ALSO WORKING

…BONNIE RAITT’s (right) Just

Like That… is expected in April …ANNA CALVI, announcing their birth of her daughter Elio, has told her listeners, “I can’t wait to play you what I’ve been writing.

I have some new music coming out soon” …

FONTAINES D.C.’s third LP, Skinty Fia, arrives in April. Regular foil Dan Carey produces …FATHER

JOHN MISTY’s Chloë And The Next 20th

Century also arrives in April. Songs include Goodbye Mr Blue, Buddy’s Rendezvous and Kiss Me (I Loved You) … Peter Buck and Krist Novoselic have both played on the new LP by Cuban singer and guitarist HECTOR TELLEZ. Ex-Screaming Trees/Mad Season man Barrett Martin played drums and produced …ALTERED

IMAGES – that’s Clare Grogan and

Steve Lironi – release new album Mascara Streakz in August. Bernard Butler and Bobby Bluebell from The Bluebells also contribute …the New

York Times reports on a new SHANE

MACGOWAN (right) LP, with singer Johnny Cronin of County Longford band Cronin saying, “It’s still punk, and it’s still Irish, and it still goes to the heart.” He added they’d completed 20 tracks, including seven originals of previously unrecorded MacGowan lyrics and a Doris Day cover …xPROPAGANDA – AKA Claudia Brücken and Susanne Freytag of ZTT cults Propaganda – release new LP The Heart Is Strange in May. It’s produced by Steve Lipson, who worked on Propaganda’s 1985 LP A Secret Wish, and echoes its predecessor’s high-gloss sound: “It never seemed right that the story stopped,” they say…