Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Music News & Notes

Jack White’s Dead Weather: Album Art, Tour Dates Revealed

Jack White’s new band The Dead Weather have revealed the album cover for their upcoming debut LP Horehound and announced plans to embark on a full North American tour.

The supergroup consists of Jack White and Jack Lawrence of the Raconteurs, Alison Mosshart and Queens of the Stone Age member Dean Fertita.



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Dylan #1 in UK

Bob Dylan's Together Through Life stays at #1 for a second week in the UK, something he hasn't done since Nashville Skyline in 1969. Yusuf Islam's (Cat Stevens) Roadsinger debuts at #10.

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Stevie To Play Free Concert

It's being reported that Stevie Wonder is set to play a free outdoor concert to open the Montreal Jazz Festival on June 30. The show will be at the La Place de festivals which is currently being restored.

Others playing at the festival include Tony Bennett, Dave Brubeck, Jeff Beck, Joe Cocker, Jackson Browne and Al Jarreau.

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Modest Mouse Single Due May 26

In your mad rush to scoop up Record Store Day exclusives, you may have noticed that Modest Mouse’s contribution to the day’s festivities was nowhere to be found. Well, that’s because the band’s new limited-edition seven-inch never made it out in time for the April 18 celebrations. However, if you were disappointed, don’t be: Modest Mouse’s latest joint is now getting an official release on May 26.

The band’s new vinyl artifact will include two new tracks, "Satellite Skin" and "Guilty Cocker Spaniels," and pressed up on fancy orange vinyl with an embossed sleeve. The release is limited to 4,000 copies, but if you can’t hunt one down, it will also be up for sale on iTunes.

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Faith No More To Drop The Very Best Definitive Ultimate Greatest Hits Collection

Faith No More are on deck to receive another best-of comp this summer. Dubbed T"he Very Best Definitive Ultimate Greatest Hits Collection," the new double-disc package is due out in the UK on June 1 via Rhino, marking the band’s umpteenth greatest hits package.

On disc one, the band gather up an array of tracks from their career, which until recently ended in 1998. This means such Faith No More classics as “The Real Thing,” “We Care A Lot” and “Everything's Ruined,” along with 15 others, will make an appearance on the 18-track CD. For many fans, though, it will be disc two that will be the obvious draw, with that bonus CD coming packed full of various B-sides and rarities. (Two more yet-unannounced tracks will be added to iTunes’ digital version of the ten-song bonus disc.)

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