Noel Gallagher aimed a jibe at Foreign Secretary William Hague from the stage at the GQ Men Of The Year Awards in London last night (September 4) – scroll down to watch a clip.
Of all the guitarists associated with the Takoma School, it’s hard to think of one who imbued folk music with quite as much mystical portent as Robbie Basho. 1978’s “Visions Of The Country”, his tenth album, is a fantastic case in point: “I would paint for you a portrait of North America as a beautiful woman,” he wrote in the original sleevenotes, “when she was young and untamed.”
The line-up has just been announced for this year’s London Film Festival, and it looks like pretty good – with new films from the Coens (yes, it’s that one), Jim Jarmusch, Alexander Payne, Steve McQueen, Jonathan Glazer and Richard Ayoade at the top of our must see list.
Australian radio DJ Richard Kingsmill has revealed in a Tweet that a new Arcade Fire single will be available on September 9 at 9pm EST.
Rolling Stone report that the band's American label, Merge, has confirmed to the magazine that something connected to the band is due to happen on that date and time.
This is the latest twist in the band's campaign for their fourth album, believed to be called Reflektor.
Arctic Monkeys are streaming their forthcoming album AM online.
The album, which is released on September 9, is now available to listen to via iTunes.
The band's fifth studio album features guests including Josh Homme and former member of The Coral, Bill Ryder-Jones. See below for a full tracklisting.
The 'AM' tracklisting is:
'Do I Wanna Know?'
'R U Mine?'
'One for the Road'
'Arabella'
'I Want It All'
'No.1 Party Anthem'
'Mad Sounds'
'Fireside'
As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, a big backlog of music to work through here. And while I try and offer some fractionally different recommendations away from the usual media pile-ons (Oh look, Haim etc), this Janelle Monáe album is terrific and I totally recommend having a listen on The Guardian’s stream: very much in the zone of “The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill” (especially “Victory”).
I guess there are probably worse jobs to return to after a fortnight’s holiday. I arrived back in the Uncut office yesterday to be greeted by a big pile of new releases, which I’m still picking my way through. Currently playing: Track Two of Damon’s reissued “Song Of A Gypsy” – “Generally regarded,” it says here in the press release, “as one of the finest privately-pressed psychedelic rock records” of the late ‘60s. We shall see.
