Former DEVO drummer Alan Myers has died following a battle with cancer.
Ralph Carney, a former bandmate of Myers and uncle of The Black Keys' Patrick, shared the news on Facebook earlier this morning (June 26). "i just got some bad news," he wrote. "Alan Myers passed yesterday from cancer. he was Devo's best drummer and one of the first people to teach me about jazz. i cry.........."
Myers joined Devo in 1976 and drummed with the band for just under a decade, playing on their early hits including "Jocko Homo", "Working In The Coal Mine" and "Whip It".
Last week started on an absolute high when Neil Young & Crazy Horse’s Alchemy tour rocked up to London’s 02 Arena, turbulence in its wake, some of the crowds they had recently played to evidently unhappy with aspects of the band’s current set, notably the long jams around the songs they are playing from last year’s Psychedelic Pill, especially “Walk Like A Giant” and the extended feedback cacophony of its final 10 minutes, which was spectacularly brutal. Audiences in Birmingham and Newcastle had been from all accounts clearly agitated.
The V&A museum has announced details of a special live screening event of the David Bowie Is... exhibition.
On Tuesday, August 13, audiences in over 200 cinemas will be able to watch the exhibition's curators Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh and a host of special guests talk about the stories behind some of the 300 objects on display at the exhibition live from the museum in London. David Bowie Is Happening Now will be directed by BAFTA winning director, Hamish Hamilton and will be broadcast to participating Picturehouse cinemas.
Arctic Monkeys have announced details of their new album, AM.
The album, the band's fifth studio record, will be released on September 9 and features 12 tracks including the new single "Do I Wanna Know?". The song "Mad Sounds", first played at the Hultsfred festival in Sweden earlier this year, also appears alongside 2012 single "R U Mine?". Scroll down to see the full tracklisting for AM.
Bruce Springsteen has already started recording the follow-up to last year's Wrecking Ball.
Earlier this year, Springsteen spent time with Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello and the rest of the E Street Band in a studio in Sydney. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Springsteen commented: "We've never had a recording session during a tour in our lives. We did a couple of things that I wanted to put down. So that was very exciting. And being with Tommy was exciting. The band – Steven, Nils, all those guys – continues to be a source of inspiration for me."
From Uncut's September 2002 issue: In one of the most revealing interviews of his career, Bruce Springsteen talks exclusively to Adam Sweeting about his new album, The Rising, much of which was written in the aftermath of September 11, and which reunites him with the E Street Band for their first studio album since Born In The USA.
