ALSO WORKING

…LANA DEL REY (right) is recording with producer Jack Antonoff, and previewed two songs, Mariners Apartment Complex and Venice Bitch online in September …a new PET SHOP BOYS album is in preparation, the third to be produced by Stuart Price …BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN producer Ron Aniello took to

Instagram with images of E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg at work in the Boss’s New Jersey studio. Bruce has previously mentioned a new solo album influenced by Jimmy Webb and Burt Bacharach.E Street guitarist NILS LOFGREN, meanwhile, told Pennsylvania’s The Morning Call daily about his own due-next-spring solo album, promising, “raw electric stuff I haven’t done in a while

on it… some more tender acoustic things… it just kind of has a vibe of my first solo album” …NICK CAVE’s wife Susie Bick revealed in a blog post that The Bad Seeds are working on a new album. “He is in LA making a new record. Some of his songs reveal themselves at night in his fever dreams. They are his Fever Songs” … ex-Bonzo NEIL INNES (right) has taken to PledgeMusic to plan a

new long-player for 2019. Producer Steve James – son of comedian Sid, who engineered both albums by The Rutles – will assist. “We are putting the old team together! ” commented Neil, who added that various friends will take part, and that 14 songs are ready to go …Buzzcock STEVE DIGGLE joins him in Pledgeland with Station X, “half of the recording completed,” he says…