Category: Music News

Shaun Ryder and his Happy Mondays are to play a gig in a chip shop.

The band will play in Brighton before their comeback tour of the UK as part of the T-Mobile street gigs season. To get tickets, register at www.t-mobile.co.uk/music before Friday [11th May] and you could be in with a chance to see them. Ryder said of the gig:

“I love Brighton. Like us it’s sleazy and mucky and cool and funky…It’s the first time we’ll have played the new stuff. Anyone who doesn’t like ’em will be chucked into the sea.”

The tour dates are:

May:

22nd – Inverness Ironworks
23rd – Aberdeen Music Hall
25th – Sheffield Leadmill
26th – Middlesbrough Town Hall
27th – Hull University
29th – Cambridge Junction
30th – Northampton Roadmender
31st – Preston 53 Degrees

June:

1st – Dudley JB’s
3rd – Halifax Victoria Hall
4th – Aylesbury Civic Hall
6th – London Astoria

July:

8th – Manchester Ritz

www.happymondaysonline.com

UNKLE have teamed up with Ian Astubury from The Cult for their new single.

Burn My Shadow is to be released on June 25th and is taken from their upcoming album War Stories which will also see Josh Homme, The Duke Spirit and 3-D from Massive Attack making appearances. The album is set for a July 9th release date.

www.unkle.com

Prince is set to perform his greatest hits for the last time ever at a huge London residency this summer.

The singer will play for 21 nights, starting with seven [yes, seven!] shows at the O2 Arena in August. The tour is being billed as the Earth Tour and tickets go on sale at 9am on May 11th. Tickets will cost £31.21 and will include a copy of his new album. He recently said he has rehearsed 150 songs for the dates and wanted Amy Winehouse to join him onstage for a version of her track Love Is A Losing Game.

www.3121.com

Jack White has denied reports that Icky Thump will be The White Stripes last album.

In a recent interview, White said that 90% of interviews he did saw him asked if it was going to be the band’s last album. He also went onto to say that now people are claiming The Raconteurs must be finished because of the new Stripes album:

“Then The Raconteurs came along and people thought, obviously, we’re done. But then with this new album people are saying The Raconteurs are done. That was a side project! So, next year, when the next Raconteurs album comes out…”

www.whitestripes.com

Strung Out have posted the first song from their new album.

Blackhawks Over Los Angeles will be released on June 12th and the track Calling can be heard by clicking over to their myspace, below.

www.myspace.com/strungout

Bad Religion have announced details of their first single from their upcoming album.

Honest Goodbye will be released as a digital single on May 22nd with their album being released in July of this year. The single is inspired by Perry Smith, the murderer that was made famous by In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Brett Gurewitz said:

“The song questions how a man with seemingly gentle and artistic sensibilities comes to commit brutally heinous crime. It’s an emotional song to me that delves into the humanity of forgiveness and retribution.”

www.badreligion.com

Iggy Pop has recently spoken about the track Trollin’ on his album which features the line “my dick is turning into a tree”.

He said to Rolling Stone magazine:

“You write about things of importance to you. And it’s gotta be for real. Do I think about my dick? All the time. I got a right to sing about it. If I thought, ‘It’s time to write a rock song, I’d better mention my dick,’ then I wouldn’t even be able to say ‘dick’ right. But it’s nature-oriented”.

Got it? Good.

www.iggypop.com

C-Mon and Kypski have recently been on a jaunt across the USA and have recorded a short tour diary on each day. Click here for all the fun.

And whilst you’ve got the Dutch group on your mind, go and check out their interview with Crossfire by clicking here.

www.c-monandkypski.nl

The US version of the Download Festival will be kicking off in August.

The festival will be a tour, with four dates having been confirmed so far. Two bands who will be playing it are Modest Mouse and The Shins with more bands to be announced very soon.

www.modestmouse.com

A compilation of pop covers has been recorded with the likes of Will Oldham and Devendra Banhart taking part.

Oldham has put his own spin on Mariah Carey’s Can’t Take That Away with Oasis, Cher, Journey, Take That and Destiny’s Child all get sonic makeovers. The full tracklisting for Guilt By Association is:

Petra Haden: ‘Don’t Stop Believin” (Journey)
Devendra Banhart: ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ (Oasis)
Mark Mulcahy: ‘From This Moment On’ (Shania Twain)
Luna: ‘Straight Up’ (Paula Abdul)
The Concretes: ‘Back For Good’ (Take That)
Jim O’Rourke: ‘Viva Forever’ Spice Girls)
Goat: ‘Sugar We’re Going Down’ (Fall Out Boy)
Will Oldham/ Bonnie Prince Billy ‘Can’t Take That Away’ (Mariah Carey)
Woody Jackson Orchestra featuring Money Mark: Love’s Theme (Love Unlimited Orchestra)
Porter Block: ‘Breaking Free’ (High School Musical)
Mooney Suzuki: ‘Just Like Jesse James’ (Cher)
Geoff Farina: ‘Two Tickets To Paradise’ (Eddie Money)
Casey Shea: ‘Chop Suey’ (System of a Down)
Superchunk: ‘Say My Name’ (Destiny’s Child)
Mike Watt: ‘Burning For You’ (Blue Oyster Cult)

www.myspace.com/guiltbyassociation