Oct 10

Cat Power names new album
[source: NME.com] Cat Power will call her forthcoming covers album Jukebox and not Covers Record 2, as originally announced.
In addition to covering songs by her favourite artists, Marshall will also include an updated version of her own "Metal Heart", as well as her homage to Bob Dylan, "Song To Bobby".
Jukebox is due out on Tuesday 22 January in the US, although the tracklisting has yet to be finalised.

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Moby tells all about Last Night
[source: NME.com] Moby has revealed his new album, a return to his electronic roots, will be called Last Night.
"It's much more electronic and dance-oriented than my last three records," he wrote on his website, adding that the record includes "some techno songs that sound like buildings falling down". It's due for release in early 2008.
Moby is also set to launch a new club night this week at New York's Hiro Ballroom, called Degenerates.
The inaugural night will feature DJs Stretch Armstrong, The Juan MacLean, Alex Frankel and Moby.

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Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner moves in with The Reverend
[source: NME.com] Reverend And The Makers leader Jon "The Reverend" McClure has revealed he and Alex Turner, frontman of Arctic Monkeys, are sharing a flat together in Sheffield.
In an interview with BBC News, McClure explained that although he shared living space with the Arctic Monkeys man, he didn't feel any particular affinity to the band's music.
"There ends the connection, apart from the fact me and Alex live together," he said.
"I feel more of an affinity with Manu Chao and modern day rebels, really – Ojos de Brujo, Ian Brown, 3D from Massive Attack, the Dixie Chicks. I feel more akin to those people than I do the Arctic Monkeys."

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Timberlake, White Stripes among American Music nominees
[source: NME.com] Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Linkin Park and Daughtry have all received three nominations for the 35th annual American Music Awards.
The White Stripes, My Chemical Romance and Timbaland also earned nods, as did Fergie, Maroon 5 and Avril Lavigne.
For the first time, the public will choose the winners, which will be announced at a ceremony on Sunday 18 November at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.
The American Music Awards were created by Dick Clark in 1973 as an alternative to the Grammy Awards, honouring musical achievement in several genres.

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Elvis Costello pumps up Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign
[source: NME.com] Elvis Costello will perform at Hillary Clinton's birthday party, to be held at New York's Beacon Theatre on Sunday 25 October.
The party is organised by former president Bill Clinton to celebrate New York Senator Hillary's 60th birthday.
Other acts are likely to be announced, seeing as Bill's own birthday party last year included performances from The Rolling Stones, Jack White and Christina Aguilera, and was filmed by none other than Martin Scorsese.
The shindig is also a fundraiser for Hillary's presidential campaign and is open to the public, with tickets ranging in price from $250 (AU$279) to $2,300 (AU$2,563).

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Nine Inch Nails: free agents
The frontman of US industrial rockers Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor, is celebrating following the announcement he's a free agent after 18 years of record label contracts.
Posting on the band's website yesterday, Reznor revealed he's parted ways with long-time label Interscope and is now free to distribute his music however he sees fit.
"I've waited a long time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label," Reznor wrote.
"I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very different. It gives me great pleasure to finally have a direct relationship with the audience."
The announcement follows the recent move by UK group Radiohead, who are allowing fans to decide how much to pay when they download the band's latest longplayer, In Rainbows.

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Cyndi Lauper returns to Oz
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" singer Cyndi Lauper is returning to Australia next year for a run of shows that will see the New York City-based pop icon play Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane.
Last seen Down Under back in 2004, Lauper will undoubtedly perform hits like "Time After Time" and "I Drove All Night".
The 54-year-old singer – who recently completed a US trek with guests Erasure, Deborah Harry, Rufus Wainwright, The Dresden Dolls, The Gossip, and Margaret Cho – also has a new LP due for release in early 2008.
Tickets for the dates go on sale on Monday 15 October.

Tour dates:

Friday 22 February – Kings Park & Botanic Gardens, Perth
Tuesday 26 February – Palais Theatre, Melbourne
Friday 29 February – State Theatre, Sydney
Wednesday 5 March – Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane

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Sydney Big Day Out sells out
Some 45,000 tickets to the 2008 Sydney Big Day Out sold out within minutes of going on sale on Wednesday morning.
The 20,000 tickets sold online via Ticketek were snapped up in less than five minutes, a record for the event.
Now organisers have revealed they're holding a ticket ballot for the remaining 10,000 tickets, which will be drawn in lots of 1000 every week beginning Thursday 25 October.
Registrations for the weekly ballot will open at 9am Thursday 18 October via www.bigdayout.com.
The 2008 festival features the likes of Rage Against The Machine, Bjork, Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Grinspoon, Midnight Juggernauts, Paul Kelly, Faker and Sarah Blasko.

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Green Day back in the studio
American pop-punkers Green Day are back in the studio, working on the follow-up to 2004's critically acclaimed American Idiot.
Fans shouldn't hold their breath waiting for any new material, however. According to singer and chief songwriter Billy Joe Armstrong, the band have a wealth of new material up their sleeve but no idea when the LP will be released.
"We have a lot of music – something like 45 songs," the singer told the New York Daily News.
"It's total chaos. I had some kid come up to me yesterday and he goes, 'When's your next record coming out?'. I was like, 'God, I don't know'."
The band are keeping mum about where or who they're currently working with, although their label declared writing is "underway at an undisclosed studio in California's East Bay area".

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Sting tops worst lyricist poll
UK crooner Sting – who's currently on tour with reformed act The Police – has been voted the worst lyricist of all time in influential US magazine Blender.
According to the survey, Sting has made the errors of name-dropping Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov ("Don't Stand So Close to Me"), quoting a Volvo bumper sticker ("If You Love Someone Set Them Free"), and generally writing "mountainous pomposity and cloying spirituality".
Also feeling the ire of the publication was Creed frontman Scott Stapp (who came in at number three on the list) and Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher (described by Blender as someone who "seemed incapable of following a metaphor through a single line, let alone a whole verse").
Other artists on the list included Carly Simon, Robert Plant, Paul McCartney, Dan Fogelberg and Stevie Wonder.

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P. Diddy vows to care for "secret" daughter
He spent 12 months denying the claims, but now DNA tests have proven rap mogul Sean Combs is Chance Chapman's father he's vowed to take care of his daughter "for the rest of her life".
Fifteen-month-old Chance was conceived by Atlanta resident Sarah Chapman, who fell pregnant while Diddy was with former girlfriend Kim Porter, despite Diddy's previous claims he was faithful.
Combs and Porter are parents to nine-month-old twin daughters D'Lila Star and Jesse James, as well as nine-year-old Justin.
The pair broke up shortly after the twins' birth and, when asked yesterday if the new revelations had anything to do with the split, Diddy admitted it "was definitely part of it".

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