Timbaland played his new album for a select few in LA this week.
The producer, who has recently rocketed Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado to the top of the charts, played his new material in Santa Monica.
The album, called Shock Value, features the likes of Jay Z, Timberlake, Furtado, MIA, Elton John, She Wants Revenge, The Hives and even Fall Out Boy.
The lead single is Give It To Me and feautres both Nelly Furtado and Justin.
Sia, the oftentime vocalist for Zero 7, is to release a solo live album.
The album is a recording of a performance at the Bowery Ballroom in New York and includes the single Breathe Me [which was featured on Six Feet Under] and some tracks she’s done with Zero 7.
The record will also feature a cover of I Go To Sleep by the Pretenders and a previously unreleased track. The full tracklisting is:
Pictures
Don’t Bring Me Down
Destiny (Zero 7)
Blow It All Away
Lentil
Numb
I Go To Sleep (The Pretenders)
Breathe Me
Distractions (Zero 7)
Every Time I Die have announced they are planning a release for this year.
Keith Buckley recently stated that the band will travel to California in March to record some tracks with a bass player from another band whose name hasn’t yet been revealed.
In addition to this, he also said that the band are in talks with American networks about filming a “reality based mockumentary-esque sitcom” starring the band. Sounds interesting…
Gallows will be releasing a limited edition 7″.
The punk band will be putting out the vinyl with their first demo recordings on it. The three tracks eventually made it onto their album Orchestra Of Wolves with the last remaining track being totally unreleased.
The band will also be playing a few live shows:
March:
2nd – Manchester, Roadhouse
3rd – Glasgow, Barfly
4th – Birmingham, Bar Academy
5th – Cardiff, Barfly
6th – London, 100 Club
Another band are coming back together to release new material.
If reports are to be believed, the B52s are currently writing a new album and have been working on new songs for a while now.
The record will be their first in around 15 years and the band’s Fred Schneider has confirmed that work has begun on the album and they are now around half way through.
This may be the least shocking news of 2007 so far, but still – The Police have announced they’ll be doing a world reunion tour.
The band, who got back together to play at the Grammy Awards, will tour this summer, more than 20 years after recording their last album together.
They will begin in May in Vancouver before moving onto the USA, South America, Europe, Japan and New Zealand. All three members of the band were at the press conference to confirm the reunion tour and already pre-order sales are being fought for.
Radiohead have quashed rumours that the new album will be released in August.
The band were reported to have been releasing their new record on August 6th, with Amazon having it listed for that date.
That said, Amazon claim the record is coming out on EMI and apparently Hail To The Thief was the end of their contract with EMI with no label confirmed for the new album. So I guess we just sit and wait.
Australian Love Of Diagrams will be releasing their debut album Mosaic on April 9th.
The self-titled EP will come out before this, on March 5th and they will support it with a few UK dates. The EP features a cover of Cool by Pylon, a track used on the OC and Pace Or The Patience which will also be found on their album. The tour dates are:
March:
10th – Scala, London
12th – Hoxton Bar & Grill, London
13th – The Buffalo Bar, London
Brighton’s Great Escape Festival will take place on the 17th-19th of May this year.
2006’s festival was a sell out and saw over 4,000 people turn up. With 180 artists playing 20 venues spread over 3 days it was a big success and 2007 promises to be just as good.
The line up has already started to take shape with the likes of CSS, Mumm-ra, Hadouken, Help She Can’t Swim, I Like Trains and Willy Mason all on board with plenty more to come.
For more details visit www.escapegreat.com
Felt have released their first ever video, by putting it on youtube.
The duo of Slug from Atmosphere and Living Legends’ Murs have put out a video for the song Early Mornin’ Tony.
The track is taken from Felt 2: A Tribute To Lisa Bonet which was produced entirely by Ant of Atmosphere and the video plays on the Felt 2 comic book which accompanied the album, drawn by Jim Mahfood.
Check out the video here.