Apr 11

Pixies tribute to include Mogwai
[source: NME.com] Mogwai will contribute to the forthcoming Pixies tribute album, Dig For Fire: A Pixies Tribute.
The Scots have revealed they will cover the classic Pixies song, "Gouge Away".
The album, set for a Tuesday November 13 release via American Laundromat Records, will also feature Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis, British Sea Power, Ok Go, They Might Be Giants and The Rosebuds, among other notable artists.
Further details of the tribute album are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.

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Chemical Brothers recruit Klaxons for new album
[source: NME.com] The Chemical Brothers' follow-up to 2005's Push The Button will feature collaborations with Klaxons, Midlake, Ali Love and Willy Mason.
We Are The Night contains 12 tracks and is due out Saturday June 9, while "Do It Again" (featuring Ali Love) will be the first single.
Klaxons appear on "All Rights Reversed" and Mason handles vocal duties on "Battle Scars". Midlake collaborated on album closer "The Pills Won't Help You Now".
According to a spokesperson for The Chemical Brothers, listeners can expect "tracks of psychedelic warehouse party acid music" that are "euphorically melodic and uncompromising".

We Are The Night tracklisting:

"No Path To Follow"
"We Are The Night"
"All Rights Reversed" (featuring Klaxons)
"Saturate"
"Do It Again" (featuring Ali Love)
"Das Spiegel"
"The Salmon Dance" (featuring Fatlip)
"Burst Generator"
"A Modern Midnight Conversation"
"Battle Scars" (featuring Willy Mason)
"Harpoons"
"The Pills Won't Help You Now" (featuring Midlake)

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Mötley Crüe Launch Cruise
[source: NME.com] Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil has launched the Motley Cruise, a four-day boat trip that will run between Thursday January 24 and Monday January 28, 2008.
The cruise is set to feature a concert from the legendary LA hair rockers and several other performers. There are also meet-and-greets and charity poker tournaments mooted.
It 's being billed as "four days of rock and roll on the high seas – Miami to Key West, FL and Calica, Mexico".
For full details, visit www.motleycruise.org.

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Lily Allen enraged over satirical track
[source: NME.com] Lily Allen is seething over an unknown track that sends up the current crop of London artist scenesters.
Performed by an (as-yet) unknown artist, "LDN Is A Victim" surfaced on the internet and name-checks the likes of Lily Allen, The Streets, Kate Nash and The Maccabees.
The track parodies the current London music scene and its supposed "middle class" roots.
Posting a comment on the "LDN Is A Victim" MySpace page, Lily Allen fumed: "So what if we're middle class? Just cause your mum was too lazy to get her fat ass off the sofa and make some cash. I shouldn't be able to make tunes, yeah? (Which is more than you're doing by the way)."
Continuing her post, she added sarcastically: "Thanks for the song, it really made us see the light, now we know where we belong."
"LDN Is A Victim" is currently available to download through www.myspace.com/ldnisavictim, while a limited edition 7" is due out on Monday April 23.

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Blur drummer to stand for election
[source: NME.com] Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has announced he intends to stand in the UK local council elections this May as a Labour candidate.
Rowntree has confirmed his selection to stand as Labour's candidate for a forthcoming council by-election in Marylebone.
Speaking about his new career, Rowntree told The Independent: "I've been a long-standing member of the Labour party and active in local politics for a while.
"I'm a Westminster resident and in my experience of living here, it all looks lovely – there are hanging baskets everywhere – but you only need to scratch beneath the surface and see that there's a lot of deprivation and a lot of inequality around. I think someone needs to do something about it."
However, the drummer may face difficulties in getting elected, as the Marylebone ward is a traditional Conservative stronghold.

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Home of June Carter and Johnny Cash burns down
The Tennessee home of late country greats Johnny Cash and wife June Carter has gone up in flames.
Recently purchased by Bee Gee Barry Gibb – who was intending on remodelling the house in order to record music in the legendary abode – the lakeside home was the primary residence for the pair between its purchase in 1968 and their deaths in 2003.
It was also featured in Cash's final video, the Grammy-wining "Hurt". Gibb was, according to local newspaper the Hendersonville Star News, planning on moving in this winter, and had previously told reporters he was "determined to preserve [the house] to honour the memory" of its previous occupants.
Local fire officials haven't determined what caused the blaze in the three-storey wooden house.

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Ozzy launches solo LP
He's taken on reality TV and successfully launched an international touring festival. Now former Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne is set to release his first studio album in more than six years.
Black Rain, due out in mid-May, finds Osbourne backed by his regular band, including infamous guitarist Zakk Wylde. Tracks on the LP include "Civilize The Universe" and "Thank God For The Almighty Dollar", both of which can currently be heard on Ozzy's website (www.ozzy.com).
According to John Michael – better known as Ozzy – the theme of the LP is his unease with the state of the world.
"I just thought there's so much f**king bad news, the only way I can release it is to put it in a song," Osbourne said. Expect a world tour this winter.

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Queens Of The Stone Age reveal tracklisting
Queens Of The Stone Age's fifth studio album, Era Vulgaris, is due to hit shelves on Monday June 11.
The follow-up to 2005's Lullabies To Paralyze, it features guest spots from the likes of Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, Mark Lanegan and ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons.

Era Vulgaris tracklisting:

"Turning On The Screw"
"Sick, Sick, Sick"
"I'm Designer"
"Into The Hollow"
"Misfit Love"
"Battery Acid"
"Make It Wit Chu"
"3's & 7's"
"Suture Up Your Future"
"River In The Road"
"Run Pig Run"

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Radiohead preview new tracks online
Radiohead, still without a record label, have previewed snippets of new material on their website.
Currently working on their seventh album, Thom Yorke and pals posted a short video this week in the Dead Airspace section of their website.
Under the title "a wee troop doon memori lane", the new video has been made by long-term collaborators the Vapour Brothers and features the band jamming in the studio and Yorke DJing.
"This is what happens when you spend too long listening to the same thing over and over again," Yorke writes, "until you just cant tell anymore and you have to do something else instead."
Visit http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace.

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Live Billy Thorpe album imminent
Following his sudden death on Wednesday February 28, the management and record company of late Aussie icon Billy Thorpe have confirmed they'll release a double CD by the rocker on Saturday April 21.
Solo – The Last Recordings captures Thorpe doing "what he loved best – playing live and sharing the stories behind the songs with his audience," manager Michael Chugg revealed.
"I'm very excited about this album as it is obviously Bill's last recording, but it's also exactly what he would have loved it to be."
The LP captures a one-off show by Thorpe at Sydney venue The Basement, held on Saturday December 16 in 2006. It features covers of rock and roll classics like "Be Bop A Lula", "Somewhere Over The Rainbow", Rock My Baby" and "Oop Poo Pa Doo", as well as a previously unreleased Thorpe original, "Girls Of Summer".
Thorpe's wife, Lynn, and children, Rusty and Lauren, said the recording does justice to the musician's memory.
"Always one to give everything he had to a performance, this particular departure from being the frontman of a band enabled him to give that extra bit of himself, a sense of true confidence in his gift. We are so lucky to have captured this amazing display live, to cherish, remember and celebrate now and forever."

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Live Earth line-ups announced
Some of the biggest names in music will take to stages across the planet on Saturday July 7 as part of the Live Earth initiative.
With the Australian leg still being finalised, organisers of the international concerts have revealed line-ups for the London and New York shows.
The New York show, to be played at Giants Stadium, will feature The Police, Smashing Pumpkins, Roger Waters, Dave Matthews Band, AFI, Akon, Alicia Keys, Bon Jovi, Fall Out Boy, John Mayer, Kelly Clarkson, KT Tunstall, Ludacris, Melissa Etheridge, Rihanna and Kanye West.
Meanwhile, Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Genesis, Beastie Boys, Foo Fighters, Black Eyed Peas, Bloc Party, Corinne Bailey Rae, Damien Rice, David Gray, Duran Duran, James Blunt, John Legend, Keane, Paolo Nutini, Razorlight and Snow Patrol will perform at London's Wembley Stadium on the same day.
Other countries yet to announce line-ups include China (Steps of the Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai), South Africa (Johannesburg Cradle of Human Kind), Australia (Sydney's Aussie Stadium), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach), and Japan (Tokyo Dome). All concerts will be streamed at LiveEarth.MSN.com, while TV stations across the globe will also screen the performances.

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