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Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement
From Sheffield, synth pop and funk to stick it to Thatcher. Currently being played live!
10:35 AM GMT 14/09/2009
The Rolling Stones are to release a 40th anniversary edition of their legendary live set 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!'.
The record will be reissued in both deluxe (three-disc/one DVD) and super-deluxe format (three-disc/one DVD/56-page booklet/three vinyl replicas), each chronicling the band's two-night stand at Madison Square Garden in November 1969. The two packages are set to include extra tracks and footage of the album's classic cover shoot featuring Charlie Watts jumping around next to a donkey. They really don't make them like they used to.
The deluxe set will appear on November 3 with the super deluxe collection hitting shelves on November 17.
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The Beatles' 1968 animated movie Yellow Submarine is to be remade using 3-D technology.
Disney, the studio behind the project, will work with Apple Corps to produce a new motion-capture version of the classic story. Academy Award-winning director Robert Zemeckis will direct the film.
A tentative release date of summer 2012 has been set.
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At the age of 92, Dame Vera Lynn has become the oldest living artist to hit the top of the UK album chart.
We'll Meet Again - The Very Best of Vera Lynn beat the likes of Arctic Monkeys' Humbug, Jamie T's Kings and Queens and the entire remastered Beatles catalogue to the Number 1 spot. "You never know what's round the corner do you?" Lynn told the BBC.
Elsewhere in the upper echelons of the charts, The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Abbey Road, Revolver and Rubber Soul all made it into the Top Ten, charting at Numbers 5, 6, 9 and 10 respectively.
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Barney Bubbles, the legendary graphic designer who created cover art for the likes of Hawkwind, Elvis Costello and The Damned, will be honoured at an event scheduled to take place in London in November.
Bubbles, who also directed The Specials' Ghost Town promo, died in 1983. At this year's London tribute The Hawklords will perform Hawkwind's 1973 epic, Space Ritual, in its entirety. A host of west London cult heroes are also set to perform. The line-up includes Quintessence, Brian James Gang, Inner City Unit and Bubbles' very own The Imperial Pompadours.
Here are the full details:
Date: Sunday, November 29.
Time: 2pm - 10pm.
Venue: The 229 Club, 229 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PN.
For more info and ticket details, head over to www.hawklords.com
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Happy Mondays have embarked on a tour of the US.
Support for the two-month trek will come from Psychedelic Furs and Island.
The Manchester legends play:
Boulder, CO Boulder Theatre (September 11)
Salt Lake City, UT The Venue (12)
Seattle, WA Moore Theatre (14)
Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom (15)
San Francisco, CA Grand Regency Center (17)
Los Angeles, CA Club Nokia (18)
Anaheim, CA House of Blues (19)
San Diego, CA House of Blues (20)
Las Vegas, NV House of Blues (22)
Austin, TX Stubbs BBQ (24)
Dallas, TX House of Blues (25)
Houston, TX House of Blues (26)
Tampa, FL The Ritz Ybor (28)
Ft Lauderdale, FL Revolution (29)
Orlando, FL House of Blues (30)
Atlanta, GA The Masquerade (October 2)
Charlotte, NC Amos' (3)
Norfolk, VA The Norva (4)
Washington DC 9:30 Club (6)
Philadelphia, PA Trocadero (7)
New York, NY Roseland (9)
Cambridge, MA House of Blues (10)
Columbus, OH Newport (12)
Pontiac, MI Clutch Cargo's (13)
Toronto, Ontario Kool Haus (14)
Montreal, Quebec Olympia (15)
For more info and ticket details, head to the Mondays' official site HERE.
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And finally...his brilliant new album Truelove's Gutter is set for release on September 21 so why not check out the video for Richard Hawley's For Your Lover, Give Some Time below!
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 10:35 AM GMT 14/09/2009
Our man in Austin referees folk throwdown, watches Seymour Stein take a nap.
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A personal appreciation of the groundbreaking DJ/writer by MOJO's David Hutcheon...
10:15 AM GMT 19/03/2010
A personal tribute to the reluctant Big Star legend, by MOJO's Martin Aston.
6:07 PM GMT 18/03/2010
MOJO office types had a fight over the art-pop egghead's greatest tunes. The results are in!
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The rock'n'roll lifer on his May tour and that astounding Mott reunion.
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Big Star maverick casts shadow over Day 1 of Austin music fest.
10:22 AM GMT 18/03/2010
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