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NEWS DIGEST: Monday, April 21

10:46 AM GMT 21/04/2008

NEWS DIGEST: Monday, April 21

Massive Attack, curators of this year's Meltdown Festival, have announced that mighty psyche-progsters, Gong, will be making a rare appearance at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall on June 14. They'll be followed in June 15 by a show from Yellow Magic Orchestra. The Japanese technopop stalwarts last played the UK in 1980. To check out the rest of the excellent line-up for this year's shindig, click HERE.

Slash has revealed that the Velvet Revolver will be creating a web site to audition for a replacement for frontman Scott Weiland.

The guitarist told Billboard: "The band is actually talking about building a Web site [and] doing some auditions via that, so that's been something that's developing at this point," saying that it should be happening "in the next month or so."

For the upcoming gig in Las Vegas, friends of the band are set to take turns at the microphone: "I'm not gonna name any names, but a bunch of well-known people will get up and sing some songs, and then also bring up a couple people that we think are pretty good and might sing a couple songs," he says. "So it'd just be for fun."

The Proclaimers just started their US tour. The Scottish twins are playing across the pond in support of their new album, Life With You.

Complete dates below:

Buffalo, NY The Tralf (April 20)
Cambridge, MA Middle East (April 22)
New York, NY BB King's (April 24)
Philadelphia, PA World Café Live (April 25)
Pittsburgh, PA Rex Theatre (April 26)
Alexandria, VA The Birchmere (April 27)
Cleveland, OH House of Blues (April 29)
Ann Arbor, MI The Ark (April 30)
Chicago, IL Double Door (May 1)
Minneapolis, MN Fine Line (May 3)
Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern (May 12)
Portland, OR Aladdin (May 13)
San Francisco, CA Slim's (May 15)
Los Angeles, CA El Rey (May 16)
Las Vegas, NV Canyon Club (May 17)
San Juan Capistrano, CA Coach House (May 18)
Solano Beach, CA Belly Up (May 20)

AC/DC have confirmed via www.acdc.com that a new album featuring brand new material will appear later this year. The band are currently recording in Vancouver with producer Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen). This will be their first new album since 2000's Stiff Upper Lip.

The bill for the The Hop Farm Festival is growing. Rufus Wainwright and Guillemots have been added to the inaugural event due to take place outside Paddock Wood in Kent on July 6. They join a bill that already includes My Morning Jacket, Primal Scream and Supergrass. Neil Young is set to headline.

And finally...Happy Birthday Iggy Pop! Detroit's muckiest son turns 61 today. Here he is tearing through Cincinnati with The Stooges in 1970...

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 10:46 AM GMT 21/04/2008

Related MOJO content:

Gong , Massive Attack , My Morning Jacket , Neil Young , Primal Scream , Rufus Wainwright , Supergrass , Velvet Revolver

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