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• Monkeys unveil single (Dotmusic via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
  Arctic Monkeys will release "Crying Lightning" as the first single from their new album, they have announced.



• Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning (Skiddle)
  ?Crying Lightning?, the first single from Arctic Monkeys? new album, ?Humbug?, will receive it?s worldwide, exclusive first radio play on Monday the 6th of July on Zane Lowe?s Radio 1 show. The single will then be available digitally via iTunes from midnight that night.



• Whatever happened to the great American film director? (Independent)
  This summer, among all the anonymous blockbusters, remakes and sequels filling the multiplexes, only one American movie will open on the strength of its director ? Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Yet even as Tarantino continues to be feted ? first at Cannes and soon in cinemas across the world ? there's a creeping, worrisome sense that a dearth of young American directors have the ...



• Arctic Monkeys - Arctic Monkeys Go Reggae (ContactMusic)
  Arctic Monkeys want to be known as "Sheffield's best reggae band".The ''Brianstorm' rockers- who hail from the Yorkshire city - are planning to rebrand themselves...



• The Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases: Summer 2009 (Pitchfork)
  Welcome once again to the Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases, our seasonal guide to upcoming releases! Four times a year, we round up a big ol' list of albums, singles, EPs, and DVDs set to be unleashed over the coming months, hoping to get you pumped about going out and buying records.



• Shane Meadows: All you need to make a movie... (Independent)
  What can you do in five days? Play a game of test-match cricket, maybe, or take a city break to Europe. If you're Shane Meadows, you could crank out a film. The Uttoxeter-born director unveiled his latest work, Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival two weeks ago. Meadows shot it for around £30,000, and he claims the film took less than a week to make. If not quite ...



• Foo Fighters, QOTSA, Led Zep Members Record New Album (Spin)
  It's a rock'n'roll obsessive's wet dream: Foo Fighters frontman / ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, and Queens of the Stone Age bandleader Josh Homme are working on a new album -- together ! News about the recording sessions was broken by Spinnerette frontwoman (and Homme's wife) Brody Dalle: "I?m not at liberty to talk about it," Dalle told Antiquiet , "but I ...



• Arctic Monkeys go reggae (Bangshowbiz via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
  Arctic Monkeys want to dramatically change their sound to break a record.



• Newsflash mit Arcade Fire, Simian Mobile Disco, Jimmy Eat World, Arctic Monkeys, Death Cab For Cutie und vielen anderen. (Visions)
  Neuigkeiten von Arcade Fire , Simian Mobile Disco , Motion City Soundtrack , Jimmy Eat World , Beck , Arctic Monkeys , The Oblivions , The Gories , Mediengruppe Telekommander , Death Cab For Cutie und Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub . +++ Arcade Fire befinden sich in der Prä-Produktion ihre dritten Albums und schreiben dafür momentan neues Material. Allerdings könnten einer baldigen ...



• Q-Tip's Shelved 2001 Album Kamaal the Abstract Finally Released (Pitchfork)
  Q-Tip 's first official solo album, Amplified , came out in 1999. His second, The Renaissance , dropped last year. But Q-Tip didn't spend the nine years between albums sitting around playing Mario Kart. (Or, rather, he didn't spend them just sitting around playing Mario Kart.) As the man himself told me in this interview , he bounced around from label to label for years, recording albums that ...