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Peter Hook has recalled how he and Bernard Sumner were re-taught Joy Division‘s ‘New Dawn Fades’ by the Red Hot Chili Peppers before they played it on stage with Moby in 2001.The Joy Division duo were invited by Moby to perform the 1979 song, which featured on the band’s debut album ‘Unknown Pleasures’, with him while New Order were touring with the ‘Play’ artist as part of his ‘Area 1’ North America tour in 2001.Speaking during a new interview that was conducted with Hook for an online ‘In Conversation’ event to mark the 40th anniversary of Joy Division’s ‘Closer’, Hook recalled how the unlikely music lesson from the Chilis came about.“One of my greatest moments was when we toured with Moby, and he was playing ‘New Dawn Fades’.

Glass Animals have shared a video of them performing ‘Heat Waves’ on the streets of Hackney.The spontaneous gig takes place in front of a billboard advertising their upcoming third studio album, ‘Dreamland’. Take a look below.thank you ppl of hackney, that was weird.thank you ppl of hackney, that was weird.Posted by Glass Animals on Saturday, July 25, 2020The footage of the pop-up event includes a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the start that sees lead singer Dave Bayley confess his nerves over performing, presumably for the first time since pre-global pandemic.“You know what, I thought I was going to be a bit nervous because this, this is tour for me right now,” he’s shown saying.

Alanis Morissette has opened up about addiction and therapy in a new interview.Speaking to The Guardian, the Canadian rock star described herself as “such an addict” and said that without therapy, she’s not sure how she would have coped.Speaking about her addictions, Morissette said her main ones were “work addiction, love addiction and food addiction.” The musician also revealed that she’d suffered from an eating disorder since childhood.Speaking about the importance of therapy in her life, Morissette added: “If I didn’t have a whole team of therapists throughout my life, I don’t think I’d still be here.”Morissette also opened up about the struggles of lockdown with her ongoing recovery.“At 3pm, I might feel: ‘Wow, this is a huge gift, I’m

Inhaler have shared their cover of Mazzy Star‘s dream pop classic ‘Fade Into You’ – listen below.The band’s singer Elijah Hewson originally covered ‘Fade Into You’ for Radio X’s Phone Covers series back in April.Taken from Mazzy Star’s 1993 cult classic album ‘So Tonight That I Might See’, ‘Fade Into You’ reached number three on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1994.

Angel Olsen has teased a new track and video titled ‘Whole New Mess’, which will be released next week.The singer uploaded a fifteen second snippet of music and visuals and a link to a premiere of the video which will take place at 5pm BST on Tuesday July 28.Tuesday July 28 https://t.co/CurWxE3ipg pic.twitter.com/dhaCrp5WRW— Angel Olsen (@AngelOlsen) July 24, 2020The video is directed by Ashley Connor has worked with Olsen a number of times, providing visuals for ‘Lark’, ‘All Mirrors’, ‘Shut Up’, ‘Intern’, ‘Tiniest Seed’ and ‘Hi Five’.

The Strokes have shared a new video for ‘Ode To The Mets’, the closing track from their most recent studio album ‘The New Abnormal‘.

Secret Machines set to release ‘Awake In The Brain Chamber’, their first album in over a decade next month, the band have shared new single ‘Everything Starts’.The track features contributions from the late Benjamin Curtis, the band’s founding guitarist and brother of singer Brandon, who died aged 35 in late 2013 following a diagnosis of T-cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma.“When I close my eyes and listen to “Everything Starts” I see three guys in a room playing music,” says Secret Machines’ drummer Josh Garza.

The Strokes have said that they’re open to the idea of playing their classic albums in full during a future residency of live shows.The band were asked about the possibility of one day doing such a residency during the latest edition of 5 Guys Talking About Things They Know Nothing About, their Zoom-hosted talk show that was launched back in April.Saturday Night Live cast member Colin Jost, who co-hosted this latest edition of their talk show, asked the band if they’d ever consider doing a residency of gigs in their native New York City where they’d play each of their six albums in full.“Even if that’s a short, like, 35-minutes show?” Albert Hammond Jr. replied.

Smashing Pumpkins‘ ‘Today’ – listen to it below.The cover will appear on an album-length reworking of ‘Siamese Dream’, the 1993 alt-rock masterpiece by Johnson’s fellow Chicagoans the Smashing Pumpkins.Johnson, who has been busy as of late with his Bonny Light Horsemen supergroup, plays all the instruments on ‘Siamese Dream’, which comes out on August 21 via Turntable Kitchen’s Sounds Delicious series.“In 1993, I was the prime age to be swept up in alternative radio.

Fiona Apple has written a new song for the season finale of Apple TV+’s Central Park – listen to it below.The New York singer-songwriter, who released her fifth album ‘Fetch The Bolt Cutters’ in April, teamed up with David Lucky to pen ‘New York Doesn’t Like Your Face’ for the animated musical series.It will feature in the final episode of Central Park‘s first season, ‘A Fish Called Snakehead’, which is due to arrive on Apple TV+ this coming Friday (July 24). The track will be performed by the character Ashley (played by Audra McDonald).Ahead of the finale’s release, a snippet of the scene featuring Apple and Lucky’s song has been shared on YouTube.Each episode of Central Park contains music from different artists.

Glass Animals have called on their fans to submit 3D head scans for use in an upcoming music video.The Oxford group, who are due to release their third album ‘Dreamland’ next month, took to Instagram yesterday (July 21) to post a clip demonstrating how to capture the required images via a smartphone.“YO. we need 3d scans of your heads for a video we’re making.

Girl In Red has created a new custom Pride guitar in association with Fender.The one-of-a-kind guitar will be auctioned off in a raffle to raise money for the Kaleidoscope Trust, who protect the human rights of LGBTQ+ people in countries with strict laws on sexuality.The Fender Player Series electric guitar features the rainbow colours of the Pride flag, and entries for the raffle start at £5, finishing at midnight on August 2.Speaking about the new initiative, Girl In Red said: “As a privileged queer person, I feel it is important that I am as loud as possible.

The Cure‘s Roger O’Donnell has spoken about the band’s long-awaited new album, saying that it’s “going to be an amazing record”.Last summer, the band’s frontman Robert Smith told NME that they were looking to finish their “merciless” new album in 2019 – 11 years after its predecessor, ‘4:13 Dream’ — adding that it had the working title of ‘Live From The Moon’ and that it was one of three new Cure albums in the works.Talking to Classic Pop magazine in a new interview, O’Donnell has now shared more of what to expect from the new record(s), and how he and Smith have felt the pressure after more than a decade without new music.“Four years ago, I said to Robert, ‘We have to make one more record,” O’Donnell said.

first album single, ‘Alapathy’, and standalone single ‘To Be A Woman Pt. 2’.

Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz has revealed what happened when the band finally split in 1991.Speaking in his new biopic Remain In Love, the sticksman documented the band’s final meeting and said frontman David Byrne was so exasperated that the other members kept their cool when he announced their split, that he yelled: “You should be calling me an asshole.”It’s believed that Byrne had been telling the other members for years that he wanted the band to break up, but they ignored him for their own purposes.“We had heard this before, so we thought, ‘If we keep our cool, this will blow over and we’ll get to do another Talking Heads record’,” Frantz told The Guardian.Despite their plan, the band never made another album and have only played

Joy Division bassist Peter Hook has spoken about playing the band’s album ‘Closer‘ (1980) in full for the first time, labelling it one of his “greatest” moments as a musician.Hook, who played in New Order – the band formed from the ashes of Joy Division – until 2007, and now heads up Peter Hook & The Light, has said in a new interview that the rare chance to perform Joy Division’s final album was special.“I must admit, one of the greatest moments as a musician I’ve ever had was to actually play ‘Closer’ in its entirety and to get it back,” he told Rolling Stone.

The Magic Gang have released sprightly new single ‘Make Time For Change’ as they share details of a headline tour next year.‘Make Time For Change’ is described as the Brighton band’s take on Northern Soul and comes with an important message: to look after yourself.

PJ Harvey has shared an early demo of her 1995 song ‘Down By The Water’ – listen to it below.The track is taken from the forthcoming reissue of Harvey’s third studio album, ‘To Bring You My Love’, which is due to arrive September 11.Produced by Harvey with producers Flood and John Parish, and featuring the singles ‘Down By The Water’, ‘C’mon Billy’ and ‘Send His Love To Me’, ‘To Bring You My Love’ was released on February 27, 1995, less than six months after the musician’s ‘4-Track Demos’ project.It was announced in May that Harvey’s entire back catalogue of albums would be reissued on vinyl over the next 12 months.UMC/Island and Beggars’ reissue campaign aims to “celebrate every aspect of Harvey’s recording career and afford a

Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek has shared a new single entitled ‘Roll Back Your Clocks’.The track was produced by Andrew Sarlo, known for his work with Bon Iver, Nick Hakim and Big Thief. Listen to it below:‘Roll Back Your Clocks’ is the first new music from Meek this year, following 2019 single ‘Halo Light’ and his 2018 eponymous full-length debut.

The Big Moon have shared a new video for their latest single ‘Why’ – watch them head to the (virtual) beach below.The new clip for the track, taken from the band’s second album ‘Walking Like We Do’, arrives alongside the announcement of rescheduled UK tour dates for the band.“We managed to make a video in lockdown even though we haven’t been together for four months!” the band said in a statement. “Hope our fantasy seaside trip takes you somewhere else for a few mins and gives you that break so you can keep doing what you need to do.“We certainly enjoyed covering ourselves with green paint.

Bob Mould has shared a new track called ‘Forecast Of Rain’ – you can listen to it below.The US singer-songwriter is set to release his fourteenth studio album ‘Blue Hearts’ on September 25 via Merge, following up on last year’s ‘Sunshine Rock’.Having previewed the record last month with ‘American Crisis’, Mould has now shared an official lyric video for ‘Forecast Of Rain’.The song was written in response to Black Lives Matter protesters being tear-gassed outside the White House last month so that Donald Trump could pose with a bible in front of Washington DC’s St John’s Episcopal Church.“I have a question so simple to answer, won’t take long/ This love thy neighbour thing: Does it apply to all mankind?“, Mould questions in the