on October 24.

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Thom Yorke confirms Radiohead will tour in 2012

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Thom Yorke confirms Radiohead will tour in 2012
Thom Yorke has confirmed that Radiohead will be touring in 2012. The band, who announced two shows in New York yesterday (September 20), have so far only played one live show, which consisted of a secret show at Glastonbury, in support of their new album 'The King Of Limbs'. But speaking to BBC ...

Thom Yorke has confirmed that Radiohead will be touring in 2012.

The band, who announced two shows in New York yesterday (September 20), have so far only played one live show, which consisted of a secret show at Glastonbury, in support of their new album ‘The King Of Limbs’.

But speaking to BBC Radio 1‘s Giles Peterson, Yorke confirmed that the band would be touring, saying: “The idea is to go out and play next year on and off during the year.”

The singer also indicated that Portishead‘s Clive Deamer, who played with the band during their Glastonbury set, would be part of the touring band.

Yorke also spoke about his plans to release a new album as part of Atoms For Peace, his project with producer Nigel Godrich and Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, revealing that he is “finishing the album” at the moment.

Yorke recently performed a one-off show in Cornwall as part of the European Fish Fry festival.

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Uncut Playlist 35, 2011

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Highlights this week: Thee Oh Sees; a 30-minute live version of “Spoon” on the repackage of “Tago Mago”; and prolonged, intimate exposure to “Wolfroy Goes To Town”. 1 Roy Harper – Stormcock (Believe) 2 King’s Daughters & Sons – If Then Not When (Chemikal Underground) 3 DJ Shadow – The Less You Know The Better (Island) 4 Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream (In The Red) 5 James Burton – Polk Salad Annie (Ace) 6 Driphouse – Driphouse (Spectrum Spools) 7 200 Years – 200 Years (Drag City) 8 Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Wolfroy Goes To Town (Domino) 9 Roy Harper – Flat Baroque And Berserk (Believe) 10 White Ring – Black Earth That Made Me (Rocket Girl) 11 Can – Tago Mago: 40th Anniversary Edition (Mute) 12 Kammerflimmer Kollektief – Teufelskamin (Staubgold) 13 Various Artists – Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound Of Burkina Faso 1974-1979 (Analog Africa)

Highlights this week: Thee Oh Sees; a 30-minute live version of “Spoon” on the repackage of “Tago Mago”; and prolonged, intimate exposure to “Wolfroy Goes To Town”.

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Radiohead announce two shows in New York for next week

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Radiohead announce two shows in New York for next week
Radiohead have announced plans for two concerts in New York next week. The Oxford five-piece are set to play the city's Roseland Ballroom on September 28 and 29. The shows coincide with their forthcoming performance on the opening episode of the 37th series of Saturday Night Live on September 24,...

Radiohead have announced plans for two concerts in New York next week.

The Oxford five-piece are set to play the city’s Roseland Ballroom on September 28 and 29.

The shows coincide with their forthcoming performance on the opening episode of the 37th series of Saturday Night Live on September 24, which Hollywood star Alec Baldwin will host. The performance will be their first since they played tracks on the show from ‘Kid A’ in 2000.

This time around the band will be promoting their latest album, ‘The King of Limbs’. The record came out in February, but other than their secret show at Glastonbury[/url], as yet the five-piece haven’t toured to promote it.

Radiohead will also perform on the US show The Colbert Report on September 26.

The band’s frontman Thom Yorke recently performed a one-off show in Cornwall as part of the European Fish Fry festival.

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Lou Reed and Metallica’s ‘Lulu’ poster banned by London Underground

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Lou Reed and Metallica’s ‘Lulu’ poster banned by London Underground

London Underground have banned promo posters for Lou Reed and Metallica's forthcoming album 'Lulu' from being displayed in stations. Transport For London bosses made the decision not to allow the image on tubes or in stations after a spokesperson claimed it looked too much like graffiti. The album cover features a limbless mannequin with a realistic expression on a photograph and the album name 'Lulu' written across it. You can see the cover by scrolling up to the top of the page. The hugely anticipated album sees the former Velvet Underground man team up with the metal giants for a collection of songs inspired by the plays of German expressionist Frank Wedekind Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box. Guitarist Kirk Hammett and frontman James Hetfield recently revealed they'd been reduced to tears by Lou Reed's lyrics on the album. 'Lulu' is released worldwide on October 31. Latest music and film news on Uncut.co.uk. Uncut have teamed up with Sonic Editions to curate a number of limited-edition framed iconic rock photographs, featuring the likes of Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan and The Clash. View the full collection here.

London Underground have banned promo posters for Lou Reed and Metallica‘s forthcoming album ‘Lulu’ from being displayed in stations.

Transport For London bosses made the decision not to allow the image on tubes or in stations after a spokesperson claimed it looked too much like graffiti.

The album cover features a limbless mannequin with a realistic expression on a photograph and the album name ‘Lulu’ written across it. You can see the cover by scrolling up to the top of the page.

The hugely anticipated album sees the former Velvet Underground man team up with the metal giants for a collection of songs inspired by the plays of German expressionist Frank Wedekind Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box.

Guitarist Kirk Hammett and frontman James Hetfield recently revealed they’d been reduced to tears by Lou Reed’s lyrics on the album.

‘Lulu’ is released worldwide on October 31.

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Arcade Fire win 2011 Polaris Music Prize

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Arcade Fire have won the 2011 Polaris Music Prize, the Canadian equivalent of the UK’s Mercury Music Prize, for their third album 'The Suburbs'. The band, who have just completed a small run of UK dates, picked up the $30,000 (£19,300) prize at a ceremony in Toronto last night. The award was ...

Arcade Fire have won the 2011 Polaris Music Prize, the Canadian equivalent of the UK’s Mercury Music Prize, for their third album ‘The Suburbs’.

The band, who have just completed a small run of UK dates, picked up the $30,000 (£19,300) prize at a ceremony in Toronto last night.

The award was accepted on behalf of the band by drummer Jeremy Gara and multi-instrumentalist Richard Parry, who thanked the panel for the award and described it as “a great honour.”

Gara also used the acceptance speech to give a message to young musicians, he said: “Anyone who is under 18 and playing music and everyone who has ever been on stage and had the opportunity to play music and have someone hear it, just stick with it, because in 20 years you could be up here and have an album much better than this.”

Fucked Up, Caribou and Final Fantasy are all former winners of the Polaris Music Prize.

The full shortlist of nominated albums was:

‘The Suburbs’ – Arcade Fire

‘Feel It Break’ – Austra

‘Native Speaker’ – Braids

‘Kaputt’ – Destroyer

‘Tigre Et Diesel’ – Galaxie

‘Seeds’ – Hey Rosetta!

‘Long Player Late Bloomer’ – Ron Sexsmith

‘New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges’ – Colin Stetson

‘Creep On Creepin’ On’ – Timber Timbre

‘House Of Balloons’ – The Weeknd

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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: “Wolfroy Goes To Town”

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A new Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy album often prompts me to visit a remarkable resource called The Royal Stable, a website dedicated to thoroughly cataloguing and cross-referencing this most fiendishly complicated of musical careers. Here, I’m reminded that Will Oldham has released a glut of singles and downloads this year (some of which I must admit I’ve never heard of, let alone heard), and that he narrated an audio book (Rudolf Wurlitzer’s Slow Fade) I forgot to listen to on a series of transatlantic flights. He also, it seems, contributed a song to a full cover version of Sufjan Stevens’ best album, “Seven Swans”. Oldham fans can easily get lost on The Royal Stable, awed that at least one fan somehow manages to keep up with the tireless multifarious activities of their hero. One of the most useful parts of the site is a list of players, detailing the vast cast of musicians who have backed Oldham over the years. This time, I was keen to find out if one Angel Olsen had a history with Oldham – she doesn’t, it seems – since she’s the chosen female vocalist on the wonderful new Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy album, “Wolfroy Goes To Town”. In a similar vein to last year’s “Wonder Show Of The World”, “Wolfroy…” finds Oldham passing through immensely stark and hushed settings, sometimes with only a couple of other voices for company. “Wolfroy…” begins with a slow country amble, “No Match”, and reaches a sort of peak with a gently rollicking “Quail And Dumplings” – featuring some intense ululating from Olsen - both of which suggest a more discreet take on the vibes of, maybe, “Ease Down The Road”. “New Whaling”, though, reveals the prevailing atmosphere of “Wolfroy…”: Oldham’s voice, ever more potent, set over the merest shades of an acoustic guitar (presumably that of Emmett Kelly), eventually supplemented by some intricate harmony vocals. The mood is even more quiet, delicate and sepulchral than that of “The Wonder Show…” Compression is emphatically not deployed: listening on headphones in central London, you may have to boost the volume up as high as it’ll go, only to be surprised by the relative, modest noise of one of the album’s rare crescendos. The two most striking occur in what feel, at this point, like the album’s best two songs, “New Tibet” (blessed with one of those calculatedly outrageous lines Oldham usually drops in on each album: it begins, I think, “As boys, we fuck each other”) and “Cows”, which moves with great stealth for three and a half minutes before a solitary martial drum and two electric guitars in harmony appear, rear, and are then replaced by a vocal passage of madrigal-like complexity. It’s a lovely trick, which recalls “Wonder Show” highlight, “That’s What Our Love Is”. A debt to Mickey Newbury is plausible, too, now I’ve spent the best part of a year with the “American Trilogy” set. There’s similar unflinching intimacy, extreme focus, a sense of finely-wrought songs whittled down to their essence, then allowed to unravel in the most stately and unhurried way. And what of Angel Olsen? A Chicago singer, it transpires, who is given occasional space to show off an uncanny, charming voice pitched somewhere between campfire and Broadway; the closest analogue among previous Oldham collaborators may be Dawn The Faun McCarthy. Check out Olsen’s airy, wordless solo spot, backed up by some unshowy Spanish virtuosity from (assuming again) Kelly in the middle of “Time To Be Clear”. It’s great – anyone know more about her?

A new Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy album often prompts me to visit a remarkable resource called The Royal Stable, a website dedicated to thoroughly cataloguing and cross-referencing this most fiendishly complicated of musical careers.

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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke plays secret show in Cornwall

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Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke performed a one-off show in Cornwall last night (September 18). The singer played a secret set in front of a small crowd at the Crackington Haven as part of the European Fish Fry festival, according to fan website ateaseweb.com. The gig comes after Yorke recently unv...

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke performed a one-off show in Cornwall last night (September 18).

The singer played a secret set in front of a small crowd at the Crackington Haven as part of the European Fish Fry festival, according to fan website ateaseweb.com.

The gig comes after Yorke recently unveiled a new solo track entitled ‘The Twist’.

The frontman revealed the new track during a one-off DJ set on XFM last week. Scroll down and click below to hear the song.

Produced by Nigel Godrich, the video session features Clive Deamer and additional musicians performing alongside Radiohead. ‘From The Basement’ sees the band perform this year’s ‘The King Of Limbs’ in its entirety, as well as new songs ‘Staircase’ and ‘The Daily Mail’.

Except for a surprise slot at this year’s Glastonbury festival, Radiohead have yet to tour their latest album.

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