Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Quick News

MGMT will release their self-titled third album in September.

Mumford & Sons have confirmed they will still perform this weekend at Glastonbury even after bassist Ted Dwane underwent brain surgery earlier this month. The band confirms he is well enough to play.

Motorhead were forced to cancel a handful of gigs after frontman Lemmy Kilmister suffered a haematoma, this follows reports that Lemmy was also fitted with a defibrillator because of heart problems. We wish him a speedy recovery.

Speaking to NME, Jake Bugg discussed the sound and style of his forthcoming Rick Rubin produced second album. He said,""I don’t want it to be too mature because I’m 19 but I want it to sound like it’s progressing. I can’t really sing about the same things I sung about on the first album because that would be very dishonest. There’s a lot of people that come from where I’m from that don’t get those opportunities so I think I should give them a bit of an insight of what I’ve experienced so far and what’s been going on."

Trent Reznor opened up about the recent departure of Adrien Belew of the revamped Nine Inch Nails line-up. Reznor told Radio.com, ""You can spend a lot of time hypothesising, imagining and projecting what it’s gonna be with this chemistry and this recipe of people in a room playing music, and in reality it rarely is that."

Taking to Instagram, Jay-Z revealed the cover to his forthcoming album, Magna Carta Holy Grail. Take a look below: