ALSO WORKING
…NOEL GALLAGHER is working on a new High Flying Birds release. As well as wanting John Squire to play guitar on it, he says new song Pretty Boy sounds like The Cure. “I’m doing this album on my own,” he told Radio X. “They’ll be pop songs but they’ll be a bit edgy.” Brother Liam’s also been in the studio… LANA DEL REY’s (left) Chemtrails Over The Country Club is expected in spring, with tracks expected to include If This Is The End… I Want A Boyfriend and Tulsa Jesus Freak… RYLEY WALKER promises that his new, John McEntire-produced album is a cross between Genesis and Gastr Del Sol… ROBERT PLANT is working on new albums: Band Of Joy Volume 2 is expected later in 2021 (last year, that band’s Charlie Patton Highway (Turn It Up – Part 1) was released on his Digging Deep: Subterranea compilation), while he’s also dropped hints that a new album with
Alison Krauss is in production…
JACKSON BROWNE
(right) will release a new album in October: he shared a track from it, A Little Soon To Say, last March, shortly after confirming his Covid infection … GRUFF RHYS’s new solo joint arrives in June. Says Gruff, “I hope this album and its component songs, sound like they come from a very personal place, and that the fact they are all inspired to varying degrees by events relating to Mount Paektu, from 2333BC to the present day, remains coincidental to the listener…”
FAT WHITE FAMILY’s Saul Adamczewski releases his debut solo LP on the Domino label next year. It’s described as “a dark acoustic-y record.” His Fat Whites bandmate Lias Saoudi will appear on Raf Rundell’s next album, which will also feature contributions from Blockhead Chaz Jankel… MILEY CYRUS’s covers album of Metallica songs has yet to get a release date, but
one metal madman who can’t wait to hear it is Judas Priest’s Rob Halford. “She’s a metalhead, she’s always throwing the horns up,” he told the Life In The Stocks podcast … there’s a new AMYL & THE SNIFFERS (left) LP in June …TEENAGE FANCLUB’s Endless Arcade arrives in March. Lead guitarist/singer
Raymond McGinley described their vision for it as, “Don’t create a pastiche of yourself.
Don’t try to be cool or witty, or try too hard” …produced by Bob Ezrin, ALICE COOPER’s Detroit Stories will pay homage to the “angry, outcast” rock’n’roll scene of his hometown. The MC5’s Wayne Kramer, Detroit Wheels drummer Johnny ‘Bee’ Badanjek and Amp Fiddler/Jazzanova bassist Paul Randolph all guest… in spring, GRAHAM COXON’s dystopian fantasy concept
LP Superstate comes with a graphic novel to illustrate its 15 songs. It tells “a story of escape,” says Coxon. “In a society where war rages between… negativity and positivity, encouragement and discouragement…” …of THE ROLLING STONES’ next LP, Keith Richards (left) told the BBC in November, ”I’m trying to figure out if we could pull a session together, but it’s all a bit of an experiment really…”