Nov 8

Jay-Z unveils star-studded album
[source: NME.com] Jay-Z has revealed full details of the many guest stars and producers that feature on his "comeback" album.
Kingdom Come, out November 20, features contributions from the likes of Coldplay, Beyoncé, Dr Dre, Kanye West and Usher.

Here's the full tracklisting:

"Prelude" (produced by Ghettobot)
"Oh My God" (produced by Just Blaze)
"Kingdom Come" (produced by Just Blaze)
"Show Me What You Got" (produced by Just Blaze)
"Lost One" (featuring Chrissette Michelle, produced by Dr Dre)
"Do You Wanna Ride" (featuring John Legend, produced by Kanye West)
"30 Something" (produced by Dr Dre)
"I Made It" (produced by Dr Dre)
"Anything" (featuring Usher and Pharrell, produced by Neptunes)
"Hollywood" (featuring Beyoncé, produced by Scyience)
"Trouble" (produced by Dr Dre)
"Dig A Hole" (featuring Sterling Simms, produced by Swizz Beatz)
"Minority Report" (featuring Ne-YO, produced by Dr Dre)
"Beach Chair" (featuring Chris Martin, produced by Coldplay)

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Smiths star performs with Modest Mouse
[source: NME.com] Modest Mouse played their first show with Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr earlier this week.
The band debuted a series of new tracks from their eagerly awaited new album, We Were Dead Even Before The Ship Sank, at the Avalon venue in Los Angeles.
Marr played lead guitar and took vocal duties with lead singer Isaac Brock on new song "Fire It Up" and 2004 single "Float On", Rolling Stone reported.
The legend also performed backing vocals on "Paper Thin Walls" from 2000's The Moon & Antarctica before resuming guitar duties on "Bury Me With It".

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Oasis to hit studio this month
[source: NME.com] Oasis singer Liam Gallagher has revealed the band will commence work on a new studio album this month.
The rock giants release best-of compilation Stop The Clocks on November 20, but Gallagher is keen to begin on the follow-up to 2005's Don't Believe The Truth.
"I want to get this [Stop The Clocks] out of the f**king way. It's doing my head in," the singer told Uncut.
Stop The Clocks will mark the end of the band's deal with SonyBMG and the Oasis singer said he's looking forward on moving on.
"I reckon we're going to start doing something new this month [and] go to our studio. It's the bollocks. F**kin' old Tudor ranch in High Wycombe, f**king stay there and get it done. Just got to wait for Noel to finish his tunes, I suppose."

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Genesis confirm live return
[source: NME.com] Genesis are to tour for the first time in 15 years.
The band – which features Tony Banks, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford, but not original singer Peter Gabriel or guitarist Steve Hackett – revealed the news at a press conference in London on Tuesday. The European dates will be in support of a series of album re-issues.
The Turn It On Again tour begins on June 11 in Helsinki and includes two British dates – London on July 7 and Manchester on July 8.

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The Bravery to play secret shows
[source: NME.com] The Bravery will preview material from new album The Sun & The Moon at three tiny venues on America's east coast next week.
The band have just completed their second album and the shows will act as warm-up gigs for a larger South American tour later this month.
In a posting on The Bravery's website, singer Sam Endicott said five months without gigs has been "brutal" and the band can't wait to get back on the road. The Bravery will return to the US to play several "private" shows at the end of November, with limited tickets available to the public.

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Britney files for divorce
Despite having two kids in as many years with husband, dancer and wannabe rapper Kevin Federline, pop queen Britney Spears has filed for divorce.
Court documents presented in Los Angeles yesterday claimed 24-year-old Spears is seeking custody of the pair's two children – one-year-old Sean Preston and two-month-old Jayden James – and cited "irreconcilable differences" for the split.
Spears and Federline married in September 2004, not long after the singer's first marriage to a former high school sweetheart in Las Vegas (which was annulled three days later). At the time, Federline had left his pregnant girlfriend, Shar Jackson, with whom he already has two children.
"We're going to be together for ever," Spears said in 2005 when asked about Federline's rumoured partying. "We know that, and that's the only thing that matters."

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Big Day Out gets bigger
Big Day Out organisers have announced the latest additions to the festival's line-up.
Heading our way in early 2007 will be English rockers Kasabian (on their first trip Down Under), UK rapper Mike Skinner (aka The Streets), English MySpace pop queen Lily Allen, Las Vegas outfit The Crystal Method (performing a DJ set), French electronic duo Justice, metal rockers Trivium, punk poet John Cooper Clarke, Japanese beatboxers Afra & The Incredible Beatbox Band, US rapper Lupe Fiasco, beatmaster Diplo and New Zealand drum'n'bass outfit Shapeshifter.
Locals joining the bill include The John Butler Trio, Little Birdy, Something For Kate, You Am I, The Presets, Bob Evans, The Drones, The Butterfly Effect and [Love] Tattoo.
The Big Day Out has already sold out in Sydney and the Gold Coast, with other cities selling fast.

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Trivium: http://bigpondmusic.com.au/Artist/Trivium.aspx
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Something For Kate: http://bigpondmusic.com.au/Artist/Something-For-Kate.aspx
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P!NK announces Oz tour
Pop superstar P!NK will bring her I'm Not Dead world tour to Australia next April. It will be her first visit to our shores since 2004.
UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph was full of praise for the show.
"She has a secret weapon: she can sing up a storm, her 'Janis Joplin meets Whitney Houston' pyrotechnics making most of her rivals sound like rank amateurs."
The singer is currently preparing for a string of arena dates across the UK and Europe, plus US shows with Justin Timberlake.
Tickets for her Australian shows go on sale Friday November 17, with the tour kicking off in Perth on Thursday April 20 before heading to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

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The Doors back in court
Legendary LA outfit The Doors (minus dead singer Jim Morrison, of course) are still fighting a court battle over the naming rights of the group. So far, drummer John Densmore has successfully prevented keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger from touring as The Doors Of The 21st Century.
Despite their differences, and with appeals well underway, the trio – individually, at least – are promoting new box-set Perception, due out Tuesday November 21, and a new book, The Doors By The Doors.
The book includes an interview with Jim Morrison's father (who's never spoken before about his son, and who sides with Densmore in court), while the box-set contains six CDs and six DVDs (complete with fresh footage).
"These things happen in a rock and roll band," Manzarek said of the group's legal wrangling. "If you stay together long enough in a rock and roll band, something will go wrong."
The Doors have sold almost 90 million albums since 1967's self-titled debut.

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Artic Monkeys to go acoustic?
Arctic Monkeys have spoken of plans for their second LP, with frontman/songwriter Alex Turner revealing he's considering moving into acoustic territory.
"I can't stop writing songs, I don't know what else I'm going to do," he told a journalist last week, before warnings fans of the new direction.
"I've written quite a few slower ones – there's 13 or 14 songs, maybe a few more, in different states."
Domino Records boss Laurence Bell said the band's newest track, "Brain Storm", is "very bright and metallic" and will shock a few people.

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