Bob Dylan is among the artists appearing on the soundtrack for Inside Llewyn Davis, the new film from the Coen Brothers.
The film, which is set in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and stars Oscar Isaac as an upcoming folk singer, contains contemporaneous music by Dylan and Dave Van Ronk alongside material performed by members of the cast, including Isaac and Justin Timberlake, and Marcus Mumford.
Earl Slick says there are no secret plans in place for David Bowie to tour before the end of the year.
The guitarist, who has played with Bowie since 1974, says there's no conspiracy about live dates, there is just nothing scheduled.
Speaking to NME, he said: "I get asked all the time. And I say 'Do you know something I don't know?' Really though, there's no big secret we're keeping from everyone. There'll definitely be no shows this year, I can tell you that. There's no conspiracy about a tour, there just is no tour, and that's all I got for you.
Body/Head, the electric guitar duo comprised of Kim Gordon and Bill Nace (X.O.4, Vampire Belt, Ceylon Mange), have announced details of their debut album, Coming Apart.
The album will be released as a double LP, CD and digital album by Matador Records on September 16.
Body/Head began as a largely instrumental project after Gordon announced her separation from Thurston Moore in late 2011.
The Rolling Stones' Mick Taylor and The Black Keys' Patrick Carney appear together on a new track by Stephen Dale Petit called "Holla".
Petit, a London-based American blues singer, enlisted the help of his famous pals to record the song, which is taken from his forthcoming album Cracking The Code, which also features a track with Dr. John.
Speaking about the collaboration, Stephen Dale Petit said: "It’s been mind blowing to get to work with the best musicians & producers in the world, the crème de la crème. I can't wait for people to hear it."
In among short stories from Annie Proulx, Ed Park and Dashiell Hammett in The New Yorker’s recent “Crimes & Misdemeanours” fiction special was, unexpectedly, new material by Cormac McCarthy.
Over a week on, I suppose we’re still dealing with a kind of Neil Young & Crazy Horse feedback. This week’s major live distraction in the office, though, has been a stream/download of Wilco’s covers set from their festival last Friday night. The whole thing is hugely recommended but, if you’re pressed for time, please have a listen to the uncanny version of “Marquee Moon” I’ve embedded below.
Motörhead have had to cancel two European gigs after their frontman Lemmy suffered a haematoma.
The band have pulled tonight's show in Milan (June 25) and also had to cancel their gig on June 22 at a festival in Austria, reports Ultimate Classic Rock. The size, scale or location of Lemmy's haematoma – where blood collects outside of a blood vessel - is not known, but the news of the medical problem follows reports that the frontman has also recently been fitted with a defibrillator because of heart problems.
