ALSO WORKING

…SINÉAD O’CONNOR, AKA SHUHADA SADAQAT, told RTÉ DJ Dave Fanning, “I’m beginning to write now [and] I’m about to record a covers record which I’ve always wanted to do.” Expect her next original solo record in two years … sample rock conceptualists PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING’s J. Willgoose is working on a

follow-up to 2017’s Every Valley. What will it be about, and what samples will it use? “I’ve been asked if we’re going to write about Brexit,” he tells MOJO. “But could you listen to all those voices for years to come?” …producer Madlib has told Entertainment Weekly that he’s recorded eight tracks with Yasiin Bey/ Mos Def and Talib Kweli for a new BLACK STAR album … Future Islands’ bassist WILLIAM

CASHION has a new instrumental solo project, which he characterises as “music to listen to with your eyes closed” …PROPHETS

OF RAGE are working on a new album for release next year. Said Chuck D, “To have PEACE you have to despise Hatred with a passion for Peace and attack it” …out in September, THE UTOPIA

STRONG’s debut album is the first collaboration by prog-minded snooker ace Steve

Davis with Kavus Torabi and Michael J. York. Davis says it is, “euphoric and otherworldly… very psychedelic, but strangely wonky” … speaking to EonMusic website, Billy Gibbons said he’ll be appearing on the new QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

album. “Dave Grohl was also taking part and he decided to have a big barbecue. So there was this interesting gathering,” he added…