Mojo - The Music Magazine

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, a new broadway show featuring music and lyrics by U2's Bono and The Edge, will open in New York in February 2010.

The production will premiere on February 18. Previews begin on January 16. There's more information at the official site HERE. Casting details are yet to be confirmed.

U2's new album, No Line On The Horizon, is set for release on March 2 and is reviewed in the current issue of MOJO.

Of course, this isn't the first time a rock band has delivered their own version of the fabled web-slinger's tale. Step forward The Ramones...

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Bat For Lashes will tour the UK in April.

Natasha Khan's second album, Two Suns, is released on April 6. The mercurial pop songstress is set to play:

Manchester, Manchester Ritz, (April 7)
Glasgow, Queen Margaret Union (8)
Newcastle, Northumbria University (9)
Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan University (11)
Birmingham, Birmingham Town Hall (12)
Cambridge, Cambridge Junction (13)
Bristol, Anson Rooms (15)
Brighton, Corn Exchange (16)
London, Shepherd's Bush Empire (17) SOLD OUT
London, Shepherd's Bush Empire (19)

You can buy tickets for all the shows by clicking HERE.

To read our exclusive interview with Bat For Lashes, pick up a copy of MOJO - on sale now!
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Bruce Springsteen has finally been confirmed as one of the headlining acts set to take the stage at this year's Glastonbury Festival. The Boss will be joined by the E Street Band when he plays the Pyramid Stage on Saturday, June 27.

Springsteen will follow his Worthy Farm appearance with his another festival set at Hard Rock Calling 09 - due to take place in London's Hyde Park on Sunday, June 28.

Neil Young and Blur are rumoured to fill the other two Glasto headline slots.

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Courtney Pine will tour the UK in March. The nimble-fingered British jazz stalwart plays:

Bristol, St George', (March 12) Gateshead, The Sage (21) Oxford, Playhouse (23) Birmingham, Town Hall (26) Poole, Lighthouse (27) Bracknell, South Hill Park (28) Belfast, Waterfront (29)

Tickets are available HERE.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs will play three dates in the UK in April. Karen O et al will release their new album, It's Blitz!, on April 13. A single, Zero, will hit the shelves the week before.

The band play:

Manchester Academy (April 22)
London Shepherd's Bush Empire (April 25, 26)

Tickets are on sale now.

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Super Furry Animals are posting daily video clips online in the run up to the release of their ninth (as-yet-untitled) album. For strange handheld camera action from the Furries studio sessions click HERE.

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And finally...Happy Birthday George Harrison! The Beatles' mop-topped spiritual voyager would have been 66 today. Here he is leading the way at The Concert For Bangladesh in 1971.