NEWS DIGEST: Tuesday, March 3

11:26 AM GMT 03/03/2009

Neil Young's new album, Fork In The Road, is set for release on April 6. A download-only single, Johnny Magic, will appear two weeks earlier on March 23.

The tracklisting for Fork In The Road looks like this:

1. When Worlds Collide
2. Fuel Line
3. Just Singing A Song
4. Johnny Magic
5. Cough Up The Bucks
6. Get Behind The Wheel
7. Off The Road
8. Hit The Road
9. Light A Candle
10. Fork In the Road

The still-rocking troubadour has also confirmed that he will play two UK shows in June.

Young will appear at:

Nottingham, Trent FM Arena (June 23)

Aberdeen, AECC (24)

Tickets details are HERE.

The video for Fork In The Road can viewed below:

Will his long-gestating Archives project ever see the light of day?

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Jarvis Cocker will tour the UK in June.

The four-date trek will coincide with the release of the ex-Pulp man's second solo album.

He plays:

Blackpool, Empress Ballroom (June 10)
Glasgow, ABC (12)
Brighton, Dome (16)
London, Troxy (17)
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Crosby, Stills and Nash have announced two UK shows, due to take place in July.

The harmony-hungry trio will play:

Royal Albert Hall, London (July 1)
Manchester Evening News Arena (10)

Tickets are on sale now and available HERE.

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Eels will release their first new album since 2005's Blinking Lights And Other Revelations on June 2. Hombre Lobo will appear on Vagrant Records and is set to feature 12 new songs recorded in Eels' mainman Mark Oliver Everett's L.A. studio.

For more info, head over to their official site HERE.

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Prince will release a three-CD set exclusively through mammoth US retailer Target later this month.

New studio albums LOtUSFLOW3R and MPLSoUND will be packaged with Elixer - a new record from his protégé Bria Valente.

The collection will appear on March 29.

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It's been almost 40 years since the masses descended upon Max Yasgur's farm in upstate New York for the first Woodstock Festival.

Original promoter Michael Lang has now announced plans for two free concerts to celebrate the anniversary. The events are due to take place in New York (August 15 and 16) and Berlin (August 22 and 23).

No acts have been confirmed yet, but Lang is hoping to attract the attention of some of the original festival's stars - The Who, Santana and Crosby, Stills & Nash among them. Venue details are yet to emerge, although rumours abound that the German event will take place at the now defunct Tempelhof airfield.

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And finally...James Blunt's Goodbye My Lover is no longer the UK's favoured funeral song. The ballad topped The Bereavement Register's inaugural Funeral Songs Top 10 in 2007, but recently fell from the list. Now sitting in the top spot? Procul Harum's A Whiter Shade Of Pale. Much more like it.

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 11:26 AM GMT 03/03/2009

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