Mark Lanegan: Last News

Variety. The next day, musician Dean Wareham, founder of bands Galaxie 500 and Luna, revealed that Tolkin had been dealing with sepsis and organ failure.

Mark Lanegan has detailed his near-death experience from COVID-19 in a new memoir, which will be published next month.Devil In A Coma will see the grunge musician share prose and poetry that he wrote while he was ill with the virus.According to a press release, Lanegan went completely deaf after contracting coronavirus and, later, suffered cracked ribs and breathing problems. After being rushed to hospital, he spent months in bed, “slipping in and out of a coma”.The star was also unable to walk for months, and says he was forced to confront his own mortality and address the way he’d lived his life up until that point.Devil In A Coma will be published on December 14 by White Rabbit Books.

Soulsavers have announced a new album ‘Imposter’, which reimagines songs from acts including Neil Young, PJ Harvey, Cat Power, Bob Dylan and more.The latest joint album between the Depeche Mode frontman and Soulsavers (Rich Machin) is described in press material as reinterpretations of 12 songs “from across genres and time periods” rather than a covers album.

Mark Lanegan and Joe Cardamone – have announced their eponymous debut album, set for release later this year.They’ve coupled the news with a striking new single titled ‘No Justice’, marking a drastic leap into uncharted territory for both artists. It’s a dizzying, distortion-tinted techno thumper, with Lanegan and Cardamone trading vocals over almost five minutes of visceral and punchy industrial beats.Have a listen to ‘No Justice’ below:In a press release, Lanegan (who fronted grunge band Screaming Trees from 1985 to 2000, and has a sprawling portfolio boasting collabs with the likes of Mad Season and Queens Of The Stone Age) noted that Dark Mark vs.

Manic Street Preachers have shared their memories of an infamous US tour with Oasis and Screaming Trees in 1996 – which led to a feud between Liam Gallagher and Mark Lanegan.The Manics were talking to NME about their upcoming 14th album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’, which features a collaboration with grunge icon Lanegan on the track ‘Blank Diary Entry’. They first met the frontman when the Manics supported Oasis in the US along with his band Screaming Trees back in 1996.Details of the tour made headlines again last year with the release of Lanegan’s memoir Sing Backwards And Weep, in which he wrote about how a fight arose after Gallagher mocked the band backstage.

Manic Street Preachers have shared their new single ‘The Secret He Had Missed’, featuring Sunflower Bean‘s Julia Cumming. Check it out below, along with our interview with bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire.Following on from recent single ‘Orwellian‘, ‘The Secret He Had Missed’ is the latest taster from the Welsh rock veterans upcoming 14th album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’.

Manic Street Preachers are back – sharing new single ‘Orwellian’ as well as announcing details of their 14th album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ along with a UK tour.The follow-up to 2018’s acclaimed ‘Resistance Is Futile‘ will arrive on September 3, and was recorded at the legendary Rockfield studios as well as their own Door to the River HQ with long-time collaborator Dave Eringa – featuring Julia Cumming of Sunflower Bean on ‘The Secret He Had Missed’ and Mark Lanegan on ‘Blank Diary Entry’.The first taster of the album is the single ‘Orwellian’, a track that calls upon the shimmering, futuristic and European sounds of their ‘Futurology’ era while painting a world where “everywhere you look, everywhere you turn, the future fights the past”

Moby has announced a new album featuring reworkings of hits from his back catalogue.Entitled ‘Reprise’, the record will see the dance artist team up with with the Budapest Art Orchestra and a host of guest artists including Kris Kristofferson, Mark Lanegan, Gregory Porter and Skylar Grey.As a taster, Moby has shared a new version of his classic hit ‘Porcelain’, which sees him sharing vocals with Jim James from My Morning Jacket. You can listen to the reworking below.“Sorry if this seems self-evident, but for me the main purpose of music is to communicate emotion,” Moby said.

Mark Lanegan has announced the release of Leaving California, a poetry book “sequel” to his 2020 grunge memoir.The former Screaming Trees frontman released the book Sing Backwards And Weep last year, detailing in it his time in the Seattle music scene in the ‘90s.Leaving California will be published by Heartworm Press, whose website says new tome merges “the lines of harsh reality and paranoia, beauty and reflection, and the wisdom of the escape artist”.The 76-poem collection is also said to be “in many ways” the second part of Sing Backwards And Weep, “where loose ends are tied and others left for dead”.“A brilliant work of true transformation, these poems also chronicle Lanegan’s exit from California for the literal greener pastures of

Death Cab For Cutie and Modest Mouse frontmen Ben Gibbard and Isaac Brock, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan and Mark Lanegan.Foo Fighters bassist Nate Mendel also features in the backing band, alongside other members of Death Cab and The Afghan Wigs.The cover came together in support of SMooCH 2020, which is a benefit show that takes place every year to support the Seattle Children’s Hospital, and is supported by the Sub Pop label and lauded radio station KEXP.Watch the cover version below.The new version of ‘The Highwayman’ is the latest in a long line of quarantine performances from Ben Gibbard.Across the global coronavirus-induced lockdown, the singer has (virtually) reunited his side-project The Postal Service with joke Zoom auditions

Mark Lanegan is gearing up to release his second Christmas record this year.The ex-Screaming Trees frontman is dropping the follow-up to ‘Dark Mark Does Christmas 2012’ this festive season, giving the record the uncreative but appropriate title ‘Dark Mark Does Christmas 2020’.The record will be released through Rough Trade. The label has shared the album’s cover art which can be viewed below.Where the original Christmas album was a tour-only vinyl press, the sequel will be available on both vinyl and CD exclusively through Rough Trade’s website and record stores.Lanegan’s first festive record featured six tracks, including ‘We Three Kings’, ‘O Holy Night’ and ‘Coventry Carol’.

Thurston Moore has shared his contribution to this month’s ongoing Galaxie 500 covers series, releasing his take on the legendary dream-pop band’s ‘Another Day’. The track originally featured on Galaxie 500’s 1989 album ‘On Fire’.Watch the Sonic Youth guitarist’s take on ‘Another Day’ below:In addition to Moore, the likes of Real Estate, Surfer Blood and Mark Lanegan are all participating in the month-long project.

Thurston Moore, Real Estate, Surfer Blood, Mark Lanegan and a handful of other acts are celebrating the forthcoming vinyl release of dream-pop group Galaxie 500’s live album with a series of covers from the band’s back catalogue.The live album, ‘Copenhagen’, was recorded back in the ’90s during their European tour and will arrive as part of the first instalment of this year’s Record Store Day on August 29.A cover will be released every day until August 28, the day before the record is available to purchase.

"He’s kind of an eccentric old uncle"

Mark Lanegan is finally putting his feud with Liam Gallagher to bed, after a bust up on tour back in 1996, and has said he doesn’t think the Oasis star is a bad person.

"It is delivered with a venom that is perplexing"

"I could have then and still could put serious hurt on you"

Liam Gallagher took aim at singer Mark Lanegan in his latest Twitter spat.

Oasis legend Liam Gallagher has let rip at American rocker Mark Lanegan after the US star branded him a 'bully'.

"You got your grungy little knickers in a twist."

IT was one of the big public bust-ups that revealed the true tensions in Oasis. But a huge fallout between Noel and Liam Gallagher wasn’t the only reason why the Britpop icons cut short their 1996 US tour.