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Beck - Beck Works With Wilco Maverick American songwriting type Beck has teamed up with Wilco to work on a suitably world-weary cover of Skip Spence' classic album 'Oar'. Beck loves the internet. After years of his website containing not-very-much the singer has given the page a revamp, introducing a host of fantastic new features. Alongside regular blogs and photos the singer has been posting DJ mixes and even new material. The songwriter recently confirmed that he is set to release a series of covers of classic albums. Working with some famous friends, Beck has been posting tracks from his version of the 1967 masterpiece 'The... Sufjan Stevens - Sufjan Stevens Album Set For Release Sufjan Stevens is back with a new album, The BQE, a work inspired by and dedicated to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. In November 2007, Sufjan unveiled a multimedia performance inspired by the same roadway, and if the original show is anything to go by, we can expect an mammoth orchestral affair. Due out October 20 in the U.S. on Asthmatic Kitty (October 19 in the UK via Rough Trade), whilst this is not the 'official' follow up to Illinois, there are no shortage of formats and extras - CD, DVD of the original show, vinyl, 40-page booklet, comic book and View-Master 3d... Guster - Guster announces “Lost & Gone Forever Ten Year Anniversary Tour” Boston-bred band Guster have just announced their nine-date headline tour, Lost & Gone Forever Ten Year Anniversary Tour, which will kick off 10/28 in Charlotte, NC and wrap on 11/27 at the Beacon Theater in New York. This anniversary tour will be Guster’s only headline dates of this year. Ten years have passed since the band’s critically acclaimed release of Lost and Gone Forever which in their words “helped us graduate from our van to a bus”. These nine very special evenings with Guster will include two sets, one of which will be the album in its entirety and no opening... Dream Theater - New Jordan Rudess Book ''Dream Theater Keyboard Experience'' Not just a songbook, but a total experience! Note-for-note keyboard transcriptions of nine keyboard-intense Dream Theater songs from 1992-2007, plus amazing full-color concert and behind-the-'boards photos, and a personal Q&A conversation with Jordan Rudess in which he reveals details of his playing style and the experience of jamming and writing with rock virtuoso bandmates Dream Theater. What's more, Rudess wrote special "exercise" pieces to precede each song, each focusing on a challenging playing technique unique to the corresponding Dream Theater songs that follows. A must-own collectible for all fans! 212 pages. ...Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley: The Ed Sullivan Shows Image Entertainment has announced they’re releasing Elvis Presley: The Ed Sullivan Shows on DVD August 4th! Elvis’ three unforgettable appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show attracted a record-breaking audience when they first aired, and the first breakthrough performance had actually came about after Ed vowed to never let Elvis appear in the first place! ~ A rare home movie capturing a very early Elvis performance, shot on August 7, 1955, at Magnolia Gardens near Houston, Texas ~ Home movies of Elvis and Priscilla, Elvis and his friends cutting up on a film set and some of the first shots of daughter... The Beatles - Beatles Rock Band Trailer A trailer for the forthcoming 'The Beatles - Rock Band' game has been released onto the internet - and it looks like a cracker. The Beatles have been notoriously slow to take advantage of the growth in multimedia formats. The band's back catalogue has been scattered for some time, lying dormant on a dusty shelf somewhere. A quick search of the main online stores reveals that the Fab Four do not sell their music as a digital download, with the remaining members of The Beatles arguing that the group should have their own store. However all this could be about to... WOLFMOTHER - Wolfmother Plot Six Support Shows in the US and Canada WOLFMOTHER is back. The band will preview new material on the road this summer, including a run of shows with THE KILLERS. The Sydney, Australia, rockers have joined on as the main support for six shows in the US and Canada, where they’ll unveil the songs they’ve spent months recording in LA: August 31 " Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post PavilionSeptember 1 - Wantagh, NY @ Jones BeachSeptember 2 " Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts CenterSeptember 4 - Boston, MA @ TD Banknorth GardenSeptember 5 - Montreal, QC @ Quai Jacques CartierSeptember 6 - Toronto, ON @ Molson Amphitheater The Grammy-winning... Bright Eyes - Bright Eyes To Release One Final Album Bright Eyes singer Conor Oberst is saying that he plans on putting out one more album under the band’s name before retiring it. He says that he plans to make one more album under the name with Saddle Creek Records. The release is set for the fall of 2010. A long ways away to get our fill of their ambient Indie music. Saddle Creek President Robb Nansel, said, “He’s going to record stuff over the winter and in the spring.” After the album’s release, Oberst will be retiring the Bright Eyes name. Nansel added, “My guess, based on what... Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd’s Gilmour Recalls Jamming to the Moon Landing Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11’s landing on the moon. If you were alive on July 20, 1969, you were likely doing one of two things: Watching astronaut Neil Armstrong’s historic giant leap for mankind, or packing for Woodstock. Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour also watched the lunar landing on July 20th, but recently wrote in The Guardian that he and his bandmates were live-soundtracking the event for the BBC. The resulting jam was called “Moonhead,” a song that has frequently popped up on Floyd bootlegs throughout the years but never officially released. “[Pink Floyd] were... Muse - New Muse Album Tracklisting - Features Lots Of Slap Bass The new Muse album cannot arrive quick enough for me. In the years that Muse release a new album, and it’s only every two-three years because of the sheer amount of work and refinement put into each one, it’s the musical highlight for me. I can spend months listening to the albums time after time and still hear different sounds and lyrics that suddenly stand out. The layers on each track go so deep as to almost (but not quite) be impenetrable. We haven’t got long to wait for the new Muse album now, as it’s due out on September... |
