Mojo - The Music Magazine

Bruce Springsteen's new album, Working on a Dream, will be released on January 26, 2009.

Recorded with the E Street Band and featuring 12 original Boss songs plus two new bonus tracks, the follow up to last year's Magic was produced and mixed by Brendan O'Brien.

Springsteen: "Towards the end of recording Magic, excited by the return to pop production sounds, I continued writing. When my friend producer Brendan O'Brien heard the new songs, he said, 'Let's keep going. Over the course of the next year, that's just what we did, recording with the E Street Band during the breaks on last year's tour. I hope Working on a Dream has caught the energy of the band fresh off the road from some of the most exciting shows we've ever done. All the songs were written quickly, we usually used one of our first few takes, and we all had a blast making this one from beginning to end."

The tracklisting looks like this:

1. Outlaw Pete
2. My Lucky Day
3. Working on a Dream
4. Queen of the Supermarket
5. What Love Can Do
6. This Life
7. Good Eye
8. Tomorrow Never Knows
9. Life Itself
10. Kingdom of Days
11. Surprise, Surprise
12. The Last Carnival

Bonus tracks:

The Wrestler
A Night with the Jersey Devil

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A new documentary depicting the legendary Zaire '74 festival has been picked up for distribution throughout North and Latin America by Sony Pictures Classics. Jeffrey Levy-Hinte’s Soul Power features performances from all the event's main players including James Brown, B.B.King, Bill Withers, the Spinners and the late Miriam Makeba. The Kinshasa show coincided with the infamous Muhammed Ali/George Foreman Rumble In The Jungle boxing match.

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Baird Bryant, the documentary filmmaker/cinematographer who captured the stabbing of 18-year old Meredith Hunter at The Rolling Stones Altamont Speedway show in 1969, died last week at the age of 80. The footage was included in the Maysles' brothers 1970 movie Gimme Shelter. Bryant also worked his camera magic on that other totem of hippiedom-turned-sour, Easy Rider.

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The Black Keys' vocalist/guitarist Dan Auerbach will release his debut solo album early next year.

Keep It Hid is due for release in the US on February 10. Auerbach will then embark ona short 11-date tour beginning on February 28 in Washington D.C.

Speaking to Billboard, he revealed: "It's all over the map...there's some real dark tunes and some psychedelic rumbas. It's all that stuff I grew up playing - all those bluegrass harmonies. I experimented a little bit with instrumentation."

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Neil Finn is set to bring in hordes of musical luminaries to work on his next album.

Wilco, Johnny Marr, Lisa Germano, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway and Finn's son Liam will all be joining the ex-Crowded House man in an Auckland studio over the next few months.

The record is due for release next year.

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A new expanded CD/DVD edition of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Electric Ladyland will be released on December 9.

At Last… The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland documents the creation of the trio's final album, originally released in 1968. The film is a newly edited and enhanced version of Classic Albums' 1997 documentary and features almost 40 minutes of additional content, with all of Hendrix's closest compatriots (Noel Redding, Chas Chandler, Eddie Kramer, Buddy Miles and the late Mitch Mitchell to name but a few) all delving back into the making of the record.

Here's a taste of the 1997 release: