NEWS DIGEST: Friday, January 16

10:19 AM GMT 16/01/2009

U2 have unveiled the artwork (pictured left) and tracklisting for their new album No Line on the Horizon - set for release on March 2.

A digital single release, Get on Your Boots, will precede the album on February 15. Physical formats will be available the following day. The song will be premiered on Radio 1's Chris Moyles show on Monday (Jan 19) morning.

Produced by usual suspects Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno and Steve Lillywhite, NLOTH is the band's 12th studio album. Be sure to check back here next week for MOJO's exclusive first listen report.

The tracklisting looks like this:

No Line on the Horizon
Magnificent
Moment of Surrender
Unknown Caller
I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Get On Your Boots
Stand Up Comedy
Fez -- Being Born
White As Snow
Breathe
Cedars of Lebanon

U2 are expected to tour the world later this year.

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White Lies, purveyors of epic indie gloom and one of MOJO's '9 for 2009 choices, have made their upcoming debut album available to hear in its entirety via MySpace.

To Lose My Life is released through Fiction Records on Monday (January 19). The west-London trio (Harry McVeigh, Charles Cave, Jack Brown) will play a gig at Oxford Street's HMV on Tuesday.

White Lies tour the UK throughout January and February. For more, head to their official site HERE.

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Depeche Mode will release their new album, Sounds Of The Universe, on April 20.

The electro-kings latest record was produced by Ben Hillier and was recorded in Santa Barbara and New York.

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Marianne Faithfull's new album, Easy Come, Easy Go, will appear on March 16. Recorded in December 2007 at New York's Sear Sound studio, the album featurs guest appearances from Keith Richards, Antony Hegarty, Rufus Wainwright, Jarvis Cocker and Nick Cave. It will be released in two formats – a luxury 18-track double CD and a special edition vinyl.

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 10:19 AM GMT 16/01/2009

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