ALSO WORKING

…after 40 years in the music game, Minneapolis eminences JIMMY JAM and TERRY LEWIS

(right) will release their debut duo album later in 2021. The former Time members will collaborate with names from across their career, including Babyface

– will Janet Jackson and Phil Oakey be close behind? …PAT

METHENY has left the Nonesuch label for BMG’s Modern Recordings and will release new record Road To The Sun in March: guests include guitarist Jason Vieaux and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, whose Scott Tennant spoke of, “Such beautiful melodic and harmonic flow! …a soundscape of epic proportions” …there’s a guitar duet of note coming this year when MARISA ANDERSON and

WILLIAM TYLER team up. It will be released on Thrill Jockey… Adam Granduciel opened up about the new WAR OF DRUGS record to the Stereogum site. “Some songs have been reimagined” since lockdown, he said. “Some songs have had just one more layer of mud removed from them.” Tracks will include Harmonia’s Dream, I Don’t

Live Here Anymore and Ocean Of Darkness. He has enough left as a basis for another LP …SUEDE (Brett Anderson, left) are planning a new LP, and invite one and all to take part by sending voice recordings to a special e-mail facility. “Please make sure there’s no back- ground noise from radios, TVs or fridges,” they say. “Sing and shout along when we ask you to” …originally due in 2020, LIZ PHAIR’s nobly-titled Soberish – her first LP for a decade – now arrives in 2021…