Madness will work with Sway to produce a reworking of the 1980 hit Baggy Trousers.
Sway confirmed in an interview that the new track will be called Baggy Jeans and admits to having been very cautious about reworking such a popular song, but was happy to work with Madness again after having featured on their new song Sorry alongside Baby Blue.
Sway’s next project will be with Akon and Pharrell but he insists he will still not sign any label deals, despite the endless offers.
Academy Award nominee and Emmy winning playright Aaron Sorkin has agreed to write a musical adaptation of The Flaming Lips’ album Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots.
Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne confirmed the story and compared the story to Terry Gilliam’s film Brazil. Coyne explained the plot of the album:
“There’s the real world and then there’s this fantastical world. This girl, the Yoshimi character, is dying of something. And these two guys are battling to come visit her in the hospital.
And as one of the boyfriends envisions trying to save the girl, he enters this other dimension where Yoshimi is this Japanese warrior and the pink robots are an incarnation of her disease. It’s almost like the disease has to win in order for her soul to survive. Or something like that.”
It is thought that the adaptation will not be complete for at least a year, possibly more, but it is something we can all look forward to.
MxPx have released a new video for the song Running Out Of Time which comes from their recent B-Sides album Let’s Rock.
The band are also scheduled to head over to Europe with Zebrahead in April. To see the video, click here.
The Chemical Brothers have announced details of their new album.
The new album will be called We Are The Night and will serve as the follow up to 2005’s Push The Button, with a June release date slated.
In support of the new album, the duo will play a single show at the Roundhouse in London. Tickets are available now for the show.
Two of Less Than Jake have recorded a video update with their upcoming plans.
The band will play a number of tours, which include previously announced full album shows, a trip to Japan and a tour with Reel Big Fish.
In addition the band will release a new record either this year or next and said they hope to get a better response than their last album In With The Out Crowd. They said:
“It’s a writing year for us. We’re also going to be writing and hopefully we’ll get a new record out to you in 2008 or even 2007. We’re going to try a new record that you’re going to like this time.”
To check out the video, click here.
The Hold Steady are planning to release a new acoustic EP on a limited disc.
Live At Fingerprints will feature 5 songs that were recorded at Fingerprints record shop in Long Beach, California last October during an in-store performance.
The release will only be available in indie record stores and a full release can be found on www.thinkindie.com with an April 17 date slated.
The band are currently finishing their US tour and will be over in the UK soon.
The NME New Music Tour has announced its line up and dates.
The tour will see The Rumble Strips headline with Pull Tiger Tail, The Little Ones and Blood Red Shoes on the bill below them. The dates for the tour are below.
May:
17th – Cardiff Coal Exchange
18th – Northampton Roadmender
19th – Sheffield Plug
21st – Middlesbrough Empire
22nd – Glasgow Arches
23rd – Dundee Westport Bar
24th – Manchester Club Academy
26th – Nottingham Rescue Rooms
28th – Birmingham Academy 2
29th – London KOKO
30th – Brighton Concorde 2
31st – Norwich Waterfront
The weekend passes for this year’s Reading and Leeds festivals have sold out less than 24 hours after the event had announced its headliners.
Razorlight, Smashing Pumpkins and Red Hot Chili Peppers will lead the line on the mainstage with support around the stages from Ash, Klaxons, The View and more. There are still day tickets available for the event which takes place from August 24th to 26th.
Crossfire HQ favourites CSS are holding a competition for their fans to make their new video.
The video will be for their new single Alcoholl and the band have already filmed themselves in front of a green screen, which will go online for download.
Fans can then download that and have fun putting a background up behind the band. The competition is being held with Italian site QOOB and can be checked out here.
The winner will be selected by the band and will win £1,350 [2000 euros]. The deadline is April 15th.
Akercocke will release their new album Antichrist on May 28th.
The band, who will be playing two shows to support the release – March 29th at Colchester’s Art Centre and March 31st at the Water Rats in London – said this about their new album:
“The concept of Antichrist is wonderfully rich. It represents a supreme opposite. The epithet of the great antagonist provided a wonderful metaphoric framework within which to work. We have strived to make elements of the recording as evil as possible.
Creating atmospheres that are deliberately uncomfortable. Spurred on by a rage enhanced by the complete disgust with our recent history, we didn’t have to dig very deeply to find the malice and rancour sufficient toevoke the spirit of violent antithesis. Antichrist is the perfect banner for a collection of songs that are tales of opposition, sanguinary lust and the axiom of our raison d’etre.”